Hi, I’m
DHANUNJAYA DUDALA
Austin,Texas
Summary
Experienced Management Professional with over 14 years functional, business, and technical skills and has a proven history of driving efficiency improvements and cost reductions. Offering analytical problem-solving and strong critical thinking skills.
Overview
17
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
HP Inc
Technical Program Manager
08.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Drive the vision, strategy, and requirements for features & solutions for HP Inc Supply chain transformation program, integrating 20 different legacy systems into unified Supply chain solution.
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to prioritize development activities for SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) program for Demand Categorization and Fair Share demand for HP Personal Systems business, make trade-offs, and plan actions with Agile development processes
- Represent leadership team in various forums and work with the teams on actions and deliverables for SAP Supply Chain Integration Solution, for Intel Partner by continuously identifying and resolving project risks and keep stake holders informed on the development progress
- Communicate with management and senior executives about the program direction, strategy, resource impacts across portfolio and operational execution by presenting weekly status reports and executive dashboards
- Effectively managed relationships and build trust working with HP Inc internal and external business stake holders and technology partners
- Identifies ownership and determines accountability to stakeholders for top risks and mitigating activities for SAP IBP Quarterly releases product features and master and transactional data SAP CPI/SDI data interfaces
- Established weekly Reports to the key stakeholders on the level of project risks and updates to the accountability owners on the status
- Creating and maintaining accurate documentation of change requests, and project documents for SAP IBP projects.
- Collaborated closely with key departments to align technical initiatives with overall business objectives.
- Increased team efficiency with effective resource allocation, task prioritization, and workload balancing strategies.
- Delivered high-impact presentations to stakeholders demonstrating program value, progress updates, and strategic recommendations.
- Improved cross-functional communication by establishing regular meetings and facilitating clear documentation.
- Developed comprehensive training materials to support onboarding new team members quickly and effectively.
- Reduced technical debt through proactive identification and resolution of system bottlenecks and architectural issues.
- Interfaced with internal IT development teams to integrate new technologies, streamlining use of existing systems to reduce operational timelines by 20%.
- Implemented monitoring tools and performance metrics for increased visibility into project health and risk mitigation strategies.
- Defined and managed feedback loop, integrating customer complaints and suggestions into future programmatic changes.
- Prioritized platform upgrades, considering both long-term and short-term return on investment (ROI) potential to maximize spending impact.
- Regularly reviewed training materials and courses, adding updates to keep all information current and pertinent.
- Nurtured strong client relationships by maintaining open lines of communication throughout program lifecycle stages.
- Developed technical requirement documentation for new software products.
- Managed implementation of new technological improvements resulting in increased efficiency.
- Assessed expected technical challenges and developed proactive solutions.
HP Inc
Technical Lead
07.2019 - 04.2020
Job overview
- Integrated parallel processing, reducing task processing time by 30% and enhancing system responsiveness under heavy workloads.
- Optimized critical weekly planning cycles, resulting in 15% increase in execution speed and improved user response times. Lead implementation and support of Demand forecasting and Demand Sensing for HP Print Systems and participated in HP Statistical COE
- Drive development teams to deliver features by agile execution across sprints, backlogs, milestones, and lead continuous planning efforts
- Perform problem management, project team culture, and create a backlog for technical debt items
- Lead discussions on complex business problems by interacting with other performance domains, senior leadership, subject matter experts, architects, and developers.
Microsoft
SAP Consultant
06.2016 - 06.2019
Job overview
- Monitor project execution and ensure project delivery is to the appropriate levels of quality and in line with target dates for Supply Chain Projects SAP APO, IBP-Demand, Response and Supply
- Lead the innovation, drive the best practices for SAP Digital transformation platforms, SAP Integrated Business Planning, Smart Data Integration and Cloud Platform integration, and influence partners with right design principles
- Translate customer needs into product features, prioritize, plan, and deliver product backlog with clear milestones
- Built reporting, alerting, monitoring, and analyze metrics that enable better decision making
- Integrated parallel processing, reducing task processing time by 30% and enhancing system responsiveness under heavy workloads
- Optimized critical weekly planning cycles, resulting in 15% increase in execution speed and improved user response times
- Lead initiative on development programs, onboarding of new customers and new product lines, supply chain strategies, holiday planning strategies.
