SUMMARY:

I am a highly recommended SAP data migration consultant/team and practice lead with strong technical and troubleshooting skills. I possess over Thirty years of Information Systems experience including Director, Account management, Project management, Data Migration Practice Lead Technical Project manager, Data Architect, Testing lead, Systems Architect, System Design, and Development. I maintain strong oral and written communication skills proven through successful interaction with all levels of management, clients, and peers. I also have fifteen years of SAP Experience including 8 full lifecycle implementations and multiple upgrades and conversions.

SPECIALIZES IN:

SAP Project Management, Technical Management, Data Migration and Master Data Maintenance

SUMMARIZED EXPERIENCE:

Industry Experience: Manufacturing, Process, Wholesale Distribution, Information Technology, Pharmaceutical, Food Production

SAP Solutions Experience: Manufacturing, High - tech, Consumer Packaged Goods

SAP Area Experience: HR, MM, PP, WM, QM, FI/CO (GL, AP, AR, AM, CO), LE, SD, ABAP Full Cycle Implementations

PROFESSIONAL SAP HIGHLIGHTS:

Confidential, Miami, Fl

SAP Data Migration/MDM Practice Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Developing the Data Migration/MDM Practice within Confidential U.S.
• This includes developing a Data Migration Strategy and approach.
• Provided advice to multiple clients and guidance regarding data extraction, data cleansing, data mapping, data harmonization, data enrichment, data consolidation, data loading and data reconciliation.
• Provide guidance to the controls and compliance procedures based on the organizations’ global standard requirements.

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project kick-off, defining the resource requirements and on-boarding those resources.
• Following the Project kick-off responsibilities include developing the detail project plan, issue management plan, risk management, communication plan and documentation guidelines.
• This is a new SAP Installation (MM, PP, SD, LE, QM and FICO).
• Additionally responsible for the definition of the data migration and master data management methodology.
• Responsibilities include managing a team of Functional and Technical Resources, interacting with client management, managing the project budget and timeline, managing the scope of the project, and managing project issues.
• Responsible for reporting status and issues to the Steering Committee.
• The implementation was performed in both the U.S. and Singapore. I was responsible for managing a team in the U.S., India and Singapore.
• Responsible for taking the client live on SAP in Singapore and the United States.
• In addition responsible for managing the Data Migration of the Zurich System to the Global SAP environment.

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the SAP implementation for a Confidential (MM, PP, WM, SD, FICO, and LE).
• This was a new SAP implementation and required legacy system data conversion along with multiple legacy system interfaces.
• Responsibilities included developing and managing to the overall project plan, managing a team of Functional and Technical Resources, interacting with client management, managing the project budget and timeline, managing the scope of the project, creating the cutover plan, managing mock go lives, go-live execution and managing project issues.
• I was responsible for ensuring that all deliverables were delivered on time and met business requirements.
• I managed the project through all phases. As a member of the PMO worked to move the project from design through go live.
• Responsible for reporting status and issues to the Steering Committee.

Confidential

SAP Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing Technical Specifications and the implementation of EDI for a new SAP deployment.
• This included working with the Functional Team and client Business Owners to understand the requirements and turn them into specifications that could be worked by off shore resources.
• EDI activities included data mapping and technical setup of EDI interfaces to SAP, working with third party software on mappings and testing the interfaces.

Confidential

SAP Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing a team of developers that are performing custom development for RICEF’s and interfaces in a support of a new SAP implementation.
• Responsibilities include working with the functional team to identify the RICEF requirements, estimating the effort, defining the staffing requirements and managing to those estimates.
• The resources included both on and off shore resources.

