• 11 years progressive experience as Infor (Lawson S3) Techno functional Consultant and Consulting Manager
• Experience in full life cycle implementation around Supply Chain management and Human resources management system
• Comprehensive experience involving business process analysis, application exploration, setup design, configuration, data mapping/conversions, development, Interfacing with Legacy Applications ,end user training, User Manual documentation and go - live / post implementation support.
• Breadth of expertise includes providing consulting services specializing in lifecycle implementations, upgrades, Data Conversion, Assessment ,Business process automation and integration
• Recognized for superior skills of problem solving with exceptional ability to adhere to project standards and procedures, quickly master new concepts and applications.
• Proven abilities in leading teams during the project phase, guiding team members and enabling knowledge sharing among the team.
• Strong experience in driving data centric projects: design requirements & Mapping, conversion for Legacy data conversion across the products and customers.
• Experienced on all phases of software development cycle from requirement analysis, design to coding and testing. She has experience in defining requirements, conducting needs analysis, business process study and recommending process improvements and consistently demonstrated ability to deliver quality solutions & alternatives
Strong Skills in Black Box testing methodologies and Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Defect Tracking.
• Well-versed with project scoping, project planning, costing, tracking, controlling, project status reporting and project metric reporting.
Lawson Lead - PreSales ,Solutions and Delivery Support @ -Setup and maintain Lawson COE servers S3 (Version 10) and M3 environment (13.2) for COE training and POC purposes ( premises and Amazon web services) -Work with TCS internal and Infor Sales team in designing solutions and responding to RFP and setting up demos for Lawson Customers -Provide extended support to Lawson Delivery team on need basis From November 2014 to June 2015 (8 months) Chennai Area, IndiaConsulting Manager and SCM Nodal Lead for Chennai @ -End-to-End implementation of Global Purchasing process in Lawson 9.X -Completely responsible for planning, tracking, reporting (internal/external) project performance (status and progress) for an SCM upgrade project -Owned and lead Testing track comprising end to end SIT &UAT including strategy ,design to execution -Streamlined and Automated Legacy Data conversion Track . -Lead and executed Automation of Load testing and Actively involved in Data centric Regression testing Automation using QTP functional testing scenarios. -Assisted in creating solution proposals , effort estimates , assist in solution workshops as part of RFP/Proposal responses -Migration of User Security (Users, Roles , Permissions , Mappings , Rules) -Planing and execution of Training for various Supply chain Management application Tracks (Lawson , Ariba ,SRM,CLM,I2) From June 2012 to November 2014 (2 years 6 months) San Francisco (USA) ,Chennai Area( India)Consulting Manager @ -Provided the functionality of Global Lawson HR system (9.X)to the Logistics business unit of one the largest retail customer. -Worked with business users (200+ Distribution Centers)on arriving at business requirements -Provided POC of conversion methodology and mapping between Legacy and HR Application -Responsible for establishing approval hierarchy for management employees within Lawson -Implemented position management processes for the logistics employees in Lawson -Designed and developed the conversion methodology from Logistics legacy HR systems into the Global HR systems. -Customized Lawson HR programs as per the Logistics populations specific business needs. -Led the team of 17 and executed Data clean-up activities for each DC’s before convert the data into Global HR systems. -Management Position Hierarchy restructures creation for Logistics associates. -Supported outbound interfaces from Lawson to other applications. -Automated the processes to validate the data for each DC Clean up cycle From June 2011 to June 2012 (1 year 1 month) Chennai Area, IndiaSolution definition Lead @ -End to end analysis and Preparation of detailed documentation Lawson Application listing various scenarios for the retrofitting the customizations -Study and re-design of interfaces and to implement SOA -Upgraded 50+ complex process flows into 9.0.1 (PFI) -Developed and tested performance comparison utility built with Lawson intelligence for comparing the system performance using Lawson web API -Performance optimisation of Lawson conversion programs to bring down the cut over time -Lawson Security Configuration (LSA) and user setup / migration to Resource Management from LAUA -Implemented Lawson HR system for LOgistice Division of Retail customer migration 200+ Distribution centers to Lawson -Aided in Function testing of Lawson Finance module in a Hardware upgrade - Responsible for desiging and executing Lawson training for Lawson Practice resources From June 2009 to June 2011 (2 years 1 month) Chennai Area (India) , Bentonville (USA) , New Jersey (USA)Associate Consultant @ -Involved in End-to-End Lawson System upgrades (Lawson 7.X, 8.X) and multiple support and maintenance projects executed for customers spanning multiple industries across geographies -Requirement Analysis, Design, retrofitting, Coding and end-to-end testing of new business requirements. -Applied cyclic and Regulatory updates to Lawson environment and application using AMT - Developed In-house tools (JetSpeed (Data Migration), PaceCheck (Performance Comparison) to aid in Lawson upgrade activities - Application study and Document Inventory of Interfaces, Customizations, Data Conversions and catalogue with business process/modules -Optimization of Data Conversion programs in upgrade and Implementation -New interface development as well as migrates and redesign existing interfaces. From October 2005 to June 2009 (3 years 9 months) Chennai Area, India,New Jersey(USA) , Michigan (USA) ,Minnesota (USA)Software Engineer @ -Involved in end-end Lawson HR Upgrade and Application Support projects for multiple customers -Installed and maintained Lawson Payroll System, including application migration from 7.X to 8.0.3. -Database Switch from Informix to MS SQL 2000 and data migration for Lawson HR suite using standard Lawson conversion programs -Developed test scenarios and piloted testing of data -Designed and developed custom programs for interfaces and reports using COBOL -Evaluated the readiness assessment for go-live productions and transitions to live production (CRP) -Involved in all aspects of setup design, testing, conversions, end user training and go-live support From October 2003 to October 2005 (2 years 1 month) Mumbai Area, India
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science @ Easwari Engineering College From 1999 to 2003 S.S.K.V Priyadarsini Karunanithi is skilled in: Requirements Analysis, Pre-sales, SDLC, Software Project..., Project Management, Solution Architecture, Integration, Business Analysis, Lawson 4GL, Design Studio, Process Flow, Upgrades, Business Process, SQL, Software Development, Ariba, Lawson General Ledger, LSF, Perl, Unix Shell Scripting, PMA, Software Documentation, Testing, ERP, PL/SQL, Oracle, Consulting, Management, Vendor Management, Process Improvement, Unix, Program Management, Requirements Gathering, Project Planning, Lawson Security