Sap Project Manager - Solutions Architect Resume
Eden Prairie, MN
SUMMARY:
- Solutions - focused, team oriented SAP MM/PP Project manager/Senior Consultant with over 19 years experience working on source to pay implementations with numerous government/public sector agencies, and private sector organizations. Extensive functional and analytical knowledge of the following SAP R/3 (ECC) areas: Materials management (BOM, PR, PO, LTC Contracts and Scheduling Agreements, RFQ, RFP, RFI, Source List, Vendor Evaluation; Purchasing Info Records; Vendor Master
- Material Master, IM (Receiving, Issuing, Batch Management, Serialization), LIV, etc.); Financial management (A/R, A/P, AM, G/L, CO/PS, FM, etc.); Sales and Distribution management (Sales Activity, Sales Orders, Pricing Conditions, Pick/Pack/Goods Issue, Customer Master, etc.); Quality Management (Quality Inspection, Assurance,, Quality master data, etc.); Production Planning Management (BOM, Routing,
- Work Center, Activity, time entry, MRP, etc.); Workflow Management; Conversion Management; Security (End User) Management; and AcceleratedSAP (ASAP) Methodology Implementation. Additional project management capabilities include but are not limited to: Organizational Change Management; Project planning; Process Documentation/Reengineering specific to all SAP module programs;
- Development/Execution of for key implementation team personnel, end users, and management; Project Risk management; Project schedule management; Steering Committee Participation; Stakeholder Status reporting; and Requirements gathering and fulfillment by effective and efficient solutions using both standard SAP functionality and best business practices, as well as non-standard SAP functionality.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Technology and Tools: Project/Program Management Design Testing/feasibility analysis Unit testing, Integrated testing, Pre - production testing Documentation Specialization Project Plan, Project Charter, Project Status, Functional design, Gap design, Job-aide design, Overview design, Business Process Procedures, manuals and worksheets/work instructions RWD uPerform Authoring and Administration SAP Versions supported for R/3 2.2e, 3.0h, 3.6c, 4.6c, 4.6d; ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0 Post Production support of SAP implementations LSMW, Workflow, IDOC, Reporting, BW/BI, Basis, SAP Business workplace SAP Configuration SD, MM, FI, Cross-process modules (Classification, Variant Configuration VC and Document Management System DMS, Services for Object), PP. PS, QM, PM, LO, Enterprise, Security workbench, QuickViewer Reports SAP at SAP facility /Mentoring of all aspects of knowledge from: Supply chain in general to specific modules within SAP Change Management Helpdesk support systems Remedy, MagicSupport, MDM (Methods Delivery Manager Accenture) MS Office Software Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, VISIO LOTUS Notes Duet Installation/Configuration/Maintenance Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
SAP Project Manager - Solutions Architect
Confidential - Eden Prairie, MN
Responsibilities:
- Program management and Solutions Architect for multiple Class A MRP projects. Provided direction and leadership to project team members to ensure multiple IT projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and produce committed business results; acting as a change agent for the IT PMO; and acting as an informal mentor to IT PMO peers. Prepare standard and custom solution presentations; Prepare standard and custom software demonstrations and associated demo scripts; Participate in hand-off presentations to customer support and portal services teams for customer-implementation; Convey product enhancement requests and extension areas to products group as required; Assist in strategic business development opportunities with partners and analysts. As-Is and GAP Analysis facilitation and solution management. Procurement Enhancements delivered are as follows: Open Order report to identify orders that still have open goods receipts against them and to pull MRP exception messages and address any rescheduling of parts as requirement dates move for the given parts
- PO Variance report to identify orders where goods receipts have occurred but still open invoices against those received goods, also POs for services where invoice value is less than PO value; New Return to Vendor Process for the following groups - purchasing org, receiving org, shipping org, and accounts payable org; New purchase order layout for vendor ease of use; New purchase order close process where the Final Invoice indicator is used to signal a closed purchase order for Project System closures
- New purchasing emailing function to easily identify which purchase order has been emailed to the buyer for forwarding to PO relevant vendors for processing and confirmation; Creation of planning calendar to be used for Material master set up; Modified key data field values for vendor master records for easy grouping of vendors and blocking of vendors as needed.
