Practice Director Resume
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Folsom, CA
SUMMARY:
- I am a results - driven SAP Program Executive with a proven track record.
- I consistently translate corporate visions and requirements into SAP solutions that meet or exceed goals and deliver the benefits of SAP-enabled business transformations.
- I am a creative, pragmatic leader with a unique combination of SAP, finance, IT and project management skills.
- Delivering savings by simplifying processes, and following best practices.
- Attracting and retaining key talent by improving competencies
- Deploying with speed, integrating systems and data across multiple platforms, organizations, and locales.
- Providing independent oversight to governance, project and change management and issue and risk mitigation.
- Leveraging finance skills in budget management, business intelligence and internal control initiatives.
- Listening to customer needs and executive directives and responding quickly with innovative solutions.
- Formulating bids and proposals that generate value for clients and firm.
- Being quick to action; resolving conflicts quickly and effectively.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Practice Director, Folsom, CA
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for full lifecycle program engagement, program management, sales, delivery, and client satisfaction across multiple engagements including:
- Financial Transformation Program in partnership with SAP for a large west coast electric Utility.
- Full ERP implementation Confidential a mid-sized electric utility (FI, SRM, MM, SD, HCM (via SuccessFactors), PS, EAM) and IS/U (CR&B - CS, FICA, BILL, DM).
- Client was divested from a larger utility.
- Also led the sales team and execution of the contract.
- Program Management Confidential a mid-sized water utility implementing full ERP (FI, SRM, MM, SD, HCM, PS, EAM) and IS/U (CR&B - CS, FICA, BILL, DM) in a high growth environment.
Delivery Executive
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
- Directed the successful sales, planning and delivery of a SAP business transformation project for a large consumer products company undergoing a merger.
- Managed 2 contracts, 50 team members and $13M in annual billing. Responsible for full lifecycle program engagement, program management and client satisfaction.
Confidential
Program Director/VP of Service Delivery
Responsibilities:
- $541M full SAP rollout for an aerospace and defense company including 120 sites in 40 countries, f ormation of a Steering Committee, and three months of workshops with over 800 participants. Scope included ECC 6.0 (finance (GL, AP, AR, PS, FA, Treasury and Tax), manufacturing, procurement (MM and SRM), sales and distribution, including gov’ Confidential compliance), BI, full suite HCM, full MDM with VC for material and creation of a Shared Service Center for Finance, Payroll and Procurement and an Confidential .
- Creation of an SAP Center of Expertise with related ITIL based processes and procedures for a transportation company located in the southeast U.S.
- $15M project to plan, release and roll out a global template solution to over 50 manufacturing sites in 20 countries for a global manufacturing company based in the U.S.
- $30M, 11 country transformation project for a Caribbean-based cable and cellular service provider.
- Created a SAP Solutions platform, set up a pan-Caribbean regional SAP and Shared Financial and Procurement Services Center, and completed separation from U.K.
Financial Systems & Processes Director
Confidential, Murray Hill, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Led Finance/IT team of 100 in global deployment of SAP ERP “Quote To Cash” solution using Commissionaire/Contract manufacturing and Plants Abroad functionality.
- Partnered with Sales, Services, Supply Chain and IT to deploy SAP modules: SD, MM, PP, FICO, PCA, Fixed Assets, AP, Payroll, Cash, Project Systems, Workflow.
- Integrated 8 factories and 4 processing centers to SAP. Designed and deployed interfaces to systems including PeopleSoft and QAD - MFGPro. Invented conversion method. Led 100+ team in decommissioning old and migrating to new systems.
- Led the global finance solution team: directed requirements, design, blueprint, build, testing, releases and deployments for SAP Finance Solution (GL, AP, AR, PS, FA, Treasury and Tax, Consolidation and Reporting, and Master Data) across 400 legal entities.
- Managed over 200 matrix employees.
- Conceived, directed and led corporate-wide Master Data improvement initiative across product, pricing, cost, customer, and financial dimensions by standardizing, streamlining and significantly improving data quality.
- Managed project team of 300+ people that improved visibility to 260,000+ products, and consolidated 140,000 customer s and 38 individual customer databases.
- Documented and tested processes, risks, and controls for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance.
- Led the design and development of Enterprise Data Warehouse, decommissioned 23 data marts, realized savings of $33M; speaker on business intelligence Confidential 3 major conferences
