SUMMARY:

• To obtain a challenging project management position or SAP consulting position in a progressive, growing company, particularly in the areas of Supply Chain, Materials Management and SAP Project Management.
• I am a respected and customer focused leader with over 20 years of experience in SAP based Manufacturing, Warehouse and Distribution, Supply Chain, Change Management, and Project Management. I excel in a dynamic environment by empowering teams to achieve a common goal, while focusing on processes and right first - time metrics.
• I am also adept in technical and adaptive leadership, leading global teams, and corporate-wide implementations, all with proven results.
• I am highly experienced in SAP Project Management with six (6) full, successful, end-to-end lifecycle implementations.
• In addition, I thrive in a dynamic environment by remaining flexible and adapting to changing business needs focusing on the result and fostering a respectful, energizing environment.
• I am also proficient in change management, business impact analysis and testing and training.

CORE STRENGTHS:

• Building High Performance Teams Continuous Improvement Leader SAP Project Manager
• Leadership & Team Management SAP Materials Management (MM) SAP Procurement
• Project Management SAP WM Expert Agile/Scrum methodologies
• SAP ASAP methodology Change Management DEA Compliance
• Data Management Compliance Leader Process & People Development
• JIT Methods Supply Planning Demand Planning
• Serialization Lean Manufacturing ERP Applications
• Warehousing GRC Roles and Authorizations Coaching& Mentoring
• Logistics Reverse Logistics Inventory Optimization
• Information Technology Human Resources Analytics Business Intelligence & Analytics

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Lean Manufacturing, Theory of Constraints, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, DEA Compliance, Standard Work Process Documentation and Audit, MS Office, Visio, Excel, MS Project, MS Access, SharePoint, Live Meeting, One Note, Adobe Captivate, Lotus Notes, Outlook, SAP HANA, CSOS, Product Safety and Security, MES, Kaizen, Cause and Effect Diagrams, Facilitative Training, Trackwise, HP Quality Center, Mercoline SAP Shipping System

SAP EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Confidential

SAP S4/HANA Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work as liaison between Technical SAP Consultants and Business to validate requirements
• Responsible for all project timelines and updates to Senior Management
• All status updates and communications with both Global and Local Business Management
• Work plan management, issues and task tracking, status reporting, representation of IT at the Program level
• Preparing steering committee level/stage gate presentations
• Ensure compliance to client’ SAP Project Methodology for all projects, including producing steering committee deliverables, facilitating artifact/deliverable/milestone sign-off, adhering to project change control processes and satisfying internal audit compliance requirements
• Evaluation and Analysis of project to identify the overall health and identify areas that require remediation, escalation or additional management focus.
• Manage integrations/interface activity to variety of external legacy systems
• Cut-Over Plan management and execution for both project and data migration

Confidential

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Translate business requirements in to functional design; Prepare and document Functional and Technical Design specifications in adherence to the standard Client methodology
• Respond to and perform impact analysis on requests, including assist with estimates
• Act effectively as the technical speaker to the business project team, able to represent IS at all levels within the business stakeholder community
• Provide inputs to test planning and execution
• Participate in the development of implementation strategies and plans with business units and IS
• Document and provide knowledge transfer to the rest of the project team for all solutions.

Confidential

SAP S4 HANA Supply Chain Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the organization in an SAP S/4 HANA ERP environment, including training over 100 Supply Chain employees (MM-IM/WM, SD, PP, CS, MDM, BW, and Mobile).
• Manage/lead entire project including technical solution, implementation, support and quality.
• Understand and direct/participate in all phases of project implementation
• Prioritize work and schedules to ensure compliance to project milestones and timelines.
• Review project team deliverables to ensure quality (design walk-through, test results, etc.) and adherence
• Lead Company through SOX compliance and audit preparedness ensuring transactional execution and Separation of Duties (SOD) are aligned with both internal and external audit partners.
• Work in partnership with external audit company to design all SAP user roles and authorizations including design of business, composite and singe roles and alignment with GRC.
• Interact with customers to understand their business and to anticipate IT solutions based on business and technical knowledge
• Provide direct supervision and mentoring of project team member’s during the project. Provide project performance feedback to the team member’s supervisor/manager.
• Lead both on shore and off shore consulting partner through design, configuration, technical specification and testing plan
• Lead Company through full data migration from multiple Legacy systems (Sales Force, Great Plains, CMS) to mapped SAP fields and load.
• Organize and chair design workshops for SCM through Fit/Gap analysis between SAP Best Practice methodology and current business requirements. Recommend appropriate solutions and workarounds to eliminate gaps. Drive design decision closure and support post design consultation as needed.
• Lead Business through four (4) Integrated Test Cycles (ITC), including Functional Specification (FS) documentation, Technical Specifications, Unit Test Script writing and execution, End to End (E2E) test scripts, Cut-Over planning and execution, and building training documentation and training plan.
• Complete build of Organizational Change Management (OCM) including test coordination, training documentation and coordination, business readiness and management of change impact.
• Lead business through business process design, solution, timeline, resource and execution of full serialization tracking of End-to-End Life Cycle of Finished Goods.
• Founding member of SAP Center of Excellence (COE)

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully prepared the organization for a 2015, SAP ERP go-live, including full distribution order fulfillment on day 1.
• Provide continuous communications, quality gate updates, and change management execution to Senior and Executive Management.
• Created and delivered all training documentation for IL/OL and Production Execution transactions. Administered training to over 400 end users.
• Lead local project team of four full time (including external consultants) and nine part time project resources through project deliverables including:
• SAP data load from legacy system
• Design of new business processes
• Master Data set points for system driven processes
• Synchronization of global template versus local requirements
• Training documentation and delivery
• Integrated and localized testing and validation
• Resource alignment with local business stakeholders
• Change management
• Validation documentation
• Cut over management
• Provided EXPERT knowledge to entire project how SAP MM/WM integrates, drives and enhances QM, FICO, O2C, MDM, PM, PP, DM,SD.
• Built best practice for IM/WM Cycle Counting module in SAP which became template standard for entire global organization.
• Led configuring SAP warehouse management organization structure elements, creation and maintenance of WM master data, customizing storage type and WM movement type attributes, all search, put away and removal strategies.
• WM Physical inventory & Inventory Management. Confirmation controls and difference handling, Storage location control, Storage unit management, replenishment strategy (FIX Bin), pick/pack/ship.
• Led full design of SAP Enterprise Structure (PLANT/SLOC/WH/Storage Type/Control Cycle/PSA) to enhance material flow and business processes.
• Full expert knowledge of quality (QM) and batch management in MM/WM

Confidential

SAP Project Manager/Power User/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Built, audited, and managed all SAP roles and authorization (Security) permissions including new hire/termination execution
• Blueprint design and requirements gathering for all SAP enhancements
• SPOC for all SAP WM activity
• Ongoing SAP support for testing of new configuration and process design
• Led site in design of Master Data Governance team and processes.
• Lead process Design/Validation for mobile transactions in WM
• Inventory Cycle Counting Administration and audit facilitation
• Oversee management of Order Fulfillment Planning including route determinations, product launch expediting, transportation analysis, and customer service liaison.
• Distribution Analytics/Reporting including submission and discussion to Regulatory Authorities
• DEA Compliance and Reporting including audit facilitation, analytics, quota analysis, ARCOS reporting, DEA 222 Form handling and compliance and inventory management
• Customs Foreign Trade Zone Inventory Reporting and Analytics
• Provide leadership to ensure compliance with regulations. Develop and write Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in alliance with new SAP processes.