SUMMARY OF SKILLS:

• Project Management & Leadership: driving / steering at project deliverables; facilitate & lead project teams with both IT & business resources; Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Communication: able to easily communicate complex IT terminology & problems into language easily understood by business colleagues; provide clearly written documentation on change requests & updates to business.
• SAP Configuration - MM, LE, LE-WM, SD, with knowledge of cross-modular process flow.
• Subject matter expect on testing processes and HP Mercury testing tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Global SAP Logistics Manager 8/11 Confidential, Waterford, NY

• Directed a global team of five employees responsible for logistics production support, implementing logistics projects & enhancements, and supporting IT global initiatives. Oversaw the 2012 4PL roll-outs as the IT Program Manager, managed a large portfolio of logistics projects, and led the implementation of the Lowes ASN project and the Waterford Trailer Tracker project.
• Fostered teamwork, motivation, and coordination of work that allowed the IT logistics team to complete various projects including additional 4PL roll-outs, new process implementations, and other cross-functional projects.
• Reduced the number of open logistics incidents by 54% from a high of 61 incidents in August 2011 to a low of 28 incidents in the beginning of December 2011.
• Global Logistics IT Leader 7/09 7/11 Momentive Performance Materials, Waterford, NY
• Led project and support initiatives, govern the technical process, and ensure that changes to logistics processes are in-line with global business objectives.
• Managed a global team of SAP logistics experts and offshore production support.

Project: Global 4PL Implementation 07/09 12/11
Currently I am the Global IT Project Manager for the Global 4PL Implementation project, which includes preparing the IT project plan, facilitating TO-BE process discussions, negotiating contracts with IT vendors, leading weekly review meetings with our 4thParty Logistics Provider (4PL) partner, and providing all day-to-day directives for the project.

• Prepared project cost estimate and appropriation request (AR) comprising of consulting, hardware, and software necessary for the business requirements of multiple interfaces with the 4PL partner, high availability and disaster recovery of B2B application, and 24/7 production support.
• Reviewed cost estimate and obtained AR support from supply chain leadership. Collaborated with supply chain leadership on AR form and pitch. Presented AR with supply chain leadership and obtained approval from the Americas' and Global Investment Councils.
• Provided key inputs for global TO-BE logistics process design including the ideas for standardizing the delivery goods issues, the shipment foreign trade zone screen for international shipping data, usage of shipment statuses, capturing actual delivery dates, and the inbound logistics process globally.
• Negotiated contracts with IT service providers for lower consulting rates than targeted in the budget including a 75% price discount with our B2B vendor for the RossettaNet protocol adapter with no restrictions on partners or instances.
• Wrote functional specification documents for several interfaces including transportation requests, shipment executions, tracking messages, and master data. Configured SAP to support the global TO BE logistics processes.
• Managed all test phases including unit, integration, performance, regression, and user acceptance testing; utilizing HP Quality Center as the primary test management tool.
• Prepared project cut-over plan with support of all IT application owners, business, and our 4PL partner.

Confidential, Waterford, NY

• Led key business and IT projects including implementing the Waterford Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ), Mercury Interactive Testing Suite, new Waterford ship-set printers, and an upgrade of the Pitney Bowes Ascent system. The Waterford FTZ project saved MPM $1,563,023 in 2009 duty savings as well as significant inventory reduction on Chinese Silicon Ore that could not be consumed without the Waterford FTZ status.
• Managed the production support team for Americas\' supply chain management incidents for supply chain applications including SAP ERP, Red Prairie Transportation Management System (TMS), IntegrationPoint FTZ, Pitney Bowes Ascent, and Bartender labels / printer systems.
• Managed SAP production support offshore team to improve support and response times t o the business. SAP SD cases dropped 66% despite the SAP ERP 6.0 go live at the end of 2008.
• Facilitated problem solving with business on critical break / fix issues with business software applications and printers.
• Approved SAP commercial and supply chain production changes as the Americas IT Center of Excellence (CoE).
• Mapped SAP Sales & Distribution (SD), Logistics Execution (LE), and Materials Management (MM) processes for the SAP ERP 6.0 upgrade team. Led the supply chain integration testing efforts for the America's team. Coordinated testing efforts with the team in Brazil.
• Business Technology Consultant 7/04 8/07

IBM Global Business Services, Supply Chain Management (SCM) Service Area, Albany, NY

• 2007 Service Excellence award recipient for the Rockwell Automation GPT project
• 2007 Above and Beyond Teamwork award recipient for the Rockwell Automation GPT project
• 2006 Service Excellence award recipient for the Rockwell Automation GPT project
• 2005 Service Excellence award recipient for the Raytheon APEX project
• 2005 IBM Rookie of the Year award recipient for the SCM Service Area

Client: Confidential, (Milwaukee, WI) /

Project: GPT Supply Chain Management 10/05 - 8/07

• Gathered requirements needed for SAP system design for plants in Mequon, WI; Tecate, MX; and Sumner, IA.
• Completed final configuration and testing of the SAP warehouse management system for the Ladysmith, WI plant.
• Designated as warehouse supervisor during go live and hyper-care period in Ladysmith, WI. Provided personnel with training and support with the new warehouse management system. Provided plant management with solutions to fix the initial system / data problems in the new SAP system.
• Provided logistics business process and technical support in the Dominican Republic and Dublin, GA plants during SAP go live and hyper-care periods.
• Coordinated and supervised the SAP regression test execution between myself and three client employees using HP Quicktest Professional. Ensured all business transactions were adequately tested and completed on time.
• Coordinated integration testing of interfaces between SAP and the existing distribution center warehouse management system (WMS) in Champaigne, IL.
• Assisted Rockwell with purchase of Mercury testing products: Quality Center (QC), Quicktest Professional, Loadrunner, and Business Process Testing for testing the new SAP system. Led the setup and configuration of Quality Center.
• Prepared training documents and delivered Quality Center training sessions to the project teams. Trained nearly one hundred client personnel.

EDUCATION:

• Master of Business Administration with a track in Global Supply Chain Management
• Bachelor of Arts, Double Major: Business / Accounting with a minor in Computer Science