SUMMARY:

• Skilled in SAP’s ASAP methodology and variations adapted by Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Confidential . Working in SAP since 1999. Experience leading technical and functional teams to a full lifecycle GO LIVE. Hands on management from the team on the ground, the client’s team, C - level stakeholders and the offshore team.
• Led 12 SAP implementation projects including Fortune 100 and small and medium sized companies.
• Leading all aspects of SAP engagements: Infrastructure, sizing and client strategy,; functional blueprinting, configuration; technical: development and the PMO.
• Environments: ECC 4.6c, ECC 5, ECC 6 with modules FICO, PS, MM, PP, SD, MRP, BI, PM, IM, WM. SRM, BPC, ETM, HCM including Payroll, Benefits, PA, Time.
• SAP ASAP methodology + PMBOK. Confidential ’s EVD, Confidential ’s ADM, Confidential Global Methods, and their tools.
• Co-Developed SAP ASAP methodology: Intentional Build methodology for full PMO and robust fast paced SAP programs and projects.
• Led global template implementation using Lift, Clean and Place Methodology: Leveraging production SAP to other regions and multiple company codes with similarity in processes and design.
• Led SAP program (implementation) of 94 consultants, 150 client team members and multiple 3rd party vendors for bolt-on applications and special functional expertise, like tax, country specific SMEs, and high level solutions.
• Skilled in project leadership, project finance, ROI, TCO, cash flow pro formas, profit/loss, international corporate finance, and corporate Leasing on project implementations.
• Project approach is to engage team:
• Understand team and individuals; learn strengths and weaknesses; define integrity as the key to being on time; build trust; build plans together; establish ownership amid team and individuals; clearly define and agree to process; execute.
• Make project management work to promote speed and not slow team and activities.
• Maintain a central repository of all artifacts; drive active databases of gaps, issues, and all other project particles, ollow up with resolution actions on the parts of client teams members and core team members.
• Achieve transparency in status and maintain in tight waves of frequency
• Project managed and sat on/led total program including multicultural and bilingual teams and vendors.
• Ran 4 SAP production support projects creating ongoing support centers including client level 1, II, and III support.
• Senior PMP Project Manager experienced in large scale multinational, cross-functional projects and project finance. Over 18 years as a Project Manager/Program Manager with PMP for over 7 years.
• Proven ability to consistently deliver commitments prior to deadlines while lowering project delivery costs by 35%.
• SAP Complex business system projects, SDLC development projects, infrastructure projects, IT mergers, divestitures, transitions, and integrations.
• Managed teams of 60 and 90 members and led project managers in 11 countries and 8 times zones.
• Led teams of varied engineering, development, and business talent; senior level managers, 3rd party, direct reports.
• Led effort to fund multiple divisions to $50M from $16M aligning strategic initiatives.
• Lowered reseller costs to 25% from 60%. • Managed $50M within budget targets.
• C Level project responsibilities in SAP implementations

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Program Management: Planning Process: Master Plans, Organizing, Staffing, Executing, Contract Negotiation, Project Portfolio, Logistics.

Finance: Project Finance, ROI, IRR, TCO, Cash Flow pro formas, Cost Budgets, Profit Loss, International Corporate Finance, and Corporate Leasing on project implementations.

Negotiating: Win/Win Three Dimensional Approach, Project Management Team Negotiating, Third Party Contracts, Joint Ventures, Financial/Technical, Executive. Fixed Bid projects, Vendor Management.

Writing: SAP Business Process Procedures, Proposals, RFP responses, RFQ responses, Contracts, SOWs, Business Plans, Press Releases, Editing, Technical Manuals, and White Papers.

Speaking: Project Team Meeting Coordination, Customer Facing Presentations, Led Financial Negotiations and Presentations before Senior Management, Fund Raisers, and International Public Speaking experience.

Software Applications: MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, MS Visio, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• ENVIRONMENT: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 5; FICO, MM, PP, Variant Configuration, WM, IM, Logistics, MDM, PI
• Wrote custom methods for PMO and project delivery
• Developed processes within HPQC, SharePoint for method execution for teammates—both SAP consultants and customer team
• Developed mock and final cutover plans
• Led and successfully executed 3 mock data migrations and cutovers
• Led and executed Final Cutover to Go LIVE.
• Drove solution plan execution for outstanding items in design and data in final preparation for cutover and go live.
• Built out the final cutover plan for the next program rollout.

