RANGE OF EXPERIENCE

Results-driven and strategic executive with 19 years of experience demonstrating ability to lead, organize, conceptualize, and align technology operational initiatives to strengthen competitiveness of the business. Numerous global SAP implementations and upgrades focused on program project management, supply chain management, financials, and HR, in the pharmaceutical, chemicals, food beverage, and aerospace defense industries. Other verticals are consumer products and airline industries. Highly effective communicator.

EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND

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Owner Program Manager

• Fortune Global 500 clients: Est e Lauder, Stanley Black Decker, Novartis, Coca-Cola
• Other clients: JetBlue Airways, Carestream, Matheson Tri-Gas, Alexion
• Pharmaceuticals

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Manager

• Fortune Global 100 clients: Dow Chemicals, Johnson Johnson, BP, Shell, Home Depot
• Fortune Global 500 clients: Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Other clients: Kemira Chemicals

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Manager

Fortune Global 100 clients: Lockheed Martin

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Senior Consultant

• Fortune Global 100 clients: ConAgra Foods
• Fortune Global 500 clients: Medtronic, Novartis
• Other clients: Pearson Publications

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Principal Consultant

• Fortune Global 100 clients: Johnson Johnson
• Fortune Global 500 clients: Philips Lighting, Pratt Whitney Other clients: Warnaco

KEY TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

• Project Management Risk Management Program Management
• Portfolio Management M A Integration Regulatory Compliance
• Business Transformation Proposal Writing Performance Management

PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Managed global projects of up to 200 team members and stakeholders, and managed project budgets of up to 50 million. PMP and SAP MM PP certified. Deep understanding of ASAP and Agile Scrum methodologies. Developed cost saving business and technology solutions of up to 10 million. Developed M A IT integration roadmap for global management consulting firm.

Proposal Work

• Participated in numerous business case development and proposals in North America and Europe for global Fortune Global 100/500 clients in the pharmaceutical, chemical, consumer products, utilities, and aerospace defense industries.
• Bombardier Novartis Boeing Lockheed Martin Bio-Merieux
• Sears Salient Sigma-Aldrich Matheson Tri-Gas Energizer
• The proposal work include overall and partial responsibility in delivering written proposals, and oral client presentations of the firm's SAP ECC, CRM, SRM, BI/BW, APO, and BPC expertise, and experience in implementing business transformations.

Business Case Development Work

Conducted business and technology evaluations for Fortune Global 100/500 clients in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and food beverage industries, offering value-driven technology and business solutions based on realistic implementation scope, budget, and resource models including management of off-shore resources from India, Estonia, and Lithuania. Numerous benefit realization and ROI analysis.

