Project Manager Management

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Hari Vissamsetti

Mobile: 561-***-****

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Qualifications

* MBA, ICFAI Transworld University, California.

* B.Tech - Mechanical, Nagarjuna University, India.

* ICWA, Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

Experience Summary

* Hari is a senior finance functional consultant and project manager

with around 11+ years of experience in managing, implementing &

supporting oracle applications. Hari has executed 3 large oracle

ERP implementations across European geography as project manger and

before that he has executed 3 projects as a lead solution architect

in finance. Hari is currently with Wipro Technologies as Production

support manager managing Office depot finance applications (14

modules, ~5000 users). Previously worked with Tata Consultancy

Services for 6 years as Project lead implementing oracle

applications and as management consultant implementing activity

based management solutions for public sector undertakings.

* During his career Hari has executed 6 end to end oracle

implementations, 3 European rollouts out of which one for a leading

investment bank in US, second for a leading telecom player in UK

and the other for a leading retailer in UK and 1 upgrade for a

leading Bank in US.

* Experienced in managing projects with large size, scope, cost,

multi country with localizations, multi rollout, and multiple teams

spread across time zones speaking different languages, covering all

phases of the project life cycle and ability to effectively manage

communication to Project Sponsors and Stakeholders.

* Experienced in managing dynamic challenges across the program and

provide strategic inputs to manage user acceptance, change

management, data validation and phase exits. Prefers: 'plan to

work' rather than 'work to plan' for clear dissemination of

expectations across teams/tracks.

* An in-depth functional knowledge of the Oracle Financial

applications General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Cash Management

and Assets with sound experience of Supply Chain modules

Purchasing, iProcurement, Order Management, Advanced Pricing,

Inventory and some experience on iExpenses, iPayments, iSupplier,

iReceivables, AX, Localizations, Oracle Workflow and Oracle

Financial Analyser (OFA).

* Extensive experience of providing architectural and process based

solutions for large complex IT architecutures, defining current

business processes / requirements, performing Oracle set up /

configuration, leading Conference Room Pilots (CRPs), re-designing

future business processes and producing functional / solution

design documents for customizations and interfaces to external

systems.

* Provided extensive cost consulting solutions to public sector

undertaking in India using activity based management techniques for

managing overheads. Product costing using scientific techniques for

apportioning of overheads spread across large periods. Controlling

cost by managing cost drivers.

Projects Summary

1. Project Simplify - Production support EBS Applications

Description Supporting Office Depot's EBS applications to ensure

business SLA's are met on a daily basis covering

multiple functional towers and application landscape.

Role EBS Production Support Manager

Environment Oracle Applications 11i

Contribution Managing OD EBS landscape covering multiple functional

towers and applications to ensure business SLA's are

met on a daily basis.

Drive Operational transformation & Delivery Excellence

SLA management & Reporting

Customer satisfaction & 1st point of escalation

People Management

Day to day operations responsibility for the specific

track

Queue management, triaging, allocation & reporting

Work prioritization along with OD team & business

Defect / backlog management

Coordination with other internal support teams (~23

teams) and 3rd party vendors

Work closely with GTSS team for environment

stabilization and proactive initiatives

Knowledge harvesting and management

Presenting deployments to design approval authority

for their approval.

Cost & effort estimations. Resource planning for

functional, technical designs and Build.

Start Date 26/10/2009

End Date Till date

Team Size 25 (Onsite + Offshore)

2. Evolve - R12 Implementation for Morrison's Supermarkets Plc

Description R12 Design & Implementation of P2P GNFR (Goods not for

resale) process for few Morrison's stores,

manufacturing sites & head office as part of first

rollout.

Role Project Manager

Environment Oracle Applications R12

Contribution Scope includes managing both vertical and horizontal

teams and other stakeholders.

Stake holders include vertical team plus different

horizontal streams, Enabling technologies,

Integration, Legacy, Data migration, Data

rationalisation, Testing, OD and BI.

Managing one single plan covering activities related

to all stakeholders (vertical + Horizontals teams),

tracking and reporting against that.

Working with project sponsors and change board for

resolving process gaps identified during initial

define phase of the project by identifying the

customizations required for resolving gaps.

Managing issues using PPMC tool which is specific to

Evolve methodology being followed for implementing R12

at Morrisons.

Weekly status updates project management stakeholders,

release management team, project sponsors, PMO

Managing scope and timeline changes using evolve

change management process where extensive impact

analysis to be done by all horizontals.

Organizing meetings with different stakeholders for

driving design decisions and ensuring they are closed

against to the agreed timelines.

As per the Evolve program methodology customizations

have to be developed by Oracle corporation except for

reports.

