SUMMARY

• Project planning, staffing, budgeting, scope management and control, and issue resolution
• Delivered 86% of projects on time and delivered 88% of projects at or below budget
• Enterprise Architect (Zachman and TOGAF frameworks); infrastructure; server, storage, networking, data (all of it), cloud, applications, roadmaps and all foundational frameworks to meet business needs across the board.
• Solution Architect shop floor to top floor with cloud based & on premise environments
• Architect Digital Enterprise solutions to work in concert with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Big Data, cloud enablement frameworks and connectors that are in / on premise, cloud based and hybrid environments that employ IaaS, PaaS and SaaS integration services.
• Supply chain optimization by using unique methodology that manages exceptions, red lights and reduces inventory strategically and tactically through use of standard SAP
• SAP Global Trade Services for 10.0, 10.1 and 11.0 and global trade cost reduction strategies and streamlining customs and compliance.
• Manage and coordination of functional & technical delivery primarily core (FI, CO, MM, PP, PP - PI, SD) including technical delivery with BI, PI/PO, shop / plant floor interfaces (including SCADA) and Portal
• Enhancement pack ugrades from EHP 3 to EHP 8.
• Establish master data governance programs and architect solutions for making this a critical must have in the enterprise
• Perform rapid SAP deployments and designed tools, templates and procedures specifically for these projects (via Solution Manager & Symytry Foundations).
• Knowledge of Basis, MM, PM, QM, SCM; APO, collaborative supply & demand planning and forecasting, transportation, SNP, ATP and business to manufacturing (B2M) architecture
• Security framework for SAP and cross platform. Have provided support to projects to cover auditability via Versa / Firefighter, A to Z from Alignment of SAP configuration settings with organizational policies to the time the business takes ownership of all security process. All critical to the digital enterprise.
• Skilled in application solution architecture from top floor to plant / shop floor (B2M) including many third-party solutions and interface requirements
• Working knowledge of Solution Manager (7.1+) & project methods / techniques; SAP ASAP, SAP Activate, Symytry Foundations, Agile, ARIS, IntelliCorp, Mind Manager 18, ConceptDraw toolset, iMindMap 10
• Created Symytry© and Symytry Foundations©, a new project management methodology and certification process by industry vertical
• Created Hyper-Aligned Process Team (HAPT©) method for change management
• Change management, business transformation (via ADKAR model and other methods) coordinator and establishing PMO and SLA guidelines, skilled negotiator and mediator and skilled offshore coordinator
• Maintain strong stakeholder & steering committee presence & liaison to PMO
• Migration from ECC 6 to S4HANA. Created Symytry Foundations to reduce errors during the more challenging areas of the process. All checklists, OSS note applications, SUM, Transformation & Navigator tools are all performed smoothly through Symytry. Symytry is compliant with SAP’s Activate methodology.
• Experienced delivery manager, program manager, project manager and methodologist in multiple practice areas including; SAP, SCM, FI, BI, EDI and EAI. Decades of experience in IT and IT management including 28+ years of SAP experience including project delivery, oversight and program management.
• Deep knowledge and experience with technical and functional SAP implementations, SAP upgrades, manufacturing systems implementations, shop / plant floor and quality aspects of manufacturing in discrete and process environments.
• Group facilitation & leadership, demonstrated capabilities in different areas of leadership at executive level, program and project management, change management / business transformation, supervisory and team leader roles, business process reengineering and process streamlining. Perform rapid deployments with a pre-defined scope, fixed cost and reduced client risk especially with cloud-based projects.
• Global delivery experience creating / building offshore teams, PMOs and SLA development and compliance skills. Leading technical & functional teams through project delivery management, thought leadership, client service and resolute advancement of business goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Migration from ECC 6 to S4HANA: Activate in cloud & hybrid with HANA & S4/HANA implementations Architect shop floor to top floor and back including SCADA & Industrial IoT

Business Development: Change management & business transformation Data; conversion, migration, ETL & data governance process implementation

