SUMMARY:

Experienced leader in ERP Program/Project management/Technical Architect and the delivery of large, complex ERP/SAP projects. Broad/deep business process understanding in Procure - to-Pay, Pricing, Order-to-Cash, HR processes, Mergers and Acquisitions, ETL strategy, Third-party software integrations. Expertise in SAP - HCM, EAM, FSCM, OTC, MM, R2R, Pricing, Technical Development, Portal 7.0 and Product development.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

• Program manager with 20 years of US- based SAP experience in international oil and gas, governmental, financial, pharmaceutical and software industries.
• SAP ECC, SAP Hana, Oracle, Salesforce
• Successful in leading complex, multi-million dollar projects to on-time and under-budget completion. ASAP methodology proficient
• Modules: HCM, OTC, FI/CO, MM, PM, Portal 7.0
• Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills. Strength in building consensus. Ability to work across organizations and levels, from executives to functional teams and IT. Managing non development teams in planning, requirements gathering, estimates and scope and Change management. Proficient in GRC/SOD and ITIL
• SAP CTS/Release mgmt, Abap Webdynpro, BSP, Development Workbench, DCOM, Menu BODS, Vendavo
• Experience with project scoping, timeline determination planning, estimation, execution and implementation methodology, Data validation strategy including template design and rollouts and Cutover activities.
• MS Project-PWA, Visio, Documentum, HPQC, Java, VBA, ASP 3.0, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports, C, Oracle, SharePoint O365, SQL Server
• Staff and competency development experience with strong coaching and mentoring skills. Managed large teams, including on-shore and off-shore development teams.
• 8 SAP implementations.1 ECC-6 upgrade, many project management and support projects in SAP and in other software solutions such as SharePoint, Vendavo and Clickschedule. SAP Product development (iCrew, MSS, SSW using Ajax). Experience with big 4 consulting firm.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• EAM-CARS Project: Over $4 mn initiative to transform the CAR business processes such as Inspect, Repair, Move, Invoice and more. I managed the Vendor selection process, Vendor on boarding, Design thinking sessions, Blueprinting workshops, Resource management, Project governance, RAID’s governance, Development objects estimation, Trend reports and other more.
• SAP Ariba Product evaluation project: This project is to assess Ariba’s s/w feasibility in the Sourcing and AP departments. The tasks included scheduling workshops, managing RAID items and follow up tasks.
• Fleet Management Pilot Project: This is a pilot initiative to implement a SAAS fleet management s/w in two markets. The vendor will manage the company’s fleet of vehicles, resources who drive them, Claims and other related business processes. I managed Blueprinting workshops, created a detailed project plan and other project governance activities.
• T-companies Transition Project: The parent company acquired an Intermodal and S/W sales company utilizing its own Informix legacy system with modules such as Intermodal, Software and Service sales. Project was initiated to integrate the backend systems with SAP to reduce redundancy. I managed a complex SAP Transition project of six company codes into SAP of modules such as HCM, P2P, R2R, Security(GRC/SOD) & BW. The project duration was for 7 months with over 20 onshore & offshore resources. The internal cost of the project was around $5 mn. Project tasks included managing Business blueprinting sessions, Data conversion, Interfaces, Weekly Cadences, Leadership updates, OCM tasks such as Communication & Training. We went successfully live at the end of 2016
• SAP Hana Upgrade Project: This project was part of the Technical currency initiative and also strategically aligned with moving the company onto a Simple Finance and Logistics systems in future. I managed the upgrade of modules such as HCM, P2P, R2R, BW, BOBJ, EAM, EHSM & Security(GRC/SOD). The project consists of over 80 resources both onshore & offshore with tasks consisting of Hardware upgrade, SAP premium support, Test cases development, Time management, Capacity and Demand planning, Co-ordination with the Business partners, Cutover plan & more. Five test cycles (Unit, String, Integration, UAT, DR) were executed to resolve any defects tied to SAP transactions, Security & Hardware issues. Also managed test cases development workshops and ESS/MSS blueprinting workshops. The cost of the project was around $8 mn.
• TRACS project: The objective of this Consortium project is to manage the transition from Mainframe of Time to Gross payroll, Bid/Bump, Gross to Net payroll, Bulletin process and other Union workforce functionalities into SAP. Managed the Vendor selection process, Vendor scorecard, Vendor interviews and conducting Vendor orals. I built in O365 Sharepoint portal Risks, KDD, Issues, Action items and Parking lot items list. Workflow was also enabled to track item lifecycle. Currently in Build phase.

