QUALIFICATIONS:A highly accomplished Global Supply Chain Warehouse Management professional, with outstanding "big picture, out the box" thinking abilities. Extensive experience in managing and driving integrated global logistic support programs. Executive is extremely detailed, dedicated, committed and places a strong emphasis on delivering outstanding customer service and performance, with a unique ability to improve and define cost initiatives for mid-to large-size manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. International experience includes project work in Canadian, European and Asian markets. Academic credentials include an MBA with a concentration in Global Supply Chain Management, Vendor / Supplier Relations.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• Personel Management
• Materials Management & Distribution
• Strategic Procurement Planning & Sourcing
• Budget Management
• Labor Analysis - Inventory
• Employee Training
• Operational Management
• Tracking Facility Coordination
• Supply Chain Design and Infrastructure Planning
• Change Management
• Re-engineering & Strategic Market Planning
• Procurement & Strategy Mapping

ERP SKILLS: Executive has a unique ability to manage complex system implementations and support development activities that meet business and user needs in a timely and cost effective manner, while ensuring the right things get done as per the governance process as it relates to Sarbanes Oxley Compliance. 10 plus years IT experience includes multiple years of managing complex supply chain systems implementations, as well as an understanding of APICS, SCOR, RFID and wireless printers and scanners. Well experienced in Project Management and team leadership. ERP Implementation experience includes: (ASAP, SAP), B2B, EDI, SDLC, RUP. (22) Twenty two Total Implementations, (7) seven FLC. Over (8) eight years of related experience working with ERP systems, including pre-sales, preparing RFQs, RFI's, and RFP's, blueprinting and implementations. SAP R/3, ECC 5.0, 6.0, Oracle. Modules experience includes: ( MM, WMS, PP, QM, CRM, SD, FI, ) Core areas: SAP SCM / SRM / PLM. Industries: Consumer Goods, Pharma, Retail, Grocery, AFS, Public Sector / Government, Aviation, Beverage.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS AND RECOGNITIONS:

• Awarded 2010 Presidential Who's Who among Business and Professional Achievers Award
• 2007, Led and directed the first SAP Retail Supply Chain / Warehouse Management initiative in Asia, while employed full-time with SAP America, Inc. Client is the largest Grocery Retailer in Asia, with over 500 Retail Outlets. Performed as an International Trusted Advisor and Supply Chain SME.

PROFESSiONAL experience:

Client: Confidential - Atlanta, Georgia
Industry: Supply Chain Management / Banking

Project Coordinator / Senior Business Consultant June 2009 - October 2009

Independent Contractor brought in to streamline a new business process and create a new vision for corporate and enterprise supply chain strategy. Developed execution plans; facilitated messaging; ensured vision and strategy was better communicated between teams; measured outcomes and validated strategy with relevant industry stakeholders. Creates/leverage/develops priority industry solution scenarios for vertical; developed solution maps to identify white space; established value propositions for solutions; Provided Industry content for Supply Chain initiatives and identified, developed and maintained vendor performance, compliance, partner and relations.

Client: Confidential - Duluth, Georgia
Industry: Supply Chain Management / Pharma

Project Manager September 2008 - March 2009

Recognized as the "perfect fit" for Project Manager Role and tapped for leadership position to leverage business expertise between several technical organizations. Coordinated efforts to perform system(s) migrations as identified to SAP platform, with Supply Scapes ePedigree SAP Integration. Presided over a $5 million dollar ASAP implementation upgrade from R/3 4.6 to ECC 5.0 and led a cross-functional team of offshore developers, which consisted of 8 team members, using an agile approach to deliver value to customers, both internal and external. Provided Industry content for Supply Chain initiatives and identified, developed and maintained vendor performance, compliance, partner and relations.

Confidential - Atlanta, Georgia
Industry: Supply Chain Management / Consulting Services

Project Manager June 2008 - September 2008

Selected as the first and only SAP full-time Project Manager to lead Supply Chain related implementations for new clients. Spearheaded diverse types of high visibility Supply Chain projects, ranging from $10 million to $25 million dollars. Collaborated with cross-functional teams of developers, which consisted of 8-15 team members, using an agile approach to deliver value to customers, both internal and external. Companyhas since ceased their SAP Practice Consulting, due to a lack of SAP related projects in the pipeline. (Company Closed Consulting Practice, due to a lack of projects).

