Sponsoring and supporting Engineering Capstone projects in the area of AI based environmental control systems.

Leading couple of major SAP S/4HANA implementations.

We do real estate investments. With more than 30 years of experience in investing in foreclosed properties, and farms, we are now expanding into owner financed selling, & notes

Chakolas Inc provides quality business consulting to small to medium businesses in area of Business re engineering, Supply Chain Management and SAP (ECC and S/4HANA) functional architecture, design, testing, training, implementations and ongoing on site as well as remote support.Our client base include companies like Eli Lilly Recro Pharma,Ernst & Young, Schwarz Pharma, Intervet, Swarovski, Deloitt & Touch, Protiviti, PWC, Bridgestone, Alkermes, Hershey's, Astra Zenica, Honeywell, Grundfos, Intel, Elogics,American Railcar, Timken and MccormickAt Chakolas, we always make sure we bring in a high ROI for our customers. Here are some of the examples:For a automobile customer, by streamlining the processes and utilizing standard SAP offerings the project duration was reduced by 4 months. Within one day of go live, the volume of sales and shipments were resumed back to normal on the new system. The value add service of the company saw 10% improvement in operational efficiency by 4th day of go live, which is close to 200K in added revenue per day.For a major Technology company, designed an end to end process which reduced the quote to order time for complex solutions from 15 days to less than 2 days, with better accuracy of price and lead time.For a consumer goods company, with an end to end supply chain redesign including batch traceability, quality management and utilizing S/4HANA capabilities, eliminated the extra transportation and storage of semi-finished products during quality test, which improved the inventory turns by 7 days.For a specialty products company, by restructuring the material masters and unit of measures, streamlined the warehouse process, which reduced operational errors and improved operational efficiency.For a pharmaceutical company, by introducing titer based potency calculations in SAP and eliminating the complex Excel based system, streamlined manufacturing process with increased inventory visibility and reduced waste .

eConserve is dedicated to reducing waste and lowering costs by building systems that learn and adapt to be as efficient and effective as possible. As a founder and VP of operations, working on the patented technologies to bring comfort and energy savings for both commercial and residential applications.

As a Senior SAP advisory helped to setup a prototype with Discreet manufacturing, Variant Configuration, Document Management, As Built configurations and Serial numbers , for the upcoming implementation of their Korean facility. Also did some testing to make sure the time zone based configurations could work for the single server installation in multiple time zones.

As a functional integration lead, responsible for the SAP implementation of MM, PP, QM, WM along with VC and APO DP in US and Germany for the measurement solutions division of FMC Technologies. Key player in the integration of VC with PP / APO/ SD / Sales order costing with the configurations of item category, requirement class, object dependencies, super BOMs, Super routings, Configuration profiles and variants. Also responsible for the design and integration of the shop floor data collection system, Kaba with SAP.

As a senior business solution architect, provided SAP based solutions in the areas of Material Management, Inventory Management, Forecasting and Planning, MRP, Capacity Planning and Leveling, Batch Management, Manufacturing in discrete, Process and repetitive environments, Warehouse Management, Variant Configuration, Plant Data Collection, Logistics execution, Service management, Handling unit management, Quality Management and business integration.

Offered support to the business for system alignment in the areas of manufacturing operations with variant configuration, capacity evaluation and order scheduling to give better ATP to customer orders and also set the foundations to implement APO PPDS and GATP later in 2013.

As a Senior SAP advisory and Functional Architect , evaluating the as is and proposing to be scenarios with a view of improving the efficiency of business processes integration and to improve inventory accuracy. The system improvements will also aid in product tractability, and MRP. Currently developing a design proposal which involve MM, PP, Installed base, Maintenance BOM and service orders.

As a volunteer in the production team, used to manage the sound board mixing for the Saturday and Sunday church services once a month. Later moved into the Video team into the smaller venue, Sojourn, and currently am the Video team lead in this venue.

As a consultant with CAPE and Cordillera, is responsible for getting the manufacturing sites in line with the best practices of the industry and to make them ready for the next major system and process upgrades.

Working directly with Business to streamline the Demand ,Supply, Logistics and inventory management aspects. Evaluating the SCM and CRM improvements required and identifying the IT direction to support the changes in business direction. Also a key member in the project for enhancing customer experience.

Providing functional and business expertise in the development of new products in the area of SRM, MM and IS Auto.

Evaluated the current processes of SAP and made recommendations in the areas of Manufacturing, Batch Management, Sales order deliveries and shipments

Helped organize den meetings and provided leadership and guidance for boys with the help of my wife.

SAP consulting for the design and support of the new Business models and architecture.

