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Los Angeles, CA

SUMMARY:

  • 15+ years of extensive business process designing, delivery and in depth technical knowledge and experience in SAPFinancials/Controlling/Project System, SAP OpenText VIM, SAPFSCM areas across variety of key industries for large scale enterprise - wide SAP and IS implementations, rollouts and redeployments
  • Superior presentation skills with an excellent ability of translating business requirements into technical SAP specific functionalities along with the timeline, staffing and budget requirements for delivery of these solutions
  • Strong customer focus with an exceptional ability of developing and building customer relationships
  • Expert in SAP ASAP methodology, SAP Rapid Deployment Solution (RDS) and PMI project management methodologies, standards, and tools
  • Adept at program scoping, planning, scheduling, risk, resource and financial management
  • Extensive experience in delivery of SAP applications with the following technologies - SAP ECC, HANA, SAP BI/BW, SAP PI, SAP POS DM, SAP SCM/APO, ABAP
  • 6 full life-cycle SAP implementations including 5 Green Field projects plus 2 SAP Upgrades, 3 SAP Global Templates with multiple Roll-outs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Associate Director

Responsibilities:

  • Delivering SAP Financials and FSCM Solutions. SAP Program management. Managing direct reports.

Confidential

SAP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Designing and delivering SAP FI/CO and Project System based solutions within SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP Enterprise 4.7

Confidential

SAP Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Developing business presentations, proposals and SAP Road Maps. Designing and prototyping, testing and deploying SAP Financial and Controlling business solutions

Confidential

SAP Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Managed as an SAP FI/CO Team Lead and participated as an individual contributor in designing, configuring, testing and deploying business solutions within SAP R/3 4.6C, SAP Enterprise 4.7 and SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential

Project Manager /SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Provided leadership in designing, configuring/developing, testing and deploying complex business solutions within SAP R/3 4.6C and 4.0. Managed and delivered multiple SAP based solutions under multiple deadlines. Also, served as an individual contributor and hands-on team member

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

SAP Financial Track Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Served as an SAP Accounts Payable (AP), Open Text, Accounts Receivable (AR) and Banking track lead.
  • Led SAP AP/AR/Banking and VIMOpenText initial projects preparation, assessment and blueprint design phases.
  • Led assessment phase workshops with Business Process Owners (BPO) and Subject Matter Experts (SME)
  • Led and documented multiple large size (25+ people) Design workshops in SAP AP/AR/Banking and VIM Open Text areas
  • Led follow-up meetings in SAP AP/AR/Banking and VIM Open Text areas
  • Led multiple cross-functional areas meetings in the areas of Procure-To-Pay and Record-To-Report including Purchasing, AP, AR, Banks, Fixed Assets, Tax and Integration to external systems (Lucernex)
  • Led VIM Open Text team of 3 Confidential offshore resources through initial project phase and through business blueprint, facilitated Team and Client collaboration to secured team success and customer satisfaction
  • Conducted confirmation sessions with walk-through design over Procure-To-Pay and SAP Financials areas
  • Facilitated multiple design (and assessment phase) relevant meetings in SAP Supply Chain Management and SAP Fixed Asset areas to drive client-raised issues to successful resolution
  • Leveraged prior professional experience to resolve complex design issues in the primary responsibility areas along with adjacent areas of Procure-To-Pay, Financial Accounting, Fixed Assets and Point-Of-Sales-POS

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

SAP Program Manager

Responsibilities:

  • As an SAP Program Manager delivered multiple projects within SAP Financials, SAP Supply Chain Areas (ECC and APO) and B2B applications (Microsoft proprietary XML and MSSQLServer based applications and interfaces). Provided SAP Program and organizational change management and delivery of SAP applications based solutions with B2B integration in a complex and heterogeneous application landscape.

Confidential, Alviso, CA

SAP Architect/Manager

Responsibilities:

  • As an SAP Architect/Manager led a team of functional and technical consultants to gather business requirements and design a specific solution within Confidential Hyperion and SAP environments that affects Procure-To-Pay and Record-To-Report business processes. Provided leadership in requirement gathering by bringing together Accounts Payable
  • Project Accounting, Consolidation financial departments and SAP Center Of Excellence. Conducted business workshops and designed business solution that was warmly accepted by all interested parties. Made sure the solution is well documented, signed off by the business and fits well within Confidential Center of Excellence budget constraints.