Marathon
Lead Consultant
08.2015 - 05.2016
Job overview
- Designed process improvement with stake holders on current SRM reports and dashboards
- Partnered with business users and IT team to resolve system integration test and user acceptance test cases
- Conceptualized & built software products to automate manual process, improve collaboration and streamline data collection; resulted in time savings of ~60%
- Lead and design several ETL interfaces for master and transactional data transfer between external BW, external file systems
- Handling Change Requests to have the adaptive changes and bug fixes in place.
Verizon
SAP Lead Consultant
11.2012 - 07.2015
Job overview
- Implemented SAP SCM 7.0 with Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning module
- Prepared and updated the configuration documents, Business Flow Charts based on Business Blueprint documents
- Created multi-product transport orders replenishing it to Transport Load Builder
- Setting up the CIF model and performed reconciliation of data between ECC and APO by running CCR
- Worked on various functional requirements like Custom PR and PO doc types and fields for APO, and CIF.
Verizon
Senor Software Engineer
11.2009 - 10.2012
Job overview
- Worked on the performance issues and provided guidelines to retain system performance
- Worked on several CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO and streamlined the interfaces resulting in improving 20% efficiency of data errors.
- Managed team of 5 members and Distribution of the deliverables to team members and mentoring them to deliver on time.
- Developed various test cases and documented the test results for both functional and integration testing of the solutions in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning.
- Managed multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining strict deadlines and high-quality standards.
- Proactively identified areas for process improvement, implementing changes that led to significant time savings for the team.
ITC Ltd
Associate IT Consultant
04.2007 - 10.2009
Job overview
- Worked on Demand planning cycle from extracting historical data from ECC to APO and processing data to planning area, Cleansing historical data by macro’s, calculation of Proportional factors, and Initialization of statistical forecast.
- Worked on Distribution planning parameters including Push & Pull Horizon, Distribution strategy, Deployment Horizon
- Validating various planning runs results (reports taken after planning runs)
- Handled Post release activities like Live cache time series consistency checks and planning area backup
- Performed LO-Cockpit extraction to extract Header and line-Item data from Sales and distribution module.
Education
University of WashingtonSeattle, WA
Software Product Management
06.2022
Andhra University- VisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh
Master Of Business Administration
06.2005
Nagarjuna UniversityAndhra Pradesh
Bachelor Of Computer Application from Information Technology
06.2002
Skills
- Management – Project Management, Delivery & Stakeholder management, Project Planning, Design/Architecture, Agile project management,Technical Roadmap Design, Resource Management, Continuous process improvements, Client Relationship Building
- Portfolio Management Tools – Asana, JIRA, Microsoft Project, MS Teams, SharePoint
- Methodologies & Processes - Agile/Scrum, DevOps
- IT Skills – SAP Supply Chain Management-APO (DP, SNP, GATP), SAP Business Intelligence, SAP Integrated Business Planning, SAP Cloud Platform Integration, SAP SDI, SAP Ariba, SQL, HTML
Certification
- Leading SAFe 5 Certification.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP)
- SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration
- The Internet of Things with SAP
Timeline
Technical Program Manager
HP Inc
08.2023 - Current
Technical Lead
HP Inc
07.2019 - 04.2020
SAP Consultant
Microsoft
06.2016 - 06.2019
Lead Consultant
Marathon
08.2015 - 05.2016
SAP Lead Consultant
Verizon
11.2012 - 07.2015
Senor Software Engineer
Verizon
11.2009 - 10.2012
Associate IT Consultant
ITC Ltd
04.2007 - 10.2009
University of Washington
Software Product Management
Andhra University- Visakhapatnam
Master Of Business Administration
Nagarjuna University
Bachelor Of Computer Application from Information Technology