Ramalingadas Gurupackiam

• Act as a Scrum Master/ Project Manager for a 20 member IT team including Functional leads/Analysts, Architects and Technical Analysts to deliver Procure to Pay solution.
• Responsible for Overall Workshop Planning, Scope/Requirements Management, Sprint Planning, Execution and Monitoring of Project Deliverables. Managed Delivery of 200+ Requirements and 50+ Deliverables.
• Responsible for Monitoring/Mitigating Risk, Resource estimations/Hiring and Onboarding and Change Management.
• Created 15+ Test Scenarios/Process Variants containing 300+ Cross Functional test steps for SIT/UAT execution by coordinating with Business SMEs and IT Team.
• Created Training Plan and provided Onsite user Support for Successful UAT execution. Monitor and Report Defects creation and Resolution.
• Successfully Managed Conversion Activities to handle loading of 1000+ Purchase Order Line Items and 500+ Purchase Info Record Line Items from System Integration Testing (SIT) Cycles through Go-Live.

• Global Execution Lead/Solutions Architect responsible for delivering Strategic Projects, Enhancements, Upgrades and managing Application support pertaining to Planning/Manufacturing track.
• Led a 10 member SAP Offshore team to successfully deliver large scale SAP Implementation projects, SAP Upgrades, Enhancements and Application Support.
• Successfully Managed offshore delivery by Hiring, Onboarding and mentoring team members.
• Responsible for delivery of SAP enhancements by coordinating with Business and IT stakeholders. Review Business requirements, prepare estimates, secure resources, monitor budget and timelines. Delivered SAP Enhancements worth $500 K over the course of 24 months.
• Work with SAP Consultants for high level design and solution architecture. Lead Pre and Post-build demos to the business users to obtain sign off.
• Managed a 3-member Offshore Production support team. Responsible for monitoring/tracking Incident and Problem ticket resolution.
• Review and approval of all SAP Make solutions to Quality and Production instances through PCR (Production Change Request) DB.

• SAP Make Functional Analyst for PDC GFP Implementation project.
• Coordinate with Technical Team (Developers/Middleware) to deliver SAP Enhancements, Conversions and Reports.
• Successfully managed ~500 Production Order conversions and ~2500 Routings during UAT and Go-Live.
• Provide End User trainings and Onsite User Support during Go-Live and Hypercare.

• Onsite Lead for Demand to Consume (SAP PP-PI/QM) track responsible for Production Support and Enhancements.

• Execute SAP QM Enhancements by gathering requirements from the users. Train and Mentor Junior team members on the SAP QM functionality.

• Resolve complex Tickets related to Demand to Consume track by working together with ABAP support team. Resolved ~700 Tickets and Delivered ~30 Enhancements.

• Work as a Key-user for Production Planning, Quality Management, Engineering and Variant Configuration track.

• Responsible for Gathering Requirements from End Users and deploy solutions by working together with SAP Consultants. Prepare and Sign off Business Blueprints.

• As a Design Engineer, Worked on New Product Design and Development activities. Successfully completed the Prototype of PF220 Paver by coordinating with Assembly, Purchasing and Testing Team.