SUMMARY:

• Accomplished professional with 11+ years of experience in SAP ECC & SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management as Pre - Sales, Solution Architect, Delivery Manager, Project Manager, and Senior FI/CO Team Leader specializing in full cycle implementations and AMS (Application Management Services).
• Proven leadership skills particularly in managing specialized teams. Regarded for an ability to drive complex projects combining excellent technical and communication skills.
• Drive pre-sales and for a large-scale system integrations.
• Drive detailed SAP solutions for various types of customers across different platforms like SAP ECC 6.0, S/4 HANA Simple Finance, S/4 HANA EM new implementations, SAP S/4 HANA Conversions, SAP S/4 HANA Consolidations, etc.
• Led 10 full cycle SAP FI & CO implementation projects (including roll-out projects) on a global scale.
• Ability to provide solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in depth knowledge
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Strong ability to interact with the business on their key success drivers, performance
• Experience in scoping out work for Discovery, Blueprint and full life cycle implementations
• Firm knowledge of SAP integration between FI and different modules such as PP, MM and SD
• Excellent understanding and hands on in SAP ECC and SAP S/4 HANA (1503 & 1511) solutions in the digital economy, particularly in S/4 Simple Finance, COPA Side card & SLT

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

S/4 HANA 1511

S/4 HANA Simple Finance1503

SAP FI/CO

SAP Activate Methodology

Improvement Management

Problem Management

Transition Management

Project Management

Team Leadership

SCRUM Methodology

Ambition Methodology

Solution Manager

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. SAP Solution Architect Manager & Pre-Sales

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to leverage technology offerings to expand the scope of technology work at client accounts with a focus on SAP ECC, SAP HANA and SAP S/4 HANA 1503-1605 & 1511-1610.
• Responsible to drive S/4 HANA Finance solutions and the integration with existing on-premise or Cloud solutions.
• Responsible to build S/4 HANA innovative Demo solutions (E2E)
• Responsible for the SAP HANA Jumpstart program (Migration to HANA)
• Responsible to respond RFXs for new opportunities
• Responsible to support customer’s roadmaps and strategies for best suitable ERP solutions

Delivery Director SAP HANA / Big Data

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to build the practice of SAP HANA for HANA project implementations and AMS support for multinational customers.
• Manage, train, and direct multinational teams within US and Mexico.
• Anticipate conditions, plan ahead budgets, establish priorities among the teams, and meet project schedules.
• Review and evaluate detailed project management plans and project progress for transition to production support teams (Mexico and US).
• Work with BI/BO, BW, Data Services, Basis, COPA on HANA & SLT teams.
• Mitigate/manage escalations coming from customer side. Provide necessary support to the team to resolve existing problems /issues that can put in risk deliverables of project(s).
• Provide resources with required skills to fulfill demand of projects by different customers.
• Responsible for an international team of 15 HANA SMEs (Mexico/US).

SAP Enhancement Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage, train, and direct multinational teams within US and Mexico (OTC, FI/CO, Logistics, EDI, BW, BO, Datastage, and Security).
• Anticipate conditions, plan ahead, establish priorities, and meet project schedules.
• Review and evaluate detailed project management plans and project progress for transition to production support teams (Mexico and US).
• Provide resources with required skills to fulfill demand of projects provided by customers.
• Mitigate/manage escalations coming from customer side. Provide necessary support to team to resolve existing problems /issues that can put in risk deliverables of the project(s).
• Responsible to plan transitions from 3rd party companies’ projects into the existing production support teams.
• Problem Management: Responsible to identify possible issues/defects in the system that could cause an increase of the volume of incidents/escalations within customer account.
• Improvement Management: Provide solutions that help to improve existing processes/performance in order to reduce the volume of incidents and customer escalations.
• Change Management: Responsible to lead/implement improvements through SCRUM methodology.
• Responsible for monthly billing (Annual budget of 6 million dollars).
• Responsible for an international team of 55 people (Mexico/US).

SAP FI / CO Team Lead

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate, collaborate, and support the SCRUM PS FI team in design and resolution of break fixes for production system.
• Prioritize and forecast high demand of changes required to solve defects and issues coming from production system.
• Provide resources with required skills to perform these activities in a timely manner.
• Close collaboration with different business owners to address issues and new requests in a timely manner.
• Coordinate and collaborate with production support FI team to achieve and deliver SAP solutions on a daily basis.
• Responsible to provide finance support to approximately 10,000 users in the US, Canada, and Ireland.
• Achieve SLAs defined on 2nd level support.
• Coordinate and forecast resolution of service requests (system changes - bug fixes & small enhancements).
• High collaboration across other SAP modules in the resolution of daily incidents in production system.
• Coordinate the transition support for new solutions deployed in the production system.
• Review and define strategies to improve service level and team performance across the 2 areas.
• Provide accurate solutions in a timely manner for issues that can jeopardize business stability.

Confidential, Emeryville, CA

SAP FI / CO Project Lead, Business Analyst, and Solution Designer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and lead multiple teams within US & Mexico to ensure success of the roll-out project implementations
• Support to mapping and design extraction programs for data migration of financial objects. Balance sheets, PL, GL open items, AP and AR.
• Key users training at different locations all over US & Mexico (17 plants).
• Definition of interfaces between legacy systems, net-weaver and FCS template (SAP R/3).
• ALE configuration and development (master data and transaction data) with three full cycle implementations (decentralized systems).
• Investment management for AUC for capital expenses through internal orders.
• Split Document: based on profit center.
• Profitability analysis report.
• Cash Management / Treasury.

Confidential

SAP FI / CO Project Lead, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and lead multinational teams (MX/BR/AR/SA) to ensure success of projects.
• Anticipate conditions, plan ahead, establish priorities, and meet project schedules.
• Review and evaluate detailed project management plans and project progress.
• Ensure success deployment of full cycle implementation: Analysis, Design, Configuration, Development and Operation.
• Support to mapping process for FI and CO processes.
• Definition of functional design documents.
• Definition of interfaces between SAP and external software (inbound and outbound communication).
• ALE configuration and development (master data and transaction data).
• A/R Summary functionality for decentralized systems.
• Definition and configuration of evaluated receipt functionality.
• Extensive understanding of this functionality and relation with other modules.
• Definition and configuration of this functionality (country of origin).
• Complete understanding of OBYC and VKOA tables, two full cycle implementations.
• Functionalities implemented: General Ledger Accounting, Account Payables, Account Receivables, Material Ledger, Costing Methodology (average price), Credit Management in decentralized systems, Query Reports, General Controlling, Profit Center, Cost Center, Production Orders, and Internal Orders.