OVERVIEW:

• I have very strong implementation / execution skills in addition to strong advisory capability in the C suite.
• I am skilled in managing diverse teams in various cultures and adept in Waterfall, Prince 2 and Agile Methodologies and utilize the flexibility they bring to keep projects progressing even in challenging conditions.
• I have deep process knowledge across industries and very passionate about the strategic value of well - governed data.
• I have a record of accomplishment of successfully delivering tangible benefits through creating innovative strategies and solutions for successful execution.
• I strive to lead and inspire people and organizations to embrace change and continuous improvement.

• Global Template Creation HP-ALM Configuration and Use
• SAP ECC6 Core Modules (including Config) Regulated Industries (FDA, SOX, BASILII, NRC)
• Salesforce.com Implementation FinancialForce PSA
• Semiconductor, Life Sciences, AFS, Retail, A&D Salesforce Administration
• Data Governance Methodologies Cutover / Release Management
• Building Data Quality Programs Team Building
• Complex Data Migration Master Data Management
• Full Lifecycle Enterprise Information Management Offshore Team Management
• Development Planning and Budgeting Agile/Scrum Methodologies
• Integration Architecture Workshopping / Blueprint
• Strategic Use of Data 16 years Project / Program Management
• Informatica (Power Center, Data Quality) SAP MDG Design and Configuration
• MS Project, Visio, Powerpoint, Excel, Word HP Quality Center
• Winshuttle SAP LSMW, BDC, BODS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Founder 

Summary:

• Founded small boutique consulting firm focusing on system implementation and staff augmentation services confidential.

Chicago, IL 

Financial Force PSA Technical Architect 

Summary:

• Subcontract to PwC in the role of Financial Force Technical Architect for one of their large clients.
• Responsible for technical design, build and deployment prep of complex FinancialForce PSA solution integrating with Oracle ERP, Kronos time management, Salesforce CRM, FinancialForce Revenue Management and Oracle CPQ
• Designed and built multiple custom objects on the Force.com Platform to support various client requirements
• Designed and built custom project actuals functionality to roll ERP actuals up into the PSA project actuals
• Manage onshore/offshore team of 4 resources

Los Angeles, CA

Data Governance Consultant 

Summary:

• Advisory role for a new investment operations data governance group in establishing baseline data quality and building processes to integrate data governance and quality within all of their projects. Secondary goal is to chart out a long-term plan including software, staffing and process that will enable the company to progress to a more mature stage in their data governance and quality.
• Tasked with identifying Investment Operations critical data elements thus establishing baseline scope for data quality activities
• Profiled existing metadata repository and provided guidance on remediation of data governance team’s own internal data quality problems
• Lead data governance / data quality initiatives on 3 system implementations
• Cleansed, enhanced and populated thousands of business terms worth of Metadata into Infomap business glossary

Los Angeles, CA

Project Manager / MDM and Data Governance Lead 

Summary:

• AECOM wanted a “one stop shop” for all of their core business processes so that their Project Managers / Employees would not have to log into dozens of different systems in order to do their basic daily jobs. We built a custom Salesforce / Financial force platform and integrated it to the Oracle Backend and various other applications. Joined team part time to assist with vendor evaluation and selection then joined full time once blueprinting began.
• Lead 25 person global team focused on Data Cleansing, MDM and multiple system integration with Salesforce
• Designed entire solution integration layer to federate data between SFDC (FinancialForce PSA), Oracle Financials, AD and other various systems and data stores
• Designed data hub to collect, cleanse, de-duplicate and store customer, vendor and employee information
• Managed budget, plan and overall schedule for team
• Designed data architecture sourced middleware and sized servers for data stores
• Managed multiple Salesforce custom deployments with a depth and breadth of functionality
• Managed COVEO smart search deployment to enhance Salesforce’s native search
• Managed OKTA deployment to enable single sign on with our salesforce environments
• Selected Informatica as our ETL provider and lead the design / build of multiple ETL processes including IDQ / Address Doctor integration.
• Configured Salesforce and FinancialForce PSA custom objects as well as user and account objects.
• Project awarded “2015 Customer Excellence Award for most transformative Financial Force PSA implementation” by Financial Force