Enterprise Architect: Functional; MM, PP, PM, QM & FI Industrial IoT (based on Industry 4.0) architecture, strategy & design (Digital Enterprise Architecture)

Project & Program Management: Rollout strategies for global functional & technical projects

Supply chain & logistics optimization: SYMYTRY & SYMYTRY Foundations Methodology (including the book)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager / Advisor

Responsibilities:

• A separate project included a technical upgrade from ECC 6 EHP 3 to EHP 8. SAP BW stayed on 7.3. Delivered several ECC 6 to S4HANA migrations. Most recent was to S4HANA 1709. Set out the project from object analysis to remediation and validation to all testing, cutover prep and cutover and go live.
• The purpose of the upgrade was to deliver on an prior S4HANA 1611 and Fiori enhanced functionality. Focus was logistics but had implications on simple finance from a prior HANA project.
• This has been repeated several times including an on premise and cloud implementations.
• Finance challenges included many table changes for specific groups and transaction changes including KExx, KBxx, KPxx and CJxx and new webdyn’s. There were technical legacy data migration changes as well. Client had multiple migrations occurring simultaneously by different groups and with different HANA releases.
• Responsibilities - Facilitate Change - to move the ownership of the SAP system's performance from IT to business, to get leadership to demonstrate commitment to change and work within the system. To get commitment and action to changing traditional habits and work within the system, rather than outside the system. Use of ADKAR method to accomplish these changes.
• Team Composition - Team consisted of the Project Manager / Advisor, Functional / Integration Analyst and customer functional domain experts. Technical upgrades included three Basis consultants.

Confidential

Senior Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Global Trade Services project impacting the follow processes: Compliance - SPL Screening, Embargo Checks, Classification: Product and Tariff, License Management & Checking. Customs - Import/Export Documentation
• Electronic Customs Communications, Transit Procedures and Process Monitoring. Master Data for Sanctioned Party Screening (flow diagrams), Business Documents for Sanctioned Party Screening (flow diagrams)
• Process for License Control (flow diagrams). Three-year road map development for GTS direction including integration to MM, SD, Fiori and more.
• Interface development was the other half of this project. This included interfaces to 22 existing systems from bar code scanners, laboratory information management systems, rail car software interfaces, banking and payroll systems.
• Client challenges included a change to a new EDI service partner, interfaces to old systems that were no longer supported and retirement of legacy external systems and interfaces. This project had a highly aggressive timing with no available SMEs. This project also included multi-location rollouts occurring in short time bursts. Data was a major issue with this project, as well.
• We began an early evaluation / adoption of HANA. Selected financial data pools were moved to HANA out of ECC (Business Suite on HANA actually). My role was to manage the migration process. This primarily led to a simple finance implementation. Logistics data were also staged to work on supply chain optimization improvement by working MCxx and MDxx transactions that would normally be done via MC.9 on select materials (movers and shakers). This led to two other HANA implementations that went from on premise to hybrid.
• This project had multiple project managers that covered design / build, functional and data teams.
• Team Composition - Managed an experienced multinational techno-functional team consisting of 12 offshore and onsite ABAP developers, a variety of SAP functional SMEs for GTS, SD, MM, PP, eWM, and QM and a testing group.

Confidential

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• The second initiative was the transportation management component of the supply chain. This involved architecting most of the complex solutions surrounding transportation which included; freight management, network collaboration (shipment tendering), planning & dispatching and billing / rating settlements and more.
• Member of a diverse group of executive and government operational steering committee and on risk and compliance board.
• Team Composition - Experienced multinational team consisting of SAP FI, CO, 2 - MM, 2 - PP, 2 - SD and 2 - HANA / BW / BOBJ skill sets. Also includes oversight responsibilities of technical development consisting of four ABAP developers. Managed four project managers for a variety of projects.
• Methodology – Use Solution Manager for most aspects of the project (except testing). Symytry (an ASAP enhancement) methodology, Mind Manager 11 and other field proven tools for the project. MS Project used extensively for project planning and scheduling. SharePoint used for document storage.