Consultant Profile:

Walfrido comes with over 15 yrs SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system and 13 yrs IT Systems Architecture Practice experience. His skills range from high-level functional business and technical solutions consultancy to low-level application and system programming. Walfrido’s SAP ERP platform specialization resulted in numerous project achievements in this field. With his current position with Dolphin Consulting as a Senior Data Archiving Consultant, Walfrido provides project management and technical implementation SAP Data Archiving expertise to pharmaceutical manufactures such as Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi Pasteur as well as consumer products manufacture Unilever. He initiates, instructs and enlightens clients as to the diverse elements of data archiving and retrieval within SAP R/3 and applies government regulatory procedures to change management and retention policies. Walfrido’s prior role with Science Application International as a Senior SAP Archiving Consultant carried out project management and administration services at ARAMCO, one of the largest and most complex S­AP ERP 2004 and SAP BW (Business Warehouse) implementations in the world. Before this, he completed consultancy assignments in the United States for Oxford Global, in 2003-2004. With Oxford, he turned-around an uncompleted project and accomplished an ISO-9000 compliant SAP DMS (Document Management System) project for Pioneer Hybrid (a DOW Company). He planned, organized, and controlled the design, configuration and implementation of the project. As a mark of his versatility at Becton Dickinson, Walfrido administered data management, data archiving and optimization architectural solutions interfacing with 3rd party software from development to live production. In his Senior Consultant role at SAP America Inc., he provided consultancy to many large clients such as: John Deere, Hess Petroleum, Dr. Pepper, Delta Airlines and Florsheim. Walfrido’s deep knowledge of cross functional business applications and technical expertise covers large-scale client-server systems, enterprise management tools, relational databases, 3/4-GL languages, legacy systems and the latest web-based technologies. His skills are complemented by his enthusiasm, dynamic drive, adaptability and ability to work socially in and across multidisciplinary teams under intense pressure.

SAP R/3: ERP Technical and Systems Management, Supply Chain Management Administration on Oracle, UNIX (Solaris, HPUX, and AIX) platforms, Technical Systems Optimization; Information Lifecycle Management implementation; ETL (Extract Transform and Load) Modelling and Legacy migration; Data and Document Archiving; Portal and Content Management Service.
RDBMS: Oracle/SQL, Informix, ADABAS, DB2, MS Access
Web-enabling products: mySAP Enterprise Portal, SAP ITS (Internet Transaction Server), Java, ASP, IIS, XML, HTML.
Operating Systems & Admin: UNIX, NT, Networking technologies & programming at socket level
Programming: ABAP, Shell-scripting, Perl, Visual Basic, C
Misc.: Leading Training Workshops; Project Management Technical Authoring & Documentation
3rd Party Platforms: PBS,IXOS, Documentum, Common Store, Centera and DBXtender

Recent Consultancy Experience:

Sep06 Current Senior SAP Data Archiving Consultant, Confidential

Walfrido’s Senior Consulting function requires the implementation of SAP R/3 and BW data archiving within the regulatory and policy framework of the pharmaceutical and consumer manufacturing industries. His abilities to communicate with various department and business leaders as well as users on the functionality and impact of data archiving and retrieval ensures the completion of projects within the agreed statement of work. From a functional and technical perspective he provides the necessary archiving execution of hard hitting archiving objects that accompany a typically scoped SAP business environment. In addition his expertise and experience with installing, configuring 3rd party Content Management Storage and PBS add-ons are advantageous for the client. His implementation approach of prioritizing (areas with the highest potential for space reduction and existing performance bottlenecks), minimizing custom development (reduce custom code development activities), resolution of archiving prerequisites and dependencies (addressing before or during the implementation) and data cleanup (clean up of system tables) provides a smooth transition into data archiving for the client.

Apr04 Jun06 Senior SAP Data Archiving Consultant, Confidential

Walfrido’s Senior Consulting role involves the planning, design and implementation of data management, data archiving and system optimization solutions for ARAMCO the Middle Eastern gulf’s largest petrochemical exporter SAP ERP in an Oracle/SUN system platform. His skills are challenged in the Core Business Financial, Cost Control, Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Plant Maintenance and Quality Management areas as well as in the Hydrocarbon, Medical, Human Resources and Aviation system divisions. He analyzes online data and monitors system performance on a monthly basis to ensure optimum performance of business applications and the implementation of information lifecycle practices to maximize storage and interface resources. His daily tasks involve troubleshooting client application and system issues, overseeing assignments and tasks of junior team members, performing application programming, custom 3rd party interfacing, customer facing and other production operation tasks. On-going short and long term strategy planning and meetings with department team lead also forms part of his responsibility. He also oversees and manages the corporate wide electronic document storage and retrieval applications.

Dec03 Jan04 Senior SAP Data Management Consultant, Confidential USA

Walfrido’s consultancy services for a SAP DMS (Document Management System) ISO9000 compliant implementation involved him in design business processes, configuration of documen­­­t types, interfacing, quantitative analysis and security of document access with an IBM portal front-end. His other achievements were version management design, status management strategies, workflow configuration and external third party storage connectivity. He also provided assistance with the development of an interface connectivity to update qualification in an SAP ESS (Employee Self Service) Human Resource system.

Oct00 Oct03 Senior Basis Systems Administrator, Confidential USA

Walfrido’s role at BD was two-fold. He applied his experience and expertise in planning, development, configuration and implementation of data management and archiving strategies in the Finance, Cost Control, Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Quality Management, Project Management and Human Resource business processes involving PBS and DART. Walfrido’s initiatives in configuring and implementing transparent user access modules greatly improved the way users can get to offline data. In a Systems Management role, Walfrido provided team support to team leaders in the administration of SAP Core, Business Warehouse and Applied Planning Optimization system landscapes in a (SUN/Oracle) platform. His support improved the service level response to the SAP user community.

Sep99 Sep00 Senior Data Management Consultant, Confidential USA

As part of the Technical Optimization Team at SAP America, Inc., Walfrido was tasked with delivering data optimization services to customers with critical data performance problems in Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Product Planning, Quality Management, Finance and Cost Control modules. His visits required him to rapidly analyze and identify hard-hitting tables, relate the tables to functional areas and identify archive objects to manage the growth. In parallel, he met with functional business team leaders to discuss processes and identify issues that led to data growth and performance bottlenecks. His ability in defining short and long-term solutions for the client was greatly appreciated.

Jun98 Aug99 Senior SAP Data Archiving Consultant, Confidential USA

Walfrido was assigned to lead, configure and implement an SAP data management and archiving implementation for the Compass Group. His role involved numerous customer-facing activities and user requirement meeting to develop data archiving specifications, establish data retention policies, user access requirements and print list reporting.

Mar97 Jun98 SAP Basis Systems Administrator, Confidential USA

Walfrido was brought in to lead the SAP data/document management and data archiving, DART expertise, legacy migration requirements using IXOS-COLD and provide system administration for this global company.

Jan96 Mar97 SAP Basis Systems Administrator, Confidential USA

As part of the SAP data centre resettlement team, Walfrido was tasked with organizing, planning and configuring the systems conversion of existing document management production operations from IBM/IXOS to an HP/IXOS platform.

1984 1996 IT Systems Engineering Consultancy & Programming Services Confidential
Walfrido has provided consulting in systems configuration, administration and C programming in an IBM AIX platform for various RS6000 shops.