SUMMARY:

More than 20+ years of experience as an IT Sr. Business Process Functional Lead and Manager with emphasis on SAP Plant Maintenance best practices and Integration activities. Spend Analysis Data Governance Practice, Mergers & Acquisitions data activities, integration management, risk analysis, gap analysis, problem resolution, business modeling and systems . Motivated professional with the ability to prioritize and achieve success under constrained timelines. Strong client facing communication and analytical skills lend to being an invaluable asset in both team and independent situations. Primary Industry Experience in Chemicals Manufacturing, Utilities, Drilling and secondary experience includes Pharmaceutical.

CORE COMPETENCIES

ERP System Implementation Management SAP Project Management SAP Business User SAP Plant Maintenance (Integration), SAP Migration/Divestitures, SAP PM Data Management, SAP MDG Functional/Technical SAP Plant Maintenance Legal Entity Rationalization SAP Information Steward SAP Master Data Management SAP: Integration Management - Plant Maintenance with Purchasing, Quality Management, MRO, Project System and Finance Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access Project Support all change management activities Timeline Management Team Management Written/Oral Communication Resource Management Project Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Midland, MI

Confidential is an American multinational chemical corporation that manufactures plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. During the engagement Dow went through an Acquisition and Divestiture, which occurred during my engagement with the company.

SAP Plant Maintenance

Lead team in design and implementation of Mergers and Acquisitions (Dow Corning and Dupont)

• Responsible for 6 migrations from Production to Tenant Environments.
• Establish reporting to mitigate risks associated with migrations (Service Billing, Regional Site Testing).
• Interacted with non-information technology related business areas to identify requirements, scope, and support implementation of solutions. Provide end-to-end coverage for the process teams, and developing process design documentations.
• Facilitated system understanding meeting and assist the team in identifying requirements.
• Develop business scenarios and the test scripts to support test cases for PT and UAT for all type of enhancement along with migration activities.
• Develop and maintains user documentation.
• Drive continuous improvements with use of technology solutions by demonstrating value add propositions.
• Tests, modifies and documents the system configuration.
• Provide post implementation support.
• Work in parallel with the and communication team to ensure all aspects of change is handled.
• Coordinated efforts during Data Migrations with PM integration issues (i.e. Purchasing, PS, MRO)
• Lead SAP Plant Maintenance, functional and technical design development using offshore for build.
• Project Legal Entity Rationalization (Changing Company Code and Planning Plants for All PM Objects)
• Build a sustainable/simple/robust step by step process trained China team to execute defined process.
• Created proactive approach to eliminate win shuttle and replaced with properly documented process for data updates and load LSMW.
• Responsible for Functional Integration for all Plant Maintenance related objects:
• Work Center, Cost Centers, Purchasing, Project Systems, MRO, Functional Location, Equipment, Task list, Bill of Materials (Material, Equipment, Functional), Task List (General, Equipment, Functional), PM Maintenance Items and Plans, Maintenance PMO’s, Notifications and Refurbishment Order processing. Create reports from SAP Deadline Monitoring tables to validate and mitigate post go live risk of date schedule conflicts.

Dominion Transmission

Confidential headquartered in Richmond, VA is the interstate gas transmission subsidiary of Dominion. The company is primarily a provider of gas transportation and storage services.

Sr. SAP Data Lead/Project Manager (Plant Maintenance Liner Asset Management)

• Responsible Coordination, Demos, Approach (Master Data Management)
• Facilitated Source System Workshops from Functional Business perspective to understand gaps/overlaps of Asset across systems.
• Led Functional Design (Migration Strategy, Cutover Strategy, Cleansing Plan)
• Implemented Information Steward for Business Data Quality assessment and communicated with stake holders risks associated and mitigation plan.

LyondellBasell

Multi-national manufacturers of polyolefin (polypropylene and polyethylene) materials for a wide range of industrial applications.

Sr. SAP Data Governance/Migration

Responsible Coordination, Business Practice Demos and Approach for MDG implementation, to assist with future M&A.

