SUMMARY

• SAP ECC and SAP S/4 certified FI/CO consultant. He has over 23 years of SAP implementation and support experience with an additional 12 years of professional experience in manufacturing and finance as a cost analyst and plant controller.
• Worked as an Implementation Team Lead, Configurator and Trainer within SAP implementations, upgrades and production support.
• This work has been performed for manufacturers of automotive components, vehicles, forklifts, plastic resins, oil and gas equipment, biotech products, construction materials, cosmetics, furniture, packaging, pharmaceuticals, personal care items, security hardware, small engines, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and sporting goods products.
• Experienced in all functions of financial and managerial accounting and has been responsible for planning, budgeting, forecasting, product costing, financial analysis and plant controlling.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Portage, MI

Independent Co Architect

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent CO Architect for this client consisted of reviewing existing system configuration and enhancements to update an existing blueprint for all new SAP S/4 version 1709 system implementations.
• Determined business process differences from the medical and surgical equipment division that was already live on SAP and prepared workshop materials to discuss changes to configuration and enhancements that would be required to move forward.
• The Coronavirus caused this client to decide to shut down all new SAP work until the year 2021 and release all existing consultants.

Confidential, New Bremen, OH

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this client consist of implementing the SAP ECC version 6.0 (including SAP VMS) and SAP DBM version 8.1 in repetitive, discrete, make - to-order (MTO), engineer-to-order (ETO) and Kanban manufacturing environments.
• The product costing (CO-PC), cost center accounting (CO-CCA), internal order accounting (CO-IO) and profitability analysis (CO-PA) CO sub-modules are being configured, tested and implemented in all U.S. manufacturing plants, warehouses and sales branches.
• Existing costing configuration was examined and often changed and documented to reflect the client’s true requirements. Wrote the functional specs for and managed a significant number of complex ABAP and BI development efforts for the Cost Manager, Controller and CFO of this company.
• Some of these tools provided this client with the ability to budget spending and cost products more accurately, eliminating their need for large reserves in case of gross inaccuracies.
• Other development work provided clearer visibility to WIP and inventory breakdown costs by location, costing tools for engineers, and MM, PP, SD and CO master data verification tools for the client’s master data team.
• These duties are being performed after replacing two CO consultants who had been dismissed from this client.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior SAP Co Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this client consisted of creating system enhancements, writing complex ABAP report specs, fixing hundreds of system issues and configuring new business processes such as subcontracting within their
• SAP version ECC 6.0 system. Existing costing configuration was examined and often changed and documented to reflect the client’s true requirements. Queries were written to assist this client in a massive effort to clean up master data, which had been causing incorrect cost calculations in dozens of plants.
• Significant support and training were provided to the cost accountants and plant controllers around the globe, particularly during the annual planning cycle and product cost standard development. Sales order costing for make-to-order (MTO) products was analyzed at this client’s request and a standard solution was provided so that the plants could update their sales orders and production order estimates correctly and efficiently.
• New FI substitution rules were written so that postings were made to the desired profit centers and correct P&L and Balance Sheet reporting could be done by business entity. New Controlling and Project Systems batch jobs were also created for this client. Existing batch jobs were documented, analyzed and sometimes updated. Several jobs were rescheduled to prevent collisions with others and some were deleted as they were unnecessary.
• Took over and completed the CO portion of an internal project to implement billable and non-billable SAP plant maintenance service orders. Client had requested a controlled method with which to schedule and service (or remanufacture) thousands of customer-owned and FMC-owned gas and oil valve assemblies sent back to the Fluid Control company code.
• Each service order processes one assembly each, except for an additional order type that was created to account for ad hoc miscellaneous costs. Results analysis keys were configured for both billable and non-billable scenarios. The non-billable scenarios configured were for warranty repairs, goodwill and rental unit repairs, which all settled to expense. RA keys configured use Completed Contract method.
• Lead global annual cost roll processes. Much knowledge transfer was provided to this client as they had not received any training at all prior to their go-live. The ability to continuously conduct workshops remotely via WebEx in Asian, European and North American time zones were crucial to this project.

Confidential, Franklin Park, IL

Senior SAP Co Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this part-time remote client consisted of assisting this client with the establishment of a standardized annual cost planning process within their SAP version ECC 6.0 system.
• The heavily customized (but poorly documented) annual cost planning procedures of this client were examined and replaced with standard SAP cost planning functionality.
• The planning of statistical key figures by cost center, primary and secondary costs by cost center, distribution cycles, splitting by activity type and internal activity type rate calculations by cost center were tested by this client and will be implemented in their upcoming 2016 annual planning process.
• This work was performed remotely after one on-site initial visit.

