Ahmed S. Quadri, MBA

adp196@r.postjobfree.com 214-***-****

linkedin.com/in/ahmed-quadri

US Citizen with Security Clearance

Executive Summary

IT Professional with multiple years of experience as a Business Analyst. Currently working as a Liaison: Gathering requirements from business. Determine GAP analysis, facilitate UAT testing with business. Create process flows and swim lanes. Experienced in Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Professional Experience

United States Army August 2020 - Present

SAP Sr. Business Analyst

General Fund Enterprise Business Systems (GFEBS) is a web-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to integrate financial, real property and other asset, cost and performance data. GFEBS standardizes business processes and transactions across the active Army, the Army National Guard (ARNG) and the United States Army Reserve (USAR) at over 200 locations. GFEBS provides real-time visibility of transactions, as well as historical data, to provide an integrated, analytic foundation for decision-making. GFEBS implementation is designed to standardize financial management and accounting functions and real property inventory and management

Lead FI and FM team as a Liaison between business and technical teams, created Business Requirement Document (BRD) format, and presented it to Technical team (IBM) for build. Conducted daily follow-ups with business and technical team on progress of projects.

Monitored the process of projects going through Development, Quality and Production environments.

Configured FMDERIVE, for derivation rules, used fire fighter id to create, update, or deactivate rules.

Configured and mapped target functional areas, target fund centers, and PPA Interest

Conducted UAT for enhancement Super-user and End-user training in PS, SD and FI, Documentation, and Hyper-Care Support

Configured FMBB by using fire fighter id to push down funds to lower level for usage.

Configured and created Functional Areas using FM_FUNCTION

Researched and debugged tier 2 incidents for US and Global teams

Conducted weekly meetings with team to determine high priority incidents

Determined reporting needs with management and supervisors in BI

Created job aids and conducted multiple training sessions for all sites

Interior Logic Group – California, Florida, Seattle, Nevada April 2019 – August 2020

SAP Sr. Business Analyst/Project Manager

Interior Logic Group is in the process of purchasing many competitors in the world of home décor products such as flooring, tile, cabinets and counter-tops. They were recently purchased by Interior Specialists Incorporated and are growing to incorporate new locations all over the United States onto their growing ERP Landscape.

Four Full Life Cycle Implementations completed at various national locations.

Lead FI and SD teams on requirement gathering sessions with business SME’s on capturing as is process to determine GAP analysis

Providing Project Management direction to Implementation Team, Training Team, Data Analyst Team.

Creating Project Tracking Documentation, Process Gap Analysis Documentation and Maintenance of Reporting Matrix for each conversion location

Assisted client team in leading the technical effort for Integration testing, UAT, Data Migration, Super-user and End-user training in PS, SD and FI, Documentation, and Hyper-Care Suppor

Creating Bringing newly purchased acquisitions onto ILG’s CORE ERP Landscape.

Utilized data migration cockpit for newly designed database.

Developed Transactional Cockpits for specified business processes and reporting

Determined reporting needs with management and supervisors in BI

Duracell – Chicago, IL October 2017 – April 2019

SAP Sr. Business Analyst/Project Manager

Duracell Inc. is an American manufacturing company owned by Berkshire Hathaway that produces batteries and smart power systems. Duracell manufactures alkaline batteries in many common sizes, such as AAA, AA, C, D, and 9V. Duracell has more than 2,700 employees.

Worked with global teams (South America, Middle East, Asia, Europe and UK) on change request and projects.

Project Manager Under direction of the PMO, Served as primary Conversion Project Manager between stakeholders, business development teams and other functional consultants. Utilized PS (Project Systems) and Jira for project tracking.

Liaison between business and technical teams, created Business Requirement Document (BRD) format, and presented it to Technical team (TCS) for build. Conducted daily follow-ups with business and technical team on progress of projects.

Monitored the process of projects going through Development, Quality and Production environments. UI Path Robotics certified analyst.

Lead FI team on gathering requirements and assisted with configuration of Pricing Maintenance

Lead FI/SD team on gathering requirements and creation of Condition Types and Pricing Condition for posting trade.

Lead SD team on requirement gathering and assisted with configuration of Order Types for Latin American Sales Organization (Panama, Chile, Mexico, and Brazil).

Lead SD team on requirement gathering and assisted with configuration of proforma order (F5 document) which is sent to sales rep when Sales Order is created for Barcelona/Italy/Germany/France every time a sales order via EDI, WOM, and manual is created, changed, repriced and saved.

Lead an implementation team on a project for Germany (DACH) New Order Combo rule for Back Order, business wanted to combine back orders with new Sales Order, which saved cost by stopping second delivery’s on orders.

Currently lead 3 projects on automation of creating invoices/email generation to vendors and automation of tax jurisdiction update in ERP using Ui Path Robotics

Worked with directors on making decision for Vendors/Suppliers on BI Business Partner created application road map, timeline, and rate of return on investment in 4 years

Reyes Coca Cola Bottling – Chicago, IL June 2017 – October 2017

SAP Sr. Business Analyst/Project Manager

Reyes Holdings is one of the largest privately held companies in the world. With annual sales above $27B. Employees over 30,000 people and distribute over 900 million cases of product annually to more than 120,000 customers worldwide. Reyes Holdings is a global leader in the distribution of food and beverage product. The company is comprised of four business units: Reyes Beverage Group, the largest beer distributor in the US; The Martin-Brower Company, the largest worldwide distributor of McDonald's; Great Lakes Coca-Cola Bottling, a bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola products throughout Chicagoland and the Midwest, and Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling, a West Coast bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola products

Sr. Business Analyst for Reyes Coca Cola Bottling company on the implementation of beverage tax for California, Nevada, and Illinois

Liaison between business and technical team (CONA), created business requirement document after meeting with the business subject matter experts, gathered business needs, created documents in Business Requirement Document (BRD) format and presented it to Technical team (CONA) for build.

