SUMMARY:

• In search of a leadership position within the Information Services division of a successful organization. The ideal role is one which requires both strategic and tactical technology planning; leadership and management of quality, dedicated IT professionals as well as understanding of and alignment with the initiatives of the overall organization.
• Over twenty years of experience in the planning, delivery, and management of complex Business Programs. Expertise includes systems and process integration, SAP ERP Industry Solutions SAP IS - Retail, CPG Industries and SAP AFS Wholesale, custom application development, technical architecture, operations, sales support, contracting, and outsourcing.
• Ability to clearly define the technology environment using the 5 layers of information architecture (business process, data, application, infrastructure, and integration) and working with both business and IT project groups to prepare for and ensure implementation success.
• Ability to manage and mentor/guide multiple resources (on-site and off-site) in global (large) and small scale implementation(s).
• Ability to manage multiple Business Mega Processes (POS to Back-office systems, Order to Cash, Merchandise Distribution)
• Ability to work with the business on strategic planning, and capability/scalability and providing application road map for a given subject area (mega processes).
• Ability to implement “Center of Excellence” (COE) for governing, aligning & creating effective (and value added) environment.
• Innovation leader influencing, defining, shaping and implementing the overall IT direction in the Enterprise Architecture space.
• Directed and managed large scale SAP Global implementations and lead multi-cultural, and virtual teams to successful on-time and on-budget implementations
• Extensive industry experience in large corporations in industries such as Retail, Apparel and Footwear and Manufacturing.
• Experienced in project preparation activities including project budget estimates, project resource analysis, team assembly, project planning, logistics and application of SAP methodologies.
• Proven experience in planning global SAP deployments, cutovers, roll-outs and release strategies
• Experienced with business process analysis, mapping and consensus development for process change initiatives
• Savvy at developing good relationships with business personnel and driving credibility across the business organization for delivering higher productivity IT solutions
• Assisted IT leadership in scoping, prioritizing, reconciling and resourcing proposed projects.
• Worked alongside with the SAP Program Directors and System Integrators in designing and managing the global roll-out programs for SAP
• Provided guidance to developers, project managers and external vendors and managed External Service Providers
• Knowledgeable in business processes such as finance, accounting, human resources, sales, supply chain, internal controls and SOX compliance
• Experienced in integrating technology and controls across a global enterprise, including service centers, centers of excellence and/business process outsourcing
• Presided over Architecture Review Board Meetings to guide and assist portfolio teams
• Communicate regularly with Business Users, IT and Project Managers throughout all stages of the project life cycle to ensure that the project was meeting the business requirements.
• Savvy at developing good relationships with business personnel and driving credibility across the business organization for delivering higher productivity IT solutions
• Passionate about learning, implementing and teaching new technologies

TECHNICAL / FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

• SAP IS-Retail / SAP AFS WholeSale, SAP Retail POSDM on HANA 1.0, SAP F&R, SAP Merchandise Distribution, SAP Retail Master Data, SAP Retail Pricing, Promotions, Bonus Buys and Markdowns, Mobile POS, SAP MIM (In-Store Merchandise and Inventory Management), SAP Allocations, SAP POS system 2.2.1/Triversity and SAP HANA Cloud BI 1.0, FUJITSU POS, NCR POS 7.1, SAP BW and SAP BOBJ, ATG E-Commerce & SAP CRM, SAPCAR 1.0
• RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflow), IDOCs, ALE, SAP XI/PI, BAPI, BADI, RFC, LSMW, BDC, Enhancement Spots and Object Oriented technologies, ABAP/WebDynPro/JAVA J2EE, XML, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, WSDL, SOAP & REST, SAP SOA
• Worked with Relational Databases SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft Access
• Experienced in integration tools SAP PI, WebMethods, IBM ESB, Tibco and EDI
• Familiarity with Big Data, Analytics and related technologies and tools

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Retail Lead Pricing Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented accelerated SAP Retail starter pack solution for retail stores, virtual stores and wholesale customers
• Architected solution and integrated with legacy applications for varied prices & promotions at National, Regional and Channel specific.
• Conducted design workshop sessions, validated designs, developed business process design documents
• Created functional documents and validated technical documents that conforms to the solution design
• Configured pricing procedures, promotions, bonus buys, account determinations and integrated with finance
• Configured promotion types, categories, condition type, activation and announcements
• Configured seasonal and markdown planning
• Created purchase price, sale price and distribution center conditions
• Integrated Store/ECOM sales and inventory postings with ECC financials
• Configured master data for articles, prepacks, set articles, sites, site profiles, assortments/modules, listing, merchandise category & hierarchies, site groups, and distribution profiles
• Developed ABAP routines that addressed gaps in the SAP Store / Wholesale pricing

