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KIRAN BABU MOHAN

Canton,MI

Summary

  • Over 18 years of IT experience in Software Design, Development, Support, and Product Management working in ETL, Mainframe, Data warehousing, Cloudera Data platform and I-ERP projects.
  • Proven Experience in managing multiple teams spread across NA and AP, involving Ford, SOW, Agency, Deloitte, SAP and Cloudera Data Platform Consultants.
  • Successfully launched several projects working independently, and as a team player demonstrating strong communication, technical, logical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Expertise in SAP - S/4 HANA products using Fiori apps, SAP GUI.
  • Experience in collaborating with Foundational, Architecture and Business teams and external vendor teams.
  • Experience in interacting with senior management through SOS meetings and Conference Room Pilot sessions.
  • Hands-on experience in project management using tools like Rally, ALM, planning user stories and features to support project milestones.
  • Experience in overseeing project from start to finish, by defining business requirements/functional specs, developing project plan and ensuring that the project is delivered with-in the budget.
  • Lead the team in transforming traditional project to fast-paced Agile PDO.
  • Exposure in financial planning, resource planning, Project Increment planning.
  • Proven track record at my current role, achieved multiple Top achiever awards and Special stock-based award.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Manager

Ford Motor Company
01.2020 - Current

I-ERP Vehicle Accounting and Reporting

A Plan to Report (PTR) Application under the new I-ERP program that is planned to replace and enhance the functionalities of Finished Vehicle Accounting Application

Responsibilities:

  • Currently Managing 2 teams – I-ERP Vehicle accounting and Tier II reporting teams.
  • Successfully Launched I-ERP Canada Pilot and US/MX launches managing team across AP, NA and Deloitte teams.
  • Implemented segmentation to the ERP launched markets as per the company’s new reporting system.
  • Leading the team to launch EU markets in the upcoming releases without Deloitte support.
  • Completed POC and launched Tier II reporting project providing seamless data view to business reports using cutting edge technologies like Cloudera Data Platform, Impala, spark, Qlik sense and IICS.
  • · Upskilled the team with new upcoming technologies like CDP, Hadoop, Big Data and Hive to support Tier II solution.
  • Navigating the team to transition to GCP to support report 4 as pioneers in the ERP program.
  • Lead Tiger team 1 formed by a group of experts from various teams to actively investigate VIN processing errors in ERP and resolved them quickly before quarter close.
  • Designed and Developed Tier II access form to provide self-service access tool to business.
  • Lead the Batch-sequence project initiative by collaborating with various teams to reduce system lag in ERP after migrating from FVA.
  • Facilitated conference room pilot CRP sessions to provide a demo of ERP to the senior management and business users. Addressed their concerns by adding them to the Project plan.
  • Managing IT, Ford business and strategic partners(Deloitte team) across NA and AP regions through daily stand-up meetings, iteration reviews, demos, and other Agile ceremonies.
  • Played a key role in PI planning sessions by collaborating with internal and external dependent teams, foundational and architecture teams.
  • Actively participated in daily leadership meetings (LL3+) provided inputs for improving FVA vs ERP data variance analysis post ERP launch.
  • Adhered to Agile methodology and helped the team achieve Basecamp2. Significantly improved team’s productivity, predictability, and responsiveness.
  • Initiated several learning programs and KT sessions - continuing to train Ford and Agency team members with business and SAP technical modules within the team.
  • Mentoring FCGs and summer interns with project training and Ford processes.
  • Hands-on experience in managing user stories, features, sub-epics, in rally.
  • Proven strong communication skills by creating and presenting Project milestones to large group of audience during PI planning sessions.
  • Worked with Agile coaches and transformed the team into an Agile PDO.

