Manager Project

TANWEER ABBAS

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SUMMARY

Successful project delivery executive with over 25 years' experience providing effective leadership during JDE implementation, upgrades & enhancements. Highly successful at leading cross-functional, multi-cultural, multilingual teams to consistently delivering results, global roll-outs with specific localization, regulatory requirements. Passionate about working with teams and make the difference. SUMMARY

PROJECT MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW (Over 15 years)

Provide strong leadership and guidance throughout the project life-cycle

Hands-on Project Management covering full spectrum of project tasks

Strict adherence to PMO governance processes, applying PMBOK standards

Create documents pertaining to Scope, Planning, Financial, Communication, Stakeholder. Risk and Issue Management

Develop project charter, project plan, budget, and resource plan

Fully accountable for the department's budget, project deliverables. KPIs, reporting periodically to different layers of management with emphasis on earned value, risk and mitigation plans.

Align project deliverable with senior leadership's vision and strategic direction

Effective project controls with emphasis on reporting forecast, spend and variance analysis

Drive accountability, acceptance of responsibility for effective teamwork, proliferate awareness and foster highly working relationships

Manage vendors (including those off-shore), negotiate contract terms, develop SLAs, evaluate bids with emphasis on best value, track and report vendor performance, prequalify and on-board new vendors,

FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW (Over 13 years)

Well versed with requirement gathering, solution selection, configuration, testing, benchmarking and decision making

As is and 2-B process documentation and business analysis experience covering discrete and process manufacturing in multiple environments like assemble-to-order, make-to-stock, make-to-order etc.

Chart of Account rationalization across the enterprise to enable better visibility in the business for all levels of management

Managed projects pertaining to the consolidation of company income statement, P&L etc, during companies acquisitions and mergers

Hands-on experience with JDE Distribution, EAM and Manufacturing modules

Familiar with database table structure (JDE, ADABAS, SAP etc)

Leading teams through solution configuration/development. testing and go-live

Authoring end-user manuals, training. assisting in change management and solution roll-out

Provide post-go-live hyper-care support

WORK HISTORY

Federated Cooperatives Ltd (FCL)

Position: Project Manager From Sept 2012 to Date

One of the largest retail co-operatives in Western Canada with 210 retail members, engaged in wholesaling, manufacturing, marketing, and administrative services to its member-owners Responsibilities: Manage on-going projects

Projects Completed

Core Financial Project

Conduct a detailed study, document requirements/processes, manage vendor selection process and contract negotiation leading to final sign-up

Data conversion project from legacy to the new system. The project involved data from files with multiple formats from variety of disparate systems

Work with Infrastructure team, conduct sizing estimates and growth plan for the new software/hardware acquisitions.

Interface development for data pooling from retail management system to the financial system

Development of reports pertaining to performance of retail ccoperatives across the country Job and Manufacturing Costing

Capital project costing/tracking for construction projects

Setting up cost codes, budgets and tracking actual against spent

Configure Inventory, Shop Floor, Product Data Management and Costing modules for make to order for a fuel truck assembly plan involving setting up BOM, and routing for parent items and sub-assemblies.

Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) / EAM Project

Developed business case, project charter and budget for management approval

Assembled teams, report costs, and timelines, managed issues and risk logs with mitigation plan

Managed development and execution of test cases and training material for end users

Managed large scale data conversion pertaining to inventory (87000 machine parts and sub- assemblies at 4 different warehouse locations), procurement, and fixed assets. The tasks included data cleansing, data enrichment and migration to JDE tables.

Leverage UPK for courseware authoring

Develop a security strategy document including governance process, defines roles, and setting up security

Phased implementation of Supplier invoices automation/EDI 810

Imaging of supplier invoices

OCR and conversion to AP System

Gradual on-boarding of suppliers to facilitate invoices processing electronically

Implementation of EDI 810

Glaxo SmithKline Philadelphia PA

One of the World largest Pharmaceutical Manufacturing company Position: JDE Project Manager From Sept 2011 to Sept 2012 Responsibilities: Manage on-going projects

Projects Completed

Implementation of Ariba discount pro product

For newly acquired company, data mapping from SAP to JDE to assist in financial consolidation

Managed transition from Lotus Notes to Outlook

Implementation of Data Archiving using ARCTOOLS

Preparation for Release 9.1 upgrade

Resolve issues involving several interfaces with JDE Katz Group Inc, Markham (ON) Canada

A leading Canadian chain of retail pharmacies

Position: JDE Applications Manager From June 2008–To Sept 2011 Responsibilities: Manage IT Application dept. with a budget of over $10 million and a 7 resources. Ensure no down time and provide JDE and system admin support. Plan for growth and initiate new projects

Project completed

EDI 810, 850 and 855 implementation and vendor payments thru EFT

HST compliance – Back office Finance System. POS and back-office systems

Develop and maintain interfaces with POS and pharmacy systems

Stores performance and shrink and other analytical reports for category managers

Returned to vendor merchandizing accounting, PO system

Development of SOPs for various functional areas in preparation for UPK implementation.

Conducted a complete system audit. Implemented best practices and SDLC standards

Release 9.0 upgrade tasks including retrofit custom mods, data conversion, Toolset release upgrade, Infrastructure LAN/WAN upgrade

Performance and Tuning Audit, Data Archiving, hardware sizing to plan for data growth

Retrofit of a number of applications to improve processing time ATS Automation Systems Cambridge (ON) Canada

World's leading factory automation systems integrator Position: Project Manager From June 2007 to June 2008 Responsibilities: Manage on-going projects

Project completed:

Standardized and created a BOM structure for a number of sub-assemblies in make to order

Setup standard routings and processes including QC and outside processing environment Development of specifications for a number of reports, objects retrofits, and custom mods

Streamlined data flow from the engineering system to JDE procurement system

Help retrofit JDE/Engineering system interface with JDE procurement module clearing up a number of pending support issues

Developed procedures to streamline the use of JDE and minimize user support requirement.