SAP Project Manager - Solutions Architect - Supply Chain Roadmap Project
Confidential - Arden Hill, MN
Responsibilities:
- Program management and Solutions Architect for multiple SAP business process projects. Assist in strategic business development opportunities with partners and analysts. To-Be Analysis; As-Is Analysis; Value/difficulty ranking analysis and GAP Analysis facilitation and solution management. 8 week contract where all deliverables were completed satisfactorily. Final deliverables will be utilized to determine Next steps for client and their Supply Chain roadmap endeavors.
Purchasing SAP Project Manager - Source to Pay Process
Confidential - Syracuse, NY
Responsibilities:
- Program management for Magna PowerTrain Procurement Group. Achieved September Go-Live successfully for purchasing department. Identify key cross-process areas that require assistance with post production issues, to include but not limited to: Inventory management, Advanced Shipment Notification (Confirmation) management, EDI process management, IDOC processing management, Logistics Invoice Verification management, Scheduling Agreement Release creation and management. Continue to work on new enhancement that were not possible to implement during September Go-Live both remotely and at client site.
Confidential - Syracuse, NY
Responsibilities:
- Program management for Magna PowerTrain Procurement Group. Special tasks/expertise includes document management, design review participation to ensure that the Magna functional requirements are met within the current SAP implementation. Provide Documentation in the following areas: material for
- Purchase Requisition Creation and Approval processes, Job-aides to be used by Procurement team to ensure correct creation of scheduling agreements, source list, vendor master, info record, output determination, list display of documents, pricing conditions, contracts and purchase orders, test cases/scripts for the Procurement group, Project status reports, Project Health assessment - Identify key areas that require additional resources that will allow for September Go-Live to occur. Assist in cross-process design and implementation of new tasks required by the new SAP System. Post-Production support of small part of plant that is already live. Partial lifecycle - Realization to Post-Production phase of implementation in the Project Management capacity to date.
Confidential - Herndon, VA
Responsibilities:
- Program management support for GovWorks functional expertise for Department of Interior Confidential Program. Special tasks/expertise includes thorough understanding of current AS-IS processes to include: Pre- processes (RFQ/RFP submission through FEDBIZOPPS, Review of quotation and proposals for comparison, Selection of final quotation/proposal, Summary documentation, GFE/GFM business requirements); processes (Creation of contract with appropriate clauses depending on type of contract - GFE/GFM, Firm-fixed price, sole source justification, grants, approval of contract through numerous approvers, signing of contract electronic signature, submission of signed contract to vendor)
- Post- processes (Any modifications of contracts, monitoring of quality measurements, any remediation required for failure to comply to contract by vendor, termination or close out of contracts); document quality management (review of all deliverables from the Confidential Project Management Office for continuing implementation assistance and sign-off of critical milestones assistance), blueprinting workshop participation to ensure that the GovWorks functional requirements are met within the Business Process Documentation and follow-on documentations. Partial lifecycle - Project Planning to Realization phase of implementation in the Project Management capacity to date.
SAP MM Senior Consultant
Confidential - Marlton, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Confidential PI Migration Business Analyst support for Core Confidential business interface conversion from See Confidential to SAP PI for over 200 interfaces, concentrating on migration of Acquisition (14)/HR (2)/Finance (4) interfaces. Provide business analysis and documentation of all change requirements as it relates to each of the interfaces above, to include but not limited to: documentation of Change Requirement, Change Design, Integration Test Script, FFMIA requirement analysis, impact analysis, functional specifications, technical specification review, release notes, attend the Architecture Review Board (ARB) meetings to address each new requirement and resolution, attend Change Review Board (CRB) meetings to address all changes going into Production in an independent promotion basis. Complete all work in the allotted time given for each Change Request Interface. Full SAP PI Upgrade project lifecycle.
- Provide existing system maintenance documentation support in the following areas: Maintenance design, Integrated Test scripts, Impact analysis, Unit test results, integrated test results, release notes, transportation readiness, and concurrences for required documentation attached to the tracking and resolution tool (CRDB - change requirement database). Also provide new requirement/enhancement documentation support in the following areas: Change Requirement, Change Design, Integration Test Script, FFMIA requirement analysis, impact analysis, functional specifications, technical specification review, release notes, and attend the Architecture Review Board (ARB) meetings to address each new requirement and resolution. Complete all work in the allotted time given for each ticket or new requirement. Partial lifecycle - Post Go-Live phase of implementation.
