EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• At a very early stage in my professional career I was connected to an extremely successful SAP success story.
• Controller for Confidential & Financial and was invited to lead the selection for a new ERP solution for the USA operations.
• SAP presented the standard software for financial, order, distribution and supply chain applications.
• SAP was selected and I immediately became very enthusiastic about the idea of standardization and helped to convince my employer to not only investigate, but also to implement, such improvements globally.
• I started as the Finance/Order/distribution lead and before the end of the first release was promoted to be the business project manager for Confidential . I assisted with three very successful releases and SAP was so impressed that they requested my assistance on subsequent global SAP engagements.
• Soon I was integrated in national and international teams implementing, customizing and managing SAP standard, upgrade and crisis projects throughout EMEA, LATAM, Asia and North America.
• The project teams to manage consisted of all sizes, nationalities and cultural backgrounds.
• I did this across multiple industries and with multiple employers globally. SAP SI’s engaged me as a freelance crisis project manager, setting up COE, OCM Manager and taking over failed projects.
• I also became an integration expert managing large projects with as many as 200 integration objects and for medium projects at Confidential .
• I also led project audits, assessments and professional services pre - sales activities
• I soon became recognized as a highly sophisticated SAP delivery professional.
• Following the experiences and lessons learned from the projects, it was obvious for me not only to concentrate on how to implement standardized business processes, but also to put them controlled and effective into practice. Improving implementation methods and optimizing the professional use of the project management framework therefore became a significant role in my profession.
• My increasing interest to enhance project quality has influenced me to familiarize more with the true value of project management methods, with the result of crafting a unique methodology that I have applied successfully.
• In addition to my project management related activities and assignments, I share my knowledge by developing corresponding educational and certification programs; team at Project Management seminars and lecture at Business Schools.
• I am well structured, solution oriented and have strong communication and social skills.
• Acting as the Program/PMO/Project Manager delivering the project plan, project roadmap, Master Data Management strategy (MDM), resource management, forecast and budgeting vs. Actual tracking.
• Leading the configuration and customization of SAP Enterprise Packages, while maintaining the integrity of the company’s vision of integrated best practices in process, organizational, and functional design.
• OCM Project Manager: Applying my OCM expertise across all of my projects.
• Defining the strategy, plan and deliverables to support and drive buy-in from the business, SAP experience, tools and templates were applied.
• Set up PMO governance model, SAP COE or leverage existing companies’ PMO processes.
• Responsible for leading Multiple Upgrades, re-implementation crisis and greenfield Enterprise SAP Implementations over Simplified Finance, FI/CO/PA/New GL /SD/VC/PS/MM/PP/QA /SRM with experience on the latest releases of ecc 6.0-SP7 - (config. expertise on FICO & SD ), BI/Big Data on Hana/, HCM/Success Factors, CRM 5.6. & 7.0, BPC, Xi. And Vistex Enterprise PM
• Responsible for leading and delivering large, global manufacturing implementations
• Responsible for leading multiple Retail systems implementations globally. SAP, Oracle-fusion & more.
• Responsible for Global Master Data Management, (MDM), which included facilitating and defining global data owners for master data across applications and geographies. Taking into consideration regulatory and compliance constraints.
• Responsible for leading large, complex service bus/middleware implementations, leveraging the following tools: (e.g. J2EE, Xi, BEA, WebMethods)
• Responsible for overseeing large integration projects from identification of WRICEF objects to delivery, end-to-end testing and go live
• Responsible for leading large data migration activities which include profiling, cleansing and deduping leveraging latest tool (e.g. BODS)
• Responsible for delivering BI, BO and Hana analytics implementations in parallel to the ECC implementations that I delivered
• Responsible for leading the GRC Security and Compliance deliverables
• Specialize in taking over broken, unstructured projects ridden with delays and scope issues.
• Enabling to bring projects back on schedule to meet a go live scenario by setting up the governance model over the project / program..
• Have experience incorporating acquired companies on three projects.
• Usually happens when either an organization procured a company in the middle of a project lifecycle or set up a process to support future merger and acquisitions
• Coming from the business into IT, I have the business acumen and have had to be a quick study to assess business needs, define KPIs, define solutions and re-engineer existing processes against best practices driven by technology.
• Delivered quantifiable and tangible benefits to organizations by overcoming limitations driven by this same technology.
• My focus has been to work on keeping my skills up to date with the latest product releases and due to all of my success the product companies Confidential have given me great projects to manage.
• Pre-Sales Expert supporting Confidential and Confidential, as well as other large pro service organizations, instrumental in closing business and providing value to our customer
• My profile represents rotating between the multiple disciplines.