Confidential, Batavia, OH

Independent Senior SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this part-time remote client consisted of assisting this client with implementing a large amount of plan and actual distribution cycles to move costs from support cost centers to production cost centers within their SAP version ECC 6.0 system.
• This work was performed on a completely remote basis after an initial phone interview.

Confidential, Wayne, PA

Senior SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this part-time remote client consisted of assisting this client with multiple issues that they were experiencing when trying to process contracts and the service plant maintenance (PM) orders tied to them within their
• SAP version ECC 6.0 system. This client could not settle costs from their PM orders to their sales contract items and they could not perform results analysis and settle the contract items to FI and CO-PA.
• The costing and settlement parameters of PM orders were reconfigured as well as the business area to sales area assignment rules. The settlement of contract items was also examined, reconfigured, tested and implemented so that this client could successfully settle them to FI and CO-PA.

Confidential, Raleigh Durham, NC

Senior SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this SAP version ECC 6.0 client consisted of assisting their implementation partner (Deloitte Consulting) in identifying and fixing product costing errors that were appearing in this client’s costing log.
• After reviewing the costing message configuration, it was clear that it was not set up correctly and many error messages that should have appeared were not (and vice - versa). This configuration resulted in large volumes of missing
• SAP master data and product standard costs that were undetected. After the message configuration was corrected, a large multi-facility team was assembled and all missing pieces of master data were created.
• Costing queries were then built and calculated SAP costs were then compared to legacy system costs by cost category. Differences between systems were then investigated and fixed.

Confidential, Neenah, WI

Senior SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this client consist of assisting this client with multiple product costing issues that they have been facing after a recent SAP go-live on SAP version ECC 6.0.
• Costing runs and month-end jobs were examined and corrected to improve runtimes. A functional spec for a new WIP Aging Report was written and submitted for ABAP coding.
• An SAP Material Ledger prototype was configured in CO to show this client the SAP actual cost calculation and revaluation capabilities. Manufacturing and finance business processes were examined for potential process improvements.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of implementing the SAP version 4.7 in repetitive, discrete, make-to-order (MTO) and Kanban manufacturing environments.
• The product costing (CO-PC), cost center accounting (CO-CCA), internal order accounting (CO-IO) and profit center accounting (CO-PCA) CO sub-modules were correctly configured, tested and implemented.
• This functionality was deployed at a very large manufacturing plant, a warehouse with light manufacturing and ten sales distribution centers. The plant and warehouse had very complex manufacturing processes and a volume of approximately 300,000 production orders per month.
• Some of this client’s legacy ERP system hardware was rapidly deteriorating and replacement parts were becoming unavailable. Adding to the urgency of this implementation, the existing 25 year-old homegrown costing programs barely functioned and much of the bills of material, routings and purchasing master data were grossly incorrect. As a result, true product standard costs were unknown by this client. The legacy costing program logic was successfully analyzed and fixed in a joint effort between Finance and IT.
• Legacy system costing master data was temporarily updated, corrected and rolled so that solid legacy costs could be tied to in the subsequent SAP implementation. Sales pricing was re-established in SAP after true costs were known and some unprofitable products were discontinued. This work was performed in an SAP environment with many company codes and hundreds of manufacturing and sales plants but no corporate rollout template.
• Much care was taken so as to prevent any negative impact to existing business units already functioning with SAP. This client had unsuccessfully attempted to implement SAP six times in eight years at this facility prior to this project.
• Production support is now being provided to this client’s users remotely in CO-PC and CO-PA. After this company code was brought live on version 4.70, all company codes were upgraded to SAP version ECC 6.0 with the most current SAP HotPacks installed. No issues within CO were observed.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of solving many CO product costing issues resulting from a four-year-old conversion to SAP version 4.7 that this client had been struggling with. Many system customizations for product cost planning and cost object controlling were removed and replaced with standard SAP product costing functionality that should have been deployed originally.
• Many customized ABAP and BI reporting issues were investigated with ABAP programmers/BI employees and were subsequently fixed. Multiple security-related problems that users were experiencing were addressed and solved. Participated in a small team that successfully implemented an annual planning process for the Engineering and Plant Maintenance departments using cost centers, internal orders and plant maintenance orders.
• Tested and verified the product costing functionality after a system upgrade to SAP version ECC 6.0. These duties were performed after replacing six consecutive CO consultants who had been dismissed or who had abandoned this client.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of a complete review of all existing business processes for the six factories of Confidential, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Finland-based parent, Amer Sports Corporation.
• The results of an initial scoping exercise were then used to produce a viable blueprint for implementing the CO module for Wilson within Amer’s global SAP version ECC 6.0 environment using the SAP AFS solution.
• The SAP product costing module (CO-PC) in repetitive, discrete and make-to-order (MTO) manufacturing environments, cost center accounting (CO-CCA), internal order accounting (CO-IO) and profit center accounting (CO-PCA) CO sub-modules were correctly configured, tested and implemented.
• Much care was taken so that the implementation of Wilson would be transparent to the other subsidiaries of Amer that were already live on a global SAP instance. Extensive training sessions were held so that this client had a complete, documented understanding of the planning, actual and variance postings that occur within the SAP CO sub-modules. A complete set of documentation was created for this client so that they will have tools to refer to, should they need them.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of a complete review of all existing CO-PC product costing configuration and business processes. This work was performed in order to correct a flawed
• CO implementation that this client had been struggling with in SAP version 4.70. As a result of this exercise, the sales order-related product costing (CO-PC) in a discrete manufacturing environment was re-configured, tested and re-implemented. Resolved hundreds of outstanding CO issues and assisted in resolving many MM, PP, SD and FI issues as well. Extensive training sessions were held so that this client had a complete, documented understanding of the planning, actual and variance postings that occur within the SAP CO sub-modules.
• These duties were performed after replacing two consecutive CO consultants who had been dismissed.

