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SUMMARY:

  • Skilled in SAP’s ASAP methodology and variations.
  • Experience leading technical and functional teams to a full lifecycle GO LIVE. Hands on management from the team on the ground, the client’s team, C - level stakeholders and the offshore teams.
  • Led 26 SAP implementation projects including Confidential 100/500 and small and mid-tier companies.
  • Leading all aspects of SAP engagements: Infrastructure, sizing and client strategy; functional blueprinting, configuration; technical: development and the PMO.
  • Environments: ECC 4.6c, ECC 5, ECC 6, S/4HANA versions 1510, 1610, 1709, 1809 and 1909 with modules FICO, PS, MM, PP, SD, MRP, BI, PM, IM, WM. SRM, BPC, ETM, Central Finance, PPM, EPPM & Commercial Project Management, HCM including Payroll, Benefits, PA, Time.
  • Co-Developed SAP Activate type methodology: Building Block Methods project management methodology for full PMO and robust fast paced SAP programs and projects based on deliverables.
  • Carve Outs for divesting business units on SAP ECC; Managing Transition Service Agreements; Day 1 to Day 2
  • Led global template implementation using Lift, Clean and Place Methodology: Leveraging production SAP to other regions and multiple company codes with similarity in processes and design.
  • Led SAP program (implementation) of 94 consultants, 150 client team members and multiple 3rd party vendors for bolt-on applications and special functional expertise, like tax, country specific SMEs, and high level solutions.
  • Skilled in project leadership, project finance, ROI, TCO, cash flow pro formas, profit/loss, international corporate finance, and corporate leasing on project implementations.
  • Project approach is to engage team:
  • Understand team and individuals; learn strengths and weaknesses; define integrity as the key to being on time; build trust; build plans together; establish ownership amid team and individuals; clearly define and agree to process; execute.
  • Make project management work to promote speed and not slow team and activities.
  • Maintain a central repository of all artifacts; drive active databases of gaps, issues, risks and key decisions.
  • Achieve transparency in status and maintain in tight waves of frequency
  • Project managed and sat on/led total program including multicultural and bilingual teams and vendors.
  • Ran 4 SAP production support projects creating ongoing support centers including client level I, II, and III support.
  • Oversaw three client-side engagements auditing and PMO controls.
  • Acted as oversight of Big Four integration teams.
  • Senior PMP Project Manager experienced in large scale multinational, cross-functional projects and project finance.
  • Over 22 years as a Project Manager/Program Manager.
  • Previously certified PMP. Note: no longer participate in the Project Management Institute program formally.
  • Proven ability to consistently deliver commitments prior to deadlines while lowering project delivery costs by 35%.
  • SAP Complex business system projects, SDLC development projects, infrastructure projects, IT mergers, divestitures, transitions, and integrations.
  • Managed teams of 60 and 90 members and led project managers in 11 countries and 8 times zones.
  • Led teams of varied engineering, development, and business talent; senior level managers, 3rd party, direct reports.
  • C Level project responsibilities in SAP implementations

SKILLS:

SAP Project Management: Skilled in SAP Activate and ASAP methodology and variations morphed by Building Block Methods (co-developed), Confidential, HP Global Methods, Cox and Deloitte. Working in SAP since 2000. Experience leading technical and functional teams to a full lifecycle GO LIVE. Hands on management from the team on the ground, the clients team, C-level stakeholders and the offshore team.Project Management Know and drive projects by the Body of Knowledge Areas PMBOK Management creation of plans in Scope, Time, Integration, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Risk, Communications, and Procurement. PMI certified Project Manager 2004 to 2010. PM Processes and lifecycles Initiation, Planning, Scope, Execution, Closure.Project change control and requirement validation.

Strategy Consulting and Planning PMOs: Project Strategy for IT Mergers/Divestitures, Technology Integration, Migrations, Cash flow Projecting, Lifecycle Planning, Obsolescence Planning, Phased Development, Architectural Business System Planning. PMO Portfolios Program Structuring, Valuation and Reporting to Directorship.

Program Management: Planning Process Master Plans, Organizing, Staffing, Executing, Contract Negotiation, Project Portfolio, Logistics.

Finance: Project Finance, ROI, IRR, TCO, Cash Flow pro formas, Cost Budgets, Profit Loss, International Corporate Finance, and Corporate Leasing on project implementations.

Negotiating: Win/Win Three Dimensional Approach, Project Management Team Negotiating, Third Party Contracts, Joint Ventures, Financial/Technical, Executive. Fixed Bid projects, Vendor Management.

Writing: SAP Business Process Procedures, Proposals, RFP responses, RFQ responses, Contracts, SOWs, Business Plans, Press Releases, Editing, Technical Manuals, and White Papers.

