Project Manager Management

Rizvon Shakir

**********@*****.*** 713-***-**** Houston, TX

Objective

Seek a challenging PM role with a focus on delivering value to meet corporate goals. I am a qualified and dedicated Project Manager with experience in leveraging various ERP systems in delivering Analytic solutions that enable strategic and tactical decision making with valuable insights from multiple sources.

Summary of Project Management Experience

Have eleven years of Project Management experience in delivering value using a Waterfall and an Agile approach.

●Certified SCRUM Master

●s/4HANA upgrades with Activate Methodology

●Proven experience and success managing large global projects from $5 to $8 million.

●Strong track record working with multiple partner/vendors in delivery

●Organizational Change Management mindset: skills and experience in managing stakeholder expectations and building communication plans.

●Ability to interact with client and technology stakeholders to drive forward scalable and sustainable solutions. This is demonstrated with my experience in driving proposed solutions to successful implementations.

●Project leadership capabilities demonstrated by working with a diverse team based on different continents/cultures and being able to deliver what is required within time and budget.

●Managed Data Warehousing projects with focus on requirements gathering, prototyping, design, implementation, testing and go-live.

●Five full lifecycle Data Warehousing deployments.

●Worked with Business end-users to gather requirements and document Business Processes. Translated the business requirements to technical specifications. Developed, tested and implemented IT solutions to meet business objectives.

●Have worked extensively with developers at the local site as well as offshore.

●Acted as liaison between business stakeholders and IT organization.

●Held a lead project management position in the following:

●Data Warehouse implementation for real-time and materializations.

●Strong knowledge of BI backend configuration,

●Production support and new development on existing Data Warehousing implementations,

●Data Warehouse implementations,

●Data Warehouse upgrades.

Provided guidance to clients on:

oReporting Strategy

oArchiving Strategy

oCloud migration roadmap

oData and Process Governance

Professional Work History

Company: NTT Data Jul, 2023- Present

Position: AMS Project Manager

Lead the transition from HyperCare to AMS.

Manage technical team and Business stakeholders to establish application support and maintenance services for the SAP system.

Company: Lindt & Sprüngli (North America) Inc. Mar, 2023- May, 2023

Position: Project Manager/Solution Architect

Drafted and submitted a FitGap document based on S/4HANA capabilities and their current system (JD Edwards).

Identified what can be delivered as a Fiori App vs BI report based out on B/4HANA

Company: Gilead Sciences, Inc. Nov, 2021- Dec. 2022

Position: Senior Project Manager

●Leadership role in managing Implementation Partner: Deloitte.

●Managed a technical delivery team of 11, 2 Business Analysts

●Multiple stakeholders from Supply Chain.

●S/4HANA (applied Activate Methodology):

oHosted workshops to understand business requirements and assist with drafting the Business Process Documents.

oUsed SAP Best Practices Explorer from S/4HANA to align Business requirements with S/4HANA functionality.

oConvert the Business Process Documents to Business and Technical Specifications

oMapped business process to Fiori Apps based on: Line of Business (Finance, Supply Chain and Procurement)

oPlan and Implement SIT/UAT testing in S/4HANA.

oFocus on delivering value to the business one unit at a time.

●Bringing business and IT together to deliver scalable products by adhering to standards, timeline and budget.

●Data was staged in EHANA, SAC and Amazon Workspace.

●Power BI was used to Build Dashboards.

Company: Hewlett Packard May, 2020- Oct. 2021

Position: BI Project Management

●Leadership role in managing Implementation Partner: PWC.

●Managed a technical delivery team of 10, 4 Business Analysts

●Multiple stakeholders from Supply Chain and Finance

●Data was staged in BW and reported via Power BI and BOBJ

●S/4HANA:

oIdentify Finance and Supply Chain Data to bring into B4/HANA data warehouse and subsequently to the data lake.

oPower BI was the Visualization Tool.

oMap SAP R3 transaction codes to Fiori Apps.

oPlan and Schedule Deployment activities – extensive understanding on change management.

oPlan and Schedule Cutover Steps

●Managed Project Release and Scope.