Parents may have a computer at home or the preschool may have one in the classroom, but a specially trained teacher is the catalyst for learning! Young students have a wonderful time reinforcing their academic readiness skills, exploring their artistic flair for art and music, and using exciting peripherals such as robots, digital microscopes and movie cameras in COMPUTER EXPLORERS (CE) classesCOMPUTER EXPLORERS (CE) offers a cutting edge technology education system for children ages three and older. We bring education to you! CE programs are portable, flexible, affordable and guaranteed to be educational and engaging. Our teachers are CE certified and understand how children learn. The COMPUTER EXPLORERS proven formula consists of: * COMPUTER EXPLORERS Certified Instructor * Education-Based Software * Core Subjects Integration * Educator Designed Curriculum

Obrist America is into manufacturing of packaging materials for various bottled drinks like Coke, Pepsi etc. As they were having difficulty during the go live in May 2007, they requested my help. Since then I was involved in some redesign in the areas of MM, PP, SD, and classification systems. Most of the wok was done remotely.

Lead Logistic consultant for MM, PP, PPPI, QM with integration to WM and Product Costing.

Involved as a lead supply chain Functional consultant, in the upgrade from 4.5 to 4.7 version of SAP R3. After the upgrade in Aug 2005.was involved in the re engineering of their Military after market repair business which involved the SAP modules of Material management, Inventory Management and project system. Another key achievement was the functional design of the management reporting using standard Project system and Inventory Management functions of SAP utilizing the BW platform. Continued remote consulting from July 2005 to Dec 2005, while working at Schwarz Pharma.

Served as a key Technical interviewer for the SAP America partner, Systech Integrator for evaluating SAP consultants in the Logistic and Supply Chain areas of SAP which included PP, PPPI, MM, QM, WM, Product Costing, and APO. Interviewed more than 200 consultants in this time period.

Was the sole consultant in a strategic project in identifying an immediate solution for segregation of demands from different sales channels using sales and operation planning and Demand management functions of SAP R/3. Once the situation was brought under control, and internal team was trained to take over the current changes to be implemented, was asked to do analysis and a proposal of the future system architecture requirement involving APO, WM and BW. Client was very pleased with the proposals.

Involved in the Global Implementation, as a Lead PP/ PPPI consultant. The responsibility involves global design of PP/ PPPI modules and integration with MM/WM/QM and CO-PC which meets the FDA and USDA requirements. Other than the regular PPPI/ MM configurations, used the new functionality of SAP 4.7 such as: · Configured Batch Derivation functions· Actively involved in the integration of SAP WM and PP / PPPI· Used the functionality of BC Sets· Defined and re engineered business process involving supply chain· Established the Active ingredient functionality and material quantity calculations for Pharmaceutical and Biological manufacturing, using standard SAP functionality.· Actively involved in data definitions and data loading procedures.· Management of activity factors and API management along with short shelf life of biological Antigens.

Globally implemented and supported 6 full cycle implementations in a 4-year, 10-month functional lead position for PP, PP-PI,MM for full finish and bulk manufacturing operations within multiple international pharmaceutical plants (France/ Spain 1999; UK, Canada, US 2001; Brazil, Mexico, Germany 2002; remainder in 2003). Traveled extensively to sites, collaborating with a team of 200.· Efficiently configured SAP & APO systems.· Performed extensive business and gap analysis.· Explored the usability of Product Life cycle Management using collaborative engineering and project management.· Established procedures for testing with Test director and sequencing of data upload to SAP.· Supported technical team in ABAP program design.· Pivotal team member for integrated testing and solution proposals. · Supplied expertise on data restructuring and data re-engineering during migration from legacy system.

Developed “Made to Order” custom product development solutions for the electronics parts manufacturing facility of Celestica. Provided complete configuration, testing and implementation of manufacturing operations, including demand management, sales order processing and order settlement remotely, while concurrently implementing in Eli Lilly

Served as SAP PP/MM consultant on R/3 4.0B for one of the largest food processing and fresh fruit exporters in New Zealand. Performed gap analysis, configuration and prototyping, integration testing and training within multiple plants. Co-implemented project with Ernst & Young, LLC.

Provided PP and product costing consulting expertise in configuration, fine-tuning, prototyping and troubleshooting during the advance stage of SAP implementation (with Deloitte & Touche) for large manufacturer of plastic products.

Involved in the full life cycle implementation and extensive configuration and prototyping of R/3 3.1H SAP PP/CO for multinational pharmaceutical company with numerous plants and sub-contracting arrangements.

Was responsible for managing a team of 15 technical personals in the launching the manufacturing facility in India. Also introduced six product lines for this joint venture Company of Tata (India) and Emerson Electric Company (US) in a record time of 6 months.