Project Data

Professional Objective

Deliver value, focused on customer initiatives and goals in the Enterprise data management & Centralized master data solutions. Realize value through implementing overall Data Governance practices resulting in improved business processes, data standards, data quality, data ownerships and required organizational capabilities.

Overview

• Master data management solutions architect with strong experience in CMDM scenarios of Master Data Management. My experience includes full life cycle implementation of SAP enterprise data management solution combined with delivering an effective MDM solution.

• Established Master data management best practice roadmap, enterprise governance processes and data management strategies focused on the architecture, data standards and quality driven by business Initiatives.

• Strong Project management and coordination skills focused on the master data management, procurement, manufacturing and finance projects.

• Supply Chain management expertise in integrating and synchronizing Order to fulfill cycle including forecasting and inventory management.

• Collaborate with project/program managers/sponsors to develop risk mitigation plans and measure progress against eliminating and/or minimizing risk.

• Highly motivated professional team player, have led and been a member of diverse implementation teams with Fortune 100 companies like Mobil, Exxon, Shell, BP and Compaq in project management through collaborative approach.

• Strong Analytical, communications and customer service skills.

Functional & Technical skills

Over twenty years experience in all aspects of project preparation, blueprinting, realization and final go live implementation phases

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• Provide quality assurance, feedback, and value-added input to project/program teams to help them meet their project/program objectives.

• Measure accountability and continually validate that projects/programs are aligned with the strategic direction of the organization.

• Manage SAP project RICEFW objects development activities, responsible for technical and functional specifications, integration, user acceptance and cutover activities through successful go live.

• Assist project/program teams in resolving dependency issues on other project/program.

• Integral part of high performance team to deliver value and timely solutions to the client.

• Senior Technical, Functional Consultant with over 12 years of SAP project implementation experience adopting SAP best practice methodology and road map from project preparation though final delivery in high tech, process and service Industries.

Experience/Project Work

Company: Deloitte Consulting Area: Enterprise data management

Project description: Enterprise data management financial transformation

Role: Specialist Senior EDM Houston, TX 02/2011 - 01/2012

Client: AIG Chartis NY/NJ

Financial Transformation project for Chartis. Assist with defining and implementing processes, procedures, organization roles and responsibilities as they relate to data governance.

Role:

• Provided advisory service relating to the establishment of master data management solution to include defining processes, procedures organization role and responsibilities as they relate to data governance of all Financial master data.

• Primary deliverables inlcuded business reuqirement and detailed design documents for financial master data Profit center, Cost center, Chart of accounts, Business and Trading partners, Customers, Bank and other finacial master data like internal orders.

• Coordianted with security, control and with change management team to deliver end to end processes required governance roles at each steps for all above financial master. data.

Client: Molson Coors – Master data merge,harmonization assessment project

• Developed and reviewed initial hypothesis on business merge approach and impacts.

• Reviewed and confirmed effort estimates, dependencies and constrains.

• Conducted master data integration workshop to reconcile assumptions and integration points.

• Conducted final validation session with key stakeholders.

• Detailed functional data and design element scope with supporting timing/sequencing recommendations.

• Delivered merge execution roadmap with quick wins detailed and complete resource plan.

Company: Chevron Oronite enterprise Applications

Project description / Scope: Master data quality improvement and sustainability

Role: Global Data quality and Governance Lead California, CA 10/2009 – 01/2011

Client: Chevron Orinite CA

Project: Material master and supply chain data quality improvements and overall global master data governance.

Role:

• Demonstrated continuous improvements in data quality through root cause analysis, improving data governance efforts and in creating and monitoring data quality metrics.

• Aligned data governance work efforts with overall business objectives and educated regional teams in the importance of data governace, data quality improvements and value realization for the organization.

• Designed end to end SAP material master data maintenance processs for manufacturing environment with workflow step for automation and with appropriate roles, responsibilities.

• Evaluated data tools for automation of master data maintenance process work steps.

• Coordinated efforts globally with master data team, regional local master data team and the global process owners to increase organizational capabilities in terms of improving quality data for better master data and supply chain operations.

