WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Londonderry, NH

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• led the new SAP implementation cutover
• Created and managed the execution of the cutover plan including tracking reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms (RICEF), business tasks, IT tasks, external systems tasks…
• Managed open UAT, Go Live and Post Go Live issues.
• Built a change control process to manage transports to SAP production with the implementation covering 10 weeks.
• Work with project team, business leads, IT, executives to confirm project would go live on time with all UAT issues closed or postponed by the business to post go live
• Managed post go live support process ensuring all issues were tracked, assigned proper resources and managed through completion of each issue or enhancement.
• Implementation included building new RF devices, label printers, scanner units in trucks, new SAPgui licenses, new licenses for several supporting systems, etc

Confidential, San Francisco & Concord, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Included managing teams on multiple interfaces to SAP ( eRecruit, S4 Hana BI/BW, DOTRC, QuestionMark, ITS, etc).
• Created weekly status reports from PPMC and meetings with the business and IT. Lead discussions with steering committee and leadership teams.
• Improved the financial tool (excel using VBA code and SAP BPC/PRJ ) for tracking forecast to budget to actuals.
• Developed detail project plan, cutover plans for QA and production go live.
• Developed MSAccess database using VBA code to aid the business in validation of conversions prior to production cutover
• Worked with testing team to improve the use of HP ALM and SharePoint interfaces by developing a defect/enhancement tracker for scrum daily sessions.
• Worked with the security team to confirm new business roles required for the project
• Worked with PMO to track and have delivered multiple documents throughout project lifecycle including tracking SAP transports through Solman/Charm …
• After the initial 2 implementations I was extended to work with a new vendor to Confidential & Confidential to improve Confidential & Confidential ’s Academy training processes by managing a implementation of an extension to the SAP LSO module including a parallel project to incorporate a replacement to the SAP course player with the vendors Twine product.
• Drove the project through its phases to implement the vendors RegLearn/Apprentice module enhancing the process to matching employees to the correct training courses with the extended functionality from the vendors solution…
• Continued with the next two projects (one in the SCM realm and another extension to the RegLearn solution adding a new module for managing Apprentices) in both the gas and electrical fields enabling mobile solution with the new SAP UI5 Portal and its development.
• Multiple conversions, interfaces were required to be developed and re - engineered during these projects.
• For the SCM project an external SAS SAP S4 Hana Cloud Portal was added to the landscape which in turn required an internal cloud connector which connected to the internal SAP ECC system to allow suppliers, manufacturers and distributors to create material change requests as a replacement to a manual process previously…
• Worked with the PMO to improve MSProject template to aid other PM’s in tracking past due tasks and major changes to the plan along with improving SAP BPC forecast to actuals tracking.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Cutover Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• led the HR/Payroll/ESS/SSO project on an ECC 6.0 for a US rollout using an external implementation partner, internal and consulting resources (on and off-shore).
• Managed the work plan, and cutover practices for the system integration cycles to collect detail tasks for the actual cutover.
• Developed tools to track actual efforts during practice cutover cycles using Google Sheets that allowed all the owners and backup owners of tasks to report real time their actual times for tasks which in turn replaced the work efforts estimates… ESS setup was designed to allow all, for the first time (100,000+ workers), to do their own updates to their HCM data
• Worked with conversion team to bring their efforts down from 8 weeks to 2 weeks (the window required for Go Live)
• Escalated issues/risks to management and produced daily status reports using Google Docs including metrics reports (main set of tools used by Confidential instead of MS Office)… Worked with over 30 Integration/Legacy system owners using over 80 interfaces to ensure connectivity and daily operations were redirected from Lawson to SAP
• Worked with BI and Cognos teams to ensure all the new reporting requirements were met and timing to implement were within the Go Live window as the process needed to convert from Lawson to SAP in between a 2 week payroll window
• Modules - FI/CO, HR/HCM, Payroll, BI/BW, ESS, SAP Portal, Google Docs, HP/ALM, MS Project and selective MS Office tools (available to the project teams only)…

