SUMMARY:

• Versatile Software Innovator with strong technical acumen and 17 years of experience consulting on global (on - shore/off-shore/near-shore), enterprise-wide delivery engagements
• Applying technology as part of delivering business value
• Advising Sr. Client Executives/Management on a breadth of services around deep IT expertise for contextualized advice and avoidance of myopia
• Proven Servant-Leader adept at motivating, developing, mentoring personnel; organizing and leading highly effective, diverse teams
• E2E project delivery using Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Proven success in 26 Professional Programs across 13 clients. Hands-on experience in the successful completion of 59 IT-related projects, with increasing responsibilities as a Software Engineer, Solutions Architect, Business Analyst/Coordinator, Project Manager, & Business Leader
• Diverse Industry experience: Financial Services/Banking, Pharma, Insurance, Retail, Professional Services, Government, Travel & Leisure, Telco
• Strong verbal, written, visual and interpersonal skills, able to tailor communication of complex business and IT processes to different audiences (management, stakeholders, users, SMEs, developers)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Expertise: Systems Integration. Java-based applications (Servlets, JS, EJB, JPA, JMS,JDBC), Unix, Windows, OSX, Spring, Spring JDBC, JSON, JSP, JDBC, HTML, SQL, UML, XML, cXML, AML

Applications/DBs: Ariba On-Premise (v7.x, 8.x, 9.x), Ariba On-Demand (12s2, 13s), SAP, JBoss, Weblogic Application Server, Apache Tomcat, Oracle, SQLServer, Peregrine, FPDS, MDM

Tools: Subversion, ClearCase, StarTeam, Dimensions, PHIRE, CVS, eRoom, SharePoint, IntelliJ IDEA, ANT, TeamCity, TestNG, Objective-C, iOS, Jira, LeankKit

Methodologies: Waterfall, XP, Scrum, Agile, DevOp

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Ariba Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Contributed functional and technical guidance to Ariba On-Premise support, operations, and implementation teams, leveraging hands-on ERP/Java development experience, to retire legacy Ariba systems while rolling out new Ariba system
• Managed Release Cycles and implemented Customer Engagement framework to capture feedback, fuel continuous-improvement, and to improve stakeholder SLAs
• Guided team of 20 professionals with transition from on-premise to SaaS procurement model
• Optimized processes and templates for global Contracts repository (57k contracts across 10,200 vendors, business partners and intra-company units) to gain better traction on planned savings
• Drove global P2P Adoption & Compliance and Utilization programs, with tolerances for regional nuances (zones/ clusters/hubs/countries), to provide traceability of spend and effective controls in support of the Global Sourcing & Procurement vision
• Oversaw deployment of integrated shared service solutions across the global enterprise, bringing 375M in addressable annual spend under management (973M in opportunity)
• Acted as liaison between business stakeholders (customers), end-users, Ariba Operations, Ariba Technical (offshore), third-party IT support vendors (Accenture, Ariba), Change Management and senior management to negotiate and drive consensus on plan, approach and execution. Team size fluctuated between 42-70 users.
• Conducted Change Control Board meetings with Application Owners and Executive stakeholders to ensure alignment of customer requests and executive vision
• Lead (Core) project team meetings, working with cross-functional teams to resolve issues with scheduling, deliverable quality and risks/issues that potentially impact delivery of P2P functionality
• Managed SharePoint PMO artifact system to ensure Federal audit readiness

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defined Risk Management metrics to create a common scale and to ensure that mitigation strategies and feedback loops are in place to avoid / overcome potential risks across teams
• Provided technical feasibility assessments to determine best practice approach to deliver unique business processes
• Lead new-development team meetings to interpret business requirements and assist with finding the optimal, right-sized solution
• Lead stakeholder meetings with various business units to gather requirements while steering customer towards solutions that are in-line with corporate objectives while setting scope and managing project expectations
• Acted as the liaison between Ariba Operations, Ariba Technical (offshore) and senior management to communicate design considerations, implementation priorities, timeline constraints and suggested Best Practices to deliver business solutions
• Provided routine demos and analytical reports to various stakeholders

Ariba P2P Solutions Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed divestiture of procurement operations for U.S.-based manufacturing plant to China-based entity, which included numerous Ariba & SAP R3 integration components, frameworks and business practices
• Developed maintenance and enhancement plan for key interfaces with respect to new business requirements and growth tolerances
• Redesigned and developed all new necessary workflow (business rules, hooks, etc.) to provide proper insight to new executive leadership and key management figures
• Developed Ariba interface maintenance plan resulting in cost avoidance of 300k (2 FTE resources)
• Provided weekly and biweekly reports to project stakeholders and organization executives

Solutions Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Order Status system and recommended technical changes to senior IT management to decrease cycle times and increase productivity for retail management
• Redeveloped UPC (universal produce code) application from legacy framework to JBoss architecture for performance gains, increasing average productivity rates by 600% for retail management

