Pranav Dave

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ABOUT PRANAV DAVE

I am a strategic thinker and innovative leader with expertise in developing collaborative and trusted partnerships with internal and external stakeholders. I am decision-maker with an innovative, start-up mentality and strong focus on execution and relationship-builder that achieves results through people by leading direct or indirectly and / or influencing the people. To build effective, high performance and efficient team is my passion.Accountable for planning and executing digital transformational technology capabilities and IT Projects / Programs from idea to implementation, mergers, acquisitions & divestitures, Business Intelligence, Business / Process Transformation, Business Development, ERP (SAP, HANA), SaaS, System end to end Implementation.Managed and delivered 20 + Projects successfully as a Program Manager for Business continuity and Finance strength portfolios for North American Service center (NASC) of LafargeHolcim Inc, supporting business across US, Canada.Managed and delivered 20 projects successfully as a Project manager including SAP (13 projects including Implementation, upgrade, HANA, Integration), IT – Non SAP (three), Cloud base SaaS (one) and HR (one); ranging Capex and Opex of 10 K to 10 M;I lead teams and engage stakeholders in technology solutions to streamline business processes, improve systems architects / landscape, boost business process efficiency and make each job easier.Extensive experience in merger of the global companies, number of Implementation projects (SAP ERP end to end implementation)Experience in “divestment” of IT assets.Managed all aspects of Project Management Office (PMO)- Program Delivery, Technology Solutions, Project Controls and Governance, developing templates, Functions-Methodology, Improvements, Reporting, Cost control and mentoring the PMs.Managed and deliver various projects from start to end including Initiation (Idea to Project, Charter, SOW); Planning (various plans like communication plan, training plan, overall project plan, Infrastructure plan, resource plan); Execution (including development, organizing and managing Unit testing, System integration and User acceptance testing, end user training, change management, data migration, deployment / implementation to production, monitoring and tracking detail tasks); Closure of projects (warranty, business survey, after action review); Risk & issue management (RAID) as well as vendor management and reporting to C level management.