Speaking: Project Team Meeting Coordination, Customer Facing Presentations, Led Financial Negotiations and Presentations before Senior Management, Fund Raisers, and International Public Speaking experience.

Software Applications: MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, MS Visio, SharePoint MS Project, Primavera, HP PPM (Mercury); ServiceNow HP Quality Center

Remedy: ServiceNow

Web Help Desk: SAP Solution Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Confidential

SAP Program Manager, SAP Strategy, PMO

Environment: SAP S/4HANA (1510, 1610, 1609, 1709) (on-prem and Amazon WS cloud environment, ECC 6.0 r.7 on-prem, Central finance servers including SAP LT Replication Server, Ariba cloud, Callidus, OneSource tax cloud) Functional Areas: FICO, Central Finance, Revenue Accounting/Reporting, Variant Configuration, CPQ cloud integrated into S/4 VC and quotes, Commercial Project Management, OTC, BPC, BI, WM, IM, MDM custom creation of business partners, Fiori application development

Responsibilities:

  • Program Management: led core PMO as the lead integrator along with KM internal directors (4 members reporting to broader executive steering committee
  • Program Management: engaged with program management of 3rd party integrators planning, coaching and scope management
  • Program management: full scope management, program cashflow and budgeting (along with CIO/VP), program level presentations and reporting.
  • Program Management: worked closely with KM program directors, CIO, CFO, and VPs to guide the program through business solutions, working alongside SAP licensing and planning around the company’s relationship with their parent in Japan.
  • Project Management: led multiple teams including functional solutions in Central Finance, Finance FICO in RAR, BPC reporting and consolidations, Commercial Project Management, and the tech/development and Fiori teams.
  • Project management—Co-led design and Best Practice Alignment Workshops which determine agreed scope and final business processes.
  • Project Management: co led Build Deploy; Co-Led multiple teams including KM teams, offshore.
  • Project Management: Led CFIN deployment, BPC deployment.
  • Project Management standards: Delivery and design planning, deployment, resolution/governance; risk management, issue and key decisions.
  • Solutioning: Scenario development of OTC end to end including Fiori test scripts.
  • Solution design check points for Central finance, BPC, RAR for functional and technical team integration testing.
  • Currently on PMO for oversight and project repository tools.

Confidential

SAP Program Manager

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 7; FICO, MM, PP, OTC, BPC, Treasury, BI

Responsibilities:

  • Deployed ECC template into multiple countries
  • Developed project portfolio management system to handle 45 more country rollouts.

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6; FICA, IS-U, SAP GRP, Logistics, Process Manufacturing, CS, CRM, Contracts

Responsibilities:

  • SAP CRM and CRM web gui for Registro Civil de Tamaulipas: Solution design, resource and project plans
  • SAP solution design for water companies using SAP IS-Utilities
  • Formed a legal Mexican JV Company in Tampico, Mex in partnership SAC (SISTEMAS AVANZADOS DE CÓMPUTO, S.A de C.V.)
  • Created Alliance partnership with multiple state agencies
  • Currently developing an SAP roadmap for a utilities operation across Mexico
  • Helped develop and sell large SAP program to a German food company
  • Global template to Europe and USA deployment plan, resource plan and solution
  • SAP process manufacturing, distribution in multiple languages and locales
  • Collaborated to develop and sell an energy company the consolidation of multiple recent mergers where SAP existed in three instances
  • Technical automated analysis followed by an architectural review of the system risks, merger opportunities
  • Multiple systems in ECC 6, CRM
  • Led an architectural team and collaborated with an internal SAP/IT team to develop an SAP Roadmap
  • The analysis and recommendations took into account 14 years of SAP and new business and operational challenges forthcoming
  • This collaboration with key stakeholder led to a far reaching roadmap with alternative starting points, strategies for new business models and a conscientious growth plan
  • Large Japanese high tech firm (client) built an SAP extended roadmap and blueprint. Led SAP consultants and client through blueprint workshops
  • Established a program management relationship for Infosys’ and the leadership of their strategic clients
  • Helped develop a managed services SAP contract sourcing program
  • VMS and Managed services business model

Confidential, Houston

SAP Project Manager, SAP Cutover Manager

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 5; FICO, MM, PP, Variant Configuration, WM, IM, Logistics, MDM, PI

Responsibilities:

  • Wrote custom methods for PMO and project delivery
  • Developed processes within HPQC, SharePoint for method execution for teammates—both SAP consultants and customer team
  • Developed mock and final cutover plans
  • Led and successfully executed 3 mock data migrations and cutovers
  • Led and executed final cutover to GO LIVE.
  • Drove solution plan execution for outstanding items in design and data in final preparation for cutover and go live.
  • Built out the final cutover plan for the next program rollout.