Confidential

SAP Retail Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAP Retail solution to all three Confidential ’s brands of 1500 hundred boutique stores and three ATG E-Commerce stores and in-store mobile POS registers
• Architected solution to include national & international stores that are on POS Fujitsu systems and ATG E-Commerce online sites with multiple languages and currencies and Integrated with SAP POSDM (SAPCAR 1.0) and SAP ECC for inventory, sales and financial postings and reconciliations
• Configured SAP Retail POSDM on HANA Business functions (sales, financials, administrative, Goods movement, EOD totals, paid-jn/outs), credit card settlements, Loss prevention analytics and integrated these functions with BW on a single HANA instance
• Integrated SAP BI Open-Hub/OData Services to export data downstream systems. The data will be leveraged by finance team for reconciliation and loss prevention team
• Configured POS inbound and Outbound processes that covers Billing, Retail Pricing, Purchasing, Promotions, Bonus Buys & Markdowns for International & Domestic stores and integrated with SAP ECC financials and SAP Inventory management
• Designed and developed many Custom applications to support Sales Audit functionality: EOD totals, Missing transactions, Drawer discrepancy, Timestamp functionality for downstream systems, duplicate transactions in a logical unit of work, balancing the sales transaction, aggregation of sales transactions by date/store/article, integrating custom fields to BW delta structures, value added taxes, credit/debit card settlements and custom solution to integrate Forecast/Replenishment system
• Integrated ATG E-Commerce solution with SAP Retail POSDM and SAP BW/BO and SAP ECC systems
• Architected and extended SAP Retail POSDM Schema to accommodate changes to downstream systems that leverage SAP BO for reporting
• Architected KPI reporting with Business Objects that provides metrics for Store traffic, Sales, Transactions, Associate bonus calculation and Labor hours & Payroll, Customer eMail capture and Loyalty Program metrics with CRM System
• Integrated POS Fujitsu, E-Commerce sites and in-store mobile POS on iPADs with CRM Campaign management analytics, Customer Loyalty & Coupon and Real time Customer lookups
• Integrated with Fifth Third bank for Credit Card and Debit Card transaction settlements by incorporating with PCI standards and SOX compliant
• Integrated physical inventory in Distribution Centers that enables the stores, online sites and contact center to acquire inventory from the same inventory pool of product
• The solution leverages SAP IS-Retail Merchandising, TIBCO as an EAI layer, SAP Retail POSDM 1.0 version SAP HANA and E-Commerce solution for North America and International Implementation.
• Provided blue prints to de-commission existing POS NSB systems to Fujitsu POS systems planned
• Configured and Mapped, migrated Confidential ’s brand master data: article/EAN, sites/DC’s, vendor, Customers, merchandise categories, Purchase info records(PIR), listing conditions, additional, BOMs, article hierarchies, characteristics, pricing conditions, forecast, duty and freight from legacy systems to ECC Retail and store systems
• Architected and extended SAP Retail POSDM Schema to accommodate changes to downstream systems that leverage SAP BO for reporting
• Evaluated SAP Customer Activity Repository and HANA applications for SAPCAR 2.0 version
• Evaluated SAP RDS (Rapid Deployment Solution) solution for SAP Retail products
• Developed enhancements with ABAP object oriented tools, enhanced SAP ECC functionality with user-exits, BADI’s, BAPI’s, Enhancement Techniques and custom enhancements
• Lead consultant for SAP IS-Retail Merchandising and SAP POSDM on SAP HANA and E-Commerce solution for North America and International Implementation.
• Implemented SAP Retail PIPE/RTLPOSDM version 1.0 and BI on HANA powered 7.31 version with support pack level six for Confidential ’s Brand
• Architected end-to-end solution that integrates multiple Point of Sale Systems, ESB system, E-Commerce sites, third party systems, BI-POSDM to back office SAP Retail Merchandising and Financial system
• Created a Road Map to de-commission third party systems and consolidated business data in RTLPOSDM and BI
• Conducted blueprint sessions, gathered business requirements to consolidate existing systems and created phased project plans
• Expanded the scope of Sales Audit functionality that leverages the HANA In-Memory data models
• Integrated E-Commerce solution into SAP POSDM and leveraged SAP backend financial systems for reconciliation

