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Executive Summary: Total 16 yrs of work experience. 14 yrs of IT (SAP) exp. 5 Years experience as Account Manager handling large SAP Global accounts and creating ODC’s. 4 Years experience as Project Manager / Delivery manager for large accounts. 6 years ABAP experience in SD/MM/PP/PM/FI/BW modules in SAP. Six life cycles of SAP

implementation experience on 4.6C, 3.1H and 3.0F version of SAP R/3 in Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Manufacturing and Consumer industry. 2 Years experience as Project Manager on worldwide implementation at Novartis Pharmaceutical, Swiss

2 years of experience in Procurement as Asst.Manager for procurement of bulk Piping items with Reliance Industries ltd, Mumbai

SAP Certificate for BW sponsored by client Novartis Pharmaceutical. SAP ABAP Web Dynpro training attended in SAP Labs.

ERP Packages: SAP R/3 Ver. 3.0E/3.0F/3.1H/4.0B/4.6C/4.7/ ECC 6.0 (MM, PP, PM, QM & SD modules)Languages: ABAP/4, SAP R/3 4.6B, 3.1H, 3.0F, PL/SQL, HTML, SQLPLUSHardware: IBM RS 6000, HP-9000, UNIX based minis, IBM PCsDatabases: Oracle 7.x/8.x/9.xOS: AIX, HP-UX, UNIX, Windows, MS-DOS, Windows NT, etc.

Professional SAP Experience:

Capgemini Consulting, Bangalore, India January 2009 – Till dateTitle: Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

Current KPI is to make the relationship between SAP GDC and Capgemini worth 5 million within 3 years.

Have to create a relationship that moves beyond vendor customer relationship to a partnership leveraging the strengths of CG and GDC in front of clients.

Responsible to understand their requirements for the year based on their pipeline and collate that requirement against the available resources in Cap Gemini. Responsible for finding the perfect match of requirement within GDC to available resources in Cap Gemini.

Responsible for these resources providing quality work to GDC. Responsible to make sure the finances are in order w.r.t timesheets, clarity, change order of work and roll offs of candidates.

Was responsible for handling deliverables for multiple accounts during upgrades and realization. Responsible as part of steering committee for the first level of escalation. Responsible for working

with third party vendors for resources on contract. Responsible for evaluating ROI for the client. Responsible for maintain a level of DVI for CG. Responsible for ambiguity management.

Competency development Have also created a tool for Upgrade as part of competency development and also have that tool

endorsed by SAP. SPOC for upgrade related queries and estimations.

Presales Involved in multiple RFP’s and also part of Orals to the client on how CG is the best bet as a partner.

Training Underwent a rigorous 5 day course on Engagement Management.

Mindtree Consulting, Bangalore, India November 2004 – August 2008Title: Principal consultantClient’s: Large German Automobile Manufacturing Company & Large Dutch Service Provider.

Responsibilities in Delivery/Program/Client engagement:

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Defined One shore methodology in client’s terms. Succession planning of critical resources. Program Management for multiple Managed service projects spread across multiple geographies

(US, Europe, India). Quality review for technical developments. Ensure Quality reviews for offshore work. Ensured

adherence to service procedures to meet 100% SLAs Accurate & Timely reporting to all stakeholders with detailed RCA and action plans. Establish a performance scorecard for reviewing the overall program delivery. Project execution -work closely with line managers, senior management and project teams Responsible for development, motivation and retention of assigned team conforming to budgetary

objectives and personnel policies. Budget allocation for various phases of the project. Compliance to business and service delivery as per contract clauses. Ensure 40% GM on all SAP projects. Provide Y-o-Y productivity improvement on each account.

Responsibilities as Technical Manager: Lead technical team to define best practices on ABAP coding standards, templates on estimates,

etc. Effort/resource estimation taking offshore and on-site development resources into account. Finalization of document and development standards. Develop Business blueprint acceptance. Clarification of business processes with respect to local implementations and in line with

simultaneous worldwide implementation for the client. Assist teams in WBS of offshore & onsite work. Drive steering committee meetings from offshore. Sign-off on projects. Develop a framework for post go-live support. Reporting Project status to

steering committee. Guide team on strategies in migration, interfaces / integrations with various work products.

