SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced senior project manager with over 25 years of experience in Information Technology Consulting and IT Business Solutions Support in the Oil & Gas
• Petrochemicals and Specialty Chemicals Industries. He has achieved proven results in leading multi - million dollar Global ERP systems integration efforts, implementation of business process improvements
• And design and development of business process and ERP systems . Experienced leader in IT-related projects supporting large-scale Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestments
• Including large-scale organizational change management activities. Develops strong collaborative working relationships
• Utilizes efficient and effective communication skills at all levels of the organization, and is dedicated to ensure organizational readiness for long-term sustainability of the delivered product.
• PMI Certified Project Management Professional with over 25 years managing SAP ERP implementations with multiple global full-life cycle project implementations. Deep SAP functional SME experience in multiple industries, managing multi-million dollar projects.
• Approximately 20 years of experience in Midstream, Downstream, and Upstream Oil & Gas across multiple value chains.
• Multiple years of experience with ERP transformation and Business re-engineering programs.
• Multiple years of experience with ERP implementation and application support teams in support of Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestments.
• Excellent communication skills when interacting with all levels within an organization.
• Experienced with instructional design, business change management and readiness activities supporting the deployment and ensuring the long-term integrity of ERP functionality and business processes/procedures.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Independent SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 50+members in support of on-time delivery of the Trinidad deployment project
• Defined high-level project plan and timelines and detailed project plans for Data Cycles and Cutover Execution. Coordinated the integration between IT&S and business plans for Cutover Execution.
• Managed project delivery, including status tracking and reporting, issue management and risk management

Confidential

Independent SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined high-level project plan and timelines and detailed project plans for Cutover Execution. Coordinated the integration between IT&S and business plans for Cutover Execution.
• Managed project delivery, including status tracking and reporting, issue management and risk management

Confidential

Independent SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined detailed project plans for both Release Management and Deployment Management activities for Backbone team
• Managed project delivery, including status tracking and reporting, issue management and risk management
• Defined Sustain Operating Model for supporting BP regions in a post go-live environment
• Managed Data Migration activity for end-user learning history into BP’s global standard Learning Management System

Confidential

Independent SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established a Houston-based support center, successfully retaining 100% of existing support team.
• Seamlessly integrated SAP support team into existing PMC production support processes and tools.
• Provided continuity of core ERP functionality in support of the legacy BP Canada NGL business in a post divestment/acquisition environment. Post production application issues and data migration issues were minimal, allowing the PMC business to focus on business process integration efforts and HR integration of legacy BP employees.

Confidential

Independent SAP Consultant, Lead Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• High-level project objectives included the establishment of a dedicated data center for the BP Canada NGL business applications, complete with all required hardware, infrastructure, and integrated ERP application architectural components.
• Provided project-level strategy and established detailed project plans from Initiation through Execution and Cutover phases of project Argyle.
• Managed internal and external IT resources during all project phases, ensuring successful completion of deliverables and key project milestones. Project Argyle involved resources from BP Enterprise Systems, BP Canada IT&S, BP M&A IT&S, IBM, SAP and others, requiring a high degree of coordination and communications through all phases of the project.
• Planned and directly managed all project data migration and cutover activities which coincided with the change of ownership into a newly established standalone production environment.
• Developed effective and efficient communication plans for key stakeholders from the business and IT&S during the highly complex cutover process - approx. 250 major milestones across 10+ project teams.

Confidential

Independent SAP Consultant, SAP Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the rollout of NGL Value Chain Business Process Owner matrix and support model, yielding drastic improvements in defect issue resolution, status communications, and business-driven prioritization of change requests. This program involved defining new support processes, developing materials and delivering to business users.
• Delivered multiple functional enhancements to NAG and NAGP businesses, including manuals and instructor-led to multiple recipients - end-users, super-users, and process owners, including train-the-trainer scenarios.
• Supported the analysis and evaluation of Commodities Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) software and the integration with SAP TSW. Effort specifically evaluated the integration of SAP logistics with SolArc RightAngle vs Triple Point.
• Developed and managed project plans, budgets, schedules, and communication for various SAP initiatives, including upgrades and hot patch application regression testing.
• Budget Forecast and Planning for SAP R3 Application Support Delivery 2008, 2009, 2010, managed approx. $2M annual spend
• Improved performance of IBM Third Party Vendor offshore support management, monitoring and reporting by proactively forecasting demand for support services on a rolling quarterly basis.
• Management of internal SAP R3 primary functional support team.

Confidential

Independent SAP Consultant, Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided deep SAP Materials Management functional knowledge and specific chemicals industry best practices to resolve several high-impact issues, most notably identifying and resolving a key design flaw involving unit of measure conversions in the global Material Master. The unit of measure correction project involved the root cause analysis of the issues, scope of the impact across business processes, and the project planning, estimating, and deployment of the corrective actions.
• Provided IT functional and technical support, and developed key materials to the US rollout of SAP PP Capacity Planning and Scheduling to three US sites for Advanced Materials. (Project Kappa) Worked closely with the ADMAT business process owners to develop and conduct workshops covering the business process and organizational job re-design, the technical SAP master data design, and managed the technical data migration effort to successfully load Master Recipes and Resources into test and production environments.
• Worked with ADMAT to design and deploy new job functions for centralized supply chain planning vs. localized production scheduling roles for Project Kappa. This involved development of content for the new business processes, including functional SAP application content, business process procedures, and key job aids.

