SUMMARY

• I have over 19 years of experience in Accounting, Operational Business Management, Finance, Process Improvements, Purchasing and IT and Software Implementation in both large - scale corporations and in small business in the healthcare, automotive, chemical manufacturing and steel manufacturing industries.
• I have over 10 plus years of experience with SAP Project Management, Business Process Consulting, Change Management, IT Implementation, Instructional Design, Training and Facilitation.
• As a Project Manager, I am responsible for executing large complex projects across regions or domains, and involving new technology. My key responsibilities include managing project scope, budget, project board, resources, schedule, risk, and organizational change management activities.
• I am proficient in project management methodology, project planning tools and techniques; proficient in project planning - ability to work with a project team to create a detailed project plan and resource plan from rough order of magnitude documentation.
• I have worked multiple, full life cycle implementations of SAP as an ERP Package as Project Manager within plant manufacturing, distribution center, or customer service/order to cash, procure to pay and plan to report.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Accounting - Accounts Payables/Accounts Receivables
• Asset Management
• Cost Accounting
• Change Management
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Instructional Design
• Inventory Management
• IT and Software Implementation of ERP Systems
• Knowledge Management
• Logistics
• Operational Business Management
• Process Improvement
• Procurement
• Project Management - Agile & Waterfall for Kanban and Scrum
• SAP BASIS / TSP Master Data Administration
• SAP Modules - (FI), (CO), (APO), (BI/BW), (BPC), (CUA) (ECC), (EWM), (EPM), (GRC), (GTS), (PI), (PLM), (ECN), (EWM), (MOC), (OTC), (PM) (PP), (QIM), (MM), (SNC), (SRM), (SSP), (TMS)
• Supply Chain Management
• System Development Life Cycle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Monroe, MI

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leads the North America Ride Performance (NARP) on the IMO Clone/Carve project for the Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to Pay (PTP) process program management for the Confidential and Federal Mogul merger and legal split of Confidential and DRiV.
• Leads and is responsible for all planning, requirements management, scope management, budget management, and business relationship management on a multi-project executive sponsored SAP and Non-SAP projects
• Works closely with the Business Partner stakeholders to ensure that project goals are accomplished and in line with business objectives. The individual will be responsible to meet business partner expectations while adhering to internal standards and strategies.
• Communicates overall project progress, including key risks, to NARP Purchasing Director weekly.
• Leads & execute pre-cutover system testing for NARP (3 separate rounds) - execute testing where possible, estimate test resources from the main purchasing team when required and organize time allocation with the main purchasing team.
• Leads & execute MVP systems (80 applications) and non-MVP systems (60 applications) testing for NARP - execute testing where possible, estimate test resources from the main purchasing team when required and organize time allocation with the main purchasing team.
• Observe and redesign business processes within a variety of software applications.
• Develops and maintains project plans including work breakdown structures, project milestones, critical path analyses, risk assessment and management plans, cost / benefit analyses, staffing plans, project timelines, and project budgets.
• Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes the progress of projects.
• Builds and maintains positive working relationships with team members, vendors, and other Confidential departments involved in their projects.
• Escalates project issues to PMO or resource managers as appropriate.
• Prepares project status reports for upper management.
• Utilizes project management methodology to direct and lead team deliverable development.
• Drives decisions to ensure the success of projects taking into account timing, risk, functional requirements, and business benefits.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Position what part of the Global RTP (“Request to Pay”) Processes, Controls & Compliance area within the GBS (Global Business Solutions) under the Finance organization of Confidential .
• Effectively delivered 4 different System Development Life Cycle on various SAP modules (SAP FI/CO, VM, MM, BW, MD, Asset Management, E-Catalog, E-Sourcing different SAP Platforms of ECC, ABAP on both S4HANA, Fiori and Ariba.
• Presided over planning and administration of SAP NetWeaver platform for improved systems functionality.
• Effectively delivered onsite pre-deployment assessments and SAP training to ensure successful SAP implementations to various sites across the globe (primary focus is North America).
• Utilized proven system models of Agile and Waterfall for design architecture of Kanban and Scrum that maximizes compliance across SAP environments.
• Setup and participated in System Integration and User Acceptance Testing to make sure IT, GBS and local site processes are adhering to the Applications Development Process.
• Performed efficient proactive communication with the IT SAP Deployment Team, Business Analysts and the client site SMEs to understand unique business processes and training needs during the pre-deployment phase (including audience and delivery method analysis).
• Worked with Technical Analysts, Programmers and Subject Matter Experts to develop complete and accurate deliverables including roadmap validations, technical and system designs as necessary.
• Created and designed with the RTP Instructional Design Team to adapt training plans/ materials / lesson plans / exercises to best support the pre-deployment training of a site
• Developed and executed pre-deployment training schedules in cooperation with the client site to cover all affected areas of business (SAP Basics, Global Business, E-Sourcing, Materials Management, Purchasing and IT).
• Provided leadership and supervision to technical teams consisting of Basis, Database and Security Administrators.
• Built data/scenarios in the SAP training environment clients to support hands on exercises.
• Planned for new applications and functional upgrades to maximize availability and performance.
• Maintained SAP System health in the “green” as per weekly Early Watch metrics reports.
• Executed ongoing post-deployment training and end user support initiatives (onsite and remote) to maintain and further enhance the SAP skills/proficiency within the end user community.

