OBJECTIVE:

• Employ my extensive Project Management, Lean Six Sigma process improvement skills, ISO control practices, and business leadership skills to make a positive contribution to an organization.Leadership role involved - ERP implementation management, Global MRO design and deployment projects, customer requirements gathering, project turnarounds, vendor relationships, project budget management, and team mentoring. Collaborated with executives to plan multi-million-dollar business improvement enterprises. ERP Packages include SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, IBM, and a number Tier Two provider.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Managed 5 Full Life Cycle Implementations, and 4 Upgrades 11i to 12.0, 12.0 to 12.2, 12.1 to 12.2. Responsible for leading assigned projects from original concept through to final implementation, including defining scope and project objectives, developing detailed work plans, project estimates, schedules, and status reports.

Oracle ERP EB-Suites: Procure-to-Pay business process flow involving activities such as procurement, purchasing, making payment to Suppliers and subsequent accounting. Order-to-Cash business process flow involves activities such as Customer Orders, Order fulfillment, receiving payment from Customers & subsequent accounting.

Oracle SCM: Supply Chain Planning, Logistics & Transportation Management, Order Management, and Price Management.

Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, and Project Portfolio Management.

Project Management: Managed 8 SAP Full Life Cycle Implementations and 5 Upgrades to SAP ERP Solutions, Responsible for leading assigned projects from original concept through to final implementation, including defining scope and project objectives, developing detailed work plans, project estimates, schedules, and status reporting.

SAP ERP Human Capital Management: Workforce Planning- planning, cost simulations, benchmarking, process analytics/measurement, and talent analytics. Core HR - employee management, global employment, benefits, time and attendance, and payroll.

SAP Production Planning: Repetitive Manufacturing, Discrete Manufacturing, PP Master Data (BOMS, routing), Component Level ATP, Variant Product Configurator, MRP, Demand Planning, Interplant, Product Costing, Capacity Planning, Supply Network Planning, Demand Planning.

SAP Logistics/Warehouse Management: Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, Picking, Packing, Delivery Processing, Transportation Management, ConnectShip, Load Planning Workbench, Physical Inventory, Freight Pay, Yard Management, RFID.

SAP Supply Chain Management: Enterprise Inventory Optimization, Product Master Data Modeling, Supply Network Planning (SNP), Demand Planning (DP), Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS), Inventory Collaboration Hub (ICH), Global Available to Promise (GATP), Core Interface (CIF) Data Modeling and Scheduling, APO Plan Monitor, Data Modeling for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) application.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior EPMO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project restart and kickoff to confirm resources commitments, high level design, and project objectives.
• Conducted team training on Lean Six Sigma approach and framework. Called our effort - Save a Tree Today.
• Focused the business requirement design team on a high level comprehensive approach to define goals, objectives, approach and to define - success.
• Introduced the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) approach to improving the customer experience, and new process design.
• Formed smaller ‘tiger teams’ to focus on data mapping from source systems to a data warehouse, develop and test ETL, and data validation testing.
• Introduced an enhanced project communication plan that connected business, information technology, and third-party providers into sprints.
• Restructured the Steering Committee to include decision makers from the impacted business areas, data management, and information security.
• Project to deliver solution by end of May at about 800k budget reduction.

