Capabilities:

**+ years experience as below:

- JD Edwards Practice Management, Delivery Management and experience in Software Product Development.

- Experience in Retail, FMCG Market and established Software Development and Implementation.

- Knowledgeable in Managing Resource Management, Financial Budgets for Information Technology as a part of Head Information Technology.

- Project Management skills with extensive experience in IT Applications, IT Management, requirements analysis, OO Modeling & Design using UML using iterative development processes, Data Modeling.

-Finance, Supply chain and Manufacturing experience in JD Edwards, Business Planning and Control Systems (BPCS)ERP software Solution for Pharmaceutical companies in India and Overseas.

- Sound Knowledge on Implementation methodologies, Go Live and Post Go Live procedures.

- Successful professional services management or practice management /development.

Total experience (years)

25+ years in MNC Pharmaceutical, Heavy Engineering, Retail and IT Consulting companies In India and Abroad.

Experience Summary

Project Management, Delivery Management experience in IT Companies in India and Abroad

ERP implementation BPCS, JD Edwards & JD Armstrong

IT Data Center setup in India

Budgeting, Planning, Team/Resource Management and Vendor Management, Infrastructure Management

Trainings / Seminars Attended

Professional Training on IBM – Mainframe and AS/400

ERP training from BPCS, JD Edwards and JD Armstrong

Professional Project Management, Process Management, Functional Point Estimation and Testing management

Extensive usage of MS Visio and MS Project Tools

Attended Oliver Wrights and Arthur & Andersen training Programs

COBIT, Agile, Waterfall and Solution Architecture

Achievements/Awards

ERP Implementations, Migration Project, Product Development and Customer Management, Solution Architect

Educational qualifications

M.Sc (Statistics) - 1986

Diploma in Computer Applications

Currently employed

No

Experience

15 years of Experience in Solution Architect, Project Management, Delivery Management and Head IT.

Head IT for Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Retail Companies

3rd party vendor management, contract management and team management

Experience in using Microsoft Visio and MS Project Tools

Knowledge of MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel Office Tools

10 Years of JD Edwards World Soft on AS/400 and JD Edwards Xe, 8.10 and Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne release 9.1

15+ Years in JD Edwards

6 Years in BPCS

2 Years in JD Armstrong – Retail Software

Experience of Developing and implementing Non-ERP applications using Open source. Good knowledge of SDLC, PDLC, Quality Management, Risk & Mitigation and Business Continuity procedures.

BPCS ERP Solution: Modules Implemented

Financials,

Supply Chain and

Manufacturing.

Version: 4.x and 6.x

JD Edwards ERP Solution: Module Implemented

Financials

Supply Chain and

Manufacturing

Version:

WorldSoft 7.3 on AS/400 (I-Series) and

EnterpriseOne 8.x, 9.1 and 9.2

Program Name

JD Edwards Practice

Team Size

15

Start Date and End date

April 2018 Till Oct 2018

Company Worked for

LERA Technologies Hyderabad

Total Duration (years)

7 Months

Onsite

Client Name

Ethiopian Sugar Corporation, Ethiopia

Offshore

Project Description

Practice Head Implementation of JDE business solution for Ethiopian Sugar Corporation, Ethiopia.

Roles and Responsibilities

Practice Head for JD Edwards Business Solution.

As practice head, was responsible to appoint lead Functional, Technical and CNC consultants for the project. Discussion with client on project progress, Budget and Financial planning for Project Execution. Project Contract Management, Preparation of Project Operational Planning, Status meeting with Client project team, Planning of Risk & Mitigation. Oversee Hardware and Software Installation at Client Site.

Challenges faced: Communication with key users and end users, Process explanations.

Program 1

Program Name

JD Edwards Practice

Team Size

15

Start Date and End date

June 2017 Till Dec 2017

Company Worked for

Systemic software Solution Pvt. Ltd

Total Duration (years)

4 Months

Onsite

Client Name

Heineken- Cambodia Brewery Limited

Offshore

Project Description

Implementation of JDE business solution for Cambodia Breweries Limited, Cambodia.

Roles and Responsibilities

Lead manufacturing Consultant.