Confidential, Highland Park, MI

Buyer / Inventory Planner

Responsibilities:

• A Raw Material Chemical Buyer / Inventory Planner for two onsite manufacturing facilities and two offsite blending and packaging facilities for Confidential, Inc.
• Purchased and managed inventory for over 280 chemical raw materials.
• Managed the inventory on over 300 finished good products.
• Supported the Supply Chain Director with supplier relations, bidding, sourcing and other purchasing activities.
• Tracked industry information relative to key raw materials and cost drivers
• Worked closely with lab personnel on products and sourcing for Research and Development
• Organized, executed and evaluated the results of a thorough physical count of the inventory quarterly.
• Utilized union personnel as available, complete weekly cycle counts of individual raw materials and finished goods.
• Reviewed current inventory for any signs of inaccuracy. Investigated and implemented processes to avoid inventory inaccuracies and unnecessary losses.
• Helped the production supervisor create rules, tools and procedures to maintain the warehouses in a clean, orderly and organized fashion.
• Managed the inventory and disposition of inactive and/or obsolete raw materials and products.
• Maintained the DCT raw material item master.

Confidential

SAP Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Responsibilities:

• In PM Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, I help administered the maintenance operations for the Performance Materials manufacturing plants (Cellasto, EPC, Polyol and TPU) at the Confidential -Wyandotte Site.
• Worked as a Maintenance Planner to build and maintain SAP maintenance programs and processes for each plant to minimize impact on production.
• Planned, forecasted, maintained the maintenance and non-maintenance budgets for Polyol and TPU and consulted over Cellasto and EPC budgets with SAP Business Planning & Consolidation,
• Effectively delivered 6 different System Development Life Cycle on various SAP modules (SAP FI/CO, VM, MM, BW, MD, Asset Management, E-Catalog, E-Sourcing different SAP Platforms of ECC, ABAP on both S4HANA and SAP Fiori.
• Setup and maintained all the financial reporting with SAP FI and CO.
• Provided leadership and supervision to technical teams consisting of Basis, Database and Security Administrators.
• Utilized proven system models of Agile and Waterfall for design architecture Scrum that maximizes compliance across SAP environments.
• Created and designed CAD drawings from Bentley - Project Wise program to setup Asset Management within SAP environments.
• Built and maintained the plant equipment data into SAP which provides reporting factors on Product Investigation, Engineering Change of Notices, Management of Change, Asset Effectiveness, Mechanical Reliability, and Mean Time between Failures, Root Cause Analysis, Production Losses and Production Gains during shutdown periods.
• Built and maintained the Bill of Materials on all equipment parts, materials, goods and services.
• Served as a Maintenance Buyer that did the cost estimating for all the maintenance and non-Maintenance goods and services on all the pieces of equipment in the plants.
• Collaborated with Procurement in setting up contractor bids, contracts and purchase orders.
• Scheduled resources with maintenance staff, contracted employees and vendor service contractors.
• Assured compliance with site/plant mechanical integrity, preventative and predictive maintenance programs.
• Actively created and administered training procedures to meet key performance indicators and to provide best practice for maintenance process improvements.
• Deployed training sessions and materials for Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) module in SAP.
• Supported change of management to ensure end user understanding and acceptance of the business process changes that the Request to Pay deployments will require.
• Supported creation and lead delivery of training materials as needed to foster a more effective use of SAP systems by the user community.
• Served as the SAP Trainer to the Performance Materials Operation Excellence, Production, and Maintenance Industrial Group teams.