Technical Lead – FST

Ford Motor Company
09.2012 - 12.2019

Finished vehicle Accounting is a transactional system where vehicle events processed are accounted for and reported on, at a VIN level. It is the key functionality of FST – Financial system Tools

Responsibilities:

  • Designed and developed ETL processes using DataStage designer to load data from Oracle, MS SQL server, to the target Data Warehouse database
  • Played Lead role in delivering major project launches such as Data Mining Tool (DMT), FVA reporting, FVA globalization – AU, EU, China and India interfaces
  • Aided with design and build of FST - GDIA interface
  • Extensively worked on Mainframe, Teradata SQL assistant, Oracle, SQL Server and other tools
  • Collaborated with various marketing sources and built new interfaces for feeding the data into FVA
  • Improved Business customer experience by fixing issues and enhancing various features in CVF reporting
  • Leading Tech Refresh activities DataStage upgrade, Teradata upgrade flawlessly as part of DCOF migration
  • Successfully reduced project execution cost by increasing the performance of the existing DataStage jobs
  • Successfully Streamlined the ETL code deployment process by working in Jenkins code automated code migration
  • Closed major OIC working with Teradata Vendors, implemented Teradata Unity resulting in setting up disaster recovery site.

ETL designer – Project Lead

Bank of America – TCS
05.2007 - 09.2012

Customer Notification Engine (CNE) is the ‘hub’ of Bank of America’s Online Banking eAlerts.

Responsibilities:

  • Leading the Data quality Team which was responsible for fix the data quality issues.
  • Worked on Designing and Development of major functionalities of the application which feeds the data from various sources.
  • Worked on customer Combine/Separates using the MDM and WCC suspect matching functionality.
  • Modified configuration files and achieved performance improvement.
  • Created the plan for Disaster Recovery and participated Disaster recovery exercise.

DataStage Developer

Bank of America - TCS
07.2005 - 05.2007

Know the Customer (KTC) includes the customer knowledge data repository

Responsibilities:

  • Converted the mainframe DB2 jobs to DataStage jobs using ETL tools.
  • Data conditioningin the Test environments to allow testing teams to perform the testing and Certification.
  • Data Conversions: Involved in the conversion of huge data when pertaining to the new customers when Bank of America acquired new banks. Maintaining Sync with the existing data.
  • CRM:Created workflows and reports using salesforce specific to business requirements.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Pondicherry Engineering College

Skills

  • Technical Skills: SAP – basic S/4 Hana concepts - Profitability Analysis, DataStage, SAP Business Objects, IBM Information Server, Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, SQL Server, Informatica, Autosys, UNIX Shell Scripting
  • Databases: Teradata, S/4 Hana, DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Data modeling, TOAD, Quest Central, Teradata, SQL Assistant
  • Supporting Tools :Rally, ALM, Teradata Unity, SAP Fiori Apps, SAP GUI, Jenkins, MQ containers, PCF

Accomplishments

  • Successfully Launched I-ERP Canada Pilot (2020) and I-ERP US/MX (2023) collaborating with Deloitte Strategic partners and Business teams, migrating key FST-FVA functionalities to SAP - S/4 HANA
  • Up skilled Ford team to take of future assignments (EU Launch) without Deloitte Support, through Knowledge transition and on job training
  • As a trailblazer, helped building a new team setting up Tier II platform within ERP, completed POC, environment setup and launched 9 Tier II reports, significantly improving performance of ERP native SAP reports by 80% - 2022
  • Achieved 60% savings in processing time exceeding the goal of 20% by fine tuning JOD mart loads resulting in saving $300k in the development cost for the company compared to the estimates provided by Teradata product team - 2017
  • Worked in I-ERP road map budget planning team (2019). Provided ideas to replace Deloitte partners with Third-ware partners to bring down the initial cost within the leadership team expectations.

Timeline

Product Manager

Ford Motor Company
01.2020 - Current

Technical Lead – FST

Ford Motor Company
09.2012 - 12.2019

ETL designer – Project Lead

Bank of America – TCS
05.2007 - 09.2012

DataStage Developer

Bank of America - TCS
07.2005 - 05.2007

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Pondicherry Engineering College
KIRAN BABU MOHAN