Project Manager Management

Ashok Mollahalli

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SUMMARY

About fifteen years experience in SAP implementation, project management and practice development experience in Human Resources Module.

I was one of the first consultants to work on SAP Beta rollout of Concurrent Employment functionality in Time management. This functionality is a crucial requirement in Public sector, health care and multinational organizations.

Overall about 23+ years of rich functional experience in SAP HCM, Human Resource Development (HRD), Public/General Administration, International Business and Management of International work force. Worked as a COO of an organization with more than 2000 employees.

Experienced in multiple full cycle implementations of SAP HCM and worked extensively in areas of Time Management and CATS, ESS and MSS, PA, PD and Organization Management and Compensation Management of SAP HR/ Payroll..

EDUCATION

MBA: University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Bachelor in Engineering: University of Mysore, India

SAP R/3 WORK EXPERIENCE

Working as (Solution Architect) independent contractor from July 2007 to date.

Clients worked:

1. Bayer Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Worked in various capacities across multiple SAP HCM modules for US roll out. Initially worked as HR integration lead to bring over two acquired companies into Bayer’s SAP system. I was responsible for leading the gap analysis team to understand the gap between the parent company and the acquired companies. Had to identify the areas that needed configuration change and also identify new items for development. All this had to adhere to the global template laid out for roll out across more than 50 countries. Had to develop integration scenarios and scripts and also prepare documentation for testing.

Worked as a HCM Lead. Predominantly in a Solution Architect role. Had to design the landscape for Time Collection and its integration with SAP Time Management. Lead the design in collecting Time from external time collection system and its processing in SAP across multiple unions and sites. Had to come up with creative solutions for processing overtime and its integration with SAP payroll. Led the team effort in modifying Schema TM00 for capturing raw punches in TimeLink software and then evaluating the time in SAP after bringing the raw punches into IT 2011. Had to write complicated rules for multiple union requirements such as multiple OT scenarios for Daily, Weekly, 7th and 6th consecutive day OT.

Led the efforts to implement Compensation Management. Was involved in the design of functions such as: storing and reporting on job evaluation and salary survey results; planning compensation budgets and monitoring actual costs against budgeted costs; setting up compensation process, such as annual salary reviews. Had to design the core Compensation Management infotypes such as 1005 (Planned compensation), 1050 (job evaluation). 1051 (salary survey results). Had to design compensation plans using wagetype models and make changes to the global template based on North American requirements.

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ACS Inc (Affiliated Computer services Inc now part of Xerox corporation) - From November 2006 to June 2007

Worked as Senior Project Manager

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. is a premier provider of business process outsourcing and information technology solutions with about $ 6.0 billion in annual revenue and had about 55,000 employees worldwide in 2007

As a Senior Project Manager in addition to on site client work, I was also involved in the following practice management work:

Proposal writing, project assessment and estimation and SAP HCM practice development.

Clients worked:

1. Basic Energy: A mid size energy services company based in Midland, Texas

Worked as Project Manager on HR transformation including rollout of SAP HCM and Employee Portal Functionality and implementation of FI/CO and Logistics modules. Project scope included HR Master Data, Organization Management, Gross to Net Payroll processing, Managers Self Service and Employee Self Service. Other Modules included FI/CO, Sales and Distribution, Materials Management and inventory control, Plant Maintenance and Rental and lease management.

Was responsible for delivery of project milestones in all project life cycle phases including system design, requirements, prototyping, configuration, interfaces, reports, conversions, testing, system parallel, training, and integration with SAP financials and logistics systems.

2. City of Houston, Houston Texas.

The client was one of the major cities in US. Worked as Time Management Lead and helped the City in going live after being asked to come in during integration testing phase. Client had major issues before go-live had to make quick design changes to help the City in going live.

Helped the team on some of the key design initiatives to meet Texas State requirements for public sector, particularly in design of evalaution of public holidays and Overtime in time and payroll. Came up with unique solutions to meet the requirements of city’s fire and police personnel.

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Worked as independent contractor from July 2006 to November 2006.

