Narayana Murthy Gudipati

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ABOUT NARAYANA MURTHY GUDIPATI

Result-oriented IT Leader with strong focus on SAP, Finance, and other modules with 20+ years of experience in managing complex IT projects in Digital technologies, SAP, HANA, Highradius, C2FO, Tango, EPCS, Black line, and other tools. Successfully led multi-million Dollar initiatives involving multiple Vendors with resource base of 150+ resources across Canada/India for timely delivery.• Led successful migration of on-prem SAP application to Oracle Cloud platform as part of data center exit strategy.• Successfully managed HANA Migration project from SAP HEC to Microsoft Azure Cloud. Featured on Microsoft Success website -https://customers.microsoft.com/en-au/story/825085-loblaw-companies-limited-retailers-azure• Defined and Implemented Software Delivery processes to gain synergies & efficiencies which resulted in reduced costs and effort. Designed and rolled-out Agile & test standards, techniques and best practices thereby enhancing overall quality of systems, minimizing delivery time, and reducing the number of critical production issues• Proficient in managing Software Delivery and Project Management across the procurement to pay lifecycle with strong focus on SOWs, defining and managing Budgets, tracking cost and productivity metrics. Rolled out Jira & Agile Methodology within the SAP Platform team• Lead auditor for ISO and CMM certifications for offshore organization and helped implement SEI-CMM level 4 processes• Recipient of 2008 LoyaltyOne Presidents Team Award for exceptional project execution, and the 2010 LoyaltyOne Presidents award for team• leadership in a challenging setting• Recognized by Galen Weston (Chairman and President Loblaw Companies Limited) & Company Board of Directors for exemplary contribution.• Recently implemented CITI Supply chain finance solution for Loblaw expected to generate 300 MM working capital benefit.• Implemented various regulatory projects for Loblaw NB recycling fee.• SAP Professional with overall experience of 20 of SAP Financial verticals. Extensively worked on SAP-FICO (Version 4.6c, 4.7e & ECC 6.0), SAP-SEM, Development and Rollout experience in SEM BCS Configuration, design, development, and Testing.• Industry experience of Retail, Automobile, Electronics, and Pharmaceuticals. Worked in 5 implementation projects and more than 12 roll outs, 5 upgrade projects.Extensive understanding and experience of end-to-end data flows within SAP Overall and across logical systems in multiple system landscape and SAP Upgrade knowledge.