EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Decisive, action - oriented, and results-focused. Offers over 22 years of progressive experience in the Technology industry. Successful track record of planning and implementing software, integration, migration, business process improvement, and Internet projects on time and within budget constraints.
• Expert in project planning and control, resource leadership and leveling, partner management, and contract negotiations.
• Outstanding success in leading enterprise-level system implementations and business process improvement opportunities globally.
• Industry experience includes (but is not limited to) automotive, manufacturing, consumer products and retail distribution, Confidential, telecommunications, Confidential, Confidential, defense manufacturing, Confidential, as well as financial services.
• Accomplished leader with extensive hands-on technical management experience, including global application implementations, major upgrades, IT strategy, extensive data migration efforts, and outsourcing models, across multiple countries and continents with onsite and offshore resources.
• Proven ability to plan, scope, manage and implement short and long-term global projects with budgets ranging from $100,000+ to multi-million dollars and teams of up to 100 resources.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, adept to influencing and clearly communicating business strategies and tactical plans.
• Proven track record with (refining) various offshore delivery models.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

SAP Technical Project Manager/Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Project management, and ultimate responsibility, of all areas of technology on the program
• Created design of project technical landscapes, and delivered project specific development/test SAP instances - including refresh cycles
• Created estimates, project plans, and staffing profiles for entire technology track (Development, Integration, Data Migration, BASIS/Infrastructure, Security)
• 3rd party vendor management: including remote consulting partner resources, BASIS and Infrastructure resources based in Italy
• Worked with functional teams to determine and rationalize custom ERP requirements for the project
• Managed change control process, to keep the project on track
• Hands on management of all technology tracks, authored and championed development policies and procedures, facilitated daily calls for Development Status, and Defect Resolution Status
• Scoped data migration objects, and iterative data load cycles
• Hands on design, development, and execution of WinShuttle Transaction objects for data migration from legacy systems into SAP
• Developed and executed code/configuration migration policies, into consolidated productive instance
• Executed several phases of go-live including transport migration and data migration - ultimately a delivering a successful consolidated productive instance for the US and EU
• Post go-live technical hyper care - including triage, defect resolution, security enhancements, transport and change management

Confidential

Technical Project Manager/Architect/Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Project Management responsibility for the engagement
• Provided input into the strategy methodology, and lead all key interview sessions
• Authored and presented current solution architecture, along with architectures detailing a “crawl, walk, run” approach based on input and feedback from the client
• Instrumental in the win of follow-on SuccessFactors work.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Ultimate project management responsibility, and accountability, for all areas of functional configuration AND technology on the program
• Created estimates, project plan, and staffing profiles for entire technology track (Development, Integration, Data Migration, BASIS/Infrastructure, Security, and Business Intelligence)
• Worked with functional teams to determine and rationalize custom ERP requirements for the project
• Managed change control process, to keep the project on track
• Hands on management of all technology tracks, authored and championed development policies and procedures, facilitated daily calls for Development Status, and Defect Resolution Status
• Executed technical go-live, delivering a productive instance with all coding and functional configuration - no data

Confidential

Technical Project Manager/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Project management of the technical workstreams
• Tasked with documenting the current status of an SAP implementation - liaising with the government resources, and several external implementation partners
• Reviewed said status with timelines, and mission statement for proposed go live
• Investigated alternative solutions to the SAP program, including off the shelf technologies - documenting technology feeds, and “day in a life” models for all scenarios
• Authored and presented “the whole picture” to leadership under a very aggressive timeline

Confidential

Technical Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Ultimate responsibility for all areas of technology on the program: Development, Integration, Data Migration, BASIS/Infrastructure, Security, and Business Intelligence
• Authored and executed technical SAP education sessions to the client resources
• Authored and executed general SAP education awareness sessions for the consulting project team
• Created estimates, project plan, and staffing profiles for entire technology track (Development, Integration, Data Migration, BASIS/Infrastructure, Security, and Business Intelligence)
• Worked with functional teams to determine and rationalize custom ERP requirements for the project, and to determine solution set for the install base
• Worked with client technical resources to develop an integration methodology using ESB architecture and a canonical data communication format.

