Trupti Patel Email & Phone Number

Wayne, Pa

Eindhoven, Netherlands, Nl

Leading implementation of system and process changes to meet Dutch Central Bank regulation to comply with Ultimate Beneficial owner requirements of dealer/partners and customers that DLL conducts business with. In parallel, also leading Portfolio management initiatives aimed to reduce delinquency and increase efficiency and cost effectiveness from booking through collections and recovery.Led implementation of new Dutch Central Bank regulatory standard for CAMS across US and Canada to enhance Customer Due Diligence, Anti Money Laundering, Counter Terrorism Financing and Sanctions policies and standards. Also leading project for California Consumer Privacy Act compliance for DLL.

Eindhoven, Netherlands, Nl

Manage DLL's Phoenix Back Office Program that will deliver the Oracle R11 to Oracle R12 platform upgrade and associated applications to support and enable DLL Wayne's contract management processes including accounting, financial operations, back office operations, customer service, collections and asset management. Program utilizes Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework and agile approach to deliver a solution that will enable DLL's ability to support its customers, partners and members.

Eindhoven, Netherlands, Nl

Lead implementation of EPS+ or Enhanced Prudential Standards (EPS are new regulations for Bank Holding Companies and Foreign Banking Organizations as a result of Dodd-Frank act passed in 2010) program at DLL managing all of its workstreams, program execution, change management, communications, status reporting to executive management and the timely delivery and successful completion of all the program deliverables and milestones by July 2016.

Audubon, Pa, Us

Lead Technology Lifecycle Management initiative, Manage budget and finances for IT Configuration Management project and Manage Server migration project at PJM • Manage budget and finances for $1.2 million config management project and all related IT PMO/Portfolio processes.• Lead and manage discussions and meetings with IT managers and team members within various IT organizations, in coordinating remediation planning and schedule across all teams. • Coordinate remediation activities with Engineering, Operations and Delivery teams and ensure remediation activities included in their Sprints and backlog as resources become available. • Present monthly metrics to IT Management and ITS Leadership team on the monthly progress of all projects. • Create and maintain all relevant artifacts and manage progress and risks associated with the intiative. • Established and documented the process for remediation of aging technologies including hardware, software and DBs.

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Led the multi-million dollar Customer Contract Management program delivery in varying PM roles supporting phased implementation of new Model N technology (referred to as Program ALIGN). ALIGN was the largest and most complex initiative for integrated Customer Contract Management in the history of Merck bringing the benefits of contract harmonization across all Merck entities, enhanced compliance, improved analytics and increased profitability. • Responsible for leading, managing, planning and supporting all User Acceptance Testing and Deployment/Cutover/Implementation project deliverables and activities collaborating with all IT and business workstream leads of the program including - • Led creation of testing schedule, test plan, test execution and issue resolution under an extremely tight schedule• Designed and established strategy , approach, schedule, execution and communication plan for Cutover ensuring SOX compliance for data conversion and systems and database access working with Business and IT Compliance Manager• Negotiated with clients/business partners for legacy system downtimes and creatively minimized cutover/implementation black-out/downtime ensuring legal adherence and compliance requirements for payment downtime to physicians and wholesalers• Attended weekly PMO meetings to provide UAT and Cutover status to executive management including directors and senior directors as well as meetings with PWC auditors and internal Merck compliance team to answer compliance related questions• Managed and tracked implementation of cutover plan, cutover issues resolution and communication to task owners and stakeholders for successful deployment

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Led and supported the most complex and the biggest of all Workstreams (PBC – Purchase Based Contracts) on program ALIGN in planning and supporting all PBC business/clients and IT tasks including all phases of integrations, applications, reports, data coordination, coordination of environments across Model N, Managed Market Warehouse, Integrations, SAP, SAP/R3 and Legacy. • Successfully delivered all PBC related program milestones on-schedule for 2012 to enable program readiness for launch of Commercial release of Align in 2013 including – • Led completion of requirements, design, construction and unit testing of ALL PBC owned integrations and applications (Align and Legacy) (30 new and 16 test only integrations and remediation of 13 Legacy applications)• Led completion of test plans, test cases, knowledge transfer and detailed execution plan for all cycles of Systems Integration Testing• Managed PBC team of 30 onshore resources (Technical Analysts, Compliance Analysts, Test Analysts) and 20 offshore resources and their workload, priorities and issues• Collaborated with PBC Business, IT Work Stream Lead, and Lead Technical analyst in defining WHAT activities needed to be done for each of the PBC deliverables managing the WHO and WHEN of the plan• Collaborated with all stakeholders in identifying and managing issues, risks and change requests and facilitate change management• Refined, managed and executed PBC workstream project plan including identifying and managing critical path dependencies and ensuring completion of all deliverables as scheduled.• Created weekly PBC deliverable based status report for Steering Committee and PMO• Collaborated with all workstream PMs and Leads to ensure alignment of goals and timelines across the program• Ensured SOX compliance, SDLC compliance as well as compliance with program governance including creation of Business and IT SOPs