Confidential, Livonia, MI

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of a complete review of all existing CO configuration, business processes and the shared services model to enhance and support a system upgrade
• SAP version 3.1H to SAP version 4.70 that this client had been struggling with. Significant system training on product costing and reporting was also provided
• To enhance the production variance analysis and other product costing processes. In addition, much analysis on the differences occurring between FI-GL and CO-PA as well as training on the methods to determine these differences was provided to TRW cost analysts.
• Solutions were provided for multiple system errors experienced during the budget upload process in SOP. Finally a prototype was developed for billing Research and Design costs back to customer while using the SAP Project Systems module. These duties were performed after replacing another

Confidential, Portland, OR

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of performing a system technical upgrade from SAP version 4.0B to SAP version ECC 5.0.
• System re-training on product costing in a discrete manufacturing environment, cost center accounting, internal order accounting, project systems and profit center accounting functionality
• Provided to this client to strengthen their functional CO skills. Business process reengineering, system error resolution and post go-live support were also provided to this client. These duties were performed after replacing another CO consultant who was failing.

Confidential, York, PA

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of a complete review of all existing CO configuration and business processes in order to correct a flawed CO implementation that this client had been struggling with in SAP version 4.6C.
• SAP business planning options were presented to this client with recommendations. As a result of this exercise, the product costing (CO-PC) in a repetitive manufacturing environment, cost center accounting (CO-CCA)
• Internal order accounting (CO-IO) and profit center accounting (CO-PCA) modules was re-configured, tested and re-implemented. Extensive training sessions were held so that this client had a complete, documented understanding of the planning, actual and variance postings that occur within the SAP CO sub-modules. These duties were performed after replacing another CO consultant.

Confidential, Fowlerville, MI

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client initially consisted of providing SAP-knowledge and support to this SAP version 4.6C client during negotiations with their original implementation/ongoing support partner.
• These discussions led to a clear understanding of the flawed initial design and system conversion as well as a successful dissolution of the ongoing support agreement. In addition, a system product costing conversion to a 100% standard-cost basis was performed in a process manufacturing environment.
• This required an analysis and revision of the product cost planning, product cost controlling and the FI account determination configuration. A massive master data cleanup was also performed in order to fix thousands of costing and production variance errors that had not been addressed in the initial go-live. The addition of multiple costing overhead rates to account for freight, packaging and railcar leasing expenses was also configured for this client. As a result of these changes, costs were correctly calculated and customer pricing was significantly revised, thereby increasing company margins.
• An inter-company process was also implemented to account for the flow of materials between two Asahi company codes. Existing CO-PA configuration was reviewed and modified to include additional sales characteristics and key figures desired by this client. CO-PA forms and reports with drill-down characteristics were written for sales and financial analysis requirements. ABAP/4 queries were created to assist in periodic reporting for the FI/CO, MM and PP modules.
• Weekly training sessions were given in order to strengthen in-house FI/CO and MM system skills. Assistance with multitudes of day-to-day operational issues was a critical part of this project.