• Facilitated Source System Workshops to establish gaps in Taxonomy for MDG practice.
• Vendor Master, Material Master, Bill Of Materials, Equipment and Service Master
• Information Steward build-out for Run The Business Active Monitoring and profiling existing system for Data Quality and internal cleansing tasks.
• Depart Focused (Purchasing, Spend Analysis)
• Managed overseas team of 3 resources to build out profiling for all scoped domains.
• Data Source (Oracle, SAP HANA and SQL SERVER)

Confidential, Boise, ID

Designing and building some of the world’s most advanced memory and semiconductor technologies, we develop the technologies that transform what's possible.

Sr. Data Governance Consultant

• Responsible for assisting the client establish a Data Quality Management practice, with SAP Information Steward ( 4.2 SP 5) .
• Built SAP Information Steward, Rules, Reports, Workflow and Dashboards.
• Implemented Equipment, Material BOMs and Vendor Master Reporting Dashboards.
• Trained client on SAP Information Steward, how to qualify DQM requests and How to create connections, views, rules & bindings.
• Conducted sessions for 8-5 client resources on weekly basis for Information Steward.
• Create 25 custom rules (complex and non-complex).
• Documented the Promotion Management process between environment (DEV, QA and PROD).
• Assisted with trouble shooting configuration issues in Information Steward.
• Managed Project deliverables based on SOW.
• Help client with establishing Naming conventions for (connections, views, rules &bindings) in line with industry recommended standards.
• Information Steward created distributions for report publications to groups assist with data filtering.

Axiall Technologies

Sr. SAP Data Governance Consultant

• Small 5 months project for Vendor Master domain ( ALL SAP VENDOR MASTER TABLES)
• Vendor Master Address Cleansing/ Deduplication
• Spend Analysis reporting (Purchasing and FI)
• Conducted group work sessions.

Confidential, Midland, MI

Confidential is an American multinational chemical corporation that manufactures plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. During the engagement Dow went through an Acquisition and Divestiture, which occurred during my engagement with the company.

SAP Functional Team Lead

Lead team in design and implementation of the world’s largest SAP data migration of business process based on Dow’s Next Enterprise Architecture design, which assisted with divestures. We converted 20-30 year old legacy systems and new acquired ROHM system with total volume 156 Million Records.

• Work on Plant Maintenance module in Milestone 1, 2,3,4,5
• Traveled to (France, Germany, China, Thailand, Canada, Netherlands) as lead for post go live support, with regional Business site.
• Worked with teams across the world, assisted with running workshops both local and international.
• Responsible for Functional Integration for all Plant Maintenance related objects:
• Work Center, Cost Centers, Purchasing, Project Systems, MRO, Functional Location, Equipment, Task list, Bill of Materials (Material, Equipment, Functional), Task List (General, Equipment, Functional), PM Maintenance Items and Plans, Maintenance PMO’s, Notifications and Refurbishment Order processing. Create reports from SAP Deadline Monitoring tables to validate and mitigate post go live risk of date schedule conflicts.
• Led a group of 6 team members onshore and 9 offshore
• Managed all activities related to business system data issues in Production.
• Coordinated efforts during mocks to support validations.
• Reviewed and provided valuable suggestions to build a robust GoLive CutOver plan.
• Executed all Mock / GoLiveCutOver tasks with precision required for a successful GoLive.
• Created actionable insight reporting for reliability in Plant Maintenance Space (Equipment Related).
• Assisted MRP processing for Master Data Management of Material Master Global coding.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Manager - ERP & Business

