Project Manager

Skills Summary

Strong communication and relationship ASAP and Ascendant Methodology

skills

Strong leadership and management skills Project Planning (Microsoft Project)

Detail oriented and thorough problem Extremely flexible and a team player

solver

Extensive SAP Business Information Project Management of Business Objects

Warehouse (BW) experience (BOBJ) Implementations

Experience

Food & Beverage Company - Atlanta, GA March 31, 2011 - June 24, 2011

Business Intelligence Delivery Manager

. Project Management and leadership in the design of business intelligence

& analytics technology projects through the SDLC process.

. Management of the design of multiple projects in North America (including

Time, Resources, Scope) to support implementation of business

intelligence reporting & analytics capabilities for the business

portfolio.

. Upgrade of BOBJ 3.1 to BOBJ 4.0 and implementation of MOBi application

for PDA devices

. Financial Data Warehouse, combining legacy data for two companies in

order to provide consolidated P&L reporting (BI 7 back-end, BOBJ 4.0

Front-End)

. Consolidated HR Data Warehouse, combining legacy data for two

companies in order to enable consolidated reporting (BI 7 back-end,

BOBJ 4.0 Front-End)

. Communication with all levels of management.

Global Chemical Company -Atlanta, GA July 11, 2005 - March 25,

2011

Global SAP BI & Development Manager

BW 3.5 Implementation/Support & Development Manager for SAP Team

Management Responsibilities

. Management of all SAP BI (BW, BCS, & Business Objects (BOBJ)) initiatives

and resources

. Resource recruiting, mentoring, performance reviews and appraisals

. BI tool evaluation, vendor negotiations, and selection

. Project management of SAP BW 3.5 to BI 7 upgrade

. Implementation management of SAP Business Objects 3.1 (Crystal, Xcelsius,

and Webi)

. Development Manager - management of on-shore and off-shore ABAP

development

. Responsible for the coordination of BASIS activities executed by third

party hosting provider

. Project planning and tracking

Hands-on Technical Responsibilities

. Gathering and documenting BI requirements from the business (ASAP &

Ascendant Methodology)

. Evaluation of standard delivered BI Content, determining gaps that lead

to custom work

. Activation of standard BI Content, to include Datasources, ODS objects,

InfoCubes, and Queries

. Examples areas where content met the requirement: QM, PP, SD, MM-INV, FI-

GL, CCA

. Enhanced business content in some areas using transformations in transfer

rules and update rules

. Development of custom BW configuration when BI Content was not available

. Example areas where custom development was needed: APO, Sales Forecast &

Business Plan, Non SAP data (COPA, FI-GL, CCA), Tariff Management

. Solely responsible for the BW configuration needed for APO Demand

Planning Project

. Development of custom Datasources from SAP ERP tables and/or SAP queries

. Creation of InfoPackages, InfoPackage Groups and Process Chains for data

loads and monitoring

Global Chemical Company - Atlanta, GA July 11, 2005 - March 25,

2011

Global SAP BI & Development Manager Continued...

. High frequency data load requests led to developing a coordinated data

load schedule

. Responsible for troubleshooting all data load failures for both SAP and

non SAP data

. BW BEx Query & BW BEx Browser configuration for every applicable area

within BW/BI landscape

. Queries and workbooks range from simple to very complex (with multiple

formulas, conditions and alerts) - one example of complex included over

60 key figure formulas

. Data reconciliation between newly created BW queries and respective

source system

. Unit, Integration, and User Acceptance Testing (developed and executed

plans)

. BW Security Development (at the InfoCube Level for Super Users and Casual

Users)

. End User Training & Production Support (helpdesk ticket resolution)

. SAP OSS Research for problem solving resolutions

Global Pharmaceuticals Company - Atlanta, GA January 13, 2003 - July 5,

2005

Senior IT Analyst (BW Team Lead)

BW 3.0B Implementation & Support

. BW team lead on global SAP project (BW 3.5)

. BW representative on Global Supply Chain Alignment project (utilizing SAP

R/3, BW, SCM 4.0)

. BW data model review and enhancements

. BW data loads from external systems for Sales & Marketing Data

. Master data volumes: 8M records per Sales Team (5 teams)

. Transactional volumes: 3.5M records a month

. BW data loads from SAP R/3 for Cost Center Accounting (CCA) data

. BW data loads from external Travel & Expense Management System (CONCUR)