Confidential

Independent SAP Consultant, SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• IT Project Manager for Project Zodiac, the Hexion Global Procurement process rollout for former RPP European operations. Project Zodiac was a project which deployed SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliant procurement processes and SAP security roles to a population of approx. 350 end-users. David was asked to manage this project which was seriously behind schedule and at risk for failure. He re-planned and prioritized key tasks, developed a new work plan and ensured the successful implementation according to the work plan. This also involved detailed Purchase Requisition Release Strategy configuration and setup. This project covered the time period of April - June 2006.
• Simultaneously managed the rollout of SOX-Segregation of Duties (SOD) compliant security roles to the entire former RPP European business unit. The RPP SOD cleanup project covered all functional areas and involved the use of the VIRSA Compliance Calibrator tool to identify SOD conflicts within the legacy RPP SAP environment. David was deeply involved in the use of the tool to identify SOD conflicts and in the management of the conflict resolution, through the development of mitigating controls, security role re-design, or through the deactivation of VIRSA rules. During the rollout phase David managed the testing effort and the go-live cutover and post-production support. This project resulted in the cleanup of 47,000 user-transaction assignments, and was coordinated with the Zodiac project for a simultaneous go-live.
• Supported SOD compliant SAP rollouts of the Hexion SAP Single Global Instance as part of the Hexion Security Team. Responsibilities include on-site project security support for SGI Rollouts in Europe (Solbiate, Italy) and in the US (Roebuck, SC).

Confidential

Project Manager, SAP Functional Support Team

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 11 SAP Functional Specialists covering FI/CO, SD, MM, WM, PP, PM, QM, EH&S, HR, and BW
• Managed all aspects of SAP functional support including production system break fixes and enhancements and new IT projects.
• SAP Functional Team Leader and Materials Management subject matter expert during the global deployment of SAP 4.6C for the acquisition of Resolution Specialty Materials from the legacy Eastman Chemicals Company. The project involved the deployment of all SAP modules across 15-20 plants in both the US and Europe, and required extensive of personnel on existing business processes and system functionality in multiple languages. Conducted conference room pilot using business scenario execution (focusing on application of knowledge of new business processes in order to perform the analysis against the acquired company’s unique requirements).
• Original SAP Functional Specialist covering the Materials Management module - provided direct SAP configuration, and business process support for 20-50 users across the US and Europe. Provided MM and WM functional support during the original deployment of 4.6C for Resolution Performance Products (originally spun off from Shell Chemicals)
• Configuration experience covered purchasing and supply chain and logistics value chains
• Developed project management methodology for deployment of large-scale SAP projects for Resolution IT. Developed internal IT ticket management process including the pilot of Mercury TestDirector for use in regression testing and issue resolution.
• Developed and implemented Sarbanes-Oxley compliant IT change management processes for the SAP ERP solution.
• Recognized as a subject matter expert in project management methodology including blueprinting, project realization, integration testing, cutover process, and post-production support.
• Highly experienced in recruiting, evaluating, and motivating IT resources for project implementations and production support environments.

Confidential

Independent SAP Consultant & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided SAP Production Support in Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, and IS-Oil Downstream Exchanges functionality.
• Spearheaded inventory reconciliation project for light olefins products. Reconciled business activity for light olefins from conception of the joint venture between Chevron and Phillips (June 2000) in both SAP and JDEdwards systems. Identified discrepancies and recommended corrective inventory adjustments. Developed detailed adjustment documentation to external auditor (PWC).
• Implemented business process improvements across light olefins, heavy olefins, and Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) product lines. Recommended and implemented logistics process improvements both in and outside of SAP processes. Recommended SAP configuration changes to support new or changed business processes.
• Developed detailed logistics business process documentation and materials, conducted end-user . Deployed unique solution for materials which were integrated into SAP user-specific menus, allowing end-users to launch materials directly from SAP user menus. Provided a structured approach to organize SAP transaction menus according to business process steps, ensuring consistency in execution of infrequent process steps.

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed teams of 5 - 75 resources, both consulting and client, through the development and implementation of multiple integrated Global ERP solutions.
• Led current state assessments of business processes, technologies and organizational capabilities, and the design of future state solutions including the configuration and implementation of technology solutions
• Managed integrated organizational readiness efforts for SAP deployments, working closely with Confidential ’s Change Management approach to integrate systems deployments with instructional design methodology. Methodology was based on the ADDIE model of core instructional design.
• Developed and Directed facilitated sessions for clients including up to 20 executive level participants to establish and build consensus around future state vision, corporate strategy, process improvements, and enabling technology
• Developed multiple implementation scenarios with resource loaded work plans and a summary of tradeoffs based on the approach selected; created risk mitigation strategies to ensure successful execution
• Evaluated resource skill sets and built high performance teams consisting of clients, consultants, and software providers to meet implementation requirements
• Identified change management requirements for large initiatives; developed communication plans; managed the development and delivery of end-user
• Conducted performance evaluations of consultants on various engagements; worked with subordinate team members to establish project specific expectations and identify improvement opportunities
• Counseled senior and staff consultants by serving as an advisor, assisting with the development of performance goals and project staffing; completed midyear and annual performance reviews
• Provided deep SAP functional and configuration experience for multiple large-scale SAP implementations from SAP R/3 version 2.0 through 4.6C