SUMMARY

• As a proven leader I help companies move from strategic planning to the successful implementation process by building strong, motivated, customer driven teams.
• I have 19 years of experience in SAP software, both as a HR functional consultant and as an ABAP developer.
• Building on the knowledge of multiple lifecycles from scoping, blueprinting, data - mapping, realization, testing to go-live I have consistently added new functionality and value for clients currently using SAP/HR.
• Proven leadership abilities with the ability to build and lead teams through an implementation.
• Management experience
• High level of system integration knowledge within SAP
• Testing lead for updates, regression and new functionality
• SAP versions 3.1, 4.0, 4.5, ECC5, ECC6, ECC7
• Success Factors Employee Central Certified
• Configuration of Master Data, PA/PD, Org. Management, Travel Management, Time, Recruitment, Benefits, CATS, ESS/MSS and Training and Events.
• Flat file and IDOC interfaces between different SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft. The interfaces were created to move HR master data to internal and external HR systems.
• Knowledge of Middleware for Interfaces.
• SAP HR integration with Travel Management, HR Mini-master, ESS, Training and Events, CATS, Time Management and SAP HR Security and is familiar with structural authorizations and HR objects.
• Developed strategies to interface multiple SAP instances and SAP to external HR systems. These interfaces included personnel actions, which would update new hires, terminations or any other employee status change. These actions would also include moving between Personnel Areas, sub-areas, Employee Groups and sub-groups.
• ABAP development experience includes developing new programs, data conversations implementing various HR user-exits, converting legacy data and implementing new processes. Applying OSS notes. Troubleshooting and debugging custom and standard SAP code.
• Able to perform knowledge transfer to other team members.
• Enterprise Portal 7.0, Mobile Infrastructure MTTx 2.0 for Time and Travel.
• Able to troubleshoot/debug ABAP programs in all modules of HR including Travel, Time, PA/OM, Benefits as well Recruitment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP HR Team Lead/Manager 15 yrs
• Success Factors EC
• Personnel Administration 15 + yrs
• Personnel Development 10 + yrs
• Organizational Management 8 + yrs
• SAP Travel Management 13 + yrs
• SAP Recruitment 2+yrs
• SAP HR ABAP 3 yrs
• SAP LSMW 3 + yrs
• SAP Training and Events 2 ½ yrs
• SAP ESS/MSS 5 yrs
• SAP Adobe LiveCycle Designer/Interactive Forms 1 yr
• HP ALM 5 yrs
• Testing Lead for Global Systems 4 yrs
• Microsoft Office Tools (Excel, Access, Power Point, Vizio, Project)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead for Time Entry using CATS

Responsibilities:

• Lead for the implementation of time entry for Service Order time capture.
• Performed the duties for blueprinting, realization, integration testing and go-live.
• Provide functional specifications for development as well as role creation for security.
• Integrated the Time Sheet with PM and Customer Service in order to track hours worked Service Orders.
• The hours were moved to the orders with hours and costs based on activity type rates fed by CO.
• The first roll out was to Malaysia and subsequent locations are Australia, India and China to be live in August.

Confidential

Functional Consultant for HR/Payroll and Travel Management

Responsibilities:

• Configured and implemented PA/OM for global integration of companies in mergers and acquisitions.
• This consisted of over 20 countries to perform job realignment, create new payroll areas, types and scales.
• Rolled new companies into the existing structure as well as move people out when business units are sold.
• Worked on the transition of Global Mobility employees to separate from the general population of employees.
• SAP version for HR ECC6 with multiple releases up to 7. Supported ESS and MSS for multiple countries and helped align security roles with the correct business units and countries.
• CATS Implementations for various business units to support project systems and plant maintenance.
• Testing lead for regression and system patch releases.
• Providing Blueprinting, Configuration, Testing and Training for the roll out of Romania, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Norway and UK.
• Travel requests and expenses are being used.
• Both will be approved via workflow with complex custom routing of the approval process.
• All amounts will be paid via AP and any amounts due back to the County will be sent to payroll for payment. Imports for Credit Card data from Citibank were altered to post immediately to Finance by line item.
• This allows for claimed items to be cleared and reconciled easily against the monthly invoice.
• Lead the implementation of moving from CITIBANK to AMEX for 22 countries with integration to SAP Travel Management
• Provided support and guidance to offshore teams for abap work as well as security and portal.