Responsible for business requirement study that includes, understand current business process for Breweries manufacturing and Packaging process. Understand process from production planning stage till final production, packing and forwarding to warehouse.

Understand business interface with 3rd party planning software and designing interface.

Prepare production implementation plan starting from Business Production Planning Phase, Process Mapping, Conferencing Room Pilot, Identification Gaps, Reports Design, Master data building.

Preparing business process document for Resource identifying, Resource Allocation, Training requirements, and Preparation of Training Needs.

The Scope also includes Identifying Risk and Mitigation, Business Continuity Plan and post go live support

Challenges faced: Communication with key users and end users, Process explanations.

Program 2

Program Name

JD Edwards Practice

Team Size

25

Start Date and End date

Oct 01 -2016 Till Dec 2016

Company Worked for

Prodware Solutions.

Total Duration (years)

2 Months

Onsite

Client Name

Prodware Solutions

Offshore

Project Description

Implementation of Life Science software solution for Pharma companies with Product Traceability and Serial Numbering.

Roles and Responsibilities

Delivery Head for JD Edwards Practice.

Responsible for JD Edwards Solution- Delivery Management. Responsibility includes, JD Edward solution delivery for EnterpriseOne and Worldsoft customers.

Preparation of Technical and Commercial Proposals for domestic and overseas customers

Talking to customer and proving support management, resolution of escalated issues and arranging customer feedback

Internal Resource Management and upgrade skills through Training & Education for in-house software engineers/project managers.

Program 3

Program Name

Life Science Project

Team Size

8

Start Date and End date

Nov 01 -2015 till March 2016

Company Worked for

Tracelink India Pvt Ltd a US based Company.

Total Duration (years)

5 Months

Onsite

Client Name

Tracelink India Pvt Ltd a US based Company.

Offshore

Project Description

Implementation of Life Science software solution for Pharma companies with Product Traceability and Serial Numbering.

Roles and Responsibilities

Head of Information Technology,

Providing the Solution Architecture, Implementation and Support for Indian and APAC customers. The solution offered on Amazon Web Services (AWS).The solution caters to product tracks and serial number maintenance for Pharmaceutical Companies across world.

Prepare project plan, Constitute project core team members, Manage project and Liaison with IT consultants and Project Steering committee. Preparing the Data Centre with Level 3 standard and Appointing IT staff for data center.

Good knowledge of EPCIS/DSCSA regulation or Pharmaceutical product serialization sold in US Market and information about other countries on implementing serialization solutions.

Responsibility also includes, interacting with customers during project implementation stages and post implementation to resolve production queries.

Program 4

Program Name

Implementation on JDE 9.1

Team Size

8

Start Date and End date

Jun 01 -2015 Nov 2015

Company Worked for

American Company.

Total Duration (years)

8 Months

Onsite

Client Name

American Company.

Offshore

Project Description

Implementation of JDE 9.1 for American Engineering Company.

Roles and Responsibilities

Project Manager and Project Delivery

Migration of JD Edwards for an American Engineering Company based in Detroit. The scope of the project to understand current business processes, map to new JD Edwards business process. Prepare business projects through Microsoft Visio tools and confirm to the processes. Prepare project implementation plan, Suggest Members of Project steering committee and members to execute project, Prepare Business cases, Data migration plan, for US and Europe sites.

Prepare Project Risks and Mitigation plan, Collect common processes among the companies in US region and EU region. Prepare common Implementation plan for US and EU region.

Plan Customization and look at possible solution that exists in JD Edwards or prepare efforts and estimation plan for customization requirements.

Preparing the Data migration plan for their in-house management reporting systems.

Program 5

Program Name

Implementation on JDE 9.1

Team Size

8

Start Date and End date

Sep 01 -2013 April 14

Company Worked for

European Perfumes Works, Dubai, UAE

Total Duration (years)

8 Months

Onsite

Client Name

European Perfumes Works, Dubai, UAE

Offshore

Project Description

Implementation of JDE 9.1 for European Perfume Works at Dubai and for other group companies.

