Stephen Yagappan

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  • Timeline

    Jan 2000 - Sept 2005

    Manager, IT

    Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt. Ltd.
    Sept 2005 - Oct 2006

    Retail Consultant

    Zensar Technologies
    Oct 2006 - Aug 2014

    DGM-IT heading SAP CRM for Reliance Retail

    Reliance Industries Limited
    Sept 2014 - Sept 2015

    Founder

    Tailorbird Education Pvt Ltd
    Sept 2015 - Feb 2018

    Principal Consultant - SAP

    Infosys
    Current Company
    Feb 2018 - now

    Director and Enterprise Agile Coach

    UBS
  • About me

    Director and Enterprise Agile Coach at UBS

  • Education

    • Somaiya institute of management studies and research

      1994 - 1996
      Post graduate diploma in business adminstration marketing

      Marketing

    • Institute of hotel management, mumbai

      1991 - 1994
      Diploma in hotel management hotel, motel, and restaurant management

      Hotel Management

  • Experience

    • Radhakrishna foodland pvt. ltd.

      Jan 2000 - Sept 2005
      Manager, it

      Managed Retail IT Systems

    • Zensar technologies

      Sept 2005 - Oct 2006
      Retail consultant

      Was Business Analyst in Marks and Spencers Offshore Development Center

    • Reliance industries limited

      Oct 2006 - Aug 2014
      Dgm-it heading sap crm for reliance retail

      Key Responsibilities: 1. Ensure smooth and continuous functioning of the SAP CRM system catering to the entire Reliance Retail business which approximated 3,000+ stores and 10,000+ crores turnover in 2014.2. Engage with the business heads, CFO’s and Operations Head of the Digital, Vision Express, Loyalty and RESQ SBU’s as my key internal customers3. Participate in the Software Architecture Group, which evaluated and approved all changes to the IT Application architecture before subsequent development and rollout.4. Manage a team of SAP consultants and developers with respect to their technical and human resource needs.5. Project Head for all major implementations in the SAP CRM landscape.Key Achievement:Led the SAP CRM Transformation Project for Reliance Retail. This was an INR 80 Crores / 800 Million Project with a peak team size of 100+. It impacted a live business of 6000 Crores+ and 3000+ stores. Considered as the top 3 high risk projects for the enterprise between 2012 and 2014, the Project went live with a two month delay on the original timeline of 18 months. It was a big bang implementation where all the impacted businesses were moved to the new application landscape with a business downtime of 12 hours.Milestones:1.SAP CRM Implementation for Reliance Digital (Electronics), Reliance Autozone (Automobile Servicing) and Opticals.2.Customer data management for Reliance One loyalty program. This program reached a data volume of 20 Million at the time of my separation.3. Redesigning of the Sales Order management system to an IOS app based front end with integration to SAP CRM and SAP ECC.4.Process transformation of the Vision Express (Opticals) format from a SAP CRM Service process to a SAP CRM Sales Order based process with order based procurement.5.Process re-design of SAP CRM service transactions from CRM billing to ECC billing with resultant migration and legacy data management. Show less

    • Tailorbird education pvt ltd

      Sept 2014 - Sept 2015
      Founder

      I founded Tailorbird Education Pvt. Ltd., a technology startup engaged in developing mobile applications to educate primary and upper primary students in India. The apps deliver e-learning tools and content in regional indian languages using technologies such as voice recognition, handwriting validation etc.I filed a patent for Handwriting Validation technology developed by me. You can view a short demo of the technology at the below youtube link.https://youtu.be/U9YRnLg4gVo

    • Infosys

      Sept 2015 - Feb 2018
      Principal consultant - sap

      I was a part of the India Business Unit. Responsibilities included Delivery, Pre-sales and Competency Building in the SAP India Practice

    • Ubs

      Feb 2018 - now
      Director and enterprise agile coach

      Driving Agile Maturity.

  • Licenses & Certifications