SUMMARY

• Has more than 16 years of project management and team leadership experience.
• Has more than 15 full lifecycle implementations and involved in over 25 SAP Project implementations (including rollout projects) and AMS projects.
• Experience with financial processes and SAP Finance functionalities that support them.
• Deep knowledge of logistic business processes and SAP Functionalities which support them: Material Management, Sales & Distribution, Productions Planning, Quality Management, etc.
• Implemented SAP for many different industries including Insurance, Pharma, Media, Manufacturing, Consumer Products Goods, among others industries.
• Led multiple SAP project teams of different sizes (5 to 100 members) from conception to Go - Live and Post Go-Live.
• Experience Implementing SAP IS Retail/ SCM/Pharma solutions for different clients.
• Good Knowledge of Business processes related to Retail, Pharmaceutical and CPG industries.
• Experienced as SAP hands-on configuration consultant and project manager in: MM (Material Master Data and Article Master Data), FI, WM, SD, QM and ABAP.
• Experienced as Project Manager implementing broad range of SAP functions such as: FI/CO/PA/BPC/GRC, HR/Payroll, APO (DP/SNP/PPDS), IBP(S&O), GRC, BPC, SAP HANA, ABAP, Basis and Solution Manager among others.
• Deep knowledge in logistics processes related to Retail Industry, Manufacturing, Consumer Products and Wholesale distribution.
• Proven track record of progressive experience in aligning IT services to business objectives to improve organizational efficiency and productivity.
• Broad range of experience in general management and IT operations with budgetary, multi-site responsibilities, and Global Rollouts.
• Experienced thought leader in leading and motivating strong functional and technical teams to deliver world-class systems and IT services.
• Experienced in assisting clients in realizing the value from their investments in IT and SAP across business transformation and integration, strategic vision and operational efficiency.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Solution Architect - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Based on SAP experience and project background, defining SAP Roadmap, project scope (Business processes and SAP functionalities that support such processes), staffing requirements, initial GAP analysis, high level risk/mitigation plan, technical challenges, Initial WRICE matrix, among others.
• Create detailed project plan with all phase of ASAP methodology: Initial Prep, Blue Printing (analysis), and realization (design, development, integration, testing), final preparation, Go live.
• Outline initial Hypercare/Post implementation strategy.
• Provide guidance to SAP resources on project management, project planning, methodologies and business processes combined with SAP application expertise.
• Incorporate Agile principles in project plan for a more efficient SAP implementation wherever is possible
• Define standards of the configuration and documentation leveraging SAP Best Practices.
• Contribute to the development of strategies, policies, project standards and documentation.
• Create a high-level Quality Assurance plan.
• Assist on preparation of Communication in coordination with Client’s Change Management team.
• Create Risk Management plan with identified and potential risks with mitigation actions.
• Worked closely with client and SME’s in the design, development, and implementation of the technical content defined in the Statement of Work with the implementation partner.
• Create project status reports and accurately tracked/managed project issues and risks.

Confidential

SAP Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead new SAP opportunities and executive relationships with Confidential clients as part of the Confidential SAP Pre-Sales Organization. Working as Solution Architect for new engagements and Program Manager for complex implementations and AMS projects.
• SAP Project Manager leading SAP re-implementation and data migration activities for the client’s SAP Legal Entity Rationalization Program.
• Project Manager, leading the project team working on the SAP implementation activities for the Client’s Legal Entity Rationalization program within a challenging time framework.
• Objective of the project was optimizing costs by reducing the number of Legal entities and standardizing business processes.
• Project also included a challenging work stream of data migration.
• As part of the Client’s internal initiative to simplify its organizational structure, from 60 legal entities to 18 legal entities, a new full cycle project was planned and executed to configure SAP and prepare it for the new organizational structure and new standard processes.
• Important master data migration activities were carried out to migrate data from those 60 legal entities to 18 legal entities that would remain.

Confidential

SAP Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• SAP Program Manager for the SAP Implementation and AMS services at Confidential (TR) to Confidential
• Led the Confidential team working on the SAP implementation for Confidential .
• Led the business transformation project enabled by the SAP implementation and process redesign for Order to Cash and Order Capture along with Financial processes related (SAP Finance). Scope included, additional to the SAP ECC business suite, new SAP functionalities as Sales Solution Configurator and Variant configuration and CRM.
• Main responsibilities included: managed full cycle project plan, prepared and conducted weekly status meetings, prepared and conducted monthly steering committee with C-level executives, identified risks and mitigation activities, project staffing and regular appraisal, regular communication with stakeholders and incumbents, identifying gaps and solutions, project management documentation(project charter, roadmap, plan, risk/issue log, status reports, executive briefings and presentations, etc.), among other regular activities.
• Additional to the implementation and as parallel activities, project scope also included Application Management Services to support Confidential ’s SAP environment and more than 270 other IT applications. It was a challenging and successful project where the transition phase took 11 weeks for all applications and involved knowledge transition for +600 employees as part of the support services and project team.

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided the technical and functional leadership and staff mentorship for the analysis, design, development, integration, installation, implementation, and support of SAP resources using strong knowledge of project management, project planning, methodologies and business processes combined with SAP application expertise.
• Contributed to the development of strategies, policies, and best practices and project standards and documentation.
• Participated as a technical expert in pre-sales qualification, proposal preparation, project approach and strategy.
• Designed, developed, and articulated solutions based on a customer's strategic business or technical requirements.
• Led the implementation with responsibility for the delivery of the technical architecture designs, strategies, and quality assurance plans that were to be delivered.
• Worked closely with client and SME’s in the design, development, and implementation of the technical content defined in the Statement of Work.
• Created project status reports and accurately tracked/managed project issues and risks.
• Held responsibility for achieving the Triple=S Bar of Excellence as the highest level of Customer Satisfaction for every customer.
• Developed and cultivated strong customer relationships.