Confidential

Functional/Technical Consultant for HR Support and Travel Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Scoped, Blueprinted and completed a pilot level of configuration for Travel both for the portal and ECC6 EHP3.
• Worked with the PMO and stakeholders to assure the system would function for all users globally.
• Currently providing Production Support and rolling out enhanced functionality for areas of MSS, Org Management and Time/CATS.
• Also providing SME level assistance to fulltime employees for ongoing project work and determining what constitutes a project and what is simply a service ticket.
• Made corrections to ABAP programs for CATS validations as well as data load programs for Travel related master data being sent to travel agencies.
• CATS - added new data entry profiles to support the routing of time sheets to approvers outside of the employee’s current org unit.
• Created new eval paths for custom relationships to enable managers to perform certain functions in MSS on behalf of the Chief Positions. changed configuration for action reasons and added additional action reasons to support the PCR process.
• Created test scripts in Panaya for the system upgrade. Working with users to test and validate the system.

Confidential

Functional SME for Travel and Expense Management

Responsibilities:

• Provided SME level information to the team implementing Travel as well as performed configuration within ECC 6.0 and Portal configuration. Demonstrated how to make specific changes to UWL for workflow and screens.
• Credit card clearing, workflow and payments via AP were also included in the scope of this project.

Confidential

Functional Consultant for Travel Management

Responsibilities:

• Providing Blueprinting, Configuration, Testing and Training for the implementation of Travel.
• Travel requests and expenses are being used.
• Both will be approved via workflow with complex custom routing of the approval process.
• All amounts will be paid via AP and any amounts due back to the County will be sent to payroll for payment.
• Also working with the web development team to create a custom web interface for ease of use for users that do not travel frequently.
• Funds Management was used to capture the costs against Grants.

Confidential

Functional Consultant for Time and Travel Management Enhancements

Responsibilities:

• Working with the support team to roll out new functionality based on new project types for SAP.
• I am creating functional specifications for changes to existing programs to determine users for entry and reporting capabilities within Time and Travel applications.
• Creating specifications and configuration for new enhancements to allow the new users the ability to enter time and expense into the web application for time and expense.
• Created test scripts and scenarios for testing when the enhancements are completed.

Confidential

Functional Consultant for HR (PA/OM/Time/Payroll)

Responsibilities:

• The company was acquiring another company and needed to integrate the new employees into the current SAP system.
• This consisted of an additional 60 Personnel Areas/subareas and 50 positions.
• Three new company codes were added to accommodate the additional employees.
• This required new tax companies and underlying configuration for all garnishments as well as tax entities for payments.
• BSI was updated to calculate taxes correctly, Approximately 500 employees were part of this phase.
• 1200 additional employees had HR mini-masters implemented as well.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I was brought in to resolve technical and functional issues related to the initial rollout of Travel to Switzerland and to provide guidance in per diems for Germany and Austria.
• Configured countries Italy, Hungary, Romania and Croatia. Provided insight on how to roll out additional countries within Europe.
• Provided xml files to the Portal team to aid in implementing UWL to approve expense reports. Worked with the ABAP team to code user exits to assist in enhanced functionality.
• Provided training on My Employees service for travel assistants.
• Worked with the security team to fix access problems for managers related to people outside of their hierarchy.
• Using Adobe Lifecycle Designer, I adjusted the Expense form to meet customer requirements.
• This included adding fields to the form to allow users to view additional detail concerning reports.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementing a global solution for expense management for a global construction company.
• Over 40,000 users will enter expenses online.
• EHP2 is being implemented to take advantage of enhanced functionality with Webdynpro for ABAP.
• Configuring Per diems for ME/I, utilizing Credit Card Clearing, paying through payroll and AP depending on the circumstance.
• Using custom workflow approvals for users. Configured ESS for Travel along with implementing UWL for Approvals using workflow.
• Created custom XML pages for a custom UWL view to limit collaboration as well as other tasks. Altered the PDF form using Adobe Lifecycle Designer. Added fields and data elements to the form for a more user friendly appearance.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured system to accommodate the MI client for Travel.
• Worked with the technical team to install the MI Client and integrate Travel into ESS.
• Solved problems for the team concerning Travel and functionality pertaining to the client’s business processes.
• Developed quick reference guide for MI Client installation and use by the end users.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Mentored and coached a new team manager in an overall approach to SAP and how to lookto the future to improve the current status of the system.
• Provided guidance on interfacing an external project management and time keeping system into SAP/CATS.
• Working with Time and Expense team individuals in training on both CATS and Travel Management.
• Aiding the back office in support and understanding the posting process for time and expenses.
• Working with the Basis team to reorganize table indexes and reduce the number of extents to improve overall performance of the system.
• Testing and offering guidance on a customized mobile Time and Expense tool for over 35k staff.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created functional specifications to reduce the number of bank accounts paying from multiple company codes for payroll.
• Also worked to consolidate employee loan balances from AP to HR in order to recoup the money during Payroll cycles.
• This greatly reduced the number of future write offs for employee loans.
• These loans were also consolidated into one paying company code as well.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Made custom changes to ESS for Benefits to display only plans selected by the business.
• Created custom screens for displaying messages to the users based on health plans that were selected.
• These were pop-ups to allow the user to acknowledge statements created by the business.

