Pratap Gulabrao

SAP Service Delivery / Program Management

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Experience:

A goal-oriented professional with 20+ years of experience in Project Management, Service Delivery Management with hands on technical expertise in SAP. Multi-cultural experience and demonstrated success of consistent achievement in senior management capacity

Expertise in concepts of end-to-end project planning and implementation from scope management, to activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management in line with international & local guidelines and norms

Excellent in mapping client’s requirements, designing customized solutions; strong Customer Centric Approach & motivated to deliver quality results

Solid management skills, capable of leading & motivating individuals to maximize levels of productivity, knack for motivating team for exceeding customer expectations in delivery of committed services Portfolio management

Manage IT portfolio for business.

Established Project planning and prioritization process between business, IT and PMO. Partnering with others in improving the business IT services strategy, annual plan, and coordinating project and program across all partners.

Analyzing, enhancing and coordinating the business IT project portfolio. Contributing as a member of the CIO Project Management working group. Analyzing, enhancing, and making recommendations to our business IT application portfolio. People Management

Situational leadership style.

Globally diverse people management skills

Vendor Management

Managed vendors SOW, SLA's, relationship and contract renewals Skills

Global IT operations, IT Infrastructure, M&A, Consolidation, Global Migrations/Implementation to SAP S/4, IT Operations, Project, Budget Management, AMS operations. Business transformation programs. IT Org. Effectiveness. Digital transformation, Analytics,, ERP Management, HCM management. S/4 HANA, SAP ECC, Ariba, BI/BW, SAC, AZURE, Micro Strategy, BOBJ, SAS, Tableau, Domo, MSCRM, Qlik, EDI, Gentran, Seeburger, SAAS: Work front, IOT, Jira, Confluence, Remedy, PLM Wind-chill, VMware, Oracle, SQL, AZURE PAAS, SharePoint, Oracle, Unix, Linux, Concur, Esker, ADP, Info M3, Microsoft Dynamics, O365, OKTA ACHIEVEMENTS

Achievements / Projects

Achievements

Led and executed multiple SAP and analytics projects. Vistex Rescue project: Re implementation of plans that were poorly configured, causing a lot of production issues for Flooring plan and Dealer back-end payment SCM APO re-design for Power-train division.

Redefined Analytics roadmap with cloud infrastructure P2P report consolidation for faster response to demand and inventory management Own and led SAP and PLM integration project.

SAP Convergence project definition and plan

IT Centralization, designed complete org and process for IT support and projects. Site Integration project for network and ERP.

Service NOW implementation.

Service part division go-live Project governance, Risk mitigation, Cut-over strategy, Stress test for system and migration.

Deployment of Chatbot with integration to Backoffice application and Service NOW. UI Path RPA deployment for AP automation.

Redwood deployment for finance process automation & work-load automation. Rev-Trac implementation for change management .

Led Analytics Design, Configuration and Implementation in areas of Sales, Inventory, Purchasing, AR/AP, Cost Center, Sales order cost, Internal Order cost, Sales Forecasting, Authorization and Statistics, CATS, PA, Payroll, Benefits, Work Center, Engineering data, Real time Yield, WIP, 300 queries. WORK HISTORY

Accenture Consulting

Program Delivery Manager

MARCH 2022 - PRESENT

Responsible running SAP program for Enhancement and Project with team of 25 on- shore & Off-shore resources. Have worked with multiple clients like Google, Lucid Motors for SAP related initiatives.

Google- SAP Enhancement program (Plan, Prioritize, Design, Build, Test, Cutover, Go- live)

Lucid Motors: GR/IR Discovery, Blackline (Recon and Task module implementation) Cognitus Consulting LLC

VP Global Digital AMS Operations

FEB 2021 - PRESENT

Digital Advisor to businesses, delivering Roadmap, Strategy and Innovation adopting technology to leverage business productivity and efficiency. Provide digital solutions in Analytics, SAP ECC & S/4, Integration, Workplace innovation, Intelligent Spend Management (Ariba portfolio), Cloud, Factory 4.0 Build the AMS portfolio from ground up from presales to steady state Publish whitepapers and webinars on modernization of AMS (DevOps) Own the facilitation of work sessions and documentation of all go to market strategies required by the delivery team to build, test and deliver. Safran

Divisional CIO, Passenger Solutions

SEPT 2019 TO FEB 2021

Safran Passenger Solutions is a division of Safran and involved in Aerospace business. Tier 1 contractor for Airbus, Boeing and leaders in complete end-end of plane interiors with 200 location globally.