Conducted daily follow-ups with business and technical team on progress of projects. Monitored the process of projects going through Development, Quality and Production environments.

Lead FI/SD team on a project for installation of Beverage Tax in Illinois, California, and Nevada gathered requirements from business

Worked with Coca Cola SME on creation of multiple FI/SD related reports, with extracted data modeled in BI.

Worked with Project Managers, SMEs, and End users on training material for daily functionality.

Created job aids and conducted multiple training sessions for all 31 plants in California and Nevada.

Dart – Mason, MI April 2016 – June 2017

SAP Sr. Business Analyst/Project Manager

Dart Container Corporation, sets the Industry Standard of Excellence in the development, manufacture and distribution of innovative foodservice packaging solutions. Dart manufactures cups, plates, containers, lids and straws made from such materials as expanded polystyrene foam, solid polystyrene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), paper and sugar cane. Dart has expanded across the globe to include more than 40 locations in six countries. Dart has about 15,000 employees worldwide.

Gathered business requirements and documented new integrations by meeting with business analyst and business stakeholder to draft As-is/To-be process.

Performed GAP Analysis documentation and prototyping current business practices and ERP capabilities.

Studied Dart Container’s current business document flow to create an ERP process flow while contributing to recommendations for suitable validation procedures for document header, line item & whole document levels.

Supported HPQC consultants and developed business process and system integration testing scenarios within test (Quality) and developed technical test scripts in HPQC

Created materials in MM01 with exact details including selection of the procurement type, price control, moving price, and standard price with assignment to profit centers.

Lead SD team on project creation of SFI certification on invoices and Order acknowledgements for all paper and foam products across the globe (USA, Canada, UK, Brazil, and Mexico), DART saved $3.5 million by not having to retest the environmental SFI certification for all paper and foam products, conducted requirement gatherings, assisted with functional specifications, and after go live (hyper care) support.

Lead FI/SD team on project for manual invoicing for Miscellaneous Billing by conducted requirement gatherings, facilitated UAT, and after go live support.

Assisted BI team on creation of new report on BW/BI to view sales representatives tied to region district territory. This report helped the management understand which sales representative is responsible for which territory, met with management to understand requirements, facilitated UAT, and go live support.

Lead BI and FSCM team on creation of new BI report on BW/HANA about over aged dependents. This assisted the HR team to remove dependents from coverage in a timely manner, this saved DART Container $2 million dollars in the first 7 months by removing ineligible dependents incurring claims and premium payment fees.

Sysco – Houston, TX November 2014 - April 2016

SAP Sr. Business Analyst/Project Manager

Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food and non-food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers around the world. Employs over 69,000 across worldwide.

Led weekly follow ups with client and technical team on progress of change request and determined high priority of projects which are in pipeline.

Monitored projects, observed and updated charms in Solution Manager and Salesforce.

Lead FI team on Auto Cash of AR ACH, gathered requirements in BRD format, facilitated UAT with business and technical team

Lead SD team on change request for UKM_BP and XD02 are not synched, met with the business to gather requirement, assisted with configuration, facilitated UAT, and followed up business after moved into production.

Lead SD team on creation of new document type, gathered requirements with business and facilitated UAT with business and technical team for the netting project invoice, this helped clear 55,000 lines of clutter from customer accounts.

Lead SD team on automation of Disputes, gathered requirements with business SME’s, conducted Functional Acceptance Testing (FAT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Integrated Salesforce and ERP, Customer satisfaction rate is at 92%.

Defined Security roles for users with business and Security team.

Worked with BI team on development of BI reporting in Bex Queries.

Mizkan America – Chicago, IL September 2014 - November 2014

SAP Business Analyst

Mizkan America is one of the leading makers of condiments and sauces in the United States, Mizkan America maintains 17 manufacturing facilities that serve the retail, foodservice, specialty-Asian and food-ingredient trade channels.

Assisted Mizkan employees understand ERP process and best practices. Explained business process and blue prints to the R&B Foods Management.

Conducted meetings with business to gather requirements and presented to developers

Examined test scripts given by implementing partner

Coordinated in overall testing and QA activities required to meet system validation requirements

Defined Security roles for users.

United States Army – Virginia, Arizona, Massachusetts November 2011 - September 2014

SAP Business Analyst

General Fund Enterprise Business Systems (GFEBS) is a web-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to integrate financial, real property and other asset, cost and performance data. GFEBS standardizes business processes and transactions across the active Army, the Army National Guard (ARNG) and the United States Army Reserve (USAR) at over 200 locations. GFEBS provides real-time visibility of transactions, as well as historical data, to provide an integrated, analytic foundation for decision-making. GFEBS implementation is designed to standardize financial management and accounting functions and real property inventory and management

ARMY ERP System implementation team, worked as a liaison with project stakeholders to elicit requirements, document current process, responsible for configuration, production support, go live and hyper care support

Developed training documentation and trained power and end users on how to create WBS, Sales Order, Transfer of Funds (FMBB), Purchase Order and showed how to track funds in BI & ECC reporting.

Monitored background jobs and fixed production issues and defects when required.

Capital One – Plano, TX November 2006 - August 2011

Jr. Business Analyst

Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts. It has developed a reputation for being a technology focused bank. Capital One has 755 branches and 2,000 ATMs. It employs 48,800 across the United States.

Acted as a main point of contact and served as a liaison between clients and IT personnel.

Coordinating efforts with different workgroup Business Analyst, Project Managers, Architecture, Business SME’s and other consultants with estimation and timelines.

Education

MBA University of Phoenix 2008 - 2010

Bachelor in Business University of Bangalore 1999 - 2003

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