Los Angeles, CA

Project Manager 

Summary:

• Spectrum Brands acquired a new division and they needed assistance preparing the new division for integration into their existing SAP HANA environment.
• Staffed and lead 7 person team focused on data cleansing, data prep and data governance
• Responsible for configuring, cleansing and migrating over 1 Million Material Master records
• Consolidated 13 QAD instances, 2 BPCS instances and 2 JDE instances with multiple duplicate entries into a single data set for each region
• Wrote cutover plan and managed mock cutovers into each test cycle and to production
• Build detailed cleansing reports that were sent off to the business for cleansing execution
• Designed SFDC Integration
• Managed budget, plan and overall schedule for team
• Developed Data Governance organization and wrote job descriptions and provided internal hiring recommendations for each position
• Developed SAP Customer / Salesforce Vendor integration data model

Thousand Oaks, CA

Solution Architect / Project Manager

Summary:

• Responsible leading a 3 month assessment project at Jafra to help with vendor selection and scoping for what would turn into a 50 million dollar SAP project. Design / feasibility phase’s goal was to build a framework to send to the board of directors for their vote of whether to proceed to fund the overall project or not. Project was funded and a system implementation partner was successfully selected.
• Developed end-to-end Data Migration methodology including software solutions, documentation, testing methodologies, budgetary calculations and staffing structures.
• Executed data profiling
• Built a tiered migration model focused on using multiple migration tools (Winshuttle, BDC, LSMW and BODS) instead of one single tool to minimize conversion development costs by 50% for a typical ERP implementation project.
• Designed interface / integration architecture and data models for project
• Lead the Functional Team for a successful SAP PDM implementation.
• Responsible for building cutover templates and processes.

Camarillo, CA

Advisory Consultant

Summary:

• Primarily responsible for advising Semtech Senior Management and Executives in various areas of their SAP implementation and deployment. Responsibilities include developing semiconductor industry specific Data Governance Strategy and Data Migration Strategies as well as project / cutover planning and developing methods to integrate three legacy systems from recent acquisitions into new SAP system. Secondarily responsible for developing ways to enable business transformation and increase the reliability of reporting, forecasting and trend analysis.
• Developed Data Governance implementation plan including staffing / org chart, strategy per object and enforcement / enablement plans
• Completely redeveloped Project Data Migration strategy moving migration success rates from unacceptably low levels to near or at 100% within one cycle
• Wrote Data Migration components of cutover plan / project plan
• Advised functional leads regarding simplifications and changes that could be made to improve their design
• Lead Data Conversion team using Data Services / DSMA (onshore/offshore) through multiple data load cycles
• Designed and rolled out integration with Salesforce CRM
• Developed specific governance rules tailored to individual semiconductor fab and fabless material / vendor types (Wafers, Diebanks, subcontract foundry etc…)
• Developed integration plan between Agile PLM and SAP ECC / APO
• Reviewed and improved project implementation strategy
• Used uPerform to create SAP Data and Finance training

Houston, TX

MDG Practice Lead 

Summary:

• Primarily responsible for Gap-Fit analysis, Blueprint Design, and Functional Requirement Gathering for various MDG implementations being undertaken by clients of Expedien inc.
• Attended full set of formal SAP MDG Design and Configuration Classes
• Work with various clients to gather all functional and UI requirements surrounding or impacting Master Data Governance tools and processes
• Oversee Data Modeling activities to ensure MDG solution meets any extensions of standard ECC Data Model that clients may have built
• Lead the design and deployment of 3 separate MDG implementations (Material, Customer and Vendor)
• Responsible for building project plans and budgets for implementation, testing and support.
• Responsible for developing $4MM in sales
• Staffed and lead 3 person team focused on installing and configuring SAP Information Steward and developing all essential material master business rules against which data quality would be measured
• Developed standardized approach for master data profiling and cleansing
• Trained team on data prep best practices prior to system implementation

