SUMMARY:

• Full SDLC life - cycle project/program manager wif business and technology development and enterprise integration experience ranging from small entrepreneurial start-ups to established global enterprises
• Project Management & Quality Assurance to ensure on-time deployment and delivery of complex projects.
• Experienced in Waterfall, Iterative and Agile project management methodologies
• Successful track record in delivery of Integrated Business Systems, Blueprinting, End-2-End Mapping, Business Process and System Design and Optimization, Cut-Over Procedures, Hypercare and Business Stabilization
• Project budget planning, forecasting, financial reporting and variance tracking, SOW, RFI and RFP creation, negotiation and coordination for 3rd party services.
• Operational and Finance Transformation including both migration from legacy to ERP/SAP and integration of legacy systems in future state architecture
• Broad experience in Operational and Financial Management in public and privately held enterprises
• High expertise in Business Process, Planning & Modeling, Financial Accounting and Analysis, wif multimillion Dollar P&L and Balance Sheet Oversight
• Respected leader wif high level of communication skills throughout organizations from CXO to Subject Matter Experts and operational staffing.
• Cross functional team builder - leading by example and motivation wifout formal authority
• A broad range of industry and application experience includes; Consumer Goods, Wholesale and Retail Distribution, Energy Trading, Mobile Telephony, Health Insurance Payment, Reimbursement and Prescription Processing, High volume -Transaction Payment Processing, Data Security and Recovery, data warehouse integration, data center consolidation, image processing and Financial Reporting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• PMBOK and hybrid Agile methodology, Iterative Development, 6-Sigma Methodologies: User Stories and Requirements Gathering, Business Intelligence, Balanced Scorecard & Dashboard Presentation.
• Agile Transformation covering Discovery and Design, Architectural Runway, Sprint Planning, User Story generation, Backlog refinement and grooming, daily stand-up, Product increment Demo’s, Coaching and Retrospectives
• Risk Assessment & Management utilizing established techniques
• Cloud based and On-Premise Infrastructures
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Product lifecycle management, Product development & launch
• Project Status & Budget Tracking and Management for communication to Stakeholders
• ERP - Enterprise and Operating Unit levels in implementation and End-User roles in SAP:
• FI - COPA, PTP/ P2R, OTC, FP&A, ESM, CRM, HCM, Project Systems
• BW, Business-Explorer - BEx Analyzer & Designer
• BPC - Business Planning and Consolidation
• Functional Design - Blueprinting - End to End Specification
• Deployment & Readiness Planning/ Facilitation, Cut-Over.
• Data Migration - ETL and associated Mapping
• System Stabilization Management
• Integrated Financial systems ranging from SAP through Navision, Omicron to QuickBooks
• Integrated object driven Planning & Forecasting systems: Order Forecast/ Order Entry & Backlog Management to Procurement/ Manufacturing to Logistics/ Distribution to Billing & collections - wif P/L, Balance Sheet & Cashflow Planning and Optimization.
• Total Cost of Ownership modeling and optimization.
• Data Modeling, extraction, analysis and flexing wif Business Objects - BEx, Xcelsius, Hyperion Essbase.
• Command of KPI - metrics Financial/ economic operating ratios - EVA/ EVM, reverse Metrics.
• MS-Office Suite, in particular: Excel including Pivot tables, Look-Ups, Macros & Conditional Modeling, wif MSWord, Visio and PowerPoint as communication tools
• MSProject, Jira, Clarity, Smartsheets and others for Project and Resource Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leveraging a combination of skills in Business Planning and Consolidation wif Agile Project Management expertise to complete implementation of advanced EPM applications
• Implemented Agile practices wif Coaching for Project completion; Sprint Planning, User Story generation, Backlog refinement, daily stand-up, Product increment Demo’s and Retrospectives
• Managed and led Projects from Initiation through Realization, Training and Roll-Out of Solution including Data interfaces, mapping and ETL migration
• Applied Agile practices covering Sprint Planning, User Story generation, Backlog refinement and grooming, daily stand-up, Product increment Demo’s and Retrospectives
• Key role leading Technical and Functional Consulting Realization Team to transition from Sales cycle to Fulfillment of Customer deliverables.

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Senior Business Analyst/ Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Verified and managed Stakeholder expectations to ensure Scope and Schedule fulfillment
• Vendor selection due diligence for development of future Business applications covering operational and corporate reporting
• Ensure business and technology transition from legacy to future state system environments
• Established and validated critical path to manage prioritization of Vendor work effort
• Contractual review of MSA’s, SOW’s and Vendor billing tracking against Budgets and Deliverable Milestones.
• Reviews of Project Actual vs. Budget spend for Capital and Operating expense.
• Ensuring alignment of IT Agile Project reporting covering Sprint Planning, User Story generation, Backlog refinement and grooming, daily stand-up, Product increment Demo’s and Retrospectives wif Business Waterfall driven Roadmaps
• Managed and led Projects from Research and Initiation through Realization, Training, data mapping, ETL migration to Roll-Out of Solution and supporting Infrastructure
• Managed and lead system design for Order Fulfillment - In Store, Order Online & Pick-Up in Store, Order Pick Logistics, Inventory & Replenishment Management & Transfers, Warranty and Returns Handling
• Successfully lead and managed project to integrate Employee Performance management in HR Workday Solution
• Developed and maintained close collaboration wif Corporate Procurement and OCM functions

