Sankari Baillet
Lake Elmo,MN
Summary
Sankari is part of Accenture's Technology practice as a Business Architecture Sr. Manager. Sankari has over 10 years of SAP experience in implementation, project management, process design, testing, and data quality, across various SAP modules. Sankari has cross-industry experience in consumer goods, oil gas, technology, energy, retail, and aerospace defense. Experienced leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technology Data Delivery Lead
Freeport-McMoRan
08.2023 - Current
- Lead the greenfield data migration delivery (design, build, test/mock, deploy) for the T4V program at Freeport (diamond client RES-Mining client)
- Developed comprehensive project plans with clear timelines, milestones, and budget requirements, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results.
- Monitored progress against established goals, adjusting schedules and resources as needed to keep projects on track.
- Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.
- Collaborated closely with senior management to align project objectives with strategic company initiatives, ensuring that efforts contributed to overall business growth.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Effectively managed scope creep by establishing clear boundaries on requested changes while keeping projects aligned with original objectives and budgets.
- Fostered a culture of innovation and creativity within the project team, leading to improved problem-solving capabilities and enhanced outcomes.
- Enhanced project visibility, implementing dashboard and reporting tools for real-time progress monitoring.
Technology Delivery Lead
Orbia
01.2023 - 10.2023
- The Global MDM Lead will oversee the Master Data Management workstream as part of a Global S/4 Implementation
- Responsibilities include driving the delivery of MDG for Products and BPs (DBT work to be performed by subcontractors) and developing the MDM strategy and delivery of all aspects of data management outside of MDG -> organization, data quality and standards, reporting, etc
- This role will also interface with a sister role on a parallel S/4 implementation to another part of the client
- The candidate must ensure consistency, quality and delivery in parallel to the other project as well
Data & Document Mmgt Processor
Nutrien
08.2021 - 01.2023
- Responsible for the overall approach for data quality and data profiling for large scale S/4 implementation using IDQ
- Assist in defining the architecture, tools and processes along with estimating and planning for the upcoming phases of the program
- Work closely with the client Data Conversion and Data Governance teams and work to build these relationships
Data Architect
US Courts
02.2021 - 08.2021
- Provide leading practices on data migration
- Participate in workshops to understand and develop migration requirements
- Lead the development of data migration strategy and roadmap deliverables
- Responsible for escalating issues and risks through the PMO and Governance in a timely manner
- Responsible for supporting client counterpart for timely decision making to keep the project on schedule
Business and Integration Practitioner
Cargill
11.2020 - 01.2021
- Lead Functional Data Deployment Specialist for SAP S/4 Deployment and Central Finance Integration
- Drive the final data deployment activities leading to Cargill's Cascade Go Live
- Work collaboratively with existing team members from both client and Accenture teams to manage and deliver data conversion activities and integration process with other projects
Data & Document Mmgt Processor
Lamb Weston Holdings
08.2019 - 10.2020
- Overall lead for the effort to design, build, test and execute the data conversion from source to target
- Oversee both the functional and technical aspects of the migration
Application Architect
Shiseido Company, LI
06.2019 - 08.2019
- Provide functional and/or technical expertise to plan, analyze, define and support the delivery of future functional and technical capabilities for an application or group of applications
- Assist in facilitating impact assessment efforts and in producing and reviewing estimates for client work requests
Business Function Implementation Lead
Shiseido Company, LI
01.2019 - 05.2019
- Provide functional and/or technical expertise to plan, analyze, define and support the delivery of future functional and technical capabilities for an application or group of applications
- Assist in facilitating impact assessment efforts and in producing and reviewing estimates for client work requests
Data & Document Mmgt Processor
The Boeing Company
10.2017 - 12.2018
- Data Quality Lead
- Work across the business to understand data analysis requirements
- Continually review of data sources and data quality
- Build, maintain and connect datasets
