Rahul Chandra

773-677-9907

rahulchan@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

A highly skilled, results-driven leader with 10 years experience with project/ product in SAP IS Retail area

– Sales Distribution, Supplier Management (Merchandising), FICO, MM, AFS, BI, HANA with large scale

cross country business organizations, development projects.

Proven management skills in directing and motivating teams to exceed target objectives. Exceptional

ability to identify both business and technical needs of customer organizations and successfully develop,

plan and execute comprehensive business and project strategies. Consistently displays solid

communication and presentation skills.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Project architecture and implementation experience with 5 SAP end to end global project implementations

IS Retail and Public Sector in managing product solution and project deliverables, such a SD, OTC, AMS

Japan utilizing Wal-Mart’s SAP ERP methodology.

• Management more than 5 SAP enhancement projects – EP6 Upgrade, BW, PI, EAI, zLinux upgrades.

• Strong in SAP Supply Chain area including Demand Planning, Scheduling, Procurement, Sourcing.

• Working knowledge of SAP R/3 – Supplier Management, AFS, FICO, SAP UI Portals, SAP BI – BW 7.2,

SAP HANA.

• Experience in providing various architectural inputs and choices focusing on scalability, reusability, and

extensibility of the product.

• Analyzes organizational needs to determine the tools, scope, cost, and prioritization of projects

implementation.

• Experience in PMI Project Management, ITIL (ITIL Foundation certified).

• Experience in SAP ASAP and ISDLC project methodologies with leadership in develop architecture,

baseline, delivery of testing work assignments and implementation of quality process and procedures for

SAP products.

• Ensures resource alignment to organizational goals.

• Effective influence and communication; experienced with presenting strategies and ideas to diverse

audiences.

• Extensive experience in managing Wal-Mart SAP products at enterprise level - SAP TAO, Work soft

Certify, HP ALM, HP QTP, SAP-SRM- SCM frameworks.

• Experience in Business and technology side – SAP migration, data and product integration.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

WALMART STORES, INC. – Bentonville, AR (Retail)

SAP Sr Project manager, Dec 2010 to Present

Responsible for product solution and project lifecycle architecture/ management of SAP implementations.

Deliverables for SAP solution product requirement, blueprinting, planning, and development, Quality, Closure

for projects with business are – SAP SD, MM, AFS, Procurement, Scheduling, Planning, Sourcing, WM.

Key Responsibilities and Results:

• Work with business partners to identify needs and opportunities for SAP solutions with improved data

analytics and delivery.

• Strong experience in functional implementation of OTC, SAP SD MM AFS, IS Retail.

• Good knowledge of ERP Middleware with SAP - ALE’s and IDOC’s.

• Driven 5+ large SAP project implementations and management oversight for very large data integration

and business intelligence SAP projects for MM, Procurement, Sourcing, SD IS RETAIL, Real Estate, SAP

HANA POC, and Treasury.

• Delivered Performance analysis for SAP implementation projects.

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• Assisted customers in developing SAP strategies for designing Functional implementations and cutover

plan, Hyper care support and Automation framework.

• Knowledge of AFS, SAP FI modules Supply Chain management, like GL, AP, AR, IP, GNFR, Supplier

Management.

• Manage team of 6 Sr. SAP Specialists and 20 vendor resources of highly skilled architecture and

SAP functional experience. Resource planning and management for whole team including process

teams.

• Managed portfolio of SAP global projects in excess of $10M annual revenue for Financial Services in

2013-14.

• Worked on business planning and product analysis/ implementation for SAP projects with stakeholders.

• Work closely with SAP providers and responsible for SAP BW+ on HANA roadmap and implementation

scenarios.

• Define roles and responsibilities, hot skills and SAP learning plans.

• Responsible for PoC, system setup, training, automation approach, reporting, understanding the end to end

business functionality from SAP Functional Consultants.

• Worked with the GIP BI project stakeholders to build environment for more thorough testing of BI

enhancements.

• Strong communication skills with Business, cross-functional teams, support teams.

• Recommending browser platforms and tools, framework, methodology and approach for test automation

using SAP TAO, Worksoft, along with HP automation tools (HP ALM, HP QTP).

• Structured Automation Center of Competency to define SAP QA products, methodology and approach to

implement Automation on different SAP and Non-projects in entire Wal-Mart Information System

Division.

• Liaisoning between business users, SAP functional consultants and Functional and automation QA team to

design, decide, implement and deliver the scope of Integration and regression test suite.

• Strong experience with Solution Manager in designing projects, integrating with HP ALM and

maintaining projects with TBOM.

• Comprehensive knowledge of producing, analyzing, monitoring project metrics, risk analysis and

contingency plan preparation.

• Skilled in delivering Service Level Agreements, effective in interpersonal communication skills.

• International travel for project requirement.