Confidential, Atlanta

SAP Project Manager, SAP Business Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Creation of methods for enterprise application assessment including usability, business process duplication, performance, consolidation, retirement, system and business process business case, and best system to retain.
  • Design and build online template and enterprise access point and repository/analysis tool.

Confidential, Phoenix

Senior SAP Program Manager

Environment: SAP ECC 6, BW 7, CRM 7, Portal 7, PI 7.01, B2R / FICO, OTC / SD, PS, PTP / MM, HCM Time Entry

Non-SAP Environment: WEB, EDI, Ebiz, PMVS, CONCUR, OAUI (GUI) (each system interfaces and collaborates with SAP)

Responsibilities:

  • Led teams of internal business and IT plus external contractors through a company led implementation.
  • Created the system and methodology to align with rapid execution of SAP ASAP essential or “Building Block” deliverables.
  • Currently in Design

Confidential, Denver

Senior SAP Program Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Expanded new company into Australia: SAP ECC 6.0, 2 company codes
  • SAP HCM implementation including Payroll, Time, Benefits, HR All Australia Molga 13 + Molga 10 in US Expat company code
  • AUS GL, AP, AR, Australia Tax
  • Billing + AUS Tax including multiple contract types
  • SAP Equipment: ETW/Plant Maintenance
  • Expanded New Zealand in 3rd project with Finance, Projects Systems, Billing, P2P and ETM

Confidential

Senior SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Global Reporting Project SAP BI 7.0Phoenix
  • 150 base queries for hotel industry business warehouse standards
  • Led teams in India (BW developers, PMs, and FI testers), USA (BW architect and leads in BI and FI
  • FPS Sydney, ECC 6, FICO
  • GL, AP, AA, FA
  • Led teams in India (development, FI testing), Australia (Finance), USA (SAP + IT Finance)

Confidential, Lexington, KY

Senior SAP Project Manager

Environment: ECC 6.0, FICO, PS, BPC, MM, SD, WM, PP, APO, BI, Business Objects, GTS, GRC, SRM, E-Sourcing, Vistex, Sabrix, Webmethods, PI, Datastage, and EDI

Responsibilities:

  • Rollout of global template to 3 of 4 regions. 94 TCS consultants collaborating with 3rd party and large client team.
  • Dual role as SAP project manager and PMO leader. Created and managed project plans. Led functional team, Led PMO w/ LXK
  • Primary challenge: To implement global template and design for local tax, reporting, business, and statutory requirements.
  • Brazil: nota fiscal electronica, taxation; Mexico: boletos, and taxation.
  • Localization of Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela.
  • Solution design to non-functional processes within the global template.
  • Led the functional teams through workshops flushing out localization essentials and confirming the regional design.
  • Worked with our PMO team through gap analysis and scope changes while monitoring solution needs, development requirements, and special localizations.
  • Helped conduct planning for proof of concepts in several challenging areas:
  • E-sourcing Rfx and Contract Lifecycle Management.
  • SRM indirect procurement 7.1 for vendor logons.
  • Colombia company code for material ledger simulation and parallel reporting.
  • Brazil company code for taxation requirements for Sabrix tax formulas and comparison to innate SAP tax code application.
  • Created development plan for 260 FRICEW objects. Defined Integration testing cycles.
  • Worked the enterprise structure with SAP architect to produce the base configuration of Confidential throughout the world. We used BC sets to configure into the system: Lift Clean Place Methods.
  • Scope from the project management role:
  • Roll outs in North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.
  • Led Planning and project timeline and activity development,
  • Worked with core SAP consultants to setup processes to develop localization design,
  • Worked with each functional area team to establish configuration, development, training, testing, security plans and activities.
  • Responsible for total SAP environment and applications, including hardware sizing and BASIS builds and admin.
  • Management all resources and leads. Create and drive the plans (high level milestones, development plan, workshop plan, training plan, testing plan, configuration plan, and change management plan).
  • Interface to the clients in all affairs, issues and communications.
  • Managed the project for a central repository of online databases and reporting venues to portray risks and issues. Pushed the settlement process for solving issues by owners.
  • Led the process for toll gates and sign-offs on principle artifacts like enterprise structure, design change, gaps, development approvals and testing.
  • Worked with Client Team Leads on functional side to establish plans to interface into SAP core team activities of gap analysis, blueprinting, functional spec writing, and testing of FRICE objects and end-to-end integration of application of business process and FRICE object. And again to a complete sign off.
  • Use a Push Technique for client and core team collaboration that is dignified but aggressive.
  • Scope from the program management role (PMO):
  • Made program decisions and planning for timelines, resources, solutions.
  • Set methodology and tools and drove all parties to follow.
  • Led/conducted weekly meetings for PMO. Led PMO meetings for process teams BTR, OTC D, OM, Pricing, P2P, PTM, BPC, BI, and Development.
  • Shared responsibility with PMO team for issue resolution, scope confirmation, change and reporting.
  • Manufacturing, discreet manufacturing, distribution, global integration of company processes and transactions.

