SUMMARY:

• Executive SAP Program Manager and Senior Business Transformation Management Leader to have championed many Global and North American SAP programs successfully over last 18 years including SAP S4 HANA transformation for retail, fashion, consumer goods and manufacturing industries.
• I will ONLY respond to personalized emails or phone calls. Automated emails will not be responded and INTERNATIONAL CALLERS are excused.
• Currently advising a leading global retail & fashion company implementing SAP S4 HANA 1610
• Led 4 - large SAP programs for a fortune 500 company driving $3+ billion revenue in North America
• Revived a troubled SAP program in North America which went live after strategic changes to leadership, vendor staff, project team and delivery approach.
• Led SAP programs with direct accountability to the CFO and direct reports that included corporate senior directors, IT program managers, project managers and vendor delivery leaders
• Liaison to CEO, CFO and EVPs throughout the program to align on progress, risks, quality matrices and KPI measurements
• Led migration of 8 companies that were acquired by the Fortune 500 client onto the global SAP platform
• Led the change management and business transformation in close collaboration with Executive Vice Presidents of individual business units and channel leaders
• Championed SAP S4 HANA implementation that included Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Finance and Retail business functions
• Led two large North America SAP transformation E2E programs that included integrated business process areas such as Quotations (Market to Order), Sales Order Management, Pricing, Warehouse & Distribution, Supply Chain, Finance, Reporting, Global Master Data Management, Integrations, EDI, Enterprise Cloud enablement (SAP HANA)
• Provide hands-on oversight to change impact assessment, stakeholder expectation management, business/customers change management, communications and strategic cutover/rollout planning
• Developed creative analytics and operational performance reporting that provided real time visibility of operations, sales, financials and overall business performance post GoLive to all C-level executive leaders
• Over last 12 years I have been directly reporting to CFO, CIO or EVP of my clients providing comprehensive leadership to SAP implementations overseeing program setup, governance, execution controls, quality oversight and leading all aspects of the execution.
• Led client leadership in working with Confidential, SAP AG and Big 4 consulting organizations in evaluating SAP cloud capabilities and SAP enterprise cloud architecture that included solutions on SAP S4 HANA 1511, 1610 and 1709 releases.
• Led initial pilot rollout of Finance and Logistics on SAP BSoH (Business Suite on HANA)
• More than 18 years of SAP implementation experience in diverse industries i.e. Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Chemicals, Food, etc.
• Extensive experience with SAP project and program management tools such as Microsoft Project Server (PWA) and Microsoft Share Point
• Over 10+ years of SAP business transformation leadership experience in deploying global template across multiple countries, business channels and subsidiaries.
• Additional 6 short term engagements (2-10 weeks) providing business transformation advisory guidance, SAP project failure investigations, new program setup and periodic SAP project health assessments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program Advisor and Lead

• Engaged by Senior Vice President to lead two global SAP transformation initiatives including a global template implementation for SAP S4 HANA 1610 release which include SAP retail and fashion industry solutions within the S4 HANA suite
• Led future state technical infrastructure assessment initiative with advisory technology vendor to evaluate cloud hosting options, networking, hardware requirements and resource model to support the new SAP S4 HANA landscape.
• Advised the client management on the proposals submitted by the big 4 vendors
• Reviewed the statement of work for the execution of the project and advised the sponsors to modify the documents where necessary
• Responsible for program progress, reporting, risk assessment and delivery management overseeing the delivery from all the IT vendors including big 4 implementation partner
• Assessed the SAP S4 HANA release compatibility with business requirements while continuously working with Confidential and SAP AG to review the HANA 1610 release and evaluating gaps in the standard SAP product including Fiori UI, new functionalities, CAR, GRC, etc.
• Collaborated with the PMO to define the project governance protocols, PWA reporting requirements and project planning
• Advised the architecture team on overall solution architecture including integrations with all co-existing legacy applications, EDI and middleware (SAP PI/PO)
• Two short term client engagements (Project Setup & RFP preparation)
• (Scope: Advise COO on new SAP program setup and vendor selection)
• Engaged by major healthcare organization to assess the existing SAP ecosystem in preparation for upcoming reimplementation. Provided guidance to leadership to define the business case and setup the vendor evaluation/selection process to be initiated late Q1 2017.
• Advise SAP implementation partner to prepare RFP for upcoming Supply Chain and APO implementation for a leading pharmaceutical company. Collaborated in creation of proposal and project estimates.