Coordination with Oracle to prepare plan for technical

design and development of all the modifications

identified for golive.

Managing offshore team working on custom reports

design and development.

Determining business justification for the Gaps

identified by working with business and IT governing

body.

Presenting to design approval authority for their

approval.

Cost & effort estimations. Resource planning for

functional, technical designs and Build.

Start Date 15/03/2009

End Date 26/09/2009

Team Size 25 (Onsite + Offshore)

3. European Design & Rollout across 6 European countries

at State Street GmbH Bank

Description European Design & rollout across 6 European countries

as part of Wave 1 (Germany, Italy, Austria,

Switzerland, Poland, London). Replacing legacy

applications with oracle applications 11.5.10.2 &

interfacing legacy regulatory reporting architecture

with oracle architecture. W

Role Project Manager

Environment Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2

Contributio European Design for finapps processes across 13

n European Countries, multi-geographical rollout to 6

GmbH Countries addressing local statutory reporting

using local language.

Project requires heavy coordination across multiple

teams working in multiple time zones. Users spread

across 4 countries, legacy systems managed by

different internal IT teams (4) and 3 rd party vendors

(3) located in different time zones. Separate Testing

and deployment teams common for multiple projects

working in diff time zone which is an additional layer

to ensure quality of deliverables.

Managing entire program which has 6 separate tracks,

each track is lead by a separate track lead who

reports to me and the client Manager - GL& Regulatory

reporting, Sub Ledgers, GL History conversion,

Technical, Change Readiness & Testing tracks.

Project planning, resource leveling, execution and

management using MPP, 4 separate plans with 8000

lines. Prefer 'plan to work' rather than 'work to

plan' for clear dissemination of expectations across

team/tracks.

Managing cost and efforts, change requests with in the

budget.

Managing project scope and timelines, re-planning

incase of schedule slippages.

Resource management, managing team work load &

turnover, rampups and ramp downs adding temps whenever

required to balance user community bandwidth during

user acceptance, data validation and cutover.

Preparing project status reports and Managing status

calls across tracks. Reporting to steering

committee/working group.

Identifying scope for future rollouts, preparing

project plans. Conducting initial discussions with

country heads, kickoff meetings & CRP sessions.

Implementation done using client specific release

management methodology. Entire rollout includes 5

Releases to production, 11 test cycles, separate for

each release (4 UAT's, 2 QATs, 2 SITs, 2 Dry Runs, 1

FSR).

Entire build done from offshore with a peak team size

of 13 members with two onsite track leads managing

onsite coordination with client IT organisation. - 13

Interfaces, 15 Reports, 5 Conversions and 5

Enhancements.

Build & tested 6 Complex GL & Regulatory interfaces

with different chart and language requirements which

required coordination with multiple teams (3rd party

vendors, local finance & Boston IT)

Start Date 15/03/2007

End Date 15/02/2009

Team Size 25

4. Project entERPrise at COLT Telecom

Description Re-Implementation of Oracle Applications from 11.03 to

11.5.10 at COLT Telecom and rollout to 17 COLT

countries in three phases.

Role Project Manager, Onsite functional coordinator

Environment Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2

Contribution Cross Functional Consultant in 'Record to Report'

(R2R) track. Designing Global process relevant to COLT

countries, CRP, implementation & rollout of R2R

processes for 17 countries. Implementation of AX.

Identification and documentation of bespoke components

(Reports, Interfaces and forms customizations).

Implementation of GCS and GIS functionality.

Defined and developed COLT specific and statutory

financial statements for all COTL countries.

Onsite offshore co-ordination for building custom

components.

Resolving Post go live issues and month end closing

issue on each wave's go-live.

Benefits to COLT post go-live:

Standard Processes across all COLT countries

Operating in a shared service model.

Month end and Year end closing happens from SSC with a

specific pre defined calendar of activities.

Month end cycle time reduced to -WD4 to + WD4 for all

the countries.

Single language: primary SOB in English. Local

requirements using stat SOB.

Global Intercompany system across countries & Global

consolidation system to consolidate balances into one

single currency using consol book.

Defining a standard process which works in a shared

service center (SSC) model where 90 to 95% of the

process is handled at SSC

Standard COA covering all countries on the primary

book.

Daily journal interface is designed to handle high

volume of journals.

Eliminated time consuming manual accrual processes

during month end. This has led to reduce drastically

the duration of month-end close cycle.