Confidential

SAP Program Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Confidential Buyer Initiated Payment program
  • Confidential General Ledger Interface
  • Confidential and Confidential Blackline interfaces
  • SunAmerica Financial Group Ariba Phase 2 rollout

Confidential, Oakbrook IL

SAP Program Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Instant Rebates/Savings Project
  • International Growth Strategy Project
  • Article Profitability Project
  • JD Edwards decommissioning Project

Confidential, FL

SAP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Led, guide and direct the client through initial, green-field SAP Project System and Investment Management implementation
  • Conducted blue-print activities, designed and developed models of future business processes. Guided the client trough SAP best practices for PS/IM implementation
  • Prepared process design documents and process flows of the future business processes within the organization, including SAP Project System and Investment Management process flows with integration to FI/CO, MM, PM and BI/BW
  • Prototyped future usage of SAP PS and IM functionalities, such as - PS and IM Structures, Planning (in PS and IM), Budgeting (in PS and IM), Forecasts, Scheduling and Network usage, Material Components Planning, Workforce Planning, Collection of Internal Labor, Project Stock, Project Settlement, Overheads calculation, Assets Bulk Purchases, Claims Processing, IM and PS Fiscal Year close and carry-over
  • Provided SAP Consulting services in adjacent to PS and IM areas - Fixed Assets, Controlling, Plant Maintenance and MM-Purchasing

Confidential, CA

SAP Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Tactical Cost Allocation project - integration of SAP with an external software - Confidential (software for marketing campaign and marketing tactics)
  • Confidential Transition - a Confidential plant shutdown project, transition of Confidential and PS data from legacy Confidential system into SAP
  • Unifier project - integration project of external software Unifier (Project Management software for used for Capital projects at Confidential ) into SAP Project System.
  • P61 Nutley Transition project - Nutley acquisition/merge project into Confidential SAP Enterprise 4.7 environment from Nutley SAP ECC 6.0.
  • Confidential Core project - bringing an existing SAP Chart Of Accounts in-line with Confidential ( Confidential - Confidential Ltd. ) PharmaCore requirements.
  • PharmaCore-compliance project - bringing an existing SAP Project System and Fixed Asset data in-line with Confidential ( Confidential - Confidential Ltd. ) PharmaCore requirements.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

SAP Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Led Project System, Fixed Assets, and FI-GL redeployment (from 4.6C to ECC 6.0) activities.
  • Managed project scope in the assigned areas and mentored and coached assigned by the client resources
  • Conducted business workshops with client’s project managers and financial accountants (up to 16 people). Prepared workshop and data migration presentations.
  • Led PS, FI-AA, FI New GL business blue-print activities.
  • Prepared PS, FI-AA and New GL design documents and process flow diagrams.
  • Conducted validation sessions and obtained client’s business blue print sign-off in PS, FI-AA and FI New GL areas. Configured PS, FI-AA, and FI-GL. Facilitated client testing activities and formal acceptance.
  • Developed detailed conversion strategies and cutover plans for Finance and Project System.
  • Addressed strategic issues of migration Project System, Fixed Assets and FI from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 environment.

Confidential, TX

SAP Project System Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Provided SAP Project Systems and Project Management consulting for construction, IT and other project managers. Analyzed existing project management processes of organization and provided guidance and best practices of mapping company’s processes to SAP best practices.
  • Led and direct blue-print activities for a global program (currently is being implemented around the world), global template roll-out in assigned areas to various locations (San Antonio, Dallas, and Poland, Europe)
  • Managed assigned resources during roll-out phases and monitor and control project scope in assigned areas of Project System
  • Configured SAP Project Systems and Fixed Asset modules
  • Manage SAP Cutover activities for Seguin, Corporate headquarters and Poland location in assigned areas
  • Conduct user acceptance testing and end-user for the first roll-out of the global template
  • Participated in 3 roll-outs of the global template to various locations (including international location in Poland).

Confidential, CA

SAP FI/CO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Led SAP blue print activities. Conducted users workshops, prepared blue-print project documentation.
  • Prepared confirmation sessions presentations and conducted the confirmation sessions. Considered integration with Grants and Funds Management.
  • Led configuration activities
  • Led unit test cases development
  • Led and conduct security user testing.
  • Led integration test activities including
  • Led a team of 3 people

Confidential, VA

Senior SAP FI/CO (SAP R/3 4.7) / Stream 1 Test Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Helped to finalize blue-print documentations
  • Was responsible for maintaining FI/CO-configuration activities, and for updating configuration plan and documentation.
  • Was responsible to proper maintain transport requests, and resolve all related issues
  • Monitored test activities for the unit testing for the Stream 1
  • Conducted daily meeting with Process Team Leads and Development Lead in order to determine current status of the unit test activities and of the developments (FRICE objects).

Confidential, NJ

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Participated as a project team member in the roll-out of the BEACON SAP system at Confidential and TransForm companies
  • Team member of Capital team (PS, IM, Fixed Assets)
  • Analyze business processes AS-IS, provided recommendation and solutions for future TO-BE (SAP R/3) business processes. Performed configuration and testing activities
  • Performed Cutover and activities.
  • Participated SEM-BPS issues troubleshooting
  • Prepared Integration test documents and conducted Integration test (“Capital life cycle”) for new company - Confidential

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