Confidential

SAP Transformation Leader

• Led national business transformation SAP program for both US and Canada as Executive Program Lead engaged as a Management Consultant
• Led transformation, harmonization and migration of EIGHT company acquisitions onto a new global template
• Business functions in scope for these SAP implementations include Quotations, Sales Order Entry, Order Management, Pricing, Warehousing and Distribution, Supply Chain, Finance, Commissions, Enterprise Data Management, Customer Portals and Reporting.
• SAP packages included migrations onto Global SAP ECC platform, deployment of SAP S4 HANA solution and Fiori deployment for select business processes.
• Defined the North America IT roadmap and business transformation strategy partnering with C-level leaders and corporate executive vice presidents.
• Led resolution of critical business production issues and continuous improvements in legacy SAP systems as well as new deployed global template
• Established ongoing progress measurement metrics and tracking of project milestones against the Q-gates defined for the program
• Led organization change management with direct oversight of business change impact assessment.
• Widely recognized by the global corporate executive leadership for successfully these large complex programs and gaining operational success of newly deployed systems within the 6-8 week hyper care period.
• Worked with large SAP implementation vendors as primary systems integrator on each of these programs including Big 4 implementation partner.

Confidential

Government SAP Transformation Project

• Trusted Advisor to the government and SAP big 4 implementation partner to establish project vision, strategy and execution approach
• Led development of SAP implementation roadmap and detailed project plan across all the business functions and project work streams
• Led the governance of the program and track progress by establishing solution deployment & PMO metrics
• Collaborated with Project Manager of the systems integrator to ensure the project is planned with a comprehensive WBS and staffed with highly qualified SAP solution architects and senior SAP functional & technical consultants
• Led the change control board and reviewed all change requests presented by business as well as IT.
• Provided guidance to the program leadership and steering committee on project health and advise these executive stakeholders on risks/issues.
• Conducted review of project deliverables, business acceptance, change management, etc.
• Led resolution to program issues by establishing a crisis management team where necessary
• Facilitate the weekly program leadership meetings and run/advise the project steering committee meetings

Confidential

Trusted Advisor

• Engaged by the CIO and Senior Vice President of Business Applications of the company to lead the SAP implementation.
• Jointly led the program with the SVP and Business Executive Sponsor
• Primarily responsible for all aspects of the program including governance, decision making, staffing, vendor selection, deployment strategy and E2E execution.
• Collaborated with Big 4 SAP systems integrator and project leadership to deliver expected results
• Spearheaded business case creation, program prime vendor selection and planning phase.
• Led the execution of all phases of the project and ensured the project was aligned with the scope and complied with quality benchmarks as per the best practices established by myself during the initiation phase.

Confidential

Program Manager, Project Manager

• Responsible for leading large projects right from scoping all the way until cutover stabilization. Primary responsibilities included: 1. Project scoping 2. Project high level and individual phase budget estimation 3. Develop project plan (MS Project) and underlying WBS 4. Define project charter 5. Define project RACI 6.Create deliverable templates 7. Develop project PMO templates and reporting structure 8.Prepare project PMO and Steering Committee meeting presentations 9. Setup tools and manage project issues and risks 10. Coordinate and manage project blueprint including requirements gathering, process designs and global template reviews 11. Review and administer the RICEF solution inventory 12. Facilitate deliverable, key milestones and project Q-gate (Quality Gate) reviews and acceptance 13. Manage and control build phase execution 14. Setup UAT structure and manage UAT execution 15. Manage data migration including migration dry runs and simulation 16. Facilitate review and approval of cutover, data migration and org change strategies 17. Lead the cutover preparation activities including data migrations as well as transaction & business migration activities 18. Lead the cutover communication along with project communication leads 19. Manage and coordinate all GoLive activities 20. Lead the cutover issues resolution and post cutover business and systems stabilization 21. Transition the project to the IT support team and complete the setup of business CoE (Center of Excellence) with experts to support the end user community and support future continuous improvement initiatives.
• Initially started with SAP in development and quickly moving into Solution Architect role. Soon after I served about 13 SAP client project (some concurrent) as SAP Project Manager and SAP PMO co-lead on many of these implementations. Most of these SAP projects also had a client business project manager as well as a SAP Project Manager from the primary implementation partner.
• Projects while at SAP included greenfield implementations as well as global template deployments at many of SAP’s premier clients such as: