SUMMARY:

• Extremely self - motivated ERP System and IT professional with a proven record; based on tenacity with a special focus on cost-effective results. Earned ITIL versions 2.0 and 3.0 certifications relative to IT Service Management. Strong background in both Accounts Payable and Receivable (20+ years); with an emphasis on month-end closing processes, procedures, and protocols.
• Coordinated, tested (positively and negatively), and documented inbound and outbound banking interface files; utilizing BAI2, ACH, and EDI formats within various SAP release versions; and within various business sectors (Aerospace & Defense Public Utilities, Energy, and Consumer Markets). Above-average troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Solid understanding of all phases/cycles within the SDLC; to include both traditional (Waterfall) and Agile approaches to the same. SAP S/4 HANA diagnostic and gap analysis -related to Vendor/Customer Integration initiatives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Springdale, AR

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

• Document business and system requirements related to proposed system enhancements.
• Perform SAP (ERP) infrastructure and patch testing - relevant to associated P2P interfaces and/or custom upload transactions.
• Configure and test objects related to the addition of new payment methods.
• Liaison with selected Company Bank partner; and internal eBusiness Team to inititate and complete all testing related to the transmission and completion of wire transfer payments. -
• Confirm configuration settings for steady-state production environment as preparations are made to add configuration deemed necessary for ACM 4.0 functions; via smoke and functional unit testing.
• Complete/ Propose functional specifications necessary for peer, P2P Team, and P2P Business Unit review and approvals.
• Coordinate and Host Business and Team Review meetings; to present and further detail functional specifications.
• Serve as Compliance and Controls Owner for P2P workstream; during key migration and multi-system integration activities/projects.
• Provide confirmation respective to key operational (financial and IS) controls - deemed as required via internal Accounting and Controls areas; to also include IS Governance areas.
• Serve as liaison between IS and Financial Business units; to resolve system incidents; and/or complete assigned IS project work (through all phases of SDLC).
• Liaise between Bank Partners and internal finance (Treasury, Corporate Accounting, Credit and Accounts Payable) departments to complete Bank Project Charter/SOW.
• Serve as Project Manager for internal IT projects -requiring FI integration within the Company’s ECC 6.0 SAP system landscape.
• Collaborate with Company eBusiness (EDI) Team resource to translate and submit outbound electronic bank files - for subsequent ACH and WIRE payments to Customers/Vendors.
• Provide production support as assigned; utilizing BMC Remedy Incident Management system.

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

Substitute Teacher

• Maintain classroom order; and deliver classroom instructions to TPS students (within elementary, middle/junior and high schools) throughout the TPS school district in the absence of regularly-assigned employees.
• Monitor playground activities during recess as assigned.
• Proctor SRI and OCCT Tests - for junior/senior high students if/when/as deemed necessary.

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

Application Management Specialist

• Managed co-located functional and technical resources within Client engagements.
• Organized cross-modular testing required to isolate system-delivered defects or issues.
• Created, reviewed and approved test plans and efforts relevant to the migration of SAP Notes (from Dev thru QA to Production).
• Reconciled custom program attributes relative to FSCM transfer of logistics data to Finance. (UKM TRANSFER VECTOR ).
• Tested and deployed SAP Package (OSS) Notes to ensure system updates related to key UKM TRANSFER VECTOR transaction.
• Liaison with system vendor support to resolve delivered defects or issues.
• Provided feedback/info/approvals as AMS Product Owner during daily Scrum calls and Storyboarding sessions; related to ongoing HPSM package release projects.
• Successfully transitioned the Firm’s first Financial Services Transformation Client into the AMS service line. (Note: Success Factors, Cloud-based SAP ECC 6.0 engagement that also included interfaces relevant to SAP Mobility.)
• Re-engineered entire collection process; relevant to government billings within a multi-year assignment to a key Aerospace & Defense entity.
• Re-engineered collection process related to government defense contract billings.
• Served as Agile Product Owner during HPSM package releases; to include storyboarding and, sprint grooming sessions, and daily scrum calls.
• Liaised with Firm GTS resources to review and analyze test plans; confirm incident resolution and estimate levels of task difficulty with IBM RTC tool. - for assigned tasks.

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

SAP Specialist

• Point-of-Contact/System Administrator for A/R and A/P issues or concerns; throughout AMR Corporation’s U.S. Domestic, Latin-American, European, and Asia/Pacific locations.
• Served as SAP Accounts Payable Administrator for ATO and CTO locations throughout Confidential ; to include AA’s corporate and subsidiary office locations.
• Gathered/Translated/Documented business and/or system requirements as necessary; relative to IT implementation and/or enterprise software finance enhancement projects.
• Performed diagnostic and decomposition analysis of SAP 3.0H system (FI-AR/AP) programs in preparation for system upgrade to release version 4.5B.
• Team Lead - AMR Accounts Payable/Receivable - AMR Financials Euro Conversion Project
• Team Lead - AMR Accounts Payable/Receivable- AMR Financials’ Unclaimed Property Initiative
• Team Lead - AMR Financials’ SAP Data Archiving Initiative

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP R/3, SAP ERP, SAP ECC 6.0, DB2, Westbury Web Intelligence Reporting, MS Office Suite HPSM (ITIL-based incident management reporting tool), and IBM RTC (Rational Team Concert)