Hi, I’m
Surendra Ganta
Bangalore
Summary
Diligent and seasoned Assistant Director offers advanced knowledge of business operations and 15 years of progressive experience. Leverages tenacious approach and strong attention to detail to drive success. Well-versed in formulating business goals and initiating policies, guiding and training staff and monitoring administrative functions.
Overview
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Ernst & Young
Assistant Director
12.2020 - Current
Job overview
- Drive planning and execution of releases from concept to GA. Understand and assess critical paths and dependencies for developing and shipping products and facilitate discussions between delivery team of Product Managers, Engineering, QE and other functional teams.
- Enterprise ERP transformation including all aspects of the project on schedule, time and budget (Solution architecture, Design, Build, test, launch, hyper care and transition to long term support).
- Expert on Product development life cycle processes and champion process best practices, metrics and high-quality standards with delivery teams.
- Make constant assessment of feature pipeline, work done and work quality to support decision making on release delivery schedule.
- Drive other horizontal initiatives related to continuous improvement of development processes.
- Ability to understand Methodologies (Activate, Agile, SDLC, SCRUM) and other industry business fundamentals and ability to showcase a quick learning curve.
Mercedes Benz R&D
Solutions Architect / Program Manager
12.2018 - 12.2020
Job overview
- Leading digital transformation of applications into Cloud platforms (SAP Ariba, S/4 HANA, Digital Supply Chain Solutions).
- Work with Product mindset to deliver SAP solutions areas relating to ERP applications and deployment roadmaps aligned to the Enterprise ERP transformation guidelines.
- Assist teams in establishing clear commitments to stakeholders and hold the teams accountable for meeting these commitments.
- Work with Product mindset to deliver SAP solution
- Adopt DevOps operative principles and bring in Agile and quick delivery capabilities.
- Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
- Strong practical and advanced theoretical understanding of managing the life-cycle of large-scale programs and releases in Product organizations.
CGI
Project Manager
10.2012 - 12.2020
Job overview
- Excellent understanding of SAP architectural solutions and of the consulting business processes and functions.
- Competency in project management processes including planning tasks, resource allocation, risk management, quality management, monitoring and reporting and record keeping.
- Orchestrate multiple deployments /roll outs and serve as escalation point and lead resolutions all issues and risk related to projects from the region.
- Strong technical, analytical, regulatory and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive directions.
- Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives and motivate the project team to achieve them.
Tech Mahindra
SAP Supply Chain Consultant
01.2011 - 09.2012
Prithvi Solutions
SAP MM Consultant
12.2008 - 01.2011
Education
Alliance University
Executive MBA from Project Management
01.2017
Andhra University
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science
04.2008
Skills
- SAP Digital Transformation
- Project Management
- Supply Chain Management
- SAP technical design & architecture
- Product development
- SAP Analytics & SaaS solutions
- SDLC & Agile mindset
- Stakeholder Management
- People & skillset management
- Process Governance
- Risk, compliance & audit Management
- Training & Documentation Management
- ITIL, PMP certified SAP SAFe, SAP certifications
Timeline
Assistant Director
Ernst & Young
12.2020 - Current
Solutions Architect / Program Manager
Mercedes Benz R&D
12.2018 - 12.2020
Project Manager
CGI
10.2012 - 12.2020
SAP Supply Chain Consultant
Tech Mahindra
01.2011 - 09.2012
SAP MM Consultant
Prithvi Solutions
12.2008 - 01.2011
Alliance University
Executive MBA from Project Management
Andhra University
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science
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