Developed user documentation and conduct training.

Acting as a CNC resource until new resource was hired.

Maintain user security. Ensure that audit requirement are met

Object promotion, managed environments

Planning an upgrade from JDE XE version to E18.12 standard. Documented of user requirements

Royal Technology Group, Woodbridge, (ON) Canada

A conglomerate of manufacturing companies specializing in vinyl building products Position: Project Manager From Sept. 2006 to May 2007 Responsibilities: Conduct study on existing systems, business processes, work methods and user requirements for the purpose of developing standardized and scalable systems and processes to allow users to utilize the company's ERP system in growing the business. Project completed

JDE Manufacturing system implementation (PDM, SFC, MRP) at a garden shed manufacturing facility. Tasks included:

o Standardized PDM related mass data upload templates, developed validation scripts. o Created statement of procedures for entire organization for setting up item ledger, item branch, item cost, bill of material, routings and cross-references etc. o Created category code standards for reporting purpose. o Standardized PDM power user's security and created generic menus and versions for the entire organization

o Preparation of training manuals. Training and certifying users o A scalable solution was created for implementation across the board; training was standardized resulting in cost saving and avoiding duplication. o Develop scripts for testing and retrofitting of Distribution and Manufacturing objects. o Preparing specs for custom modifications to the existing objects o Field to field Mapping to convert data from the legacy system to the new ERP system Terumo Heart Inc., Ann Arbor (Mi) USA

An R&D company specializing in the development/marketing of a wide array of medical products Position: Project Leader From October 2005, September 2006 Responsibilities: Lead a number of IT initiative aimed at streamlining processes, spread use of the ERP system and prepare for the upgrade. Act as the first line of support and resolve various technical and functional issues encompassing JDE manufacturing modules. Lead team of Manufacturing resources to complete implementation of the JDE system.

Project completed

Complete revamp of the existing manufacturing processes: Tasks included were:

Conduct a complete audit of the current usage of the ERP system.

Prepare a Gap Analysis report and make recommendations for functional and process changes

Conduct end user training. Post-implementation audit. Processes review and changes

Prepared test scripts and conduct quality assurance of the setup of Supplier Master, Item Master, Item/Branch, BOM Structure, Routings and related accounts for cost roll-ups.

Developed specs and testing scripts for various reports covering JDE manufacturing applications.

Bar code implementation for inventory control

J. D. Edwards Middle East Limited (J. D. Edwards subsidiary in the Middle East) Position: Project Manager From June 2001– March 2005 Responsibilities: Oversee a number of on-going client projects, ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction. Maintain project timeline, budget and assign resources meeting commitment to the JDE clients, Some of the project completed:

Project completed

Implementation and Integration of Financial and Maintenance Management Systems in a large aircraft maintenance factory. Development of additional applications. Also provided consulting services over a period of 1.5 years: Undertook development of the interface between different applications. Project Duration 2 years, Cost: US $ 5 Million

Implementation of Financial, Distribution and Manufacturing System at a chain of Food Processing and Distribution Factories. Project Duration: 2 years Project cost US $ .76 Million

Completed a turnkey project for automation of Financial, Distribution, Equipment Maintenance, and Manufacturing Systems in a group of companies involved in trading of construction material, manufacturing of fasteners and fuel filters, manufacturing, lube oil blending plant, and transportation of bulk cement and LPG. Project Duration: 4 years, Project Cost: US $ 4 Million

NTN Bearing MFG Canada

World's leading manufacturer and supplier of high-quality automotive bearings. Position: Assistant IS Manager/Project Manager From October 1996 to April 2001 Responsibilities:

Prepare the company for Year 2000 compliance. Select new software and hardware and establish an IT department at the manufacturing plant.

Project completed:

o Requirement gathering and prepare RFP.

o Selection of solution vendor. Contract negotiation and administration o Project management and implementation of ERP solution in the sales office and manufacturing plant. Quality assurance of the new solution and process changes. o Electronic Data Interchange with vendors and customers o Complete revamp of hardware infrastructure

o Automation of data collection

EDUCATION

Bachelor degree with majors in Computer Science

TECHNICAL PROFILE

o JDE's OW Rel 8.12, JDE E1 Rel. 9.2, Tools Rel: 8.98, BPCS, Remedy, Lotus, SSA's BPCS, Oracle, MP2, KRONOS, SAS, Cobol, C++, DB2, RPG, IBM AS/400, Windows NT, UNIX o JDE Modules:: G/L, A/P, A/R, J/C, F/A, Proc, INV, SFC, PDM, MRP o Platforms: Windows, AIX, AS/400, SQL, Remedy, SharePoint, TRAINING

o Unified Modeling Language (UML)

o Various ERP product suite implementation courses o Preparing for PMP certification

o Various JDE Distribution and Manufacturing courses from JDE University PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP

Member, Project Management Institute (PMI) PMP certification in progress

Member ECRUG 2011 Steering Committee. Presented paper as a 2011 conference speaker, entitled: "A primer to JDE performance management"

Member, Toastmasters. Designated as "Competent Communicator". Winner of various speech contests

Legal Work Status: Fully authorised to work in Canada and USA

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