SOLUTION ARCHITECT

An accomplished Solution Architect with more than 15 years of diversified experience supporting both commercial and public sector clients across the full Systems Development Lifecycle SDLC and Information Technology IT . Managed and provided requirements definition, development, testing e.g., HP Quality Center , deployment, and maintenance support for 5 SAP ERP Programs including 2 DoD Acquisition Programs ACAT 1 Major Automated Information System MAIS . Performed research and presented recommendations for senior executives concerning new SAP ERP, Portal, BI, BW, functional modules such as SAP SRM PPS, SAP SCM, SAP MM, SAP PM, SAP FICO, SAP HCM, SAP Budget Formulation, and enhancement tools to add to the current landscape that increased organization's SAP return on investments ROI . Expert in bringing a wealth of industry leading tools and technologies such as SAP BASIS support, Solution Manager, Change Request Management CHaRM , Enterprise Portal 6.0/7.0, SAP Process Infrastructure SAP XI/PI , and Single Sign On SSO technology using eTrustSiteminder and Kerberos. Strong and solid background in SAP's Visual Composer, WebDynpro, and Netweaver Studio tools, Enterprise Architecture with DoDAF 2.0 and Business Enterprise Architecture BEA .

Key Attributes:

• Solution Architect SAP ERP, Commercial Off- The-Shelf Solutions, ARIS Enterprise Architecture, Business Object and HANA-In Memory Computing
• Business Processes Requirements Framework, Business Process Reengineering BRF , DoDAF, BEA
• Compliance Configuration Management CM , Information Assurance IA
• SAP Solutions SAP ERP ECC 6.0, SAP Business Warehouse BI/BW , SAP Enterprise Portal EP , Solution Manager SolMan , SAP SRM PPS, SAP SCM, SAP Master Data MDM , SAP Human Resource ESS/MSS and SAP WebDynpro Java
• Technical Capability Research future technical capabilities, defined required technical activities, compile technical and functional documents, optimized parameters to increase system performance, designed Service Oriented Architecture SOA infrastructure, third party application integration with SAP ERP

Areas of Expertise

• Technical Configuration WebDynpro Programming DoD Procurements Process
• Analysis / Strategic Planning Upgrades and Enhancements Work Force Management
• Team Building / Motivation RICEF Objects Analysis Instruction / Facilitation
• Process Development / Integration Technical Writing Resource Procurement
• Conflict Resolution Project Managements Acquisition Managements
• Service Oriented Architecture SOA Application Architecture Integrated Technical Processes
• Software Lifecycle Development SAP Landscape Design SAP Netweaver Architecture

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Confidential

• The Confidential Integration Programintegrates business processes and systems by serving as an Enterprise Data hub for the Army's logistics and financial ERP business systems for GFEBS, G-Army, and LMP using SAP ECC, BW, PI, and Business Objects solutions.
• Review and approve SAP technical designs related to technical infrastructure, BMC Tool implementations, test scripts, and QA documents submitted by the responsible system integrators.
• Manage and lead the Army Share Service Center SSC in Confidential, on behalf of program PMOs to help streamline their SAP COE support data and process model from development to sustainment phase.
• Develop Business Intelligence strategy as shared services for G-Army and LMP to leverage to save cost and maximize return of investment in SAP Business Objects solution.
• Provide enterprise architecture support to Army Data Centers in Redstone and ALTESS in supporting IPPS-A, ACWS, and AESIP PMs High Availability environment, SAP systems copied, client refresh, and build new SAP solutions for DMS, TREX, and Solman 7.1.
• Provide migration strategy to move ERP infrastructure from physical hosts to virtualized environments and cutover plan

Confidential

Navy ERP Requirements Manager

• Confidential is currently using multiple software solutions to manage requirements traceability, configuration and change management CM , and QA documentations. The short term vision is to integrate change management with SAP Solution Manager and consolidate to fewer software solutions as long term road map.
• Managed all ERP COTS and software tools owned and approved by Navy ERPs for Requirements Traceability, eCMS SharePoint 2007 MOSS , Configuration Managements CM , and SAP Solution Manager
• Conduct research and make recommendations on new tools to be used for testing and consolidate multiple software tools into one to effectively manage, control, and reduce cost.
• Planning a road map to effectively managing and synchronize BPMLs from Systems Architect to Solution Manager and vice versa
• Provide support in re-design and clean up eCMS for Navy ERP
• Develop strategy to use SAP ERP Solution Manager going forward as one stop shop for Change Management CHaRM for functional configurations, requirements repository, and transport management as part of System Development Life Cycle SDLC and Application Development Life Cycle ADLC