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. – USA

Oct 2006 – Dec 2010

Sr. Consultant - Kraft Foods, Chicago, May 2008 to Dec 2010

Responsible for SAP - FI, SD - OTC, AFS RETAIL project implementations handled Functional cutover

plans, testing, delivering results, implanting ALM, defect management, handling Hyper care activities.

Project – Kraft Catalyst (Retail)

Key Responsibilities and Results:

• Managed 2 SAP implementation projects with team of 6 SAP AFS Retail Functional Consultants, practice

specialists and highly skilled architecture and technology delivery consulting professionals.

• Defined SAP Landscape Transformation.

• Proven ability in capturing, documenting and prioritizing requirements from customers, and product

teams.

• Responsible for review and brainstorm of requirement, configuration of SAP AFS, SD, MM, MDM

WRICEF objects in SAP.

• Map Business Process as per Kraft requirement for Canada Go Live. Business process covers key areas

like Order, Shipping Billing.

• My role as SAP Consultant is to design blueprints, functional configuration and cutover plans of process

flows implemented in SAP package. Work with WMS team to ingest and integrate external inventory data

and generate control feeds for SAP and WMS integration.

• Good knowledge of ALE’s and IDOC’s. Krafts have huge interaction with legacy systems.

• Possess in depth knowledge of descriptive programming, VB Scripting, SAP SD, HR module, SAP TAO.

• Worked with multiple systems in Kraft projects like SAP and legacies like Red Prairie,

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• Provide project management and architecture support services to customers as part of a QA Strategy and

Proposal delivery team.

• Worked in SAD’s received from the client on both time cost and managed outcome model.

• Developed business case/ proposal for several client US and UK clients.

• Worked on projects in excess of 10M annual revenue in Sales and distribution and Warehouse

management systems.

• Daily onsite offshore meeting and supports activities with SD customers addressing questions about

system behavior, correct system use and configuration behavior.

Sr. Test Analyst with AT&T, India July 2007 – August 2008

Responsible for leading SAP functional team supporting project planning, execution, delivery, System

Testing, designing and implementing data integration, Regression Testing, gap analysis, Budgeting and

business proposals.

Project – EPIC

Key Responsibilities and Results:

• Worked as SAP Module lead for EPIC – POS project.

• Worked as a Lead with offshore team of 6 professionals working on Functional and Automation projects.

• Worked in onshore and offshore model on delivery of critical SAP functional projects.

• Responsible for project planning, coordination, and designing of SD module related projects.

• Experience gained by handling ALEs and IDOC’s.

• Data conversion testing, consolidation, and cleansing.

• Worked on hypercare defects and coordinated testing efforts after change management and fix of issues in

production.

• Assisted customers in developing QA strategies for designing and implementing Functional testing

cutover plan and automation.

• Developed and managed relationships with key customers.

• Developed and executed a comprehensive QA business plan to increase project allocation.

• Worked in defect management lifecycle, Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Test Analyst with AT&T, India, Oct 2006 – Sept 2007

Project - Centralized Testing Project

Key Responsibilities and Results:

• Responsible for developing Web based automation framework and manual system testing with different

stakeholders in agile methodology environment.

• Responsible for development of Automation framework with keyword driven approach for Web based

applications.

• Deliver testing results on enhancements in given scheduled timelines.

Budgeting, developing testing business proposals for different projects with AT&T under managed

outcome SAD’s.

• Worked on key implementation projects with AT&T on system testing, Integration testing, regression

testing and Hypercare.

• Developed and managed partnerships and alliances with complimentary products and service providers.

• Developed new product strategies and new marketing strategies for automation.

EXUBERANT SOLUTIONS LTD. – GURGAON, INDIA

July 2005 to Sept. 2006

Associate, India

Project – 3G Mobility

Key Responsibilities and Results:

• Responsible for impact Analysis and Database designing. Writing and performing unit tests.

• Analyzing the current system and documenting the same.

• Impact Analysis and Database designing.

• Writing and performing unit tests.

• Performing deployment on the client servers.

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NIC Ministry of Information Technology – New Delhi, India,

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Analyst, India – (June 2004 – July 2005)

• Responsible for impact Analysis and Database designing. Writing and performing unit tests.

• Analyzing the current system and documenting the same.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• Completed Leadership Foundations program in 2011.

• Powerful Presentation Skills and Business Presentations

• SAP HANA, FICO

• Supply Chain Fundamentals

• Completed PMI PMP training from NWACC.

• PMI L3 – 2011

• Scrum Master – 2012

• ITIL v3.0 – 2012

• Lean Six Sigma White Belt – 2012

• Dale Carnegie Leadership – 2012

• PMP certification in 2014.

EDUCATION

Maharshi Dayanand University, Haryana, India – (June 2001 – July 2005)

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communication) GPA 4.23 (5.0 scale)

INTERESTS

• Outdoor activities (Travelling and Photography)

• Active in fund raiser for Animal Shelters, Children Miracle Network.

• Sports (Soccer, Cricket, Badminton)

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