Career Objective:

Senior level IT professional with 23 years of information systems management and development experience seeking a full-time leadership position or an independent consulting opportunity.

Professional Profile:

As a technology and business visionary with progressive and successful responsibility in automating multi-billion dollar enterprises by providing strategic direction to executive level management on technology, business process re-engineering and software solutions. Solid track record of working with large scale ERP (SAP / KFS KUALI Financial Systems) implementations, managing solution centers and competency centers, mainframe software package installations, EDI and EFT banking projects, main frame to client server migrations, customized form and report developments, and data conversions.

Industry Expertise:

Banking, Defense, Avionics, Electronics, Automotive, Higher Education, Water Systems, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Science and Health Care, Residential and Industrial Electrical components, Paper Products, Foods, Chemicals, Toys, Plastics, Agricultural and Food Chemicals and Fibers, and Vending Industries.

Employment History:

Employer:Confidential,LLC.
Period: May 2009 to November 2009.

Client: MSU Confidential,
Position: Confidential,Finance Team Lead

Employer: IBM, Inc. / GBS - IBM Global Business Services
Period: May 1996 to April - 2009.

Positions Held & Specific Roles:

Steering Committee Member:

• Conducted weekly Steering Committee meetings at wide variety of clients and industries, including many Fortune 500 multinational corporations and numerous smaller companies.
• As an advisor, helped my clients with their decision making process by providing white papers and executive level presentations in order to achieve their critical success factor goals.
• Managed my client’s expectations through Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Score Cards to match enterprise vision and mission statements.

Program Manager / Project Manager:

• Solid track record of leadership in large-scale enterprise application development life cycle and deployment of custom applications.
• Proven project management abilities combined with a hands-on, collaborative, cost-conscious and results-oriented management style.
• Full accountability for project level P& L (s) and multi-million dollar budgets.
• Conceptualized, launched and delivered multiple projects on time and within budget.
• Recruited, developed, motivated and retained diverse staff by structuring them into teams that deliver results and savings. The size of my teams ranged from 30 to 300+ with up to 25 country ERP roll outs.
• Strong communication and presentation skills effective at all levels of the organization.
• Skilled in forming and development of internal and external strategic alliances.
• Years of experience in an international context living and working in South East Asia, South America, Europe and the USA.

Solution Center Manager:

• IBM Monsanto Solution Center combined the intellectual capital, skills and experience of IBM and Monsanto
• IBM Monsanto Solution Center offered a series of workshops that provided an innovative enterprise design and integration approach to planning and implementing SAP R/3.
• The IBM Monsanto Solution Center drastically reduced planning and configuration costs, minimized risks and ensured that benefits are realized as quickly as possible.
• Developed additional business for the IBM Monsanto Solution Center by bringing in different clients for a demonstration. The client sign up ratio was 95%.

Competency Center Manager:

• Managed a team of 55 consultants covering all modules of SAP R/3.
• The team translated non-technical user requirements into technical specifications.
• The team created tailored training curriculums and provided training for all levels of the enterprise.
• The team provided global SAP R/3 production support through IBM Competency Center.

Quality Assurance Manager:

• As the Quality Assurance Manager, provided the clients with an independent and objective review of business processes, application configuration, change management and organizational readiness.
• Focused on the project team structure and functional application.
• Assessed the functional areas upon which the project should focus and identifies the associated risk areas.
• Provided business-application expertise to highlight potential problem areas for the project team early in the implementation process.
• Analyzed the project team to ensure assignment of the correct resources to the project.
• Reviewed project schedules and implementation documentation to assess the progress made by each sub-team(s).
• Examined business procedures with the customer and provided a high-level review of configuration.
• At different clients also look at systems configuration in detail, depending upon the length of the Quality Assurance Review.

Change Management & Organizational Readiness Assessor:

• Analyzed PDD Process Design Documentations for organizational changes and job role definitions for plan execution.
• Assessed the demonstrated ownership of key business processes and the alignment of job roles.
• Identified RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed) components for each business process component.
• Identified the gaps and/or overlaps in each business process component.
• Defined the tools (SAP R/3, Hyperion, etc…) that are used to execute the business processes and the tools and identified tools that are marked for future replacement/upgrade.
• Validated the new business processes with subject matter experts in the tool capability.
• Designated Change Management Ambassadors and define client specific plans to fill the gaps with skills training/change management.

SAP R/3 Senior Managing Consultant (Project Team Leader / Project Team Member):

• Participated in all phases of the project workshops.
• Re-engineered General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Credit Management processes for the Global Templates.
• Provided expertise in the resolution of issues as needed and configured the system based on the business requirements.
• Demonstrated advanced functional and technical expertise in the following areas : Process modeling, General SAP R/3 FI/CO Functionality, G/L General Ledger, A/P Accounts Payable, A/R Accounts Receivable, CM Credit Management and Electronic interchange where appropriate (i.e. RICEF items).
• Prepared numerous Position Papers for Gap Analysis, Scenario Definitions, Configuration and Functional Scripts.
• Designed Inbound and Outbound interface specifications.
• Coordinated / monitored all phases of Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Point-to-Point Scenario Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Stress Testing and User Acceptance Testing cycles
• Developed SAP R/3 training materials and conducted training workshops for end users.
• Assisted PMO Project Management Office with project planning and management activities.

Employer: Confidential,
Industry: Food & Chemicals.
Period: September 1991 April 1996.
Positions Held: Global SAP Implementation - Steering Committee Member, Project Team Leader and Sr. Systems Analyst.

• Participated in SAP Steering Committee and Procurement Team meetings in decision making process during the re-engineering stage to develop project scope and define the critical success factors.
• Interviewed key financial executives in order to identify the critical application areas and expected deliverables.
• Developed individual task level detail project plan and time/resource estimates and monitored project activity development performance.
• Organized the logistics of all FI training sessions and conducted training sessions for users at all levels for A/P, A/R and G/L modules.
• Led the analysis, design, testing and implementation planning in the Accounts Payable area, and, Co-led the same functions in the General Ledger area.
• Designed all Accounts Payable and General Ledger data conversion and mapping programs for transaction history and detail files.
• Assisted other team leaders to establish company specific programming and naming conventions and standards.
• Assisted in report identification, selection and customization process for Accounts Payable and General Ledger modules.

Employer: Confidential,
Period: May 1990 August 1991.
Positions Held: Systems Engineer and Programmer.
Relevant Experience:

• Attended Engineering Systems Development Training: Involved Structured Programming Techniques, corporate coding standards and conventions, customer interviewing and meeting skills, and System Life Cycle management.
• Worked as a COBOL programmer at General Motor’s Packard Electric Division in Warren, Ohio - specializing in Production Planning and Manufacturing Bill of Materials systems.

Education:

B.S. Computer Science
M.B.A. International Management

Certifications:

IBM - Certified Professional Consultant.
IBM - Worldwide Enterprise Application Development Methodology.
SAP R/3 B2B - Business To Business E-Procurement.
SAP R/3 ASAP Methodology.
KFS KUALI Financial Systems certified.

Additional Skills:

HARDWARE

UNIX, SP-6000, DEC ALPHA- OSF/1, IBM 3090 & 4341, System 370/158.

SOFTWARE PACKAGES

SAP R/3 6.0 ECC, Dun & Bradstreet AP:M, GL:M, and FA:M Series systems, KFS KUALI Financial Systems.

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

ABAP/4, COBOL, DYL-280 , RPG II, BAL/ASSIST, CICS Command Level, COGNOS/POWERHOUSE, EASYTRIEVE +, FILE-AID, OS/MVS/JCL.

CASE TOOLS

SAP R/3 CASE TOOLS, TELON, Microsoft COBOL, FLOW4, VISIO.

SPECIALIZED SKILLS

ROSCOE/LIBRARIAN, TSO/ISPF, MILLENNIUM, PANAPT, JCL PREP, CAF/CA11, UCC7, ABEND-AID, SAR, PROFS, PANVALET, CA-ACF2/FSTRUC, CA-TOP SECRET, MICROSOFT TOOLS.