Senior Sap Technical Specialist Resume
Charlotte, NC
SUMMARY:
- 21 years of demonstrated expertise in SAP Cross Application skill sets which includes full life - cycle archiving, security, data management, PP support/ and project management. Over 14 years of full life-cycle strategic development and execution in the automotive, chemical, food, textile and pharmaceutical industries as a solution architect for archiving and data management.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
SKILLS: SAP R/3 - Cross Functional Applications Project Management and ERP Archive Assessments System Upgrades and System Consolidations Business Analysis SAP/ERP End-User Support Archiving/Digital Imaging Security/Authorizations Data Management/Migration
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Charlotte, NC
Senior SAP Technical Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for implementation of SAP projects and/or process improvements through system enhancements, database optimization techniques, support of best business practices, database cleansing and .
- System architect for CRM implementation project
- Managing data conversion from Donor Vision to Salesforce
- Developing and implementing new Sales business processes
- Documenting manuals for user acceptance testing
Confidential, Greer, SC
Automotive Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Developed and implemented an archiving strategy resulting in removing 80% (22 TB) of the database size using 66 standard and custom SAP Archiving Objects.
- Developed and implemented a Data Destruction policy
- Researched, configured and documented Archiving process using ArchiveLink
- Documented and deployed DaRT (Data Archiving Retention Tool)
- Developed Archiving Object data analysis and Archiving Object Business Blueprints
- Archiving testing performed for upgrades to EPH4 and EPH7.
- Developed 16 KPI’s and Dashboard for Plant Spartanburg archiving
- Achieved “Best in Class” recognition for Confidential archiving
- Leader of Worldwide Archiving Center of Excellence Team
Confidential, Indian Trail, NC
Automotive Chemicals
Responsibilities:
- Implemented 15 Archive Objects in full lifecycle management project reducing database size by 25%
- Provided on-site archiving to management team
Confidential, Shelton, CN
Responsibilities:
- Provided intermediate level SAP for MRP theory and applications
- Demonstrated archiving strategies and techniques for PP module
Confidential, Greenville, NC
Material Handling Equipment Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Performed an archiving assessment and developed an archiving strategy for the worldwide operations resulting in a recommendation to remove 33% (approximately 387 GB) of the database size using 24 standard SAP Archiving Objects. Project estimated to remove almost 560 million records.
Confidential, Mt. Olive, NC
Food Provider
Responsibilities:
- Re-designed, re-engineered and re-implemented MRP Planning using navigation profiles, reconfigured exception messages and a new MRP type to streamline planning. Over 8,200 bogus MRP messages were eliminated
- Parallel MRP processing and termination message elimination resulted in 50% reduction in MRP processing times
Confidential, San Jose, CA
Electronics Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Performed an archiving assessment and developed an archiving strategy for the worldwide operations resulting in a recommendation to remove 50% (approximately 1 TB) of the database size using 32 standard SAP Archiving Objects. Project estimated to remove almost 3 billion records.
- Developed ILM and Data Destruction policies.
- Researched and documented Archiving application configuration
- Developed Archiving Object data analysis and Archiving Object Business Blueprints
Confidential, Mt. Olive, NC
Food Provider
Responsibilities:
- Designed, developed and implemented an archiving strategy for a multi-plant manufacturing organization. Project removed over 240 million records using 26 archiving objects. Subsequent reorganizing of tables resulted in a recovery of 30% of the table space. Storage medium was the Butterball SAN.
- Developed ILM and Data Destruction policies.
- Developed full documentation for knowledge transfer.
- Researched, analyzed and implemented ECC 6.4 security updates for the conversion from ECC 5.0
Confidential, Statesville, NC
Adhesive Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the design and implementation of Production Planning/Control and Capacity Leveling for the transition of the Adhesive production lines from Toronto to Statesville.
- Re-designed, re-engineered and re-implemented Production Planning/Control with Capacity Leveling for the Framing, Tissue, Painters and Foam Boards Departments. Activities included project management, minor configuration, test validation,, data loads, costing and implementation support.
