Ganesh Sonawane – SAP PLM/PDM ad1ori@r.postjobfree.com

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Curriculum vitae

Mr. Ganesh Radhuji Sonawane

SAP – Product Lifecycle Management (PLM/PDM)

Mobile: +44-781******* +91-992*******

Email : ad1ori@r.postjobfree.com

Profile: https://in.linkedin.com/in/ganesh-sonawane-3a08b712 Career Objective: -

To contribute the best towards the progress of the organization through my knowledge, skills & professional work experience.

Professional Work Experience Summary: -

• 18+ years of ERP Systems experience principally SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, S/4 HANA with life-cycle implementation, Data migration, functional consulting, business process mapping, system configuration, technical developments, system testing, documentation, Post Go live support, Application Lifecycle Management, User training and Project management & resource management in Automobile/ Manufacturing/ Oil & Gas/ Electronics Manufacturing industries.

• Hands-on in new product development management methodologies (NPI) includes working with cross functional teams involved in new Product development & Engineering changes handling.

• Product Lifecycle Management technology consulting and Product Data Management business processes solutioning.

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Solution Manager, Agile (ServiceNow AVA, Rally, JIRA, Confluence, BMC Remedy) and other ALM & implementation support tools.

• Project Management activities including Project planning, Resource planning, workload estimates, internal reviews & team meetings.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, good analytical, decision-making & team building skills.

• Highly efficient in understanding client’s requirements & converting into system solutions.

• Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously. Academic Details: -

Degree Institute Specialisation Year CGPA/%

Bachelors (B. Tech)

Birla Institute of Technology and

Science, Pilani

Engineering

Technology

2019 8.17

Diploma

Engineering

Government Polytechnic, Ahmednagar,

(MSBTE) Maharashtra

Mechanical

Engineering

2004 66.77 %

Secondary School

Certificate (SSC)

GMVM Ghodegaon, Pune University,

Maharashtra Board

Maths, Science,

Social Science

2001 78.92 %

Project (Academic): -

Condenser Design, Maintenance & performance checking of ‘Evaporative cooler’

Non-conventional energy application ‘SOLAR ENGINE’ presented at DIPEX in 2004

SAP Material Requirement Planning (MRP) - Stock Requirement List Dashboard for Multiple Materials in single process

Professional Work Experience Summary: -

Total Experience 18+ Years

• Relevant 16+ years in SAP PLM/PDM & Domain 2 years in Plant Engineering Organisation Designation Job Role Duration

NTT DATA UK Sr. Principal Consultant Technical Solutions Architecture Oct22 – Present (1Y, 1M) JABIL

MALAYSIA

Sr Operations

Development Analyst

Operations Manager – PLM/PDM Mar21 – Oct22 (1Y, 6M) Cognizant Manager Projects PLM Functional expert Nov19 – Mar21 (1Y, 4M) Ganesh Sonawane – SAP PLM/PDM ad1ori@r.postjobfree.com

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Organisation Designation Job Role Duration

Tieto

Manager SAP & People

Manager

Project Management, Lead PLM

Consultant & People Manager Nov16 – Nov19 (3Y)

Lead Consultant Lead PLM Functional Consultant

L&T Infotech Consultant SAP PLM Functional consultant Apr14 – Nov16 (2Y, 7M) John Deere

Section Manager Lead Specification Analyst

Section Manager Specification analyst Jan07 – Mar14 (7Y, 2M) Executive New Product Co-ordinator

Diploma Trainee Plant Engineering Trainee Aug04 – Dec06 (2Y, 4M) Passport and Visa: -

Passport available; Validity Nov-2027

The United Kingdom Skilled Worker Visa; Validity Oct-2025

Malaysia Work Visa; Validity Mar-2023

USA Business Visa B1/B2; Validity Mar-2021

Schengen Business Visa; Validity Jan-2020

Overseas Business Participation: -

03 Month Onsite client SAP PP & PLM project delivery in Ipoh, Malaysia; Jul 2019

01 Week SAP PP & PLM project discussion in Helsinki, Finland with Client; Jan 2019

01 Week SAP DMS project discussion in Helsinki, Finland with Client; Oct 2017

02 Week SAP ECTR PLM project discussion in Boston, MA, USA with Client; Oct 2015

03 Week PLM rollout in Waterloo, IOWA, USA with John Deere factory team; May 2011

01 Week PLM Implementation roadmap in Mannheim, Germany with John Deere; Mar2011 Awards from Leadership Council: -

Best Team member award in SAP project from Enterprise application vertical in Tieto

Appreciation certificate by client for successful PLM-DMS rollout project (L&T Infotech)

Star of the Month Award for SAP & PLM Implementation Support in John Deere Pune

Special appreciations awards in seven different ‘New product program’ (NPI)

Appreciation in implementation of John Deere Product Quality System Areas of Exposure in PLM, PDM: -

ERP –

SAP ECC 4.7, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP HANA DB, SAP S/4 HANA

Applications/Tool –

SAP PLM, Engineering Record, SAP PSS

SAP ECTR 5.1 (Engineering Control Center)

SAP EHSM – Product Compliance IMDS

SAP CAD desktop (SAP-CAD integration)