Confidential, Fowlerville, MI

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this referenceable client consisted critical post go-live remote and on-site support for this client’s unsuccessful conversion to SAP version 4.7 with another implementation partner.
• Significant CO training and system troubleshooting were provided to this client.

Confidential, Kohler, WI

Senior SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consist of performing a system technical upgrade from SAP version 4.5B to version 4.7 in a discrete manufacturing environment.
• System training on new make-to-order and make-to-stock product costing, cost center accounting and profit center accounting functionality, significant system error resolution via the SAP OSS system and post go-live support were provided to this client.

Confidential, Troy, MI

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an SAP CO Team Lead Consultant consist of implementing the product costing in a repetitive manufacturing environment, cost center accounting, profit center accounting, profitability analysis and internal order accounting CO sub-modules in an SAP 4.6C Automotive 3.0 solution environment including a shared services model. Managed other consultants and client finance and production team members while implementing core and custom
• CO SAP configuration for the 200 manufacturing plants within the Energy, Chassis, Thermal, Safety and Interiors and Electronics divisions of the world’s largest automotive parts manufacturer. Provided assistance and leadership during the scoping, blueprinting, realization, go-live and post-go live phases of each wave of implementations for U.S., Hungarian and Mexican corporate entities.
• The SAP subcontracting functionality was configured and implemented for all divisions to account for vendor subcontracting as a method of handling outside manufacturing, precious metal reprocessing and other outside business processes. An SAP activity-based costing prototype was developed for the Saginaw Steering Division. Assisted in the development and testing of the BW/SEM system.
• Defined, designed, and tested specifications for conversions, interfaces, enhancements, and reports. Business process re-design, system integration testing design, end-user training and documentation, data cleansing, post go-live support, system error resolution via the SAP OSS system and query creation for this client.

Confidential, Rochester, NY

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of the identification of manufacturing business processes and configuration of a training system in SAP version 4.6C.
• This work was performed in order to train the finance, manufacturing and transportation client team members on discrete and repetitive manufacturing within SAP. In addition to the FI, CO, MM and PP configuration work executed
• MM, PP, FI and CO master data such as material masters, bills of material, routings, info records, source lists, G/L accounts, cost centers, cost elements, planned costs and cost estimates were created for two on-site workshops.
• Multiple SAP solutions were presented to this client and recommendations were made. Much of this work was performed remotely.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent Senior SAP CO Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of the design and configuration of all product costing (CO-PC) functionality within a pre-configured
• SAP version 4.6C client system that was to be marketed to tier 2 and tier 3 automotive suppliers. Discrete, process and repetitive manufacturing environments were represented in the work performed.
• In addition to the FI, CO, MM and PP configuration work done, all FI, CO, MM and PP master data such as material masters, bills of material, routings, info records, source lists
• G/L accounts, cost centers, cost elements, planned costs and cost estimates were created for a final successful presentation to Gedas and Volkswagen senior management. Much of this work was performed remotely.

Confidential, Dover, DE

Senior SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Periodic duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consist of routine support for the FI, CO, MM and PP modules. Performed a system upgrade from SAP version 4.0A to version 4.6C for all CO functionality.
• Configured, tested and implemented custom costing variants for the inclusion of subcontracting costs and forecasting of future costs in a repetitive manufacturing environment. In addition, system training, configuration of labor and overhead rates by product line, frequent system error resolution via the SAP OSS system, query creation and cost roll assistance have been provided to this client.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Business Warehouse Consultant Architect

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as a Business Warehouse Consultant Architect consisted of implementing SAP Business Warehouse (BW) for an EDS in-house global financial reporting project after receiving version 1.2B certification
• SAP BW partner academy. Participated in requirements analysis, warehouse design, configuration/coding, system testing and implementation.

Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of supervision of one other consultant and two client team members, scope definition, business process blueprinting, system configuration of all CO requirements, data conversion analysis, system testing, and documentation of processes and configuration.
• Was entirely responsible for the implementation of the Product Costing (CO-PC) in a discrete manufacturing environment and all Overhead Management (CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-IO) sub-modules for an upgrade to SAP version 4.6B from version 3.1I for this personal care manufacturer.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of supervision of one other consultant and three client team members, scope definition, business process blueprinting, system configuration of all CO requirements, data conversion analysis, system testing, documentation of processes and configuration, end-user training and go-live and post go-live support.
• Was entirely responsible for the implementation of the Product Costing (CO-PC) module in a repetitive manufacturing environment.
• Was also responsible for the Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), and Internal Order Accounting (CO-IO) sub-modules for the implementation of SAP version 4.0B for this furniture manufacturer. Assisted with the implementation of the FI General Ledger module and created the new chart of accounts and corporate structure.

Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of supervision of one other consultant and two client team members, scope definition, business process blueprinting, system configuration of all CO requirements, data conversion analysis, system testing, documentation of processes and configuration, end-user training and go-live and post go-live support.
• Was entirely responsible for implementing the SAP version 3.1I Product Costing (CO-PC) sub-module in a repetitive manufacturing environment to accommodate very unique business requirements for this cosmetics and personal care manufacturer. Two other SAP vendors had failed in prior attempts to perform this implementation.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant consisted of assisting and mentoring two junior consultants who were responsible for the system configuration, data conversion analysis, system testing, documentation of processes and configuration, end-user training and go-live and post go-live support for the Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA)
• Internal Order Accounting (CO-IO) and Project Systems (CO-PS) sub-modules for the implementation of SAP version 3.1I for this public-sector utility.

Confidential, Allegan, MI

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an independent SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of scope definition, business process blueprinting, system configuration, data conversion analysis, system testing, documentation of processes and configuration, end-user training and go-live and post go-live support.
• Replaced another consultant and turned around a previously-failing implementation of the Product Costing (CO-PC) module in the process and discrete manufacturing environments for 400,000 part numbers and 30-40,000 shop floor orders in existence each day.
• All Overhead Management (CO-CCA, CO-PCA, and CO-IO) sub-modules for SAP version 3.1I were also implemented for this pharmaceutical manufacturer

Confidential, Allegan, MI

SAP CO Team Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project duties as an SAP CO Team Lead Consultant for this referenceable client consisted of scope definition, business process blueprinting, system configuration, data conversion analysis, system testing, documentation of processes and configuration, end-user training and go-live and post go-live support. Was entirely responsible for the implementation of the Project Systems (CO-PS) sub-module for SAP version 3.1H for this pharmaceutical manufacturer.
• Assisted with the implementation of the FI General Ledger module and created the new chart of accounts and corporate structure.

Confidential, Cicero, IL

Plant Controller

Responsibilities:

• Plant Controller for three stamping tool-manufacturing facilities. Duties included annual operating plan development, monthly and quarterly operational reviews, monthly margin and expense analysis, establishment of product standard costs and the development of new policies and procedures as needed.
• Other duties consisted of trouble-shooting a newly implemented software package, training of plant personnel in new software applications, supervision and reconciliation of all physical inventories, and financial justification of all capital expenditures.

Confidential, Troy, MI

Senior Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Senior Financial Analyst for startup medical device manufacturer. Duties included making monthly journal entries to account for all labor, material and overhead movement as well as variances from standard. Other duties included account reconciliations, monthly margin analysis, development of policies and procedures, establishment of all standard costs and supervision and reconciliation of physical inventories.
• A significant portion of this position was spent in the development and successful implementation of a new cost accounting and engineering project management system.

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

Engineering/Sales Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Engineering and Sales Financial Analyst for startup computer peripheral device manufacturer. Duties included cost of goods sold forecasting, monthly margin and spending analysis, annual operating plan development, capital appropriation ROI analysis
• Special sales promotion margin analysis, making monthly journal entries, and completing a multitude of special projects for upper management.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Senior Cost Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Cost Accountant for six automotive component manufacturing facilities. Booked monthly journal entries to account for all material movement and all variances from standards as well as entries for intercompany and intracompany cost of sales, unprocessed customer debit memo accruals, plant relief of R & D material and allocation of inventory suspense.
• Maintenance of the frozen and dynamic cost stacks, steel usage analysis, determination of product line margins and rework and scrap, plant expense analysis, and supervision and reconciliation of the physical inventories were annual duties.