- Course design document, Course Overview document, Course material, Course exercise material, Course simulation material and datasets required to run course exercises. Provided field support for deployed trainers. Coordinated special projects as required. Partial lifecycle - Final Preparation to Go-Live phase of implementation.
- Special tasks include revisions of Production customization to be analyzed and rewritten to address new functionality available via an upgrade to the core SAP system from R/3 4.6c (current Production system) to ECC 6.0 (latest SAP Version); Development of e-learning course for the Acquisition (MM) SAP module; Support continuing development of new functionality for next Army Division to be integrated to the new SAP Production environment to include, but not limited to: Unit test support, documentation support, Final Regression testing support, Security testing support, Data Specific Scenario testing support, Pre-production preparation support, product mentoring or knowledge transfer to other team members on-site. Pre-production knowledge transfer for Sustainment team members, Post-production support for ECC 6.0 go-live in October 2009. Off-site workshops for collaborations between Army to DLA and Army to Army task orders which include e-Procurement (New DLA procurement system), GFEBS (New Army Financial System) and Solution demos to other Army sites not currently on Confidential . Full SAP ECC 6.0 Upgrade project lifecycle.
Confidential - Eunice, NM
Responsibilities:
- Post production and continuing development support for SAP Materials Management module for Louisiana Energy Services - Confidential . Worked on-site at Eunice, NM, to support the continuing development of their source to pay SAP implementation as well as Post Production support for first deployment end users. Special tasks include materials management; Manufacturer Part Number related functionality; quality management; critical item management; logistics reassignment (inactivation/cancellation of material master records); interface monitoring; IDOC processing/reprocessing; table maintenance;
- MM/QM configuration; release strategy configuration; Product testing requirements; Interface/System design, testing and Post Production support of enhancements and current production system functionality; liaison to external systems database administrators; product mentoring or knowledge transfer to clients on-site; regression testing of current functionality to coincide with new build/enhancement testing to ensure that current functionality still works as designed. Partial lifecycle - Realization Phase of implementation. Post-production support for purchasing end users
Confidential - Columbus, OH
Responsibilities:
- Post production support for SAP Tech/Quality module for Defense Logistics Agency Program. Worked on-site at Columbus, Ohio, to support the troops deployed all over the world. Special tasks include materials management; GFE/GFM related functionality; quality management; critical item management; weapon system configuration; logistics reassignment (inactivation/cancellation of material master records); interface monitoring; IDOC processing/reprocessing; table maintenance; MM/QM configuration; release strategy configuration; Production mass updates using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW)
- Product testing requirements; Interface/System design, testing and Post Production support of enhancements and current production system functionality; liaison to external systems database administrators; product mentoring or knowledge transfer to clients on-site and off-site; visit other Inventory Control Points (ICP) to support specific commodities that are critical to the success of the Confidential project; visit development site to help with new enhancements that are delivered in releases; regression testing of current functionality to coincide with new build/enhancement testing to ensure that current functionality still works as designed; status management of remedy tickets and migration of problem fixes and enhancements. Partial lifecycle - Final Preparation to Go-Live phase of implementation. Post-production support for numerous deployments of Confidential and upgrade to new R/3 version.
Systems Architect/Staff Engineer
Confidential - Herndon, VA
Responsibilities:
- Coordinated all the data collection and configuration efforts of the systems help documentation expedited and assisted by the subcontractor. Quality Assurance on the Help module's glossary and acronym lists. Assisted in the creation of the CRS Software User's Manual. Assisted in Oracle 8i Database processing and Oracle Forms Builder integration. Also assisted the Project Manager in the SAP data integration phase of the Confidential . Eventually, CRS will have to coordinate data between several SAP systems. CRS is a project for the Defense Logistics Agency to re-engineer their Cataloging system for all DLA agencies including Confidential, Confidential, Air Force, Confidential and DLA. The CRS software product is using Oracle 8i developer and forms design for data management and reporting purposes. Non-SAP project assistance.
Confidential - Harrison, PA
Responsibilities:
- 1 Involved with the second phase of the Aviation Supply Chain Management/Maintenance Management (AvSCM/MM) project. Involved with the Change Management/ Team as a SAP Subject Matter Expert. Helped the team establish and execute the strategy for Process team members and the End-user .
- In conjunction with the technical team, helped train their team members to assign profiles to user IDs and passwords for the development and test clients within R/3 4.6D. The project is using the ASAP methodology to implement R/3 4.6D. They were currently in the blueprint phase of the methodology. Prior to project kickoff, also helped define the needs of the SAP software licenses and requirements to help negotiate a pricing structure for the Navy Project. Partial lifecycle - Project Planning to Blueprint phase of implementation.
