SUMMARY:

• Data migration, data analysis, data quality, data management and governance
• Data lifecycle analysis/use cases across business processes and organizations; Root cause analysis of data quality issues; Documentation of key data elements, data standards, business rules, data quality rules, data management processes and procedures; Data extraction, transformation, enrichment and loading; Data profiling and cleansing; Data security, validation and audit requirements
• Project management - Data Team Lead and Development Team Lead
• Create project plans; Manage project timeline, risks and status; Manage project resources assigned to data and/or development activities; Coordinate activities across multiple teams where there are integration points for data and/or development activities; Educate and train resources responsible for data activities and end users responsible for data maintenance
• Taking requirements from the gap/analysis phase through functional and technical design; Managing on-site and offshore developers to complete development work
• Business process analysis; Business requirements gathering; Translating business requirements into technical requirements; Managing the delivery of the technical work; Developing and managing the QA process for the technical work, business process testing and user acceptance testing; Documentation for user training, processes and procedures
• Integrating SAP with legacy systems
• Data integration between system of record and all other systems involved in the lifecycle of the data; Enforcement of business rules and data quality rules across all systems; Design of ETL logic to control the transformation and enrichment of data across all systems
• 20 Years of SAP experience
• 18 Years of Development and Data Migration/Data Management experience, modules include:
• Financials and Controlling
• Materials Management/Production Planning
• Sales and Distribution
• Logistics Execution
• 16 Years of project management experience, Development and Data Team lead

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Independent SAP consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the data migration activities at Confidential and acted as the single point of support for the mapping and data analysis of 56 conversion objects across 7 functional teams
• Trained the IBM functional consultants and Confidential business end users in the overall conversion approach, the validation methodology and documentation requirements
• Coordinated the legacy, development and functional teams as well as the business end users at Confidential for multiple load cycles
• Managed the process for resolving data conflicts for shared global data with data that was already in the production environment or was being migrated by another release that was going live before the US/PR release
• Enforced MDM data rules to ensure mapping for the US/PR release met the standards and requirements for the Confidential Global Model
• Worked with the Confidential Cransoft Back Office data development team to develop and execute the conversion programs
• Managed status of mapping, data construction, data cleansing, data verification, defect resolution and data loads

Confidential

Independent SAP consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the data migration activities at Confidential Corporation; Joined the project after the go-live was delayed due to data issues and worked to get the project back on track for a successful go-live
• Created the data quality and data migration strategy for Confidential including the approach for data extraction, profiling and cleansing, transformation, enrichment and loading
• Created the data validation methodology for Confidential and managed the IT teams and the business end users for technical and business validation including proper documentation and sign-off for audit
• Trained the Confidential IT business analysts and the business end users in the overall conversion approach, the validation methodology and documentation requirements
• Coordinated the legacy, development and functional teams as well as the business end users at Confidential for multiple iterations of conversion cycle testing, mock loads and cutover
• Worked with the Confidential DataStage data development team to improve the data conversion programs to provide better support for the business validation
• Provided guidance to Confidential on the establishment of a Data Management Organization to define data standards, data quality rules, processes and procedures for master data management and governance

Confidential

Independent SAP consultant

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a SME for Sage and Hobby Lobby providing strategy and guidance for the custom development and data migration, data quality and data management aspects of the implementations
• Managed the ABAP, Portal and Security activities for a Bank Communication Management implementation at Sage and the ABAP activities for Hobby Lobby
• Developed a customer and vendor master data profiling tool and provided guidance for the master data analysis and clean-up effort for Sage and Hobby Lobby

Confidential

Independent SAP consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created the global data migration strategy to convert data from dozens of legacy systems to SAP, its subsystems and associated attachments/images to Open Text
• Trained the legacy technical team, data development team, functional team and the business end users in the overall conversion approach and their roles and responsibilities in each phase of the effort
• Managed the MDM team activities with the business end users for key master data design tasks like defining key data elements, translations between legacy systems and SAP, establishing data standards and defining data quality rules (both for initial data clean-up and on-going data quality efforts)
• Trained the business end users in the data profiling and cleansing approach and managed the completion of the profiling and cleansing tasks
• Educated the business end users in the conversion validation process; Guided the business team on analysis of data security issues, data validation processes and audit requirements for data migration
• Worked with the functional consultants to create conversion design documents and managed the development team to build the conversions in BODS (SAP Data Services) and SAP
• Managed analysis of as-is and to-be business processes to document the lifecycle of each key data element, perform root cause analysis for identified data quality issues and provide input to the Master Data Management and Governance processes
• Managed QA on delivered conversion programs and supported unit, system integration and user acceptance testing
• Managed the legacy and project teams and the business end users in the end-to-end conversion cycle testing and the data migration portion of the cutover dry run
• Created and managed the data migration portion of the cutover plan
• Managed status, issues and project risks related to data migration and data quality
• Worked across multiple teams including legacy IT and business teams at multiple companies including both functional and technical consultants from the implementation partners for the project

Confidential

Independent consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated development activity for cutover/conversion activities; Created the project plan to establish the timeline and dependencies for configuration objects and the related conversion process
• Managed the data analysis and process/data quality improvement efforts of several key areas including materials management/MRP and customers/sales order processing
• Enhanced post-processing of SAP data sources for data warehouse extractors
• Managed the development work during the sustainment phase for a team of seventeen developers
• Designed and developed complex enhancements, conversions, interfaces and reports for MM/PP, SD/LE and FICO utilizing ABAP, IDocs and LSMW
• Redesigned and re-coded programs delivered by offshore resources that did not meet requirements
• Created detailed functional and technical design documents
• Performed QA and testing of delivered objects; Created test scripts for user acceptance testing
• Managed status, issues, and project risks related to cutover/data migration and custom development

Senior Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed on-site and offshore developers for custom development work related to the ECC 6.0 upgrade and the implementation of PowerPlant to replace the Asset Management module in SAP
• Created detailed functional and technical design documents
• Performed QA and testing of delivered objects; Created test scripts for user acceptance testing
• Managed the cutover activities for the upgrade and for the conversion of SAP AM data into PowerPlant
• Managed status, issues, and project risks related to cutover/data migration and custom development

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with on-site functional consultants and client resources to identify functionality gaps and gather requirements for custom development and data migration
• Worked with the leads of other teams, including consultants from other companies and groups external to the project, to identify and resolve issues
• Managed teams of on-site and offshore resources consisting of PwC/IBM developers, client developers and independent contractors
• Managed cutover activities; Created the project plan for the conversion timeline, established dependencies between objects and managed the execution of the plan
• Designed system-wide and process-specific development solutions
• Created detailed functional and technical design documents
• Designed and developed ABAP solutions for conversions, LSMW, interfaces, reports, IDocs and enhancements including BADIs, User Exits and the Enhancement Framework
• Performed QA and testing of delivered objects
• Performed user-acceptance testing and training for the delivered objects with the on-site business and functional resources
• Managed training and knowledge transfer activities
• Provided on-site functional and technical support in two international territories of Sony Pictures Entertainment during cutover
• Managed status, issues, and project risks related to cutover/data migration and custom development