SKILLS:

• SAP
• Program Management
• Project Management
• Organizational Change Management ((ADKAR methodology coursework and applied on my projects)
• Finance & Controlling Configuration
• Sales and Distribution with VC Configuration
• Project Management over Data profiling, cleansing and de-dupe, as well as defining the migration strategy.
• ERM (Enterprise Risk Management) - Project Audits
• Assessment Projects - TCO delivered
• Come from the business into IT - process expert
• Finance and General Accounting
• Distribution
• Supply Chain
• Pre-sales supporting professional services engagements

CORE COMPETENCE:

PMO, Project Management, Organization Change Management, M & A, BI/Big Data - Hana, Integration PM, Data PM, ERM, Business Process Expert, Financial & Accounting Expert, BPC, HCM/Success Factors and Regulatory UK, EU, China, Brazil & Mexico, Program Management, SaaS and GRC Security & Compliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Program with OCM Manager

Responsibilities:

• Re-Wrote MPP and reset the project scope
• Re-defined roles and responsibilities for the executive sponsors, SME and project team. Define the communication and meeting cadence plan
• Facilitated process workshops for complex area where there was conflict and drove the team to complete the other business areas,
• Set up the PMO, COE and delivered artifacts that would enable the team, support execution of deliverables and audit (quality checkpoint deliverables)
• SAP Other Modules included ECC, IS Oil/SCM, SRM, PCR, MAM and BPC
• SAP Security and GRC delivered as per internal security department rules
• SAP BIBO (Hana) activating all standard objects and developing custom to support OOB reporting
• SAP HCM/Success Factors Personnel Management: EREC/ESS-MSS/LSO/PA/CM. Also includes time keeping.
• Infrastructure budgets had to be reset and I facilitated and consulted on the future state architecture which included portal
• Project delivered Initial phases and program was set up (Handover to new PMO)

Confidential

Program/Project/OCM Manager

Responsibilities:

• Re-Wrote MPP and reset the project scope
• Re-defined roles and responsibilities for the executive sponsors, SME and project team
• Re-write and drove the Finance Master Data Management over the program including the Data migration strategy for profiling, data entity standards, cleansing and de-dupe. Leverage traditional and new tools e.g. BODS
• Oversight over the Implementation BI/BO webi universe with Hana /AO, LIMS interface, ILM (Archiving) and more. With BPC enhancements and integration with Hana.
• Set up the PMO and delivered artifacts that would enable the team, support execution of deliverables and audit (quality checkpoint deliverables).
• Had to be hands on and execute the required deliverables.
• Infrastructure PM reported to me and this area was on track so minimal management.
• HCM / Success Factors functionality: Personnel Administration (Benefits), Compensation Management, Time management/payroll (USA-UK-DE-23 EU countries and Asia), Talent Management, Performance Management as well as Organizational Management (OM). Which includes the upgrade of the BO Universe (Hana Analytics) to support Global Headcount Reporting.
• HFM reporting solution live with all critical reports available.
• OCM strategy, tools and templates delivered (ADKAR methodology applied)

Confidential, Portland, Oregon

Program/Project Manager/OCM PM

Responsibilities:

