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Program Manager Business Systems

Location:
Buffalo, NY
Posted:
May 01, 2025

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Murali Osuraman

* ******** *** 716-***-****

East Amherst, New York 14051 *********@*****.***

Professional Summary

Director of IT ERP Applications with 28 years of experience in managing large IT Business Apps projects, teams and budgets. Develop IT Strategies for Mergers & Acquisitions, Design and Measure IT Metrics, and Manage Support. Successfully implemented ERP Business Systems for more than 30 US and International locations.

ERP SME Functional/Technical Expertise:

Advanced Supply Chain Management, Order Management, Material Management, Work in Process, Bills of Materials, MRP, Purchase Orders, iProcurement, Sys Admin, Service Resource Planning, HR/HCM, Demantra Forecasting, Financial Processing, Business Intelligence, ERP Infrastructure Management – SQL Servers, ESSBASE, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Cloud, Hyperion, ERP Data Consolidations, ERP Data Conversions and Migrations.

Professional Experience

SOURCEABLY.COM July 2024 - Present

Program Manager (A VIPRAHUB Inc Initiative)

Responsible for “Design-to-Release” of A Global Customer and Supplier Collaboration Platform which facilitates pre-verified Customers to post the business requirements/projects related to various sectors like Manufacturing, Pharma, Information Technology etc., over the global Marketplace to attract competitive pre-verified vendors/suppliers to participate in their evaluation process. System Pre-Qualifies businesses through AI due diligence process using Govt. DBs, Business Registries, Sanctions, Bankruptcies, Legal & Financial Status etc., Supports RFP Flow, Vendor Ranking, Cybersecurity screening, Grant and Rejecting contract processes.

atmus technologies inc., 2023 - June 2024

Program Manager (Representing Infosys)

Provided Strategy for 18 Countries Implementation on Oracle Finance Cloud for ATMUS Filtration Technologies Divestiture from Cummins Inc. For Parallel Go Live Strategy & Project Planning for Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Tax Books, Lease Modules, Client Communications & Coordination, Support Budgetary and Resource Assessments, Risk Mitigation Planning, 3rd Party Coordination, SDLC Tracking, Supporting Client for Change Management, Internal and External Audit Support and Coordination.

Cummins inc., 2022 - 2023

Program Manager (Representing Infosys)

Managed Oracle R12 Implementation of a fully automated flow of ERP System Mitigating the Existing Systems. Integrating all Floor Systems, O2C, P2P, ASCP Integrations, Finance Systems and a complex Warehouse, Shipping and Delivery Processes. Establishing Strategy & Project Plan, Client Coordination, Risk Mitigation Planning, SDLC Tracking, Supporting Client for Change Management.

VIPRAHUB Inc 2020 - 2022

Smart International: Advisory Board Member. Digital Strategy, Go to Market Strategy and Operations.

SMJ Drones: Advisory Board Member. Digital Strategy, Go to Market Strategy and Operations.

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Professional Experience (continued)

Chain-Sys Corp., Lancing, MI 2013 - 2019

Director, Global Projects and Delivery (Sr. Management Consultant from VIPRAHUB Inc)

Chain-Sys is a Technology and Consulting Company provides various IT Products and Services in the ERP space especially Oracle, SAP, JDE, MS Dynamics etc., Responsible for Global ERP Implementations and Delivery, Product Development with Full Life Cycle Management, Products support Data Conversions, Master Data Management, Data Reconciliation, Business Intelligence, Data Validation, Data Profiling and Data Integrations.

