Dr. Ábel Garai

Dr. ábel garai

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    SAP S/4HANA Implementation Project Manager

  • Education

    • University of debrecen

      2015 - 2019
      Doctor of philosophy - phd information technology
    • Budapest polytechnical college

      1995 - 2000
      Degree information technology
    • Budapesti evangélikus gimnázium

      1995 - 1999
      High school diploma
    • University of cambridge

      2006 - 2008
      Diploma in english and eu law eu law
    • Corvinus university of budapest

      1999 - 2005
      Master of science (m.sc.) - economist international relations and affairs
  • Experience

    • Dkfz german cancer research center

      Jul 1999 - Aug 1999
      Scholar

      Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Abteilung Molekulare Biophysik- Developing a counting module for the HUSAR program

    • Exxonmobil

      Jun 2005 - Sept 2009

      • Ensuring effective integration of SAP R/3 and IBM mainframe systems to divest and sell the Central and Eastern European retail business.• Leading SAP R/3 upgrade for European retail Esso Card systems• Achieved organisational cost savings by integrating Esso Card systems operations for Germany, France, UK and Italy. • Realizing corporate savings through the SAP R/3 and IBM Mainframe Esso Card Germany information technology organization harmonization• Mitigating the organizational risk for the mission-critical Esso Germany card system operation by restructuring the specially skilled European workforce with IBM Mainframe, IMS DB/DC, IBM DB2 and SAP R/2 knowledge. • Standardizing globally the seaborne transportation related post-contractual case handling operations• Increasing corporate revenue by improving efficiency in post-trade cash collection• Leading SAP R/3 Sales and Distribution plus industry solution Oil and Gas business process redesign ExxonMobil Downstream Headquarters, Global Marine Transportation Optimization• Recollecting $1M marine movement-related outstandings and saving 10% on payables• Strengthening the long term corporate cash position through Caribbean demurrage case handling operation optimization with SAP R/3.• Settling marine movement related demurrage cases with oil mayors without resorting to arbitration

      • Senior Information Technology Business Analyst

        Jan 2008 - Sept 2009
      • Business Lines Applications Analyst

        Sept 2007 - Dec 2007
      • Financial Controller

        Nov 2005 - Aug 2007
      • Marine Demurrage Negotiator

        Jun 2005 - Oct 2005
    • Deutsche telekom

      Oct 2009 - Dec 2009
      Senior business analyst

      • Modernizing the operations of the Deutsche Telekom landline billing expert design team• End-to-end process optimization for the architecture, design, IT development and testing teams for reconciliation (SAP R/3) and for preprocessing (IBM Mainframe).

    • T-systems international

      Jan 2010 - Aug 2010
      Project manager

      • Successful stakeholder management with business critical 3rd party information technology service providers for process planning, software development, systems operations and independent quality assurance.• Establishing within budget and timeline the landline billing systems end-to-end landscape harmonization, migration and in-sourcing roadmap for the IBM Mainframe, Unix and SAP R/3 platforms.

    • Deutsche telekom

      Sept 2010 - Dec 2010
      Project manager

      • Effectively harmonizing the Telekom landline cash collection business line’s process design, information technology operations, software development and quality assurance units.• Ensuring through SAP R/3 and IBM Mainframe platforms that the information technology efficiency is met for increasing the corporate business margin

    • T-systems international

      Jan 2011 - Mar 2018

      • Realizing cost-savings through successful in-sourcing of business critical landline billing processing operations from 3rd Party service provider (SAP R/3, IBM Mainframe).• Successful stakeholder management at CxO level.• Establishing and leading new Telekom information technology organizational entity for independent quality assurance (10 FTE) ensuring stable revenue recognition.• Realizing organizational profit increase through operational cost reduction with information technology offshoring. Show less

      • Senior Project Manager

        May 2015 - Mar 2018
      • SAP Head of Site and Team

        Feb 2013 - Apr 2015
      • Project Manager

        Jan 2011 - Jan 2013
    • Sap

      Mar 2018 - Aug 2022

      • Leading successful SAP Journey-to-Cloud brownfield implementation for business critical SAP core for global market-leading food and beverage manufacturing giant• Directing commercial, technical system architecture and delivery teams• Customer engagement management from business analysis through hypercare• Managing production SAP go-lives. • Leading successful SAP S/4 HANA, SAP ECC and SAP R/3 greenfield and brownfield HANA Enterprise Cloud-based implementations.• Achieving increased organizational productivity and competitive advantage through effective implementation partner management.• Orchestrating SAP S/4HANA functional implementation teams.• Coordinating strategic deal management team, stakeholder management at CxO-level

      • SAP Client Delivery Manager

        Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
      • Senior SAP Project Lead

        Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
    • Infosys

      Sept 2022 - now
      Senior sap s/4hana implementation project manager

      - Leading global functional SAP S/4HANA implementations (50+ countries)- Facilitating successful merger & acquisition processes via SAP S/4HANA implementations for international clientele in the renewable energy sector- Orchestrating SAP S/4HANA implementation chapters: MDG, data migration, quality assurance, data validation, business process redesign, template rollouts, customization, user trainings, cutover, continuous improvement.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Itil expert

      Itil certified
      Jul 2013
    • Prince2 foundation

      Axelos global best practice
      Jul 2019