Confidential

SAP Store Inventory Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Consultant implemented Store operations for five thousand stores using SAP MIM (In-store merchandising and inventory management) solution and integrated with SAP Portal and SAP Agentry in-store mobile system.
• Configured SAP Retail for store operations that includes all aspects of MIM solution, Stock transfer orders and store to DC’s
• Configured and integrated stores and distribution centers utilizing Retail Merchandising and Purchasing modules
• Integrated store & warehouse operations that resulted in goods receipts, miss-shipments, goods issue, physical inventory, stock transport orders, replenishments, store-2-store transfers, store inventory management and RTV
• Provided specifications to extend SAP WebDynpros to plug-in the gaps in store functionality
• Integrated store master data articles & merchandise category, EANs, sites, department hierarchy, pricing & promotions and bonus buys
• Spearheaded Integration test planning and execution of Store functions

Confidential

Retail Lead Integration Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Consultant for validating solution design for a critical Global POS roll-out to UK, Ireland and Iberia countries
• Spearheading Integration test planning and execution of Micros POS with POS/DM and SAP ECC Retail Systems
• Examined Merchandise and Inventory Management (MIM) WebDynPro solution that accesses SAP ECC retail functionality for Store Operations for UPC Search, Article Stock Status, Physical inventory, Shipments and Shipment Log Verification

Confidential

SAP Retail Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead consultant for SAP IS-Retail Merchandising and SAP POS/DM on SAP HANA for North America grocery retailer
• Created architectural roadmaps to improve business processes and to leverage new technologies such as HANA, PI for trickle feed and ARTS XML standards
• Recommended SAP Retail POSDM version 1.0 and BI on HANA powered 7.31 version for NCR POS systems
• Unified multiple sources of Point of Sale data that includes eCommerce into Retail ARTS XML V2.2.1 with SAP PI as an ETL layer to convert incoming POS transactions via an RFC call to +POSDM
• Evaluated Store systems and recommended a phased approach to de-commission legacy store book keeping systems
• Centralized sales revenue and financial postings in SAP ECC and integrated with SD and GL postings with upstream consolidation system for enterprise reporting
• Consolidated Sales Audit functionality in POSDM to enrich and validate POS transactions by leveraging standard rules and tasks
• Addressed gaps and company specific auditing rules by leveraging ABAP workbench functionality
• Created centralized store operations for goods movement, store to store transfers, article Inventory and price update/lookups, RTV and physical inventory count

Confidential

SAP Retail Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead consultant for SAP IS-Retail Merchandising and SAP POS/DM on SAP HANA for North America and International Implementation.
• Implemented SAP Retail PIPE/POSDM version 1.0 and BI on HANA powered 7.31 version with support pack level six for Confidential ’s Brand
• Created architectural roadmaps to improve business processes and to leverage new technologies
• Architected end-to-end solution that integrates multiple Point of Sale Systems, ESB system, E-Commerce sites, third party systems, BI-POSDM to back office SAP Retail Merchandising and Financial system
• Created a Road Map to de-commission third party systems and consolidated business data in POSDM and BI
• Implemented ARTS standards for Retail POS systems and integrated business transactions with Web Services technology
• Conducted blueprint sessions, gathered business requirements to consolidate existing systems and created phased project plans
• Expanded the scope of Sales Audit functionality that leverages the HANA In-Memory data models
• Mapped and migrated Confidential ’s brand master data: customer, article, sites/DC’s, vendor, pricing & promotions, merchandise categories from legacy systems to ECC Retail and upstream systems
• Leveraged and integrated master data (merchandise and non-merchandise) with POS systems, E-Commerce sites, SAP and non-SAP systems using SAP LT Replication, SAP IDOCs, LSMW, BDC’s, BAPI’s and BADI’s
• Utilized third party tool Win Shuttle to upload master and transactional data
• Converted legacy POS system TLogs, crafted transformational logic in the ESB layer and mapped POS business transactions to POSDM and ECC
• Consolidated E-Commerce sites and provided a unique map to manage incoming E-commerce sales data and subsequent processes
• Configured POSDM to receive sales, reversals, financials, controls, totals and goods movement
• Configured Inventory Movements for Stock Transfers, Automated Inventory Adjustments(scrap in/out), Transfer postings, Return to Vendor or Warehouse, Return to QI, move to Block and Recalls
• Configured profiles, tasks, rules and created aggregation methods to consolidate transaction data
• Implemented Credit / Debit card settlement functionality utilizing SAP standard delivered encryption libraries to mask card data and customer information on PCI-DSS complaint architecture
• Configured SAP LPA (Loss Prevention Analytics) functionality and POS In-Memory analytics for BI reporting
• Configured ECC SD pricing procedures, Revenue account determination and ECC POS inbound and outbound interface
• Configured article movements, billing documents and financial postings in SAP ECC
• Hands-on with ABAP development workbench, Object oriented technologies and SAP enhancement methodologies

