Phone:     (91) 80 - 25457533  

Cell    : (91) 9880214584                            

Email:     manda_venu@hotmail.com

Alt. :     madhav_venu@consultant.com

q       An IT professional with more than 12 years of overall Industry experience with exposure to various technologies.

q       Roles undertaken till now : SAP Practice Head, Delivery / Program Manager, Project Manager, Project Lead, Team Lead, Senior Technical Consultant and a Team member.

q       PMP Certified.

q       Well versed with Project Estimation, Budgeting, Resource Management and People Management.

q       Well versed with pre-sales activities including RFP’s, Client Presentations.

q       Can take up very senior roles with a blend of Project Management, Business development, Account Management and Program Management.

q       Ready to travel upto 75 % for scope study, project wins, client deals.

q       Experienced in vendor management.

q       Excellent communication skills, multiple project handling, fast learner and implementor, a good mentor.

q       Excellent Technical and Functional knowledge to suit to any technical requirement.

q       Can manage a team of professionals and lead them to succesfull completion of projects.

q       More than 6 years of experience in SAP R/3 design, development, analysis, coding and configuration in ABAP, FI/CO, SD, MM, PM, HR,  IS-CD (Collections & Disbursements), IS-Utilities and IS-A&D.

q       In Depth knowledge of Asset Management (PM Utilities), Public Sector, Manufacturing, High-tech, Industry Solutions – Utilities – Customer care services (IS-U-CCS), Industry Solutions – Collections & Disbursements (IS-CD), IS – A&D (Aerospace & Defence), Telecommunications.

q       Managed independently many big budgeted Projects of the range of 5-10 Million USD, Lead projects managing all project management and Quality assurance activities efficiently.

q       Worked in 7 full Life Cycle implementations, 8 Application Value Management projects (from 4.0B to ECC 6.0) in ABAP developments and configurations focusing on MM, SD, FI/CO, PM, HR,IS modules, A&D (Aerospace & Defence).

q       Experience and in-depth knowledge in SAP R/3 Classical and Interactive Reports, Logical database, Cross applications, Custom Development, Dialog Programming, BDC, LSMW and Interfaces, ALE Scenarios with Idocs.

q       Supported all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, development, configuration, testing, and development of solutions, organizing and managing simultaneous activities, documentation and end-user training.

q       Actively worked in Quality assurance activities, unit and Integration testing.

q       Experienced in designing solutions and developing technical program specifications based on functional requirements.

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Certifications/ Training

        LEADERSHIP Training by lyceum (Sep 2007)- CGI

        Bullet proof manager, crestcom, july 2005.

        Project Management Professional Certification, May 2005, PMI.

        Brainbench Certification in Project Management (2000)

        Member of Project Management Institute (PMI)

        Six Sigma Green Belt training, by COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS.

        SAP BIW training, by COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS.

        Project Management training for PMP Certification, by COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS.

        SAP, ABAP training, by CYBERTECH SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE LTD.

        Brain bench Certification in ASP 2.0, JavaScript, XML, HTML.

        Skill Drill Certification in ABAP/4, ASP 3.0.

        Ecertifications.com certification in Java Programming, SQL Server DBA 7.0.

        Web Technologies, e-business solutions training, by CYBER SYSTEMS.

        Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), Bangalore University, Bangalore, India.

·         Methodologies: ASAP, RICE.

·         Well versed with SAP Solution Manager concepts.

Key SAP Skills:

Reports viz. Classical, Interactive and ALV

SapScripts.               

BDC / LSMW, Logical Databases

Dialog Programming

Cross Applications viz. ALE/IDOCs/EDI

Functional Areas: MM, SD, FI, PM, PP, HR, IS-U-CCS, IS-CD, IS-AD

Functional/ Industry Experience:

Telecommunications,

Aerospace,

Public Sector,

Manufacturing,

High-tech,

Industry Solutions – Utilities – Customer care services (IS-U-CCS),

Asset Management – Utilities (PM)

Industry Solutions – Collections & Disbursements (IS-CD)

Education / Membership of Professional institutes

      Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), Bangalore University, Bangalore, India

      Member of Project Management Institute (PMI)

Current Activity:

      Delivery head for all SAP Projects from offshore.