Roles and Responsibilities

Head of Information Technology,

Providing the Solution Architecture comprising of Understanding the current business processes, the non- JDE portion of the business and interfacing with JDE, The current Hardware requirement, the estimated data growth, Estimated response time to decide the hardware requirement to protect/support next 5 years of investments in Infrastructure Management.

Preparing and finalizing business processes and streamlining to support JD Edwards business solutions, Preparing Implementation Plan, Implementation Calendar and Role & responsibilities for the team.

Prepare project plan, Constitute project core team members, Manage project and Liaison with IT consultants and Project Steering committee, Preparing the Data Centre with Level 3 standard and Appointing IT staff for data center

Program 6

Program Name

Implementation on JDE 9.1

Team Size

8

Start Date and End date

Sep 01 -2013 Nov 2013

Company Worked for

European Perfumes Works, Dubai, UAE

Total Duration (years)

8 Months

Onsite

Client Name

European Perfumes Works, Dubai, UAE

Offshore

Project Description

Implementation of JDE 9.1 for European Perfume Works at Dubai and for other group companies.

Roles and Responsibilities

Head of Information Technology,

Providing the Solution Architecture comprising of Understanding the current business processes, the non- JDE portion of the business and interfacing with JDE, The current Hardware requirement, the estimated data growth, Estimated response time to decide the hardware requirement to protect/support next 5 years of investments in Infrastructure Management.

Preparing and finalizing business processes and streamlining to support JD Edwards business solutions, Preparing Implementation Plan, Implementation Calendar and Role & responsibilities for the team.

Prepare project plan, Constitute project core team members, Manage project and Liaison with IT consultants and Project Steering committee, Preparing the Data Centre with Level 3 standard and Appointing IT staff for data center

Program 7

Program Name

Pharmaceutical L2J project

Team Size

8

Start Date and End date

Jan 01 -2012 April 15, 2013

Company Worked for

L&T Infotech Ltd

Total Duration (years)

1.5

Onsite

Client Name

Lupin Limited, Mumbai, India

Offshore

1.5

Project Description

Web based multi user application development using Java, Oracle11g and JPMC Workflow Tools. The application is hosted on Unix operating systems at client’s site. The application has total 29 modules covering all office needs to make a paperless office. Each module is independent by itself and has its own requirement to fulfill. The solution is also interfaced both-the-ways to SAP ERP application. All these application are Web based applications and true on-line solutions.

Role and Responsibilities

Project Manager/Delivery Manager

Project planning and Resource load allocation management to ensure resources are not over loaded during application development cycle. Ensure Product Development Life Cycle procedure is observed during development stages.

Meetings with Clients IT team members to discuss on requirements and clarification on each module

Conduct weekly and monthly project status meeting to review actions-of –the-past and new-plan-of-action

Monthly review meetings with CIO and senior manager of Lupin to discuss the project status and new assignments/modules of L2J project

Managing and review application Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Documentation

Functional Point Estimation used to arrive at effort estimation

Application Testing and Confirmation to requirement

Keeping the bugs/defects to a minimum. Fixing the bug at earliest during UAT and Go-Live Stages

Supporting the application after Go-Live

Compliance to Quality management process

Key Achievements

Successfully Deployed the software solution at client’s office.

Appreciated efforts & methodology adopted during project execution

Functional Highlight and Contributions

The application solution was developed for Pharmaceutical Company in Mumbai covering most of the office task to make office truly operate paperless.

Application is developed user-friendly to operate for end users, truly menu driven to system administration to operate without touching data base from backend. The entire software solution was developed on Open Source platform using Java enterprise edition as development platform and Oracle11g and Work flow manager.

All UI’s, Data design, Data base design, Test Results and Deployment document was shared with the customer at each phase of the solution development.

“Water Fall project management” used to execute the project. The project activities/task were plotted using MS Project Management Tool. This helped to monitor the growth, critical areas, Resource Allocation, Cost and Delivery Schedule.

Totally team person to manage project in healthy atmosphere. Allow team members work flexibility during project without slipping project time lines.

Never Compromise on quality and deliver best solution to customers. Achieved Zero defect deployment.

