Master Data Lead - Consultant Resume - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Senior Technical and Project manager with 20 years of information technology experience, combined with experience in the Manufacturing and Insurance industry with over 9 years focused on SAP Projects.
Coordinated and managed teams involved in SAP projects, with an emphasis on creating a seamless and tested methodology for extracting, mapping and loading clean, consistent and complete Master Data into the SAP Environment.
As an owner of a consulting firm, my management background includes leading various sized client teams in developing and managing budgets, devising project and implementation time lines, monitoring project standards for all deliverables, creating technical and implementation strategies, overseeing technical design, development of all training solutions, new business development, documentation, conducting training, and maintaining quality assurance throughout the project lifecycle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Master Data Lead - Consultant

Responsibilities:

Coordinate, execute and document the migration of legacy data to SAP
Identify gaps and cross-train existing MDA’s (Master Data Analyst) in SAP Master Data concepts
Facilitate Key decisions regarding data migration best practices
Support Data migration, transformation and loading into SAP Systems
Work with Process Teams, PMO and Business to execute plan, identify issues, risks and mitigation steps
Provide data validation concepts and implementation
Primarily responsible for all aspects of Material Master Data, but support all teams with process related master data and data consistency
Provide feedback to PMO regarding timelines, resource constraints and necessary changes to make project successful
Experience working with MDM tool

Confidential

Master Data - IT Lead

Responsibilities:

Coordinate, execute and document the migration of legacy data to SAP
Develop and maintain standards and guidelines for the global data migration and data management process
Facilitate Key decisions regarding data migration best practices
Interface with key business and IT Process owners to facilitate seamless execution of data migration
Provide management, leadership and direction to the Master Data team, including all legacy IT Teams responsible for the Legacy ERP Environments
Establish Master Data timelines, resource requirements and overall effort requirements
Work with business and IT leads to develop effective rules that will allow us to extract, clean and transform the data so that the SAP System functions properly
Provide and present management reporting on Master Data status, Gaps, milestone achievement and risk assessment
Design and build transformation processes and programs that can be reused on each project
Create a Methodology for providing consistent results in the Migration process

Confidential

Master Data - IT Lead

Responsibilities:

The project timeline is 15 months after the initial planning and blueprint phase.
The project is broken into 4 overlapping waves, each wave starting 3 months after the prior with the last go-live occurring 10/1/2010
Master Data resources are at the same level or lower due to current economic situation and expectations raised by success on each prior project
their are 9 different countries that are being moved to dis system, spanning 7 different ERP Systems
All of the Master Data aspects for dis Worldwide Project were managed centrally by me

Confidential

Master Data - IT Analyst/Lead

Responsibilities:

The template was new and had to be developed according to the business needs
their were no standards for master data processes available - everything was developed in the first implementations and carried forward to the next with lessons learned and improvements in place
Nine Different ERP Systems were in the scope supporting nine different Business Units, which all operated independently with different IT groups
Developed an Interface Process to identify all active entities to be considered when transforming data
Developed a transformation process that is now the standard and was chosen to be the basis for Confidential and the Global Electronics Project.
Developed a rule template that all teams followed to ensure that the Master Data team could flow from one set of rules to the other without having to spend alot of time learning different formats
Provided direct support to process teams to ensure that rules were consistent and any cross-over did not conflict
Implemented a reporting process to ensure that daily and weekly goals were met and when obstacles were noted, immediate action was taken