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VAMSI YADAVSADAM

Pittsburgh,PA

Summary

Program leader & SAP Solution Architect with over 20+ years of experience spanning Management Consulting, Technology Consulting, and Healthcare Industry experience, providing advisory and system implementation services in SAP and enterprise functional areas.

I bring to the team a unique blend of strong leadership abilities, people skills, business acumen, technology expertise to lead, design and deliver mission-critical business transformation programs / projects & system implementations / rollouts in the SAP Applications space.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Project Manager

Philips Healthcare
01.2018 - Current
  • Assist in coordination of current state ERP documentation, leveraging information gathered from SAP reports and other technologies assessing larger ERP landscape.
  • Develop and manage comprehensive technical and application roadmaps for SAP systems, ensuring alignment with business objectives and IT strategy.
  • Plan, manage, and execute SAP system upgrades, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
  • Conduct impact assessments for SAP upgrades, identifying potential risks and devising mitigation strategies.
  • Coordinate testing activities to validate system functionality post-upgrade and provide training and support to end-users.
  • Partner with the IT Strategy & Delivery and Technical Services teams to lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, and utilization of SAP applications.
  • Drive automation efforts to streamline processes and reduce manual intervention in SAP systems.
  • Manage full development lifecycle of SAP projects, from idea and planning through execution, monitoring, and closing.
  • Ensure that SAP projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
  • Provide regular updates to stakeholders on project status, risks, and issues.
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of SAP technologies, updates, and best practices.
  • Coordinate technical demonstrations with SAP and any other ERP integrated partners to ensure understanding of available technologies.
  • Gain understanding of non-SAP ERP technologies and technology trends like RPA, AI...etc to understand entire ecosystem.
  • Support and create comprehensive E2E Business Capability Roadmap
  • Discover and recommend business improvement opportunities, articulate impact and create business case.
  • Create real value through implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement of processes, solutions, and best practices in our markets and businesses.

Senior Business Analyst

Philips Healthcare
09.2015 - 12.2017

• Drive all SAP related processes, system requirements and solutions and ensure timely delivery of flagship IT Programs / Projects within the Q&R and supply Chain IT Platforms.

• SME in SAP E2E software global development & implementation projects

• Accountable that the solutions design/ technology meets the functional and non-functional requirements with focus on reliability, Scalability, security and performance.

  • Translates business requirements into user stories and Functional Requirement Specifications in accordance with approved IT Architecture.

• Support Delivery Manager & IT BP during the planning phase in evaluating the solution feasibility, solution design and high-level estimation

  • Develop and provides required user training for implemented application.
  • Collaborate with Business, IT Business Partners, Architects and Tech Leads to elaborate on requirements.
  • Understand how IT solution supports Business Process E2E. Has process and IT landscape expertise on Sector level, BG, Markets or Functions.
  • Responsible to promote out of box functionality to BPE and Business community.
  • Develop user stories/ wireframes (both functional and system operational requirements), maintain product backlog and work with client on elaboration and ambiguity resolution.
  • Prior to UAT validates that solution meets business requirements.
  • Responsible to validate test plan and functional test cases and sign off acceptance of product
  • Coached Business Analyst and functional consultants including partners.
  • Promptly escalate issues, which affect product delivery and quality that are beyond scope of influence.
  • Responsible for Software Quality, Compliance & Regulatory aspects of the solution.
  • Ensure seamless business operations support (third line support) when needed.
  • Responsible for designing use cases and acceptance criteria.
  • Drive business process harmonization using industry best practices.
  • Should be able to look beyond current scope of work and be able to propose newer IT business propositions to stake holders and also recommend innovations to platform providers.
  • Responsible to drive UAT and testing of functionality.
  • Responsible to support Delivery Manager on Regulatory and compliance aspects of project.
  • Responsible for development and maintenance of WiKi and KM artifacts.
  • Drive continuous improvements applying LEAN

