SUMMARY:

• 15+ years in leadership roles implementing manufacturing, financial, and personnel systems on the following ERP platforms SAP, .Net, BPCS, AS400, UNIX and windows NT environments. Applied knowledge of SAP modules such as Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO), Material Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Project Systems (PS), Production and Planning (PP) and Human Resources (HR). Extensive hands on experience in each module in both configuration and programming.
• Project leader of SAP implementations and 3 upgrades for a multinational reporting company. Coordinated development, tracked budgets and lead in - house and consulting development teams. Project leadership roles included, initial project rationalization, configuration, supervision of human resources both consulting and internal team members, development of training plans. Conversion of master data. Go live preparedness post go live support and training needs.
• Application Developments include a .net finite scheduling, with real time updates to SAP PP. Shop Floor Machine Data Collection integrating, the scheduling, design and PP manufacturing processes. The .net application performed suggested algorithms which showed graphic gant like charts or "tags" for ease of use. These could be saved back to SAP or dragged and dropped to facilitate scheduling changes. These processes achieved significant cost reductions in time and personnel Developed HTML/Intranet based Sales Portal to communicate to our outside sales force inventory, sales history, billing and credit with information from the SAP ERP system. Developed HTML/Internet based Sales Exchanges with key customers..
• Real Time perpetual Inventory's eliminated back office transaction processing costs
• Interfaces include reporting data warehousing and stop tag management processing
• Fiber Optics being a length based process required the development of Material Selection Algorithms' to select and assign the most economical materials batches to Production orders
• Algorithms' optimize the truck scheduling, drag and drop technologies along with ALV allow ease of use to distribution personnel. These programs vastly reduced logistics costs and headcounts
• Warehouse movement Physical Inventory counting. Using gun applications have reduced the costs and personnel for factory support .
• Developed simplified custom front ends for customer consignment processing so 3rd parties can transact into our system without a vast knowledge of SAP processing
• Developed a simplified latest costing process and incorporated it into the SD pricing procedures and utilizing SD user exits the order process now tracks "low" margin orders and triggers emails and order blocking to management and sales representatives complete with a release procedure
• Implement COPA for Pirelli Tires, CO-PC in more than a dozen plants, Company code and chart of accounts including implemented changed chart of accounts and conversions related to acquisitions and divestiture. Fixed asset accounting again implementations and acquisition changeovers. FI-GL account determination validation substitution and user exits. Accounts payable processing including AP check forms and scripts.
• Configured master data related to reporting, pricing procedure and conditions. User exits in order entry, deliveries and invoicing. Implemented and maintain credit management and order flow processing
• Configure a dozen or more plants, lead and developed conversion from one SAP system to another. Created custom confirmation front ends, custom factory scheduling tools MRP & APO all areas of configuration including valuation and plant maintenance. Developed and lead master data conversion of material masters, texts and other master data related to conversion and changing business needs

ABAP SKILLS:

• Module Pool, ALVs, Workbench Fundamentals in ABAP, ABAP Dictionary and Object oriented programming with ABAP, Dialog programming. Creation & Maintenance of Tables, Structures, Views & other dictionary objects
• Interactive & Classical Reports creation using ABAP List Viewer (ALV)
• Graphical User Interface development to enable user easy access to a number of functions.
• Development of menu interfaces for various screens & Interactive lists including drag and drop or click and select functionality inside the custom screen. Also developed messaging and validations inside the screens to insure the correctness of the processing
• Transactional Reports: Numerous reports such as master data loads and daily transaction processing using both call transaction (with errors logs) and BAPI functionality. Also using SM35 session processing functionality
• Performance Report tuning and corrections. I have adjusted numerous reports to enhance the speed and efficiency of the program
• Developed reports and outputs in all SAP modules FICO, SD, MM, PP and QM.
• Creation and maintenance of user exists with have functionality to pop up warnings, validate and substitute data. Also have developed alerts like interfaces to email exceptions and notifications
• Developed and administered SAP-BW process for financial and sales information systems
• Created / Developed Extract and loading of B2B and internal Sales Portal of sales and profitability information
• Extraction and loading of master and transactional data to support acquisitions of new companies into and existing SAP system. Some acquisitions were from a legacy sap system while others were not
• Created numerous RFC interfaces to send receive SAP data to/from .net, SQL and other external systems

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential, Hickory, NC

Responsibilities:

• Develop Project plans, train end users, configure system settings and develop tools to migrate the data, testing and validating of transactional and master data

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Process design and implementation of automatic accounts payable direct deposits
• Process design and implementation of reports and downloads to load data to BW warehousing

Confidential, SC

Responsibilities:

• FICO Lead and ABAP development. Configuration and testing, Training of new users, Develop ABAP to convert over legacy master data

Director of Business Systems Development

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities for three divisions in 5 plants in two countries.
• Lead a staff of 5 technical individuals.

Confidential

Asst Division Controller

Responsibilities:

• Originally hired to correct a $1.3 million inventory shortfall.
• This situation arose due to an improper systems implementation.
• I corrected the systems and personnel within four months.

Confidential

Cable \ Plant Controller

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is committed to the "team" aspect of manufacturing, with many decisions being empowered to our hourly associates.