Start Date 06/06/2005

End Date 27/02/2007

Team Size 100

5. Managing Oracle Apps Center of Excellence initiatives

Description Handling Resource Requirements, Preparing

Proposals, Exploring new Modules and preparing

implementation methodology documents, Evaluating

new technologies in ERP, Training in Financials

Role Consultant

Start Date 14/03/2005

End Date 03/06/2005

Team Size 3

6. Datawarehouse Hub

Description Migrating Journal entries from mainframe source

systems to oracle applications 11i using middleware

(informatica mappings).

Role Functional Consultant

Environment Oracle, Informatica, TOAD

Contribution Understanding and Documenting Functional logic

behind the cornerstone hub informatica business

rules. Preparing & Making presentations out of the

learnings from client discussions to train support

team on Functional and Insurance concepts inbuilt

in business rules of the Hub. Providing Training on

Insurance fundamentals and the accounting logic

behind financial transactions in the source

systems.

Start Date 16/02/2005

End Date 12/03/2005

Team Size 12

7. Handling Oracle Apps Center of Excellence Activities

Description Preparing Proposals, Developing Standard

Methodologies, Evaluating new technologies in ERP,

Training in Financials, Preparing training plan for

COE

Role Consultant

Contribution Preparing, Reviewing, submitting proposals for

implementing, upgrading, migrating Oracle Apps

modules, development & enhancements of bespokes

developed aroung oracle apps. Training Freshers and

Cross functional teams on Finance and Oracle

financials. Developing generic methodologies which

will help in speedy execution of projects.

Start Date 06/09/2004

End Date 15/02/2005

Team Size 4

8. ERP Implementation for Shanthi Gears Limited

Description Implementation of Oracle Applications 11.5.9 for

Shanthi Gears Limited for all their manufacturing

units

Role Module Leader

Environment Oracle Applications 11.5.9, Database: Oracle 9i,

Special Software: D2K Reports 6i, ADI, Data Loader,

TOAD

Contribution . Leading the team responsible for implementing

financial modules including General Ledger,

Payables, Receivables, Assets and Cash Management.

. Understanding the current business practices and

future requirements with respect to the financial

module functionalities. . Understanding the

implications of an integrated Package, and

explaining the implications to the users from

accounting point of view and in performing the

transactions. . Understanding the functionalities

covered by the above five modules in ORACLE ERP and

identifying gaps and modification/customization

needs. . Training users on ORACLE Applications

features and functionalities related to GL, AP, AR,

FA and CM. . Guiding the users to prepare Business

Scenarios for testing the package. . Leading

technical team responsible for developing reports

and involved in customization of functionality. .

Guiding Data Migration team for migrating open

balances related to customers, suppliers and

assets, migrating customers, suppliers, Sales

Persons and Bank masters. . Interacting with

consultants responsible for other modules

-Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management and

Manufacturing - to understand the implications of

various processes especially the accounting. .

Liaisioning with Oracle India Support for resolving

technical issues.

Start Date 01/12/2003

End Date 31/08/2004

Team Size 6

9. Oracle 11i Upgrade

Description Upgrading Bank of America's Accounts Analysis

Receivable system from 10.7 version to 11.5.8

Role Domain Expert

Environment Server: Sun Solaris Client: Pentium PCs with Windows

2000 Database: Oracle 8i Special Software: D2K

Reports 6i, Extra Enterprise, TOAD

Contribution . Handling Functional aspects related to

Receivables, General Ledger and Payables modules. .

Understanding the current business practices and

upgrade requirements with respect to the Account

Analysis Receivables (AAR) system. . Training users

on the new upgraded AAR system. . Helping the

Clients QA team in testing the upgraded AAR system

in various phases. . Guiding the technical team in

migrating the custom components (forms, reports,

etc.) and solving the functional issues. .

Liaisioning with Oracle Support for resolving

technical issues.

Start Date 01/02/2003

End Date 18/11/2003

Team Size 5

10. ERP Implementation for TTK Healthcare Ltd

Description Implementation of Oracle Applications 11.5.6 -

Financials, Purchase, Inventory and Order Management

Role Module Leader

Environment Server: Sun Solaris Client: Pentium PCs with Windows

98/2000 Database: Oracle 8i/9i Special Software: D2K

Reports 6i, ADI, Data Uploader

Contribution . Leading the team responsible for implementing

financial modules including General Ledger,

Payables, Receivables, Assets and Cash Management. .

Understanding the current business practices and

future requirements with respect to the financial

module functionalities. . Understanding the

implications of an integrated Package, and

explaining the implications to the users from

accounting point of view and in performing the

transactions. . Understanding the functionalities

covered by the above five modules in ORACLE ERP and

identifying gaps and modification/customization

needs. . Training users on ORACLE Applications

features and functionalities. . Guiding the users to

prepare Business Scenarios for testing the package.

. Guiding the technical team in developing the

reports and in customization of functionality. .