SAP Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Lawrenceville, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed a total of 4 projects - Infrastructure, SAP HCM, SAP FI (OTC, P2P and Eloqua implementation) and Security
• Managed Networking, AD integration, Email migration to O365, Telepresence and XP remediation
• Managed progress of 20 team members, including lead planning, requirement gathering, estimates, milestones/q-gates, SAP Release mgmt., UAT and Cutover planning.
• Vendor management: Worked with the Vendor on Purchase of Telepresence and Networking gears
• Lead and Opportunities - Eloqua: Planned the implementation of Eloqua s/w with Quickbase CRM
• Provided variance reporting, Metrics, Risks and Action items tracking, Rroject plan updates in PWA
• Change management: Worked with the CM team to trigger communications and training activities pertaining to Operational and Organizational changes.

ERP Project Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Contract Approval System: Managed offshore programmers and onshore testers (7 resources and a budget of $1M) in the migration of C ontract A pproval S ystem to SQL and SharePoint, as well as the business rules and Org charts to SAP BPM. Process for data migration included 4 mock cycles and a Go-live with the migration 15 tables and 140K attachments tied to Contract records
• Pricing Project: Pricing in SAP is not flexible and dynamic therefore the Business decided to implement a new Pricing solution called Vendavo. It is designed for Quoted materials (zero price) and managing the full lifecycle of a Sales starting from Deal management, Price manager and Profit analyzer. I developed Conversion and Validation strategy for Data migration by leading the On/Offshore teams. I also managed over three UAT’s working closely with the Business. This was a SDLC project with a budget of $1.5M and 12 resources were part of the team.
• Financial Supply Chain Management: To efficiently manage Customers and balance a sale with any potential Collection and Dispute resolutions expenses it was decided to implement FSCM module. I managed the Business process and Data migration from Oracle to SAP pertaining to Collection Profile, Dispute management, Credit management including the co-ordination of File creation, Interface development, Business processes, SAP CTS Releases and Four Testing phases. We utilized HPQC for defect resolution after each test cycle, keeping the project on-time and under budget.
• Click Schedule Integration: Due to challenges presented by Mobile workforce it became imperative to manage their productivity and the assets utilization required to execute a Work order. A 3 rd party Workforce/Field Mobility Management software “Clickschedule” was implemented. Master and transaction data pertaining for Crews and Materials/Services were extracted, transformed and loaded from an ERP system to ClickSchedule.
• Chemical company acquisition integration: The parent firm acquired an Oil rig servicing firm Multi-Chem which serviced rigs throughout the South-West US. To derive the benefits of the acquisition and cut down redundancy it was decided to migrate business processes (FI, OTC, FSCM, Sales agreement and Treater trucks) and data from the Oracle EBS system to SAP. I managed a $2M and 20 resources SDLC project of integrating SAP processes such as OTC, SCM, MFG, P2P and FA. The method selected to migrate Master and transaction data was to use secure FTP with data extract and transformation done in Oracle system and loads in SAP. I created Project plans, Variance reports, SAP CTS release schedules, RFC, Conversion trackers, Metrics and Load summary.

Project Manager

Confidential, Monroe, LA

Responsibilities:

• Managed a $100K SDLC project with 4 resources by creating SOW with the client for their HR Benefits Annual enrollment process.
• Timely delivery of the solution was critical and new benefits requirements were evolving.
• Front-end was in AJAX/Java and API calls were made to read/write data from SAP.
• Managed an offshore team to help develop the Annual enrollment application.

ERP Technical Architect

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gatherings sessions and review current business practices and determine “ to-be” processes
• High-level timeline, Implementation Project plan, Cost-benefit analysis for each region and product lines, Vendor-SI assessment and pricing
• Gathering requirements for On-premise or Hosted solution, Hardware and IT Infrastructure assessment, Hosted Ownership transition plan

Technical/Conversion Lead

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Designed project plan for migrating Oracle data to SAP ECC 6.0 for P2P, PD, IM, R2R and OTC modules using offshore resources. Resolved resource over-allocation and leveling for 400 objects in MS Project
• Sold implementation of HCM-OM module through analysis of complex workflow, cost center hierarchy, and appropriation requests
• Designed user interface for new proprietary crew management module for dispatching, planning, administration (pay & time), management (OM) and deployment of crews

Confidential

SAP Team Manager, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Led the ETL project of client’s mainframe-based legacy system managed by Hewitt, a retirees and benefits system handled by their benefits group, an FI system managed by Confidential and several 3 rd party vendors to Confidential ’s euHReka SAP system. Tasks included Cutover planning, SAP CTS release schedule, Test cycles and post go-live planning.
• Led multiple development teams of over 10 resources in developing over 50 inbound and outbound interfaces.
• The resources were based in countries such as Argentina, Spain, Morocco and Malaysia.
• Coordinated the development of Interfaces such as 3 rd party deduction and contribution data, Associate change feed from PeopleSoft to SAP on a daily basis (PeopleSoft connector), Single Client Demographic and Financial feed to Fidelity (Pay, Time and Personal data), SAP demographic feed to clients HRMS system.
• Developed several interfaces such as HRSYNC, Sedgwick and Marsh interfaces. Created and implemented Test cycle schedules, CTS release schedules and Dress rehearsal.