• Re-Wrote MPP and reset the project scope
• Re-defined roles and responsibilities for the executive sponsors, SME and project team
• Set up PMO and COE
• Assess team for complex digital print requirements e.g. media & Print to on-line e-commerce sites e.g. Amazon, eBay and more.
• Re-write and drove the Finance Master Data Management over the program including the Data migration strategy for profiling, data entity standards, cleansing and de-dupe. Leverage traditional and new tools e.g. BODS
• PMO oversight driving that all governance deliverables were completed and managed the gate reviews and checks through the implementation.
• SAP ECC included FI/CO/RAR/MM/PP/SCM/SD/PS/SRM
• SAP Security and compliance across all regions NA, EMEA & JPAC with differing requirements
• BPC for regulatory reporting and consolidations
• SAP BW (Java stack) activating all standard objects to support OOB reporting
• SAP HCM Personnel Management: Time, attendance, benefits and compensation. Also includes shop floor time.
• Infrastructure budgets had to be reset and I facilitated and consulted on the future state architecture and hosting contracts
• OCM strategy, tools and templates delivered (ADKAR methodology applied)

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Program/Project Manager/Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implement SAP ECC, FI/CO/PS/MM/PP/SCM/SD/QM/SRM/HCM/APO
• Wrote and facilitated the RFP process and defined the high level project scope
• Selected the systems integrator, which included agreement on the project scope, SOW and facilitated the set up pf the company PMO / COE
• Wrote and executed the project plan to capture requirements to complete the Functional design documents (FDD), BPML and WRICEFP object list (w/complexity rating)
• Data migration strategy for profiling, data entity standards, cleansing and de-dupe. Leverage traditional and new tools e.g. BODS
• Led the PMO and delivered artifacts that would enable the team to deliver with quality, support execution of deliverables and audit (quality checkpoint deliverables)
• Infrastructure setup SolMan, DBX and SBX (QA, Train & Prod scheduled)
• OCM strategy, tools and templates delivered
• Blueprint phase closed, all project documents delivered as planned, Confidential

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Program/Project Manager/ Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• In addition, Speedo was on AFS Retail and managed the re-implementation in parallel
• Implemented Digital Solution using multiple tools to support FI AR-AP, Publishing Digital Catalogues, and Integration to e-commerce sites, Data retention and archiving.
• Note we implemented SAP-FL to support the International Labor Org. reporting requirements. (Forced labor, etc)
• Consulted and facilitated making enhancements to their existing non-SAP COE to an SAP COE

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handed off to internal project manager with remote consulting from me.
• CRM Implementation

Confidential, Providence, Rhode Island

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the projects from initiation of the blueprint phase through to a very successful closure.
• Executed Quality reviews throughout the project lifecycle
• SAP Modules Implemented: FI/CO/MM/PP/SD/WM/IM/BPC/CRM/HCM
• HCM functionality delivered: Personnel Administration: Benefits, Time management and compensation, as well as Organizational Management (OM) and Personnel Administration (PA). HFM reporting solution live with all critical reports available.

Confidential, Lexington KY

Crisis Program Manager (PMO Lead)

Responsibilities:

• My remit was first to take over a project ridden with schedule delays and reset the PMO, project schedule, resource plan and re-forecast.
• Second to audit and execute a solution review which resulted in revisiting the blueprint phase solution designs, executed gap analysis, and facilitated the method and definition of introducing new requirements into the new scope of work.
• Third take over and be hands on lead over data migration profiling, cleansing and de-dupe activities.
• Defined the OCM adoption plan, highlighted org. change impacts against specific roles, and defined the training plan and global roll out strategy. (ADKAR methodology applied)

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Program / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reset the mission by defining the project plan, overall MPP, OCM Strategy, communication plan, Process impact workshops, risk analysis, forecast Capex Vs Opex reporting and execution of the plan.
• Defined the SAP backend integration solution and WRICEF enhancements applied.