Responsible for working with Safran France and Group CIO to define IT strategies, road- map & charter for the newly form and formed group with business from Zodiac and Safran.

Own and support IT/IS with security portfolio across 13+ sites. Provide IT governance, Change control and ITIL/ ITSM framework. Drive digital business transformation and IT process streamlining, P2P. Advisory to IT and business for maturing and converging to SAP implementation Manage fiscal budget of 5M Capex & 16M Opex.

ISUZU

Exec-MIS Manager SAP Practice : COE, AMS,

Transformation

OCT 2017 - SEPT 2019

ISUZU NA is a division of ISUZU Motor Japan and involved in importing and selling commercial light weight trucks, Power-trains and Service parts across North America Responsible for managing enterprise applications for 3 Divisions including SAP landscape with VMS, Finance, MM, Master-data, OTC, P2P, SCM (DP,SNC,GATP), BI/BW, Vistex, Open-text, Vertex, Basis and Security through team of external service providers and internal team

Own and support application portfolio with 40+ global team. Provide IT governance, Change control and support JSOX. Lead and manage a Team of 44 contract personnel in a global environments. (US, India, Japan, Philippines, Canada)

Engaged in digital business transformation and IT process streamlining. Advisory to IT and business for maturing SAP implementation, Project cut-over specialist. Partner with 3 Business divisions and report operational portfolio health and ensure satisfaction in the timely delivery of IT services to the business. Manage Applications Maintenance Team to direct the maintenance, break-fix and other operational activities for applications within their portfolio of responsibility. Manage and oversee all stages of the development and implementation life-cycle for new projects.

Harman International

Sr.IT Director BRM

APRIL 2014 - JULY 2017

Harman designs, develops, manufactures and distributes wide range of audio, video, amplifiers, lighting products, and infotainment solutions and systems for the consumer, professional and automotive market.

BRM responsibility of IT portfolio for Professional Division, 1 Bil revenue, 30 locations world-wide, 30 Mil budget.

Oversee entire IT department, including budget, infrastructure and applications. Lead / Participate in Divisional Security initiatives deploying DLP, Network intrusion and End computing software's. Ensure deployment of current security patches. Participate in Product security as well.

Manage Local and Enterprise project in all enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle, JDE, MS Dynamics, SQL, SSRS, Peoplesoft, CRM.

Led PLM applications integration for the Division. Oversee IT Governance and Control and Support SOX compliance. Managed Global team of Project Managers, Functional Managers, Business analyst, developers, contractor in Matrix environment.

Manage Vendor relationship and help develop SLA’s

Liaise between all parties to understand requirements and how best to achieve business objectives utilizing required competencies for successful delivery. Manage and oversee all stages of the new projects. Spectrolab - Boeing

SAP Sol. Architect / Sr. SAP Manager

SEPT 2000 - APRIL 2014

Spectrolab, a division of Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems, manufactures solar panels, search lights and participates in DOD research programs. Role of SAP Manager and Sol.Architect.

Manage BI, ABAP, Basis, MM, PP, PPPI, HCM, Sales configuration, Service, AR, AP, Infrastructure monitoring.

Managed a team of 2-4 employees with yearly appraisals and career mentoring, worked with multiple teams in Boeing to get support for network and data-center. Manage BASIS administration, including maintenance, transports, authorization management, system refreshes, updates & upgrades.

Own, manage, and operate HRIT and Finance IT aspects of operational delivery for division in Boeing.

Built and managed a strong multi-disciplined team to deliver systems and solutions for HR functional processes and Benefits.

Collaborate with senior management and peers to translate corporate/functional business and information objectives into data warehouse strategic/tactical business plan and systems development. Help manage relationship with SAP Boeing account representative.

Implemented end to end BI solution for reporting.

EDUCATION

University of Phoenix

MBA

FEB 2004 - FEB 2006

Business Administration

VJTI

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering

AUG 1987 - JAN 1991

Specialized in HVAC and Industrial psychology

PROFESSIONAL

TRAINING Professional Training

First Line Leadership – 5 Day Course at Boeing Leadership Center & Harman training Program Management / Six Sigma / Lean – 5 Day Course at Boeing Leadership Center

Managing within Law, Ethics and diversity celebration training from Boeing Leadership

In-house training: Strategic planning, People and resource planning Various Management and technology classes

Multiple online courses on Project Management (Agile/ Scrum), ITIL. ITSM.

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