Dilip Das, Mba, Ms Email & Phone Number

Ballwin, Mo, Us

Greater St. Louis Area

Managed successful delivery of IT Applications Portfolio. Managed communications, engagement, prioritization and expectations from Business partners throughout the delivery process. Served as single point of contact for escalation of issues and successful resolution.• Oversaw on-time delivery and launch of multiple IT applications with budget of $0.5M, with detailed plan, risk assessment and milestone tracking.• Managed end-to-end readiness of critical seasonal applications.

Greater St. Louis Area

Led IT Application Launch and Delivery (L&D) team for US IT. Managed budgets, monthly forecasts, staffing and people development process for L&D team.• Created an Application Launch and Delivery process for US IT team, for efficient engagement and execution while minimizing risk.• Managed IT Application delivery and launch for 11 projects worth $1.6M, more than doubling L&D team engagement from 46% to 100%.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Performed Quality Assurance for US IT projects worth $25m using standard defined procedures and metrics. Defined new QA scenarios and standards, where needed. • Contributed a metrics based process improvement for IT solutions delivery,• Established a framework of metrics and analytics for Quality Assurance in US IT. Increased metrics usage and awareness from 45% in FY13 to 71% in FY14. Researched industry standards for and compared with US IT results.• Survey Analytics for Global IT Pulse Survey: Designed and administered the Global IT Pulse Survey four times. Created advanced survey analytics to show trend and areas of attention. • Product Owner for Farm Progress Registration Application: Took additional responsibility, as Product Owner and successfully delivered Farm Progress Registration application, registering over 6500 users.• Product Owner for IFS Reporting Solutions: Took the additional responsibilities of Product Owner o deliver the IFS reporting applications in FY14 • Started the Business Analyst Governance Council for training and development of US IT BAs. Collaborated with CAIT, Washington University to create a Business Analysis training program and trained 40+ Business Analysts from USIT.

• Led the Vegetables Global SAP Order To Cash (OTC) team of 8 persons including employees from regions.• Collaborated with business partners and IT teams to implement global projects worth about $23m, like, Gemini – Integration of European Vegetable Business to SAP platform, Virtual Seed Segregation and Vegetables Brands Strategy. • Project Manager for Reports and Analytics: Took an additional responsibility as a Project Manager for a complex Reporting project involving SAP and reporting/analytic tools like Business Warehouse/Business Objects (BO), with a cross functional/regional project team. Successfully Managed scope, resources and timeline.

• Led the Veg Reporting and Analytics team of up to 5 people. • Stabilized the reporting function after Project Mercury (SAP Seminis Integration) and delivered a 30+ business critical and analytical reports in SAP-BW in FY10.• Created a Vegetables reporting strategy and collaborated with the Enterprise team for development of vegetable reporting architecture with BW and BO. • Project Manager for SAP-APO: Took the additional responsibility of the Project Manager and successfully implemented the Vegetables Production planning solution with SAP-Advanced Planning and Optimizer (APO). Successfully Managed scope, resources and timeline.

Took the additional responsibility of the Project Manager and successfully implemented the Vegetables Production planning solution with SAP-Advanced Planning and Optimizer (APO). Successfully Managed scope, resources and timeline.

• Successfully governed the SAP change management and upgrade processes for Monsanto SAP systems to minimize risks/impacts to the SAP production systems.• Reviewed every change request for production system for potential enterprise impact• Managed the Scope and sequencing plan for upgrade/outage of SAP and SAP-Connected Bolt On applications.• Collaborated with SAP Max Attention for escalation of issues. Acted as the single point of contact in all emergencies involving all SAP production systems.• Provided leadership to the SAP Business Analysts’ Network consisting of 100+ BAs. • Established and led the SAP Quality Team network for SAP Business Analysts.

• Took additional responsibility as the Project Manager for implementation of Project Planning solution tool (SAP-Projects and Portfolio Manager, for the Monsanto Regulatory Group. Successfully Managed scope, resources and timeline.

• Performed as the lead SAP Business Analyst for Sales, Supply Chain, Master Data and Archiving, for many global implementations like Asia-Pacific, Latin America South and CANCAR, a total of more than $30m.• Defined the Global SAP Logistics standards and solutions for Monsanto.• Created Business requirement documents, process flows. Prioritized requirements in collaboration with business.• Created SAP designs matching user requirement and configured SAP.• Created Functional Design Specifications for custom coding requirement. Wrote pseudo-codes for programmers. Thoroughly tested and validated the designs in development system.• Coordinated User Acceptance Tests and documented results, resolved all UAT issues and transported the finished solution to production. Developed a Data Archiving strategy for Monsanto for large tables and archived some major tables for SAP Profitability and FI Accounts tables for improved performance by 10-15% in this a• Developed cross-cultural communication skills, global networking and overview of Monsanto business worldwide. • Project Manager – WITS: Took additional responsibility of a Project manager for EDI connection of Warehouses replaced the legacy TMIS system with SAP Shipment functionality.

M.S, Management Science

Dissertation: Evaluation and Selection of Large Research Projects

B.E, Mechanical Engineering

Mba, Business Management

Received 100% Scholarship from United Nations. Project: Energy Management at Litostroj Foundry