SUMMARY

Vaskar has been managing large portfolio of complex business transformation and transition projects spread across geographies and industries for both implementation & application maintenance initiatives for international & domestic clients along with sales activities for getting new projects as well as mining the existing accounts. He is having very good leadership, managerial and employee development skills with twenty two years of total industry experience. He is a strategic and tactical leader having proven track record in IT consulting. Well versed in Agile/ Scrum Project Management Methodology and SAP HANA S/4, both on premise and cloud versions. He is responsible for P&L of the accounts as well as positive outcome of the initiatives. He is a go-getter person and willing to take risks.

Vaskar has done his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy, India and MBA from International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi, India. He has also done one year (2012-13) Leadership program (ILPSIE) from INSEAD Business School, Singapore/ France.

Key Words: Portfolio, Program & Project Management of complex and large transformational projects, Agile/ Scrum Project Management, Business Development, SAP, SAP SD, SAP BI, SAP HANA S/4, Executive Dashboard, Analytics, Cloud.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015 – Present

July’15 to Present

Account Executive, IBM Global Services, Mumbai

Currently working as Account Executive for complex SAP implementation projects for one of the topmost Oil & Gas Industry market leaders. One of the projects has recently gone live successfully one month before stipulated time frame with gross project profit margin of 35% and with customer satisfaction. Have received Client appreciation. Using Agile Project Management methodology.

Worked as Account cum Program Manager for HMEL’s (HPCL Mittal Energy Limited) large SAP and SAP HANA migration projects and managed around 50 consultants at client’s site. Maintained overall SLA over 98% consistently, reduced ticket volumes by streamlining and doing automation, streamlined approval workflows through SAP Fiori implementation, GST implementation, developed Executive Dashboards through BI/ Cognos, automated test scripts through SAP CBTA tool

Worked as Portfolio/ Delivery Project Executive of portfolio of accounts viz: AMUL, Heinz, Pidilite, WPP, Suburban Diagnostics, Lodha, and Marico with combined value of USD 25 Million and combined resource of 80 consultants. Have achieved target Gross Profit along with customer satisfaction; have done base account growth in terms of signing off multitude of PCRs and new business initiatives such as SAP Fiori, WMS etc. Streamlined ticketing process for AMUL and Heinz

Managed and executed SAP ECC upgrade projects for two big accounts AMUL and Heinz

Executed cloud migration of IT applications for Heinz

Done business development activities for many accounts. Played key roles in various RFPs, solution design/ architecting & proposal preparation process, resource & pricing determination along with assessing pre-bid project & program risks

Executed resource deployment for the portfolio of projects as per requirements and right fitments

Fostered a culture of service excellence focused on creating value and relevance by helping customers meet their broader business objectives

Mentored and groomed project managers and team members

Have received Client Appreciations from both AMUL and Heinz clients

Have been doing solutioning strategy, solutioning of SAP for many clients and have won many deals

Working with Scrum project management methodology for one of the international clients in Oil & Gas Industry. Using Azure DevOps tool for scrum project management

Have attended SAFe Agile Framework course conducted by IBM

Have got Certified in Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

2014-2015

Director/ Mentor, Mumbai

July’14 to June’15

Associated with Start-up company, ATS for providing solutioning of cloud based analytics tool

Liasoning and getting finance from VCs and Angel Investors

Business expansion for the entity

2012-2014

Senior Manager, Accenture Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

July’12 to June’14

Managed various projects on SAP and non-SAP of Accenture’s key client, BHP Billiton, in Asia Pacific Region (Singapore & Malaysia) as a part of their business transformation initiative from Accenture Technology Consulting

Managed couple of System Integration projects including SAP CRM implementation as Program Manager for two key accounts and provided strategic guidance for their future initiatives in Malaysia

Developed PoC on SAP BW powered by SAP HANA for showcasing to the clients

Thought leadership in project and program management

Have done sales activities like preparing proposals, solution architecting, client relationship management etc. for some of the clients in APAC region

Outcome: The business transformation projects helped the clients in reducing cost of more than 30%, streamlining of their supply chain, alignment of business & IT, higher quality of IT services and faster time to market.

2006 - 2012

Program Manager, IBM Global Services, Mumbai

May’06 to June’12

Worked as Program Manager for business transformation projects and application outsourcing for domestic and international clients for IBM GBS business unit as Delivery Head role

Managed portfolio of 5 SAP business transformation projects with combined value of USD 55 Million with 60 consultants under various projects with P&L responsibilities of the projects that included clients like Welspun, Indofil, Maharastra State Electricity Transport Corporation, Digicable etc.

Played key roles in various RFPs, solution design/ architecting & proposal preparation process, resource & pricing determination along with assessing pre-bid project & program risks. Brought business of very large accounts of average value of USD 1 to 2 Million per deal. Worked in close collaboration and tandem with the Account Executives, Client Partners and Services Sales Engagement Managers. Key wins were IndiGo, Welspun etc.

Responsible for business development, deal execution, thought leadership & sales enablement

Managed concerned stakeholders’ expectations during proposal preparation process

Developed business opportunities by mining existing and expanding horizon into greenfield accounts along with doing effective business strategy

Mentored and groomed project managers and team members

Achieved project profit more than the target for many of the projects and was appreciated by both clients and IBM management

Implemented USD 5 million SAP business transformation project at PepsiCo Jordan as Project Manager of 15 member team 10 days before scheduled delivery date with project gross profit of 45% without compromising any quality and meeting customer satisfaction

Involved in implementation of SAP project at Harley Davidson, Oxford, UK and SAP BW implementation at Shell UK, London.

