Skills Summary

Project Management: Creation of project estimates and plans, project standards, project performance and measurement characteristics. Management of project tracking and execution. Management of expectations and problem resolution within the project / organization.
SAP Functional Knowledge: Application integration experience with: FI/CO (Certified), G/L, A/P, A/R, MM, SD, HR, PP, PS, PM, and WM. Expert understanding of integrating master data and transactional data in these functional areas. Hands-on design, configuration, testing and deployment of business-driven functional solutions.
SAP Unit, Integration and Go-Live Testing & Management: Full understanding and hands-on experience of test cycle management, including test planning, positive and negative testing, end-to-end integration testing, regression testing, simulated go-live (dry run) testing, load and performance testing.
SAP Lifecycle Management: Expert understanding of promote-to-production processes and controls, system upgrades, and SAP production support processes.
SAP System Architecture: Expert understanding of landscape design and controls, infrastructure tools, security design and roles development, integration points with SAP products, legacy and third party products.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Experience Summary

Specialties in business process and master data integration across finance and logistics. Experience in master data stewardship process design, configuration, development and deployment in complex business and systems environments. Proven track record of standardizing and rationalizing customer master data while simplifying maintenance processes and reducing associated costs.

Professional Experience:

• Full SAP project lifecycle experience including: ERP business process fit/gap evaluation; project scope definition; design blueprinting; prototype configuration; development and unit testing; data analysis, cleansing and conversion; end-to-end integration test planning, design, execution and monitoring; go-live planning and execution; post-production support.
• Project Leader for design, development, testing and deployment of a master data reference SAP instance that fed common corporate master data to multiple other SAP instances and non-SAP legacy systems.
• SAP certified FI/CO functional and project management resource, emphasis on business process design, configuration and master data integration across the FI, CO, SD, MM and PS modules in releases 3.1h, 3.1i, 4.0b, 4.6b, 4.6c and ECC 6.0.

Industry Experience:

• Twenty years of SAP experience in multiple roles (project management to individual contributor),working all project stages from initial scope and requirements gathering, through all stages of development and testing, go-live planning and dry runs leading up to implementation and post-production support.
• SAP IS-Retail Solution, Apparel Wholesale and Distribution, Medical Supplies, Software and Services Industry, Telecommunications.

International Experience:

• Confidential: IT project manager and deployment leader for customer master data management initiative in many countries with specific focus on processing hubs in the USA, the Netherlands and Japan.
• Confidential: delivery of proprietary project methodology training in the USA, the Netherlands and Japan.
• Confidential: project manager for global logistics project deploying SAP to manufacturing locations in the USA, the UK and Canada.

Client Experience 

Confidential March 2010 to Present
Toano, VA
SAP Functional Consultant Team Leader/SAP FICO Lead Functional Consultant
Accomplishments and Responsibilities

• Lead team of SD, MM, IM, WM, FI, CO functional consultants to design, configure, test and deliver SAP Retail Solution to multiple new sites in Canada.
• Managed team priorities, timeline and deliverables, while providing ongoing stabilization support for US implementation of over 200 sites simultaneously.
• Lead FICO consultant responsible for design, configuration, testing and delivery of US business and technical solutions for:
• Accounts payable processing, including vendor master data maintenance, invoice processing through MM and FI modules, evaluated receipt settlement (ERS), payment program configuration and outputs, positive pay processing with banks
• Maintenance and management of FICO master data across system landscape, in support of business processes, organizational design and responsibilities. Scope included vendors, customers, G/L accounts, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers, cost center hierarchy, profit center hierarchy, materials/articles.
• Electronic and manual bank statement processing
• G/L processing, including account determination driven postings from MM, SD, IM/WM, tax integration as well as manual entries
• New G/L functionality including document splitting and multiple currencies.
• Vertex based sales tax solution.
• Profit center and cost center accounting.
• Month end processing, reporting and reconciliation.
• Credit management.
• Conversion of three fiscal years of historical data financial data.
• Go-live planning and execution.
• Overall integration with SD/MM/IM/WM processes.

Confidential January 2010 to March 2010
Indianapolis, IN
Project Manager for SAP Data Center Hosting Assessment
Accomplishments and Responsibilities

• Lead team to analyze current SAP hosting and system support environment, and assess in-house and outsourced alternatives.
• Delivered SAP Data Center recommendation report with cost justification, organizational impact, transition plan and clearly identified benefits.

Confidential September 2009 to December 2009
Software Industry
SAP FICO Application and Solution Packaging Consultant
Accomplishments and Responsibilities

• Designed functionality for new release of Xstream Connector to feed data from SAP to the Cforia credit, collections and deductions management software platform.
• Developed and executed test activities for the SAP to Cforia Xstream Connector.
• Resolved client issues related to the DataXstream CA Service Desk / SAP SOLMAN integration package solution.

Confidential May 2009 to September 2009
Jacksonville, FL
SAP Vistex Integration Test Manager
Accomplishments and Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for integration testing between SAP Vistex, JD Edwards, external partner EDI and several in-house legacy systems.
• Tracked and managed test execution and issues escalation and resolution progress.

Confidential April 2009 to June 2009
New York, NY
Project Manager for custom integration solution between proprietary CA Service Desk and SAP Solution Manager
Accomplishments and Responsibilities

• Executed requirements gathering, managed development resources, coordinated testing, delivery and sign-off for project.
• Delivered on time and 15% under budget a fully-functional and packaged solution in compliance with SAP packaging standards.

Confidential October 2008 to May 2009
Dallas Fort Worth, TX
SAP/Cforia Deployment Consultant
Accomplishments and Responsibilities

• Deployment, configuration and support of DataXstream Xstream Connector software interface between SAP order to cash processes and Cforia credit, collections and deductions software.
• Configuration testing, end-to-end scenario testing and deployment of SD sales order and billing output processes, and custom ALE messaging between SAP and Cforia.

Confidential January 2009 to March 2009
Akron, OH
SAP ERP Evaluation and Planning
Accomplishments and Responsibilities

• Collaborated with client to evaluate SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP All-in-One as potential ERP business solutions.
• Evaluated implementation and deployment options across multiple sites in the USA, Germany and Malaysia and delivered recommendations for consideration by company executives.

Confidential March 2008 to March 2009
Miami, FL
SAP Engagement and Project Manager/FICO Consultant
Accomplishments and Responsibilities

• Management of client satisfaction, scheduling and coordination of design, development, testing and deployment of new functionality as well as ongoing day-to-day production support activities.
• Ongoing refinement of SAP-driven SD and MM logistics processes, including design, configuration, and testing and production deployment of intercompany stock transport process.

Confidential July 2007 to March 2008
Atlanta, GA
Project Leader
Accomplishments and Responsibilities

• Lead Sarbanes-Oxley separation of duties (SOD) remediation for multiple business units on a single SAP platform for Siemens Application Management Center (AMC).
• Designed, tested, validated and deployed SOD rules using the Approva controls monitoring software.
• Collaborated with business unit representatives to address SOD violations by redesigning security roles and reassigning them to both end users and IT users.
• Reduced thirty thousand SOD violations to almost zero across approximately twelve thousand users in six months.

Confidential April 2007 to July 2007
Miami, FL
SAP FICO Functional Configuration Leader
Accomplishments and Responsibilities

• Designed, configured, tested and deployed standard SAP profit center accounting processes to enable divisional profit and loss reporting.
• Integrated SAP profit center accounting with sales order fulfillment and procure-to-pay processes.

Education
Physics & Astronomy Graduate Studies
B.Sc. Physics with Astrophysics, Graduated