Archana Chandra

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Sr. Program and Portfolio Manager (PMO)

Program and Portfolio Senior Manager with extensive experience in a Global Fortune 500 company in the medical technology industry. 19+ years of expertise with multi-year SAP/ERP infrastructure program management, RFP/ SOW process with vendors, and vendor management. PMO lead with experience in overseeing PM’s/ programs and processes. Presented status reports to C-suite executives. Experience in working in a matrix environment with virtual teams. Known for being hand-picked by executive teams to turn around underperforming and complex programs. Areas of Expertise

Portfolio Management Program Management Waterfall SDLC Leadership Stakeholder management Vendor management Systems implementations Acquisitions and Consolidations Situational awareness Problem analysis Issue management Risk mitigation Demand Management Communication Change Management Global/ Intercultural fluency Decision-making Emotional Intelligence Diversity ERP SAP (R/3, ECC 6.0) Oracle

SQL S4 Hana Microsoft Azure/ Cloud Office 365 Forms/ Surveys Power BI MS Office Power Point MS Project Office Timeline Jira Planview PMO Governance GxP Validation Infrastructure (Network/ Servers/ VM’s)

Professional Experience

Becton Dickinson and Company (BD) 4/2008-10/2023

Solution Integration Lead, Infrastructure & Planning (7/2022-10/2023) Lead for ECC 6.0 on-prem to Azure Cloud re-platform initiative. Responsible for planning and implementing the set up infrastructure and migration.

• Collaborated with multiple vendors (Microsoft etc.), internal teams, to evaluate implementation strategy.

• Facilitated technical and planning workshops with SAP Basis, infrastructure, release management, functional teams etc. for requirements gathering, project charter, risks, and milestones.

• Assessed multiple scope options to align with strategic and cost targets including, S4 shell creation, and alternate DB options. Created a detailed cost estimate for the program.

• Created thorough timelines and MS project plans for activities from infrastructure set up, migration, technical, functional, UAT and business testing through cutover Go-Live and hyper care.

• Explored archiving options, for legacy ECC systems, to reduce technical debt and on-prem footprint. Sr. Portfolio Manager, IT Infrastructure & Operations (7/2020-7/2022) Managed entire infrastructure portfolio to select, prioritize, control intake of projects from IT and business. Ensured intake was in line with strategic objectives and capacity to deliver. Presented status reports to senior leadership. Lead the RFP process for several initiatives with multiple vendors. Hands on program management setting up S4 Hana implementation in MS Azure Cloud.

• Drove the RFP through SOW process for selection of application, infrastructure and penetration testing vendors. Responsible for vendor management, performance feedback and process improvements.

• Created compelling Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) for projects. Prioritized organization’s capacity towards projects v. operational work. Prepared capacity reports and portfolio roadmaps.

• Lead 4-year program with Microsoft (ECIF), to modernize infrastructure, moving to Cloud. Reduced server footprint and complexity and enabled cost savings. Sr. Manager IT PMO (People & Program Manager) (4/2016-7/2020) PMO manager for IT portfolio (100+ projects and 15+ PMs, full time, and consultants) in the east coast. In charge of setting up PMO team and governance. Responsible for rolling out standard template process. Presented weekly status reports and KPI’s to management. Also, in charge of vendor management.

• Hired, mentored Project and Program Mangers along with doing performance reviews.

• Responsible for vendor management, performance management of vendor PM’s, alignment with PMO governance and reporting.

• Hands on program/ project management for 10+ demanding applications (SAP, Trackwise etc.) and infrastructure programs with high pressure deadlines. Included projects in the Acquisition/ Integration and Consolidation space.

Sr. Netweaver Administrator & Technical Project Manager (SAP) (4/2008-4/2016) Led several full life cycles, large scale, SAP end-to-end implementations (R/3 4.0B, 4.7B; ECC 6.0). Managed the planning and execution of multiple SAP system upgrades, patches, and migrations (included security, compliance, release management readiness etc.) along with infrastructure readiness (storage, VM’s, backups etc.). Additional Experience

Siritek Inc.

Sr. NetWeaver/ SAP Administrator @ BD

Managed deployment and administration of distributed, multi-tier, applications within SAP Business suite. Oversaw all aspects of SAP landscape admin functions including, upgrades and support packs (R/3 4.0B, 4.7B; ECC 6.0). Education and Professional Development

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC

Master of Science (MS), Computer Science.

MVSR Engineering College, Hyderabad, India

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering. Becton Dickinson, IT Senior Management Forum (ITSMF). Certifications

Becton Dickinson, PMLC Ambassador (certification in Project Management life cycle). SAP module certifications-

• SAP Root Cause Analysis (E2E100).

• Migration to SAP HANA (HA250).

• SAP Solution Manager Operations and Configuration (SM100).

• SAP Enterprise Portal 7.3 (ADM800).

• SAP System: Operating System (TADM70).

Training

• PMBOK PMI training.

• Project Management Training (BD)-

• Planning and leading projects.

• Agile/Scrum.

• Jira

• People Manager Training (BD)-

• Manager as Coach, Manager Essentials.

• Advanced Negotiation skills.

• Leadership Development Program.

Awards and Recognition

Becton Dickinson

Won several individual and team Excellence Awards for projects and programs. Led company’s implementation to move the first SAP system to Microsoft Azure Cloud.

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