Technical Lead/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ultimate responsibility for all areas of technology on the program: Development, Integration, Data Migration, BASIS/Infrastructure, Security, and Business Intelligence
• Instrumental in the sale of this $26m multi-release green field implementation
• Lead team of 23 onsite resource, and a peak of 75 resources offshore
• Created estimates, project plan, and staffing profiles for entire technology track (Development, Integration, Data Migration, BASIS/Infrastructure, Security, and Business Intelligence)
• Worked with functional teams to determine and rationalize custom ERP requirements for the project
• Authored and published all templates for Functional deliverables (Functional Specifications) and all Technical deliverables
• Delivered training and guidance on how to complete the Functional Specification template, along with providing detailed examples for each development type
• Hands on management of all technology tracks, championed development policies and procedures, facilitated daily calls for Development Status, and Defect Resolution Status

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed project charter, project plan, communications, status material, and cutover plans for ORACLE and SAP upgrade go lives
• Replaced the initial project manager and successfully recovered the project to initial timeline, scope and budget
• Managed disparate team of client, SAP, and offshore resources - in numerous remote locations i.e. India, England, Australia, United States, Holland
• Planned and lead ABAP remediation effort - using a team of 13 offshore developers, brought SAP enhancements in line with upgrade release coding standards and removed extraneous code
• Planned and managed all Functional testing efforts, leveraging offshore team members
• Planned, scoped, and managed Integration Testing - Testing effort spanned IS-Retail, ECC, Kiosk Management and numerous continents
• Planned and managed upgrade cutover efforts, using consulting and client resources - delivering the system back to the end users 8 hours ahead of schedule
• Lead defect triage meetings, post cutover, that were cancelled after the first week - due to lack of defects

Technical Lead/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ultimate responsibility for all areas of technology on the program: Development, Integration, and Data Migration
• Lead team of 20 onsite resource, and a peak of 80 resources offshore
• Created estimates, project plan, milestone billing plan, and staffing profiles for entire technology track
• Tracked project status and budget against Fixed Fee milestone billing
• Worked with functional teams to determine and rationalize RICEFW requirements for the project
• Enhanced Distributed Delivery Model for increased productivity and accountability against client SLAs (First Time Right > 90%)
• Delivered training on the new model both onsite and in the delivery centers in India
• Created templates for Functional deliverables (Functional Specifications) and all Technical deliverables
• Delivered training and guidance on how to complete the Functional Specification template, along with providing detailed examples for each development type
• Active member of Program Steering Committee, providing direction and strategy to the Program leadership along with the CTO
• Traveled frequently to Brussels (European HQ) for Blueprinting and System Integration Testing - staying up to 6 weeks at a time
• Facilitated daily calls for Development Status, and Defect Resolution Status

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed project charter, project plan, communications, status material, and cutover plans for ORACLE and SAP go lives
• Lead ABAP remediation effort, using team of 13 offshore developers
• Planned, scoped, and managed Integration Testing - Testing effort spanned SD, MM, CS, PP, SM, FICO modules and numerous continents.

Confidential

Technical Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked very closely with all functional areas to ascertain potential integration issues, and was a key member of the integration workshops
• Collaborated with the business on key decision and design documentation
• Developed key technical deliverables and gaining sign-off from the client (interface strategy, testing strategy, authorization strategy)
• Aided analysis of complex functional gaps and development of functional specifications with options explored, recommended solution, scope of the development in detail
• Analyzed the blueprint design options and explored new Billing & Invoicing options to minimize implementation risk, cost and development effort
• Worked with the functional team to investigate and develop a Business Rule Framework (BRF) proof of concept, so that we could decide if it would be suitable for the project
• Investigated the functionality of products such as Print Workbench, Event Management, and FSCM
• Seconded to an elite team tasked with reviewing the non-SAP estimates for the project implementation that were prepared by the client's Business IT team
• Used the guiding principles of the integration strategy (part of our deliverables) to aid the functional teams in their decisions
• Researched the characteristics/principles of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - applied them to the RICEFW log we had compiled and the design of the technical objects
• Built prototypes using GuiXT - took the initiative to be the major point of contact with GuiXT, and built a relationship with the company
• Provided technical expertise to the functional teams at the time of creating functional specifications (work queue management for error processing, SOA, BRF etc)
• Provided standard IDOC templates to the functional teams for interface specifications
• Lead the technical review of all functional specifications, and provided feedback to the teams so that technical specifications may be created in the next phase
• Provided thought-leadership on 3rd party products such as WinShuttle.

Confidential

Senior SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical efforts involved in replacing Catalyst WM with SAP 4.6C WM. Involved numerous user-exits to support client’s very specific picking strategies, custom interfaces to packing stations, and custom IDOC interfaces to Conveyor systems
• Instrumental in replacing TekLogix RF with SAPConsole RF transactions. Coded several new SAPConsole transactions
• Implemented EDI inbound Vendor Invoicing into client’s 3.1H SAP system
• Implemented faxing of Remittance Advices and Purchase Orders.