project manager

Piyush Sheth (MBA, PMP Certified)

Senior Project Manager

************@*****.***

Phone: 856-***-****

Senior Architect, project management in the HCM and SCM space for 15+ years having:

• Proven management and technical expertise to deliver / architect multi million value global enterprise [ERP/COTS/ SaaS] IT products localization.

• Implementation, web based bespoke, concepts to de-commission, software life cycle services and system integrations

• Exceptional fiscal and budget skills to handle multi-project management and integration. Implementations with mix of physical and virtual geography large teams resulting into global delivery excellence.

• Dynamic change agent capabilities to evolve business cases, analytics, plans and metrics to achieve operational excellence, efficacy and improvements in the supply chain and human capital space

• Effective communication, presentation, listening and technical writing skills.

• Exceptional relationship management skills with the ability to relate to people at all the levels including business and management across the globe.

• Detail oriented when needed and ability to provide effective coordination between multiple groups including: clients, IT project managers, end-users, vendors, QA team, multi-team developers and DBAs.

• Supported business functions in various industries like Information Systems, Corporate/Strategy Planning, Marketing, CRM- Telecom, Distribution, Retail-Music: books: Plumbing, Information Security, High Technology Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Apparel Supply chain, Iron & Steel Manufacturing, Enterprise Human Capital, and Enterprise Talent Management.

Academic Education

• MBA (Marketing) from Newport University, California, USA in 1994

• B.E. Computer Engineering, Bombay University, India in 1988.

Certifications/Workshops:

• PMP Certification [Project Management Professional from PMI, USA in Aug 2005, # 248692]

• Instruction Design Workshop by Kau Poh Moi – Singapore in September 2006

• French intermediate proficiency (speaking, reading, writing) in September 2006

Tools: MS Project 2003, Open workbench, Project Management system [pmi, prince2, cmmi ], Rational RUP, Requisite Pro, UML - Influx, VISIO, ELICITUS SCORM compliant authoring tool, Raptivity Interactivity tool, Captivate, Solution Manager 4.0

Operating systems: MS Windows, Linux. Development tools: MS .NET2.0, JAVA; MOSS

Database: MS SQL2005, ORACLE10i. Production support : ITIL based incident and SLAs

Pervasive technology: RFID, Smart Card and HID [To auto manage the records and movement ]

ERP / Package Knowledge: SAP-HCM SAP-SCM-APO-DP SAP-SCM-SD-PP-DS, ADP [K8] , SARAS-LMS, Vensim.

SAP Releases: R/3 4.0 to 4.7 ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

Professional Skills:

• Project Management

Project planning ; execution (project life cycle), project risks, customer management, fixed price contracts, pre-sales engagements, SOW preparation, Proposal (RFP) evaluations and reviews, competitive analysis, value propositions, technology trends, product requirements, scope management, time and resource management, earned value management to maintain schedule-n-budgets, gap analysis, configuration and change management processes ; project documentations, product deployment, quality management, Large multi location virtual multi vendor and in-house team building and mentoring, Stakeholder matrix and senior level relationship management

• SDLC and Business Analysis

Effective use and execution of industry recognized software engineering methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, and quality assurance methods such as CMMi. Enterprise wide learning enablement using TAP-UK methodologies, ASAP, Support Processes, SOX

Career Objective

Opportunities in a challenging environment at global level, leading to consulting experience and exposure

Professional Experience Details:

Client : CDI Corporation PA-USA Aug’09 – to Present

Platform : MS .Net2.0, MS SQL 2005 Role: Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Cost benefit analysis for evaluating an enterprise content management (ECM) and Knowledge management system [KM] to enable just in time enterprise wide talent management as an upgrade.

• Held workshops with the stakeholders to enable gap analysis in order facilitate and freeze the business requirements analysis using Rational requisite pro. Led project team for high level design and test cases.

