SUMMARY

• Over 35 years of experience in all phases of Information Technology, including experience in systems design, development and implementation of large and complex custom, package, and ERP information systems.
• Areas of expertise include upgrade of SAP, versions 3.6 to 4.7 Enterprise, ECC 6.0 on HANA cloud, and Solution Manager CUA with primary focus on the requirements definition and configuration of the FI and CO modules, with over 13 years’ experience supporting SAP FI, CO, and AM modules.
• Served as primary lead on multiple projects, managing projects from blueprinting to implementation phases. My expertise and business knowledge has grown through 26 years with the same company and 9 years with my last employer while working through several transitions as locations were acquired and company names changed.
• Once the company closed its U.S. operations I performed as SAP Financial consultant, supporting the transition from legacy SAP system for multiple locations into SAP ECC New GL, concentrating on writing SQL code in excel, Access DB, SAP HANA, and Tableau.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

IT Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Hired on a temporary assignment as operations support person.
• After a week of onsite orientation/ training, worked remotely the remainder of the contract.
• Duties included monitoring systems and taking action for aborted processes, using tools like AppWorx, WinSCP and PVCS to implement change requests to modules.
• Due to my previous experience I was also able to evaluate, document, and make recommendations to Senior Systems Engineer for procedures and processes performed on AIX Unix servers.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP Financial Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Finance Controller and team on a project to migrate multiple company codes and branch locations from legacy SAP to SAP ECC with new general ledger.
• Primarily responsible for creating methodology to extract data from the legacy system into the new system and reconcile the data.
• Tools used to perform the task included Access Data Base, Spreadsheet Server, SQL queries and WinShuttle.
• This required creating SQL macros in excel and SQL scripts in Access Data Base and verification of data loaded.
• I was also responsible for some training/documentation for finance personnel.
• After project was completed, my contract was extended to create financial reports using SAP HANA Studio and Tableau.

Confidential, Huntersville, NC

SAP Program Manager / Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to Program Manager and Manager of Infrastructure team (for 1 ½ years until infrastructure support was outsourced).
• As Infrastructure Manager, led projects to move the U.S. support servers to offsite secure facility, revamped network connections to the plants, upgraded / replaced server hardware, and upgraded all PCs at U.S. locations.
• As Program Manager, implemented FI modules for ECC 6.0 on HANA cloud, replacing the U.S. system which entailed transfer of balances and open items for assets, AP, and AR and all G/L accounts; including creating new G/L chart of accounts, new company code, cost centers, profit centers, and vendor and customer payment methods and codes.
• Implemented SAP new G/L, reducing transactions needed for month end close.
• Assisted Finance and Purchasing: configured and implemented such items down payment processes, partial payments, SEPA payments (Europe) and manual upload of bank statements, payments via EDI checks, ACH, and wires using SAP IDOCs as well as working with the users for User Acceptance Testing, setting up testing scenarios for them to complete.
• Converted bank interface for AP and lockbox processing from one bank to another. Set up automatic processing using SAP batch jobs and program variants, aided ABAP programmers in analysis of issues with program and ABAP debugging to make changes to custom programs. Created scripts and jobs to automate interfaces between EDI server and SAP and between separate SAP instances.
• Created and maintained structured Financial Statement/Trial Balance. Worked with multiple currencies and foreign currency exchange rates. Solely responsible for all FI module day - to-day and month end/year end processes and interfaces with SD, MM and banking. Responsible for the administration of security policies, creation/modification of security roles in all SAP instances and used SAP Solution Manager for central user administration for creating, deactivating, lock/unlock user ID, resetting passwords, and updating security roles with validity dates.

Confidential, Huntersville, NC

SAP FICO Analyst

• Acquisition of U.S. and Mexico plants from Confidential occurred and I was responsible for FI modules (AP, AR, G/L, Assets, and banking) for transition to new company as well as User Acceptance testing.
• This included two company codes in Mexico (SAP 4.6c) and one company code for the U.S. (SAP 4.7) with three manufacturing plants. Loaded assets and performed all configuration for new bank interface. Responsible for assisting Finance with all day-to-day, month end, and year-end processes.
• Performed as project leader and handled all configuration for changing banks for AP and lockbox processing. Performed as Security administrator for creating/modifying SAP user defined roles to provide access to transactions and assign to users.
• Analyzed SAP in-house banking in Treasury management module and implemented electronic bank statements to provide information for cash position and liquidity forecasting reporting capability. Configured payments utilizing SAP IDOC PAYEXT for external payments and implemented netting of receivables and payables for internal use.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP FI In-house Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Through reorganization and downsizing of SAP support through consolidating support personnel from acquired company, new roles were established.
• Support all FI functions for the Americas and Canada for all sites shared with one other in-house consultant.
• Primarily same responsibilities as SAP FICO Support role and added another SAP (version 4.6C) server to support.
• Involved in front end loading for plant acquisitions. Key roles: project to migrate SAP server to another location; project for development of travel and expenses
• Hyperion Financial Management interface project; and lead for knowledge transfer to new technical support company.