Program Manager - 18 Years of Experience - Near 37919

Summary Sameer Sawardekar is a Sr. Vice President having around 18+ years of experience in IT industry post his B.Chem (Chemical Engg. and MMS in Information Systems from Jamnalal Bajan Institute of Management Studies. He has been leading the Implementation of Oracle Fusion HR solution for a large private bank in India. Earlier, in addition to managing the Talent technology team of 40+ colleagues, he has worked as a domain consultant during various phases of SDLC such as Requirements, Design, Development and, Verification with specialization in Talent domains (Learning, Performance, Recruiting). Have a confident personality, excellent grasping power and effective communication and presentation skills. He wants to be a Core HR & Talent domain IT professional and help his company achieve its vision using his following strengths- * Managed end to end Oracle Fusion HR implementation for a leading Private bank in India. * Drove the decision making to arrive at the shortlisting of Oracle Fusion over other competing products from competitors like Ramco, Polaris and Adrenaline. * Did commercial finalisation of the Oracle Fusion solution and Implementation partner from the Big 4 consulting firms. * Trained to be a Implementation Consultant and have experience in independently facing the client for requirement elicitation and management. * Experience in Implementation on Cornerstone Performance module for 3 Indian clients. * Good exposure to executing projects in onsite-offshore delivery model, executing projects involving multiple vendors, and working with customers in different geographies * Unique blend of technical development experience paralleled with talent domain expertise. * Part of the proposal making teams for the Talent technologies group. * Active involvement in due diligence and to showcase Aon capabilities in front of the prospective customers. * Excellent communication and inter-personal skills based on his experience of having interacting with multiple teams and in cross-cultural environments Career Synopsis * Sr. Vice President / Sr. Delivery Manager with 18+ years of IT experience in project management & implementation of various IT applications. * 9+ years of experience in managing Integrated Core HR and talent management suite across Performance, Recruiting and Learning domains with leading vendor products like Oracle Fusion, Sumtotal, Successfactors, Taleo and Cornerstone. * 12 months of hands-on experience in implementing Core HR, Talent and Benefits module on Oracle Fusion. * Three years of Onsite /client (US) location experience in leadership, Customer Relationship Management and business requirement Gathering and Analysis. * Experienced in conducting Review Sessions, Demos, creating business requirement documents and test cases. * Experienced in end to end data migration projects from legacy systems to new systems involving data refining and Data loading process. * Good exposure to executing projects in onsite-offshore delivery model along with proposals, executing projects involving multiple vendors, and working with customers in different geographies. * Unique blend of technical development experience paralleled with talent domain expertise. * Expert in change control management and Defect Management procedures. * Able to communicate at all levels - Excellent communication and presentation skills. Qualifications MMS (Master of Management Studies), Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (Information Systems), Mumbai University, Maharashtra, India, Year 1999, First Class B.Chem (Chemical Engg.), UDCT, University Department of Chemical Technology, Maharashtra, India, Year 1997, First Class HSC (Passing Year: May1993: 89.33%) from Mumbai University SSC (Passing Year: May1991: 86.57%) from Mumbai University Domain/Products Oracle Fusion Core HR and Talent suite Recruiting (Taleo Cornerstone) Scope: Implementation and Production Support for the Talent Technology domain suite of products.

Program Manager

Knoxville, TN