SUMMARY

• I am a highly experienced IT professional with more TEMPthan 20 years of experience. I have held leadership and senior management roles with many successful and reputable companies such as Telstra, Confidential, Confidential, Accenture and Cap Gemini.
• Well versed in the development of an “End - State Vision Statement” that provides clarity about what the Project/Programme is trying to achieve. This statement will always need to be clear and action oriented, so that it can be used to measure progress toward the end goals and ensure benefits are archived/ realised.
• More TEMPthan 20 years experience with the usage and possibilities of ERP Software spanning the Financial, Human Resources, Plant Maintenance, Workforce Management, integration and IT Architecture.
• Comprehensive noledge of Project and change management and consultancy within several businesses
• Successful completion of multiple Global deployments of ERP solutions for major “Blue Chip” organisations with the associated challenges of managing International dispersed third party integrator teams
• Hands-on experience in change management and training strategies including communication and engagement strategy, in house and external training
• Hands-on experience of managing disparate stakeholders with different business imperatives and expectations to ensure that challenges, issues, risks and dependencies are managed and addressed appropriately throughout the duration of the Project
• Well versed in working with board level steering committees on progress, issues and risks and the steps required to bring major projects to a successful conclusion
• Capacity to work in a cross-functional, International environment and deal with people at all levels of society.
• Ability to meet deadlines, manage time, set priorities and work in a team
• Well versed in SDLC methods and the issues and risks relating to major Global IT projects
• Clear and concise style of written communication and a persuasive line of reasoning at all levels of the team up to Senior Executive

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

TEMPPrincipal Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Development of Enterprise Architect guidelines, Application Programming Interface frameworks, processes and procedures.
• Team leadership of enterprise, integration, configuration and reporting architects and SAP domain experts.
• Scoping and Business case development of major Financial system to SAP ECC 6
• Enterprise architect for upgrade of SAP 4.6c to ECC6
• Draft Architecture decision and analysis papers
• Procurement and Supply Chain Information Systems Plan
• Consult, collaborate and Liaison with key stake holders, business analysts and project managers to analyse business requirements and determine corporate solutions
• Management of complex issues that include tactical or strategic solutions, virtual environment, externally hosted solutions and support issues
• Use of various methodologies i.e. Waterfall and Agile (winner of CIO award)
• TEMPPrincipal Architect:-
• Development of SAP roadmaps and business cases
• Software as a Service (SaaS) and Cloud infrastructure projects;
• SAP - Human Resources integration (HCM, payroll, MSS & ESS and SuccessFactors/Saba);
• SAP - Procurement, Supply Chain and Spares Parts System with Ariba & Fieldglass integration (SaaS):- electronic Statement of Work;
• SAP Plant Maintenance, Project Systems & Workforce Management (MRS)
• SaaS - Vendor Management System (Procurement) and Learning, Performance & Talent (Human Resources) implementation and integration.

Confidential

TEMPPrincipal Manager, Senior Financials and lead Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Deployment manager for template SAP solution
• Managed and ran workshops for development of Functional requirements as Solution Architect and Financial lead for new General Ledger
• Project deliverable templates and standards
• Blueprint design, prototype build, plan, process design, configuration and establish post go-live activities including ongoing support
• Drafted Architecture decision analysis papers
• Consulted, collaborated and liaised with key stake holders to drive solutions
• Liaised with business analysts and project managers to analyse business requirements and determine solutions

Confidential

SAP Labour Management Consultant / Integration Human Resources

Responsibilities:

• Workshop for development of functional requirements
• Configuration of SAP Human Resources (Organisational Management), Plant Maintenance, Project Systems, Workforce Management and Clicksoftware
• Blueprint design, prototype build and process design

Confidential

Project Management / SAP Financial Consultant / Human Resources / Integration

Responsibilities:

• Lead team in integration between Human Resources, and Financial Management development
• Design, cutover and implementation of three different businesses (Mardel, Crafts Etc and Hobby Lobby).
• Managed Human Resources go live
• Workshop for development Functional requirements
• Configuration of New G/L with Document Splitting for Financial systems
• Configuration of Human Resources and Organisational structure
• Configuration of Plant Maintenance, Project System and Asset Management
• Blueprint design, integration, prototype build and process design
• Specification, design, testing and supervision of build of interface for twenty legacy systems
• Managed developers to ensure quality delivered enhancements