Srikanth Chowdary Email & Phone Number

Northfield, Il, Us

Oversee the development and implementation of next generation ERP technologies which are at the core of all Medline operations. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal designs, correct implementations and ideal usage of these systems, thereby maximizing the value generated from these core systems.

Dublin 2, Ie

Aligning Technology Teams with Business Initiatives and leading Large-Scale Programs that deliver predictable, high quality, innovative business outcomes by successfully leveraging the combination of People, Process & Technology. Accelerate revenue growth through successful leadership, team development, stakeholder management and outstanding execution of GTM strategy. Develop Mid-Market and Enterprise strategy to acquire new business while delivering current accounts and drive the Account Management team to accelerate revenue growth on signed accounts.

Dublin 2, Ie

Key responsibilities: • Commercial and legal negotiations working with procurement, legal, and business teams• Working with and managing partners• Influence decisions at the executive level. Srikanth as an executive in Technology Consulting group leading detailed account strategy in generating and developing business growth opportunities, working cross functionally with multiple lines of business.Srikanth is the program sponsor at Ferrara for the acquisition of Keebler product line. Srikanth lead the pre-sales team and defined the approach for the merger along with the planning of execution phases. Srikanth mobilized the team and is actively involved as the program sponsor as part of the steering committee working closely with Senior VP and C-Level executives for the assessment phase and roadmap planning for the merger and acquisition programSrikanth lead the smart brownfield S/4 migration sales pursuit at another CPG company, initiating discovery of their journey to S/4 for a global footprint to evaluate the brownfield approach and understand the value lever, build a foundational scope while driving value-based roll outs on a stable core.Srikanth in parallel working at another CPG in a leadership consult role to the Enterprise Architect group to help drive the S/4 journey assessment and provide key insights into the approach, options to help initiate a digital transformation journey with a value-led business case and road map.

Dublin 2, Ie

Lead visioning the S/4 roadmap with SaFe agile methodology and tools that enable them for automation and build for future.Manage multiple teams during solution confirmation and prepare the organization to lead into the leading digital capabilities enhancing the customer experience and improved commercial margins. Provide Leading practices in the industry and conduct assessment across multiple key business areas to deliver optimized processes that help drive innovation.Key responsibilities: - Run and manage account with multiple opportunities across different functions with forecast and budgetary accuracy, serving as the primary customer contact for all adoption-related activities.- Value realization process and identify the key value lever that the program intends to deliver over the period of defined S/4 roadmap ( North Star )- Enable SaFe mindset and drive Agile principles along with guide the change management aspect of it- Manage multiple teams and capabilities to drive foundational design decisions across core functions – e.g., Finance, Order Management, Pricing, Manufacturing, Logistics, Master Data.- Manage multiple stakeholders across multiple levels director to NAM CIO effectively including vendors, third parties, and subcontractors to achieve overall engagement goal. - Build and maintain high performance teams. - Estimating change requests and future phases, and explaining these estimates with transparency

Dublin 2, Ie

Lead ERP assessment at Schneider to provide a S/4 HANA roadmap that aligns with the business vision and embark on a digital transformation journey. Responsible to manage project financials• Conduct a health assessment of current ERP solution and set vision for a digital transformation roadmap• Interview VP and Sr. VP’s in both Digital and Business divisions to understand their vision and pain points that the transformation can address• Drive Business case workshop for value led vision and define current value proposition using industry insight• Propose the structure the program and roadmap along with defining key deliverables to enable the program to move forward with digital transformation journey

Dublin 2, Ie

• Lead PoC on Dev Ops for automation for middleware to bring in efficiency and speed to delivery• Provide leadership in building workstream level (Business simulation, Change management, Training and Cutover) timeline, key milestones and detailed tasks• Build plan across IT and business team to ensure we have the right resources identified and tasks defined for a successful Go-Live • Provide guidance in assessing risk and impact of scope changes/ongoing development etc. on timeline• Guide team on priorities and areas of key focus and ensure the deadlines are clearly defined and executed to. Ensure team is delivering on expectations• Facilitate stage gates and key stakeholder leadership meetings • Delivery lead for IT Carve to split application cloning assessment RFP and a migration path to S/4 CFIN• Defining approach for Hybrid Integration Platform (HIP) for an RFP • NEW IT think tank faculty for classroom driven trainings