• Enabled Customization and integration of MOSS, Documentum, MS SQL2005 to enable Document collaboration, Document repositories, Document Voting, Digital marketing, , Records Management, Knowledge Management [KM] and Web Content Management. • Blogs / Weblogs ( Associate Blogs, Customer Blogs), Podcasting, Threaded Discussions (forums, chats), Webinars, Wikis

Achievements:

• Developed business case [ Make vs. COTS ] to implement upgrade of the Enterprise content Management and knowledge management ecosystem for the next generation just in time enterprise wide Talent development and deployment for shortest cycle time for associates who are newly inducted or are existing to go to market.

• Enabled a continuous learning organization.

Client : Hewlett Packard TX-USA Oct’08 – July’09

Platform : MS .Net2.0, MS SQL 2005 Role: HCM Team Lead

• ELCM [Employee Life Cycle Management]: Led ELCM area in the HCM space covering attract, recruit, joining, transfer and separate. Tools and methodologies used were Rational requisite Pro and UML, CMMi standards of project execution methodology with latest Web2.0 Microsoft technology of .Net 2.0 and MS SQL 2005

Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder, project board management at senior level

• Developed a business case for implementing for the merger with Santander Group

• Held workshops with the users to facilitate and freeze the business requirements analysis using Rational requisite pro. Led project team for high level design and test cases.

• Handled the maintenance and support of Web1.0, 5-7 year old legacy systems developed in MS ASP and SQL 2000 documented using Rational requisite Pro and UML tool Influx, while freshly conceptualizing, building deploying web2.0 .NET based applications in order to decommission web1.0

• UAT SAT with stakeholder group. Scheduled the training process and managed and monitored pre go live and post go live activities.

• Strategically managed organizational data and master data across the enterprise for a high level of data quality and availability

• Scheduled training processes, managed and monitored UAT, pre go live and post go live activities.

Achievements:

• Incorporated high level of automations for physical and logical resources within SOX guidelines.

• Implemented balanced use of centralization and decentralization of recruitment and staffing processes within guidelines of labor laws such as OFCCP and Equal Opportunity of US labor law.

• Enabled Six Sigma analysis for new employment, resulting in process improvement in lead-time from 37 to 12 days.

Independent consultant / S D Chemicals, UK, India Jan’08 – Sep’08

Role: Principal SCM Team Lead

Platform : SAP R3 4.7

Responsibilities:

Initiated , blueprint, realized and managed rollout of Sales and Distribution module of SAP between the offices in UK and Pune, India with a team of virtual team of 5 people

Achievements: Enabled the Localization of the system for UK tax and pricing system as well as for India covering excise duty etc.

BSS Group, UK, Ireland

Program Manager Aug’07 – Dec07

Platform: ADP [K8] Java, Oracle10i Linux

BSS Group is GPB 4 billion company operating in UK – Ireland with 300+ Distribution-Retail of plumbing and heating supplies having team of 4500+ people This project included replacing 25 year old COBOL based legacy system with ADP [K8] complete ERP system across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Facilitated management changes and PMO process to implement best practice ERP product from ADP commercial systems [K8] using Agile practices on Linux platform with Oracle database. Ensured low risk to the organization by tightly integrating to web based and flat file reporting with existing practiced legacy system queries.

• Risk- Remedy and Budget Management [with Personal budget responsibility of 3 million GBP]

• Negotiated and supported contract bids by ramp up and ramp down of teams between onsite, onshore and offshore vendors, based on the project phases.

Achievements:

• Ownership of the program focused on Delivering Enterprise wide Learning Strategy Roadmap in the HCM space and execution for effective change management from the 25-year-old legacy.

• ROI for 4500+ employee base by quickly setting up the PMO to facilitate execute & monitor.

• Used the TAP-UK system while developing and implementing strategy, policy and frameworks, working with the vendors to develop training content. Conduct TNA to deliver training courses, UK-Europe wide for applications and re-engineered business process through train the trainer, classroom sessions and e-learning.