Clients worked:

1. Bayer Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Worked as Time Management Lead on North America rollout of HCM modules. Responsibilities included: Leading the time management team in requirements gathering, configuration and testing. The implementation was spread across multiple companies and unions spread all over United States. The project team had to work under the global template rolled out by Bayer Germany. The challenge was to manage the diverse requirements across multiple unions and state mandated HR practices with one Personnel sub area grouping allowed for US as per global template. We are able to achieve this by grouping uniquely in Time Managers Work Place and also using Modifiers (MODIF). Developed unique solutions to manage quota accruals and posting to FI/CO.

EA Consulting Inc - From November 2004 to June 2006

Worked as Principal Consultant with HCM project management and Team Lead roles.

As a Principal consultant I was responsible for the following:

Proposal writing, project assessment and estimation and participation in client presentation. Responsible as HR domain expert in training the sales team and preparing proof of concept to articulate the proposed solution based on client queries. Responsible for HR practice development. Worked with recruitment team to staff the projects by screening the candidates, defining the skill requirements for hiring. Monitored the performance and evaluated the team members on a regular basis. Had to mentor the consultants and identify their training needs.

Clients worked:

1. City of Charlottesville, Virginia

Worked as HCM/Payroll team Lead. Responsibilities included: Leading the team in requirements gathering, configuration and testing. Reporting to the Project Committee and the steering committee the project progress and issues. Major work involved monitoring day-to-day progress; follow up on issues by maintaining issues database.

Managed multiple teams and budget and interacted with other functional and technical teams (Basis and ABAP teams) and business process owners and subject matter experts. Had to regularly carryout risk assessment surveys to preempt the project risk and slippages. Involved in designing and developing end user testing and acceptance of the system

In addition to lead role I was also involved in configuration work. Worked in creation of payroll forms. Some of the unique requirements have been to reflect the Quotas earned and used in a pay period. Achieved this by writing special rules in time eval to capture the required data and then attaching them to dummy wagetypes. These wagetypes were called in payroll form. Involved in creation of Benefit Plans and creation of wagetypes and assigning the wagetypes to these plans. Configured and resolved issues in payroll posting by creation of symbolic account and assigning wagetypes to these symbolic accounts for subsequent mapping to G/L accounts.

2. County of San Luis Obispo, California

Worked as Team Lead on the Human Resource/ Payroll team. Responsibilities included: Configuration and end-user training including assisting the change management team in developing training strategy and materials. As a team lead had to plan for various workshops for understanding the requirements.

In addition to team lead role was responsible for implementing complete Time management module and CATS. Implemented various SAP Time Management functionalities such as Time Managers Work bench, FMLA workbench, Time evaluation and CATS.

Designed and developed the monitoring of probation and evaluation in time evaluation by developing unique rules using function 2012.

In CATS developed a special solution for the county to capture secondary costs in the time sheet and pass it on to CO. The solution included capturing the payroll costs and transferring the relevant wage type data from payroll results to a custom developed Z table to arrive at the percentages for fringe benefits based on bargaining units (PSA’s.

Developed the design for HCM sub modules such as: Organization Management, Personnel Admin, Personnel Development and Compensation Management. Designed the Enterprise and personnel structure. Had to design user interface for Personnel Administration using infotype menus based on user groups parameter UGR. Designed dynamic action to trigger mail when IT 0001 record was changed.

Configured the FMLA work bench to manage Federal FMLA, California family rights act (CFRA), Pregnancy disability leave (PDL) and concurrent monitoring with workers compensation by devising and assigning reason codes.

County had about 20+ bargaining units and we had to configure work schedule rules, quota rules and time management rules to meet the requirements of a heavily unionized entity.

KPMG/BearingPoint - From April 2001 to October 2004.

Worked as Senior Consultant in SAP HCM

Worked as a Senior consultant in SAP HCM practice servicing clients both in public and commercial sector. Worked mostly as team lead on SAP HCM sub modules. Was involved in presales support as subject matter expert.