. BW report development (BEx Analyzer, BW Web Reports published to SAP

Enterprise Portals

. BW performance monitoring and tuning (data loads and reporting

performance improvements)

. Extensive use of Aggregates to improve reporting performance

Global Insurance Company - Columbus, GA September 2002 - January 10,

2003

BW Team Lead

BW 2.1C Implementation: BW Consultant Team Lead (two consultants, three

client team members)

. Conducted weekly BW team status meetings

. BW report development management and tracking within the following SAP

R/3 areas (Special Ledger, Financial Accounting, Cost Center Accounting,

and Profit Center Accounting)

. Tracked report development in MS Project, then in Access database

. BW report troubleshooting (130 reports, 240 users)

. Issues tracking and resolution (created Access database to track

development issues)

. BW architecture analysis and recommendations for improvements

. BW development troubleshooting (data loads, scheduling, transports,

security, and OSS correspondence)

. Transport maintenance and organization

Paper & Forest Products Company - Atlanta, GA April 2002 - September

2002

Consultant

. Requirements gathering for the centralization of planning and scheduling

reports within SAP

. Test plan creation and training script documentation

. Project plan creation and maintenance for data warehouse project

Information Technology Consulting Firm - Atlanta, GA February 2001 - April

2002

Consultant

Manufacturing/Machinery Company - Peoria, IL

BW 2.1C - APO 3.0 Implementation

. Led eleven member team consisting of both client and consulting resources

. Responsible for preparation and facilitation of functional requirements

gathering workshops as part of global Blueprint

. Developed and presented BW portion of Blueprint for Executive Steering

Committee approval

. Developed and managed full life cycle project plan utilizing Microsoft

Project

. Responsible for configuration necessary to extract and load sales,

shipments, inventory, and order (SSIO) data into Business Warehouse from

legacy systems

. Configured Business Warehouse to consolidate and subsequently feed SSIO

data to SAP's Advance Planner & Optimizer (APO) for demand forecasting

process

. Configured custom DataSources and InfoSources for six transactional

legacy systems

. Created multiple DataSources and InfoSource for master data feeds

. Created custom transfer rules and update rules where necessary for

transformation and cleansing

. Configured multi-level ODS structure for data loads and consolidation

(eleven ODS' required)

. Created nine custom InfoCubes

. Created four MultiCubes for reporting purposes (combining actual and

plan data)

. Created transactional and master data export DataSources necessary to

feed APO

. Created custom variables for reporting purposes

. Designed and created Business Warehouse reports for financial accounting

and forecasting departments

. Developed and managed execution of unit, cycle, integration and

regression testing plans

. Designed and assisted with configuration of security roles and

authorizations for over 350 users

. Coordinated and approved migration of all configuration to test and

production environments

. Assisted with and approved training material design, development, and

delivery

Management Consulting Firm - Alanta, GA July 2000 - February

2001

Consultant

Consumer Goods Company - Boston, MA

APO - BW 2.0B Implementation

. Responsible for currency translation configuration for thirteen countries

. Assisted with the development and execution of integration testing and

cut-over plans

Information Technology Consulting Firm - Atlanta, GA June 1998 - June 2000

Associate Consultant/Consultant

Telecommunications Company - Fairfax, VA

SAP - BW Implementation

. Conducted reporting requirements gathering workshops

. Developed and maintained BW project plan, using ASAP methodology

. Maintained InfoCubes for the following areas: Finance/General Ledger

(FI/GL), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), and Profit Center Accounting (PCA)

. Completed the delivery of 25 custom reports

. Developed custom BW security profiles necessary for 70 users

. Conducted end-user training and provided post implementation support

Information Technology Consulting Firm - Atlanta, GA June 1998 - June 2000

Associate Consultant/Consultant Continued...

Telecommunications Company - Fairfax, VA

SAP End-user Training Team Member

. Developed and maintained training project plan and training schedule

. Developed training materials for the following areas: Materials

Management (MM) - Purchasing, Financial Accounting/Controlling (FI/CO),

Asset Management, and Project Systems

. Assisted client with instructor lead training classes for approximately

100 users

Education

Auburn University, Auburn, AL March 1998

Masters in Management Information Systems

Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL January 1996

BS Finance and Management

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