Hercules, CA

Trusted Advisor / Master Data Consultant 

Summary: 

• Architected Master Data solution for post go-live CRUD Process
• Designed Form/Workflow process for global data request / creation / update processes
• Established standards for Tier 1 Master Data
• Wrote multiple Key Design Decisions related to Master Data build
• Assisted MDM team with identifying cleansing objectives and Data Governance framework.
• Designed Salesforce integration and custom object
• Created and lead detailed training for end users

San Francisco, CA 

Deployment Lead 

Summary:

• Designed / Drove release management / cutover metrics and process for first phase of a global SAP implementation
• Developed Company “Ramp Down” plan to prepare business / legacy systems for the cutover activities
• Organized and drove multiple cutover / release workshops and kickoff presentations with over 150 people in attendance including C-suite executives
• Drove integration review of new tasks post development freeze
• Developed project cutover plan for 4 rounds of integrated testing as well as go-live of brand new “ramp up” AFS Platforms including APO, BI and multiple external systems
• Developed “Ramp Up” plan including sustainability checkpoints for all of European Business Operations, Manufacturing, AR / AP and associated communications
• Worked on Project Management Team and reported directly into the Program Director and VP level executive sponsors of the project
• Assisted Master Data team with identifying cleansing objectives and Data Governance framework
• Lead an AR data reconciliation effort post go-live to resolve a previously existing imbalance that was preventing cash from being applied to customer balances
• Acted as project “firefighter” post Go-Live to chase down problematic areas, augment the affected teams in order to resolve all serious issues preventing smooth Ramp-Up
• Built Global Demand and Supply Planning Cutover Plan and acted as Project Manager on a ramp-up SAP AFS / APO platform (SP,DP and SNC)
• Responsible for all Cutover related reporting to program leadership and executives
• Managed one cycle of APO Demand and Supply Planning testing and compiled full daily test reporting and metrics via HP Quality Center

Dallas, Texas

Data Governance / Migration Lead 

Summary:

• Wrote Data Migration Strategy, Data Governance Strategy to be used enterprise wide
• Managed cleansing migration and governance of SAP MM, PM, PP, SD and FI Master Data
• Designed / Drove data cleansing metrics and process
• Established global data council that oversaw weekly cleansing, gathering and preperation metrics
• Developed project cutover plan for 5 rounds of integrated testing as well as go-live
• Member of a 3 person PM team responsible with the selection and hiring of team of Data Stewards and analysts that would become the Center of Excellence post go-live
• Managed Development Team (onshore/offshore) for all conversions, workflows and custom BW extractors
• Managed day to day mock cutover / cutover activities across 5 sites (5 different states)
• Took over lead Project Management role during Cutover cycles

West Concord, CA 

Data Quality Architect, Basil II Initiative 

Project Manager 

Summary: 

• Built cross-functional project plan driving major milestones in all aspects of data migration and custom development
• Wrote data drofiling strategy outlining process and ownership of data profiling activities
• Identified project schedule and timelines for project delivery; including resource time estimates, resource assignments and any applicable periodic milestone reviews to ensure project quality and timeliness
• Wrote testing strategy, covering required changes to organization, process, and testing tools (packaged and manually built)
• Executed profiling activities and business training / review for all Commercial Banking data sources in scope for EDW migration
• Wrote all QA process flows including who will be responsible for completing each QA task, what tools / technologies will be used and what levels of oversight, approval, verification and reporting are required
• Guided the vendor selection process for the purchase of an automation / testing software suite.
• Implemented and managed HP Quality Center 10.0 software for testing, defect management and requirements management
• Automated testing using HP Quick Test Pro
• Tested and validated the migration of data from over 60 data sources into Teradata EDW.
• Build automated compliance testing process for Basil II compliance requirements

Santa Ana, CA

Data Governance Architect 

Summary: 

