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Proven 13 years of experience delivering business and software solutions in CRM Sales force & ERP.Consistently delivering defect-free enter... Read More
Proven 13 years of experience delivering business and software solutions in CRM Sales force & ERP.
Consistently delivering defect-free enterprise solutions in timely manner, while driving cost-reduction through productivity and efficiency gains, and leveraging offshore - onshore model.
Led and worked on a variety of business and technology advisory initiatives across industry.
IT professional with comprehensive business/technical skillet and expertise in Planning ,Competency Management, Solutions Architecture around Oracle Products.
IT Application Development & Solution Delivery:
1. Implementation of OIC R2 at Cisco,
2. Implementation of CRM SFDC at Cisco,
3. Implementation of OM ERP at Cisco,
4. Oracle ERP experience,
5. Data Center Migration
6. Data Integration & Conversion
Project and Program Management:
- IT Strategy and Planning:
Project Planning & funding estimation
- Vendor Management
Worked & Manage multiple vendors
- Financial Management
- Funding estimation & costing
- Release Management
- Change Management
- Organization Adoption
- Applying best Scrum practices as Scrum Master & Scrum Owner.
Core Expertise :
IT Strategy , Execution & Solution Delivery
Specialties
Worked on multiple ERP Oracle Implementations Projects such as OIC/ OM/PO/BOM/WIP areas as Project Manager & SME.
Team leadership and coordination, project planning and management.
- Large scale change management
- Vendor Management, contract negotiations
- Business Process knowledge: Product and Service Sales, Service Marketing, Supply Chain Management, Finance
- Technical knowledge: Oracle Apps, Sales CRM (SFDC),
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry
January 2006 – Present (6 years 9 months)
Program Manager/Project Manager
- Developed cloud-based (SalesForce.com/SFDC) CRM road- map & strategy, including dependencies/POC & value case
- Led fiscal year financial planning, scenario planning and allocated budget~$15-20 M
- Leading 50 plus member team (20 = onsite , 30 offshore) & working across Cisco IT with multiple cross functional teams
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Implemented CRM Sales force applying Scrum framework/process
Responsible for planning and executing large scale trans - informational project at Cisco. Examples include:
- CRM Sales force implementation for SFDC Cloud
- GDCP - Data Center Migration,
- OIC Teradata Migration ,
Worked as Analyst,Dev Lead & offshore lead
- Scrum Master
- Oracle 11i implementation for OM
- Oracle 12i implementation for OIC
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June 2005 – December 2006 (1 year 7 months)
Implemented & managed the 11.5.8 / 11.5.10 Oracle Incentive Compensation (OIC) solution for Neopost, CA . Also consulted on R12 implementation
Integration of OIC with Oracle Service Contracts, Install base , OM & CRM.
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Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry
January 2003 – June 2005 (2 years 6 months)
IT Analyst/Dev Lead /Offshore Coordinator/PM for MFG-Fin -IT dept of Cisco (on contract with Wipro).
As IT Analyst, conducted requirements gathering and IT analysis;
As Offshore Coordinator, led/coordinated ID/Assess, Design, Development, Enterprise Testing and Deployment phases/activities (between business stakeholders, US tech leads/developers and offshore development teams).
• Analyzed and prepared Technical Documents (MD70s) for several Custom reports in Order Management and Inventory Modules.
• Analyzed and prepared Technical Design Documents (TDD) for several Custom reports in Order Management and Inventory Modules.
• Created Custom reports in Oracle 11.5.10 for Order Management ,Inventory Modules and Oracle Purchasing
• Documented the various Cisco Custom Tools
• Coordinated with the offshore team for development/testing of the converted reports in 11.5.8 environment. Wrote Test plans and Test documents. Met with users/technical managers to finalize the functional requirements for new reports.