JACOBS & Worley Parsons – Managed Oracle R12 ERP Data Migration, Houston TX (PwC Partnership) – 2019

VERTIV Global (SAP/Oracle R12) IT ERP Consolidation, BI Analytics, Columbus OH (CapGemini Partnership) – 2018

Thomson Routers – SAP Upgrade Strategy (R3 – ECC6), UK and Canada – 2017

Dawn Foods – SAP Implementation, Jackson, MI – 2016/17

Fidelity Information Systems – Oracle R12 Financials, Data Analytics and Data Migration, 2016

Sleep Number Beds SAP to Oracle R12 Migrations, Minneapolis MN (HITACHI Partnership) – 2014/15

Iron Mountain Global RIET Engagement – Oracle R12 Implementation, Boston MA (IBM Partnership) – 2013

Greatbatch Inc., Buffalo, NY 2003 - 2013

Director Global IT ERP (2005 - 2013)

Managed Greatbatch Medical FDA based ERP business applications for their global manufacturing locations. Managed Projects/Support (PMO) with a large team of Functional and Technical SMEs, established onsite off-shore resource models for cost effective support and new project initiatives. Managed budgets up to $14MM.

Strategy Development: Coordinated with CEO/CFO/CIO and VPs to develop multi-year strategy plan for implementation, integration, upgrade, testing & consolidation of Oracle 11i to R12 ERP business systems for 20 locations in US, France, Switzerland and Mexico. Built strategy for Oracle HCM Fusion.

People Management: Managed Performance, Succession Planning, Merits, IDP, G&O, and Recruiting.

Enterprise Risk Management: Developed Risk matrices & action plan for risk mitigation.

Vendor Management: Established MSA/SLA/SOW with various vendors like IBM, Oracle Corp, MASTECH, LCA Consulting, NTT Data for production support, implementations and testing.

Quality/SDLC/Change Management: Managed SDLC, QA, QT*Pro, Change Migrations & Version Controls.

Infrastructure Management: Moved Data Center, H/W Consolidations, DR & Instance Management.

Compliance Management: Implemented and Managed Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) functions to meet S-Ox, FDA (CFR-Part11), Labeling, segregation of duties & access controls.

Six-Sigma / Continuous Improvement: Redesigned many internal processes to achieve transactional efficiency, accuracy, scrap reduction, address customer compliant, traceability, data security, and approval hierarchies.

Training Management: Implemented User Productivity Kit – UPK (automated tool for end user training).

GE Aircraft Engines (Consultant from Capgemini/Mastech Corporation), Cincinnati, OH 1997 - 2003

IT Manager and Principal Lead

Focused on Implementation and Integration of GE Aircraft’s 10 global locations. Designed various software systems to optimize and efficiently for Global GE’s Manufacturing Operations.

Designed Global Demand and Supply System as six sigma initiative resulted in $17 Million in savings.

Designed an automated Ordering and Procurement system achieved over $5 Million in savings.

Coordinated and implemented Oracle ERP Systems for 9 Domestic and Global Sites Managed 35 members Oracle ERP System Configuration Team to rollout ERP Systems at Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hungary, Japan, China and US sites at Wichita KS, Ontario CA & Cincinnati OH.

Configuration Management Administrator for implementing PVCS version control and migration software Apps*Integrity and Resolve*Integrity (web based work-flow software to track Requirements & Defects resolution).

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Professional Experience (continued)

Capgemini / Mastech Corporation (MASTECH), Mumbai India (HQ at Pittsburgh PA) 1996

IT ERP Applications Analyst

Trained in ERP Applications

Project Management and

Implementation techniques.

Capgemini / Patni Computer Systems (PCS), Pune, India 1995 - 1996

Senior IT Consultant & Project Lead

Database synchronization between IBM and Oracle

CSS-CDAS for Southern California Edison

Appropriation Approval Tracking System (AATS) for GE Motors, Fort Wayne IN.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Bangalore, India 1989 - 1995

Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) Design Engineer

Developed Aircraft Turbine Blade Software for CNC Automations (3D Solids/Surface Models).

Designed and development of an Oracle Power-Builder Engineering Data Management (EDM/ERP).

Education

Bangalore University, India Karnataka Education Board, India

Bachelor's Degree - Mechanical Engineering Diploma - Mechanical Engineering (3 years)

Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Indian Institute of Production Engineers

Computer Relational Database Management Systems Computer Numerical Control Technology

Database Structures and Programming Designs

Certification

Certified Advanced Supply Chain Management Professional, Oracle University



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