• Managed team of 25+ employees both onshore and offshore through various IT projects including ERP, business applications development, policies and procedures establishment, project budgeting, and contract negotiations.
• Responsible for Oracle ERP Oracle Implementation.
• Responsible for all functional business applications such as Solmon Financial System, Rig Morning Reporting System, Lawson Legacy ERP System, Hyperion Financial Reporting System, all database Environments, MS SharePoint, and Moss 2007 in the areas of Policies and Procedures, Mitigating Risks, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and IT Steering Committee
• Managed relationship between IT and all internal departments as well as external vendors/services
• Staffing of local and international employees
• Managed .net Application upgrades and enhancements
• Created IT Business Application Group Annual Budget
• Implementation of a DR solution in Bryan, Texas for all core and key applications
• Managed Oracle Project Accounting/Billing and led development in Oracle EBS, Moss 2007, .net Apps and support activities for Oracle Financials, MRC, Projects and eAM which involves the prioritization, planning and execution of projects with key stakeholders and staff.
• Deployed Financial Applications to international location of West Africa
• Integrated Asset Management with Projects, maximizing the visibility of overall maintenance costs across the fleet, definition of a global work breakdown structure
• Led the evaluation of Systems Integrators and Application Hosting Partners
• Travelled internationally to India and the UAE to help establish legal entity to setup branch offices
• Connected India office infrastructure to the US corporate office
• Saved company over $400K annually and also established a 24/7 IT helpdesk
• Represented Hercules IT in a $350 million acquisition of 3GSF rigs from Transocean
• Managed corporate initiative to minimize cost in content management; implemented a Document Management System - Emc Appxtender
• Worked on the Lean Six Sigma Project (Rig Move) with Hercules Offshore for Chevron for projected savings of 1.2 million annually
• Globally installed, customized and deployed Altiris Incident Management Solution
• Trained peers and managers on IT Steering Committee Concepts

Confidential, Houston, TX

Database Administrator

• Managed various enterprise databases, the architecture of new business application solutions, automation of existing applications, and the implementation of a document management solution.
• Managed Maximo 5.2 Asset Management and Purchasing application implementation projects
• Managed international applications development and implementation of Adobe Livecycle.
• Coordinated and developed a cost effective solution for the purchasing department by automating the relay of information from Atwood Maximo 5.2 ERP to freight forwarders internal system (MEPAW)
• Created inbound and outbound data feed processes resulting in $200K annual cost savings
• Functional and technical support internationally of all Financial and Asset management applications
• Managed offshore projects in India to developed an Operations Management System and Rig Reporting System
• Managed the implementation of the Content Management solution
• EMC Documentum provided a DR solution for all technical engineering drawings

Confidential, Woodlands, TX

Data Warehouse Manager

Functioned as the supervisor of the global reporting team and effectively applied the Ralph Kimball Data Warehousing Methodology to relevant aspects of data warehouse.

• Managed the implementation of a data warehouse and reporting environment allowing extract of real-time and statistical information from MOVEX ERP
• Led the Global Reporting Environment implementation for all subject areas
• Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing, Inventory, Sales Order and Materials Management.
• Led the configuration of Cognosreportnet and Cognos Finance
• Managed integration of MFGpro and MOVEX ERP in a global reporting environment
• Managed a DR project implementation of an international data warehouse
• Managed implementation of Master Data Management for all subject areas of Grant Prideco
• Managed data support for the IT Application development team

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Functioned as the Team Lead for SAP (Sales Distribution) data migration from the legacy Pennzoil systems that were acquired by Shell Global SAP design.

• Headed up design of data migration from Pennzoil DB to Shell Global SAP design
• Applied migration methodology using SQL Server and LSMW as load mechanism.
• Conducted sessions to perform data cleansing in legacy SAP environment for SD module
• Created a list of alternative designs with client team and worked to a final alternative
• Led team thru the transition of several entities from alegacy SAP R2 system to SAP ECC
• Developed SAP SD object’s master data, reporting requirements and legacy application mapping as well as setup and testing of the related subject areas
• Customers/vendors, inter-company relationships, general ledger accounts, bank accounts, profit centers, cost centers and internal orders
• Maintained continuous coordination between business users, client’s project management and the planning department
• Served on various projects for the State of Kansas in the capacity of design, development and support.
• Analyzed, designed and tracked project schedules
• Conducted client meetings for developing program specification and writing test programs
• Implemented and maintained various projects
• Served as DBA for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Disease Tracking System
• Served as Project Manager and Developer for the Kansas Department of Transportation’s
• Served as a team member of the Kansas Department of Revenue Mainframe Corp Income Tax project
• Served as Project Lead for the Kansas Department of Administration’s Worker Compensation System