SUMMARY:

• I was an independent consultant for 15 years specializing in IT projects. I have extensive experience in Information Technology Projects.
• I have performed many roles during my career including Project Management, Requirements Definitions, Functional Designs, Configuration, Testing, Documentation, and Training.
• I have also performed all aspects of project planning including process mapping and optimization, scope definition, cost estimation, staff planning, and schedule generation.
• I have performed Team Lead and Project Management functions including cost control, schedule maintenance, staffing decisions, management presentations, and scope control.
• I have also performed post implementation tasks such as audits, end user support, training, and data maintenance procedures.
• As a consultant I have directly supported, and reported to, various levels of an organization from a Supervisor up to the Vice President level.

DETAILED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE;

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• I am the Project Coordinator for the Capital and Expense Planning System Phase II. This project enables streamlined budget preparation for utility projects.
• I am the SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) Configuration Lead for all lines of business including Electric Distribution, Gas Distribution, Electric Transmission, Gas Transmission, Electric Substation, Hydro Generation, Fossil Generation, and the SmartMeter Project.

Confidential

SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) Configuration Lead

Responsibilities:

• I was the PM Team Lead and Lead Designer for the PowerPlant Project.
• This project utilizes the PowerPlant application to manage Confidential & Confidential assets for all lines of business.
• I designed changes to the existing Plant Maintenance functionality for CU Order creation of settlement rules, capital order settlement rule creation, launching the PowerPlant applet from the PM orders, and settlement rule conversion. I also performed testing of these changes.
• I was the PM Team Lead and Lead Designer on the Electric Compliance Project.
• I have performed all configuration for this SAP implementation.
• This project updates the Plant Maintenance functionality to streamline the corrective work process while maintaining regulatory compliance.
• I am the PM Team Lead and Lead Designer on the Power Generation Implementation Project.
• This project will utilize the entire PM module for 3 individual power generation plants. I have also performed all configuration for this project.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I performed the functional design for the web application.
• This application enables financial planning by scheduling standardized work units by month for Energy Delivery.
• The application uses Plant Maintenance functionality (Task Lists, Compatible Units, and CU Designs) to provide standard units by Maintenance Activity Type and Division.
• I also performed the functions of the liaison between the business representatives and the development team.
• I performed the configuration of the CU objects and CU order, performed extensive testing and coordinated the roll out.
• This project was very successful reducing the budget preparation time by 75%.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was a team member on the SAP Technical Upgrade Project.
• The system was upgraded to ECC 6.0. I performed BPML testing, TVCL testing, and Formal Unit Testing for Plant Maintenance functionality. This testing included transactions and processes.
• I was the PM Team Lead and Lead Designer for the Equipment Requiring Repair Project.
• This application uses the SAP Portal and SAP R/3 to create and manage SAP notifications for Electric System Operations.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• .I designed the SAP Task Management Application for Energy Delivery. This application allows the user to manage work related administrative tasks that support field construction. This application uses SAP notifications to better manage the work process.
• I designed, configured, tested, and deployed all SAP Plant Maintenance functions for Gateway Generating Station.
• This included Functional Locations, Equipment, Work Centers, Notifications, Orders, Task Lists, Maintenance Items, Maintenance Plans, and Capacity Evaluation.
• I designed a notification for use by Application Services to manage SAP change requests.
• This notification is currently being used for this purpose.
• I designated the scope, created the test scripts, and performed the regression testing for the Confidential project.
• My testing included Plant Maintenance functionality for Hydro Generation, Gateway Generation, Smart Meter and Humboldt Bay Power Plant.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for developing the functional requirements, developing the design, and performing the SAP configuration for the network communication equipment for the Smart Meter Project. The design utilizes the SAP Plant Maintenance system for equipment deployment and operations.
• I also developed the functional specifications for all ten interfaces between SAP PM and various external systems.
• These interfaces support the deployment and maintenance of the network equipment associated with automated meter reading.
• I performed the unit testing for these interfaces.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for developing the functional requirements, developing the design, and performing the configuration for the Confidential ’s WECC Relay Testing Report.
• This report facilitates the management of relay testing and WECC reporting.

Confidential

Process Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Applicable processes include, emergency, recurring maintenance, corrective maintenance, customer projects, infrastructure improvement projects, and streetlight maintenance and billing.
• Tasks also included development of the transition processes and the implementation transition plan.
• I also led the development of the functional specifications for the GIS and SAP R/3 system interfaces.
• The interfaces automatically maintain the SAP technical objects as projects are designed, completed and asset data is maintained in the GIS system.
• The interfaces create, and update SAP record types, Functional Locations, Equipment, and Connection Objects.
• The interfaces also maintain SAP PM Order and Network data in the GIS system.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible to enable capacity evaluation for work centers.
• Capacity evaluation was enabled by properly updating the work centers and eliminating obsolete work centers followed by data conversion of existing plant maintenance orders and project system networks.
• I also prepared all data maintenance procedures, testing plan, training plan, data conversion specifications and performed data conversion testing.

Confidential

Work Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I have been responsible to test multiple vendor products to perform a fit assessment for the Confidential .
• I have also been instrumental in the project planning, testing, design, development, and process mapping.
• For the Work Management Project, SAP’s R/3 product was selected.
• I performed the functional design, SAP R/3 configuration, mapped the business processes to the tool, and conducted advanced user training.
• I also developed GuiXT screens and functionality to simplify the use of SAP for the Hydro employees.
• This system is the work management tool for all maintenance, construction, projects, and regulatory requirements.

Confidential

Condition Assessment Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible to test multiple vendor products to perform a fit assessment for the Confidential .
• I have also been instrumental in the project planning, testing, design, and process mapping.
• For the Condition Assessment Project, Confidential ’s EXP product was selected and was implemented.
• I assisted in the system setup and pilot site implementation.
• I have received EXP User Training, Technical Training, RCM Overview Training, Asset Hierarchy Development Training, and Criticality Analysis Training.

Confidential

PM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for the fit assessment and design of SAP to replace the Confidential & Confidential Fleet Management System for the Gas Supply Business Unit, Electric Transmission Business Unit, and Electric Generation Business Unit.
• The design included the processes for vehicle tracking, corrective maintenance, and recurring maintenance. All design and development was using SAP version 4.6C.
• As the PM Functional Consultant I was responsible for the design of the separation of the SAP PM System data to support business unit divestiture per the bankruptcy Plan of Reorganization.
• This included records for all PM record sets including Functional Locations, Equipment, Measurement Points, Measurement Documents, Notifications, PM Orders, Task Lists, Maintenance Items, Maintenance Plans, Documents, Classes, and Characteristics.
• During this period I completed a design to in corporate the Field Work Quality Verification Process into the SAP System. This design will enable Supervisors, Verification Specialists, and Auditors to document findings as a result of work reviews and tie the verification record to the initial work record in the SAP PM System. These findings can then be categorized, prioritized, tracked, and assigned to responsible individuals for resolution.
• I also completed a design to replace the existing Meter Protection Program with SAP Plant Maintenance. This included replacing the existing system with SAP functionality and mapping the existing data into SAP for data conversion.