Confidential

Technical-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Travel ESS for Enterprise Portal 7.0 and Mobile Travel.
• Travel management was already live in ECC 6.0.
• This was to add on functionality to the current business process.
• Credit Card Clearing functionality was also added during this time.
• Worked with the client to change business processes and AMEX to insure the data is being brought in correctly.
• Providing ongoing support until go live remotely.

Confidential

Functional HR Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of consultants to upgrade SAP HR from 4.6 to 5.0.
• This consisted of PA, OM, Recruitment, Payroll, Time and Benefits.
• This was a technical upgrade and required some ABAP programming to allow the current functionality to continue to work in the new environment.
• For Recruitment, additional screens were created to allow users to paste resumes without losing formatting.

Confidential

Functional Consultant for HR

Responsibilities:

• Currently providing post go-live support and direction for future phases of the Time and Travel process for the client.
• Planning new functionality rollouts for future phases as well as working with the development team on offline Time and Expense.
• Redesigned expense types to facilitate taxable and non-taxable expense alignment with GL accounts.
• Lead a team of 8 people to address problems with the ESS implementation of the highly customized solution to meet the needs of the client.
• Created custom reports using Excel and Access for management reporting.
• Eventually the reports were phased out because of the implementation of BW.

Confidential

Functional Consultant/Programmer for Global Travel Management

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design for travel management based on the current capabilities of support from the client.
• I gave direction on paying credit card companies directly through SAP’s AP module on behalf of the employee.
• This was a requirement to potentially save the company money and the user time during the entering of travel expenses.
• I created an ABAP program to bring in AMEX data and store the original file in a custom table.
• I created another ABAP program to calculate the number of trip reports entered into the system by users, administrators and any changes after the initial entry of the expense.

Confidential

Functional Consultant for HR and Travel Management

Responsibilities:

• Provided guidance to non-SAP users as to the abilities of SAP Travel Management and encouraging the client to improve processes.
• Assisted the business community in creating blueprint documents containing current processes and new design.
• The integration points I have been involved with and have directed the client to be aware of in SAP around configuration of the system are FI/CO, Time/CATS, HR mini-master, Sales and Distribution, Project Systems, VAT, Federal and State tax requirements and all external interfaces coming from a third party HR system.
• Developing the specifications for the interface between SAP and Peoplesoft HR systems to pay employees expenses through payroll.

Confidential

HR Lead for upgrade from 4.0b to 4.6c

Responsibilities:

• Lead for the HR portion of an upgrade from 4.0b to 4.6c.
• The client is using PA, PD, Org Management, CATS for production orders and some Time management.
• Retired a legacy time management system and moved all functionality to SAP for vacation accruals.
• Created HR security roles for PA and PD access based on roles and positions within the company.
• Directed the security team in the upgrade path for profiles from 4.0b to 4.6c.
• Tested PA/PD-OM integration and trained users on new functionality in 4.6c.
• Worked with the HR team to interface data between the core SAP system in the US to the Puerto Rico instance of SAP.

Confidential

Lead for HR Master Data

Responsibilities:

• Lead for the implementation of time entry for Plant Maintenance and Operations internal and external employees.
• Performed the duties for blueprinting, realization, integration testing and go-live. Developed data load programs and created specifications for data exports to generate flat files for an external time keeping system and SAP HR system.
• Created HR security roles for CATS input and creation of HR master data related to PA.
• Integrated the Time Sheet with CO and PM in order to track hours worked to internal orders and work orders.
• The hours were moved to the orders with hours and costs based on activity type rates fed by CO.
• The implementation involved three different plant sites. Each plant had different time recording requirements for internal employees.
• There were three different companies providing external employees and each had different rules for time recording.
• All employee types and all plants were created into one client for time entry for production and plant maintenance.