• Wrote the Data Governance Protocol for the company which details how to build and maintain an efficient and effective Data Governance Organization
• Developed Global Data Model (conceptual to logical)
• Responsible for developing, scheduling and executing Data and BW/BI testing
• Developed Data Standards for all major business data objects
• Configured the Material Master including field selection, custom Material Types, and other standard configuration
• Designed custom extractors to SAP’s Business Intelligence due to some Variant Configuration designs not being compatible with standard extractors
• Developed standard reporting metrics for each wave of the project
• Maintained Data Project Plan
• Reconciled all configuration rationale documentation with actual configuration nodes in Solution Manager and ECC 6.0
• Designed large part of Strategic Use of Data program for client which enables them to turn their data into a revenue stream by selling their predictive analytics and trend analyisis to their customers
• Lead the BI team to develop a series of reports that utilize the now highly governed data to create metrics and statistics that can be sold to other companies thus creating a new revenue stream for my client
• Brought multiple semi-autonomous regions of the company under corporate direction to establish Global Data Governance policies, SOPs and Methodology
• Act in advisory role to VP and C level executives on project initiatives and policies
• Managed multiple difficult special projects that required not only knowledge of data and data governance but business process, SAP configuration as well as project management skills
• Performed configuration on global Material Master after the MM lead left the project

Arlington, VA

Global Data Manager

Deployment Manager

Program Manager

Summary: 

• Wrote the Data Migration and Governance Strategies for the project
• Managed complex data cleansing cycle across a global platform of over a dozen different legacy systems
• Brought multiple divergent projects under one global data approach saving the client large amounts of money and effort by reducing redundancy in development and documentation.
• Managed the project’s development budget and managed the cost control effort for new development objects.
• Managed four project data teams (total of 55 people across 3 countries)
• Managed three project cutover teams
• Managed the special projects team (cross functional ‘SWAT’ team dedicated to handling all major defects or unplanned critical scope changes)
• Developed overall Global Data Model with 6 separate Logical Models to deal with differences in regional business requirements where the Global Model didn’t apply
• Developed global templates and methodology for all data identification, cleansing, extraction, transformation, migration, testing and verification
• Developed global templates and methodology for all requirements tracking
• Successfully identified and directed all cutover activities into QA and Production clients
• Built and oversaw all quality verification processes including financial reconciliations
• Developed standard reporting metrics for each wave for all six projects under the program
• Developed technical resource plan for corporate projects and oversaw data org team hiring
• Wrote and presented a business case for various testing software options

San Francisco, California 

SQA Project Manager / Data Quality Lead

Summary: 

• Supervised the OQ (Dress Rehearsal) of all conversions and data testing
• Supervised the PQ (User Acceptance) of Logistics Master Data and associated functional testing at Vacaville site
• Developed Data Migration Protocol and Sequence Load Plan which were the main documents governing the data cleansing, storage, conversion and verification processes for the entire project
• Developed the project’s data verification process to comply with FDA, SOX and US GAAP data standards and verification requirements
• Designed Data Gold client strategy in SAP to provide a staging location for cleansed / production ready data to facilitate very fast migration to Production and minimize production downtime
• Developed document control process for all data related documents and source data ensuring GxP compliance
• Developed and qualified data verification tool used project wide
• Managed team of data analysts and business analysts in data cleansing, data quality and document control activities during the realization and integration phases of the project
• Responsible for reviewing all Conversion Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications and test scripts
• Sat on project change control team overseeing and assessing all changes to process, systems and scope

Salem, North Carolina

Cutover / Deployment Manager

Summary:

• Developed and implemented aggressive cutover schedule
• Executed validation strategies for core master data including: Material Master, Purchase Order Conversion, Purchasing Info Records, BOM, Classifications, Batch Records, Vendor Masters and Customer Masters
• Directed 3 mock cutovers and ensured system and data quality for testing phases
• Recommended configuration and business process changes to fix client data management problems
• Developed specialized solutions for inventory adjustments and special customer inventory management
• Lead post go-live troubleshooting group that was responsible for fixing logistics related data and configuration
• Implemented SOX data compliance strategy for all SOX relevant data objects
• Telecommuted post go-live to provide data normalization support

Lynchburg, Virginia

Master Data Manager / Materials Management Lead 

Summary:

• Blueprinted two separate solutions for two sister companies in the MM module
• Configured MM-IM for both solutions per blueprint and client requirements
• Developed testing and cutover schedules for the MM side of integration testing
• Developed data conversion schedule for three rounds of mock cutovers, dress rehearsal and final cutover
• Created methodology for data conversion of current as well as 20 years of historical data
• Lead group of ABAP Developers using BDC and LSMW successfully loading hundreds of thousands of Master Data records to support three rounds of testing, dress rehearsal and final cutover
• Developed custom DMS (document management system) for Materials Management
• Developed configuration plan and lead the configuration effort for Materials Management along with a team of 3 MM Consultants
• Created all data conversion files and functional specifications for MM
• Managed integration testing efforts for MM module and assisted in the QM, PP and PM modules
• Assisted in development of training program for over 5,000 end users

Norfolk, VA

Project Manager / Investigative Auditor

Summary:

• Developed multiple cost control analysis methods for 15 billion dollar project
• Analyzed Materials Requirements Planning and Ordering processes
• Managed a team of analysts auditing $15B in federal contracts
• Developed schedule for completion of over 50 task orders
• Designed reverse engineering process for SAP Logistics Configuration to find errors that effect efficiency or cost
• Developed statistical analysis to project Bases of Estimate (BOE) for project funding
• Performed ground up should cost analysis for $15B worth of contracts (independently price all contract requirements to identify what the cost should have been).
• Built interactive and user friendly dashboards capable of analyzing thousands of line items of entry and supplying trend analysis, graphing and integration with technical reports
• My team’s findings sent directly to congress and influenced changes and improvements to federal contract management policy and oversight

Norfolk, VA 

SIMA Project Manager

Summary:

• Lead in Blueprint for new SAP Nuclear Power Maintenance processes
• Took over as MM/PM lead during Realization
• Developed a team of 5 very effective SAP Material Analysts
• Scoped, Blueprinted and assisted in the implementation of complex configuration for a section of the largest SAP project in history
• Headed Master Data Team to provide accurate MM Master Data for 6 separate cutovers into production
• Headed Inventory Management program worth over 380 million dollars (average valuated stock on hand)
• Managed the first year-end closeout of over 8,000 open material line items saving over 12 million dollars
• Prevented the double order of over $3MM worth of materials in first year of implementation.  
• Managed onshore and offshore technical teams
• Managed contracts from two different vendor firms
• Developed and integrated new Project Systems process and closeout procedure implemented across the entire Department of Defense. 
• Directly supervised team of five SAP vertical leads and their consultant counterparts and indirectly supervised 40+ Super Users.
• Responsible for regular instruction and training on SAP and MS office applications to a group of over 50 Navy Personnel.
• Used HPTest Director / Quality Center software to analyze business processes within SAP releases in order to ensure functionality and quality
• Regression tested all master data objects to ensure new or changed functionality wouldn’t adversely impact sensitive master data sets
• Managed unit and integration testing on specialized QM, PM and HR Module transactions
• Used relational data tables to normalize large samples of master data to ensure its quality before conversion.

Confidential

Burlingame, CA

Lead ELT

Summary:

• Maintained delicate chemical balance in 8 nuclear reactors   
• Nuclear/Chemical/Biological weapon control specialist trained 
• Responsible for the chemical charting and reports of 4 out of 8 of the reactors 
• Qualified Radiation Control Supervisor   
• Managed a team of 35 sailors in the aft reactor plants
• Responsible for multiple radioactive spill responses and clean-up projects
• Qualified as Maintenance Quality Assurance Lead aboard the USS Enterprise
• Responsible for training and evaluation of emergency drills
• Responsible for managing ship’s SAP EHS records for Radiological Waste and Equipment      

Confidential

Burlingame, CA

Vice President

Summary:

• Fiduciary responsibility of a $9,000,000 annual operating budget
• Responsible for developing a global convention management / social media application for our 11,000 students successfully sourced, developed and launched in 3 months
• Development of organizations Salesforce.com operations best practices