CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER (CIO)

• Engaged by North America CFO to head national

  business transformation

  ERP program for both US and Canada (as an Executive Management Consultant)
• Chaired and led THREE large E2E SAP programs to transform 8 leading business organizations that were acquired in last few years to common global harmonized SAP platform. Successfully delivered these programs with business operations now running seamlessly in the new landscape.
• Ad-interim served as the

  Head of IT for North America

  since Q1 2015 heading all functions of IT i.e. IT Program Delivery, IT Operations & Support, Enterprise Information and Business Solutions Management
• Recently defined the new IT organization for North America as the company is getting ready to legally separate into two legal entities in 2016
• Led management and resolution of critical issues together with IT
• Defined new IT strategic decision making protocols that included IT vendor selection for transformation program, criteria to assess quality of business transformations, Quality Gates, technology selection, etc.
• Received several accolades from entire management team for completing large IT transformation programs with quality and also achieving 100% business operational efficiency within weeks after GoLive
• Vast experience working with outsourced IT vendors that covers production support, infrastructure, networking and select application development with maintenance
• Experience with leading complex technology architecture that includes SAP as core ERP system along with Vendavo, BusinessObjects, Vertex, SalesForce.com, Tableau, IBM middleware, home-grown applications and many others.

• Engaged by

  CIO

  , CFO and executive management of several large North American companies during these 10 years to head

  SAP business transformation

  programs ranging from $8M to $120M in program implementation budget
• Also engaged by SAP America to lead build and guide deployment large SAP program at some of the leading financial services clients in the United States
• Responsibilities included leading the overall

  program governance

  , managing executive business stakeholders and also controlling the E2E delivery of the new SAP system by the Big 4 implementation partners
• Conduct periodic program deliverables review and assess the business acceptance protocols to ensure that business migration is done with high quality
• Ensure business continuity and seamless migration from legacy systems with minimal impact to business operations
• Ensure cutover KPIs are defined to measure business operational efficiency, internal & external stakeholder satisfaction and overall business growth

• Engaged as Trusted Advisor by

  VP of Business Applications

  and CIO to head $90M business transformation initiative that included Accenture, SAP America and other 3rd party vendors
• Responsible for end to end program management and project control including selection of IT implementation partner and defining the SOW and measures for success
• Part of program governance and

  steering committee

  leading the business through this migration from legacy systems onto SAP
• Responsible for review and approvals for program board related deliverables produced by the project team
• Responsible for review, assessment and approval of each phase of the project and signoff on behalf of executive committee to exit each phase
• Recommend and advise the CIO and business

  executive sponsor

  on strategic decisions throughout the life cycle of the program
• Co-chair the project change control board

• Progressive role with SAP starting as Solution Architect in Core SAP Product Development and then into SAP Project Management & Deployment
• Responsible for E2E project management including estimations, scoping, execution and cutover of mid-size and large SAP implementations
• Served as ASAP methodology expert managing projects right from planning, blueprint, realization, deployment and go live
• Defined project implementation strategy and deliverable templates to be leveraged by the business analysts, functional consultants and technical team members
• Co-led organizational change management along with stakeholder management
• Experience with SAP AGILE Scrum methodology typically used in-house to deliver product development initiatives under aggressive timeline
• As solution architect early on at SAP, responsible for developing integrated solution architecture strategy along with functional and technical design of core SAP industry solutions
• Projects while at SAP included greenfield implementations as well as global template deployments at many of SAP�s premier clients such as:
  • $13 Billion consumer goods company
  • $1.6 Billion Global Flavors & Fragrance Company
  • $7 Billion Global Specialty Chemical Company
  • $16 Billion Leading World Food Company
  • $26 Billion World Leader in Chemicals & Polymer Products
  • Global Leader in Fibers, Resin and Intermediates
  • Global Manufacturer of Agricultural & Non-Ag Crop Science Products
  • $5 Billion Specialty Chemical Company
  • $62 Billion World�s Leading Chemical Company
  • Leading Construction Products Manufacturer
  • Major Fruits & Flavors Company
  • $9 Billion Specialty Chemicals Company
  • $900MM Specialty Chemical Manufacturing
  • $4 Billion Major Latin American Petroleum Products Company