●Developed and implement all phases of Project life cycle from requirements definition to delivery.

●Engagement with business and IT stakeholders to seek alignment on what is being delivered versus what has been requested.

Company: Sealed Air Corporation Jan, 2019- Feb. 2020

Position: Project Lead

●Lead role in Successful implementation of BW/4HANA.

●Plan and Schedule Deployment activities

●Plan and Schedule Cutover Steps

●Completed upgrade to BW7.5

●Provided Strategic Guidance to client to leverage Sales and Distribution data.

Company: Crown Equipment Corporation Sept, 2018- Dec, 2018

Position: Project Manager and Strategy Advisor

Worked with BW/HANA for agile development to assist with Archiving and Reporting Strategies.

●S/4HANA:

Map SAP R3 transaction codes to Fiori Apps.

Data Migration guidance from non-SAP to SAP utilizing SAP-BODS.

Developed an Upgrade strategy to BW7.5

Developed Strategic Plan for Archiving in SAP.

Extensive interaction with business and technology stakeholders to establish an Archive Plan which will lead to a Reporting Strategy.

Company: Xcel Energy Jan, 2017 – July, 2018

Position: Project Manager

●Leadership role in managing Implementation Partner: Accenture.

Provided strategic guidance on S/4HANA Implementation.

Upgrade to BW 7.5

Implemented LSA++ Architecture on BW backend with development of ADSO’s.

Staged data in BW from SAP ECC and non-SAP data.

Developed Calculation views on BW/HANA for Nuclear KPI Reporting which included Financial, Supply Chain, Order data. Additionally worked on Calculation views for QIM/MOC data.

BOBJ and Power BI used for building dashboards on data staged in BW/HANA

Research/evaluating SAP S/4HANA Finance system

Standards for HANA development utilizing BW modeling tools.

Evaluate out of the box SAP solutions to ensure that custom configuration and development is not necessary.

Company: Shell Chemicals Apr, 2008 – 2016

Position: Project Manager/Senior Consultant

Lead Consultant Role

●Worked with Finance stakeholders to identify specific reporting needs.

●Identify Earnings, Assets and Liabilities to determine ROCE.

●Evaluated BW HANA for LSA++ architecture and reporting (Calculation views, etc.)

●Provided Adhoc reports as needed

●Automated the reporting process where the Super users could run their own reports ADHOC.

Project Management Role

●Managed different phases of multiple projects:

oRequirements gathering

oPrototyping

oDevelopment

oTesting

oDeployment

●Managed Upgrade from BW version 3.5 (Netweaver 04) to version 7.01

●Managed developers both on-site and offshore – Oversee the development of BW objects (ODS, Cubes, Update Rules, InfoSources, Bex and Web Reports, etc.).

●Meet with the business (Stakeholders) and gather requirements and translate to technical specifications – Functional design specifications, technical design specifications, Data Modeling, Data flow diagrams, strict adherence to the EDW model.

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Company: Reliant Energy Nov, 2007 –Mar, 2008

Position: SAP BW Financial Reports Consultant

Lead Consultant Role

●Assisted the Finance Department to get thru a major backlog of reporting requirements. Worked with key individuals on the Finance and IT departments to meet requirements that had been stalled within the organization.

Company: Shell Chemicals Nov, 2005 – Nov 2007

Position: SAP BW Consultant

Lead Consultant Role

●Worked with BW version 3.5 (Netweaver 04)

●Managed developers both on-site and offshore – Oversee the development of BW objects (ODS, Cubes, Update Rules, InfoSources, Bex and Web Reports, etc.).

●Meet with the business (Stakeholders) and gather requirements and translate to technical specifications – Functional design specifications, technical design specifications, Data Modeling, Data flow diagrams, strict adherence to the EDW model.

