IT Consultant
Self employed
Total years of experience :40 years, 8 Months
As consultant for IT and other projects: Provided consultancy in selecting IT solutions, implementation plan, monitoring and managing implementation process, setting up the post implementation support process.
• Actively involved in the required infrastructure decision making at board level meetings.
• Effectively negotiated on the delivery terms with customers/ vendors including importers/ export agents/ vendors and supervised the required communication, decision and documentation. Defined and established guidelines for commercial terms and parameters for vendor, customer negotiation
• Being the forefront leader in setting up the infrastructure for manufacturing, successfully established international complaint that passed through initial compliance to SEDEX certification. Also established a corporate office for sampling and operations.
• Being an interface between internal and external customers (customer, marketing, development, manufacturing, logistics and accounting), developed & implemented processes at organization level.
• Evaluated IT requirements and products for functional activities integration and operation. Mentored the team concerned for providing the top level periodic MIS. Supported and streamlined merchandizing activities
As consultant for IT and other projects: Provided consultancy in setting up the complete infrastructure, facility requirement for garment manufacturing unit. Identified, evaluated and finalized vendors for the project.
A. As Program Manager for Time and Unit Rate projects at Aramco in Saudi Arabia
Distinguished efforts in managing and controlling multiple small projects within single customer campus and multiple client representatives in terms of requirements, acceptance, delivery, closing and collection.
B. As Project Manager - SAP for Support and Enhancement Project - SIPCHEM, Jubail, Saudi Arabia - (Support for MM, SD and HR Succession Planning implementation): Worked in conjunction with the different onshore, offshore team and client representatives to get signoff for project approval. This included presale presentation and establishing requirements of client. Managed effectively to get required unexpected activities such as certain patch updates through offshore team.
C. As Delivery Manager - SAP for End to end new implementation project - CCMC \[Consolidated Can Manufacturing Company, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia\]. The project was of On-site/ Offshore delivery model including most of the manufacturing modules - FICO, MM, SD, HR, PP, ABAP and BASIS on ECC6.0.
• Effectively planned and defined off-shore and on-shore communication and other interaction requirements.
• Prepared and presented the organization’s capability through presentation, detailed project proposal and client interaction meetings to get successfully the approval for the project.
• Constituted an effective team for executing the project as per plan. Monitored and supervised the progress with decisions at times to take care of changes, deviations, schedule slip-ups through the project delivery with periodic project status presentation to the client.
• Established the second successful footprint in KSA from the organization.
D. As Project Manager - SAP for End to end implementation project - TASNEE, Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The project was of On-site delivery model including modules FICO, PP, SD, MM, PM, WM, QM on ECC 6.0
• Distinguished efforts towards spearheading a project from lagging behind in schedule and successfully delivering on time to the customer satisfaction.
• Fore fronted the launch of first SAP project in KSA and established a new platform for the organization’s new business prospects overseas.
A. As Delivery Manager - SAP for project S&N-HR ESS/MSS on ECC 6.0/ EP 7.0: Successfully completed a challenging project involved in establishing and co-ordinating multiple project teams from multiple locations and partially sub-contracted team members.
B. As Project Manager - SAP for project - Kingfisher Airlines (KFA)- FICO & MM: Fore fronted in establishing requirement specifications, change management, execution, acceptance and delivery of back office functionalities to establish first successful SAP project implementation by the organization.
C. As Project Manager - SAP for offshore support - UB Global-FICO, MM and SD: Provided technical consultancy for version upgrade and support. Negotiated established SLA parameters and provided off-shore support.
A. Role: SAP Functional Consultant - for proto presentation - MM: As part of the real-time training on SAP configuration, assigned to configure based on the requirement documentation provided by prospective customer, a wholesale multinational trading and distribution organization for demo purpose.
B. Role: Business Analyst/ Designer for onsite Insurance project - ASB Bank(Sovereign Assurance), Auckland, New Zealand: Played a successful role of designing and establishing the changes, enhancements and integration interfaces to connect multiple life insurance products.
C. Role: Project Manager for Retail Billing System - Rollout project - Vishal Retail Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon: Established remarkable efforts in successfully planning, strategizing and implementing 3rd party billing system to SAP backend processing. Rolled out at 40 outlets in less than 2 months time.
A. Role: Associate Project Manager and Business Analyst: Completed the assignment of preparing requirement specification and effort estimation based on system study at UGPL and Neel. Also actively involved in enhancing home-grown ERP solution developed on .Net and MS SQL.
A. Role: Manager - MIS (ERP): Entrusted with the responsibility of constituting and leading a team of 20 engineers to initially establish the functionalities of integrated solution, get approval from board, develop and implement the complete system at multiple locations. Subsequently, after successfully delivering initial assignment, lead a smaller team to maintain and enhancement of the application. Working with downstream team/systems to establish upgrade functionality with post implementation support. Holds the credit of establishing first time integrated ERP solution in the organization successfully.
A. Role: Officer - EDP - Initially as programmer in Dbase and COBOL, developed several applications related to Wage Administration, IE Studies and Incentive management, Inventory and Production Planning. I made a commendable work in IT area by self learning the techniques of programming and developing applications which made me conspicuous in the organization to be labelled as IT support guy.
Assisting Financial Controller in the accounting transactions.
Assisting Works Manager in the manufacturing and accounting Transactions
Develop information system with respect to Costing of the Product.
1) This was training on e-Commerce development Tools using MS Technology and Sun Microsystems. The duration of the course is 14 months part time. 2) This was training on Unix/ C programming using Sybase database. 3) This was 1 year training programme covering development concepts, various 4th/ 5th generation languages and s/w development cycles.