K U Rao

â?¢ Total 19 years of experience - 16 years SAP experience (onsite: 5+ yrs & offshore: 10+ yrs) with PP consultant, PP-PI consultant, QM consultant, MM/PM consultant, PLM, roles I played as SAP Global delivery lead for SAP projects, Offshore Project Manager, SAP Sr. Solution Architect, Functional Consultant, SME, SPOC, Team Lead, Project Lead, Tower Lead, Assessment Lead, Project Manager and 3+ years of pharmaceutical domain experience.
â?¢ Have carried out 5 full cycle E2E implementations projects, 11 rollout projects, 3 expansions, 3 interfaces, 1 upgrade project from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 and 7 production support and enhancements. Experienced on tools like BMC Remedy support ticketing tool, ServiceNow, HP QC, HP ALM for testing and solution manager.
â?¢ Have worked on 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7 EE, mySAP ECC5.0 and mySAP ECC6.x EHP versions of SAP R/3.
â?¢ Have worked on variety of manufacturing processes like Discrete Mfg(PP), Process Mfg(PP-PI), Repetitive Mfg(REM) and Variant Configuration scenarios.
â?¢ Strong cross functional knowledge in MM, PLM/EHS, PM, LE, SD and ABAP(Debugging, BDC, LSMW, Reports, RFC, IDOCs, Scripts & smart Forms)
â?¢ Core team member for APO implementation for DP, SNP & PPDS
â?¢ Good team player, strong team orientation & leadership qualities, hardworking, enthusiastic and commitment for deliverables, project planning, scheduling and cost estimation.
â?¢ Very good logical skills suitable for process design, development & implementation.
â?¢ Excellent communication and presentation skills and customer oriented attitude.
â?¢ Attended SAP SUMMIT- 2005 and SAP Solution Manager conferences
â?¢ ASAP implementation methodology ROADMAP preparation.
â?¢ Completed Quality exams like Velociq, Reviews & Testing and Software Configuration.
â?¢ Attended PMP(Project Management Professional) training and got the trained PMP certificate from PMI
â?¢ Attended Six Sigma green belt training in KSA.
â?¢ Countries (France, China, Netherlands, Belgium, K.S.A) I worked for conducting project assessment and blueprint workshops, conducting user acceptance test and for go-live activities and support.