Encouraged team to complete certification like OJCP. All successfully completed with score over 90 marks and few scored 100%.

Belief: Firm believe in Training and Education of the team members before assigning the task to team members. Conducted training to team members on Project Management, Process Management, Function Point Estimation and Cost Management

Nominated for Best Project Execution

Program 8

Program Name

Education Project

Team Size

4 + 15 client side

Start Date and End date

Oct 01 -2010 Oct, 15, 2012

Company Worked for

L&T Infotech Ltd.

Total Duration (years)

2

Onsite

Client Name

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University, (BAOU) Ahmedabad, India

Offshore

2

Project Description

Web Based Multi user application is developed on Open solution platform using Java as core development tool, MySQL version 5 as database and JASPER as 3rd party report development tool. The entire covers Student Enrollment, Student Examination, Communication, Contents Upload/Download, User’s Access rights and Reports for BAOU Management

Role and Responsibilities

Delivery Manager

Understand BAOU processes in Admission and Examination processes

Existing processes mapped using Visio software and then confirmed with Client. Application solution developed as per the process to automate Enrolment and Examination process

End-to-End process mapping in enrollment and examination

Training and Education to BAOU key Personnel

Implement and Support Software Solution

Client Management and software Delivery

Used “Agile” Project management methodology,

Ensure good system response time during peak hours of utilization

Key Achievements

Vendor finalization and Negotiation for Cloud management

Application solution is hosted on 3rd party Data center in Mumbai. The data center is certified data center and provides Data Security, 24X7 Internet connectivity, Data backup and other services.

All centers and university access the solution through internet.

Access to solution is based user Roles and responsibility in BAOU

On-line payment gateway for fees processing through State Bank of India

Provided On-line (internet based) and Counseling center admission process

Education content upload and download facilities as per the students course and is controlled by User Id and Password

Functional Highlight and Contributions

The application solution developed for University, the entire application is hosted on 3rd party data center (and accessed through internet) to reduce initial high investment cost on hardware components.

The entire software solution was developed on Open Source platform using Java enterprise edition as development platform and MySQL as data base management. This also reduced the operating cost.

The start-to-finish was made with minimal discussion with Customer. Since customer was not equipped with technology, the UI’s, MIS Reports and Software security based on user access was planned and delivered.

The true offshore development modules was used with development team at L&T’s Chennai development center and management from Mumbai.

“Agile project management” used to execute the project.

Totally team person to manage project in healthy atmosphere. Allow team members work flexibility during project without slipping project time lines.

Never Compromise on quality and deliver best solution to customers. This helped to improve Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI)

Encouraged team to complete certification like OJCP. All successfully completed with score over 90 marks.

Belief: Firm believe in Training and Education of the team members before assigning the task to team members. Conducted training on Quality Management, Process Management

Awarded best Team Award for the project

Program 9

Program Name

Cement Company in India

Team Size

20

Start Date and End date

Oct 01 -2009 Oct, 15, 2010

Company Worked for

L&T Infotech Ltd.

Total Duration (years)

1.5

Onsite

Client Name

Lafarge India at Kolkata & Lafarge Ready mix Concrete.

Offshore

1.5

Project Description

Implementation of JD Edwards Finance and Distribution Modules for large cement company in India using JD Edwards One World version 8.0.

Role and Responsibilities

Project Manager

The implementation includes Solution Architecture for JD Edwards Business Solution, Developing custom based solution and interfacing the solution with JDE solution through online integration. the Cement Company, Implement Asset Management System, Finance and Distribution Modules

Developed customized modules/application interface to support J D Edwards Distribution Module.

Trouble shooting and suggestions for work around

Project Management and Time management to ensure project completion

Client Management at Local and Overseas IT team during implementation stages

Compliance to Quality process,

Cost and Resource management

Confirmation from Client on Go Live

Lafarge Ready Mix Concrete Business.

Process understanding, Requirement gathering and key pain areas in Ready Mix Concrete (RMC) manufacturing and supply stage. Process these processes and staging during RMC.

