Contact Detail 

Swapan.g99@gmail.com, 

1 949 400 1413 – cell,

1 949 733 1133 - home

 

Educational Qualifications

Masters in Statistics with Major in Information Technology

 

 

 

Professional Profile

 

 

Current  Employment

 

Senior Program & Client Manager in Major US based Consulting Firm with Global operation. This firm delivers technical, strategic, and process oriented Supply Chain

Solutions across a wide range of industries

 

 

Primary Responsibilities

 

·   Program and Project management for Global system transformation / implementation / integration projects

·   Client management to support CxOs / Sponsors for Global projects 

 

Other Roles & Responsibilities

 

·   Solution Architect and Functional Lead

·   Data Analysis, Cleansing, Modeling and Conversion Lead

·   Test management and Test execution Lead

·   Cutover & Post Go live support expertise

·   End User Training & Documentation Lead

 

 

Expertise & Achievements

 

 

1.      Industry knowledge acquired during my tenure as Management Consulting Professional : 

 

Þ     Life Science and Pharmaceuticals

Þ     Consumer Products and Retail distribution

Þ     Utilities Products and services

Þ     Food and Beverages

Þ     Financial services & Insurance

Þ     Government and Public sector

Þ     Communication and Media

 

 

2.      As Program and Project manager for global system transformation projects

a.                Successfully led & managed over 15 projects of multiple complexities. – 5 Global large projects and over 10 medium / low size projects.

b.                Project management responsibilities included budgeting, planning, execution and maintenance of  complexed project activities along with resource and risk management

c.                Acquired in depth working knowledge in proven repeatable best practices for Project execution methodologies

d.                Project team included, US based, Landed and off shore resources that adds challenges like communication skill and time difference.

e.                Proposal build, Estimation and RFQ responses and win projects / consulting business

f.  Worked with close coordination with senior executive team.

 

 

3.      As Client manager I have been supporting CxOs / sponsors for global System transformation projects .

o      Successfully built and sustained professional relationship as a trusted business partner

o      Gained confidence from CxOs thru high quality committed deliverables on time and within budget.

o      Have continuously built trust and gained confidence with key stakeholders by providing value added consulting services with cost effective operational / system solution.

 

 

4.      As Team lead in multiple system transformation  projects

o      Successfully implemented major ERP packages like SAP, JD Edwards together with custom developed applications.

o      Played leadership role in various important Project activities

§     Solution Architect

§     Functional design

§     Test Management under compliance guidelines

§     Data analysis, Modeling, Migration strategy & Conversion methodology/ process

§     Coordinating with cross functional process areas to ensure accurate end to end integrated design.

 

 

Key Assignments in last 10 Years  as Project manager and Senior Management Consultant

 

 

2.      Jul 2012 – Apr 2015 -  Supported  Global Life Science client for multiple Global system transformation projects in key roles as

o      Project Manager

o      Solution Architect

 

3.      Nov 2010 – Jun 2012 -  Supported  Global Life Science client for large size system implementation projects in key roles as

§    Master Data Process Lead

§    Data Conversion & Cutover Lead

 

4.      Jan 2010 – Oct 2010 -  Supported Global Pharmaceutical client in Test Manager Role under Compliance guideline for global SAP implementation

 

5.      May 2006 – Sept 2009 - Supported Global Life Science client for SAP implementation, JDE Enhancement and System integration for various legacy applications with SAP.  During this period client had executed 3 projects and my assignment had multiple senior & lead roles including :

§    Project Management

§    Solution Integration Designer

§    Test Management and

§    Cutover Management
 

6.      Jan 2005 – Mar  2006 -  Supported Global Communication & Media client as  Functional Lead for a large global  JDE implementation. Project.

 

 

 

 

Past  Employment

 

·               Chief Operating Officer at Atos-Origin for QAD/MFGPRO division.

       Atos-Origin was a Global consulting firm as a business partner for SAP, QAD and   

       other software vendors.

 

·               Divisional CIO for Philips Lighting division in India.

Philips NV is a European  Consumer Electronics company with manufacturing & sales/distribution activities globally. 