Mphasis Technologies, Bangalore, India August 2004 – October2004Title: SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities as Project Manager: Formulation of project time-line in consultation with business process-owners and consultants. Setup

Work-breakdown structure. Sub-contractor negotiations. Setup Go-live strategy on projects. Approval for licensing third party-software in accordance with company’s policy on data handling. Perform Fit-gap analysis. Perform Finalization of development requirements before and during the realization phase. Budget re-valuation. Detailed discussions with business process owners for extracting clean legacy

systems data. Ensure Testing & Training.

Novartis Pharmaceutical, Basel, Switzerland July2002 – May2004Title: Project Manager (SAP)

Responsibilities as Project Manager: Requirement gathering phase from end user for Time estimation and resource requirement. Review design in conjunction with the Process teams for interface and conversion programs to

support the implementation Select & Manage team on various implementations. Work for gap analysis between business and

SAP Manage technical and functional teams on requirement gathering per end users. Time management for support and technical implementations Enforce technical standards for application development Handle workspace in Lotus notes to keep update of the development environment. Currently working on Phase II for Implementation of Plant Data to SAP with various developments. Review SAP BW product information channels regularly Act as communication channel for requirements between business and development teams

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Corporate Software, Boston, USA Title: ABAP team lead August2001 – November2001

Responsibilities as a team lead. Lead a team of 6 Developers to successfully migrate from Ver 4.6B to 4.6 C for MM, SD, PM Data. Provide expertise for MM functionalities from Technical point. Handle documentation for End user training. Add range of profiles to User Worked as a Hot Line developer for Bug fixing for Production Support Provided technical support for SD functionalities. Coded RFC to send file through Modem

Responsibilities as a Developer Coded IDOC like

SD: Print IDOC for various selections. Compare number of lines to Sales order lines. Coded User Exit like

SD: To Change program SAPMV45A to accept higher level of custom materials for contracts and to create a list of exclusions based on custom function code to call dialog program exporting data to memory created to accept entries which would be saved based on the save function code from main screen and then the tables imported from memory would be updating the custom tables as per requirements.

Coded Function moduleSD: Created function module to accept table name, field name and value and display unique values for the field name entered.

Analyzed SAP Programs which were required to be modified based on the contracts and to accept higher level of materials other than KMAT and explode these materials to their sub-group.

Novartis, Minneapolis, USA August 2000 - July 2001Title: ABAP Team Lead

Responsibilities as a Team LeadResponsible for complete ABAP/4 development for MM and SD modules. Involved in following steps: Development, enhancements, implementation and Data Migration. This includes development of Reports, Layouts in SAP Script, Dialog programs, BDC programs, function modules, subroutines, includes, database objects, ABAP queries & Quick Viewers user exists etc. Provided technical support for MM, SD & QM functionalities etc. Coded User Exit like

SD: To determine which plant will be used for the delivery in Sales order (SAPMV45A). In the standard system, the delivering plant is copied from the customer master or the customer-material info record. Based on Availability after checking inventory the plant was changed.

QM: test performed on material would also be updated on a custom table and used later on during batch characteristics to be printed on forms.

Create and execute Batch Load Programs (BDC) MM: To change dates in the Purchase Orders, SD: To load the calling records of the sales representatives which is then used for paying AT&T

To update the shell material, forecast, date, production version and quantity in the Crop Plan table. Development of Reports and interactive reports like

Transfer the order acknowledgment to Purchase Order using selection criteria and table EKKN & BDC’s via 'ME22'.

Capture all orders changed or created during the day, find corresponding price pages and re-pricing the price pages.

List the mass price revision on sales orders using flat file. Screen which can then be submitted for re-pricing. There was Simulation only option that lets the user previews the orders without re-pricing.

Development of Layouts with SAP Scripts like SD: Sales order to print the canceled items in Block letters

Copy of Sales order to print without the price so that it can be sent out for transport (including changes such as transport amount to be printed out without the quantity showing up).

QM: Create new document to print Inspection lot no and the test carried out under QM module repeatedly on specific paper.