Interfacing JD Edwards modules with RMC software

The scope also included migration of the history transactions of the previous financial year to new system

The responsibility includes providing the Solution Architecture for the client legacy based solution, Understanding the business processes, the requirements, to interfaces the solution with JDE and delivering the integrated solution within the said time frame.

Key Achievements

Successfully managed and implemented project.

Confirmation on Go-Live received from Client. Post Go-Live support provided

Effective meetings with Client’s user group, Client’s IT group during the implementation stages.

Managed large development and function consultants team during Implementation stage.

Functional Highlight and Contributions

Timely completion of the project for one of the largest cement company on eastern part of India. Implemented JD Edwards Supply Chain Management and Finance Modules

Water fall Project Implementation Methodology was used to execute the project time lines. Managed team of technical and functional professional during the project execution.

Quality: Project was executed under stringent quality norms to ensure no technology bugs /functional areas missed

Good Customer Feedback on Project Implementation methodology, execution, decision making ability helped to Lafarge Ready Mix Concrete Business. Good Interaction of Customer’s Project team and suggested value added suggestion to avoid application modification.

Totally team person to manage project in healthy atmosphere. Allow team members work flexibility during project without slipping project time lines.

Never Compromise on quality and deliver best solution to customers.

Belief: Firm believe in Training and Education of the team members before assigning the task to team members. Conducted training to team members on Project Management, Process Management, Function Point Estimation and Cost Management

Program 10

Program Name

Migration and Maintenance

Team Size

15

Start Date and End date

August -2007 Oct 01 -2012

Company Worked for

L&T Infotech Ltd.

Total Duration (years)

2

Onsite

2

Client Name

MTV – USA,

Lafarge UK,

UTC, UK

Offshore

2

Project Description

Migration – of old accounting system to new accounting codes in JD Edwards for MTV USA. The project scope includes understanding existing Chart-of- Accounts, the accounts summarization details and developing new Chart-of-Accounts in JD Edwards.

The scope also included moving the existing General Ledger Balance, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable balances, Fixed Assets and Multi Currency Modules. Redefining AAI’s for entire accounting systems.

Role and Responsibilities

Project Manager – Offshore /On-site

Designing the Solution Architect during the execution of the solution and application. This includes understanding the current business process, the new requirement and mapping and interfacing the new solution with the existing solution was the primary responsibility of the project. The responsibility also included interacting with the Client’s consultants while developing & mapping procedure. The Understand business requirements while scrapping existing Chart-of Accounts and moving to new Chart-of-accounts, the critical areas and develop procedure to ensure smooth migration to new accounting methodologies adopted by Client

Prepare project plan and delivery schedule. Share the same with internal team and the client. Co-ordinate with on-site project and offshore project team during project implementation stage

Application Testing and Bug Fixing before the application is deployed into CRP environment for the client to test

Configuring “Test Environment” and “CRP Environment” of JD Edwards instances to conduct application testing without disturbing Live environment

Conduct project meetings with team, and client, update client on project development and maintain Minutes-of-Meetings

Compliance to L&T Infotech Quality management process

Allocation of resources at Offshore and onsite

Key Achievements

Successfully completed software migration project at client’s site.

Efforts acknowledged by the management

Functional Highlight and Contributions

Timely completion of the project for one of the largest cement company on eastern part of India. Implemented JD Edwards Supply Chain Management and Finance Modules Handled the project in the Project Manager Capacity

Water fall Project Implementation Methodology was used to execute the project time lines. Managed team of technical and functional professional during the project execution.

Quality: Project was executed under stringent quality norms to ensure no technology bugs /functional areas missed

Good Customer Feedback on Project Implementation methodology, project execution, I. T. subject knowledge on technical and Functional requirements helped to improve Customer’s feedback from Viacom Management.

Totally team person to manage project in healthy atmosphere. Allow team members work flexibility during project without slipping project time lines. Rewarded by L&T Infotech management for useful contribution to implement the project.

Never Compromise on quality and deliver best solution to customers.

Belief: Firm believe in Training and Education of the team members before assigning the task to team members. Educated Offshore and Onsite team members on what is customer looking at and how to address the difficulties.

