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15 years of IT experience – 9+ years in SAP, 3 years in Oracle Corporation 6 years of International Program / Delivery experience in IT & Software domain across 5 countries 1.5 years of Strategic Project Management in Business Development, GTM, PMI, Indirect Channel, Pricing and Commercialization Several years of customer facing Technical Consulting experience in Oracle technology Deep understanding of SAP Software architecture, Delivery processes, Maintenance & Support and GTM channels Managed SAP’s partners - IT services and software vendors in Germany and India Sound knowledge of Netweaver (NW), HANA platform, Oracle database and Rapid application development technology Achieved IT Business Processes and Infrastructure Optimization worth more than € 1 million Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) Executive MBA from ESSEC & Mannheim business schools, Germany & FranceGlobal Functional Leader @ From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Manager (Fellow) - Strategy & Business Development, Maintenance Go To Market @ Developed deep understanding of SAP’s Support and Maintenance business in the areas - Pricing, Contracting, SLAs, VSOE, Service portfolio and Value proposition. Co-managed Post-merger integration projects of acquired Service sales businesses at LOB level and provided solutions for business problems to the Senior management by analyzing Customer characteristics, Entitlements, Sales processes, Channel partners and Inherited CRM data risks, Contracts, Commercial and Revenue recognition terms through an interaction with Regional Account Executives, Sales Operations team and Finance & Controlling. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) Program Manager & Product Owner @ Determined the commercial viability using Business Model Canvas for a new inside-out technology innovation that enables voice user interface in SAP and Partner Mobile Applications. Successfully delivered Programs and Products by defining Business cases, Cost benefit analysis, Investment decisions, Roadmap and Product branding Designed Solution Manager based Root cause analysis in Development landscape to control unwanted ABAP dumps. Certified NW 7.30 landscape on IPv6 network protocol and released to the customers. As a Product Owner, Implemented a process solution (TAN_TADIR) in SAP’s ABAP development infrastructure to overcome 25% master data inconsistency and achieved the benefit of 500 Person days. Led a very high priority program called Security Code Scan Compliance for TIP Core Business unit with reporting line to SVP and with following responsibilities - Vendor Management with Virtual Forge, Heidelberg, Germany for the implementation, rollout, service and support of ABAP Security code scan software; Technical knowledge ramp up through community of practice of 15 experts; Vendor evaluation to purchase Security code scan software from these companies – Fortify, USA and Checkmarx, Israel. - As a Product owner, implemented product SAFE, enhanced productivity of 1000+ developers whilst fixing thousands of security defects in software by integrating third party tool to internal systems and as such saved 2000 person days of development efforts by automating security compliance process for 55 million lines of ABAP code As a part of organizational change management, implemented lean development model (LDM) and continuous improvement process (CIP) PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) for resolution of the CIP impediments From August 2009 to June 2013 (3 years 11 months) Delivery Manager @ Led an international team of 10 engineers and reported to Head Delivery Manager (VP) to successfully integrate, stabilize and deliver two big SAP Netweaver releases to internal stakeholders, validation and final assembly groups. From September 2007 to August 2009 (2 years) Project Manager @ Led a team of 8 internal and third party Basis Consultants to - Design ITIL based Maintenance and Support scorecard using 200 BASIS administration checks for SAP’s platform Netweaver (NW); Used as a reference to measure TCO, Business continuity and Business process optimization. Project results were officially used as the benchmarks by NW senior management in ongoing TCO reduction initiative. - Perform TICM & ITSAM product standards compliance for Netweaver product. - Provision fully configured Netweaver system landscapes - Design and provision the process and infrastructure for Application lifecycle management From November 2004 to September 2007 (2 years 11 months) Senior Member Technical Staff @ Coordinated and performed QA activities for Oracle products.Simultaneously developed demo applications using Oracle PL/SQL, Forms and Reports to demonstrate product capabilities. From September 2001 to October 2004 (3 years 2 months) Technology Consultant @ Designed and developed Supply Chain Management applications using Selectica Technology and Oracle Database for Selectica Customers. From February 2001 to September 2001 (8 months) Pune Area, IndiaConsulting Software Engineer @ Delivered OLTP, OLAP decision support solutions using SAS and Oracle PL/SQL for customer GE Capital Services, USA From May 2000 to February 2001 (10 months) Mumbai Area, IndiaSoftware Engineer @ Designed and developed Supply Chain Management applications using Visual Basic and Oracle Forms GUI and Oracle database. From January 1999 to May 2000 (1 year 5 months) Dhule Area, IndiaExecutive MBA, Strategy, Business Model Innovation @ ESSEC - ESSEC Business School From 2011 to 2012 Executive MBA @ Mannheim Business School, Germany From 2011 to 2012 Onsite MBA leadership workshop @ École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, France From 2011 to 2011 Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) @ Nagpur University From 1994 to 1998 Amit Lodhe is skilled in: Business Planning, Business Intelligence, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Strategic analysis, Business Model Innovation, IT process improvement, Project Management, Program Management, Product Management, ITIL, Continuous Improvement, Lean Software Development, SAP Netweaver, Supply Chain Management, Solar Energy