OBJECTIVE:

Seeking opportunities as an Accomplished IT Leader with expertise in delivering business solutions to the Consumer Packaged Goods, Consulting and Technology industries.

SUMMARY:

• In over 20+ years of professional service worked with several multinational large enterprises including Confidential, Confidential, Tata Consultancy Services, Confidential with excellent reputation for diligent work and desired results.
• Accomplished IT Leader with expertise in delivering business solutions to the Consumer Packaged Goods, Consulting and Technology industries in over 20 years of hands - on experience. Full life cycle implementation experiences as both Functional and Technical Lead for SAP projects 10+ years
• Led major projects from blueprint through hyper care support focused on supply chain, inventory management, warehouse applications as well as in the Go-to-Market space including direct store delivery, handheld ordering and trade promotion management. Provided Project plans, timelines, issues/risks, mitigation plans and leadership updates. Guided projects in estimating the total costs across multiple teams for the AOP planning. Full knowledge of Project life cycle and SDLC methodologies.
• Equally adept at stabilizing applications through excellent problem-solving and leadership skills. Additionally led the standardization of tools and processes across all sectors in areas of release management, project estimation templates, vendor management and dashboards for senior leadership. Part of core group to evaluate ITSM services using Service Now.
• Team player as well as individual contributor; strong written and verbal communications, highly motivated, goal oriented and dedicated.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Sales & Distribution Module
• Material management
• Inventory management
• Warehouse Management (SAP, Red Prairie)
• Direct store delivery, Handheld ordering
• Both Functional and Technical Experience
• Multi-module Implementation Methodology + Supply Chain Management
• Organization and Master data conversion;
• Business Process Requirements
• Systems Analysis and Customer Support
• SAP America Training - SD/MM, FI/CO; ABAP4, and Pricing
• Trade Promotion Management (CAS)
• Release Management (SAP, Service Now)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with various Sector leads across AMENA, ESSA, LATAM, Frito-Lay, North America Beverages and Nutrition to define and roll out standardized processes and tools that provided project health and demand view to senior leadership.
• Designed and helped develop dashboards to Sr. leadership that gave insights into the major investment projects, health, release plans, resources required and vendor engagement metrics.

Sr. Systems Manager

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• IT Lead for Confidential - TPM (Trade promotion management), responsible for delivering TPM solutions in CAS (product owned by Confidential ) and building a Confidential Universe to house reporting for senior leadership.
• Led the design, build and implementation of the Trade promotion cycle from planning, execution and analysis through collaboration with Confidential and delivered two major releases successfully.

Sr. Manager

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Project lead for the Inter-company Synchronization delivering an automated solution to enable products to transact between Quaker and Frito retaining the material smart numbering within each business as well as providing greater visibility to discrepancies in inventory.
• Project Lead, responsible for delivering 100+ enhancements as “finish the play” for SAP Frito-Lay Release 7. Collaborated with several cross-functional groups to deliver the enhancements in four releases through the year 2013. Also provided hyper care support, knowledge transfer sessions and guided a team of 8 people including master data teams to ensure high quality work.
• Led and Partnered Inventory Management and Hand Held Solution delivery in a major SAP Technical Solution for Frito-Lay, $750 MM project, impacting over 3000 end users
• Manager with 8 direct reports in the Inventory Management area
• On-Site Deployment
• Facilitated Hyper-care support and Resolution for 300+ deployed sites
• Team Lead for major deployment of Inventory management including WMS (Red Prairie, SAP) systems post deployment go-live.
• Guided team of 15 people, in successful delivering and supporting a complex solution to the business.

Confidential, Las Colinas, TX

Senior SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and Mapping of Customer Master data including creation of customers, partner relationships, pricing as related to customer, listings, exclusions, and text determinations for customer sales and distribution.
• Involved in design, configuration and testing of customer hierarchies. Written several functional specs for the custom design such as maintaining Key account customers to be used in Demand planning using customer hierarchy.
• Performed Field mapping from Legacy to SAP and producing the FMD (field mapping document) that contains every field in Customer master, maps to all the views and contains the translation logic for each field.

Confidential

SAP SD /MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• This project facilitates the moving and consolidation of warehousing, distribution and customer service operations out of their current distribution center to another plant in Sonoma. This involved SAP configuration primarily in SD, logistics, ensured OTC cycle remained intact, tested complete OTC processes and provided user training for Customer sales reps. This is part of Confidential ’s acquisition of a winery.
• Developed functional spec for Data conversion, reports and design activities.
• Configured a completely new plant, which was an overflow for their current main warehouse in Sonoma. Responsibilities involved testing the configuration and moving to final production code.
• Helped in design and implementation of WMS in Sonoma, was also involved in converting inventory from Lean Warehouse to full WM.
• Added several new storage locations that held the reserved stock for wines to be issued to special customers and for STOs.
• Wrote functional specifications for some new requirements such as pallet tag printing on zebra printers using bar code.
• As a single resource from Confidential have been providing project management and technical management for the entire project. This involves SAP configuration, Training new customer personnel, Data conversion and any customizing that may come about.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

SAP SD /MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As Senior Consultant, provided end-user support at Confidential during go live implementation of SAP in the areas of SD, MM, IM and FI/CO. Collaborated with Confidential consulting who implemented and helped troubleshoot go-live issues successfully. Trained the warehouse people in their Sales centers with the SAP logistics and Inventory transactions and several reports.

Confidential, Euless, TX

Senior SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As senior SAP SD /MM Consultant, currently providing end-user support in the areas of Sales, Distribution and Materials Management during the Go-live implementation of SAP (4.7) at the Confidential ($550M revenues). The modules being implemented are SD, MM, PP, and FI/CO. Confidential Consulting manages the project. Developed a good hands-on understanding of Supply Chain Management System.
• Extensive utilization of sub-modules (Sales, Shipping), Batch Assignment, Stock Transport Order, Logistics (Shipping and Transportation) etc.
• Providing mentoring, training and support for the warehouse team in the above Sales centers transactions such as Goods Issue, Goods Receipt, Physical Inventory, Invoicing etc.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Senior SAP Consultant & Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• As senior SAP SD /MM Consultant, developed a VC (Variant Configuration) model during pre-sales for a High-Tech company.
• Participated in design of business process requirements and translated them into SAP functional and configuration requirements. All this work resulted in winning the business subsequently.
• As Team Lead, worked on a fully integrated pre-configured best practices solution involving SEM, CRM, ERP, and BW utilizing BC sets.
• Reviewed various Best Practice solutions and helped select the appropriate ones for an Interactive Voice Recording (IVR) Company (Intervoice). Also used Solution Manager, Solution Composer, and ValueSAP to get pre-configured CRM Best Practice solutions for implementation for Intervoice.
• Designed and developed VC model for all Intervoice products. This VC model was then exported to CRM where a quotation was created using the model, replicated to ERP (5.0), pricing, converted to sales order that created a project/network and all subsequent procurement, MRP requirements were initiated through the project.
• As Technical team-lead, provided maintenance & support services for a very large electronic manufacturing company with multi-module SAP implementations globally.
• Other responsibilities included Project management (exposure to PP and PS), Integration technical consultant, mentoring and knowledge sharing.

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Senior SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As senior SAP Consultant helped enhance and support of systems in the areas of SD, MM, ISSW Install Base, Variant Configuration, Stock Transport functionality and Upgrade, Custom Software License Key and Pricing application.
• Designed, developed (in ABAP4) and supported Custom License Key Management application and interfaced through ITS (Internet Transaction Server), and Confidential scripts on the Web.
• Provided worldwide sales support of SAP applications during Quarter and Year-end sales revenue recognition cycle times.
• Worked on Order Entry and License Management systems, which were very critical to the financial success of Confidential, Inc.
• Lead person responsible for setting up of SD, MM and other ABAP4 custom applications for centralized European Sales division in Ireland.
• Highly competent in both functional and technical areas of SD. Strong ABAP4 skills, developed several reports, programs, changes to user-exits etc.
• Performed and participated in the SAP 4.6c Upgrade and Go-Live activities.
• Conducted testing of modules and have ability to troubleshoot problems and develop solutions for SD, MM and License Management.

Confidential, Santa Barbara, CA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and maintained SW Systems Health Insurance package using Unisys A-systems, MCP, COBOL, DMS-II, COMS