Confidential

SAP ECC Retail 6.3 / SAP AFS 6.3 Wholesale Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead consultant for Global SAP IS-Retail Merchandising, SAP POS 2.2 I/ Triversity, SAP POS/DM and SAP IS-AFS Wholesale systems for Americas, LTAM, EMEA and APAC countries. Solution was implemented for five hundred stores worldwide with multiple currencies, languages, time zones and taxes
• Realized savings of $ 1.0 MM by implementing Quality Controls, Test Methodology, and project procedures with off-shore and on-shore teams and business peers by controlling project scope and by building partnerships with business project owners
• Architected and blue printed all aspects of Integration scenarios with SAP AFS wholesale solution at Functional and Technical levels with SAP IS-Retail and external systems
• Configured profiles for stores, administrative functions, created custom tasks with hooks using ABAP technology
• Worked extensively with third party clearing house to implement credit card settlement process
• Configured POS tender types, paid-in/ paid-outs, discounts, gift cards, mall certificates, store coupons, vouchers, traveler’s checks, taxes and means of payment and financial, totals, goods movement and sale transactions both in POSDM and in IS-Retail SD
• Configured Retail Pricing, Promotions, Markdowns and Bonus buys and integrated with POS stores
• Integrated SAP AFS and SAP Retail Master data (articles, merchandise categories, taxes, upc/ean, pricing and promotions management) with stores
• Architected and integrated trickle/EOD feed of store TLOGs from SAP POS 2.2 I/ Triversity 10.2) systems via middleware PI to PIPE/POSDM and generated IDOCs to be posted in ECC Retail
• Configured custom tasks and rules to implement aggregations to optimize outbound functionality
• Configured and Deployed Loss Prevention Analytics (LPA) to identify critical POS transactions that corresponds to certain patterns for further analysis in SAP BW system
• Configured POS inbound and outbound functionality, configured sales receipts, goods movement, financial postings, payment types, follow-on documents and pricing procedures
• Upgraded SAP Retail 5.0 core merchandising system to SAP 6.0 support pack SP02
• Configured Store Retail Systems (SRS) for Store Operation that creates Store to Store Transfers, Price changes, Goods Movements, Return to vendors, Return to Stock, Physical inventory and Stock Overviews
• Created end to end test plan and scripts that spans across POS systems, POSDM and Retail ECC
• Developed functional specifications for pre and post validations of business day data, tender balancing and total records balancing with tax calculations
• Created functional specifications to address gaps in the POSDM and BW integration utilizing SAP enhancement techniques via BAPIs, BADIs and Enhancement Spots
• Worked with Sales Audit to define POSDM reporting requirements for BW
• Implemented SAP Credit Card settlement process using SAP Crypto libraries with special focus on encryption/decryption of credit and debit numbers and customer details
• Architected credit and debit card settlement process end-to-end by working with clearing houses and adhering to their certification standards
• Integrated E-Commerce, SAP AFS Internet sales and Retail sales channels with SAP CRM components
• Implemented SAP Retail-SD revenue account determination procedures to sales and returns
• Spearheaded marketing campaign solution utilizing SAP CRM to enable customer segmentation and accelerated reporting solutions as a method of developing a new business and integrated with 3rd party solution
• Architected POSDM sales to SAP Vistex Incentive Paybacks and commission processes to calculate Royalties
• Architected and blue printed all aspects of Integration scenarios with SAP AFS wholesale solution at Functional and Technical levels with SAP IS-Retail and external systems
• Spearheaded marketing campaign solution utilizing SAP CRM to enable customer segmentation and accelerated reporting solutions as a method of developing a new business and integrated with 3rd party solution
• Implemented Credit and Debit card settlements with third party vendor Paymetric solution
• Assisted Sales Audit team in the Integration and UAT testing

