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Winston-Salem, NC ***** Phone 336-***-**** (Home)

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E-mail b36s5m@r.postjobfree.com

Matthew P. Sullivan

Objective

Obtain a position as an IT Systems/Business Analyst or IT liaison team lead supporting supply chain business processes utilizing an ERP solution.

Qualifications

Experience Summary

• 20 years experience in project management, process definition, application life cycle including design, development, testing, documentation, implementation, and support of sales and distribution (SD), planning and manufacturing execution (MES) related business processes.

• Team oriented

• Customer focused

Present – 1990 Hanesbrands, Inc. Winston Salem, NC

Senior Applications Analyst - Senior Programmer/Analyst

Current – 2009

Full time support and project management duties related to in-house applications including KRONOS time/attendance, Inventory management and distribution management applications.

2008 - 2005

Full time core supply chain IT team member responsible for major business initiative to create one set of common business processes and applications (foundation SAP AFS ECC 5.0) to support a common and centralized business structure strategy.

Team lead for inventory management blueprinting phase which included gathering and mapping business requirements related to sales and distribution (SD) and materials management (MM) functions applying SAP best business practices. Tasks included:

• Creating business process definitions

• Creating process flow diagrams

• Detailed Design documents

• Documenting potential impacts to the organization

• Creating standards

• Defining requirements for baseline configuration

Realization phase included writing detailed functional specifications including:

• Customized reporting related to Inventory/material management

• SAP interfaces to external Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) applications including Manhattan WM.

• Writing test scripts for integration and user acceptance testing.

Implementation Phase included:

• User training

• Production Support

2005 -1996

Responsible for the planning, development, testing, training, implementation and support of manufacturing execution and warehouse management applications utilizing LXE, JANUS, and SYMBOL RF data collection including conveyor automation for 7 - 10 manufacturing/ distribution centers in the United States, Mexico and Central America.

Lead Analyst responsible for integrating 3rd Party Warehouse Management System (WMS) application running at four distribution centers. Responsible for the design, implementation and support of all interfaces (SAP R/4 MM/PP) related to inventory valuation, replenishment, and fulfillment of customer orders running on various hardware platforms including UNIX and Windows.

Gathered requirements from distribution management and created statement of work for vendors. Responsibilities also included coordinating integration activity between vendors involving material handling equipment including conveyor (Rockwell Automation) and pick to light (PTL - Lighthouse Selection) software/hardware.

Additional responsibilities included working directly with facility management in the planning, procurement, and coordination of hardware/software required to support distribution center business processes including material management, order fulfillment, and transportation. Responsible for defining strategic plans for hardware and software upgrades enhancements to support uninterrupted distribution operations.

Lead IT analyst for distribution reconfiguration projects to improve operations resulting in significant cost savings and improved service levels. Defined all user interfaces, and reporting requirements based on JAD workshops with distribution management and vendors

A member of several process improvement teams representing WMS application reviewing inventory procedures, issues and implementing controls to improve inventory accuracy. In addition, implemented controls and procedures for Sarbanes/Oxley (SOX) compliance related to the WMS.

Responsible for holding monthly meetings with distribution staff defining new business requirements and issues involving the WMS, including mandates from customers and vendors.

Defined and maintained training documentation for the distribution centers. WMS internal team member responsible for implementing RFID tags for Wal-Mart project initiative requiring case and pallet level RFID tags for pilot distribution centers.

Lead Analyst for design and implementation of VICS Bill of Lading document creation and printing application.

Lead Analyst on design and implementation of WMS parcel package interface to UPS and Federal Express.

1995 - 1990

Responsible for managing finite scheduling/shop floor application package running at 6 manufacturing plants. Functions supported include integrated demand, labor reporting and inventory lot tracking hosted on fault tolerant hardware/operating system.

Led JAD design session lead responsible for gathering requirements for integrating shop floor execution and data collection with SAP 4.1 with stakeholders,

I was Involved in all phases of the software development life cycle related to the WMS, including scope definition, requirements gathering, writing functional specifications, coding (interface scripts), testing, user documentation and training.

1990 - 1983 Case and New Holland (CNH) Racine, WI:

Senior Programmer/Analyst - College Intern

Responsible for development and support of manufacturing execution (inventory management, labor reporting, material logistics, automation, and time & attendance) applications for North America and European Agricultural and Construction equipment manufacturing facilities.

Lead analyst responsible for coordinating vendors in the design, development, implementation of incentive pay, labor reporting, and finite scheduling and related interfaces to Oracle Enterprise application for 11 manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe.

Technical Tools:

Oracle, INFORMIX, DB2, SQL Plus, Oracle Procedural Language, UNIX, NT, SAP R-3, SAP AFS, SAP-MM, SAP-PP, SAP Workflow, Visio, MS Office Suite, Cobol, Informix 4gl, C, VisualBASIC, Intermec RF, LXE, Symbol, Mercury ITG, KRONOS

Education University of Wisconsin-Parkside Kenosha, WI

 B.S. Business Management – Information Systems

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