Confidential, Atlanta

SAP Project Manager, SAP Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Creation of methods for enterprise application assessment including usability, business process duplication, performance, consolidation, retirement, system and business process business case, and best system to retain.
• Design and build online template and enterprise access point and repository/analysis tool.

Confidential, Phoenix

Senior SAP Program Manager, PMO lead, SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading entire program including upgrades, systems builds, Blueprint phase + functional requirements and business process change, and implementation of the methodology to guide and control the program.
• SAP Upgrades: ECC 5 to ECC 6 upgrade / CRM 4 to CRM 7 upgrade / Portal 6 to Portal 7 / 7.02 GUI upgrade / XI to PI upgrade / BW 4 to BW 7 upgrade / SQL Upgrade / Vertex refresh / Language pack for French
• Environment: SAP ECC 6, BW 7, CRM 7, Portal 7, PI 7.01, B2R / FICO, OTC / SD, PS, PTP / MM, HCM Time Entry
• Non-SAP Environment: WEB, EDI, Ebiz, PMVS, CONCUR, OAUI (GUI) (each system interfaces and collaborates with SAP)
• Led teams of internal business and IT plus external contractors through a company led implementation.
• Created the system and methodology to align with rapid execution of SAP ASAP essential or “Building Block” deliverables.
• Currently in Design

Confidential, Denver

Senior SAP Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Expanded new company into Australia: SAP ECC 6.0, 2 company codes
• SAP HCM implementation including Payroll, Time, Benefits, HR All Australia Molga 13 + Molga 10 in US Expat company code
• SAP Finance: AUS GL, AP, AR, Australia Tax
• SAP Project Systems: core business operations and basis for job costing and billing
• SAP SD: Billing + AUS Tax including multiple contract types
• SAP MM: worldwide payment + AUS tax
• SAP Equipment: ETW/Plant Maintenance
• Expanded New Zealand in 3rd project with Finance, Projects Systems, Billing, P2P and ETM

Confidential

Senior SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Global Reporting Project SAP BI 7.0Phoenix
• 150 base queries for hotel industry business warehouse standards
• Led teams in India (BW developers, PMs, and FI testers), USA (BW architect and leads in BI and FI
• Japan Hotels 4 company codes ECC 6, FICO
• GL, AP, AA, FA
• Led teams in Japan (controllers), India (developers), USA (SAP + client financial)
• Asia Pacific Division Management Companies SAP implementation
• 10 company codes; 6 countries: India, China, Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore
• Led teams in India (FICO, SD, Development), country teams (controllers, sales), USA (FI + Billing)
• FPS Sydney, ECC 6, FICO
• GL, AP, AA, FA
• Led teams in India (development, FI testing), Australia (Finance), USA (SAP + IT Finance)

