SUMMARY:

• An accomplish IT Project Manager with a thorough understanding of SAP and Oracle ERP systems with Big 4 Public Accounting consulting experience, including 15 - years of successfully managing and implementing ERP systems financial modules across a range of industries.
• A proficient Program Manager adept at delivering technology-enabled business solutions with at least 4 full-cycle SAP, Oracle EBS and PeopleSoft implementations; initiate, plan, design, build, configure, test and deploy solutions.
• A seasoned professional with the ability to consistently anticipate and expediently address complex and sensitive problems, with extensive DevOps experience with excellent oral and written communication skills, with a strong grasp of the technical fundamentals and the ability to successfully collaborate with both technical and non-IT constituencies to deliver high-visibility technology business process improvement projects on-time and within budget.
• Career highlights include 12+ years of managing mission critical DevOps technology project portfolio’s and leading cross-functional teams of 7 to 28+ techno-functional resources to focus efforts towards business transformation, custom enhancements process improvement and system integration to improve both operational efficiency and system performance for multi-billion dollar corporations.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

DevOps Project Manager

Program/Delivery Manager

Methodologies; SDLC, Agile

SAP Activate, Waterfall

SAP Solutions Manager

Change Management

Enterprise Mobility Rollout

Business Requirements

Business Transformation

IT System Infrastructure

Fit/Gap Analysis

BI, CRM and SCM

SAP Fiori, BPC

Order-to-Cash

Procure-to-Pay

Record-to-Report

Hyperion - HFM

MS Project, VISIO

MS Excel, PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage on-site/off-shore teams and implementation partners to implement SAP Cloud for Customer (C4C) SAP S4 HANA, SAP ECC Data Migration and SAP CRM, SD and Revenue Accounting & Reporting to integrate sales and customer distribution data and processes for Europe and North America, including, DR and Data Center Migration Projects:
• Manage project scope, key deliverables, time-lines, dependencies and project budgets.
• Collaborated with integration partners, participated in DevOps integration workshops to build and deliver effective UI & UX user interfaces.
• Partnered with DevOps teams to design integration points; C4C, web-portals integrated with on-premise legacy systems to enable customized business processes monitoring and Business Intelligence analytics.
• Participated in pre-migration planning and pre-migration impact assessment workshops. Managed data migration project and pre-migration impact assessment project plan, performed master-data and transactional data verification.
• Managed technical blueprint phase, data staging, data profiling, custom code readiness and technical architecture assessments, leverage SAP Activate, Business Object Data Services (BODS) and data migration cutover rehearsals.
• Prepared Operations Run-books for critical business processes, managed authorized project changes, scope and deliverables, including program lifecycle; Discovery, Requirements, Design, Build, Test G-Live and Deployment.
• Collaborated with DevOps Infrastructure Architects to translate business requirements on defining and delivering cloud specific technical architecture project plan for cloud native apps and cloud migrated applications.
• Managed off-shore security infrastructure teams on Disaster Recovery projects, oversee defect resolution issues, facilitated daily project calls, present weekly status reports and KPI’s with key stakeholders and process owners.