SAP DMS (Document Management System)

SAP iPPE (Variant Configuration)

SAP BoM (Bill of Material), SAP ECM (Engineering change management) & SAP Workflow

SAP VEG (Visual Enterprise Generator)

SAP PPM (Project Portfolio management, cProjects, cFolder, WBS)

SAP FIORI

SAP data load (Z program, LSMW, iDOC); SAP Workforce Performance Builder 9.5

Dassault SolidWorks & VPM (CAD application)

PTC Windchill (PLM)

CIDEON Import 8.2 (CAD data Migration)

CIDEON Conversion engine, View manager (stamping & watermarking)

CENIT DDM (Document Distribution Management)

Nextlabs (Data Access control management)

SEAL systems for output management & conversion

SAP S4/HANA project implementation using Activate methodology.

Rapid Deployment Solution

Project management tool Agile, Rally, JIRA, Confluence, Solman, Remedy, AVA

Inhouse custom Solution for Electronic Manufacturing PLM processes Ganesh Sonawane – SAP PLM/PDM ad1ori@r.postjobfree.com

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Database Tool –

SAP Content server configuration

TREX server setup configuration

SAP HANA DB implementation (Project Management)

Professional Work Experience Details: -

Organisation NTT DATA UK, London, The United Kingdom Designation Senior Principal Consultant - Digital Engineering Team Size: 5 Duration 31-Oct-2022 To Present

Project SAP PLM Application support and development program Client Luxury automotive manufacturer based at Woking, England, United Kingdom Software Used ECC 6.0, SAP PLM, cPLM, VPM, CATIA, MuleSoft, EHSM IMDS, SAP Active Control Roles and

Responsibilities

1. Works as part of a global team of PLM subject matter experts to deliver PLM support within agreed SLAs for Application lifecycle management. 2. Be a trusted business partner in providing fit for purpose application & solution. 3. Liaising with external parties (e.g., consultants, software vendors) 4. Supports the implementation of new solutions, upgrades and/or enhancements to existing ones. (EHP8, EHSM14, S4/HANA)

Organisation JABIL SDN BHD, Penang, Malaysia

Designation Senior Operations Development Analyst - PLM/PDM Team Size: 3 Duration 29-Mar-2021 To 28-Oct-22 (1Y, 6M)

Software Used ECC 6.0, SAP PLM, Custom suite (Designed for complete contract manufacturing) Roles and

Responsibilities

SAP PLM/PDM architecture & Custom suite application product owner Asia region – 1. Global Subject matter expert for SAP PLM

2. Collaborate with product & process experts (R&D, Project Marketing, Global Ops, IT, & external consultants) to identify, develop, test and deploy solutions. 3. Business Requirement Document BRD creation

4. Business process mining and improvement drive

5. PLM solutions rollout to global sites

6. Train the trainer

Organisation Cognizant Technology Services, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA Designation Manager Projects - PLM/PDM Team Size: 7 Duration 11-Nov-2019 To 26-Mar-2021 (1Y, 4M)

Project SAP PLM Application support and development program Client

An engineering company provides the products, systems and services required to unlock energy from sources oil, gas & offshore wind. Based at Oslo, Norway Software Used ECC 6.0, SAP PLM, SolidWorks, SEAL Systems Roles and

Responsibilities

1. SAP PLM application support and new enhancements. 2. SAP PLM/PDM reported issue analysis, solutioning, business process improvement suggestions, configuration, and solution documentation. Organisation Tieto India Private Limited, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA Department Manager SAP & People Manager - Enterprise Applications Team Size: 15 Duration 21-Nov-2016 To 9-Nov-2019 (3Y)

Project # SAP PDM/PP Solution Consulting in Business process improvement program Client Cargo-handling machinery manufacture at Ipoh, Malaysia Software Used ECC 6.0, Vault PDM

Roles and

Responsibilities

Project Management & SAP PP/PDM Business Consulting: 1. Business process workshop with process owner for issue identification, gap analysis, improvement suggestions and solution documentation 2. End user training on SAP standard & custom processes Ganesh Sonawane – SAP PLM/PDM ad1ori@r.postjobfree.com

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Project # SAP S/4HANA Implementation (FI, P2P, O2C Activate methodology) Client Electrical equipment wholesaler chain at Helsinki, Finland Software Used SAP S/4HANA, FIORI 2.0, ECC 6.0

Roles and

Responsibilities

Project Management (Offshore Delivery Management): 1. Define project milestone, detailed activity plan & progress tracking. 2. Client specific reports for weekly workload estimates & monthly billing. 3. Resource requirement planning and on-boarding to project. People Management:

Evaluate individual performance & Provide performance feedback to team members. Providing reports on productivity & performance indicators to management Project # • SAP Implementation / SAP Production Foundation

• SAP HANA DB Implementation

Client Automotive Manufacture at Finland (Contract Manufacturer for German Auto OEM) Software Used SAP ECC 6.0, LEAN, HUNTER, HANA DB, FIORI 2.0 Roles and

Responsibilities

Consulting:

1. Lead SAP functional consultant for SAP PLM/PP module

• Understand the business requirement

• Design overall PLM & PP Product data management solution

• Blueprinting & Unit Testing’s

2. System Integration for Client Legacy system and SAP including client specific tools (LEAN, HUNTER) using iDOC structure enhancement data flow. 3. Configuration for new enhancements in existing processes as required. 4. Plan & execute detailed level HANA DB testing activities for cross SAP module. Project Management:

Define project milestone, detailed activity plan & progress tracking. Organisation L&T Infotech Limited, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA Designation Consultant – PLM Team Size: 5

Duration 02-Apr-2014 To 15-Nov-2016 (2Y, 7M)

Project # • SAP-CAD Integration: Engineering Control Center (ECTR) Implementation

• SAP DMS Roll out for US, UK & CHINA plants

Client

American multinational operated in aviation, healthcare, power, renewable energy, digital, additive manufacturing, lighting, transportation, and oil & gas Software Used SAP ECC 6.0, Solidworks-2014, ECTR 5.1, CIDEON Import & DDM, Nextlabs Roles and

Responsibilities

1. SAP PLM functional consultant for ECTR Implementation for USA plant

• Understand the business requirement & align with the SAP ECTR functionality.

• Design overall ECTR PLM Product data management solution

• Blueprinting & Unit Testing’s

• Implementation of SAP ECTR 5.1 for CAD integration of SolidWorks with SAP 2. CAD data migration from Legacy to SAP using CIDEON Import 3. New SAP content server & TREX server functional configuration 4. New CIDEON Conversion Engine server setup and configuration 5. DDM-Nextlabs configuration (Document Distribution) 6. DMS rollout & data migration from Legacy to SAP using new custom program. 7. Work with third party SAP, CIDEON, CENIT, Nextlabs for ECTR compatibility 8. Document preparation for Configuration/Process/Training/Test scripts 9. Train the trainer

Project # SAP PLM functional consultant support for Production environment Client Switchgear Design & Development wing of switchgear manufacturer, Mumbai Software Used SAP ECC 6.0, PLM 7.02, cProjects 4.5, ProE Roles and

Responsibilities

1. Issue resolution for SAP PLM, CAD integration, cProjects and PDM 2. Support cProjects implementation

3. PLM new enhancement

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Organisation John Deere India Private Limited, Pune Maharashtra, INDIA Designation Section Manager - Product Engineering Team Size: 8 Duration 01-Jan-2007 To 24-Mar-2014 (7Y, 2M)

Software Used SAP ECC 6.0; PLM Windchill 6.0/7.0/9.0; cProjects 4.5, ProE Creo Roles and

Responsibilities

1. Subject matter expert for Engineering change management process 2. Deals with creation of Material Master (MM), Bill of Material (BOM), Product Variant BOM (iPPE), Class, Characteristics, Part Level PDP, DMS, WBS 3. PLM issue support on EBOM/MBOM, cProjects, PDM link, Windchill, CAD data. 4. Post go-live tier 1 support as PLM consultant in SAP 6.0 and PLM 7.0 5. PDM system deployment & enhancement roll outs aligning with global release. 6. Coordinator for new product introduction program 7. End-user training

Achievements • PLM Implementation & functionality testing in Mannheim, Germany & Waterloo, USA with John Deere Global IT team.

• Support SAP Upgrade from SAP ECC 4.7 to SAP 6.0

• PDM project of converting local MBOM to global engineering structure (iPPE)

• completed lean six sigma projects in Variant packing list accuracy and in cProjects task completion time reduction

Organisation John Deere India Private Limited, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA Designation Diploma Trainee - Plant Engineering Team Size: 4 Duration 26-Aug-2004 To 31-Dec-2006 (2Y, 4M)

Roles and

Responsibilities

1. Operation, Troubleshooting & maintenance of –

• Air compressors system, Central Chilling plant, DG Set’s.

• Water treatment plant, Effluent treatment Plant, Fire hydrant system

• LPG, Diesel, Engine oil & Coolant yard, Gas monitoring system 2. Plant representative for ISO14001 audit

3. Legal & statutory compliances of Government & John Deere corporate for Environment Management System

Languages Known: -

English, Marathi, Hindi

Professional References: -

Mr John Padamadan – Manager, L&T Infotech, Pune, Phone +91-982*******

Mr Prasad Indapwar – Sr General Manager, John Deere, Pune, Phone +91-989*******

Mr Robert Preston – Principal PLM Analyst, McLaren, London, Phone +44-774******* Personal Information: -

Date of Birth Nationality Gender Marital Status Children Health Status 06th Dec 1985 INDIAN Male Married One

Physical & mental status is

healthy, BMI-22

Resident

Address

Current: Flat 18 Regents Court, Victoria way, Woking, Surrey, The United Kingdom. Post Code GU21 6AJ

Permanent: B-305, Urban Nirvana Housing Society, Survey No. 57/4, Pune-Nagar Road, Kharadi, Pune, Maharashtra State, INDIA, Pin - 411014. Declaration: -

I hereby declare that the above written particulars are true and to the best of my knowledge and belief. Place: London, The United Kingdom

Date: Ganesh R. Sonawane

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