Confidential, Lexington, KY

PMO Leader • Senior SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Environment: ECC 6.0, FICO, PS, BPC, MM, SD, WM, PP, APO, BI, Business Objects, GTS, GRC, SRM, E-Sourcing, Vistex, Sabrix, Webmethods, PI, Datastage, and EDI
• Rollout of global template to 3 of 4 regions. 94 Confidential consultants collaborating with 3rd party and large client team.
• Dual role as SAP project manager and PMO leader. Created and managed project plans. Led functional team, Led PMO w/ LXK
• Primary challenge: To implement global template and design for local tax, reporting, business, and statutory requirements.
• Brazil: nota fiscal electronica, taxation; Mexico: boletos, and taxation.
• Localization of Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela.
• Solution design to non functional processes within the global template.
• Led the functional teams through workshops flushing out localization essentials and confirming the regional design.
• Worked with our PMO team through gap analysis and scope changes while monitoring solution needs, development requirements, and special localizations.
• Helped conduct planning for proof of concepts in several challenging areas:
• E-sourcing Rfx and Contract Lifecycle Management.
• SRM indirect procurement 7.1 for vendor logons.
• Colombia company code for material ledger simulation and parallel reporting.
• Brazil company code for taxation requirements for Sabrix tax formulas and comparison to innate SAP tax code application.
• Created development plan for 260 FRICEW objects. Defined Integration testing cycles.
• Worked the enterprise structure with SAP architect to produce the base configuration of Lexmark throughout the world. We used BC sets to configure into the system: Lift Clean Place Methods.
• Scope from the project management role:
• Roll outs in North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.
• Led Planning and project timeline and activity development,
• Worked with core SAP consultants to setup processes to develop localization design,
• Worked with each functional area team to establish configuration, development,, testing, security plans and activities.
• Responsible for total SAP environment and applications, including hardware sizing and BASIS builds and admin.
• Management all resources and leads. Create and drive the plans (high level milestones, development plan, workshop plan, plan, testing plan, configuration plan, and change management plan).
• Interface to the clients in all affairs, issues and communications.
• Managed the project for a central repository of online databases and reporting venues to portray risks and issues. Pushed the settlement process for solving issues by owners.
• Led the process for toll gates and sign-offs on principle artifacts like enterprise structure, design change, gaps, development approvals and testing.
• Worked with Client Team Leads on functional side to establish plans to interface into SAP core team activities of gap analysis, blueprinting, functional spec writing, and testing of FRICE objects and end-to-end integration of application of business process and FRICE object. And again to a complete sign off.
• Use a Push Technique for client and core team collaboration that is dignified but aggressive.
• Scope from the program management role (PMO):
• Made program decisions and planning for timelines, resources, solutions.
• Set methodology and tools and drove all parties to follow.
• Led/conducted weekly meetings for PMO. Led PMO meetings for process teams BTR, OTC D, OM, Pricing, P2P, PTM, BPC, BI, and Development.
• Shared responsibility with PMO team for issue resolution, scope confirmation, change and reporting.
• Manufacturing, discreet manufacturing, distribution, global integration of company processes and transactions.

Confidential

Senior SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led remote ECC 6.0 upgrade project including FICO, MM, SD, HCM in Manila, Philippines
• Built foundation of SAP project and production support practice and SAP implementations in USA and Asia using MMA ASAP
• Build out of Manila, Philippines SAP support center. Built satellite office support in India.
• Co-Producing MMA Methods + ASAP methodology for implementations; building playbooks for projects
• Co produced Safeguarding planning and implementation project plans
• Managing two clients implementations in 24x7 SAP production support
• Created and currently Implementing transition plan for 3 new SAP clients
• Overseeing two new implementations, Upgrades from 4.6c to ECC 6.0 and new modules (Asia)
• Creating scope and project plans for SAP and World Class Close projects forthcoming. These projects take the client investment into SAP to shorter cycles in financial period close; thus improving the ERP investment
• Led project to support for a global oil drilling company. US based with operations in Vietnam, India, Brazil, Arabian Sea, Houston, less than $200M. Growing over 100 users. Modules: FICO, HCM, MM, QM, IM, PS, PM. Technical’ s: ABAP, XI, Basis and Security, 24 x 7 support center with SLAs to handle level I call to resolution, and Level II 24 hour response. Level III projects. Project manager leading build out, consultant selection, contracts, and procedural flow and scripts.
• Led project to implement SAP PS with onsite and offshore teams for an electrical engineering company supporting Modules: Project Systems (PS), XI interfaces, ABAP, Basis Administration and Security.
• Perform project scoping and planning for fix bid SAP ECC 6.0 implementations for Jeules.
• Led full Safeguarding effort for ECC 6.0 new implementation for QA testing,, and support.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Scope from the project management role:
• Roll outs in North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific.
• Led Planning and project timeline and activity development,
• Worked with core SAP consultants to setup processes to develop localization design,
• Worked with each functional area team to establish configuration, development,, testing, security plans and activities.
• Responsible for total SAP environment and applications, including hardware sizing and BASIS builds and admin.
• Management all resources and leads. Create and drive the plans (high level milestones, development plan, workshop plan, plan, testing plan, configuration plan, change management plan).
• Interface to the clients in all affairs, issues and communications.
• Managed the project for a central repository of online databases and reporting venues to portray risks and issues. Pushed the settlement process for solving issues by owners.
• Led the process for toll gates and sign-offs on principle artifacts like enterprise structure, design change, gaps, development approvals and testing.
• Worked with Client Team Leads on functional side to establish plans to interface into SAP core team activities of gap analysis, blueprinting, functional spec writing, and testing of FRICE objects and end-to-end integration of application of business process and FRICE object. And again to a complete sign off.
• Use a Push Technique for client and core team collaboration that is dignified but aggressive.