 

·               Application Systems Manager for Philips India Ltd.

      Philips NV is an European Consumer Electronics company with manufacturing &

      Sales / distribution activities globally.

 

Primary Responsibilities

 

·   Business Development for ERP package service lne QAD / MFGPRO application.

 

·   Management of 8 regional data centers across the country.

 

·   Business System & IT management.  

 

 

 

 

Expertise & Achievements

 

 

1.      As Chief Operating Officer for Atos-Origin  Service Line QAD/MFGPRO

 

a.      I had built the practice from the start to grow as a successful profit making business unit with annual revenue over 10Mln USD and projected annual growth plan of 5%.

b.      I had built and retained the client base for the service line both for domestic & international business.

c.      Successfully executed  people manager role to Manage, motivate and retain a highly skilled team size over 100 supporting global projects / business for the service line.

 

 

2.      As Divisional CIO for the Lighting Division of Philips India Ltd,

 

a.      I had successfully managed 8 regional data centers across the country – to support sales, logistics, manufacturing and financial process for the fast growing consumer lighting business of the company.

b.      Successfully implemented the Corporate IT strategies and solutions across all sites in the country as directed by the EMEA headquarter.

c.      Responsibilities included appropriate planning, budgeting to implement the global IT strategy and ensure the company an edge over business competitor

 

 

3.      In the role of Application Systems Manager for Philips India Ltd 

 

a.      I had built, managed & retained an effective result oriented highly skilled team of IT professionals.

b.      Responsibilities included building, budgeting and executing the annual system application plan aligned with Corporate IT strategy.

c.      Successfully led a large application system group with key performance indicator being

                                  i.            Business application design, development, testing and implementation

Effectively support company’s nationwide business requirement in sales, logistics, manufacturing and financial function. 

 

Overall Career Achievements and Goals

 

 

Perfection, High Client (internal & external) satisfaction and Execution of project charter with delivery excellence have been my continuous career goal.  This directly contributed to the growth of my service line revenue and profitability.

 

Consistent, committed, dedicated and high quality performance by self and my team have been instrumental in building trusted business relationship with the client stakeholders – internal and external - in my professional career

 

Highly visible Leadership quality with effective & balanced People management techniques to build & retain a team of motivated high performing resources has been key success factor all through my professional career. I set example to the team with  pro active and timely execution of my  task.

 

Both while working in the Industry as well as in the Consulting Profession my pro-active and positive attitude along with result oriented performance on a consistent basis has added value to my Client, my Employer, Self and my Team members  

 

 

 

 

Employment History

 

Oct’ 2002 – Present – US based Global Consulting organization.

Senior Program & Client Manager in Management Consulting Division

 

Oct’ 1997 – Oct’2002 – PriceWaterhouse Coopers

Senior Associates in Management Consulting Division

 

May 1996 – Sep 1997 - Atos Origin, Bombay, India

Chief Operating Officer

 

Oct 1989 – May 1996 - Philips Electronics, Bombay, India

Divisional CIO

 

Apr 1982 – Sept 1989 - Philips Electronics, Bombay, India

Application System Manager

 

 

 

Key Skills Sets

 

ü      Industry best practice & proven package Implementation methodology

o Evaluate, Prepare, Blueprint, Build, Test, Finalize, Live support and Sustain

 

ü      Program, Project & Client Management for Global clients

ü      In depth Supply Chain process expertise  for Life Science, Phama and Consumer product industries

 

ü      Management of Application development life cycle

ü      Solution Architect for global integrated systems.

ü      Enterprise Data Management

ü      People management for large resource team – US based, Landed from overseas, off shore & sub-contractors

 

 

 

Professional Courses and Training

 

 

SAP R/3 4.x Procurement, SD, FICO, MM

Testing Tool HPQC & SAP SOLMAN

JD Edwards Enterprise 9.1

Project Management

Cloud computing

Management of Shared Services / BPO activities

IBM AS/400 Architecture, DB/2, SQL/400, Query/400

 

 

 

June 11, 2015