Implemented SAP Real Estate project at Godrej Properties Ltd, Mumbai and Ahuja Properties, Mumbai within budget & schedule both as Project manager with 15 member team in each project. Ahuja project went 3 weeks before scheduled go-live date with 35% of gross profit.

Worked as project manager for implementing SAP BI of USD 10 million with team size of 15 at HUL Bangalore within budget and time and helped in reducing turnover of 90% by improving communication between contractors and permanent employees.

Done Vendor management

Thought leadership in project and program management

2004 - 2006

Principal Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Mumbai

Dec’04 to April’06

Worked as Project Manager for implementing BI business transformation project at Micro Inks with team size of 10 as a part of PwC Advisory Group

Responsibilities: Implementation, strategic guidance and providing road map for BI implementation, training to the team and the client team, team building activity and resourcing

Did SAP BI audit work at PwC UK and PwC USA that involved reviewing BI implementations and suggesting recommendations to the stakeholders/ top management

2004 - 2004

Senior Consultant, SAP India, Bangalore

July’04 to Dec’04

Did SAP BI audit work at Linklater Plc., UK, a reputed law firm, for BI implementation

Conducted series of interviews with various functional group heads, business process & technical team leads and end users for the review

Provided final recommendations and presentation to the client

2001 - 2004

Project Manager, L&T InfoTech, Mumbai

Jan’01 to June’04

Managed Motorola, USA SAP BI project as project lead and worked as part of L&T InfoTech SAP SBU

Responsibilities: Formulation of plans & strategies for supporting maintenance activities both onsite and offshore in the form of “Follow-the-Sun” principle

Implemented web based cockpit report for top level management at Johns Manville, USA as SAP BI project lead

Managed SAP BI Project at Gillette, USA as lead and supported in the areas of demand planning, SKU management, and forecasting and inventory management

Implemented SAP BI project at TVS Motors in the areas of Sales & Marketing, Operations, Inventory, Credit Management and consolidation of MD’s report as SAP BI Project Lead

Implemented SAP BI at Domestic Marketing Networks (L&T Group) as Project Manager in the areas of Sales & Marketing, Finance, Operations, Inventory Management and Resource Utilization

Implemented SAP BI in E&C Division of L&T Group in the areas of Performance Monitoring, Excise, Vendor Comparison, Material Control Chart and Management Cockpit reports as Project Manager

Played key roles in preparing various RFPs, solution architecting and proposal preparation process

1998 - 2000

Project Leader, Atlas Software Technologies Ltd, Kolkata

July’98 to Nov’00

Worked as SAP SD Project Lead at Haldia Petrochemicals Limited for SAP Phase I and Phase II implementations

Responsibilities: For Phase I, requirement gathering, gap analysis and blueprinting of Seed Marketing process. Configuration of SD and Country India Version (CIN) modules, unit & integration testing, user training, go-live preparation and post go-live support.

For Phase II, system upgrade from 3.0F to 4.0B. Post upgrade, new implementation of manufacturing, distribution, quality, plant maintenance, finance & accounting and HR processes. Did requirement gathering, gap analysis and blueprinting of new business processes, configuration of SD, CIN and WM modules, unit & integration testing, user training, go-live preparation and post go-live support. Also, did configuration for mysap.com On-Line Store post hyper care support

ACADEMICS

INSEAD, Leadership and General Management Programme, Singapore/ France

Cornell University, Certificate in Executive Leadership Program, USA

International Management Institute (IMI), MBA, Delhi

National Institute of Technology (NIT), Electronics & Communication Eng. Trichy

STRENGTHS AND INTERESTS

Member of PMI, USA and PMP Certification by PMI, USA.

Certified Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1) by Scrum.org

IBM Certified Delivery Project Executive (DPE)

IBM Silver Certification on Chemical & Petroleum Industry

Published articles in PMI Magazines. One of the articles was published in PMI PM Conclave 2013.

At present in the process of publishing article on “Project Management through Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital Era” for PMI

SAP BW Certification by SAP India.

Awarded “Outstanding Performer” by IBM India in 2007. Awarded Best SAP Implementation at PepsiCo Jordan in 2010.

Awarded National Merit Scholarships for six years in India.

Hobbies: Reading, Writing, Yoga and playing Table Tennis.

Fluent in English. Can read, write and speak German; know very basic Japanese Evidence to be furnished on request

APPENDIX

My key skills and other attributes are provided below:

1.Highly skilled in doing large and complex SAP transformational projects – Domestic and International

2.Have executed large and complex projects for big clients such as Pepsico, AMUL, Heinz, Pidilite, Shell, BHP Billiton, Hindustan Unilever, HMEL, Schlumberger etc. with multimillion dollar value

3.Have managed portfolio of more than USD 60 Million

4.Managed more than 90 consultants

5.Current focus is in SAP S/4 Hana (both on premise and Cloud) and Agile/ Scrum Project Management methodology

6.Expert in Business development and Sales activities such as RFI/RFP preparations, participation in bidding activities, presentation to the clients etc. Had done business development/ Sales activities for medium to big projects. IBM Certified Pricer and Certified Risk Assessor

7.Expert in Analytics – have executed many analytics projects based on SAP BI/ BO, Cognos, BPC etc. for clients such as AMUL, Heinz, HMEL, Hindustan Unilever, Shell, L&T, Gillette, Motorola etc.

8.Got very good connections with CXOs of AMUL, Heinz, Pidilite, Suburban Diagnostics, WPP, Marico Industries, Indofil Industries, HMEL etc. This will enable in getting future opportunities/ business

9.Have worked/ working with reputed MNCs IBM, Accenture, PwC, SAP India, L&T Infotech

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