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Manager, led the upgrade project for the current SAP 4.7 system to ECC 6.0 (including current enhancement packs for ECC, BI, Portal, and HR) for a global rollout.
• Managed the budget, work plan, staffing, training, testing, cutover, quality gate approvals
• Worked with development team, outsourced developers, outsourced testers to complete all outstanding issues on time and on budget
• Worked with QA team using HP Loadrunner, IBM Clearquest, Worksoft Certify to log all test scripts, steps, results, bug tracking, resolution, metrics and status reporting to all levels of the organization.
• Directed the cutover activities during the go live weekend and coordinated activities with other non-SAP systems that were also going live at the same time.
• Met with and finalized SOX testing requirements and completed all compliance activities as part of the project.
• Post go live activities included HR compensation project business requirements and solution design documents using Webmethod, WebSphere solutions.
• Worked with the HR business team to create business requirements for their Global HR Core changes along with blue printing ESS/MSS .
• Project including developing a budget, scheduling vendor demos... Modules - FI/CO, HR/HCM, BI/BW, EDI, Solution Manager (Solman/ChARm), SAP Portal, NWDI, HANA BI/BW, Enhancement Pack 4 and 5 for HR, SharePoint, HP Remedy, HP Scout timesheet tracking, MS Project and all MS Office tools including using VBA in excel and word on several projects…
• As a Project Manager and Business Analyst for the legal group completed requirements, vendor selection and implementation of an electronic signature system (DocuSign)
• Next project was to select a Contract Management System, completed requirements, vendor demos, vendor selection, and implementation of SAP eSourcing v7.x using the Projects, Supplier Management and Contract Lifecycle Management ( CLM ) modules with interfaces to SAP ECC for vendor master, organization data (14 files), DocuSign outbound and inbound connections and SAP Enterprise Portal using LDAP .
• Developed a custom SharePoint approval workflow used by the legal users for requests of documents…
• Completed all testing (integration, UAT, performance) for Release 1 of the solution. Loaded approximately 100k legacy contracts, setup the Projects module for Contract request form which integrates to the CLM module.
• Implemented a custom approval workflow in CLM and custom phases that a contract processes through to completely signed and executed contracts
• Next project was an SAP Infrastructure upgrade including current enhancement packs (all systems) to Oracle 11g version including decommissioning old servers as part of the project ( ECC, SRM, CLM, Portal, HCM, BI/BW systems, plus Salesforce integration with CLM and CRM )…
• Next project was a Non SAP Infrastructure and Software Upgrade (including enhancement packs) for a Financial Account Reconciliation system Win2003 to Win2008 servers, Oracle 10g to 11g. Added 5 new Frontier systems for a total of 9 production systems and 3 non-production systems.
• Included moving equipment from an external DC to an Internal DC and included setup of 9 production Disaster Recovery systems in a new DC and performed a full DR exercise for a full week with no issues.
• This included decommissioning old servers (over 100) from the old DC’s. Attended SAP TSO150.

Confidential, San Rafael, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• led the upgrade project (including all enhancement packs) for the current SAP 4.6c system for a global rollout.
• Managed the budget, work plan, staffing, training, testing, cutover, quality gate approvals... Worked with development team, outsourced developers, outsourced testers to complete all outstanding issues on time and on budget
• Worked with QA team using Mercury Interactive tools ( HP Loadrunner, Test Director ) to log all test scripts, steps, results, bug tracking, resolution, metrics and status reporting to all levels of the organization.
• Directed the cutover activities during the go live weekend and coordinated activities with other non-SAP systems that were also going live at the same time.
• Met with and finalized SOX testing requirements and completed all compliance activities as part of the project.
• Post go live activities included a cProjects and HR compensation project business requirements and solution design documents including a prototype of cProjects using SAP best practices, travel and expense setup timesheet setup for demo purposes.
• Performed authorization analysis for the SAP environments including their current production system (4.6c) and their new system ( ECC5.0 including enhancement packs ) using the SAP RBE (Reverse Business Engineering) tool and added additional enhancements to the tool for better reporting requirements.
• Provided knowledge transfer on the RBE process to internal IT staff.
• Included decommissioning multiple servers as part of the upgrade from SAP 4.6c to ECC 5.0)
• Worked with the HR business team to create business requirements for their Global Staffing project including developing a budget, scheduling vendor demos
• Modules - SD, MM, A/P, A/R, FI/CO, PS, HR, BI, EC, DIMP, EDI, OpenText, SharePoint, MS Project, Excel, Access, Solman/ChARm etc
• Managed multiple projects post the initial SAP upgrade including the largest project for the company and follow-up roll-outs impacting more than 15 integrated systems including SAP ECC 5.0, Siebel, Tibco, Java apps, Clarity PPM, Vertex, Sterling, EDI, iDocs .
• This included managing over 100 developers and testers both on-shore and off-shore.
• Managed the budget and tracked actual spend
• Coordinated the business user acceptance testing (UAT) and sign-off
• Reported metrics, trends and tracked the project plan to an on-time go live
• Managed the daily post go live support team to ensure quick turn around on new issue.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• work with the internal HR and IS teams to complete the selection process for an implementation partner
• Worked with the business and new implementation team to gather business requirements, begin the blueprint process for an mySAP ERP 2004 ( ECC 5.0 ) implementation using HR, BW, XI, Solution Manager (Solman/ChARm), Web Portals - MSS and ESS for a workforce of 6000+
• Worked with the technical team to complete the selection process for the new Netweaver landscape.
• Worked with Steering Committee to complete the final scope and budget for a domestic rollout on a separate instance with ALE interfaces to the existing SAP ERP (v4.6c) environment…
• Developed multiple SOP’s, strategy documents, forms and templates
• Identified the training schedule for the internal technical team and internal configuration team members
• Worked with the internal technical teams to identify existing systems and interfaces in order to finalize the retirement process for the legacy systems
• Worked on a second Discovery Project for an upgrade (including enhancement packs) of the existing SAP ERP (v4.6c) and Siebel (v6.0) systems
• Submitted to the Steering Committee alternatives and recommendations to identify the timing for the IS Roadmap
• Attended the implementation partners Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE) with top executives, process owners, subject matter experts, key business users and the project team to gain quicker decisions and level set the organization on the scope and timing of the project
• Developed extensive MS Project detailed timelines
• Trained other project managers on use of MS Office products.