Infosys Technologies, US, UK, India Apr’05–June 2007

Sr. Project Manager

• Anchoring the strategic role of IS - Supply chain management [SCM] which translated to Strategic and IT solution consulting and solution design, delivery in the domain of Human Capital Management [HCM / HRMS / HRIT / HRIS] and Enterprise Talent Management [ETM] across 100,000+ employee organization

• Demand-Supply Forecast-Plan: Created Demand-Supply Forecast-Plan roadmap using Rational requisite Pro and in UML and business process, use case modeling tool, SAP-APO-DP and Vensim

• Setup governance model PMO to manage the program

Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder, project board management at senior level and setup of Governance model PMO. Cross matrix communications with integration team, middle tier team as well as functional and technical team for the faultless deployment process along with Risk-Remedy management. Managed / Prepared- Project proposals, Project Plan, Business Analysis, Technical Analysis, Work estimation and Budget estimations.

• Identified the package solutions for the human capital space, such as SAP-HCM, Oracle-Peoplesoft-HCM against legacy bespoke solution to complete the cost benefit analysis. This covered areas – such as Core HR, Acquire, Develop, Reward, Optimize within the ESS and MSS.

• Successfully led the organization move to analytical way of operation for getting effective collaboration between revenue demand and resources supply. Apart from applying standard linear forecasting tools using SAP APO-DP on organization wide historical, bottom up , Ad hoc business data, and industry data, we used the output from the same to do what if scenario analysis on key predictors/ constraints using system dynamic simulation tool Vensim to arrive at a demand side revenues as well as supply side human resources requirements collaborated analytical forecast

• Held workshops with the stakeholder community to facilitate and freeze the business requirement analysis and eliciting the same using Rational requisite pro leading to high level design and test cases for upgrading SAP-HR payroll module

• ELCM [Employee Life Cycle Management]: Led ELCM in the HCM space covering attract, recruit, joining, transfer and separate. Tools and methodologies used were Rational requisite Pro and UML, CMMi standards of project execution methodology with latest Web2.0 Microsoft technology of .Net 2.0 and MS SQL 2005 and integrate with SAP- HR using BAPI and RPC across each event in the employee life cycle. [ www.infosys.com/careers ]

• Smart work force management in HCM space: RFID based Smart Card initiative piloted successfully to enable secure access to physical assets such as laptop, campus entry-exit etc. and logical assets such as computer network to auto record the employee movement and productivity of the workforce The data collated from these transaction system is further used to do scheduling to achieve real time adherence and analytics

• Handled the maintenance and support of Web1.0 application in HCM space using global delivery model with 50+ resources across onsite-offshore multiple virtual teams. Managed outsource partner-vendors, to carry on the waterfall steps on 5-7 year old legacy systems developed in MS ASP and SQL 2000 documented using Rational requisite Pro and UML tool Influx. Freshly conceptualizing, building deploying web2.0 .NET based HCM space applications in order to decommission web1.0

• Ramp up new Employees faster for their roles, Integrate employees from acquired companies faster, Improve production of the current Go-to-Market employee Team. Provide tools to deliver just-in-time training aligned with the learning philosophy appropriate for the Go-to-Market Team. Provide powerful search and edit tools to find and customize content, minimizing time needed to find and prepare materials. Improve capabilities for document creation and sharing. Facilitate development of Go-to-Market Team member (and others’) internal networks. Organize competitive data so it can be shared and leveraged project. Capture & communicate tribal knowledge. Improve brand control Capture feedback allowing for continuous improvement

Achievements:

• Demand Forecast Plan accuracy for 12 quarters against that achieved for 1 quarter using manual methods

• Increased Revenue productivity by 7%

• Increased Human Capacity Utilization from 75 % to 84%

• Improved customer satisfaction to 99%.

• Significant improvement in communication and cooperation between the businesses Demand side and human capital supply chain.

• Made balanced use of centralization- decentralization of recruitment and staffing processes mix with compliance of labor laws such as OFCCP and Equal Opportunity of US labor law.

• Developed patent worthy framework in the space of Enterprise Talent management.