Confidential,Atlanta

Senior SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• One of three PMs leading SAP Blueprint and Realization Phases
• Built work plans for 12 data conversions and interface projects in the FICO and CS modules
• Kicked-off project to re-engineer major revenue center that included legacy processes and systems
• Project scoping on SAP project implementations. Atlanta/remote
• SAP Services program management and delivery management.
• Project Planning / Project Management: Offshore teams for product development and SAP services.
• Led a remote SAP ECC 5.0 project: Modules—SCM, APO; Netweaver integration.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented intrusion prevention solution (IPS) enterprise wide: deployed Cisco MARS and IPS solution.
• Implemented laptop encryption: Deployed Safeguard Easy.
• Implemented enterprise security awareness application: SDLC. Company website.
• Developed an enterprise pandemic plan to provide business continuity. Avian Flu Business Continuity Plan.

Confidential, Columbus, GA

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Kicked off the scoping phase of application requirements and IT strategy studies for an SDLC program.
• $13M application development excluding hardware.
• Created outsourcing solutions for American business process BPO, customer service and IT services in China.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• SAP: 1000 users SAP implementation. Change management and migration. From multiple legacy applications to single SAP instance. Confidential order management/fulfillment for North America.
• Supply Chain Program management spanning 43 countries. Cut order processing through to delivery by 60%.
• $11B divestiture required $10M data migration project. PMO. 120 large application servers worldwide.
• $750M Merger required integration of IT infrastructure and services.
• $5M call management system. Built Production and Disaster Recovery Systems.
• Filenet project team: sub project manager implementing storage solution.
• Full lifecycle software project in 4 months. High risk to control assets during development.
• Built $600K Support Call Center.

Confidential, Atlanta

Business Consultant, Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed new business in China for American company, formed Joint Venture.
• Managed 3 projects during the 1996 Olympic Games for local real estate investors.
• Designed, planned, and sold 2 projects.

Confidential, Atlanta

Managing Editor, Business Development

Responsibilities:

• Co-founded a start-up al publishing business. Customers: state and local boards of .
• Project managed the full life cycle of publishing 13 titles. Each copyrighted and in circulation.

Confidential

SAP Senior Project Manager / Global PMO lead

Responsibilities:

• Global manufacturer and distributor of high quality printers and impression devices.
• ECC 6.0, SRM 7.1, E - Sourcing 5.0, BPC 7.0, BI 7.0, Business Objects, Vistex, SabrixTrends (Manila) SAP Senior Project Manager
• An Asia based technology services company.

Confidential

SAP Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• A Utah based company. Sales centric small business less than $100M. US based factories and sales offices. 130 user base. Nine week implementation of FICO, light MM and SD. The project included the 4 server build out on Intel / Windows 2003 Enterprise server ECC 6.0 and Solman. Senior Project Manager on point. ECC 6.0

Confidential

SAP Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Silicon valley based company. Network equipment assembly and sales. Global. Less than $200M. 100+ users base. Six month implementation of FICO, MM, MRP, SD, CS, BI. Solman, Contracts. Senior Project Manager co led. ECC 6.0

Confidential

SAP Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Silicon valley based company. Power generation. Engineering and construction of high tech mechanicals. Less than $200M. 30 user base.
• FICO, PM, PS, MM, BI. Project Manager scoping and drafted project plan. Worked as a part of this implementation. ECC 6.0

Confidential

SAP Delivery Manager/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Australian implementation of global American company. Specialty Chemicals. Manufacturing and Sales. $4B. 200+ user base. FICO, SD MM, PP, BI, HCM. SAP Project Manager/Delivery Manager. ECC 5.0