Confidential

Principal Consultant / Navy ERP Requirements Manager

• Confidential Engineering Department was looking for new process to gather good requirements coming from new Confidential. The challenge is current process does not allow a new set of requirement to be analyzed, compared with current capability, apply business process reengineering approach, and not fully utilizing standard SAP transactions to handle the business cases or scenarios.
• Responsible for conducting current and proposed new requirements management framework for ERP to effectively capture quantifiable and measurable requirements from Business Process Owners and Functional Leads
• Formulated and provided recommendations to the Program Manager Government SES for ERP requirements management activities are carried out as described in the Navy ERP Requirement Management Plan
• Supported the System Engineering team for the maintenance and implementation of the RE M plan
• Coordinated all functional and technical requirements related issues, recommendation, and the continuing assurance that the requirements are managed properly and fulfilled
• Demonstrated analysis to group requirements into major project scope or to implement the changes in release phases
• Established a new ways to integrate business process reengineering and SAP ERP COTS and encourage the use of standard SAP Objects and Transactions before proceed to create SAP Custom Objects with ABAP Programming

Confidential

Netweaver Architect/Portal Development Lead

• Confidential was looking to implement a Confidential Program to consolidate all of their worldwide businesses into using the same business processes to run the business as one centralized entity. Served as Solution Architect to lay out technical and business requirements to implement SAP Solutions such as SAP MDM, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP GRC, SAP Identity Management, and SAP Portal Business Packages
• Support Blue Print workshops and worked with Business Process Owners to defined RICEF objects for development
• Provided Netweaver Portal Architecture Roadmap, Strategy, and Design for the ITT Corp. SAP Implementation Program BEST
• Conducted analysis and provided recommendations to various workstreams with SAP Netweaver capabilities with SAP ECC 6.0, SAP SRM, SAP MDM, SAP BPM, SA GRC, and SAPGTS configurations
• Designed SAP Netweaver security architecture strategies to support SAP IDM, Microsoft Forefront Identity Management, GRC, and portal business packages for HCM, SCM, MDM, and BI
• Support new initiatives in exploring third party vendors to provide solutions to business cases that SAP does not support.
• Led a team of 5 consultants to provide the design, integrate, and infrastructure support for SAP Netweaver Portal, SAP MDM Portal, SAP BI Portal, and SAP GRC development support
• Defined application architecture, technical activities, technical configurations, third party application integrated process and strategy to Program Managers and Technical Directors

Confidential

SAP ERP Solution Architect

• The Confidential Major Automated Information System MAIS was looking to implement SRM PPS to replace the SPS Contract writing system and to develop a vendor portal to accept invoices from vendors directly to reduce errors and provide transparency to the process from Procurement to Payment P2P . The Government was also looking for ways to optimize their SAP BI reporting capability and explore SAP Business Objects as a solution. The Program Manager Kristine Jones was also looking at SAP HCM Budget Formulation Solutions to keep track of civilians funded position within the Army Faces to Spaces
• Managed a team of 6 Accenture Technical consultant on a budget of 1.2 million to install, configure, and support a pilot environment development for SAP SRM Procurement for Public Sector PPS
• Supported the Enterprise Architecture to comply with the DOD Architecture Framework for the Department of Army General Funding Business Enterprise Systems using ARIS toolset 7.0
• Evaluated business processes and implementation strategies involving SAP SRM and SAP Procurement for Public Sector for the DOD and the Business Transformation Agency BTA
• Developed new solutions for data/information integration and system modernization to integrate multiple ERP systems to interact and communicate among each other
• Conducted assessment for the technical infrastructure to implement the Procurement to Pay with SAP ECC landscape within a virtualized environment using VMware
• Provided guidance on Federal Enterprise Architecture to early phase functional and technical analysis on SAP FICO, FM, Enterprise Portal, PI, BI, Solution Managers, PM, MM, SRM, and Procurement for Public Sector
• Joined an elite team of BW/BI developer Tiger Team to investigate, explore, and propose recommendations to optimize and increase performance to the SAP BI system for the Financial System Reporting
• Prepared presentations to brief Senior Executive and Three Stars Generals at the Pentagon on SAP SRM PPS, SAP HCM Budget Formulation, and road map strategies of reducing over the cost of 50 million by eliminating over 110 interfaces to the existing systems
• Conducted workshops and developed blue prints with the AS-IS process of U.S. Army Procurements, Invoices, and Pay processes
• Conducted workshops to define the TO-BE processes by applying the business process reengineering to implement SAP SRM PPS as the Army new contract writing system
• Recorded all business processes AS-IS and TO-BE into ARIS in according with DoD Architecture Framework and BEA 7.0
• Defined legacy systems that will be subsumed by the new SAP SRM PPS to formulate the cost saving and benefits of the new system and to justify the business case for full deployment
• Designed and architect the vendor portal to work as an external system with proper security access to pass Information Assurance requirements and DoD Demilitarized Network Zone DMZ
• Defined application architecture, technical activities, technical configurations, third party application integrated process and strategy