- Design dashboards for the company and clients
- Communicate data insights and updates
- Enhance capability and presentation of data
- Ensure analytical outputs are kept to the highest standard, accurate and can be utilized at any time
- Improve data processing practices
- Filter and cleanse unstructured data where required
- Work closely with management to priorities business and information needs
Program/Project Management Lead
Xcel Energy
08.2016 - 05.2017
- Data Conversion Designer Distribution & Gas Data Lead Individual will be part of the Xcel Energy PTT Program Leading the Data Conversion team
- This individual will oversee the extract (being done by a 3rd party and Xcel Energy resources), the transformation (being done by a 3rd party) and the loads (preformed by the Accenture team both on and off shore)
- Individual needs to have good project and program management skills as Accenture is in the role of Master Conductor
- This means that they need good communication skills, able to work risk and issues and escalate as need to appropriate parties
- Lead data migration activities for 5 mocks, facilitating data mapping, data cleansing and data validation activities
- Defined and plan data migration approach and strategies, provided detailed data load plans for 35 data objects and 138 million records, sequences, systems and responsibilities
- Advised and assisted in data extraction, data cleansing, data mapping, data harmonization, data enrichment, data consolidation, data governance, data loading and data reconciliation
- Provided weekly status reports and communicated status, risk and issues to Client and Accenture Leads
- Provided cutover and post go-live process for data migration related activities
- Migrated 6 legacy systems to SAP ECC for master data and transaction data
- Managed 20 onshore resources and 10 offshore load resources
- Led Mock entrance/exit reviews with Client and Accenture Leadership, Mock kickoff and lessons learned sessions with data team members after each mock
Application Architect
EMC Corporation
09.2013 - 05.2016
- Data Migration Functional Consultant Responsible for data migration and conversion activities such as extracting, transforming, migrating, validating and reconciliation of data
- Provide guidance to internal IT key users to design and develop data loaders/templates to fit the business requirements Proactively identify project risks and create feasible solutions
- Escalate cross-functional issues and identify SMEs required for resolution
- Assist business owners to prepare data to be populated in the templates and provide solution to resolve all the errors before/during data loading
- Supervise the designing, coding and testing of ABAP, LSMW, conversion programs and Excel solutions to perform unit testing, integration testing, and loading of source data for SAP Implementation
- Ensure that all new code conforms to pre-existing programming style and data format standards
- Define and ensure that data quality thresholds are met through active collaboration and review data quality
Service Delivery Operations Representative
EMC Corporation
01.2014 - 04.2014
- Master Data Lead
- Lead and managed the Data Conversion for the Pivotal Project at EMC
- Provided input and participate in overall master data strategy
- Support the scoping, prioritization, planning and execution of the Organization's Master Data Management and Governance strategic roadmap
- Identified and managed critical data issues and risks
- Maintained awareness of external master data drivers and work with other areas to understand broader information needs
- Responsible for communication of overall status, issues requiring team attention, and decisions made impacting processes, policies, and procedures
Quality Engineer (Tester)
Ralph Lauren Corporation
07.2013 - 08.2013
- Worked with onshore and offshore team to plan, construct and execute system testing requirements
- Apply testing methodologies, principles and processes to ensure smooth test execution and defect resolution
- Apply business and functional knowledge to meet the teams overall test objectives
- Ensure that end users are able to perform their designated job functions with the new system to ensure that the expected features, functions and capabilities are available
- This allowed end user to be more effective at using the new SAP software
Quality Engineer (Tester)
Boston Scientific
09.2012 - 05.2013
- Resource will be a tester in the SAP - SCM, Sales & Marketing, and Finance areas
- Develop test scripts, execute assigned test cases, record defects, retest fixed defects and perform SAP configuration
- Key responsibilities:
- Tester in the SAP - SCM, Sales & Marketing, and Finance areas
- Develop test scripts, execute assigned test cases, record defects, retest fixed defects and perform SAP configuration