Interacting with consultants responsible for other

modules -Inventory, Purchasing & Order Management -

to understand the implications of various processes

especially the accounting. . Liaisioning with Oracle

India Support for resolving technical issues.

Start Date 20/01/2002

End Date 31/01/2003

Team Size 4

11. ABM Consulting

Description ABM Consulting - Pre proposal studies, Preparing

Technical and Financial Proposals for ABM

Implementations

Role Project Leader

Contribution . Pre proposal studies at client sites .

Discussions/meetings/Presentations with the client .

Preparing Technical and Financial Proposals .

Conceptual Research in the area of strategic cost

management . Providing inputs for enhancing TCS ABM

software tool with new features and functionalities.

Start Date 01/05/2001

End Date 30/01/2002

Team Size 2

12. ABM Implementation for BHEL - Hyderabad

Description Activity Based Costing & Management Systems

implementation for BHEL-Hyderabad with BankonABM as a

tool

Role Project Leader

Environment Front End : Visual Basic 6.0 Database : MS SQL Server

7.0 Special Software : Sea Gates Crystal report 4.6

Contribution . Preparing Project Plan . Identification of Scope and

Boundaries of the implementation . Creating awareness

on ABM concept . Business Process Analysis by way of

workshops/interviews o Drawing process maps using IDEF

O Methodology o Identifying departmental activities o

Identifying Resource and Activity Drivers o Defining

the relationship between Resources, Activities and

Cost Objects o Identification of Non Value adding

activities o Developing and ABM Model . Designing Data

Templates for collecting resource and activity driver

quantities . Designing ABM model using BankonABM .

Uploading resources, activities and cost objects and

importing BHEL general ledger, importing driver

quantities collected into BankonABM software . Testing

ABM model developed using BankonABM . All

relationships defined (R-R, R-A, R-C, A-A, A-C, C-C) .

Reconciliation of ABM resource cost with BHEL general

ledger . Checking the correctness of driver quantities

. Reconciliation of expenses within the cost model .

Calculating ABM cost using BankonABM and nalyzing the

ABM results with respect to the traditional figures

provided by the client . Preparing document on

'Changes to systems and procedures for effective

Management Information system/ Costing system' .

Preparing Future implementation plan - extending this

ABM concept to all products of BHEL. . Training BHEL

executives on ABM concept and on BankonABM software by

way of workshops and exclusive training sessions .

Making presentation to the committees monitoring ABM

implementation from BHEL end. . Providing support to

BHEL on BankonABM, ABM cost model developed and

reports. . Customization of BankonABM reports to suit

the requirements of the Client . Client liaison and

billing . Training TCS team on ABM concepts and on

BankonABM software.

Start Date 01/08/2000

End Date 31/03/2001

Team Size 4

13. Developing TCS Product - BankonABM

Description . Design and Development of a generic Activity

Based Management(ABM) Software product, which will

be used in implementing ABM solutions at various

industrial sectors. . Developing marketing and

Training kit for ABM product. . Marketing kit

includes website development, product brochures,

marketing presentations for various industrial

segments and implementation methodology. . Training

kit includes training material

Role Module Leader

Environment Front End : Visual Basic 6.0 Database : MS SQL

Server 7.0

Contribution Design and Development . Requirement Analysis,

Design, Construction, Testing and Implementation of

the BankonABM Software . Drawing up the system

requirements document for BankonABM product .

Design and development of data entry forms using VB

5.0 . Evolving new methods & procedures in ABM

Concept, which can be incorporated into the

BankonABM product . Unit and system testing of

BankonABM product Marketing and Consultancy .

Developing industry specific case studies using

BankonABM, which are presented as part of the

marketing efforts for the product BankonABM .

Visiting Client sites and interacting with them for

developing the ABM cost model, which includes

identification of resources, activities, cost

objects and defining the relationship among them

using resource and activity drivers. . Developing

the same cost models using BankonABM . Making

presentations at client sites on ABM concept,

product features followed by demo on product and

decision support systems. . Developing the

marketing and training kit for BankonABM Product. .

Case Studies (ABM Cost Models) Developed at Client

sites. IDEFO Process Maps Methodology is used for

identification of activities. . Cost model for BHEL

Trichy in Maintenance and Service Department . Cost

model for BHEL Hardwar in foundry division . Cost

model for Bank of Madura for credit process . Cost

model for a typical branch in a bank (branch cost

model) . Product Website Development . Designing

the layout and structure of the website .

Formulating the website content . Developing

WebPages using HTML and FrontPage 3.0

Start Date 06/09/1999

End Date 01/08/2000

Team Size 3

References: Will be provided on request.

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