1. Lakshmi N Jagarlapudi, PMP
650 504 6435 (C), LNarayanaJ@Yahoo.COM
• Nearly 21 years of experience as Manager / Architect / SME performing various functions including
Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Support of enterprise Systems using the Oracle
Applications, products and tools.
• Experience in managing projects involving Oracle Applications with functional and technical
experience across all e-business suite (EBS) ERP modules including Supply Chain and Financials
modules.
• Experience in managing Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A’s), Divestitures from functional, technical
perspective involving complex integrated architecture and Business/IT alignment etc.
• Experience in dealing with multi-currency, multi-ledger country enablement projects involving
usgaap and non-usgaap reporting and intercompany accounting etc.
• Demonstrated strength in team management, communications and achieving cross-functional
business objectives.
Cisco Systems PM/SME R12 Supply Chain Finance Jul 2011 – Till Date
• Helped manage and better the SC Finance processes including cost rollups, period end processes,
spend/savings analysis at Product Family/Business Unit/Entity/ Sub-entity levels, while analyzing
the reports from Hyperion/Essbase tools.
• Lead and implemented a custom solution of recognizing cogs at different milestones (as opposed
to the standard functionality of cogs recognition) ex at customer delivery or custom clearance etc.
• Managed a split-org project from inception to completion, including providing the solution, where
manufacturing accounting is based on the order booking entity and the shipping warehouse.
• Lead a Cisco business unit divestiture project to a different company, involving the economic
benefit model including involvement in period close activities during cutover etc.
• Implemented the Country Enablement for Brazil/Russia and resolved the challenges involved
therein by maintaining the standard cost in USD, while the ledger currency is the local currency.
• Managed manufacturing projects involving Configure to Order (CTO), Build to Stock (BTS) models
and ASCP/Kinaxis planning modules. Also participated in authoring/reviewing the cross-functional
BRD’s, FSD’s, BR100, providing solutions and management of BAT/UAT cycles.
• In a Product Manager role, assess the uniqueness of enhancement requests from different
customers, come up with Functional specification document (FSD), work with Dev and consulting
team, participate in different levels of product features testing.
• Experienced in Supplier/Vendor Management including supplier replication/merge across
heterogeneous systems.
• Managed a finance expense R12 technical upgrade project, overseeing the month-end activities,
reports reconciliation between sub-ledgers in r12.
• Prepare high level Project plans for the R12 implementations while working with different cross-
functional timelines, PMO, Development etc.
Zynga ,CA PM/SME SLA Implementation,China APR 2011 – July 2011
• Implemented the iExpense, Payables system for country China using the AME application approval
rules for the AP Invoice and iExpense reports approvals etc. Also involved in BRD authoring and
management of BAT/UAT cycles. Solutioning also involved defining SLA rules.
• Implemented Oracle e-business Tax (EBT) module 12.1.1 on the Payables and also implemented
automatic and manual withholding tax for specific suppliers.
Mainstream Energy,CA SME R12 Upgrade, Support Jan 2011 – Apr 2011
• Primary role was authoring/reviewing the BRD and FSD’s and supporting the Payables,
Receivables and GL modules (ADI, webADI, Journals, Budget uploads etc).
• Support the Oracle e-business Tax (EBT) to satisfy the complex tax Nexus requirements of various
US by defining complex tax rules.
• Very good experience in Oracle Projects Billing and Costing(for Contract, Indirect and Capital
Projects) and how they interface to Oracle Assets, Payables and General Ledger.
Cisco Systems Project Manager/SME R12 Implementation Aug 2009 – Dec 2010
2. • Project Managing the cross-functional teams progress/statuses for the deliverables like
RTM’s(Requirement Traceability Matrix), BRD’s, FSD’s, TSD’s with various cross functional teams
including Make, Deliver, Logistics, Source, and Finance etc.
• Responsibility also included tracking the CR’s, Risks using the PM tool Propel (Project and Portfolio
management center), generating complex excel reports (involving stacked, multi-bar, reports for
ex), Issues follow-up, preparing weekly consolidated PowerPoint reports.
• Also involved in playing a functional role which involved authoring the RD50’s (including the use-
case, swim lane diagrams for different functional end-to-end scenarios).
Sun Microsystems PM/SME 11i Implementation May 2007 – Jul 2009
• Managed on-site and off-shore teams thru the complete life cycles of various projects.
• Author requirement documents; perform fit-gap analysis to identify the gaps between Oracle apps
and the business functionality for all the RICEW(reports, interfaces, conversions, extensions,
workflow) objects. Defined processes and procedures keeping track of SOX internal controls.
• Working on the AR interfaces including the AutoInvoice, AutoLockbox, Tax interface etc.
Google Inc Systems Analyst 11i Support Oct 2006 – Mar 2007
• Primarily worked on the support of the P2P applications resolving the workflow issues for the
Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Expense reports and AP Invoices.
