Sam Kumar Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- IFS Revolution - Catering Project Extends on-premise SAP ERP solution to SAP Cloud application with modernize and personalized user experience- IFS Revolution Project is nominated as SAP Innovation Awards 2020 Finalist - As an SCP Architect designed Native HANA Application / Modeling for Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash solution enabling UI5 seamlessly access real-time data via OData Services in SAP Cloud Platform - Enabled 300+ Stations across the world to handle Alcohol/Assets/Carts/Food to have visibility of its station and other stations inventory, ability to place purchase orders to vendor & stock transfer orders, sales orders based on kitchen purchase orders, shipments/delivery, vendor order/ invoice management and payments- Provided segmentation and data slicing for quick response- Setup HANA Standards for Modeling and followed SAP Best Practices - Worked with HANA Security to create Role and Authorization - Worked with Basis to setup HANA Environment for development / QA / Production- Setup up parallel environment for multiple major/minor release and support - Setup Transport mechanism using Life Cycle management utilizing Delivery Unit and Change Log - Developing Interactive Data Visualizations to investigate insights- Manage offshore/onshore team to define development actions and deployment - Successfully developed/deployed Release 1 and currently in design phase for Release 2Components Used:- Data Provisioning Tools – SAP SLT / SAP SDI (Flow Graphs)- SAP Cloud HANA DB stores and retrieve data as requested by the applications. Makes uses of Models, views, queries & procedures - SQL Scripts / Application Functional Library ( BFL and PAL )- OData Service / XSJS scripts / SAP Gateway / SAP Cloud Connector- Portal Services / SAP UI5 / SAP WebIDE / SAP HANA Studio

Involved in company’s growth by securing new partners, consulting engagements and by delivering new projects. Supporting portfolio management activities with Sales & Marketing team. Managed client engagement services and solution implementation. Support clients with knowledge expertise in SAP BI/BOBJ products.

SAP Program Manager• Involved in S/4HANA Finance and Logistics Green Field Implementation for one of the largest Oil Refinery in Nigeria and Fireworks’ Manufacturing Company• Implementation Scope – Simple Logistics and Simple Finance• Involved in pre-sales, negotiation, contracts and road-map.• Using SAP Activate Methodology for Business Suite, going through the following phase for deployment, namely Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy and Run.• Project Management Phase involves, Solution Adoption, Customer Team Enablement, Design & Configuration and Testing.• Using SAP RDM – Data Migration

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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Program Management • Involved in CONA BI Program to bring-in the best long-term CONA BI EDW on HANA Landscape/Appliance. • Conduct Business requirements/review sessions with Coca-Cola Bottlers for BI releases.• Facilitate offshore/onshore team meetings to define actions and drive the decision-making process • Manage day-to-day client interactions and expectations for multiple projects • Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning on complex projects/programs • Efficiently identify and solve project and/or landscape issues, escalating to SAP / Landscape architects when necessary • Implementing and maintaining process controls • Reporting of BI Program Project Status and meet deadlines. • Authorize and oversee the deployment, monitoring, functional requirements.Solution Architect • Architect for CONA BI Program, integrating diverse business processes. Provided solutions with focus on successful operational, tactical & strategic metrics and KPI’s. Provide FSDs by release to Accenture – Technical Partner.• Reviewed Functional Solutions with Coca-Cola BPLs for approvals. • Trusted Advisor for clients on emerging and changing SAP BI HANA Technologies• Engaged horizontally and vertically with client organization to bring right results • Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with the organization’s executives and Business Process Leads (BPLs). • Conduct Kick-Off meets with Coca-Cola Bottlers and set standards for UAT and Testing phases. • Responsible for Test Environment/HP ALM/UAT Reporting. • Created a SOW based delivery model • Responsible for creation of project proposals, staffing requirements. Projects Handled:CONA BI Program FSDs for GL, AP, Procurement, CAM, Profitability Analysis, TPM, WM, Costing and HCM.HCM/SuccessFactor – End-to-End Solution – FSDs to Build/Delivery with Accenture.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Program / Delivery Management• Drive the overall execution of projects/programs through the full project lifecycle • Define project requirements and plan project lifecycle deployment• Facilitate cross-functional team meetings to define actions and drive the decision-making process • Manage day-to-day client interactions and expectations for multiple projects • Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning on complex projects/programs • Efficiently identify and solve project and/or team issues, escalating to management when necessary • Build and drive Practice Revenue • Manage Budget and Forecast process • Implementing and maintaining process controls • Reporting of departmental financial information • Authorize and oversee the deployment, monitoring, development, and support.Solution Management • Architect for BW/BI solutions for clients, integrating diverse business processes. Provided solutions with focus on successful operational, tactical & strategic metrics and KPI’s • Assessment and Optimization of BI reporting environment • Trusted Advisor for clients on emerging and changing SAP BI Technologies• Engaged horizontally and vertically with client organization to bring right results • Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with the organization’s executives and Business Process owners (BPO). • Provided insight to performance tuning with BI portfolio (BW & BOBJ) • Responsible for overall delivery, budget and quality. • Created a SOW based delivery model • Worked with ECC program Manager to derive RICEF which could be handled within BI • Responsible for creation of project proposals, staffing requirements. Projects Handled:CCR-CONA Integration for Financials CCR Divestiture History Realignment for Independent Bottlers ECM - Enterprise Compensation Management – Enhancement and Implementation.Sales Incentives Migrated 6000+ employees from Coca-Cola KO to CCR.

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Real-Time Rating System: Architect and Program Manager for developing and deploying wireless real-time rating system for AT&T, Motorola CDMA and GSM switches. This system fed different cellular products such as Billing, Customer Service and other automated services on a real-time basis. Unix & Windows environment. Team size: 35 members.Virtuoso II - Wireless Billing - Subject matter expert. Involved in overall System design and Project management for Rating and Billing systems a curtail modules to Cellular Billing Systems. Worked closely with client - GTE Mobile Communication to finalize Architecture Design. IBM Mainframe & Windows environment. Team size: 55 members

GTE Mobile Communication, Atlanta GA - 1992-1994Team lead for Wireless Billing System, Functional architecture, developed and designed framework for CMIS Billing System. Developed formal business requirement documents for project gathering requirements from stakeholders. Collaborated with development team to design functional/technical specification. Created test plan and data with QA team to maintain application and data integrity during enhancement and conversion.Cellular One, Atlanta GA - 1990 - 1992Programmer Analyst supporting Customer Care and Cellular Billing System. Developed and supported data feeds from multiple systems to support the analysis and post processed billing history to Database. Project involved data management and direct relevant info to different Database management system. Environment: DEC VAX/VMS, VAX-COBOL VAX-BASIC, VAX-RDB, DCL. Time Size: 8 members.