Confidential

Lead for HR Master Data

Responsibilities:

• Team lead for blueprinting and realization phase of project.
• The project included the implementation of the Cross-Application Time Sheet, HR mini-master and various pieces of Time Management, which used to absent and attendance data to accrue vacation and sick time balances and validate time entries.
• There was an external HR system, which remained as the central point for all HR data.
• Two ABAP programs were written; the first updated the SAP HR mini-master, PA, with all data for new hires and changes to existing employees, which included any department and/or personal data changes.
• The second ABAP program, included all time entered into CATS to be sent to the legacy HR system on a weekly basis for automatic entry of time captured.
• Once this was completed the legacy HR system would make the appropriate calculations for payroll.
• Also wrote a data load program to create absence quota balances based on HR legacy information to calculate and verify quota amounts for vacation, floating holiday and sick time when users entered time into CATS.
• Created HR security roles for CATS input and creation of HR master data.
• Completed all documentation of processes and provided user training for time entry and configuration to the appropriate people.

Confidential

Analyst for Training and Events and ESS Roll-out

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed current configuration and business process.
• Provided documentation and recommendations for new business processes.
• Provided technical overview and knowledge transfer to project lead for Training and Events ESS.
• Created custom transactions for ESS in order to meet the client’s requirements.
• Worked with Security team to develop new roles to control access for booking and canceling attendance in classes via ESS.

Confidential

Lead for HR Master Data conversion

Responsibilities:

• Team lead in the blueprinting and scoping phase in the implementation of Travel Management,
• Workflow and the SAP HR master. The project included employee entry of all travel related expenses into SAP.
• Management approvals for travel and budgeting, AP and FI transactions were processed through workflow.
• Created integration and conversion detail for HR data from PeopleSoft to SAP and the ongoing interface from PeopleSoft to SAP.

Confidential

Lead for Travel and Expense Management

Responsibilities:

• Team lead in an implementation of SAP’s Service Provider Solution for Time and Expense.
• Provided guidance to the client core team and configuration expertise for Travel Management.
• Created user-exits to aid in Expense sheet validation.
• The initial rollout of Travel management was the United States and eventually included Canada.
• Completed the configuration of CATS (Cross Application Time Sheet), Travel Management, and ESS for Time and Expense.
• Worked very closely with PS, SD, MM and FI/CO and developed an in-depth knowledge of integration between all modules.
• Created role based authorizations for ESS users and Time and Expense administrators.
• Users were created and maintained using Workplace. Wrote user-exits for CATS to create work-lists, added network descriptions to the time sheet, validation for usage to correct network to help in Results analysis, month end closing and expense sheet validation of the correct network usage.
• This functionality enabled over 3000 users to enter time and expenses through the internet directly into SAP for real-time updates.

Confidential

Training and Events/ESS Implementation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in configuration and ABAP development for ESS implementation.
• Created a customized search engine for the Training and Events catalog, accessible through ESS. Implemented on release 4.0b and upgraded to 4.6c.
• Customized ESS front-end for user-friendliness.
• Created new screens and frames for ESS.
• By customizing the ESS front-end, users were able to perform text searches on classes in the catalog without scrolling through the entire list of classes.
• Ultimately, over 20,000 users would have access to this catalog.
• Classes are booked online through the internet and enrollees are sent confirmation of class enrolment immediately.
• This automation decreased the amount of work required by the training department by 50%.

Confidential

HR Implementation Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Teamed with other HR professionals to successfully complete HR module implementation for SAP a week ahead of schedule.
• I wrote all data conversion programs to complete the transfer of data from the legacy system to SAP/HR.
• This included all data mapping and blueprinting.

Confidential

Textile Rental Company General Manager

Responsibilities:

• I was a regional manager responsible for the establishment of a new business unit in areas that were previously not serviced by the company.
• My responsibilities included writing reports, sales documents, material reports and purchase orders.
• I managed day-to-day operations: hired and terminated employees, reviewed benefits with employees, submitted bonuses for payment, and signed all tax withholding and EEOC documents related to affirmative action.
• The company was converting to SAP when I left.
• I completed SAP technical training and Materials training for SAP.