SUMMARY:

• Results - driven, innovative and collaborative S4/HANA and SAP ECC Program/ Project Manager and Solution Architect involving Sales, Manufacturing, Finance, BW and Business Analytics.
• On-time and on-budget delivery of large, complex, global programs for Fortune 500 companies. 18 plus years of experience with SAP S4 HANA and ECC, including mergers and corporate divestitures, spanning North America, Europe, South America and Asia.
• Extensive expertise in business case development, systems integration strategy, business process re-engineering, analysis, design, implementation, user documentation, and seminars, executive presentations, and quality assurance reviews with demonstrated ability to identify business needs and provide realistic solutions.
• Presales, Solution Delivery, Integration and Architecture, Business Reengineering and Transformation Programs
• Direct client and C-Level executive interaction
• Program/Project Management with multinational, multiyear projects, and vendor management, both offshore and onshore
• SAP Global Template Design and Rollouts
• BIG-5 Consulting Companies Experience
• Industry experience in automotive, food and beverage, health care, retail, finance, consumer products, transportation, wholesale distribution
• $20M Plus global programs
• S4 HANA RFPs, Business Case, Assessments, Discovery Workshops, Solutioning and Estimation and Implementation Roadmaps
• S4 HANA Finance, S/4 HANA Sales, S/4 HANA Manufacturing, SAP Leonardo, BW and Analytics
• S/4 HANA Migrations (New Implementation, System Conversion, Landscape Transformation)
• ASAP and Activate Methodologies
• Organizational Change Management
• Machine Learning and Blockchain Knowledge
• AWS and Azure Cloud technologies
• Delivered multiple projects as a program manager, project manager or team lead using Waterfall, AGILE and 3rd party System Integrator methodologies.
• Defined the scope and project charters in collaboration with client and project sponsors.
• Created project plans with clear identification of task sequences needed to successfully complete the project.
• Developed and maintained the RAID Log (Risks, Actions, Issues, and Decisions).
• Estimated budgets for projects in confirmation with project sponsors and tracked the actuals against the budgeted.
• Analyzed software vendor support cost for packaged software and presented the RFIs and RFPs along with the synopsis of existing relationship with the vendor.
• Well versed with Cost Benefit Analysis of ERP Implementations and preparing Statement of works (SOWs).
• Managed project time lines by monitoring the dependencies of the activities with milestones.
• Initiated Software Architecture Review with architects and enterprise review teams as per the SOX guidelines.
• Managed change control by working with system users/ sponsor/ product owners.
• Led the project kick-off meetings for blueprint and realization, worked alongside the client’s project manager (IT SME) for joint weekly project status reporting, managed issues and risks, reviewed minutes of meeting and business process design documents (BPDs) for each work stream.
• Determined the resources to complete projects and developed resource allocation schedules for on-site and offshore.
• Presented weekly and monthly status reports to Directors and VPs of technology and business partners.
• Reviewed the work completed with the project teams on a regular basis to ensure that it meets project standards.
• Conducted sprint planning meetings, daily scrum calls, sprint review meetings and retrospections as Scrum Master.
• Reviewed and revised the project schedule and budget with senior management and other stakeholders.
• Managed defects by using HP Quality Center/ Rally to ensure the quality and productivity of the team

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP S/4 HANA Practice/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Development and Management of S/4 HANA practice, S/4 HANA Roadmaps and Migrations.
• Responsible for Account Management, Program Management, Project Delivery/Implementations and Customer Support on multiple projects in USA.
• Responsible for the daily operations of the practice, including interviewing and hiring employees, management of practice budget, definition and implementation of KPIs to all managers and consultants.
• Led the proof-of-concepts, conference room pilots, requirements gathering and design workshops.
• Led the project kick-off meetings for blueprint and realization; worked alongside the client’s project managers for joint weekly project status reporting; managed issues and risks; reviewed minutes of meeting and business process design documents for various work streams.
• Prepared project plans, workshop schedules, integration plan, cut over plans and managed scope of work.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP S4 HANA Transformation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Defined the future roadmap and IT strategy for the Confidential Solution and translated the business demand into feasible IT projects and ensured solution design is aligned to IT strategy.
• Responsible for developing solution design, POC development, and delivery support.
• Partnered with SAP to develop a cloud based S/4 HANA POC to for CSM’s Frozen Foods Sales Division to report sales and financial KPIs.
• Validated business processes for migration from ECC to S4 HANA Finance for the frozen foods division.

Confidential

SAP Senior Manager/Competency Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for strategy, delivery, sales and practice development of the SAP practice. Accountable for managing and implementing SAP solutions for the Consumer Industry Practice.
• Led the operations of an international team and accountable for utilization, recruiting strategy, and career development, coaching and mentoring.
• Developed a 5-year business strategy plan and the staffing plan required to establish the practice. This included short and long-term strategy, marketing plan, service offerings, investment in people and technology, and financial plan.
• Managed the multi-year SAP project across a multi-site, multi-business unit subsidiary of multi-national client. Scope was complex SAP ECC and BI for financials, manufacturing, sales, distribution, purchasing, warehouse, inventory, and quality management processes.
• Developed the roadmap and delivered a $20M SAP Business Re-engineering Program for a large Healthcare company involving over 120 Confidential consultants to deliver SAP FICO, HR, Payroll, SD, SM, MM, CRM and BW, including off-shore technical development.
• Delivered SAP ERP and CRM Imitative Program for whole sale Distribution Company involving over 2,000 users.
• Led the project kick-off meetings for blueprint and realization, worked alongside the client’s project managers for joint weekly project status reporting, managed issues and risks, reviewed minutes of meeting and business process design documents for each work stream for a greeting cards company.
• Managed the SAP Finance Planning and Validation phase of an SAP Business Transformation Program for a major beverage company, utilizing SAP HANA and S/4 Finance as a platform.
• Developed a detailed project plan to take the team from configuration and development through testing and cut over to a successful on time Go Live for a transport company.
• Proposal for Implementation for SAP Business Transformation Program for one of the largest household manufacturing and distributing companies utilizing SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA Simple Financial/Fiori as the platform.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Multiyear Implementation Project as a Lead and a Subject Matter Specialist in Customer Relationship Management with the responsibility in the areas of project management, Testing and .
• Developed the migration and merger roadmap of Confidential and Confidential & Confidential .
• Delivered a 3 year, $20M Business Transformation Program on time and budget to establish a single instance.
• Replaced nearly 10 legacy systems, Migrated 12 Supply Chains resulting in $10M in savings.
• Defined current and future state models, implementation strategy and detailed work plan development, client, configuration and prototyping, system testing, and implementation support.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led for the implementation of SAP OTC for this heavy earth moving equipment manufacturing Company.
• The project involved developing detailed work plans, assessing current and future state models, and developing a strategy for implementing SAP QTC for the dealer.
• Brought in to identify the root cause and resolve go-live production issues to turn around a troubled deployment Confidential one of the dealers Confidential Minneapolis, MN.
• Managed staff of 30, including offshore and 3rd party resources and established a post support team.