Dublin 2, Ie

• Provide insights into their current SAP landscape and the art of possible in S/4 that lead to a transformation journey at Stericycle • Work on planning for the long term transformation SAP S/4 project C-level, Sr. VP, VP interviews to gauge the goals they have and map it to the best practice in the industry, that would help get the defined goals the next 3-5 years• Build integration architecture patterns for various legacy, SAP ECC and CRM systems using SAP XI and work on moving on to newer integration technologies like MuleSoft• As the Release manager Srikanth is responsible for defining application release schedule, process and deliverables adhering to best practices, managing project requirements and service request interdependencies to ensure release delivery and integrity.• Responsible to plan the timeline, release schedule, ensure right skills are staffed and mange execution of the release to the timelines for an on-time and on-budget delivery of the planned scope• Define operational processes and framework for incident management and continuous improvements as a part of an overall Hypercare Strategy• Work with other client track leads and their teams from development through implementation • Assist in managing project and/or service request interdependencies to ensure application release delivery and integrity Review, and be responsible for, the overall development and integration of requirements especially considering the newer cloud-based technologies• Manage risks and assist in resolving issues that affect release scope, quality, schedule, budget, and resources• Plan the short-term road map and work with all tracks to ensure program timeline is adhered to for this year

Dublin 2, Ie

Application Development & Deployment Lead• Provides leadership to managers and experienced professional staff • Assist in building PMO team and develop & administer project budget• Manage on- and off-site resource planning for delivery team• Institute escalation process, metrics and reporting schedule, & code process• Oversee operations for accounts & contacts, sales process, customer onboarding, campaigns & promotions, marketing & case management• Build development team of 130 resources (SAP,SFDC, Integration and Legacy applications) and oversee entire application development process • Involved in user stories, planning agile development, test strategy for Sprint/FUT, regression & bubble testing across multiple flows for SFDC using agile development• Working with performance engineering TCoE to provide a PoV, plan on the execution strategy of performance testing for SAP, middleware and SFDC• Assess and provide PoV on the current state PMOD Service Interfaces as context to inform the target state recommendations• HANA profiler - for analysis on impact analysis on roadmap to S/4 HANA • Cutover and Deployment planning, execution for the program – readiness criteria, Ramp down/up strategy, technical cutover plan including mocks, black out strategy, Go-live support plan (hypercare), Go/No Go criteria, risk mitigation & fall-back plan• Lead SAP, salesforce.com, integration, legacy apps & establish SDLC process• Standardize the design templates and streamline the approval process

Dublin 2, Ie

As Delivery lead, Srikanth leveraged functional, industry and ERP knowledge to develop value propositions, define project scope, budgets and schedules to balance business needs, budgets and risks. Estimated work effort, skills/resource requirements and developed high level as well as detailed project plans. • Manage assumed scope of work required to delivery integration solutions that include interacting with both onshore and offshore team members across multiple projects. • Managing and coordinating the off shore teams on the SAP development and enhancements • Resource utilization, planning and forecasting - effective use of forecasting to build utilization predictions and resource accordingly. • Co-ordinate and conduct the UAT phase for the project, identify test scenarios and complete testing • Managed a resource pool of ABAP developers, EDI specialists including client resources and work with SAP point of contact for OSS notes application for eWM. • Act as SME for all integration related issues including DBT issues, architecture and design pattern issues, and technologies in the areas of EAI, EDI, and ETL. Proficient with integration toolsets for EAI, EDI, and ETL such as web Methods, Sterling, and Informatica Globalization including experience with time zone issues, addressing language issues (translations, printing, etc.), N+1 environment management, understanding of integration techniques and technologies including EDI and strong troubleshooting and issue resolution skills. As a counselor, ensured professional development of staff. This includes on going coaching, mentoring, individual strength and development assessment, performance reviews and internal communication.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Finalize RICEFW delivery process (FD,TD,Build,UT,PIT,UAT review/acceptance process) • Estimate and Plan the RICEFW delivery • Staffing projections and cost estimates. • Work with SAP Solution Architects and functional key resources in requirements gathering and finalizing the Fuctional Designs and scope of development work and managing the RICEFW Inventory for the project and work on successful delivery throughout the lifecycle of the project implementation.• Work with EDI and BASIS teams on ALE setup (setting up logical systems, defining RFC Parameters, maintaining partner profiles, distribution model BD64) and custom IDOC creation/configuration.• Participate and coordinate the various inbound and outbound interface design sessions across different SAP and non-SAP systems.• Work with Process team in mapping sessions for EDI - material master outbound IDOC , EDI 820 Bank remittance, EDI 810 Invoices, EDI 824 invoice rejections, EDI 820 and 823 from Banks to IDOC FINSTA01, EDI 812 to COOL system, Interim state IDOC split, EDI 214 Carrier shipment status.• Work with technical development teams onshore, offshore as well as third party in tracking successful completion of TD’s, development objects, unite test, integration test. • Reporting to the PMO on track completion of the RICEFW Inventory and updating project plans accordingly.• Maintain key communication / collaboration contact between various key stakeholders of the project including Technical (ABAP, Integration team) BASIS, Functional, and Testing and Cutover teams.As part of Release 2 he was responsible for delivery of BI objects. He was involved on the discussions around extraction of data from SAP, transformation logic and ABAP code to achieve this, optimizing load times, data modeling, process chains. He is also worked with HANA SME's on implementing TPM on HANA along with planning a roadmap for month end closing, BPC on HANA. Srikanth was also a key contributor to various sales pursuits.