• Identified root cause of data quality problems in master, transactional and interfaced systems and resolved issues in data quality through training, improved processes, procedures and effective automation of workflow maintenance process.

• Leveraged industry best practices for SAP and interfaced systems to improve overall data governance for the organization.

Company: SAP Americas, Inc. Houston, TX 09/2006 – 03/2009

Project Description / Scope: Master data strategy, architect and project management

Role: EDM MDM solutions architect / PM

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Managed several MDM projects as an architect and was responsible for enterprise master data strategy, project planning and resourcing, designing and buiding right architecture, blue printing through realization and golive.

• MDM solutions included clients from Phamaceutical, Media, Service and manufacturing industries and I was responsible for delivering appropriate master data strategy, best practice implementaion methodology, architecting solutions and managing projects to deliver customer initiatives and expectations.

• Created Enterprise master data strategy around master data governance process for global manufacturing environment clearly defining required roles and responsibilities for master data ongoing maintenance.

• Developed and managed detailed project plan and managed resources associated with the CMDM projects.

• Organized and conducted necessary workshops around vendor master as is master data maintenance process and created a single global governance process.

• Responsible for understanding client expectations and scenarios, training the customer on appropriate usage of SAP MDM and developing the data model in MDM.

• Analyzed Master data quality issues established Vendor Master Data standards. Established Vendor Master Governance process and clearly defined roles and responsibilities for global master data initiative.

• Maintained issue and risk logs and conducted weekly project progress meetings with core MDM team. Integral part of project preparation, blueprinting phase of project and created detailed project plan for implementation, cutover activities through go live.

• Delivered PMO Gate review documents and managed project advance through Gate deliverable activities

• Worked closely with technical team in the design and development of RICEFW objects. .

• Worked on enterprise SOA architecture design framework involving platform, software and data as services

• Ensured project deliverables are completed and communicated to the program / project managers.

• Lead functional and technical design teams and facilitated MDM development activities.

• Lead data activities which includes data gathering, mapping, design specifications, configuration and mapping of legacy data to SAP fields.

Company: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Houston, TX 01/2006 – 07/2006

Project Description/Scope: SAP Project RICEFW management and PRA management

Role: Project Coordinator

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Responsible for coordinating and managing project plan which included plans for functional test, integration test and proceeding through production load for implementing PRA module within SAP.

• Project plan tasks spanned from the initial environmental setups through the entire master and transactional data conversion load process for total integrated implementation.

• Managed daily conversion load metrics, interfaces required from legacy systems, documenting and escalating issues as they arise in the load process, keeping project plan and share point updated to reflect daily status, as well as meeting all necessary documents required for SOX compliance.

Company: Amiasoft, Inc. California, CA 02/2004 – 10/2005

Project Description/Scope: Implementation consists of design and development and integration to SAP

Role: Product development manager

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Enterprise link product development for bridging the gap between engineering design and manufacturing world

• Designed and involved in the development of suite of products –BOMLink, EntraLink and standard purchase parts libraries to facilitate manufactured-to-order and engineered-to-order manufactures integrate design and manufacturing processes.

• Managed change control and bidirectional AutoCAD engineering bill of materials integration to tie with SAP and other systems

• Define proper controls in multi-level product structure to generate accurate material requirement plans

Company: Shell Corporation Houston, TX 10/2002 – 10/2003

Project Description/Scope: Material master and Vendor master conversion and sourcing project for major Oil Corporation

Role: Project Lead for vendor master conversion

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Managed and provided leadership for supplier sourcing conversion and interfaces from six refineries legacy systems to one centralized SAP system

• Vendor master, Materials master, Supplier sourcing, info records data conversion and migration project for all refineries of Shell Oil

• Convert all vendors required for sourcing, contracts, materials and services.

• Enforce supply chain standards and cross-functional teams (ten plus team) to enforce internal standards and procedures and work with the service and material contract teams to insure proper selection of vendors.

• Coordinate with Cleansing, technical and site teams to provide timelines and processes for delivery of cleansed vendors, sourced materials and service contracts.