Confidential | New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst/ Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple concurrent ERP projects: FICO, P2P, OTC, BPC, HCM and Use Tax applications
• Validation of SAP Industry specific application suite against Client requirements
• End to End mapping of current and future business processes and reporting capability
• Examine and establish requirements to ensure data dialogue capabilities to Client specific non-SAP ERP systems, 3rd party Retail distribution, e-commerce and 3rd Party Logistics
• Managed and lead system design for Order Fulfillment – In Store, Order Online & Pick-Up in Store, Order Pick Logistics, Omni Channel Inventory Management, & Replenishment, Warranty and Returns Handling
• Established milestones to track project progress, monitor deployment readiness and provide business leadership wif objective decision criteria.
• Ensured alignment and compliance wif resource assignments of project team members across multiple project facets; business analysis, OCM support, communications and readiness
• Established and validated critical path to manage prioritization of development objects to align wif sequence of business requirement at and following Go-Live
• Leveraged Hybrid Agile practices wif Coaching for Sprint Planning, User Story generation, Backlog refinement and grooming, daily stand-up, Product increment Demo’s and Retrospectives - in particular Kanban boarding techniques to complete critical Development objects
• Lead Review and monitoring of system testing to verify module functionality and in Client integrated system landscape
• Identified risk potential to develop cross functional contingency plans wif business and technical teams to define and document; root cause, risk recognition, impact severity and probability and mitigation procedures
• Ensured management support in identification and mitigation of project and business Risks

Confidential,Stamford, CT

Senior Business Analyst/ Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Structured Project Communication to deliver and validate User stories and Requirements Input
• Architected the Structure of ERP Finance Organization as backbone of future state Business Intelligence (BI) Financial Consolidation, Reporting and Planning (BPC).
• Consolidated over 800 Legacy General Ledger instances to a 70 Company Code and 40 LOB Finance Organization structure.
• Designed and documented BI Financial Reporting structure using BW and BEx Business Explorer
• Led Business and SAP teams in Blueprinting of pre- and post-implementation operating procedures and reporting requirements to ensure End to End mapping of future business processes capability, including data cleansing, mapping and ETL migration
• Review of test and training programs to ensure coverage of future business process
• Established milestones to track project progress, monitor deployment readiness and provide business leadership wif objective decision criteria.
• Facilitated daily stand-up Scrum Meetings to identify and mitigate Risk & Impediments to ensure Agile delivery of User Based Outcomes.
• Lead Agile Transformation covering Sprint Planning, User Story generation, Backlog refinement and grooming, daily stand-up, Product increment Demo’s and Retrospectives
• Identified risk potential to develop cross functional contingency plans wif business and technical teams to define and document; root cause, risk recognition, impact severity and probability, together wif mitigation procedures.
• Ensured cross functional teamwork to structure, organize and implement Deployment and Hypercare operating models including support, reporting and escalation procedures.
• Tracked and managed Project status and Budget for Senior Management and Stakeholder reporting
• Established CI (Continuous Improvement) Plan and Knowledge Transfer to Client personnel

Confidential, Purchase, NY

Senior Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Blueprinting of pre- and post-implementation operating procedures and reporting requirements
• End to End mapping of current and future business processes and reporting capability
• Validation of functional design to ensure integrity of planned process deliverables
• Review and monitor system testing to verify module functionality and integration in ECC
• Support business management in identification and mitigation of business impacts
• Ensure integrity of documentation and inclusion in project data repository
• Establish integrated project plans and drive progress against these for the concurrent deployment of cross functional SAP implementation in multiple business units and process streams
• Establish milestones and track project progress to monitor deployment readiness and provide business leadership wif objective decision criteria.
• Applied Agile methodology and Coaching to deliver User Defined Benefits in an accelerated timeframe - Sprint Planning, User Story generation, Backlog refinement and grooming, daily stand-up, Product increment Demo’s and Retrospectives
• Identify risk potential and develop cross functional contingency plans wif business and technical teams to define and document; root cause, risk recognition, impact severity and probability, together wif mitigation procedures.
• Structure, organize and implement Deployment and Hypercare operating models including support, reporting and escalation procedures.
• Identify, define and implement Business Cutover Procedures and ensure their execution
• Identify, define and implement metrics to be applied to post go-live performance to determine and confirm business stabilization in production environment.
• Perform Critical path analysis of Financial Period End Close Process and introduced Process Improvements to reduce elapsed time for completion by 20%.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Financial reporting for acquisition of newly purchased $200MM global consulting company
• Monthly, Quarterly and Year-End financial closing in compliance wif US GAAP
• Design and implementation of policies and procedures ensuring Sarbanes Oxley compliance
• Complete reporting of capital restructuring through stock and warrants repurchase program
• Worked as Project Manager and Business Analyst wif cross-functional & subject matter teams to ensure timely and consistent implementation of SAP in roles including:
• Blueprinting and mapping of legacy financial and logistics systems to provide base for SAP configuration, development & implementation of FI, COPA, OTC and PTP modules.
• Ensuring SOX and US-GAAP compliance in migration of legacy financial and logistics systems to SAP.
• Pro-actively participated in preparation and verification of key financial transactions in closing procedures - e.g. Inventory verification, transactional analysis, mapping of accounts and reporting modules to corporate legacy data warehouse
• Cross functional collaboration in Project Team wif Business and Vendor-Management to ensure mapping and capture of all financial data in a virtual operating environment ensured integrity of financial data recorded in corporate SAP system wif GAAP & SOX compliance through validated data transfer and reconciliation routines.