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the planning and execution of multiple cross-functional projects to ensure work efforts, dependencies and cross-projects objectives.
• Managed SAP Dev-Ops workshops and collaborated with offshore stakeholders to establish and align roles for system access in Hyperion, SAP and other legacy applications for new and rebadged employees.
• Directed DevOps network security workshops to facilitate custom applications that integrates with SAP system, designed manual and automated test scripts and managed defect resolutions for custom applications with Ariba.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed PeopleSoft 9.2 implementation and Oracle Business Intelligence upgrade project with a multi-location and cross-functional team of software engineers.
• Oversee multiple system- mockup and proof of concept brainstorm sessions with DevOps team across multiple industries.
• Spearheaded and successfully deployed supply-chain, finance and critical legacy system and custom enhancement objects for integration with Hyperion EPM stack for financial and BI reporting.
• Directed full lifecycle PeopleSoft implementation project; including, planning, requirements gathering, blueprint design, system configuration template and custom development of non-delivered PeopleSoft functionalities.
• Developed integrated cross-functional work-plans, created Responsibility Matrix, designed end-to-end Visio work-flows to capture “current-state” and “future-state” using legacy system Operations Run-Books.
• Performed Fit-Gap analysis and managed project scope and work-resource plans ensuring key deliverables are on time and within budget. Managed the integrated project plan, timeline and status calls to update project tracker.
• Responsible for weekly status reports and overall success of a wide range of cross-functional IT projects of varying levels of complexity, including; planning, design, system integration, QA, UAT, regression testing and Go-Live.
• Managed project risks/issues through escalations. Extracted relevant App Engines and list them according to sequence of execution, provided readable text of AE programs for retrofit analysis and tracking program execution.
• Responsible for implementing and enhancing functionalities in Oracle e-Business Suite; including Billing, Contracts, Inventory, Accounts Payable and Procure-to-Pay, Sales Order Processing and GL configurations and testing.
• Managed system specifications process flow diagrams, business requirements, master test plans and third party applications that interface with Oracle E-Business Suite, including SCM for Business Intelligence & Analytics.
• Worked with SME’s to defined KPI’s using SAP Business Planning and Consolidations, leverage SAP Solution Manager, as well as, translate findings into functional and technical operational Run-Books.
• Drive effective coordination and communication with Business-Ops and technical teams to deliver BI solutions and deliver Key Performance Indicators, leveraged Oracle NetSuite, encompassing ERP/Financials and CRM tools.
• Oversee the development of functional design documentation, systems requirements, and designed proof-of-concept.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Sr. Business Operations Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversee bank financial system consolidations and integration Projects, Developed cross-functional project plan, evaluated integration synergies and validated audit, mortgage and lending merger assumptions.
• Documented key technical and functional financial systems integration for global financial governance, audit and risk management, tracked milestones, dependencies and project deliverables
• Participated in weekly merger integration meetings. Updated key decisions made during assessment, blueprint and alignment phase of integration.Maintained key integration decisions log and validated key assumptions.
• Managed overall integrated project plan, project time-line and daily status calls to update stakeholders. Prepared weekly status reports for PMO office and project team. First point of escalation for audit project issues and risks.
• Maintained integration decisions logs used to facilitate Day-100 Post Merger assessments and key implementation assumptions regarding SOX-404 compliance and FDIC post-integration activities.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed SAP system configuration projects to improve timeliness and accuracy for financial transactions and reporting capabilities for the various modules: GL, AP, AR, Project Costing, Contract, Cash and Asset Management.
• Managed accounts payable payment process transformation project.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to establish data clean-up protocol and cutover project plan for PeopleSoft to Epicor ERP system conversion.
• Oversee Oracle EBS conversion initiatives, data clean-up of order cancellations renewals, open sales orders and contracts billing and Accounts Receivable balances. Oversee Oracle Financial DevOps enhancements projects
• Partnered with operations DevOps team to document the requirements for Desktop Build and application Configuration projects, facilitated weekly meetings between corporate finance, operations and IT design teams.
• Managed fit/gap integration assessment for the PeopleSoft Accounts Receivables (AR) Contract and Billing modules to determine if PeopleSoft functionality is a viable tool for the day to day accounting and finance operations.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Sr DevOps Project / Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed system integration analysis that identified technical solutions to addressed mission-critical operational inefficiencies within the context of a cross-functional SAP DevOps integrated environment.
• Managed IT Governance related projects with responsibility for raising awareness in weekly status meetings.
• Tracked work-efforts and dependencies to ensure operational objectives are achieve on-time and within budget.
• Acted as interlocutor between corporate finance and SAP technical audiences to translate functional and technical requirements effectively. Oversee the budgeting and implementation of cross-functional SAP FI/CO projects.
• Developed and drive strategies to manage SAP and custom DevOps deployment demand through the work-flow management system in alignment with organizational objectives, including SOX 404 Compliance standardization.
• Expertly managed pre-petition Bankruptcy Claim project for AP; forensically analyzed claims filed to determine payouts based on legal agreements in support of the Deloitte led MCI financial statement re-statement project.
• Managed post-merger SAP Data Conversion projects. Oversee Data Center data migration from Confidential to Confidential integrated SAP ECC systems, including Mater data staging, profiling and transactional data verification.
• Collaborated with SAP DevOps infrastructure team and internal customers to drive process enhancements and business transformation initiatives to drive strategic initiatives in support of Global Contract Settlements.
• Oversee critical financial solutions for SAP Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), Sales & Distribution (SD) and Procure-to-Pay projects. Supervised post-merger interoperability and compatibility issues within International Settlements.
• Oversee master test strategy initiatives including, Unit, Functional, SIT, Regressing, Performance, and UAT Testing. Socialized test plans with stakeholders to align testing schedules, environment and remediation plan.
• Aligned business roles and system access for all Tier-1 applications, including SAP, Hyperion and Ariba.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

DevOps Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed project deliverables for various SAP and Oracle EBS project implementations, including, Billing, Accounts Receivable, Cash Application, Project Costing and Contract. Oversee business requirements sessions for SAP CRM, Order Management and established billing interface reconciliation processes for SAP and non-legacy systems.
• Managed project deliverables for SAP and project implementation, including; FI/CO, Billing, AR and Cash Application.
• Responsibilities include: design, build, test, deploy, go live and post deployment support.
• Successfully implemented SAP ERP systems with a focus FI/CO functions such as accounting, financial reporting, performance management, and corporate governance within budget and time constraints.
• Responsibilities include, design, build, test, deploy, go live and post support for the various financial modules.
• Led process improvement initiatives in new environment to ensure best practices and innovation solutions were adopted.