Confidential

SAP ERP Portal Development Architect

• Confidential controlled over 18 coal mines throughout the Midwest. They were the third largest coal producer in the U.S. Senior Managements had selected SAP ERP ECC 6.0, BI, XI, XMII, xRPM, Enterpriser Portal as their one shop solutions to manage their day to day business operations as one company.
• Designed, build, configuring, and testing SAP ECC 6.0, EP 7.0 and Business Intelligence to work with SAP PP, MM, PM, HR, and FICO through transaction iViews, Visual Composer, and custom WebDynpro applications
• Performed research and make recommendations for Senior Executives on new ERP enhancement tools to add to the current landscape to increase our ROI in the SAP suites
• Performed daily SAP BASIS tasks to move Transports, Optimize Systems Performance, and Trouble-Shooting
• Installed and configured Solution Manager 7.0 with SSO for SAP ECC 6 and Netweaver landscape
• Developed web applications using ASP.NET, VB.NET, and Visual C to implement with the upgraded MS SharePoint 2003 Portal across different business units HR, SALES, ACCOUNTING, etc...
• Working with the BASIS team to apply patches to the current SAP Enterprise Portal and provide support to power and end users
• Led effort to create 10 custom SAP WebDynpro applications platform to allow time and attendance integration for plant maintenance
• Led and coordinated development efforts with 4-8 off shore FTE from India to develop and support new portal functionalities
• Defined application architecture, technical activities, technical configurations, third party application integrated process and strategy
• Assisted in develop a web application to support the Business Process Reengineering and Continuous Improvement Programs for all the mine sites to collaborate and exchanges knowledge

Confidential

ERP Consultant

• DLA Business System Modernization BSM now is Confidential was a CAT 1 Major Automated Information System MAIS created to manage supply chain and financial business transactions. Leaderships were looking to integrate SAP cFolder, SAP Enterprise Portal, and SAP SCM to expand their current SAP ERP R/3 systems
• Worked with a team of SAP BASIS consultants on designing, configuring, and testing the architecture of SAP R/3 and Enterprise Portal 6.0. Moving development transports and optimize performance for SAP R/3 4.7 along with Solution Manager 4.0
• Developed the technical architecture and implement SAP Portal with SAP Business Warehouse, R/3, CRM, SRM, cFolder, J2EE, WAS, and Web Dispatcher
• Designed and provided support for Single Sign On services as well as developing web pages for portal using WSH Scripts, Java, ASP, HTML, and XML
• Created configuration technical checklists to installed, configure, and support SAP R/3, EP 6.0 for Production support
• Successfully implemented two Go-Live releases with upgrading EP5.0 to EP6.0 and integrating SAP cFolder into Portal
• Continued developing, testing, installing new enhance features as well as SAP updated support packages

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

• The Department of Confidential was implementing and deploying multiple new proprietary systems to process Immigrant Visas, Non-Immigrant Visas, American Citizenship Services, and biometric system to all of their consular offices throughout the world
• Developed Non-Immigrants NIV and Immigrants Visa IV proprietary software to process visas and integrated with biometric interfaces for checking backgrounds to applicants seeking to enter the U.S using Powerbuilder and C .
• Develop American Consulate Service ACS proprietary software to keep track and process services for American citizens traveling outside of the U.S. using Visual C and C
• Worked as software developers to debug and troubleshooting software run time and database Oracle errors with Power Builder and Visual Basic.NET compilers
• Led multiple teams of 3-8 people to perform technical activities for Go-Live, cutover, and back up maintenance on site
• Travelled to U.S. Embassies in European, Africa, Latin America, and South East Asia countries to deploy hardware, integrated new software, install and perform maintenance to the Department of States Immigrant Visa database, American Citizen Service database, Biometric, Facial Recognition, and consular workstations

Confidential

Supervisor/Systems Programmer

• Worked with proprietary software development to provide access security and alarm monitoring for the commercial properties and private residents using C and Visual C to be installed a proprietary hardware panels and alarm equipment
• Participated as Business Process Owner with in house IT staff and outside vendor consultants to implement an ERP Package MAS Automated Systems to upgrade the company existing legacy system to handle contracts, invoices, finance, and customer support solutions
• Responsible for scheduling, training, supervising and evaluating a programming staff of 11 employees including over sea members.
• Provide software debug and trouble shooting for access control and security systems to over 600 buildings in the DCMetropolitan
• Developed a workflow process to reduce programming errors to 0 by creating a system where all programmers must record changes being made to the security system and made available to all team members

Confidential

Web Specialist

• Responsible for technical management of the web site including web security, file management, and site maintenance, insuring timely and consistent availability of information
• Administered day-to-day operation of different server sites, and acted as the first level of technical support in event of a system failure
• Worked with other technical staff and software vendors to install new and modified system software and application program

Confidential

Tech Support

• Provided systems and LAN network maintenance, user access or privileges, and other related technical support necessary to maintain a smooth operation of the system/network using Window NT and CiscoRouter
• Responsible for installing, configuring, evaluating, and troubleshooting of hardware and software
• Participated in the investigation and recommendation of technologies to improve system and process efficiency.
• Responded and assisted customer with software inquiries via the phone

Confidential

• Provided maintenance support to a fleet of over 100 vehicles and over 200 pieces of communication equipment for any airborne operations
• Conducted equipment recovery mission while in combat and peace keeping missions
• Participated in over 35 combat jumps and successfully executed 8 major preparations for combat readiness Division Readiness Force, DRF
• Team member of the Quick Reaction Force QRF team to provide support in case the base in over run by enemy during combat missions.