- Produced complete test plans and scripts adhering to company standards
- Performed test execution (system, integration, regression, performance), conduct test results analysis, tracking system test defects and provision of progress reports, re-execution of test scripts once defects are fixed
- Supported test manager to help devise test strategies and testing estimates during the project planning phase
- Created and maintain strong working relationships with other members of the delivery team and the wider technology organization so that the overall function operates professionally and is seen as delivery focused
- Worked independently and/or within a team as the work requires
- Participate in team activities and team planning with the aim of improving team skills, awareness and quality of work
Application Architect
BP
04.2012 - 09.2012
- BP is preparing to sell its Carson refinery, Arco gas stations in the Southwest region, and associated terminals and pipelines to a third party in 2012
- Project Cooper has been established to support this effort from an IT&S perspective
- Responsibilities:
- Managed the application analysis, design, build, test, and deploy effort for one or more applications
- Worked with the business, functional leads, technical architect, and application managers to define the application design, build, test, and cutover requirements for application disposition
- Ensured that the application designs fulfill the requirements, including data volume, frequency needs, and long-term data growth
- Collaborated with other application owners to identify and communicate any cross-area or release issues that may affect the project, to ensure that all components work together to meet objectives and performance goals as defined in the requirements
Data Architect
Kellogg
05.2011 - 02.2012
- Kellogg is undertaking a strategic program to standardize, simplify, and automate Kellogg's Americas business units' processes with a re-implementation of a standard SAP footprint
- Accenture is leading this SAP implementation for Americas region which includes designing and deploying the latest high end supply chain offerings like SD, MM, FICO, and PP
- Data Migration Specialist:
- Data Mapping-gather and define practice specific, data extraction, transformation, and loading requirements
- FSTS-translate and document business requirements into functional and technical specifications
- Provide subject matter expertise for Material Master Data mapping rules and LSMW designs
- Pre/Post load validations- worked with client to ensure acceptance of the migrated data
- Assisted in the design and development of the processes, procedures and standards in support of data migration
- Managed the Manufacturing Master Data migrations from legacy sources to the new SAP Solution through defect resolution, reporting and enhancement proposals
- Liaison between client and offshore resources regarding issues with converting data objects
- Create and execute test plans for data migration
- Responsible for resolving all defects in a timely manner
Education
MBA -
DeVry University-Keller Graduate School of Mgmt
Chicago, ILBachelor of Arts - Economics
Trinity International
Chicago, ILSkills
- Data Conversion and Migration
- Business Process Design
- SAP Data Quality Management (DQM)
- Data Analytics
- SAP Information Steward
- Data Mapping & Transformation
- Data Quality Tools & Methods
- Data Validation and Cleansing
- Deployment Countdown & Cutover Execution
- Estimation and Planning
- Program Project Management
- Extract Transform & Load (ETL) Tools
- Master Data Management (MDM)
Certification
- People Leadership Credential Chapter 3: Empower, Accenture, 2024
- People Leadership Credential Chapter 1: Connect, Accenture, 2024
- People Leadership Credential Chapter 2: Develop, Accenture, 2024
Currentproject
B2SLK001 - S4 Imp - FREEPORT-MCMORAN, INC., 08/20/23, 12/30/24, 60001352 ~ Technology Delivery Lead, Lead the greenfield data migration delivery (design, build, test/mock, deploy) for the T4V program at Freeport (diamond client RES-Mining client)
Priorworkexperience
- 11265277 -Orbia S4 Wavin GT+Brazil+RoLat - KALUZ, 01/22/23, 10/30/23, 60001352 ~ Technology Delivery Lead, The Global MDM Lead will oversee the Master Data Management workstream as part of a Global S/4 Implementation.
- Epic 4 Discover and Design - NUTRIEN, 08/28/21, 01/26/23, 60000049 ~ Data & Document Mmgt Processor, Responsible for the overall approach for data quality and data profiling for large scale S/4 implementation using IDQ.
- Magenta - Admin Office of the US Courts, 02/08/21, 08/27/21, 60000045 ~ Data Architect, Provide leading practices on data migration.
- 0010916924 - CARGILL, 11/09/20, 01/29/21, 60001987 ~ Business and Integration Practitioner, Lead Functional Data Deployment Specialist for SAP S/4 Deployment and Central Finance Integration.