• Responsible to carried out the various Cisco Process such as : Month End Process,Cost Rollup,Daily Journal Import, Interface between various Cisco Tools
• Analysis ,Design and Develop the technical doc for new Cisco Tools/Process such as : CIP,Cyclone
• Manage production support of Oracle applications which included defining and prioritizing system problems and enhancement requests, Managing related development activities that bugs are tested (unit testing, SIT & UAT) and all support activities are executed on time and under budget
• Defining concurrent programs/executables for different execution types like PL/SQL procedures, SQL*Plus Files, shell scripts & Oracle Reports in AOL that were developed. Defining value sets & descriptive flexfields based on requirements. Defining Forms/Menus/Functions adding new reports to report groups. Creating new users & responsibilities
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May 2002 – January 2003 (9 months) Ireland
Involved in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation of Oracle 11i SCM/SOM Modules, Developed the Technical doc MD070s for Discover/Oracle reports
• Met with Business users and cross-functional teams in understanding the requirements for the enhancement. Conducted meetings and presented design proposals to the business and technical users for the same.
• Created and converted complex queries into views to be run as EUL Custom Folders objects Discoverer reports for Business Analysts.
• Created unit-level and system level test documents and test cases for users to apply.
• Created Technical Document MD-70, Oracle Discover Report development using Noetix View (SCM/SOM)
• Created new Responsibilities, Request Groups, Concurrent Programs and Request Sets and performed AOL and System Admin operation in the DEV environment.
• Developed new reports for IRI (Ingersoll-Rand) Ireland Oracle 11i systems, mainly in the modules OM,PUR and INV
December 2001 – April 2002 (5 months)
Involved in Feasibility study, Design, Development, Customization, Registration, Testing and support of new and existing Forms, Reports and SQL codes Involved in the customization of ORACLE Applications mainly in Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Payable ,Oracle Inventory and GL. Also created and implemented interfaces between the Oracle Application system and other systems. Majority of the work involved design, development of new reports or modification of existing reports/Forms and creation of new interfaces. Used Reports 2.5/6i, Forms 4.5/6i, SQL*Loader and PL/SQL extensively
• Created, tested and run several SQL scripts to fix various data integrity problems as and when needed.
• Developed interfaces to load the Item data from Legacy Systems into the Oracle Inventory by using Item Interface - involved in data mapping, designing and developing feeder system and implementing the cut over.
• Customized the Enter Purchase Order form of PUR Module to implement the descriptive Flex field to record Potato information with the custom form and also Developed new Custom Potato Receiving Form (Custom) and Purchase Order Form Customization
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January 1999 – November 2001 (2 years 11 months) Canon Delhi
Oracle 10 & Oracle 11i upgrade project & my responsibilities
1. Prepared Software Requirements Specification of new modules and enhancement to accounts system, prepared detailed design including user functional requirement, technical build plan, development plan
2. Provided technical and Infrastructure support in trouble-shooting and diagnosing problems to QA and Deployment teams.
3. Documented the User Guide for effective deployment of the product at customer locations.
4. Data Migration & conversion of customer data in ERP,
5. Developed interfaces to load transaction data from Legacy Systems into the Oracle Receivables using Auto Invoice interface.
6. Involved in the setup activities of the Receivables (Customer setup) and Auto Invoice setup
7. Also involved conducting extensive user training sessions and demos.
8. Worked on Oracle/Plsql/Toad/forms/developer reports
& Unix/Shell programming
work:
Project Manager at Cisco System Inc
San Jose, CA 95014
United States
January 2006-Present
Program Manager/Project Manager
- Developed cloud-based (SalesForce.com/SFDC) CRM road- map & strategy, including dependencies/POC & value case
- Led fiscal year financial planning, scenario planning and allocated budget~$15-20 M
- Leading 50 plus member team (20 = onsite , 30 offshore) & working across Cisco IT with multiple cross functional teams
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Implemented CRM Sales force applying Scrum framework/process
Responsible for planning and executing large scale trans - informational project at Cisco. Examples include:
- CRM Sales force implementation for SFDC Cloud
- GDCP - Data Center Migration,
- OIC Teradata Migration ,
- CRM Salesfroce Service /Sales Cloud Implementation
- Oracle 11i implementation for OM
- Oracle 12i implementation for OIC
2006-Present
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