SUMMARY:

• Leading cross - functional teams to deliver IT solutions that support strategic business initiatives.
• BUSINESS-CENTRIC IT LEADER with decades of success as business partner delivering IT vision and strategies in alignment with the business plan in a broad spectrum of industries: health care, software, consulting, medical devices, housing, apparel, and oil & gas.
• NATURAL INFLUENCER who is highly effective establishing credibility and trust to inspire executive business leaders, technical teams, and large user-groups to make strategic shifts that directly impact business operations and increase profitability.
• PROFIT-FOCUSED CHANGE AGENT who saved nearly $1.5 million as part of a single Cost Savings Initiative by leveraging deep understanding of business applications to identify opportunities to maximize resources for cost control and operational efficiency.
• BUSINESS FINANCE BACKGROUND boosts ability to analyze systems and see opportunities for improved productivity: transitioned Confidential from spreadsheet forecasting to company-wide use of Hyperion, resulting in on-time submittals and improved insight to react to global business cycles.

PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS:

• Global Business Acumen
• Strategic IT Leadership
• Executive Consulting
• Business Intelligence
• Financial Analysis
• Budget Management
• Sustainable Cost Reductions
• Cross-Functional Business Partner
• High-Stakes Negotiations
• Change Management
• Developing People
• Performance Management
• Project Management
• Implementing Best Practices
• Portfolio Management
• Risk Assessment
• IT Service Model Architect
• IT Demand Management
• Application Life Cycles
• Leading Offshore Transitions
• Complex Vendor Setup

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows NT/95, NT 4.0, 2000, 2003 | UNIX

Applications: SAP IS-OIL | SAP AFS | SAP R/3 3.1H, 4.0, 4.5 B, 4.6, 4.6 B, R/3 4.6 C, R/3 4.7, ECC | BW 3.0

SAP Modules: Insurance Billing, FI-GL, AR, AP, AA, MM, IS-OIL(PRA) and SD

BI Environment: BW, BIW, BO, HANA, Big Data / Hadoop / Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, R, Python, SAS

Servers: IBM AS/400 | Windows NT/95, 2000, 2003, 4.0 | UNIX Servers | Oracle 7.3 | MSSQL

Programming: ABAP/4 | ALV | SQL | JAVA | XML | .NET Framework | COBOL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Director IT Analytics Business Partner lead

Responsibilities:

• Management of overall budget on analytics program - (AOP / STRAP)
• Business case development including ROI & Software selection & Change Management
• Leadership in managing overall relationship with business / IT and Sr. Leadership team
• Own Data Services process including scorecard & oversee all IS analytics projects including resources and timelines as steering committee member
• Coordinated reporting and presentation of project status, steering committee, escalations, resource allocation, and other project-related information to IS management.
• Supported SPIN-OFF in developing strategy and approach to achieve timeline & deliverables
• Partner across SBGs to foster a one Confidential approach and enable effective cross- Confidential leverage of tools and technology
• Enable seamless integrated reporting and analytics by partnering with client organizations to translate requirements into effective BI solutions.
• High-level solutioning to allow the progression of business strategies into high-level program and project-level initiatives
• BI / BO / HANA programs (Investments, Enhancements & Support). HR Analytics, Gold Pack for Finance for all SBGs - Lead / Support - Enabling sources for Executive / Business reporting
• Supporting supply chain (ISC) use case, Actionable Insights on Customer (Ex: Product profitability, Extended term request, Inventory analytics etc.), Overall Data Sourcing, closely working with internal / external team to roll-out process, setting up team (Data Engineers / Data Scientist), initiating discussion with global security on GDPR assessment and identifying next steps.
• Tableau, Alteryx usage, Power BI. Additional resp include, Owning Data service scorecard enterprise wide, including various operational activities like convergence roadmap on several in-house BI tools / applications
• Additional resp include, Owning Data service scorecard @Hon level, including various operational activities like convergence roadmap on several in-house BI tools / applications

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leadership of project implementation teams & Development of project plans and day to day management of IS projects
• Managing IS and other project team resources across multiple projects to get projects completed
• Management of project budgets via capital and deferred software funds
• Business case development, Resource management, change management, including proactive assignment of resources to IS projects
• Establishment and maintenance of a common framework to support application development, including project management standards, software configuration control, change management, user support and training, testing procedures, validation, and quality assurance
• Coordinated reporting and presentation of project status, resource allocation, and other project-related information to IS management.

Confidential

LEAD SYSTEM Ownership

Responsibilities:

• Oversee project and service delivery and hold ultimate accountability for the value that IT delivers to business partners.
• Create and maintain relationships with business partners while communicating IT’s scope of services and identify opportunities and developing initiatives that enable business innovation
• Overcome the complexity of aligning divisional and regional account management activities with the global Bayer IT Strategy and helps to inform the Bayer IT Strategy using business partner perspectives

Technologies: SAP ECC, BIW, Hyperion, Solution Manager, CRM, Middleware, Sharepoint, Lotus Notes & PMO Tools.

Confidential

Global Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organized and implemented plans for architecture and organizational alignment for global implementation and rollout projects.
• Developed process methodologies, functional & technical specifications, data mapping, documentation, and testing for clients to effectively manage service expectations and meet project deliverables.

Confidential

Technical Quality Manager

Responsibilities:

• Consulted with clients to identify IT solutions and solution operation, such as designing upgrade and release strategies, managing local legal differences, technology stacks and monitoring performance.
• Aligned communication and escalation paths between SAP, client and partner to provide status and risk reporting to all parties to ensure on-time project completion.

Confidential

SAP Consultant | Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical expertise in developing Remote Function Call ( Confidential ) module used in .NET integration. Configured Confidential - IDOC scenario to send output file via logical system in XML format. Conducted BW analysis, activating standard content and data modeling, loading and extracting data from applications in SD, FR, and CO-PA areas.
• Consulted in the development and production support for upgrade from 4.5B to 4.6C. Prepared GAP analysis, action steps, high-level design, technical and functional specifications and code review and changes
• Managed cross-functional and technical resources for three-year order-to-cash project. Created project timeline, milestones, allocated human and technical resources, monitored performance and managed risks and made corrective actions as need to complete project on time. Oversaw system configuration in FI-GL, AP, AR and other accounting functions; end user support; configuration and customization of CO. Accountable for unit and integration testing for complete business cycles with FI-GL, AR, AP, AA, MM and Integrated Billing, Athena & S&D modules.