• Documenting the requirements from the Business users, working closely with the AP, Procurement
Users and identifying the gaps between the business process and Oracle applications functionality.
• Writing complex ad-hoc sql’s to satisfy the Finance and P2P business ad-hoc requirements.
Verisign Inc/
Symantec
Sr Business Analyst 11i Upgrade, Maintenance Jan 2006 – Oct 2006
Aug 2010 – Dec 2010
• Authoring BRD’s gathering requirements related to changes in various OM and AR processes.
Work involved reconciling within AR and across AR and GL using reports (Aging, Reconciliation
reports etc), thereby enabling the periods to be closed in time.
• Worked on an acquisition project (M&A) between partial Verisign and Symantec involving the
challenges of Business/IT alignment of core systems like 11i/R12, coming up with an integrated
architecture.
• Worked in month-end and quarter-end cycles which involving successful completion of various
steps.
• Worked on all the AR interfaces including the Customer Interface, Autoinvoice, Tax interface, GL
Interface and Lockbox. Resolved many important AutoLockbox, Vertex Tax related issues.
Developed custom reports using Financial Statement Generator (FSG) based on user requirements
giving the to-date balances.
• Worked on Pricing module involving (Qualifiers, Modifiers, Pricing Attributes, and Adjustments) for
different types of orders.
Intuit Inc Lead Systems Analyst 11i Implementation Jun 2005 – Jan 2006
• Involved in the data migration, validation and reconciliation of Customer and Invoice data from
legacy system to Receivables. Optimize the performance of various batch programs. Design,
Development and Support of Customer Interface, AutoInvoice Process, WriteOff’s, Prepayments ,
Credit Card Process etc. Involved in development, test, Normalization and support phases.
• Extensive coding of Complex stored procedures, packages and triggers using SQL/PLSQL to
satisfy the custom Intuit functionality. Worked in Financials (Receivables, Payables, General
Ledger) and Oracle Cash Management, Oracle Order Management, Inventory and Purchasing.
• Experience in Revenue Recognition process for different kinds of transactions Credit Memos,
Invoices (LIFO, Prorate etc) in different scenarios of at the time of delivery(point of sale), before
delivery and after delivery etc. Customized the format of Dunning letters to be sent to the customer
with different levels of severity, invoice printing report and sales tax summary report.
Cisco Systems Systems Analyst 11i Implementation Jan 2003 - May 2005
• The project involves upgrading from 10.7 to 11i Oracle e-Business suite. Worked extensively on the
Accounts Payables(Procure to Pay, P2P),AP Open Interface and Manufacturing(Plan to
Build),Order Management applications. Involved in documenting the As-Is vs To-Be scenarios and
3. prepared BRD’s and Functional Specification documents (FSD’s). Involved in the documenting,
reviewing the MD50, MD70 documents for AR, AP components.
• Extensive experience in tuning both online (front-end Oracle standard forms) and batch (concurrent
programs) process, using different techniques, involving complex sql’s both in local and distributed
environment.
• Worked in Cisco e-Customer module, applying the principles of Oracle TCA (Trading Community
Architecture) model. Experience in Oracle TCA (Trading Community Architecture) model and in
inter-relationships between Parties and Customers.
Oracle Corporation Project Lead CRM Product Development July 99 – Dec‘02
• Worked on the Sales and Marketing Online products to develop batch concurrent programs in pl/sql
to pull data from various products in single data stores for transactional and reporting purposes
using Oracle 9i/8i pl/sql stored procedures, packages, Materialized Views, Fast Refreshable MV's,
Forms, Reports. Good experience in perl, awk and unix shell scripting.
• Performance tuning of the batch programs using explain plan, tkprof etc using different techniques
using the latest Materialized View features of Oracle 9i/8i features.
• Worked on Data Warehousing Project which involves building the facts and dimension tables with
key Performance Index metrics data. This involved using the best Oracle technology features like
rollup, cube etc.
• Gained functional expertise on the various CRM Modules like sales and marketing intelligence.
GE Aircraft Engines Systems Analyst Datawarehousing Project Sep 98 - Jun 99
• Extensive pl/sql coding of packages, stored procedures, functions and generation of the sql-loader
scripts to pull data from legacy system to Oracle database warehouse.
• Subsequent generation of Intelligence reports (using Oracle Reports, pl/sql) on data warehouse for
decision support and managerial reporting.
Tata Consultancy Services Systems Analyst Projects Jul 95 - Aug 98
• Design and preparation of software requirements specifications (SRS). Contributed major ideas in
different projects in the Analysis and Design phase. Unit(peer testing) and Integration testing of
screens and reports.
• Worked on Interbank Reconciliation (IBR) project which is similar to oracle cash management.
• Extensive Coding of pl/sql procedures, functions, packages, performing basic administrative tasks
including backups etc. Used Oracle Designer case tool in preparing the ER Diagrams and to
centralize all the functionality in Designer metadata.