KEY CLIENT ASSIGNMENTS

CANTUM CONSULTING LLC

• Project Manager for a 5 million dollar SAP upgrade project at JetBlue Airlines New York City, NY , a Fortune 500 company in the airline industry and its subsidiary LiveTV. The project was an upgrade of SAP ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0 Enhancement Package 4, and SAP Portal 6.0 to 7.0. The functional scope included the HCM, FICO, SD and MM modules, and 13,000 portal end-users. The SAP upgrade was combined with a hardware migration of approximately 50 servers, a responsibility of the third party infrastructure host Verizon IT.
• Program Manager for Carestream Rochester, NY , a company in the medical device industry, with overall responsibility for 4 projects, SAP ECC 6 upgrade, SAP BI upgrade, SAP BODS implementation, and SAP GRC implementation. Developed integrated master program plan, and responsible for resource allocations based on an onsite and offshore resource model. Responsible for CIO and steering committee communications, as well as contract negotiations.
• Project Director for a finance consolidation project for Matheson Tri-Gas Basking Ridge, NJ , the world's fifth largest supplier of gases and gas handling equipment, with the overall responsibility to define SAP capabilities within FICO, BI/BW, and BPC, and implementation strategy to accommodate the preparation, consolidation, and submittal of the US and international monthly Trial Balance Reports to the global headquarter in Tokyo. The responsibility also included to define the managerial and operational reporting environment for financial data for all US and international business units.
• Project Manager for a 3 million dollar SAP 4.7 to ECC 6 upgrade project at Stanley Black Decker Farmington, CT , a Fortune 500 company in the manufacturing industry. The functional scope included FICO, PS, SD, LE, PP, MM/IM, WM, CS modules, as well as integration with CRM and Hyperion for external financial reporting. Project team size was about 200 members, and approximately 1500 end users were impacted by the upgrade across 7 businesses. Established the PMO office, project organizational structure and procedures, and developed an integrated master project plan based on an onsite and offshore resource model. Responsible for scope- and risk management, project status reporting, SOX compliance, and managing CIO and steering committee communication.
• Project Manager for an SAP remediation project for the Dusseldorf, Germany, division of Stanley Black Decker Hydraulics Farmington, CT , a Fortune 500 company in the manufacturing industry, with the main objectives to transition from a Make-To-Stock to Make-To-Order supply chain strategy, lead time reduction, master data, and increase operational and financial reporting capabilities through SAP BI/BW and ECC 6.0. Responsible for project planning and execution, deliverables management, budget and metrics reporting, as well as steering committee communications across Europe and North America. Responsibilities also included development of implementation approaches for the North American implementation with corresponding budgetary, timeline, and resource requirements estimates.
• Cutover Planning Manager for a global SAP implementation at Est e Lauder Long Island, NY , a multinational company in the retail industry. The project impacted approximately 2000 end users across the North America, EMEA, and APAC geographies. Responsible for establishing the cutover planning framework and developing the master cutover plan covering business related pre- and post cutover activities, as well as technical activities with respect to ECC 6.0, CRM, SRM, APO, and BI/BW.
• Program Manager on a global SAP treasury management transformation at Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. Cheshire, CT , implementing a treasury IT infrastructure on SAP BCM Bank Communication Manager and IT2, to enable end-to-end processing of treasury transactions, cash management, reporting, and accounts payable processes on SAP ECC 6. The treasury transformation included implementation of the FundTech SWIFT service bureau via SAP PI for payments, bank statements, and status messages of payments and bank statements. Banks in scope were Bank of America, JP Morgan, Nordea, Westpac, and Sumitomo Mitsui. Defined and established project and testing schedules, metrics reporting, budget management per Earned Value Management principles, cutover plans, and responsible for steering committee communication.
• Business Case Development Manager at Novartis Parsippany, NJ , providing expertise in the business case development of a 3 year project to implement SAP ECC6, APO, and BI/BW, including scope management, scheduling, cost estimation and total budget planning 86 million dollars . Defined the master project plan incorporating a global resource model, and defined required master data management approach to support the implementation.

• Program Manager for Implema AB Sweden responsible for 3 global and non-global SAP implementations as well as a Solution Manager project for two Implema AB clients, Gunnebo Industries and Atos Medical, in the manufacturing and retail, and life science industries respectively. The SAP products that were implemented across these projects were ECC 6.0, APO, and BI.

ACCENTURE

• Deployment Manager for two releases on a 200 million dollar global SAP ECC 6.0 implementation at Dow Chemicals Saginaw, MI , a Fortune 100 company in the chemicals industry. The implementation also included the M A integration of Rohm and Haas. Functional scope for the two releases was FICO, HCM, MDM, and SRM, and total budget was approx. 50 million dollars. Responsible for managing all teams of about 75 resources across configuration, on-site and off shore development, testing, training, and cutover planning execution. Developed project and release plans, managed resource allocations, and reported metrics to steering committee.

• Cutover Manager on a 48 million dollar SAP upgrade project at Bristol-Myers Squibb Nassau Park, NJ , a Fortune 500 company in the pharmaceutical industry. Responsible for planning the go-live activities for four business divisions with a total of over 30 sites globally North America, South America, Europe, and Asia . Advisor for 8-10 senior executives from the business divisions in determining the technical and organizational approach for site readiness.

• Project Manager on an eSales and CRM capability evaluation at Shell Chemicals North America Houston, TX , a global leader in the petrochemical business. The purpose was to evaluate three e-business tools, SAP CRM and two client applications, and determine which one could best accommodate the client's sales strategies. This included customer segmentation, banding, and web enabled customer-to-promise strategies. Developed the overall framework, workplan, and provided a projected high level ROI.
• Project Manager for a 6 million dollar ECC 6.0 upgrade project at BP Naperville, IL , a Global 100 company in the oil industry. Gave recommendations on implementation strategy that met certain business criteria with minimum impact to other IT initiatives. Developed the master project plan and helped the client do a bottom-up estimate of the project, as well as created the resource model based on on-site and off-shore resource mix for all stages of the project.

DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP

• Project QA Manager on a Supply Chain Outsourcing program at Lockheed Martin Dallas, TX , a Fortune 100 company in the Aerospace Defense industry. Multiple consulting firms from the US and UK were responsible for different IT solutions of the supply chain IT platform. Performed an advisory role to the SAP implementation team with respect to the SAP design of the planning, replenishment, and inventory processes.
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