SUMMARY
A dedicated and hardworking information technology lead with extensive experience in software, system management/analysis, testing strategy, technical writing, configuration, business requirements analysis and change control/release management process. Demonstrate strong knowledge of SAP and non-SAP business applications. Collaborates with multiple levels within and outside of an organization to design, configure, test, and implement solutions that meet the business objectives adhering to SAP ASAP methodology

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP SCM/APO SNP SNC SAP ECC/Material Management, SAP Solution Manager/ChaRM, SAP BW, Middleware (Tibco/Xi), Control-M
• Peregrine, HP Solution Manager 7.1, Risk, Issue, and Change Process, Requirements Development and Managements Process, HP Quality Manager
• StarTeam, Microsoft Project, CaliberRM, Viso, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook, Excel, Lotus Notes Mail
• UNIX, KORN SHELL SCRIPT, JAVA, WEBLOGIC, BUSINESS OBJECT, TOAD, SQL
• MVS COBOL, MICROFOCUS COBOL, JCL TSO/ISPF, DB2, SAS

EXPERIENCE

05/10 – 02/12 Confidential,Plano, Texas
Sr. SAP Functional Analyst/Project Lead

• Led team to upgrade SCM SAP APO SNC 5.0 to version 7.0. Responsibilities include leading/facilitating team to built test environment, develop test strategy, preparing cutover plan. Facilitated weekly meetings with the business and management to discuss work priorities and statuses.
• Work with Infrastructure team to built a test environment a test box, Quality Assurance box, and UAT box to run parallel to the existing Production environment for a true Production look alike simulation testing
• Add new test plans and test cases for the new SCM 7.0 version. Use the existing test plans and test cases to test the current version SCM 5.0
• Help create training material and assist with training the end-users
• Led team to create cutover plan
• Coordinate with Release Management team and cross functional team in preparation to go-live
• Led team to provide hyper-care support and resolve any critical issues as they arise
• Serve as the POC with SAP with OSS messages open with them
• Led team to support the Infrastructure team to move from Oracle to DB2 database, applying SAP patches, other functional changes upstream and downstream systems resulting in zero production issues during changes
• Develop testing strategy and establish direction for the team
• Reuse and execution the existing test plans/test cases for all testing need
• Attend meeting for initiatives and communicate to stakeholder and management team of status in my area

01/06 – 05/10 Confidential,Plano, Texas
Sr. SAP Functional Analyst/Testing Lead

• Key member of the team that implemented and deployed SCM APO SNC solution across the PepsiCo network. Involved in all 5 phases of the project with gathering business requirement, create business blueprint, configuration, leading the testing effort and strategy to built test plans and test cases, and preparing and executing the cutover plan for go-live.
• Phase 1 and 2 (Project Preparation and Business Blueprint) - Responsibilities include leading/facilitating cross-functional design group to develop and build specifications, facilitating understanding and clarification of business requirements, coordinating all functional meeting with Change Management and Subject Matter Expert, managing timelines and issue resolutions tasks ensuring delivery of the design.
• Prepare business process diagrams, seeking signoff from management and business stakeholder
• Create business process blueprint documents
• Collaborate with Basis, Architecture, DBA to built an environment to support the project
• Built testing strategy and led team to create test plans, test cases generate from the completion of blueprint documents
• Phase 3 (Realization) – Responsibilities include working with SAP Consultants and team members to configure base on the information from blueprint document and leading the team to finalize test plans, test cases and executing them
• Work with SAP consultants to complete baseline configuration base on business blueprint documents
• Review and work with business process expert to fine tune the configuration
• Led team to review and update testing strategy, test plan, test cases base on final blueprint document
• Led team to test the SAP business processes, by executing functional tests to ensure that business process work, integration tests to ensure that the organization’s business processes work together with other business processes and regression tests to prove that a specific set of data and processes yield consistent and repeatable results
• Phase 4 (Final Preparation) – Responsibilities include working with SAP consultants to resolve all defects and lead team to prepare test data and perform stress test
• Help prepare training documents and assist with training business users
• Work with SAP consultants to resolved and close out all defects found during testing
• Led team to prepare test data and to perform systems and stress tests to see if the expectations of the end users, defined in service level agreements will be met
• Plan, prepare and execute the cutover, by creating a cutover plan that describes all cutover tasks that have to be performed before the actual go-live
• Phase 5 (Go-live and Support) – Responsibilities include executing the cutover plan step by step to turn on the SAP system for the end-users
• Led team to provide hyper-care support and resolve any critical issues as they arise
• Serve as the POC with SAP with OSS messages open with them

03/01 – 01/06 Confidential,Plano, Texas
Selling & Distribution Legacy Functional and Project Lead
Accomplishment: Won numerous awards and received recognitions for implementing production critical break fixes, implemented and deployed projects on time, on budget and bug free, and for training staff and helpdesk on new functionalities.

• Led production management team to support the Supply Chain Order Management, Warehouse and Inventory, Transportation, and Reporting business applications
• Provide 24x7 supports for both application functionalities and batch jobs
• Represent my team in user meetings and cross-functional initiatives meeting
• Partner with business users to identify process improvement opportunities
• Work with management to set direction for the team
• Conduct training for team members and helpdesk analyst
• Create weekly status report for management to describe the issues and resolutions on a weekly basis
• Project technical and testing lead for going application maintenance and small to medium size approved enhancement projects driven by the business team.
• Scope, estimate and work on enhancement and maintenance projects generated from new cross-initiatives from the business and defects found in system and applications.
• Meet with the business users or stakeholder to present the solution and strategy, seeking signoff
• Work with my team/collaborate with other functional teams to built the solution and code in testing environment
• Develop testing strategy, write test cases, execute comprehensive test scripts and validate results
• Deploy the changes to Quality environment for further testing
• Deploy the changes to UAT environment to be tested by the business users or stakeholder and seek changes signoff
• Update all diagrams and business process flow
• Provide training for business users and stakeholder if necessary
• Manage the changes through the Release Management process to implement the changes to production system
• Create status report for management to describe project status on a weekly basis

05/98 - 03/01 Confidential,Plano, Texas
Consultant (employer: Nims Associate, Inc)

• A Programmer and Tester for Y2K Projects
• Responsible for analysis, design, coding, and testing Y2K code
• Participate in quality control measures including peer code reviews
• Production Management support team member for Selling & Distribution suite of business applications
• Provide 24x7 supports for both application functionalities and batch jobs.
• Responsible for resolving and troubleshooting solution defects, including interface support and functional support.
• Partner with business users to identify process improvement opportunities

EDUCATION
Graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Technical Management