●Development work utilizing BPS and BW Configuration, Bex Query, Web Query and data extraction.

Company: EBay June, 2005 – Oct, 2005

Position: SAP BW Consultant

Financial Reporting

●Met with IT staff to assess capabilities. Met with business users to verify requirements.

●Conducting analysis to best deliver on the requirements. Available options are Bex Query, Report Painter and ABAP Query.

●Technical lead on resolving “hot” tickets to support quarter-end reporting. This involves R/3 and BW applications.

●Bex Query Development.

Company: Haldor Topsoe, Inc. March – May, 2005

Position: SAP BW Consultant

Reporting Requirements Analysis

●Meet with business end-users and document report requirements

●Perform feasibility study to determine if reporting requirement can be met in R/3 or in BW.

●Started BW Configuration, customization and implementation. Have configured MM, SD, QM and Purchasing DataSources on R/3 and BW.

●Worked on PM module to determine master data loads.

Company: Shell Lubricants (Pennzoil-Quaker State Company) 2002 – Nov, 2004

Position: SAP BW Consultant

Analyze Business Requirements and Processes

●Gathered and analyzed business user needs

●Document existing procedures and communicate recommendations to client

Upgrade from BW2.1 to BW3.1

●Assisted technical and business teams in developing the solutions Architecture

●Configured and customized the BW application to conform to business needs

●Very familiar with SAP development, testing and production landscapes

Lead consultant managing the interface between APO and BW

●Managed the APO, BW and ABAP resources to implement solution

●Tested and Delivered solution as per customer requirements

●Resolved Production and Support issues

●Documented production support procedures and testing documentation

Company: Aramco Services Company 2000 – 2002

Position: SAP Consultant

SAP B/W

●Requirements gathering from stakeholders

●Analysis and design

●Development and testing of BW Queries

●Implementation and follow-up with the business user

SAP R/3 Upgrade from Rel 3.1g to Rel. 4.6c

●Worked with SAP Implementation Team

●Interfaced closely with management and business users to gather requirements

●Optimized ABAP code to conform with new release

●Documented all custom code developments along with test plans

●Resolved production/support issues that resulted from the upgrade

●Worked extensively with FI/CO and MM modules

Company: Tenneco Business Services 1999 – 2000

Position: SAP Systems Analyst III

SAP R/3 Upgrade from Rel 3.0f to Rel. 4.5b

●Assisted the technical team

●Analyzed and rewrote several custom programs in ABAP to adapt to the changes in Rel 4.5b.

●Applied OSS notes

●Worked with external vendors to implement Y2K issues

●Maintained and developed ABAP Queries

Company: MCI Systemhouse 1997 - 1999

Position: Senior Systems Engineer

SAP Integration

●Interfaced with other applications using EDI.

●Custom ABAP code development

●Identify IDOC’s and implemented them to integrate with other applications.

Other IT (non-SAP) Professional Experience

Company: Pinellas County-MIS 1993 - 1997

Position: Senior Programmer/Analyst

Systems Analysis/Design - familiar with system life cycle: concept development, detail design, software development, and implementation. Used FOCUS on MSO/TSO platform. Enhanced the applications by applying Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) utilizing MS Access and Visual Basic.

Company: Jack Eckerd Corporation 1992 - 1993

Position: Programmer/Analyst

Accessed DB2 data on the mainframe(TSO platform) using FOCUS. On-line retrievals were done using FOCUS Clist and batch jobs were submitted using JCL's.

Company: Automation Research Systems 1991 - 1992

Position: Junior Programmer

Developed an inventory management system for the F-15 weapons system. Used FOCUS as an application development tool.

Education

M.Sc., 1989 Major: Engineering Management Minor: Information Systems

University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

B.Sc., 1985 Major: Engineering Admin. Minor: Business Administration

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan.

B.Sc., 1985 Major: Electrical Eng. Minor: Computer Science

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan.

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