The Cranfield MSc Logistics & Supply Chain Management ...

Career History:
Infosys Limited: Associate Consultant - Bangalore, India (Apr 2011 - Aug 2011)
Infosys limited is a NASDAQ listed global consulting and IT company. It is the second largest IT and consulting company in India with total
revenue US$6.35 bn. Infosys provides business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to clients in over 30 countries across
the globe.
� Selected as process and domain consultant in the Industry Solutions Group (ISG), the consulting and solutions wing in Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life
sciences practice unit of Infosys Limited.
� Worked as MDM consultant in the legacy modernisation project for the client: Kraft Foods. Prepared and submitted a detailed estimation and resource
requirement plan to the business clients within a span of one month.
� Assisted the remediation technical team in identifying the applications within the supply chain network that had dependency on the legacy Master Data
Management (MDM) application. Proposed detailed plan on how to go about removing their dependency and building new interface feed from SAP
without any impact on the day today business operations.
� Identified the areas within Master Data Management (MDM) application that could be decommissioned and the areas that needed to be re-hosted into the
Microsoft's Microfocus platform from mainframes.
� Provided knowledge transition and training sessions to the SAP technical team on the business functionalities of legacy MDM. Assisted them in building new
interfaces from SAP to the re-hosted Master Data Management (MDM) application.
Infosys Limited: Senior Systems Engineer - Bangalore, India (Nov 2009 - Mar 2011)
Client: Kraft Foods Inc, world's second largest company for branded foods and beverages with a total annual revenue of US$49.2 bn.
� Subject Matter Expert (SME) and team lead for the legacy Master Data Management (MDM) application.
� Led a team of four in the Kraft-Cadbury integration project, designed and built new interfaces for feeding the product, customer and price information from
Cadbury SAP system to the Kraft legacy Master Data Management (MDM) application.
� As a part of SAP global MDM implementation, designed and built eight new interfaces from SAP into the legacy Master Data Management (MDM)
application within a span of four months. This was one of the fastest implementations in the history of the Master Data Management (MDM) application.
� Participated in several go-live and status meetings with business clients and vendors to discuss the new implementations and the key happenings in legacy
Master Data Management (MDM) application. Planned and scheduled the deliverables, tracked the project outcome and ensured it was in line with project
objective and timelines.
� Developed several business intelligence (BI) reports using the data warehousing and reporting technologies: SAP BI 7.0 and Qlik View. Consulted with the
B2B clients, identified the key performance indicators (KPI's), designed the report layout, performed the data extraction and loading from various source
systems. These reports were used for tracking orders placed by the business partners through the electronic data interchange (EDI) gateway.
Infosys Limited: Systems Engineer - Bangalore, India (Aug 2007 - Oct 2009)
Client: Kraft Foods Inc, world's second largest company for branded foods and beverages with a total annual revenue of $49.2 bn.
� Mainframe technical engineer in the legacy Master Data Management (MDM) application. Provided technical assistance to Master Data Management
(MDM) business clients for maintaining information about the products, business partners (suppliers / carriers / customers) inventory bearing locations
(IBL), prices and deals for North American business operations.
� Helped the clients to achieve 15% reduction in the overall mainframe CPU usage by decommissioning an application that maintains the item aging and the
shipping information of products. The functionality was later successfully implemented in legacy Master Data Management (MDM) application.
� Designed, developed and performed the end to end testing of several new interfaces from the legacy Master Data Management (MDM) application to
various downstream systems like the planning system, procurement system, warehouse management system, transportation system, B2B management
systems etc. within the supply chain network.
� Coordinated in several internal as well as external testing activities like SOX (Sarbanes�Oxley) testing, DR (Disaster Recovery) testing,
Mainframe/DB2/CICS version up gradation testing, integration testing involving multiple business applications. This has provided a solid foundation on
general application risks and control, issues related with access security, addressing the system inadequacies at the right time and the general IT controls
associated with applications.
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