Senior Technical Lead

Philips Healthcare
09.2011 - 01.2015
  • Ensure high quality of deliverables for SAP software
  • Propose & implement the architectural solutions in SAP and Enterprise software to be future ready.
  • Build and own architecture, technical roadmap initiatives with focus on customer needs and technological competitiveness, and keeping this outside-in approach during designs
  • Own architectural and technical responsibility for SAP in Philips Sleep and Respiratory BU SAP Kernel
  • Author and review requirements and design documents
  • Interface with stakeholders for requirements understanding, architecture clarifications etc.
  • Actively participate in project estimation, planning and risk management activities.
  • Identify and escalate risks on time
  • Participate and contribute to roadmap definition and delivery
  • Work closely with the System Architect / Product Architect to identify & answer important product/solution questions through prototypes or solutions
  • Drive technical excellence and quality improvements across team
  • Ensure compliance to Quality Management System and regulatory requirements

Project Manager

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
10.2005 - 09.2011
  • Drive successful design, architecture, and implementation of key SAP S/4HANA business suite components e.g. Finance and Controlling, Asset Management, Vendor Management, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain.
  • Work closely with cross-functional business partners to understand business requirements and to design and deploy multi-functional end-to-end SAP roadmap and solution design.
  • Analyze and translate business information and technical requirements into architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve complex business objectives.
  • Serve as global, technical system owner and administrator for SAP; develop architectural diagrams, system specifications, test scripts, assessments, standard procedures, and additional required computer systems validation and change management documents.
  • Work with business partners to establish delivery operating model governance to ensure successful go-lives, end-user adoption and on-going support.
  • Lead and guide business and technical teams throughout entire project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery of SAP S/4HANA solutions.
  • Drive adoption of best practices, standards, and methodologies for SAP architecture and implementation.
  • Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization within SAP landscape.
  • Stay abreast of emerging SAP technologies and industry trends to ensure organization remains at forefront of innovation.

Senior ABAP Consultant

Tata Consutancy Services
04.2002 - 10.2005
  • Collaborate with client ABAP development team to develop implementation and maintenance strategies, processes, procedures and best practices for ABAP development in ECC Functional areas.
  • Implement solutions to integrate with clients existing SAP solution and other disparate systems and data sources.
  • Development of test plans to validate solutions and components once implemented.
  • Effectively leveraging latest capabilities of SAP components to develop solution.
  • Work with IT and Business teams to define, design, configure, develop and implement ABAP solutions using SAP ABAP workbench and analysis tools.
  • Leverage SAP software to build effective and high performance data solutions for client.
  • Create ABAP programs to satisfy identified functional requirements.
    Design test plans and conduct unit, integration and user acceptance testing for above.
  • Collaborate master data migration from legacy systems.

Senior Software Engineer

Larsen & Toubro Infotech
01.2000 - 03.2002
  • Work with IT and Business teams to define, design, configure, develop and implement ABAP solutions using SAP ABAP workbench and analysis tools.
  • Leverage SAP software to build effective and high performance data solutions for client.
  • Create ABAP programs to satisfy identified functional requirements.
  • Design test plans and conduct unit, integration and user acceptance testing for above.
  • Extract data from non-traditional resources such as spreadsheets and flat files.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Marahwada University
Mumbai

Diploma - Information Technology

Center For Advance Computing
Mumbai

MBA - General Management

Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA
06.2015

Skills

  • Information Technology Management
  • ERP Software
  • Project Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Specification Review
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Agile Methodology
  • Technical Presentations
  • Agile Methodologies

Certification

PMI-PMP ( issues 2021)

SAP NetWeaver Certification

SAP HANA Introduction

The Open Group Enterprise Architect

Timeline

Senior Project Manager

Philips Healthcare
01.2018 - Current

Senior Business Analyst

Philips Healthcare
09.2015 - 12.2017

Senior Technical Lead

Philips Healthcare
09.2011 - 01.2015

Project Manager

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
10.2005 - 09.2011

Senior ABAP Consultant

Tata Consutancy Services
04.2002 - 10.2005

Senior Software Engineer

Larsen & Toubro Infotech
01.2000 - 03.2002

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Marahwada University

Diploma - Information Technology

Center For Advance Computing

MBA - General Management

Indiana University of Pennsylvania
VAMSI YADAVSADAM