SUMMARY:

• Certified SAP FI, CO, MM and PP Consultant with 22 years of systems implementation and systems maintenance experience of SAP R/3 versions 22.e through version ECC6.0. Confidential is a Project Leader with project management and resource management skills.
• He has completed 10 full - cycle systems implementations using defined project methodologies such as ASAP.
• Confidential holds a BS degree in Accounting and also has in-depth, hands-on configuration experience of SAP FI/CO, along with materials management, production planning, and sales/distribution. He is highly skilled in communicating with senior level executives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Excel
• Word
• Power Point
• MS Project
• Access
• Visio
• Live Model
• Mercury Interactive Tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Consultant/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project team member for Brazil SAP implementation responsible for FICO financials
• SAP Project manager for the implementation of newly acquired entities into SAP global system.
• Other duties and accomplishments include:
• FICO Configuration
• Process design
• Managed the remediation of failed SAP Mexico implementation

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided FICO application maintenance and implementation services.

Confidential, Newtown Square, PA

Business Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created Blue Print for SAP Hana Simple Finance implementation

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided expert SAP consulting/implementation services for the environmental services company. Engaged in the deployment of North America business lines into global SAP ECC 6.0 system.
• SAP scope of responsibility includes, FI/GL, AP, AR, Asset Management, Banking, Cost center accounting, Profit center accounting, Internal orders, Project system.
• Hands on contributions includes development of systems configuration documentation, interface functional design documents, systems testing including UAT, delivery of end user training
• .Leadership contribution includes project team mentoring, data migration strategies, report development

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Project Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Created functional specifications for the development of sales and operations plan and actual reports
• Created planning profiles and layouts for cost center and profit center reports
• New GL accounts
• Sales order costing of variant materials
• Functional specification for custom report development
• Resolve systems incidents
• Systems configuration
• Trained end users in carrying out financial transactions and planning techniques.
• Mentor colleagues

Confidential, Fort Mill, SC

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Document, analyze and manage the execution of systems changes
• Perform requirements analysis
• Resolve systems incidents
• Systems configuration
• User training
• Mentor colleagues

Confidential, Research Triangle Park, NC

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAP FICO as part of a Confidential divestiture including GL, AP, AR, AM, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing, Project Systems, CO-PA

Confidential, Research Triangle Park, NC

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide system assessments, planning, scheduling and deployment of major and minor systems changes and enhancements projects.
• Deployment of systems changes; including planning and executing systems configuration changes, business process improvement initiatives, and data maintenance.
• Development and maintenance of systems documentation; including global standard operating procedures, business process documents, systems requirements and systems test cases.
• Validate system enhancement project design and implementation

Confidential, Hickory, NC

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided expert training and mentoring
• IT training and mentoring for the Global IT Service Delivery organization
• Systems configuration and data analysis
• Supported period-end activities
• Mentored IT staff on SAP financials and system integration points
• Conducted end-user acceptance testing
• Provided training on systems configuration and business processes

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Project Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Provided FI/CO Greenfield systems implementation services
• Executive level interaction to gather high level systems requirements
• Prepared and delivered blueprint presentation
• Performed Fit Gap analysis
• Developed systems configuration
• Created functional specifications for custom development
• Developed and performed systems testing
• Knowledge transfer to client project members

Confidential, Lynchburg, VA

Project Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Managed SAP report development in SAP Global Systems
• Created requirements gathering templates for FI, CO, MM, PP and SD teams
• Analyzed report requirements to determine development tools needed
• Assigned resources for report development
• Trained project team on SAP reporting applications and tools: screen variants, report layouts, Report
• Writer/Painter, and ABAP Query
• Developed reports in Report Painter/Writer and created ABAP Queries
• Tracked and reported development effort

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Delivered systems assessments and optimization services
• Assisted in the assessment of SAP Material Ledger application for Confidential ’s chemical businesses. Optimized FICO, MM, PP business processes in SAP R/3 version ECC5.0
• Material Ledger configuration
• Proposal development and delivery to senior management
• Project team training
• Design processes and prepare functional specifications for custom development
• Optimized Confidential 's CO-PA system by: creating new value fields and characteristics for SAP Material Ledger closing entries; creating new reports; created new summarization levels; defined exceptions for certain segment level characteristics.

Confidential, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed SAP system deployments and systems decommissioning projects
• Coordinated resources for global deployment of Nortel’s repair business systems and business divestiture
• Develop project plans and timelines and measured results
• Design business processes
• Gather requirements and strategies for business units’ systems conversions to SAP, BaaN and Clarify
• Develop systems test plans and manage the execution of systems testing
• Plan and monitor decommissioning of Legacy systems

Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina

Project Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Team Leader for FICO systems implementation
• Requirements gathering
• Unit testing, integration testing and regression testing
• Implemented Accounts Payable 1099MISC reporting
• Implemented GL, AP, AR. Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Travel Expense Reporting, Cross Application Time Sheets (CATTS) and Credit Card Payments for new R/3 4.7 project
• Supported Osprey’s clients’ systems users for the following applications: Project Systems, Results Analysis, Sales & Billing, Revenue Recognition, Accounts Payable, FI and CO Reporting

Confidential, Memphis, Tennessee

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Systems enhancement services
• Developed R/3 Material Ledger prototype for preliminary testing and evaluation.
• Configuration of actual costing; parallel valuation, including multiple currencies; and transfer pricing for profit centers
• Developed and executed test scripts

Confidential, Wilmington, Delaware

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• FICO user raining and systems Maintenance
• Developed and executed systems test plans, test scenarios and test scripts.
• Post implementation systems support and user support.
• Delivered hand-on training of FI/CO super users.
• Created and tested product cost estimates and costing runs for standard costing.
• Executed actual costing using cost splitting, actual activity pricing and Material Ledger settlement.
• Created and tested executed allocation cycles.
• Settlement of internal orders, process orders for process manufacturing operation and product cost collectors for repetitive manufacturing operations.
• Created master data: cost centers hierarchies, activity types and activity prices.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Develop CO-PA reports for financial results from Project System
• Analysis of FI, CO and Project Systems business processes: expense allocations, inventory valuation, and more
• Delivered hands-on training to business users

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Project Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• FICO systems implementation services
• Lead FI/CO team to implement GL, AP, AR CCA and PCA employing SAP ASAP methodology
• Hands-on configuration of GL postings and reporting; Cost Center reporting and expense allocations; and Profit Center Accounting, Revenue Recognition and Product Costing
• Reviewed and resolved integration issues with SD, MM, PP, SM and BW
• Gathered reporting requirements for a parallel SAP BW implementation
• Developed data conversion rules and strategies
• Developed and executed test plans, test scenarios and test scripts
• Developed training documentation; conducted systems demonstrations, and led classroom training courses.

Confidential, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Managed the development of organizational structure for joint venture startup (SAP FI, CO, IM, WM)
• Created business processes and controls
• Reviewed and approved systems configuration
• Developed and maintained project plan and timelines
• Developed systems test plan and managed testing activities
• Developed and managed systems implementation cut-over plan
• Supported production systems (SAP FI, CO, IM, PUR, WM and integrated mainframe based OM and shop floor systems

Confidential, Matthews, North Carolina

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Retek system project planning and systems testing
• Created project charters for implementing Retex Merchandising System for various product lines
• Determined and analyzed functional systems requirements for demand management and forecasting
• Created and executed systems testing

Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Attended SAP training classes:
• Profitability Analysis
• Business Warehouse