Clients Worked:

1. Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas

Worked as Time Management Lead at Texas State University SAP HR implementation on enterprise version (Version 4.7). Responsible for the complete implementation of Time Management Module including Time Quotas, Time Evaluation and integration with payroll for generation of time wage types and absence valuation. This client was a Beta client for SAP to rollout ‘Concurrent Employment’ functionality.

Implemented functionalities such as FMLA workbench, Absence Pools, Creation of Time Statement and Time entry and approval via CATS using ESS.

Developed unique solutions to meet public services requirements like State Compensatory time accumulation and aging. The State compensatory time is generated based on set of personnel calculation rules after considering the FLSA hours and other attendance types such as Telecommuting. The unused balance of the generated State Compensatory hours had to be aged after one year from the date of generation. A message had to be generated in Time Evaluation 90 days in advance of the impending aging of the state compensatory time. The solution involved writing series of rules processed together in a sub schema.

The challenge was to implement the requirements in a Concurrent Employment scenario where multiple assignments have to be processed together. In certain situations all the assignments were not eligible for State Compensatory Time. We had to create same Business Subjects but assign them different Grouping values based on separate grouping reasons. Separate distribution method was created to distribute the accumulated State compensatory hours to the individual assignments based on a Time Type that was filled in a personnel calculation rule.

Implemented Concurrent employment features for Public services environment for functionalities such as FLSA hours and wage type generation, Quota accrual based on seniority, setting LIMITS and generating messages, required writing unique personnel calculation rules and heavy customizing in Concurrent Employment. The CE Time driver does not support many Functions and Operation used in traditional Time Evaluation driver. In Quota generation Standard functions like reading Feature ‘HDATE’ to determine seniority is not supported in CE environment. We had to overcome these by writing separate personnel calculation rules.

Implemented CATS time entry via ESS. CATS time sheet was integrated with Human Resource, FI-CO, and Funds Management Modules. New workflows were designed with multiple levels of escalation if the Time Administrator/Supervisor did not approve within the specified time. Data entry profile was assigned to specific employee groups using authorization groups. These authorization groups were assigned to employees as a sub type of dummy infotype 0316 while maintaining the roles.

2. Hyundai Motors, Montgomery, Alabama

Worked as a Time Management Lead on this Fast Track SAP implementation for Hyundai Motors green field automobile manufacturing project. The implementation was completed in a record time of about 4 months. Created new rules to modify TIP entries and generate special wage types for work on weekend during a long weekend. Implemented various Overtime rules including FLSA rules. Separate rules were written to evaluate Public Holidays. Configured Day-Type selection rules in customizing by creating new Day-Type.

3. Port Authority of San Diego

Worked as HCM Team Lead. Was involved only during the blue printing phase of the project. Blue printed the requirements for Personnel Administration, Organization Management and Payroll modules.

4. Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania

I was part of the testing strategy development team to develop the testing scenarios, test cases and expected results, and to establish the testing environment and standards.

Worked in SAP Payroll unit and integration tests Tested individual wage types that have been configured for their behavior in SAP payroll and ensured that any configuration problems that existed were rectified. Defined functional specifications for interface programs and data conversions.

5. United States Army (Logistics Modernization program)

Client was US Army and the project involved modernization of the Army’s logistics. Worked in HR support and interface to logistics modules such as Production Planning, Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Plant Maintenance. Worked as SAP HCM consultant developing HCM mini master for CATS rollout. Developed proof of concept for Training and Event Management module to be used as tool to monitor training of Army’s end users.

Created the basic enterprise structure in OM and required Personnel administration Infotypes for HCM mini master to support CATS (Cross Application Time Sheet). In CATS defined the different Data Entry Profiles in Customizing for various modules and also configured the Work-List for Logistics (LO) Modules Data entry profiles. Did Prototype Configuration of the Time Sheet for data transfer to other modules such as Project system (PS), Plant Maintenance (PM), Service Management (CS) and Controlling (CO) using field selection.

Set up object types used in Training and Event Management, both by changing standard object types and creating new objects. Customized for various elements of Business Event type such as resource types, Resources, Schedule, Location, addresses. In OM created organizational units and linked jobs and position and interfaced them to Logistics by Work Center assignments.