Dublin 2, Ie

As the solution lead Srikanth assisted in defining and reviewing the functional and technical requirements for the application, specifically the gap analysis, requirements that need to be customized including workflow, security, integration (ALE, EDI, file interfaces), performance and quality requirements and also be able to confirm the completeness and consistency of all designs and developments, and resolve any inconsistencies discovered by Wellesley or the project resources. Specific responsibilities include:•Act as first contact for all technical related issues.•Solve system issues if possible directly on-site•Act as an interface between the developers and the onsite team•Coordinate and drive the analysis of design related issues.•Coordinate activities and exchange knowledge with on-site team.•Actively drive the integration between the client team and the IDC•Create Tech Designs, Development, and Support Test as needed.•Assist in resolving/managing issues (design, build, test) both on/offsite.•Participate in quality reviews of RICEFW designs and incorporate corrective actions. •Participate in mapping sessions and development for IDOC's and ensure we have all fields mapped or translated.•Participate in the transitions of the customization functional designs to the technical designers. •Provide development status to Manager on a regular basis. •Provide functional and technical guidance to the designer for the RICEFW work units, as a Technical SME. •Perform administrative functions (i.e. fill out their own time reports accurately & in a timely manner as well as weekly status reports)•Ensure that all deliverables follow the Development Approach, with robust Quality Reviews.

Dublin 2, Ie

Oversee the implementation of SAP ECC PRTP( Procure to pay ) & Trading for the client by managing the delivery of RICEF objects, technical string tests and support functional testingBuild and test Inbound and Outbound IDOC's in procurement area.•Perform the role of Onshore Coordinator managing teams at both onsite and offshore (India)•Prepare technical designs(reports, interfaces, enhancements, forms), participate in high level technical investigations, design technical framework and standards for the project•ALE setup – Logical system, RFC, distribution model, ports, partner profiles, message type•IDOC configuration including creation of custom IDOC’s – segment definition (WE31),basic IDOC type (WE30),Message type (WE81),associate message type to IDOC type (WE82),distribution model (BD64)•Perform reviews of project deliverables like Technical Designs, Unit Test Scripts, ABAP Programs•Coach the team members on the technical concepts and ABAP Development skills•Monitor scope of delivery in terms of nature and number of CR

Dublin 2, Ie

Dublin 2, Ie

Review of Specifications Resolution of issues with onsite via Email or telephoneCoding/DevelopmentUnit testingUpdate the project folder & PM Tool with the associated item or object.Update the Project folder and resolve technical issues with the onsite coordinator.Responsible to send a mail to the onsite coordinator on completion of the object/module and only after the offshore delivery checklist is duly signed by QA.

Princeton, New Jersey, Us

Review of Specifications Resolution of issues with onsite via Email or telephone Coding/Development Unit testing Update the project folder & PM Tool with the associated item or object. Update the Project folder and resolve technical issues with the onsite coordinator. Responsible to send a mail to the onsite coordinator on completion of the object/module and only after the offshore delivery checklist is duly signed by QA.