Ariba Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed UI and server-side enhancements in Java (eForms, requisitioning, receiving)
• Implemented new order interface and receiving functionalities in Ariba 9R
• Assisted with development of integration between Buyer and SAP
• Responsible for documentation of new some existing and new functionalities
• Developed ETL script (Java) to export Ariba data into a reporting database

Ariba Solutions Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, & supported new Corporate Card functionality in Ariba on-premise, saving the company time and effort over managing a paper-based process
• Interfaced with various stakeholders to design/refine desired processes, creating detailed-Requirements and Functional Design documents to capture needs
• Designed and developed a custom integration framework (Java) to create purchase requests from staged data (third party system). Automating the process, pre-validating data and sending notifications to data administrators improved cycle times significantly.
• Designed and developed Java utility to externalize Ariba catalog data to allow non-Ariba users a near real-time inventory of sourced goods/services available thru Ariba
• Assisted various team members with optimizing Java design and code (business rules, scheduled tasks, integration, etc.)
• Worked as part of global development team to extend ERP functionality to Mexico/Canada
• Served as Test Coordinator on global project to certify delivered functionality; tracked and documented defects, coordinated and planned fixes with development team members while also performing development tasks to resolve issues

Ariba Solutions Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, and maintained integration functionality between Buyer and external Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) for validation of vendor and category requirements
• Developed features and maintained integration functionality between Buyer and PeopleSoft
• Developed and maintained integration functionality between Buyer and Momentum Asset Management System
• Developed numerous Buyer customizations (UI, Integration, Server-Side) according to customer requirements, many requiring reverse engineering of Ariba core product
• Performed Tier-3 support for all Buyer eForms, Requisitions, Receiving and Integration logic. Responsible for break-fix resolutions for highly customized logic.
• Assisted various team members with optimizing AML and Java components

Procurement Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked within team of consultants to design and develop custom, Java integration framework for integrating external data sources/systems with Ariba Buyer using industry best practices.
• Developed (XSLT & CSV) mapping utility for mapping external entities to Ariba objects
• Developed functionality to import/export Buyer data from/to a set format

Ariba Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements, designed, developed, tested and deployed asynchronous interface between Buyer application and non-US purchase system to manage the purchase of (DEA) controlled substances (catalogued and ad-hoc). Resulted in Audit Compliance, $225k/yr in savings and numerous performance gains
• Redeveloped custom source code for system upgrade (v8.1 to v8.2.2)
• Worked with project management and process owners to produce functional design specifications from user requirements
• Developed custom application and remote interfaces for (XML) communication between Buyer and external system, working team of Sonic resources to design/develop JMS Queue management in WebLogic
• Worked with off-shore team of stakeholders to test and stabilize new solution
• Produced all technical writing for modifications and customizations to Buyer for this solution

Ariba Solutions Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented numerous new purchasing categories to Buyer (purchasing & reporting)
• Assisted with optimization of application code (Supplier management tool, requisitioning)
• Developed catalog hierarchy and filtering functionality
• Integrated legacy supplier system to Buyer
• Developed workflow capabilities (purchasing business rules, receiving rules and hooks)
• Upgraded chart of accounts to reconcile differences between Oracle and SAP
• Upgraded system code for upgrade (from v8.1 to 8.2.2)
• Installed and maintained Ariba Development sandbox servers (WebLogic, Unix)

Ariba P2P Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked independently to design data integration schematic for Ariba Contracts
• Designed mapping schema for Buyer-third party system integration
• Worked as part of a global team to draft requirements and touch-points for an Oracle11i upgrade, underlying Ariba Buyer and 3rd Party purchase system
• Developed global catalog repository and filtering functionality, based on region/locale
• Performed extraction, cleanse and merge of catalog data from disparate sources
• Regression Tested business rules for new system

Ariba P2P Solutions Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Redeveloped/optimized custom source code, AML, file-channel replacement of Tibco integration and business rules for upgrade from v7.06 to v8.2.2
• Authored and presented formal presentations and demos to company business units to promote the capabilities of Ariba Buyer
• Coordinated, designed, developed and tested the organization-wide e-Form initiatives ( Corporate Event Requests, Check Requests and Non-Cash Compensations)
• Developed catalog filtering and hierarchy management for v8.2.2
• Installed Ariba Suite on Development and Sandbox servers

Ariba P2O Solutions Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Drove tool adoption by developing an executive-level milestone tracker to demonstrate how prior Ariba engagements had produced the type of results that aligned to granular business-unit objectives
• Responsible for identifying and pairing business needs with eForm/bForm capabilities and developing approved solutions
• Successfully managed major & minor release cycles
• Managed relationship of approximately 208 Wireless nationwide users
• Created BRDs and FDs for various projects

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided objective mapping of current process and improved processes
• Developed JavaScript business rules, catalog filtering criteria and various UI modifications (cXML)
• Provided end-user support throughout piloted roll-out of application to manage expectation and understanding of application
• Developed various Java utilities to be leveraged within the Ariba Buyer application