Development Of Dialog Programs like

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SD: Extracts sales orders based on selection criteria and changes/cancels them depending upon what is specified on the input screen.For a cancellation, the line item that contains the material is marked with a rejection reason and item category, and then line item text. For a change, the line item with the change from material is canceled, and then a line item is added for the change to material. Line item text is updated on this new line item.

Extensively worked on Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Performance Testing.

Luigino’s Inc., Minnesota, USA July 1999 - June 2000Title: ABAP Consultant

Responsibilities as a Developer Modify SAP Script printing programs and layouts To print invoices by collecting the totals of the invoice raised and the amount to be collected from

each customer based on the selection criteria. For purchase orders so that the value would be printed in per 100 as the client had the value of each

material in three decimals. Create following ABAP reports/programs

Availability check report which searches for specific materials based on their availability considering all inventories and listing out such as under QM, reservations, in stock, in transit etc.

Actual v/s Forecast gives the output for the last 7 days along with the further 7 days for materials and the comparison of the materials sold against Sales order and the forecast under S605 tables based upon previous years sales data.

Report to show material requirements created for a plant through MRP run Report required by production to compare their performance against the plan. It displays actual

production quantities and compares them to the planned production quantities. Create a batch load program (BDC) to load the initial balances of material for various storage locations.

SAP R/3’s Goods Receipt transaction (MB1C) was used to load data from legacy. Coded user exit before Sales order save (SAPMV45A) to pass data to a third party software (Explorer)

for Schedule line management. Create an Interface program to run weekly to update the Supplier Data Warehouse (SDW).

The SDW is a user-friendly means to access data covering supplier, purchasing and payment transactions across all of clients operating units. SAP system is the primary provider of information to this Supplier Data Warehouse. The interface program reads the information from SAP since the last upload date and writes the "events” to a flat file. The program will only be extracting data as it relates the creation, change to, and Goods Receipts for Scheduling Agreements. The only SDW event being created is the PORDER event. The program will send all other SDW events and non-scheduling agreement purchase order types.

TRW, Tennesse, USA June 1998 - May 1999Title: ABAP Developer

Analysis of data conversions, development of SAP scripts, print programs, classical and interactive reports, BDC programs, user exits, function modules, transparent tables, data elements, domains, match code objects, database views.

Customize the layout sets and print programs supplied by SAP for printing of Purchasing Documents and Packing Slip

Create various PP reports including SOP, shop floor reporting etc. Create reports such as Reorder point report, Production conformance report, Sales forecast report and

Sap Enhancement for Sales Order. Also responsible for writing BDC programs for loading scheduling agreements, loading purchase order tooling, loading schedule delivery lines, loading the database table created directly, use of standard BDC programs for loading of Material master and Purchase info record.

Create several Pre load programs for editing flat files with legacy data.

ClearPath, India November 1997 - March 1998Title: ABAP Developer

Created a number of reports and interactive reports in MM modules as per the user requirements using drill-down features. Duplicated transactions as per the user requirements. Developed a number of

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BDC's for inbound and outbound interfaces using both classical and call transaction methods. Customize and create new layout sets using SAP Script. Created and modified match codes for various

requirements, created tables, data elements, and domains in the data dictionary. Create dialog transactions, enhancements and write BDC programs. Developed BDC programs for

upload of factors like material master, vendor master, inventory. Wrote ABAP programs for material master updates and scheduled it in batch for automatic price updating. Developed various interactive reports like inventory reconciliation. The report gives drill down details of opening balances, transfers, receipts, issues and returns.

Non-Sap Professional Experience

Reliance Industries (Bombay, India) January 1995 – September 1997

Assistant Manager for Materials Management

Initiated vendor competency processes & negotiated prices for all outsourced parts in refinery division. Coordinated Material Management and Procurement for a lead company in Refinery industry.

Created floating RFQ's (Request for Quotation) for vendor quotation. Managed Substitution of materials based on the urgency of plant requirements.

Generated vendor metrics on material management & product delivery dates. Maintained vendor database for the company. Responsible for Purchase order release in procurement division for refinery. Coordinated vendor competency & Authorized tracked payment of purchase order.