Company: Software e-commerce California, CA 10/2001 – 09/2002

Project Description/Scope: Role: Shipping automation

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Order management and logistics optimization

• Managed multiple project teams in development through customer relationship management.

• Implemented workflow driven business integration engine to capture, route and process orders automatically from multiple systems

• Multiple carrier backend integration to inventory controls and shipping method optimization

Company: Accenture Inc. / Anderson consulting Houston, TX 02/1999 – 09/2001

Supply chain manager

Project Description/Scope: Team lead for SAP financial interface project for BP

Role: Financial interface project lead / SAP SD, MM Project Lead

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Involved in designing e-market place methodology - project implementation tool, research work on current Methodology tools, rapid implementation methodology, e-market place assets, MDM marketplaces deliverables including GAP analysis. Develop Capability matrix that identified marketplace capabilities, analysis against technology platforms, to industry. Resource planning and estimating time line for the internal project. Point of view types of exchange documentation. Develop tools for supply chain initial estimation plan.

• One core financial interface project to SAP from current ERP packages. Core financial team lead involved in identifying needs for the interface team, identifying and eliminating redundant, not applicable interfaces to SAP. Building functional designs for accounts payables and core journal interfaces to SAP.

• Process and sub process breakdown of core financial interfaces and reviewing with the interface architects. Work with SME's on consolidation and on identifying detailed interface requirements - invoice distributions, journals, labor transactions, inventory adjustments, received but not invoiced (RBNI)accruals, vender master data, tool charges, labor accruals, cost center and account code structures.

Anderson Consulting

• SAP/EDI vendor, supplier partner function setup. Set up Port definitions, Outbound/Inbound file parameters, partner profile configuration, Message types and variant configuration, EDI testing and monitoring.

• Configured customer/vendor relationships in SAP.

• Implemented workflow driven purchasing process from quotations to purchase order approval

• Design new functions, test and implement programs to monitor IDOCs to maintain integrity within the system.

• Customizing of parameters for all purchase documents like RFQ, Quotations, Purchase Requisitions and Purchase orders, Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Service master and service entry sheets

• Customizing and setting up Release Procedures with and without classification for all purchasing documents viz. PR’s, PO’s, and Contracts.

Company: Dover Elevator Memphis, TN 04/1998 – 12/1998

Project Description/Scope: SAP conversion project lead (SD, PP, Variant configuration)

Role: Project lead for conversion project

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Integral team member for SAP/ R3 implementation for a made-to-order manufacturing environment.

• Maintaining VC structure for multi-level sales order processing.

• ALE processes to move entire VC configuration across clients and maintain integrity between clients.

• Maintain and test classes, profiles and object dependencies for proper sales, planned and production order processing.

• Create functional specifications for ABAP/4 programmers to generate new reports in SAP/ R3 environment from legacy systems.

• Variant configuration course SAP/R3 and ASAP methodology.

Company: Compaq Computers Inc. Houston, TX 01/1996 – 02/1998

Project Description/Scope: EDI/IDOC mapping and integration team

Role: Project lead

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Distribution Outsourcing projects for Compaq to hand over entire distribution to 3rd party.

• Designed implementation guide and Electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions mappings to accommodate sales order processing, materials movements, materials transfers, inventory adjustments, receipts, shipping, planning, scheduling, order inquiry and reconciliation processes.

• Coordinated with team members to test and document above EDI transactions.

• Prepared internal and external specifications to implement distribution of finished goods from Compaq to the third party distributor.

Other Professional experience

Master data management training MDM 5.5 SAP

SAP Test data migration tool and implementation

SAP / R3 Partner Academy training "Materials Management" functional module

Training in Variant configuration for made to order manufacturing SAP/ R3 environment.

EDUCATION & Certification:

Bachelor of Mathematics (honors) with statistics major from Delhi University

Master data management training MDM 5.5 SAP

SAP Test data migration tool and implementation

SAP Solutions manager Implementation certified

SAP MM Partner academy certified (Procurement)

Advanced business consulting for technology

Citizenship: US citizen.

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