Summary

Supply chain (SCM) and Customer Chain (SRM) experience since 1980.

Current experience as hands on manager/lead in global & contract supply chains in consumer products, automotive, pharma, electronics, and semiconductor.

Specialties

Strong landscape & business process expertise around SAP SRM/CRM, SCM, Financial Planning, and Key Performance Indicators.

Business processes, workshops, blueprints in Pharma, automotive, high tech contract manufacturing, fab & fabless semiconductor. etc.

SAP ECC through ECC 6, Netweaver through 7, SRM, eSourcing, Project Management, Financial Planning (Outlooksoft, BPC, BCS, BSC, BPS), Business Objects (BO, BOBJ), BW/BI, MDM, PI, BPM, GRC

Experience

Solution Architect/PMO

Undisclosed Company

Computer Software industry

November 2010 – Present (2 years)

For one of the United States' largest utilities, (SAP IS-Utilities), provide cross system & new/mature tech/business process integration.

- Transmission division: pipeline infrastructure monitoring & maintenance

- Distribution division: support SmartMeter solutions & integration

- Misc - support various other specialized (e.g. powerline IP) projects as needed.

Solution Architect

Mainline Information Systems

Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

April 2012 – July 2012 (4 months)

Solution Architect, optimization of SAP, Websphere, MQ landscapes.

Solution Architect

ITC Infotech

Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

June 2011 – December 2011 (7 months) San Francisco Bay Area

Solution Architect in SAP space.

Program Manager

IDHASOFT

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

August 2010 – October 2010 (3 months)

Help Idhasoft to develop project management office standards, documents, processes, etc. (classic PMBOK activities) as this was their first Oracle implementation.

- Set up all documents, processes, standards for the PMO. Attempted to work with other Idhasoft resources to explain why these processes were necessary (not particularly successful)

- Set up and executed on change management controls (scope creep in SOW & POR), complex political lobying for scope changes, etc.

- Set up and executed on risk management plan, identifying "submerged" risks, assumption gaps, etc. Worked with stakeholders to remove, mitigate, or accept.

Act as interim project manager during kickoffs, blueprint (BRD50/100) and initial workshops: SAP to Oracle migration

Multiple SAP instances (ECC 5, ECC 6) to Oracle R12.1, problematic data migration & conversion effort,

Set up PMO;

PM role taken over by sales rep as cost savings measure.

Business Analyst - Consultant

Cisco Systems

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry

November 2009 – August 2010 (10 months)

- Business analyst - Brazil implementation (Tax & Customs)

- Project Manager - Home Telepresence (Uni) - (Tax and Customs)

- Business Analyst - Sabrix integration and enhancements for Brazil (ICMS, ICMS/TS, PIS, COFINS, etc.)

- Project Manager - various small projects for enhancements and tax process corrections (UK VAT, EU VAT, Canada VAT, etc.)

Project Manager - Assessments

EMC

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; EMC; Information Technology and Services industry

February 2009 – September 2009 (8 months)

Responsible for CCMI Operational Readiness assessments (Storage, Server virtualization) for large clients in the Pharma, Chemical, Banking, Finance who were planning major Oracle/SAP infrastructure upgrades with major migrations to virtualized or cloud environments.

SAP Project Manager

Department of the Interior

Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Executive Office industry

March 2009 – June 2009 (4 months)

SAP Infrastructure upgrade and consolidation (Herndon, Va & Boulder, Colorado)

- migrate from physical system landscape to structured (Solaris) containers and VMWare VM's for increased system density, improved development & QA performance, application level failover (as service provider had a budget for "data center" level fail over only).

- ECC 6, NW 7, SRM 7, BI 7, eSourcing.

- Support cross departmental ad hoc procurement (SRM, SRM/MDM, eSourcing) of products and services for e.g. forest fire and other emergency services.

SAP Program Manager

Satyam

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; SAY; Information Technology and Services industry

April 2008 – January 2009 (10 months)

SAP Practice Program Manager,

Manage portfolio of ERP engagements in project recovery, best practices, risk identification/analysis/management

Governance, Risk, and Compliance in SAP+legacy integration, SAP GRC

Two Japanese Electronics companies - SAP consolidations to global best practice template

Qatar - Entertainment center - SAP Ipplementation

Various RFP responses adding US$25M to Satyam's book (all were greenfields or major refresh/consolidations)

Principal Consultant - ERP Solutions

Anthropomorphics Inc.

January 2002 – July 2008 (6 years 7 months)

- Resposible for hands on project management of serious problem projects, reasonably good success rates of turning these around (60%)

- Perform audits, assessments, GRC risk & compliance recommendations & reviews

- Support a network of consultancies developing SAP related RFP Responses, proposals, proposal defenses

- Architect, lead & deploy SAP integration solutions with a focus on business transformation leveraging web bases solutions, service oriented & EDI solutions, and EAI.

Systems Engineer

Network Appliance

July 2001 – November 2002 (1 year 5 months)

Support complex business continuation, disaster recovery, SAP landscapes including unique (but never marketed) value changing capabilities for ERP development (which are employed by SAP AG and Oracle Inc.), recommended heat/power management and marketting capabilities 5 years before it became "in". Watched company walk away from millions, perhaps billions, in business because of a persistent effort to keep doing things the way they did it before.

 

Consultant

Wishclick Inc.

March 1994 – July 2000 (6 years 5 months)

Participating in client proposals, implementations, with a focus on data base, data integration, transactional data (master data) integration, etc. of web based solutions to ERP (Oracle, SAP) for web facing solutions. Focus on online retail presence, web facing supplier enablement. Primary responsibility for data, data models, database architectures, performance, availability, and infrastructure buildout to support web facing transactional loads.

 

Consultant

Xtime

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry

January 1995 – May 2000 (5 years 5 months)

Participating in client proposals, implementations, with a focus on data base, data integration, transactional data (master data) integration, etc. of web based solutions to ERP (Oracle, SAP) for web facing solutions. Focus on client services, web facing supplier enablement, supply chain integration.

Consultant

Xpede Banking Services

August 1996 – May 1999 (2 years 10 months)

Participate in a range of bank, savings & loan, and residential loan organizations providing proposals, architecture, business process requirements, and implementation leadership in the integration of Xpede's online credit application and approval software service (with integrated rating/scoring lookup, exits to customer specific buyer scoring tools, etc.). Responsible for providing a shared vision that Xpede understood ERP, client infrastructure (IMS, Oracle Applications, SAP, & etc.).

Early participation in SAP's first efforts at banking solutions.

Contractor

Redbrick Systems

1995 – 1996 (1 year)

Port RedBrick to Solaris

 

Consultant

Coopers & Lybrand

Partnership; 10,001+ employees; Accounting industry

November 1990 – May 1993 (2 years 7 months)

Support Oracle Applications (nee Financials) practice, focus on reviews, mergers and acquisition system reviews, strategy change driven best practices around IT in Oil & Gas, Finance, and Technology sectors (primarily California).