Confidential, Princeton, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Designed, developed and implemented an archiving strategy for the financial records (FI Documents, FI Special Ledger records and Cost Accounting line items) across 432 company codes throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. Financial records were managed in accordance with the company’s legal retention policies and SOX compliance. Project removed 1 billion records over a 7 year timeframe and saved 1 terabyte of data space. Storage System used was Open Text.
- Archiving testing was performed in preparation for upgrade to ECC 6.0.
Confidential, Charlotte, NC
Senior Consultant, SAP Services
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for assisting in the development of SAP R/3 industry solutions based on business analysis; SAP project management for new implementations, upgrades and consolidations; SAP ERP assessments, SAP/ERP ; system testing; archiving; security/authorizations and providing ERP support to customers.
Confidential, Mt. Olive, NC
Food Provider
Responsibilities:
- Archived Customer Masters, Material Masters, Info Records and Source lists loaded to the PRD databasein error during corporate acquisition implementation.
Confidential, Gordonsville, VA
Plastics Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Designed, implemented and managed archiving project to remove over 1 billion records using 20 different
- Archiving objects. Subsequent reorganizing of tables resulted in a recovery of one third of the total table space for the installation. Subsequent reorganizing of tables resulted in a recovery of 33% of the initialtable space for the installation. Storage medium was Klockner SAN.
- Initiated a digital imaging project for Accounts Payable to optical scan incoming invoices and automatically post to the General Ledger.
Confidential, Ridgeville, SC
Carbon Products Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Designed, developed and implemented a security strategy for 200 users by working with the Business
- Process Owners for a new manufacturing implementation.
- Supported data migration mapping activities from the legacy system to SAP.
Confidential
Plastics Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Conducted SAP ERP assessment in May, 2006 for $1.5 billion manufacturer at their US and European facilities to provide executive management with the current state of implementations. Analysis resulted in recommendations for improvements in the areas of technical, functional and resource management.
Confidential, Columbus, OH
Adhesive Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Provided PP testing and support in preparation for technical upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 5.0. Testingincluded full PP range from Forecast to Demand Management to MRP to labor reporting. Provided on-site support for Statesville, NC plant during cutover weekend.
Confidential, Mt. Olive, NC
Food Provider
Responsibilities:
- Provided project management and full security support for post go-live implementation for over 600 usersin core ERP, HR and ESS.
- Taught APICS Manufacturing classes on-site in preparation for PP implementation in April, 2006.
- Taught SAP security class to BASIS team.
- Designed security strategy for corporate acquisition implementation.
Confidential, Tucson, AZ
Telescope Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Project Manager for successful implementation of core ERP in 19 weeks. Project team consisted of 8consultants and was completed on budget. PLM was implemented subsequently in two multi-nationalsites in 17 weeks. Support included documentation, data management,, integration testing andfinal acceptance.
Confidential, Charlotte, NC / Gastonia, NC
Chemical Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Provided project management support for PM blueprinting process.
- Prepared archiving analysis of FI/CO, MM and PP data for years 1998 through 2001.
Confidential, Statesville, NC
Adhesive Manufacturer
Responsibilities:
- Provided testing and realization stage support to plant conversion from QAD to SAP. Tested andimplemented front end labor reporting system. Designed, tested and implemented new scrap reportingprocess. Researched and resolved MRP exception message issues. Tested and implemented closing PP Orders and using deletion programs.
- Provided master data to Engineering staff.
- Developed authorization requirements for entire plant of over 300 users.
- Prepared archiving analysis of FI/CO and Logistics data for years 1999 through 2003.
Confidential, Gastonia, NC
Tier One Automotive Supplier
Responsibilities:
- Manager of 5 Business Analysts responsible for configuration, new project implementation, upgrades and business process improvements. Direct functional responsibility for North American security, archiving and SAP .
- North American Project Leader for worldwide SAP consolidation program
- Project Manager for 3 SAP upgrades from 3.1H to 4.6C (technical and functional)
- Project Leader for SAP SMR Team to identify and integrate business/technical solutions
- Responsible for SAP security in multi - national environment for 300 users by developing user business security needs based on job functionality
- Configured 6 SAP modules for archiving and successfully archived over 190 million records
- Configured PP module and successfully converted Manufacturing in multi-national environment from legacy system to SAP in
- Analyzed existing business practices and worked with process owners to train, develop and implement best practices