Confidential

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the three job streams, SAP Enhancements, Organizational Change Management, and The IBM Maximo development/deploy.
• Configured SAP SCM Alert Profile, Work Areas, Propagation Ranges, Strategy Profile, and Optimization profile. Defined DS Planning Board Profile and Overall manufacturing foot print globally.
• Responsible to design and configure IBM Maximo models - Asset Management, Work Management, Material Management, and Procurement.
• Maximo Procurement designed to pass requirements to SAP Ariba, receive order information from SAP, record receipts, and pass data for the SAP three-way match.
• Responsible for introducing the Lean Six Sigma, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, And Control (DMAIC) developing approach and processes to handle the review and improvement process for maintenance repair and scheduling for North America.
• Managed the re-implementation of Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP) deployment functionality, and the introduction to detailed production plan in SAP PP/DS.
• Managed the design, development, testing and deployment of IBM Maximo v7.6 to both the international and national plant locations.
• Managed the development of the technical interface between SAP PP/DS and IBM Maximo. Allowed run times, production levels, production rates, downtime directly to IBM Maximo.
• Responsible for managing project budgets for both workstreams. Approved labor and service charges.
• Reporting monthly to the Executive Project Management team on the two projects - budget, accomplishment, risks, and successes.
• Presented a detailed project deck to the combined steering committees for both work streams.
• Responsible for managing both internal and external professional resources. Reported labor utilization.
• Managed the deployment to all North American locations, and locations in Canada.

Confidential

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated functional and technical design of seven SAP instances currently deployed domestically and internally.
• Develop global organizational change management process to minimize work disruption and maximize efficiency.
• Formed a global process improvement team around the Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC) approach. Trained team leaders implemented team structure, communication, and reporting.
• Aligned the executive management team’s vision of the strategic direction of AbbVie to a future state SAP4 HANA environment.
• SAP SCM DP Created Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic Value Combinations, Storage Bucket Profile, and Time Bucket Profile with different periodicities
• Designed, configured, and deployed, globally, IBM MAXIMO for enhanced inventory controls, improved preventive maintenance, change history, and work order management.
• Upgraded current TM1 9.5 to 10.2 fix pack six to allow for a smoother integration with SAP Financial applications. Also, 10.2 supported encrypted communication from within the application.
• Secured executive approval of the design, demonstrated to multiple levels of business for sign-off
• Project completed 30 days early and $375,000 under budget.

Confidential

SENIOR INTEGRATION PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Accepted the Spartan Foods project leadership position in August 2013 to work in partnership with Ernst & Young to develop and present to the Senior Management Leadership team a road map to consolidate multiple technologies to a single strategic solution. Integration road map had 43 independent technology swim lanes.
• Organizational Change Management: Responsible for working with the company’s human resource management team to develop, deploy, and monitor programs to manage the change to associates, organizations, and business leadership.
• Established a Process Improvement function within the PMO to identify and eliminate processes that no longer added value to the combined organization.
• Introduced the Lean principles to the Project Management team and reviewed proposed new processes to support the new combined business software being deployed.
• Responsible for leading the supply chain management consolidation. Nash Finch warehouse locations, 11 commercial and 18 military, operated very autonomously. Designed, secured management approval, and deployed a single solution in 18 months based on the SAP SCM extended supply chain concepts. Migrated from proprietary software packages, J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne, J.D. Edwards World XE.
• SAP SCM DP Created Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic Value Combinations, Storage Bucket Profile, and Time Bucket Profile with different periodicities. Maintained DP Master Data and Created Master Forecast profiles. Modeled forecast strategy based on Univariate, Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) and Composite forecasting profiles.
• SAP SCM SNP. Designed and Developed the Supply Network Model incorporating all the plants, distribution centers, Customers and Suppliers based on the supply chain process.

  Lead the effort to consolidate Human Capital Resource (HCM) software to WorkDay from existing collection of PeopleSoft v7.5, PeopleSoft v6.0, J.D. Edwards Payroll (multiple versions) and Kronos v5.0 Enterprise manager.

