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Mahati Mahalakshmi

Raleigh,NC

Summary

Professional in Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) Application Suites and expertise in Lead to Quote / Quote to Order / Quote to Cash end to end workflow. And, Several years of experience in SaaS application development with good exposure in product lifecycle, Business Processes.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

CPQ Solution Architect

CPQ Experts
04.2023 - 01.2024

Clients: Leroy Somer Nidec, Yara,NetApp, Motorola, Birlasoft

  • Experience in coordinating with stake holders and leading offshore development & support teams
  • Experience in Creating Business Process Diagrams & Solution Architecture with End-to-End application flows
  • Provide supervision and guidance to development team
  • Providing technical training sessions on Oracle CPQ new releases to the teams. Ability to translate technical information to non-technical and vice versa to present to a wide range of audiences at different levels of the organization.
  • Assessing systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it
  • Resolving technical problems as when arise
  • Validating the requirement implementations with best practices and for better performance

CPQ Specialist

Keysight Technologies Inc.
03.2019 - 01.2023
  • Worked as a techno-functional role with extensive client facing experience, involved in various phases of project life cycle from requirement capturing to project Go-Live, creating Functional & Technical design document, designing/implementing optimized and tailor made solutions to handle the complex functionality using agile methodologies and providing support for Sales Team.
  • Proficient in oracle CPQ Commerce and Configuration Rules, Steps, ICS integration with the Oracle Sales Cloud, Custom Integration, Table Schema Designing, Jet UI features, CSS Styling. Manage Migration process and post-refresh activities.
  • Creating Integration methods, developing custom Integration implementation using REST/SOAP API webservices , experience on Approval Process. To redesign the entire configuration logic from recommended parts to BOM tables to implement Asset-Based Ordering as per the requirements.
  • Attended workshops to gather requirements, drive technical brainstorming sessions to address the big picture problems, implement optimized solutions and presenting them to the clients.
  • Successfully implemented end - end multiple projects and involved from RFP stages to UAT(Go-Live). Extensive experience on collaborating with various Oracle teams such as TOA, SOA, OIC,CX sales and Service Cloud to implement the requirements.
  • Resolved around 500+ defects during SIT, UAT phases. Training freshers, new joiners on Oracle CPQ tools and providing them assistance on implementing complex solutions and supporting during SIT, UAT phases of project life cycle.


Senior Consultant

Oracle
08.2017 - 03.2019

Clients: Zuellig Pharma, Schneider Electric

  • Evaluate client needs and develop strategic roadmap and solutions that fit business requirements
  • Advanced product implementation knowledge in Oracle CPQ Administration.
  • In depth knowledge in quote to cash process
  • Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Oracle CPQ (Commerce, Configuration, Data tables)
  • Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture
  • In depth knowledge in project planning and projects from ground zero
  • Expertise in developing guidelines, best practices, and training in automation tools
  • Instrumental in handling multiple projects simultaneously
  • Responsible for sending status report and providing work estimation for the deliverable to the management

Senior Consultant

PwC SDC
10.2014 - 07.2017

Clients: Seagate, Brocade, CDK Global

  • End to end CPQ implementation and Support
  • Leading the project from offshore and having frequent interactions with clients for each sprints to gather the requirements for the team
  • Gathered Requirements from Clients, prepared a template based on the requirements
  • Enabled more than 100 models under different product families
  • Replicated Product families/Models from other platforms like Oracle Configurator, collaborated with other vendors in building a CPQ architecture which would accommodate 500+ models of various product families
  • Integrated (Integrations) CPQ with Salesforce (SFDC), Oracle Sales Cloud (OSC) and Oracle EBS.
  • Implemented complete Quote to Order process, and validated sales order conversion in ERP tools.
  • Worked on POC's for Presales team
  • Assuring Quality driven deliverable by team

Software Engineer

Pramati Technologies
12.2010 - 09.2014

Clients: Xerox, GE

  • Setup Home Pages, Data tables and defined Product Families, written BML Library Functions, Recommendation, Constraint, Hiding, Recommended Item Rules based on the client's requirements.
  • Provided Post Production Support.
  • Optimized the Configuration performance by pulling up the redundant rules in models to product Family Level/Product Line Level.
  • Monitored the progress of the project

Education

MBA - IT Management

International Institute of Information Technology
India
08.2010

Bachelor of Science - IT

JNTU
India
06.2007

Skills

  • Oracle CPQ Cloud (BigMachines), all modules like Product configuration, Commerce, Documents, Integrations, ABO
  • Oracle Sales Cloud, Salesforce, Oracle EBS, MS Dynamics, Oracle Integration Cloud, other middleware
  • HTML, BML,JS,XML, CSS, WSDL, SOAP API, REST API

Certification

Certified Oracle CPQ 2023 Implementation Professional (1Z0-1033-23)

Timeline

CPQ Solution Architect

CPQ Experts
04.2023 - 01.2024

CPQ Specialist

Keysight Technologies Inc.
03.2019 - 01.2023

Senior Consultant

Oracle
08.2017 - 03.2019

Senior Consultant

PwC SDC
10.2014 - 07.2017

Software Engineer

Pramati Technologies
12.2010 - 09.2014

MBA - IT Management

International Institute of Information Technology

Bachelor of Science - IT

JNTU
Mahati Mahalakshmi