- Bus. Trsfm SAP Implementation - LAMB WESTON HOLDINGS, 08/18/19, 10/09/20, 60000049 ~ Data & Document Mmgt Processor, Overall lead for the effort to design, build, test and execute the data conversion from source to target.
- 9940246514 Enterprise item master- SHISEIDO COMPANY, LI, 06/08/19, 08/01/19, 60000005 ~ Application Architect, Provide functional and/or technical expertise to plan, analyze, define and support the delivery of future functional and technical capabilities.
- 9940246514 Enterprise item master- SHISEIDO COMPANY, LI, 01/17/19, 05/03/19, 60001382 ~ Business Function Implementation Lead, Provide functional and/or technical expertise to plan, analyze, define and support the delivery of future functional and technical capabilities.
- 9940208030- Boeing Supplier Life Cycle - Seattle -THE BOEING COMPANY, 10/31/17, 12/21/18, 60000049 ~ Data & Document Mmgt Processor, Data Quality Lead.
- ISOW20 Distribution and Gas - Minneapolis - Xcel Energy, 08/01/16, 05/01/17, 60000113 ~ Program/Project Management Lead, Data Conversion Designer Distribution & Gas Data Lead.
- Pivotal Quote to Cash - EMC CORPORATION, 01/01/14, 04/01/14, 60000130 ~ Service Delivery Operations Representative, Master Data Lead.
- Propel Release 3- EMC CORPORATION, 09/01/13, 05/01/16, 60000005 ~ Application Architect, Data Migration Functional Consultant.
- ERP Implementation Phase 2- RALPH LAUREN CORPORATION, 07/01/13, 08/01/13, 60000153 ~ Quality Engineer (Tester), Worked with onshore and offshore team to plan, construct and execute system testing requirements.
- SAP Brazil India Implementation - BOSTON SCIENTIFIC, 09/01/12, 05/01/13, 60000153 ~ Quality Engineer (Tester), Resource will be a tester in the SAP - SCM, Sales & Marketing, and Finance areas.
- BP West Coast Divestment Project - BP, 04/01/12, 09/01/12, 60000005 ~ Application Architect, Managed the application analysis, design, build, test, and deploy effort for one or more applications.
- Project Symphony - Kellogg, 05/01/11, 02/01/12, 60000045 ~ Data Architect, Kellogg is undertaking a strategic program to standardize, simplify, and automate Kellogg's Americas business units' processes.
Specialization
Aspirational, Chemicals, SAP Data Management, SAP Plan Budget & Project Mgmt
Personal Information
Title: Business Architecture Senior Manager 6-Senior Manager
Timeline
Technology Data Delivery Lead
Freeport-McMoRan
08.2023 - Current
Technology Delivery Lead
Orbia
01.2023 - 10.2023
Data & Document Mmgt Processor
Nutrien
08.2021 - 01.2023
Data Architect
US Courts
02.2021 - 08.2021
Business and Integration Practitioner
Cargill
11.2020 - 01.2021
Data & Document Mmgt Processor
Lamb Weston Holdings
08.2019 - 10.2020
Application Architect
Shiseido Company, LI
06.2019 - 08.2019
Business Function Implementation Lead
Shiseido Company, LI
01.2019 - 05.2019
Data & Document Mmgt Processor
The Boeing Company
10.2017 - 12.2018
Program/Project Management Lead
Xcel Energy
08.2016 - 05.2017
Service Delivery Operations Representative
EMC Corporation
01.2014 - 04.2014
Application Architect
EMC Corporation
09.2013 - 05.2016
Quality Engineer (Tester)
Ralph Lauren Corporation
07.2013 - 08.2013
Quality Engineer (Tester)
Boston Scientific
09.2012 - 05.2013
Application Architect
BP
04.2012 - 09.2012
Data Architect
Kellogg
05.2011 - 02.2012
MBA -
DeVry University-Keller Graduate School of Mgmt
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
Trinity International