Confidential

SAP ABAP Technical Expert

Responsibilities:

• Supporting Global SAP Financial implementation that spans across SAP ERP, SAP BI, IBM ESB, IBM MDM and non-SAP systems
• Developed consolidated application roadmap reducing application proliferation and enhancing process standardization across different businesses and geographies.
• Worked with business personnel to define improvement opportunities in all processes and developed business case for implementing incremental functionality within SAP
• Assisted in formulating and implementing technology and information programs that will contribute to process integrity, effective controls, global consistency, increasing information value and operating efficiency
• Assisted in developing enterprise data architecture and integrated master and transactional data that transcended across SAP, EAI, EDI and Legacy systems
• Participated in establishing Global Competency Service Center that leveraged RUN SAP Framework to operate and optimize to support SAP business processes and SAP Landscape
• Configured and integrated SAP Financial modules GL, AP and AR with legacy and non-SAP systems

Confidential

SAP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Project architect accountable for leading and implementing the Supply Chain - IS-Retail solution that delivered an annual savings of $20MM, project implemented in 180 stores with 5000 concurrent users in North America
• Configured and architected largest SAP Retail Supply Chain implementation with SAP SD, SAP POSDM, SAP F&R and SAP IS-Retail Merchandising.
• Implemented Store Operations using Portal as a front-end utilizing WebDynPro technology to create Store transfers, Rough and Detailed goods receipts, Article Stock look ups and Inventory movements
• Integrated and configured SAP POSDM to receive Daily Sales, Vault data, and Inventory data aggregated at store level to be fed ultimately to SAP Retail and delta queues to SAP BI/POSDM
• Configured retail pricing and promotions and integrated with POS systems
• Configured F&R for DC and Store forecasting and replenishment integrated with SAP ECC and POSDM systems
• Configured Exception Management, DIFs, F&R Processor and Order Proposal management
• Converted initial and delta data: master, time series and consumption to F&R
• Configured Allocations, Replenishment Planning, Distribution Chains, Reference Articles, Sites, Assortments, Listing Procedures, Merchandise Categories and Alternative Hierarchies.
• Architected complex multiple legacy master and transactional data sources migration to SAP ECC 6.0 with repeatable, reusable and simplified processes that produced clean retail master and transactional data which has the ability to enact the process with less supervision for multiple roll-outs.
• Architected and managed EDI/B2B solution with 3rd party product and vendors for purchasing and financial documents
• Hands-on in import logistics with third party vendors and integration points within SAP ECC, boundary systems utilizing EAI/ETL tools, SAP PI with Seeburger adapters and Gentran EDI/B2B system for vendors that has multiple EDI standards and formats
• Implemented B2B solutions for over 60,000 vendors by adopting standards such as AS2 and EDIFACT and ANSI X12
• Designed and implemented GTS to support and facilitate systemic data feeds of order details, shipping information, and customs clearance submissions between Confidential, Customs Brokers, and Third Party Logistics Providers.
• Worked with Application and Infrastructure project teams at all phases of the project lifecycle. Review project charters and functional requirements/designs and develop appropriate technical architecture, systems integration and technical requirement definition plans and designs.
• Participated in the largest Global Financial implementation that spanned across SAP ERP, SAP BI, SAP SEM, ARIBA Purchasing and boundary systems.
• Implemented centralized Master Data Management Enterprise initiative at Confidential .
• Created MDM Standards, Governance and Compliance Methodologies.
• Defined To-Be and AS-IS processes, Data Cleansing and Validation procedures
• Created Functional Specifications and technical specifications for MDM custom development including technology to push master data to external/internal applications.
• Implemented conversion of Legacy data utilizing LSMW, BAPIs, BDCs and RFC. Lead a team of off-shore and on-site teams to manage forty conversions both master and transactional data.
• Integrated non-merchandising products with SAP ERP and ARIBA procurement system
• Established procedures for SOX compliance to manage master data after post-go live
• Accountable for the Audit requirements of the project, including a series of interactive reports and tools for POS Exception, Gap Analysis, POS Sales Tax Interface, Cash Receipts, Store Security, and Loss Prevention