Opusasia Technologies Pvt. Ltd, (formerly Reliance Cybertech) Hyderabad, India – From August 1997 to February 2001

Clients worked

1. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Dehra Dun, India

Client was a major Public Sector Producer of Oil and Natural Gas and a fortune 1000 company. It was one of the largest SAP HR implementations with 45000 employees spread over various sites across India. Played an active role in coordination of activities across sub processes /modules teams to ensure integration and quality. Was the team lead for implementation of HCM module.

Customized Quota generation and pro-rata calculation rules depending on absence time and type of absences availed. Created time types for cumulating, balances, time accounts etc used LIMITS function to set Limits and generate error messages in Time Evaluation.

Created dynamic actions for recording leave reasons (customer infotype – Leave Reason) while creating leave, using infotype 2001 and for plausibility checks while creating maternity leave.

2. Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd, India.

Client was a major producer of Fertilizers and Chemicals. Worked as SAP Human Resources (HR) functional Consultant in areas such as Training and Events Management (TEM), Personnel Development and Organization Management modules of the HR Module.

In Training and Event Management Module (TEM) created new object type for external faculty with all the relevant relationships, evaluation paths and Actions. Also created a new appraisal types for appraisal of the external faculty by the attendees of the training program. Defined the relevant relationships, evaluation paths and also created ACTIONS for maintaining the object type.

Designed the enterprise structure for HCM modules and created Organization Management objects and assigned them to the enterprise/Organization structure. In master data designed Actions to default the required PA infotype screens in sequence during Data entry.

Had to modify data entry screens to meet customer requirements. Had to develop the design for creating custom infotypes in PA. Created Dynamic Action to default data configuration of TEM created time schedules, resources and also created cost elements and linked them to G/L accounts. Set up integration of TEM module with time management module and also cost accounting module by defining the control parameters in customizing.

Customized creation of Training Programs by using a combination of different business event types. Established integration with PA for transfer of qualifications to employee’s personal data.

OTHER FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mystique Apparels (I) Ltd., Bangalore, India – From Feb 1996 – Aug ’1997

President: The Company manufactured Ready-made Garments for Exports to USA and Europe. Work involved leading the entire unit with a workforce of about 600 people. Worked in Human resource development in manpower planning and recruitment. Fixed production incentives in consultation with production planning and union. Responsible for managing the entire entity.

Multiplex Fertilizers Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore – From Jun 1995 – Feb 1996

General Manager – International Business Development: Responsibilities included identifying and developing new market opportunities in Sri Lanka and Vietnam for plant growth regulators and micronutrient formulations.

Recruitment and Training of local personnel in consultation with our associates for marketing. Was responsible for entire International operations including business development and managing International Workforce.

Government of Goa – From India Jun 1988 – May 1995

Selected for Indian Civil Services and posted in Goa. Worked in various positions in the administrative Services in Goa, as follows.

1992 – 1995: Director of Department of Training.

Initiated and prepared a plan for setting up a State Institute for training and development and got it approved by ministry of HRD – Government of India. Had to formulate and implement training policy for the State Government work force.

1990 – 1992: Chief Executive Officer of Panjim Municipal Corporation.

Panjim is the capital city of state of Goa and a major international tourist destination. Headed an organization with a work force of about 2000 people. Had to negotiate with the unions for tripartite agreements. Formulated and implemented standing orders in consultations with the unions. Was in-charge of overall municipal functions as Chief Operating Officer reporting to the elected Mayor in council

1988 – 1990: Sub-Divisional Magistrate–Deputy Collector for the Sub-Division in Goa, India

Principal Coordinating officer for the Sub-Division (Similar to a county in US). Discharged various Quasi-Judicial functions.

Reliance Structural Engineers, Bangalore - From Dec 1984 – Apr 1988

Project Engineer: Started the career as Civil Engineer. Was subsequently promoted as Project Engineer. Supervised the work for various residential and industrial constructions. Worked on Project Management software for monitoring the projects, scheduling and planning.

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