- 3-2000 through 7-2000 Involved with the Vendor Selection phase of the AvSCM/MM project. Helped the Navy Integrated Process team (IPT) and the EDS/ Confidential Consulting team put together the scores and evaluation data into spreadsheets and charts to validate the selection of the chosen vendors. Advised on the SAP processes that were not addressed in the Vendor demonstrations and discussions. Helped to finalize the evaluation of the technical aspect of the Vendor selection process. There were four deliverables due to the Navy with relation to the vendor selection process, which I assisted in creating, editing, printing and binding for the project team. Worked on pre-sales efforts with geographically dispersed team.
SAP MM Consultant
Confidential - Chicago, IL
Responsibilities:
- I was the team lead for the PP module during the case study of the academy. My consulting engagements include:
- Taught SAP course, LO520 - Optimization of Purchasing, while I was assigned to the Reltec project for SAP Cleveland center.
- Post-Production support for a small distribution plant. No configuration experience at this project.
Confidential -Vienna, VA
Responsibilities:
- Led team of 2 in business process redesign, and configuration of the 4.0B MM module. Trained client personnel on business use of SAP software and significantly simplified processing in the Purchasing module as it relates to purchasing services. Trained client personnel on regular support functions of SAP. Participated in development of end user materials. Developed system test procedures and scripts for MM module. Performed quality control functions on business process designs and materials. Developed integration test methodology and participated in test execution and documentation. Also provided phase
- I production support for the client while preparing for the second implementation of SAP. For phase II of the implementation, helped compile all documentation that was needed to make up the Business blueprint specific to the R/3 system. Helped gather scope requirements for phase II implementations for SAP. Full lifecycle of MM module using AcceleratedSAP Implementation Methodology.
Confidential -Arlington, VA
Responsibilities:
- Helped compile all documentation that was needed to make up the Business blueprint for the R/3 system configuration team. Helped create the PowerPoint presentations that were used in the Level 2 workshops. Demonstrated the finished configuration processes to both clients and TSC consultants. Trained customer business personnel in module functions and customer I/S personnel in configuration. Sought out by MM team lead for advice on project planning activities. **After working on the Reltec project, came back to Confidential to finish implementation and to help with the helpdesk support for final roll out of the Confidential R/3 system**. Full lifecycle of MM module using AcceleratedSAP Implementation Methodology.
Confidential - Lorraine, OH
Responsibilities:
- Helped compile all documentation that was needed to make up the security profiles for the MM, PP, SD, FICO, and Basis/ABAP modules used to configure RELTEC security specific to R/3 system. Helped develop, configure, implement, and test all aspects of security implementation prior to production support. **Assisted the core team in support of the production system once it was fully integrated**. Full lifecycle using AcceleratedSAP Implementation Methodology for User Account Management module.
MM Implementation Specialist
Confidential - McLean, VA
Responsibilities:
- Completed data conversion processes from Legacy to SAP, including materials, vendors, outline agreements, and consultant agreements from four locations. Performed business modeling and created new policies and procedures for the following areas: material master, vendor master, vendor evaluation, outline agreement, purchase requisition, consultant agreement, vendor and material extension/maintenance, and reorganization of materials. **AcceleratedSAP was not developed yet as of this implementation**. Full lifecycle using System Integrator’s Implementation Methodology.
- Purchasing document (Purchasing Info Records, Purchasing Requisitions, Contracts, Scheduling agreements, Purchase Orders, Solicitations/Quotes), material master, vendor master, vendor evaluations, Invoice Management, Inventory Management (IM - Receiving)
- Analyzed and entered purchase requisitions to BDM’s legacy system and processed all paperwork for the company’s consultant records. Responsible for monthly reports regarding project progress and maintained all the files for the Confidential office procurement department. Provided for all software applications to staff, including SAP. Performed file management for government auditors. Also supervised and trained new users for MSA (a home-grown mainframe software package), and supervised temporary employees with file management.
Software Integration Specialist
Confidential - Washington, DC
Responsibilities:
- Utilized my knowledge of WordPerfect 5.1 to transfer a 20-volume manual for 'Merchant Vessel Safety and Regulations' from Confidential . This was a short term project (4 weeks to completion).