SUMMARY:

• With over 18 years of work experience, 12 years of which are in SAP, within the aerospace industry that has been the source of some of the most influential technological advances in modern history.
• Managed a team of technologically / geographically diverse group of developers to meet development schedules and ensured the delivered solution met the technical specifications and design requirements.
• Was the lead architect on the adoption of Ariba and supported the business transformation needed to change the enterprise to benefit from a cloud offering.
• As Project Manager, for the implementation of a successful Spend Analytics solution using a third party provider.
• As Team Lead, motivating and keeping a team of culturally diverse team members to stay focused on the successful full life cycle Global SAP Implementation in Singapore
• As Technical Lead on Supplier Relationship Management project, provided solutions to technical integration issues for a complex multi - platform solution.
• Architected the implementation of MDG on HANA (hub model) to enable the business to implement data governance across multiple domains.
• Establishing an enterprise architecture practice that enables a global company to shift from a “culture of heroes to a culture of discipline”.
• Led innovation by conducting POCs for FIORI and BI/BO tools (Data Services and Information Steward).
• Provided initial data architectural guidance for hybrid big data environment with SAP HANA and Hadoop.
• As the Development Lead, instilled project discipline to take the team across the finish line for a complex Warehouse Management implementation
• As the Procure-to-Pay lead solution architect role on the successful Global SAP implementation in London

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Application portfolio rationalization, future IT architecture development based on layered architecture, and new business architecture development by leveraging existing technology investments.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

IT Leader and Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led the IT Mergers and Acquisition team to conduct Day-1 readiness planning to support the retail business strategy for acquiring 800+ stores
• Led the development of conceptual destination architecture for Master Data Governance solution and high-level plans and from there developed more detailed plans to help identify and prioritize the various initiatives
• Led the development of a and Destination Solution and Technical Architecture standards and Usage guidelines for multiple domains - P2P, Retail and Data - for enabling delivery capabilities based on industry trends, innovation and business drivers.
• Led the construction of partnerships between business sponsors (shared services business unit), the project teams, external vendors and subcontractor organizations to ensure positive customer satisfaction.
• Provided initial data architectural guidance for hybrid big data environment with SAP HANA and Hadoop, to combine online transaction processing (OLTP) & online analytical processing (OLAP) capability in one database and a separate data store in Hadoop for raw unstructured and semi-structured data allowing for massive scale-out.
• Took the role of primary point of contact for customer needs, requirements and expectations with regard to assigned delivery team operations and provided accountability and leadership to meet on-time delivery for Accounts Payables workflow solution. Also, owned service delivery quality and took responsibility for tracking and reporting service level attainment/objectives.
• Provided technical and architecture consulting to business and business alignment teams as well as architecture and solution guidance to ECM (Enterprise Content Management) project teams in support of solution design and development.
• Tenaciously led identification of assets and services that could be re-used by the Retail IT project teams to drive consistency, cost reduction, and increases speed to market within individual LOB architecture / functional domains
• Proactively monitored strategic direction of HCM Solution Vendors, technology and market trends, and determined their potential impact and value to the enterprise.
• Facilitated targeted innovation for the architecture domain. Researched and led proof-of-concepts to assess and build new UX capabilities. Also partnered with external vendor to co-innovate on capabilities in enterprise data management (Data services & Information Steward).

Confidential, West Palm Beach, FL

Manager Technical Architecture / Solution Architect / Development manager

Responsibilities:

• As the Development Manager, led a diverse consulting development team on an engagement for an SAP custom RF Warehouse Management solution to meet business requirements for batch trace-ability.
• As Manager Technical Architecture, managed a team of architects, business analyst and developers, supporting the evolution of the global enterprise architecture function/program. Also participated in governance council meetings chaired by the CIO.
• As Solution Architected, providing EA support during early stages of project life cycle, including preparing proposals, driving requirement, ensuring design conformance, collaborating with other Solution Architects to develop, review and finalize conceptual design and position papers when warranted. Also,worked with vendors, including implementation partners on 3rd party software purchases, preparation of SOWs etc.
• Managed the day to day Project Delivery operations for infrastructure project s
• Be the subject matter expert in multiple domain viz. P2P, MM, IM/WM, Commodity Trading and Agricultural business processes.
• As MM Team Lead for global SAP implementation project in London-UK and Portugal.

Confidential, Golden Valley, MN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As the turnkey delivery lead on this project, performed preparation, technical exploration, project realization, project deployment and transition to support. Was responsible for project monitoring, providing weekly statuses to CxO, Risk Identification & Mitigation as well as offshore team management. This project supported Confidential ’s strategic 12x13 initiatives. It involved the interfacing of SAP and non-SAP data (Concur, Pro-card etc) with Confidential (a SAAS vendor) to create consolidated Spend Analytics reports at an enterprise level.

Confidential, Cedar Rapids, IA

Principal Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead and Technical Lead on REACH (European Union Legislation) implementation solution for Confidential, evaluation of SAP EH&S.
• SAP Principal Analyst for Materials Management function in ECC 6.0 upgrade project.
• Material management (MM) thread lead for global SAP Alignment project; performed business process analysis, gap analysis, design, configuration, prototyping, testing and implementation. Was part of the 21 member project team deployed in Singapore for the SAP go-live for Confidential Singapore (SAP alignment project) conducting SAP configuration, functional testing, business simulation, rehearsal and go-live activities
• As project lead for multiple procurement solutions which utilized SAP, BW, Web & Lotus Notes technologies; managed small and medium projects from initiation through planning, execution and closure.
• As Requirements analyst gathering customer requirements, performing high level design, generating business process flows, coordinating with technical teams, building client relationships, facilitating communications between technical team members and the customer. Playing the role of evangelist, to first obtain the approval of upper management on technology driven solutions, and then to the end user for application adoption and usage. Also mentored less experienced business systems analysts.

Confidential

Technical Lead, Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed additional roles as point-of-contact with outsourcing contractor (HCL) to monitor development activity. Development activity included ABAP, Java, PL/SQL & Lotus Notes development. Assisted outsourcing contractor with SAP Transports, code trouble shooting, code reviews and change-implementation processes. Also, performed ABAP development, Java development, Lotus Notes development, interface development (RFCs).

Confidential

Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Lotus Notes and Domino solution expert within the Lotus Notes Messaging team for Confidential enterprise ( supporting 18K users across the globe).
• Member of enterprise messaging team responsible for the consolidation of messaging systems and the rollout of Lotus Notes 4.6 across the enterprise. This team was the finalist for the Chairman’s team in 1997
• Duties included upgrade planning, scheduling of activities, and coordinating upgrade activities for client and sever, monitoring progress, reporting to management and also actual hands on assistance to the upgrade activity.

Confidential

Internet Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and set-up Lotus Notes Domino Web server. Performed Lotus Notes application design edits and customization of IBM world wide applications for regional / local rollout and use.
• Administration of Notes server for connectivity with other IBM world wide Notes servers through TCP/IP and dial-up protocols.
• Designed and developed Internet Home pages in HTML and Java-script for IBM Software-Singapore, IBM Hong Kong and IBM Asia Pacific Software home pages for business partners.
• Leveraged Lotus Notes web domino capabilities to conceive develop and implement IBM’s software partner-info, a business partner collaboration web tool, in two weeks. This was one of the first domino web solutions ever implemented.