Confidential

SAP Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Electrical engineering contracting firm in the Oil and Gas industry. Onsite / Offshore model to support a GO LIVE and continual production support for PS, ABAP Interfacing, ABAP development, and Basis Administration and Security. Teams are deployed both at customer site and offshore support center. 12 hour daily full service premium support is setup and teams work 24 x 7.
• A global oil drilling company. US based with operations in Vietnam, India, Brazil, Arabian Sea, Houston, less than $200M. Growing over 100 users. FICO, HCM, MM, QM, IM, PS, PM. Technical’ s: ABAP, EDI, XI, Basis and Security, 24 x 7 support center with SLAs to handle level I call to resolution, and Level II 24 hour response. Level III projects. Project manager leading build out, consultant selection, contracts, and procedural flow and scripts.
• A specialty chemical company. Global. Support center project focused on SLAs to receive and resolve service requests at level II and III. FICO, MM, PP, BI, SD, Project Manager for rollout to client and procedural plans
• Intrusion Prevention Re-Engineering Project: Built an IPS program to protect the network from the latest threats. Our team engineered an IPS network architecture that takes advantage of the best sensors, placement strategy, and tools. We have designed workflows and risk posturing techniques to carry out defenses via our change control system. This has allowed us to safely protect our assets through information security and daily network performance.

Confidential

SAP Software Partner

Responsibilities:

• SAP Project III, IV, & V Phase ASAP: Assembled and led the engagement to configure and take live a specialty chemical business in the far east.
• Remote-On USA Project: Created an onsite project working model to improve effectiveness in requirements, scope, communications and delivery. A system to fit into corporate change control systems. Presented to Fortune 500 customers.
• Strategy Consulting: Program Management Office (PMO) consulting to align project portfolio to strategic initiatives, short/long objectives, and change traits. Setting up project management methodology, project selection process, and evaluation and monitoring.
• Outsourcing: Investigation, negotiation, and process creation for China site for BPO and IT off shoring centers.

Confidential

VOLT Information Sciences

Responsibilities:

• Global PC Program Management: Confidential - Confidential Worldwide inter-company PC program based on meeting company business critical priorities. Managing internal/external supply chain, planning, procurement and budget management
• ($US 50M budget), business process, change management, risk management, quality management. Created and led the PMO team.
• Agilent Transition Program: Confidential divestiture of Agilent Technologies. The systems that ran both Confidential and Agilent business were interwoven and had to separate without downtime. This project dealt with data migration from nearly 100 systems and 15 applications worldwide to Vantive and Oracle on the UNIX platform from legacy Confidential 3000s. Scope: strategic planning and migration of data from Confidential /Agilent business. PMO coordination and alignment to objectives and requirements.
• VeriFone Integration Program: Confidential Merger and Integration of VeriFone IT infrastructure and services in the Americas, Europe, India, and China. Led the project team to architect a secure, efficient and supportable global solution for print.
• Negotiated site commitments, conducted testing, and evaluated site infrastructure. PMO team member.
• RCM Resource Call Management Project: This critical customer support system (application) is how Confidential dispatches engineers to service hardware customers. Managed our software development team plus infrastructure and hardware teams through design, integration, and implementation. We successfully went to full production plus built a complete disaster recovery system. Hardware: Confidential 's high-end K-Class servers. 1-enterprise IMAGE database ( Confidential -MPE), 1-INFORMIX database ( Confidential -UX), and 3-ALLBASE databases ( Confidential -UX). 3-client server applications. Cost to build $5M.
• PointCast Corporate Channel Project: Confidential Services wanted a low risk and cost effective solution to corporate communication within the sales organization. Investigation, evaluation, consulting, risk analysis, and design.
• Consignment Project: Scope: Redevelop two software applications and setup processes for version updates and performance monitoring. SDLC. Critical business managing $200M in revolving assets within the system. Led testing, Revisions, Rollouts. Worldwide IMAGE database with 90-day turnover. Created a mission-driven priority system that helped this business focus their resources on business critical software enhancements and revisions.
• Call Center Construction Project: This project moved 45 employees to an external site. We setup and configured two Confidential -UX boot servers. Display-back real time data through our firewall. Firewall security subproject. Seven client server applications were re-configured to safely port through the company firewall into four critical databases. The move took place into two weekends without interrupting operations. Site design. $600k build out.