• Strategize and conceptualized the patent worthy framework for harnessing the Enterprise Talent Management to enable transition of the company towards a continuous learning organization enabling Career clarity along with performance management in the career growth of the employees matching the organization goals right from the Talent acquire stage till the employee separates from the organization. The above framework won a USD 100M deal from a US based high tech discrete manufacturing company where this framework helped convince the customer in the depth of the Domain with the organization in this area.

• Implemented pervasive technologies (RF devices) in workforce management

MNS eSoft Ltd., India Dec’99-Mar’05

Principal SAP SD Functional Consultant

o Developed business cases for RFID based supply chain and enterprise wide Application Integration in various verticals viz. the Pharmaceutical Supply chain in order to protect it with intelligence, visibility and security to help achieve anti-counterfeit, reduced out of stock, less shrinkage, stock safety, faster and reduced product recalls, thus, deliver shareholder ROI with optimized methodology for fulfillment, spend, revenue, Profit, Production, Logistics, safety and security of the business across the value chain.

Client: Madura Garments Platform: SAP R/3 4.6c, ECC 5.0

Madura Garments enjoys 30% market share, fastest growing apparel companies in India in AFS domain. This project included modules of SD, MM, APO and FI/CO.

o Interacted with Business Analysts and designed the solutions as per the requirement.

o Preparation of Business requirement document, Master data maintenance, Configuration & Testing.

o Configured basic data, created grid dimensions, assigned to material master.

o Involved in finalizing pricing components. Designed pricing procedure and configured it.

o Customized ARun (Allocation Run) for including the special needs involved in their business process.

o Identified and enabled automated machine to business transaction cycles and worked towards synchronizing them across the value chain and mapping the configuration with SAP-SD and SAP-APO

o Designed and generated various custom reports based on size, season and color.

Achievements

• Implemented as per SOX requirements.

Software Services Sales Manager [India, Srilanka, Thailand, Bangladesh]

• Drove the entire Saas [Software as a Service] and ecommerce IT business in Apparel Fashion Domain. Acquired 20+ beta SME accounts to implement Clotheon – SCM [ ERP-COTS] product modules suite covering manufacturing to distribution to retail operations as well as business intelligence needs for its supply chain efficiency resulting in annual Business subscription of USD 100,000/- in the first year of product launch itself. The software License value of the subscription at USD 450,000/-

Times of India PlanetM, Mumbai India

Delivery Project Manager

• Successfully developed and deployed for an Indian Media Conglomerate [TimesOfIndia], the Virgin Music format Retail chain operations PlanetM by leading a team of 27 using CMMi standards of project execution methodology with MS Visual studio 6.0 and MS SQL v2000 using Agile methodologies.

Mastek Ltd. [BLOOMBERG MMAST.IN], India Jul’99-Nov’99

Project Manager

o Led a team of 100 people along with group manager and a project manager on the USD 3M revenue Ist ODC Telecom Project entailing maintenance and migration of all the legacy CRM and Order management applications developed for AT&T, US largest telecom provider under SCOPUS to Siebel with Oracle using Rational RUP, Requisite pro along with CMMi execution methods..

Micronet Systems, Mumbai, India Sep’88-June’99

Product Sales Manager

• Lead both the Outside Direct Sales Team and the Inside Tele-Sales group in offering small, medium and larger sized businesses belonging to Manufacturer, Distributor or Retailer community. Exceeded annual targets by achieving annual Business worth USD 225,000/- plus.

ISPAT Steel, Mumbai, India

Software Team Lead

Platform: MS Visual basic, MS SQL

Ispat Industries Limited (IIL) is one of the leading integrated steel makers and the largest private sector producer of hot rolled coils and galvanised colour coated sheets in India.

• Designed Developed and Deployed a client server based Procure to pay and order to cash system across their multiple plants in India with help of a team of 12 people.

Achievements

o Client appreciation of understanding of the iron and steel domain and successful project completion within scope schedule and budget

o Develop, deployed all India, COTS in 2 different operating systems platforms [Text, Client -server], ERP-COTS supply chain product suite using waterfall method for Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail

Interests:

Humanization Movement, Meditation, Knowledge Surfing, Networking, Chess

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