• Designed the functional and technical landscape for IBM Maximo (v7.0) for the fleet and 11 warehouses. Managed the effort to migrate from SquareRigger (v5.10) fleet financial reporting package to Oracle E Business Suite (12.1.3) to support the long term strategic direction of the company.
• Allenwood Industries Inc. (Contract)

Confidential

SENIOR SAP PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading assigned projects from original concept through to final implementation, including defining scope and project objectives, developing detailed work plans, project estimates, schedules, and status reports, coordinating all aspects of the project between Company teams, providing technical and/or analytical guidance to Business and Technical teams as needed, assess project issues, and develop mitigation strategies to ensure deliverables are successfully met.
• Built the business case justification to include SAP SCM functionality to support collaborative planning and procurement. Collaborative planning and procurement Kanban based.
• Configured SAP SCM PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Areas, Propagation Ranges, Strategy Profile, and Optimization profile. Defined DS Planning Board Profile and Overall profile
• Managed the re-implementation of SAP SCM - Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP) deployment functionality, and the introduction to detailed production plan in SAP PP/DS
• Worked with business stakeholders to understand business processes and elicit, define, and analyze current processes for alignment with best business practices.
• Implemented IBM Cognos TM1 (formerly Applix TM1) to assist the finance team consolidate financial, budget and cost data from four revenue reporting systems into an easy to understand and present format. Improved analytical ability of the financial planning team.
• Supervised the daily activity of 11 consultants, 5 internal business associates, and 8 external business partner’s associates.
• Business benefits were increased sales without increasing inventory, realized higher margins while staying within service levels, and freed working capital by balancing service levels and inventory investments.

Confidential

SAP PROJECT MANAGER/DIRECTOR

Responsibilities:

• Developed the design and implementation project plan showing milestones, deliverables, required resources, and cost of deployment to implement a full suite of SAP v4.7 modules.
• Collaborate with functional and technical teams across all modules of SAP and other applications to define and design proposed solutions that meet business needs and adhere to application design guidelines, strategies, and best practices.
• Managed the recruitment, training, and daily deliverables of the external consultants for the duration of the project.
• Managed the technical support environment that included the configuration, testing, training, and QA clients. Approved all moves from one client to the next.
• Introduced the SAP MRP - Kanban procurement solutions focused on the management of steel rolled inventory.
• Configured SAP APO PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Areas, Propagation Ranges, Strategy Profile, and Optimization profile. Defined DS Planning Board Profile and Overall profile.
• Assisted in the elimination of non-value-added steps in purchasing, inventory management, and production planning that resulted in an annual saving of 1.6 million. Many our defined processes were later introduced as Confidential corporate practices.
• Assisted in the design and testing of the customer facing product configuration application. Using the SAP product Configurator, we could directly link the customer demand to production capacity. Improvements were noticed in the GTP that produced increased orders.
• Vidmar was the only SAP design and implementation to meet the ‘go live’ target date in the past seven years at Confidential .

Confidential

IT PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Defined the existing customer service processes, requested customer service functionality, and error reporting system. This included the company’s internal Information Technology (IT) infra-structure, security, and support structure.
• Identified those non-value-added processes, determined annual cost to support, and the annual saving to be recognized from Quality Improvement initiative.
• Worked with business stakeholders to define current processes, controls, and areas requiring improvement.
• Defined the project scope, identified critical milestones, built a functional budget, and established the functional and technical teams required to ensure project success.
• Reviewed with the Executive IT Steering Committee weekly project progress, issues impacting project success, and status of the financial budget.
• Established business owner testing plans, training, and cut-over processes.
• Reviewed existing internal control structure to determine compliance with SOX and SAS70 control standards.
• Selected the SAP Governance and Risk Reporting module to capture existing control structure, identify areas of opportunity, and track steps to mitigate risk.

Confidential

SAP IT Manufacturing Team Manager

Responsibilities:

• Select the internal and external team members. Provided scope and SAP tools training were required.
• Assisted in the design of the software/hardware solution that recorded and tracked, by production station, the accepted production, rejected production, and the amount of recycled product included in each production batch.
• Designed and implemented SAP MRP based on Kanban premise for chocolate bean inventory. Linked with South American suppliers.
• Introduced hand held bar coding capability at each work station and forklift to improve the quality of reporting while minimizing the cost impact.
• Assisted in the design of user training and testing methods. Obtained final user and management sign-off.
• Solution was approved by Federal Food and Drug Administration on schedule. The solution eliminated 7.7 million in expected cost.