Global Manager Resume Houston, TX - Hire IT People

PROFILE:

Results - driven, hands-on SAP PMO Manager with extensive experience as a leader and change agent in designing, developing and implementing global SAP projects, both strategically and tactically.
Proficiency in full project lifecycle oversight, business process improvement and change management methodologies.
Proven track record of successfully analyzing business issues and risks and redesigning processes to create significant improvement in operational productivity and efficiencies.
Talented in building, leading and motivating high-performing teams with an emphasis on instilling accountability, customer focus and commitment to excellence.
Recognized for building collaborative relationships with clients, superb stakeholder management, and creating and sustaining a positive work environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Global Manager

Responsibilities:

During these 18 months, the PMO team successfully implemented 7 projects, deploying Confidential ’s SAP template at Confidential
Assumed hands-on leadership of troubled major US implementation project and successfully delivered on the revised schedule.
This was a $700M electrical Confidential business with 800 users coming from 5 different legacy systems.
Project team had over 50 resources and a $7M budget. Scope included full SAP functionality plus significant interfaces to support a separate Service Management application.
Established project governance review process to drive successful execution of other SAP projects. Completed ~50 projects meeting targets for On Time (75%) and On Budget (70%).
Managed project portfolio to ensure alignment with business priorities, reviewing on average 40 pending projects to assess business benefits and resource availability.

Manager PMO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Led program to establish foundational interfaces between Confidential legacy systems and Confidential ’s SAP instance following the acquisition.
Over two years, 9 interfaces were successfully implemented with a budget of $3.4M.
Directly managed the re-implementation of a new SAP enterprise structure for 4 Mexican sites to support tax savings opportunities.
Annual benefits of $32M were realized.
Coordinated the planning of SAP implementation program for the Americas Electrical sector. Worked closely with senior business and IT leaders to establish the overall program structure to provide business prioritization and support to migrate 57 Confidential Americas sites into the Confidential SAP system. Funding for this program was not approved due to other high priority projects at Confidential .
Led integration of former Confidential PMO processes into Confidential ’s methodology and developed plans to transfer the updated Confidential methodology to the former Confidential IT team.

Senior Manager - PMO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Established project selection/approval process, ensuring new project requests were reviewed by appropriate program and resource managers, and aligned with senior leadership and business priorities.
Implemented Project Server 2010 to improve Confidential ’s ability to track and manage IT projects, including defining the requirements necessary to support Confidential ’s project tracking methodology. Also defined adoption metrics to improve overall project quality of Corporate and Division projects.
Worked closely with corporate and division marketing teams to implement a Content Management System to support redesign of Confidential ’s website.
The project had a $1.2M budget, eliminated 7 legacy systems and resulted a simplified and consistent look and feel.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Led successful global SAP roll-in for Confidential Bussmann (18 months, $3.4M).
Provided hands-on management of configuration and development activities for business, internal IT and contractor teams.
Successful go-lives for full suite of SAP functionality at Confidential.
Led integration testing and cutover of Confidential Power Systems roll-in, resulting in a smooth and successful transition from their legacy SAP R/3 3.1H system to 4.7 Enterprise.
Provided project management support for the Confidential Lighting and Confidential Crouse-Hinds division roll-ins, developing work plans and tools to monitor progress of 4 concurrent projects in different phases.
Successfully managed integration testing and cutover activities.
Provided project governance and guidance to other three other division implementation teams to drive consistency and overall quality.
Managed additional infrastructure/technology projects for data archiving, system consolidation, Unicode conversion, and insourcing from SAP Hosting to on-premise.