Client: Confidential - Meridian, Mississippi
Industry: Supply Chain Management / Retail

Principal Consultant / Project Lead April 2008 - June 2008

Independent Contractorselected as a replacement for an outgoing Principal Consultant. Duration of project was estimated to be 4-5 months. Brought in as the "best overall fit" and Subject Matter expert assigned to assist client Peavey Electronics with a ASAP Re-org $5 million Implementation, in the area of Materials Management, WMS and Supply Chain Management. Project was a complete redevelopment ASAP project, replacing a previous third party vendor.

Client: Confidential - Long Island, New York, Los Angeles, California
Industry: Supply Chain Management / Retail / Consumer Goods

Principal Consultant / Project Lead January 2008 - April 2008

Independent Contractorwhospearheaded and set the direction of a (90) ninety day short-term Gap Analysis between Estée Lauderand their newly acquired company Aveda, to correct flaws in their overall business process. Fixed bid Project budget was $500,000. Client had been experiencing failures in the SAP Supply Chain process involving inbound and outbound processing within their WMS / MM delivery process. As a result, the client was experiencing a significant loss in revenue, sales and performance on the Aveda side. Client had implemented an upgrade from SAP 4.7c to ECC 6.0, but were still experiencing significant problems merging their newly acquired company Aveda with Estée Lauderon the same platform and ensuring profits.

Client: Confidential - Atlanta, Georgia
Industry: Supply Chain Management / Retail / Consumer Goods

Principal Consultant October 2007 - January 2008

Called back to Home Depot / HD Supply in October 2007 to offer short term (90) day assistance, bringing remaining HD Supply Stores onto new upgraded ERP platform, using ECC 6.0. Facilitated required tasks and achieved project goals by directly keeping team members and management fully informed of progress, emerging issues, and corrective actions. Worked directly with vendors and assisted with the selection process of identifying suitable long-term vendors for partner relations. Acted as a trouble shooter and liaison for the upgrade and led efforts with "Go-Live" production support post "Go-Live" (WMS, MM, IM, QM).

Principal Consultant / Retail SME October 2003 - June 2005

Began with (HD) as an Independent Contractorandselected third out of a pool of over 600 applicants to lead HD's largest SAP Implementation ( FI, WMS, MM ), from Legacy to ECC 5.0, titled: The Enterprise Financial Initiative (EFI). This implementation to date is the largest ERP Implementation involving SAP and has a budget of over $300 million dollars. Responsibilities included: Leading key discussion to problem solving within Blueprinting, working with IS Roadmaps, vendor relations, budgeting and planning, Cost Estimates, Business Analysis, Functional Specifications, System Configuration, Design, Testing, Documentation, Training, Change Management and logistics execution.

Confidential Atlanta, Georgia
Industry: Supply Chain Management / Consulting Services / Retail Division

Principal Consultant / Retail SME June 2005 - October 2007

Selected as one of 15 new fulltime employees to staff the new SAP Retail Global Delivery Group within SAP America, Inc. Responsible for development and vendor relations of engineered SAP packaged Retail solutions for companies such as: Cadbury Schweppes, Inc, Pepsi Cola, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc., Kenneth Cole, (CDC) Centers for Disease Control, Jet Blue Airlines, Wu-mart Grocery Stores ( Beijing, China), Unileaver (Istanbul, Turkey) Hawthorn Furntiture, Wa-Wa Retail Stores and a host of other mid-size to large companies. Performed in a Functional, Technical and Lead role as a Retail SME (Subject Matter Expert - SAP MM, WMS) with FLC implementations. Budgets ranged from $10 million - over $100 million dollars.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Masters Degree of Business Administration with a concentration in Supply Chain Management and Supplier Relationship Management
• Bachelors Degree of Information Technology.
• Associate of Applied Science Degree.

Confidential Certification, Confidential - July 2005 / WUSMAP SAPMAP Certification on Workshop for Retail, SAP America - July 2005. CCE Basis Network Certification 1 & 2 - June 2002 / CCE Basis Network Certification 2 - August 2001 / CCE Disaster Recovery Certification - February 2002 / CCE SAP/ MM and PP Support and Configuration Certification - March 2002

COMPUTER COMPETENCIES - Over (15) fifteen years of related experience with Microsoft Office Suite, spreadsheets, word processing, and database software and/or business systems (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project 2003, 2007, Access, Outlook, Visual Basic, Snag It and Visio) and Sharepoint. DECISION MAKING TOOLS - i2's Supply Chain Strategist, CAPS Logistics' Supply Chain Designer/Coordinator, Logic Tools' Logic Net / Logic Chain. DATABASE COMPETENCIES - Unix, SQL, Programing Languages - Java. SPEND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Over (3) three years of related experience working with Ariba Spend Management (TCO) analysis and modeling systems, including implementation.