Michelle Beck - Palomar College

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Laxmichand Fatnani
St. Louis, MO
Contact : 814 441 9257 lnf2013@kellogg.northwestern.edu
TECHNOLOGY/STRATEGY/MANAGEMENT
Accomplished in leading technology practice, developing strategies, emerging technologies, building
operations, technology delivery and competency centers .Over 14 years of experience in program and client
management, leading global teams, and executing projects for companies with revenue of $50 million to over
$200 billion in the industries of Oil & Gas, Chemical, Healthcare, IT consulting, Hi-Tech, Bottling, Manufacturing
& Mining industries. Expertise in technology infrastructure planning for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) –
SAP, Open Source – Liferay, Alfresco, Redhat, Emerging Technologies – SAP Mobility, Adobe. Highly
motivated, entrepreneurial with excellent analytical and problem solving skills. International business experience
(US, UK, Asia and Mideast)..
Work Experience
Forest Pharmaceuticals, MO
Solution Architect / PM (consultant) Nov 2011 – Present
• Architect and lead for internal cloud implementation program.
• Provide thought leadership, vendor evaluation; work with stake holders/executives for their strategies, project
scope and roadmaps.
• Lead migration activities for all SAP landscapes (ECC, BW, SCM, SRM, Portal) from AIX based systems to
the new cloud. The project includes Unicode, OS/DB and Platform migration.
CIGNEX Datamatics, CO - Vice President April 2009 – Sept 2011
• Chief Architect and Head of global business unit of SAP Practice with revenue of over 7 million dollars.
• Manage delivery of services to clients with a global delivery model in form of consulting, project executions,
client management, partnership management with SAP, technology strategies and expansion of company
operations.
• Program Management – Responsibilities include Project Deliveries, Budget, timelines, prioritization, resource
management and coaching, technology strategies and expansion of company operations
• Provide thought leadership in developing competencies in technology areas, manage consulting operations,
client management, partnership management with SAP and Redhat, grow SAP Footprints for the company
and Client.
• Client Management - Work with Client business/stake holders, executives for their strategies, project scope
and roadmaps.
• Built and manage competence centers for research and training, internal technical strengthening,
implementation of best practices for service deliveries, change management, development projects, training
and recruitment.
• Collaborate with marketing and sales teams for presales, RFP response, client presentations, business
development and project bidding
• Initiate and Lead Emerging Technology Areas ----- Develop Mobility and Adobe Initiatives.
o Drive mobile technology advisory and implementation solutions across all
business areas, capitalizing upon potential opportunities for innovation.
o Develop Adobe Practice for providing enterprise solutions using Adobe Lifecycle
Designer and Flex and integrating with backend ERPs and Workflow.
World Networking Services Inc, NJ –Program manager/Architect Jan 2003 – Mar 2009