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Led infrastructure workstream as a project manager in planning and supporting all infrastructure activities including infrastructure support, coordination of environments and data, Model N, MMW, IMPACT database and all other architecture support.• Successfully delivered all program milestones on schedule for infrastructure activities planned for the program• Collaborated with infrastructure workstream lead in defining WHAT (Activities/Tasks) need to be done for each of the infrastructure work groups managing the WHO and WHEN (Resources and Schedule) of the plan and in managing issues and risks related to project execution• Created, refined, managed and executed infrastructure workstream project plan including identifying and managing critical path activities• Managed infrastructure team resources (Merck TAs, Model N TAs, Architecture Leads, DA, DBA) and their tasks and priorities and made re-prioritization decisions based on need and shift in program requirements/project needs• Ensured compliance with program governance (Ethics and Integrity) requirements set forth by the internal Merck contract management compliance team as well as SDLC requirements• Collaborated with all workstream PMs and Leads to ensure alignment of goals and timelines across the program and needed infrastructure support

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Managed finance hub set-up activities for JV hub in Dubai for joint venture between Merck and Sun Pharma (India) simultaneously while managing SAP implementation.• Led and managed finance hub set-up activities with a project plan including office set-up, infrastructure, telecom and JDE system configuration and set-up in Dubai• Led set up of communications between two companies including instant messaging, teleconference, video-conference, creation of joint email distribution lists etc...• Led and facilitated bi-weekly status meetings and created weekly project status update dashboard for joint venture executive management team and sponsors

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Led and managed remediation and SAP integration activities for sales and marketing legacy systems in support of Puerto Rico, US, Canada, EMEA and US Group 2, 3A and 3B releases of SAP implementation while leading HtR implementation and Sun Pharma joint venture as listed above.• Member of Sales and Marketing COMET PMO with focus on legacy Schering Plough harmonization and customer contract management releases for SAP implementation• Led and coordinated all SAP implementation integration activities for all workstreams and interfaces related to sales and marketing globally, partnering with SAP implementation Business Process Leads, IT Leads, legacy Business and IT PMs in developing interface functional specifications and interface data mapping documents• Responsible for coordination of end to end testing in all test phases for all sales and marketing interfaces in support of SAP implementation with all the stakeholders across different regions and time zones• Led creation of legacy cutover strategy, cutover planning, approach and all pre-cutover, cutover, deployment and hypercare efforts for all sales and marketing activities in relation to SAP implementation

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Led cutover activities across all regions and countries to support successful go live of Merck's single Hire to Retire HR system across the globe and provided guidance to the HtR team on various other phases of the initiative leveraging my COMET experience.

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Supported Salesforce.com, Medical Education and Merck Advocate Exchange projects and systems in varied roles with increasing levels of responsibility.• Managed and coordinated all remediation activities for the Source to Settle (STS) systems and interfaces partnering with SAP Implementation Business Process Leads and Technical Leads in developing interface functional specification and interface data mapping/design documents • As Senior BA for Medical Education systems, Merck Advocate Exchange system and Salesforce.com, authored project charters, business, functional and Technical requirements and business design documents in support of initial implementation of Medical Education system and later its continued enhancements and remediation for SAP implementation, Marketing Operations Management (MOM) for standardized operations and several other initiatives• Systems Analyst responsible for requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of all initial Medical Education system interfaces and subsequent releases working with diverse groups of Business partners, external vendors including Merck Travel Services and American Express for expenses and payment related activities and automated interfaces to/from Merck Advocate Exchange system• Responsible for all speaker and medical education payments/advisory boards/educational grants related activities in Medical Education system and served as SME for 1099 related questions for Medical Education system and all other payments/speaker questions for Medical Education system• Led Y2K remediation of the Medical Education system as well as integration of Field Sales and headquarters Medical Education system

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Supported Data Management applications as Systems Analyst for FDA Reporting and New drug application submissions to FDA and training to the Legal/Medical Affairs/Clinical team members