Venu Kudupudi

1. Client: GPIC, Bahrain (Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company).

Onsite project management of S/4 HANA migration and greenfield implementation of the SAP product line (35 SAP submodules).

Scope:

• S4HANA Migration & Brownfield Enhancements – MM, WM, SD, PP, QM, PM, PS, FI, CO, FM.
• Greenfield Implementation: Ariba, SuccessFactors, Cash Management, Treasury Management, EHS, SAC.

Key responsibilities:

• Project Management, Scope Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Governance, Risk Management, People Management, Escalations, Project Timelines, and Budget.
• WRICEF – 300 custom developments, reports, and applications.
• SAC Reports – 50+ KPIs.
• Team Size: 40+ functional and technical resources.

2. Client: MEPCO, KSA (Middle East Paper Company).

Scope: Implementation of SAP CX.

• Key responsibilities include project management, scope management, stakeholder management, project governance, risk management, people management, project timelines, and budget.
• Team Size: 10+ functional and technical resources.

Customer: Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW), Bangalore.

• Handled completed end-to-end delivery for the Bosch Account - BGSW (100+ resources, both SAP and non-SAP, Revenue - $4.5M).
• Key responsibilities - Delivery Management, Service Delivery, Project Management, People Management, Escalation, Presales, Stakeholder Management, P&L, Cost & Budget.
• Direct reporting to the Vice President of Delivery, and a dotted line to the SAP Practice Head.

Type of project.

• SAP Rollout Projects.
• SAP Developments (SAP ABAP, Web Dynpro, SAP PI, BW/BI)
• SAP AMS Support – Service Delivery (MM, SD, PP, PM, APO, SRM).
• Non-SAP: .NET, Java, Automation Testing, RPA, UI, etc.

Major customer – SAP Labs, India ( Revenue: $4M )

• SAP Pre-sales: Effort Estimations, Project Planning, Project Commercial Estimation, RFP Response, SoW.
• Closely working with the sales team on getting new projects.
• Converting projects from the T&M model to a fixed-budget project.
• Project delivery responsibility for existing projects.
• Team Management - Recruitment, Appraisal, Performance Management.
• People Management.
• Practice Initiatives.

• SAP Pre-sales: Solutioning, Effort Estimations, Project Planning, Project Commercial Estimation, RFP Response, SoW.
• Closely working with the sales team on getting new projects.
• Project delivery responsibility for existing projects.
• SAP Team Management - Recruitment, Appraisal, Performance Management.
• Team Size: 75+

• Scope: Development project of reports, forms, notification emails, and enhancements in FS-PM (Financial Services – Policy Management).
• 70+ development objects.
• As a Project Manager, I was responsible for effort and project estimation, project planning, scope management, stakeholder management, planning and scheduling, monitoring, escalation management, team management, project governance, and risk management.
• Team size: 15 (onsite and offshore).

Role: Client Partner – Middle East

Duration : Mar 2015 – Apr 2016

Key roles & responsibilities:

• Customer Engagement & Satisfaction
• Project and Resource Management
• Account Management and Mining
• Pre Sales & Sales Leads – Effort and cost Estimation, SOW drafting, RFP response and Customer interactions
• Project Governance & Risk Management
• External and Internal Stakeholder management
• P&L for Middle East Projects ( USD 4Million)

Client: Etisalat, Abu Dhabi.

Duration: May 2014 – February 2015.

Role: On-site Project Manager

Scope: Project e-Procurement Transformation – Implementation of SPM, MDM, SRM, and CLM for 18 Operating Companies of Etisalat.

As a Project Manager, I was responsible for,

• Scope management
• Stakeholder Management
• Planning and schedule
• Monitoring
• Team Management
• Client Interactions
• Escalations
• Project Governance and Risk Management
• 150+ ABAP/Web Dynpro Developments
• 300+ interfaces using SAP PI.
• Team size: 35 (onsite and offshore)

Client: Internal position - SAP Technology Practice Leader

Duration April 2013 – April 2014

Contribution:

• SPOC between the Sales/Pre-sales and Practice
• Closely worked with Delivery heads, Project Managers, Resource Management heads, Other Practice Leader, Presales Heads and Sales Teams
• Managed over 150 resources in Technology practice.
• Strengthen the key offering of Bristlecone in Technology area
• Identified new offering which Bristlecone can take to market
• Collated Case studies of major projects executed by Bristlecone
• Resource utilization & Bench Management
• Practice cost management

Client: Multiple ISV Customer (15 projects) - IVARA, Debswana, OpenLink Financials, Viziya, Blackline, Etiah, Fieldglass, ICON, Precator, Precision, PROS, SCMProfit, Telogis, Vitria, IQNavigator

Duration: Nov 2010 – March 2013

Role: Project Manager, Technical Architect & Presales Lead

Scope: Project to build SAP integration with third-party ISV software and certify the integration with the global SAP ICC team.

Contribution:

• The major responsibility of SAP ISV Units within Bristlecone was to build interfaces/integration between SAP and third-party software. We used to build robust and scalable integrations and finally got the integration certified by the SAP ICC Team. The end product was a deployable integration package that was certified by SAP.
• SPOC between the Delivery Team and the Sales & CP Team
• Responsible for all presales activities – Solution architecting, efforts estimation and SOW
• Project Management for all projects – Successfully handled 7 integration projects in parallel

As a Project Manager, was responsible for

• Planning, scheduling, and tracking tight deadlines.
• Scope management
• Resource allocation
• Team Management
• Client Interactions
• Handled a team size of 25, both Technical and Functional resources
• As an Integration Architect was responsible for designing the Integration Architecture
• Functional Requirement gathering/ workshop.
• Designing all integration scenarios
• Mentoring the team during the development phase

Client: SABIC, Riyadh (Onsite).

Duration: May 2009 – Nov 2010

Role: SAP PI Integration Architect & Stream Lead (Onsite)

Technical: SAP ABAP, SAP PI

Scope: Project SABIC EMDAD implemented had various integration requirements along with the SCM Implementation project. Integration between systems was done SAP PI as the middleware. Was the onsite Stream Lead for Integrations, with 5 offshore team members to support development activities.

As an Integration Architect was responsible for,

• Designed the Integration Architecture
• Functional Requirement gathering/ workshop
• Designing all integration scenarios
• Mentoring the team during the development phase
• Weekly status reporting to Project Management team

Client: KONE, Helsinki (Onsite) & SuccessFactors

Duration: Oct 2008 – Apr2009

Role: SAP PI & ABAP Lead Developer

Scope:

1. Project Servigistics (ISV) – SAP Integration for PM module

2. Project SuccessFactors Connector Toolkit Integration Project

Client: SAP Labs, Bangalore

Duration: April 2006 – Oct 2008

Role: Developer, LeTechnical Architect - ABAP& ABAP WebDynpro

Project The mentioned projects were related to SRM 7.0 release and was a part of SAP Team from start till end of SRM 7.0 release. Multiple SAP Product Development Projects

1. SRM 6.0 Contract Authoring Project

2. SRM 7.0 UX Conversion Project

3. SRM 7.0 FPM Adoption Project

4. SRM 7.0 SUS Development Project

Contribution:

• As an Architect, was involved in the core design
• As a Lead, handled a team of 10 members
• Hand on development and mentoring the team in developments
• Handled all escalation which came up during development/support
• Project Tracking, as per project Checkpoints and Milestones

Project: Pride 2006 – SAP ECC Implementation.

Role: SAP Technical Consultant

Contribution: Worked on reports, enhancements, forms, RFCs, and module pool.