Confidential

Senior SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Built foundation of SAP project and production support practice and SAP implementations in USA and Asia using MMA ASAP
  • Build out of Manila, Philippines SAP support center. Built satellite office support in India.
  • Co-Producing MMA Methods + ASAP methodology for implementations; building playbooks for projects
  • Co-produced Safeguarding planning and implementation project plans
  • Managing two clients implementations in 24x7 SAP production support
  • Created and currently Implementing transition plan for 3 new SAP clients
  • Overseeing two new implementations, Upgrades from 4.6c to ECC 6.0 and new modules (Asia)
  • Creating scope and project plans for SAP and World Class Close projects forthcoming. These projects take the client investment into SAP to shorter cycles in financial period close; thus improving the ERP investment
  • Led project to support for a global oil drilling company. US based with operations in Vietnam, India, Brazil, Arabian Sea, Houston, less than $200M. Growing over 100 users. Modules: FICO, HCM, MM, QM, IM, PS, PM. Technical’ s: ABAP, XI, Basis and Security, 24 x 7 support center with SLAs to handle level I call to resolution, and Level II 24 hour response. Level III projects. Project manager leading build out, consultant selection, contracts, and procedural flow and scripts.
  • Led project to implement SAP PS with onsite and offshore teams for an electrical engineering company supporting Modules: Project Systems (PS), XI interfaces, ABAP, Basis Administration and Security.
  • Perform project scoping and planning for fix bid SAP ECC 6.0 implementations for Confidential .
  • Led full Safeguarding effort for ECC 6.0 new implementation for QA testing, training, and support.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Led Planning and project timeline and activity development,
  • Worked with core SAP consultants to setup processes to develop localization design,
  • Worked with each functional area team to establish configuration, development, training, testing, security plans and activities.
  • Responsible for total SAP environment and applications, including hardware sizing and BASIS builds and admin.
  • Management all resources and leads. Create and drive the plans (high level milestones, development plan, workshop plan, training plan, testing plan, configuration plan, change management plan).
  • Interface to the clients in all affairs, issues and communications.
  • Managed the project for a central repository of online databases and reporting venues to portray risks and issues. Pushed the settlement process for solving issues by owners.
  • Led the process for toll gates and sign-offs on principle artifacts like enterprise structure, design change, gaps, development approvals and testing.
  • Worked with Client Team Leads on functional side to establish plans to interface into SAP core team activities of gap analysis, blueprinting, functional spec writing, and testing of FRICE objects and end-to-end integration of application of business process and FRICE object. And again to a complete sign off.
  • Use a Push Technique for client and core team collaboration that is dignified but aggressive.

Confidential, Atlanta

Senior SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • One of three PMs leading SAP Blueprint and Realization Phases
  • Built work plans for 12 data conversions and interface projects in the FICO and CS modules
  • Kicked-off project to re-engineer major revenue center that included legacy processes and systems
  • Project scoping on SAP project implementations. Atlanta/remote
  • SAP Services program management and delivery management.
  • Project Planning / Project Management: Offshore teams for product development and SAP services.
  • Led a remote SAP ECC 5.0 project: Modules—SCM, APO; Netweaver integration.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Implemented intrusion prevention solution (IPS) enterprise wide: deployed Cisco MARS and IPS solution.
  • Implemented laptop encryption: Deployed Safeguard Easy.
  • Implemented enterprise security awareness application: SDLC. Company website.
  • Developed an enterprise pandemic plan to provide business continuity. Avian Flu Business Continuity Plan.

Confidential, Columbus, GA

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Created outsourcing solutions for American business process BPO, customer service and IT services in China.
  • Filenet project team: sub project manager implementing storage solution.
  • Full lifecycle software project in 4 months. High risk to control assets during development.

Confidential, Atlanta

Business Consultant, Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Developed new business in China for American company, formed Joint Venture.
  • Designed, planned, and sold 2 projects.
  • Co-founded a start-up educational publishing business. Customers: state and local boards of education.
  • Project managed the full life cycle of publishing 13 titles. Each copyrighted and in circulation.

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