Program 11

Program Name

IT Head at Bahrain

Team Size

10

Start Date and End date

August -2005 August -2007

Company Worked for

Mohammed Jalal WLL

Total Duration (years)

2

Onsite

2

Client Name

Mohammed Jalal and Sons, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain

Offshore

Project Description

The job responsibilities as Head of IT of a company that is engaged in multiple businesses like, automobiles, elevators, food & catering, constructions, retail sanitary equipment, trading etc…

Maintenance of JD Edwards System

Develop MIS

Manage all group’s Retail Stores IT requirement,

Role and Responsibilities

Head IT for Mohammed Jalal Group Companies, Baharain

Resolving Open issues

Uptime of the computer system and network connectivity

Monitor Job logs to ensure schedule jobs are executed and no errors are reported

Ensure daily Data Backup/Restore is done and the backup is placed away from the office place,

Form Disaster Management Policy

Ensuring hardware /software AMC

Manage Vendors and define SLA

Establish Helpdesk facility to resolve end users queries

Ensuring user completing all data transactions by end of the month to generate MIS of each of the company and month is closed for data transaction entries.

Prepare “Training Calendar” and conduct training to end users to resolve operating difficulties

Prepare Implementation plan to implement new modules, procedure

Plan and Meet business head, end-user of the group company

Keep the operating cost to minimum

Allocation and Job rotation of the team

Budgeting the monthly expense of the department

Key Achievements

Maintained healthy relation with all business heads. Open Door policy

Functional Highlight and Contributions

Interacting with multiple group head, their finance head was major challenge faced during the tenure. Meeting them and updating the initiatives taken by IT department was done on regular time intervals.

Liaison with JD Edwards Business partners on solution patches/updates, annual maintenance payment (AMC) and other solution support to ensure smooth functioning of the IT department. Introduced “Crystal Reporting” Tool to extract report and convert them in Excel format for further analysis

Education and Training: Conduct regular refreshers training to end users to avoid data input errors/functional errors

Timely completion of data inputs and closing of the books on 4th working day of the next month. Complete data integrity check every fortnight to ensure correctness of the data and to take corrective action if needed.

Never Compromise on quality and deliver best solution to customers.

Belief: Firm believe in Training and Education of the team members before assigning the task to team members.

Program 12

Program Name

IT Head at Globus Stores

Team Size

7 + IT support staff across India

Start Date and End date

August -2003 August -2005

Company Worked for

Globus Stores Mumbai

Total Duration (years)

2

Onsite

2

Client Name

Globus Stores Mumbai

Offshore

Project Description

Maintenance and manage Globus Stores corporate IT systems and chain of retail stores spread across India. Globus has In-house IT system on IBM AS/400 system with JD Armstrong as main Business Application system and Retail Ideas as Data warehousing tool. Besides this company has in-house developed application for garment manufacturing.

Preparing the Business Process Document on the current business processes and the upcoming business challenges in the Retail segment. The document was used as Solution Architect for implementing JD Edwards business solution for Financial Modules. The on-line Interfaces to JD Armstrong was key to area to implement successfully.

Role and Responsibilities

Head Information Technology

Maintenance of JD Armstrong Retail ERP solution, Retail Ideas a data warehouse solution, Applications on PoS

Manage all stores IT requirements and plan for new stores

Prepare IT Budget for Hardware, Software expense budget

Manage in-house data center, Ensure daily backup/restore procedure, prepare and practice Disaster management policy, System response time, uptime and upgrade

Implementation of One World JD Edwards ERP Application System.

Ensure system uptime, response time and availability is very high at stores through 3rd party service providers

Establish “Helpdesk” to register end-user complaints/suggestion to improve system usage

Introduce new technology like Kiosks at stores, Wi-Fi technology, Internet usage to reduce operating expenses

Introduce Shopping on the internet concepts

Availability of up-to-date data to management and operating staff on sales and customer management through Retail Ideas

Providing Business document comprising of Solution Architecture, Designing, Implementation plan, training and data migration of JD Edwards ERP Finance solution and interfacing with JD Armstrong solution.

Key and Functional Highlights Achievements

Being the Retail Industry on Fashion and Accessories,

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