      Total Current Team Size: 100+

      Driving a Programme with a team of professionals to successful delivery of the projects for our esteemed customers

Bell Canada: SAP Support.

Bell Canada: ECC 6.0 Upgrade.

Bombardier Aerospace: BMIS, NCMS Deployment.

Air Canada Technical Services: SAP Implementation of ECC 6.0

Overall Budgets for all Projects: USD 10 Million

      Previous Organization: Wipro Technologies

      Immediate Previous Role: Independently Managed the complete offshore SAP Team for the Rollout Implementation of SAP for their esteemed Client Brady Corporation.

Reporting Team Size: 20

Project Budget: 3 Million USD (US Dollars)

Environment: SAP, FI, SD, MM and ABAP.

SAP Implementation Methodology:  ASAP

Tools used: MS Project, MS Word, Internal Project tracking tool, Internal Quality Management tool, Code optimizer, ABAP workbench.

Activities include:

·         Project tracking and controliing.

• Performance Measurement, Review and Reporting.
• Conducting regular Project Status Meetings.
• Reporting Milestones achieved to Senior Management.
• Reporting Resource requirements and availability.
• Active participation in Recruitments as a panel member.
• Team building activities.
• Performance appraisal.
• Time management.

·         Previous Role: Independently Managed a big budgeted Project for a Gas networking Company in the United Kingdom.

·         Reporting Team Size: 50

·         Project Budget: 6 Million GBP (Great Britain Pounds)

·         Environment: SAP, PM (Plant Maintenance), ABAP.

·         SAP Implementation Methodology:  ASAP

·         Tools used: MS Project, MS Word, Internal Project tracking tool, Internal Quality Management tool, Code optimizer, ABAP workbench.

Activities include:

·         Project tracking and controliing.

• Performance Measurement, Review and Reporting.
• Conducting regular Project Status Meetings.
• Reporting Resource requirements and availability.
• Active participation in Recruitments as a panel member.
• Team building activities.
• Performance appraisal.
• Time management.
• Documenting and Announcing Best Practices.

Professional Experience

SAP Project Experience

Client: Bombardier, Canada.

SAP Version: 4.7                                                                                                              

Duration: July 2006 – May 2007

Industry: Aerospace

Role: SAP Project Manager

Team Size: 5

Bombardier Aerospace is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative aviation products and services for the business, regional and amphibious aircraft markets.

This project is to provide extra functionality to the already implemented SAP system and involves phased BMIS implementations for its facilities at Montreal and Toronto.

The work involved reports and Interfacing using ALE scenarios.

      Involved in overall delivery of project including development, ownership, Quality Assurance, Unit and Integration testing.

      Managed the Interface development (ALE / Idocs), Change Management (CR), Management Information Reporting (MI) phases respectively.

      Ensure integration across the different processes.

      Issues / Risk resolutions.

      Monitor Progress

·         Project Tracking & Time sheet management.

·         Delivered up to 95% of the tasks as per the deadline.

·         Adherence to quality parameters.

·         Team management: Conducted periodic reviews.

·         Knowledge Transfer.

·         Checked for consistency of code, naming conventions and coding standards.

·         Ensured total satisfaction or near zero complaints for the client on the object developed followed by a final sign off.

·         Detailed Analysis of the Functional specs and development of Tech Specs.

·         Conducted Project Status and Performance meetings regularly.

Client: Bell Canada. (ENI NP & P Project)

SAP Version: 4.6C                                                                                                              

Duration: October 2006 – December 2006

Industry: Telecommunications

Role: SAP Project Manager

Team Size: 5

BCE is Canada's largest communications company. Through its 28 million customer connections, BCE provides the most comprehensive and innovative suite of communication services to residential and business customers in Canada.

Currently, Sub-contractor services for underground structures, poles and buried cable (including tendering, inspection, payment and other management activities) are secured and managed by Expertech on Bell Canada’s behalf.

In light of these current processes Bell Canada determined there are advantages to repatriating these functions.