Kiran Kumar Appana MBA PMP®

Experience

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  Frontier Information Technologies Limited

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1991

  CAD Engineer
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  Bharat heavy electricals Ltd

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1996

  Technologist
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  Fomas India Limited (Now Bay-forge Limited)

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

  Senior Engineer Planning
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  MAARS software International Pvt. Ltd

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  SAP consultant

  Client : Saint-Gobain Glass India Ltd., Chennai, INDIA.Implementation Partner : PWC - India

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  Covansys

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Senior Business Analyst

  Client : Balsara Hygiene Products Limited , Mumbai , IndiaClient : Complete Business Solutions Inc. , U.S

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  Ygyan Consulting Singapore Pte. Ltd (now Cognizant)

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  SAP consultant

  Client: Singapore Airlines, SingaporeImplementation Partner : IBM Global Services - US

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  Robert Walters

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  SAP Consultant

  Client : HP SingaporeAchievements:- Certificate of Excellence Award from HP-Singapore in recognition of my excellent contribution to the successful Fusion SEA Implementation - ISS/NSS Migration

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  Tangspac Consulting

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  Sr. SAP analyst

  Client: Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore

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  HCL AXON

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2013

  Project Manager

  Duration : Oct 2012 to Jan 2013Role: Project Manager (Pre-Sales)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Client : Celestica Inc, SingaporeProject: SAP ECC Upgrade and Unicode conversionRole: Onsite Project Manager------------------------------------------------------------------------------Client : Singapore Exchange(SGX)Project : SAP upgrade and e-Invoicing project Role: Project Manager-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Client : EY (Ernst & Young), UKProject: Data Center Consolidation Program Role: Regional Project Manager --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Client : Deutsche Bank AG – SingaporeProject: Financial Regulatory Reporting RenewalRole: Project Manager -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Client : Deutsche Bank AG – SingaporeProject: Global General Ledger - RolloutsRole: Project Manager ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Client : Deutsche Bank AG – SingaporeProject: Global General Ledger - GungnirRole: Delivery Manager ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Show less

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  Givaudan

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2015

  Senior Project Manager

  Managed 3 projects concurrently and ensured the successful delivery within the specified triple constrains( Scope, Time and Cost). 1. Sapphire Large Batch Plant: SAP roll out to a new fragrance plant involving all the SAP modules, Compound Management system (CMS) and Laboratory Compound Management system (LCMS) 2. Asia Pac Regional Distribution Centre - Implementation of SAP Procurement, Finance, Distribution, Transportation with an external warehouse system3. Toll Manufacturing - Business and operational efficiency improvement project involving all key SAP modules. Show less

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  Meteorite Informatics Pte. Ltd.

  Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

  Freelance

  Opportunity identification, Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.Drive sales to meet revenues with innovative business models.Services Offered: Implementations, Rollouts, Technical Management Services, Staff Augmentations, Application Maintenance/SupportSAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA SAP S4 HANA SAP FIORI UXSAP Screen Personas SAP Business One (SAP B1)Success Factors Solutions Show less

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  Project Management Institute Singapore Chapter

  Apr 2016 - Apr 2018

  Director - Professional Development Programs | Board Member

  Serving as the board member of PMI - Singapore Chapter (SPMI). PMI Singapore, a vibrant chapter in the PMI Network, with the second largest in Asia with more than 1800 active members. The chapter is focused on promoting project management principles within the community, business and practitioners. SPMI prides itself in providing a wide variety of educational experiences in order to advance the careers of our members and the practice of project managementResponsible and accountable for providing value to the esteem members by organizing professional development programs, networking events, panel discussions and boot camps. Show less

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  SAP

  Jul 2016 - Jan 2017

  Senior Project Manager [ MSIG Insurance Optimus Project]

  - Working in one of SAP's prestigious Insurance project [MSIG Optimus]- Managed to Cutover of the critical green field Insurance project- Managed a reputed Open Text global partner in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Output Management(OM) for delivering more than 200+ sales products

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  Diebold Nixdorf

  Feb 2017 - Sept 2019

  Leading the service relationship and overseeing the services delivered for a top reputed global customer in APAC region. As part of APAC Commercial stack regional program, successfully delivered critical, highly complex and strategic 10 SAP rollout, rollin and cutover projects ( Philippine, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Australia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hongkong, Malaysia and Singapore) with teams from reputed global vendors (Functional, Matrix and Projectized) involved across the globe/regions.

  • Regional Service Delivery Manager - Asia Pacific

    Aug 2018 - Sept 2019

  • Senior Project Manager

    Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
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  Singtel

  Dec 2019 - Mar 2021

  Senior Project Manager ( SAP S4 HANA)

  Managed SAP S4 HANA end to end project delivery - SAP S/4HANA System Conversion - System Landscape Optimization (SLO) - Project Systems Implementation - New GL- Inter company automation - FIORI- Embedded Analytics

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  Cognizant

  Jun 2021 - Dec 2021

  Associate Director

  Managed Global template rollout for Several APAC countries ( SIngapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Japan) by providing the strong leadership and Governance.

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  Infosys Consulting

  Dec 2021 - Mar 2023

  Senior Principal