Confidential

Data Migration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing the conversion of Documents, Drawings, Artwork and Specs into SAP.
• The design included the mapping of the existing Object Oriented Data Base to SAP Document Information Records (DIR), the design of the rules used to convert the data in Cransoft and the design of the BDC’s used to perform the conversion.
• Responsible for managing the data conversion portion of the Cosmics Project.
• The project goal was the migration of US Exports Processing from Legacy applications to SAP. The conversion aspect of the project included converting Master data such as Customer, Materials, Pricing Conditions, Purchase Info Records, Source Lists and transactional data such as Purchase Orders and Open AR.
• Worked closely with the SAP Functional team and the Business teams to map the legacy data to SAP. Developed Cransoft rules used to convert the legacy data to a format and values that could be loaded into SAP.
• Developed and utilized LSMW, BDC’s, Direct Input Programs and ABAP programs to load the data to SAP. Once the data was loaded into SAP the data was then extracted from SAP to provide Reconciliation reports to the business for verification.
• The project was implemented with zero Conversion defects.
• Responsible for managing the conversion of Employee Performance Data from multiple legacy systems to SAP. Worked with the HR organization to map the legacy data to the SAP, coordinate the load into SAP and validate the load.
• Responsible for the data conversion of Multiple International HR systems to SAP 6.0. Responsible for working with the country Business Owners to identify requirements used to perform data mapping of diverse HR systems to SAP. The data conversion was implemented using SQL/Server and BackOffice Cransoft and included the development of rules and validation reports. Developed validation reports used by the Country Business Owners to cleanse data and improve mapping and load statistics.
• Responsible for the management of offshore resources to perform some portions of the conversion.
• The project went live with zero defects for all countries.
• Analyzed the first phase of the Archiving effort by Confidential Analysis indicated that the PP ORDER object was the one that would result in the greatest space saving if archived.
• Worked with business and technical teams to document procedures used for archiving of the PP ORDER object.
• In addition, analyzed issues preventing the archiving of some PP ORDER records caused by statuses such as open inspection lots.
• Documented data cleansing steps for all issues so that all PP ORDER entries could be archived when the retention period was reached.

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the implementation of SAP FI/CO (GL, AP, AR, AM, CO), ECC HR, and ESS. Responsibilities included managing the Vendor responsible for implementing SAP FI/CO and HR and working with Business Owners to define requirements, set priorities, and manage the implementation of those requirements.
• This included validating BPP’s met current and future Business Requirements. SAP FI/CO and ECC HR successfully implemented. Responsible for working with Finance, Controller, and Treasury to perform such functions as Asset Loading and Depreciation, Budgeting, Automated Bank interfaces, and Book Close. Performed both Functional and Technical tasks such as setting up House Banks, Bank Interfaces, Asset Loading, Asset Depreciation, Company Codes, Chart of Accounts, Vendor Master, Payment Terms, and General Ledger Accounts.
• Worked with the companies SAP hosting vendor to define support and security procedures. Defined the requirements and look and feel of the corporate ESS portal supporting time recording, management of personal information, open enrollment, and corporate information.
• Responsible for working with Business owners to define the scope of the DaRT implementation and implementing DART. This included identifying required OSS notes, performing DaRT configuration, defining custom data requirements, User Exit Development, defining custom fields and segments, creating custom views, developing DaRT Extraction Procedures, working with users in performing data validation, and implementing DaRT.
• Additionally responsible for developing training materials for both the technical support staff and end-users.
• The objects impacted were those for SD, MM, Asset Management and FI.

Confidential

SAP Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for migrating the Legacy Treasury system to SAP ERP 2005. As Project Manager, responsibilities included working with the functional team to identify development objects, working with the Business Owners to define Requirements, performing Gap Analysis, developing the technical architecture and managing the implementation effort.
• This included defining the architecture to support over one hundred inbound and outbound interfaces including EDI interfaces to Banks and Vendors.
• The system utilizes SAP’s In-House Cash functionality to manage the balancing of payments made on behalf of Confidential Companies.
• The system receives Voucher information from varying sources, processes and posts those vouchers to SAP, makes payments to vendors, and distributes G/L data to Confidential subsidiaries. In my role as project manager, I worked closely with both the Business Owners and the Functional Team to identify custom coding requirements necessary to meet business objectives. My responsibilities included estimating the effort required for the project, developing a project plan, identifying required resources, and managing to the project plan to ensure project deliverables were met on time and within budget.
• Developed a technical architecture that included the use of SAP XI, SAP Workflow, and SAP ERP to process incoming and outgoing feeds.
• This included the use of LSMW, BDC, and ABAP Object. The architecture included auditing and reporting functionality used to meet SOX compliance requirements.

Confidential

SAP HR Redesign

Responsibilities:

• Project encompassed multiple smaller projects meant to streamline the HR Processes within SAP via automation of SAP processes.
• I was specifically responsible for the overtime application, special processing, GTTI enhancements, and the Confidential interface.
• This included configuration of wage types, overtime profiles, changes to the payroll schema, and development of multiple ESS Screens (IT Views) and SAP Applications.
• Responsible for working with the business owners to define the requirements develop detail design, code, and test.
• Worked closely with the SAP Security team to define new Security roles and the Stress testing team to define performance levels and test scenarios.
• I was responsible for estimating the effort and managing to the project deadlines.
• The development effort included the use of ABAP Objects and BDC development