PROFESSIONAL GOAL

Use my acumen, leadership and organizational skills to develop

further SAP experience.

WORK Experience SUMMARY

SAP Project Manager and Senior Consultant, BMS S.p.A., Milan, Italy, Sept.

2004 to Present

Project Manager and Certified Materials Management module expert. 3 full

implementation and 4 rollout projects for small and medium-sized companies

in Europe and the U.S Releases 4.6C and ECC 6.0.

Independent Management Consultant and Trainer, Jan. 1996 to Dec. 2004

Freelance consultant to small and medium-sized Italian companies for

administrative systems, controlling, and quality systems.

University lecturer and professional trainer in the fields of operational

management, quality management and certification, general management and

leadership, and SAP Materials management.

Management Consultant, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Inc., Bethesda, Md., Oct.

1988 to Jun. 1992

Management systems analysis and administration for US defense programs and

Italian / European aerospace programs.

Management Systems Analyst, Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, Ca., Jun. 1984

to Jan. 1988

Various analysis projects including: Process improvement (using SPC),

Inventory Management, Quality Management, Controlling, and Information

Systems Management for the satellite manufacturing division.

Agency Relations Associate, United Way of Los Angeles County, L.A., Ca.,

Jun. 1980 to Jun. 1982

Responsible for communications and technical assistance to member human

services agencies of the United Way in annual funding approval and

management review process.

Gaps in work chronology 1988 to 1996 are due to family responsibilities,

1982 to 1984 for full time study.

DEGREES AND CERTIFICATIONS

2007 SAP MM Certification in the ECC 6.0 release

2000 - 2001 all SAP Standard Material Management courses taken. Other SAP

Standard courses: Classification, Logistics Information System (LIS), ABAP

Dictionary. SAP MM Certification.

1984 Master's Degree in Business Administration, specializing in

Production and Operations Management. University of California at Los

Angeles, USA. (GPA 3.7/4.0)

1980 Bachelor of Arts Degree, Sociology, Wellesley College, Wellesley,

Massachusetts, USA (Durant Scholar. GPA 3.8/4.0)

1977 French Baccalaureat in Philosophy, Lyc e Mansart, St. Cyr L'Ecole,

France (Mention Bien)

SAP Experience

Conbipel S.p.A., July 2009 to present

Industry Fashion Retailer

:

Role: Interface Development Coordinator, Torex Merchandise Planning

System integration with SAP ERP

Activiti Develop specifications, in collaboration with Italian technical

es: team, for Conbipel SAP Retail solution (BW and R/3) interfaces

with Torex Merchandise Planning system

Coordinate Italian technical team and interaction with British

Torex team and Conbipel staff

Manage issue-based, weekly and monthly status reporting

Co-manage with BMS Client Manager any scope modifications for

cost and time impacts

IMQ S.r.l., May 2007 to present

Industry Quality Certification of Machines and Appliances, and Education

: Services

Role: Senior MM Consultant

Activiti Design and implementation of the materials management procedures

es: for an organization with no valued stock and automated accounting

at purchase; SAP service purchasing process.

Caparol Italiana GmbH, May 2006 to present

Industry Building Supplies

:

Role: Project Manager and Senior MM Consultant

Activiti Roll-out for Italian affiliate of a German headquarters, in a

es: multi-company IT environment. Successful Go-Live with no

unplanned work stoppages.

Italian team collaboration with German technical and management

staff to resolve specific Italian legal and operational

requirements, in the SD, MM, PP and CO modules.

Implementation characteristics:

Centralized planning and distribution

Customer consignment, reparation, warantee management, promotion

management.

Intercompany purchasing with EDI invoicing; interplant transfers

with no invoicing.

Giacomini S.p.a., 2005 to present

Industry Metalworking - Hydrosanitary

:

Role: MM Consultant, Senior MM Consultant

Activiti Customizing, test and training for MM purchasing and intercompany

es: processes in German affiliate roll-out, 2005.

Solution development, customizing, test and support for

MM elements of SD-MM commercial kit consignment management

process, 2005

Plant Maintenance (PM)-Service purchasing process, 2007

Intercompany consolidated sales/purchasing internal price

management, 2009

Vendor Evaluation implementation and updating, 2006 to present

QM usage decision and quality score customizing for integration

with Vendor Evaluation

Support to staff in managing QM, WM, PM and MM operational flows

and exception management

La Gardenia Beauty S.p.A., March to July 2009

Industry Beauty Supply Retailer

:

Role: Senior MM Consultant

Activiti MM Customizing for full implementation in a high-volume retail

es: setting

Functional and technical specifications development for Vendor

Bonus management, both standard SAP functionality as well as

custom program for stock, purchase account, and cost of goods

sold revaluation for Bonus updating. Full implementation is

pending.

Functional and technical specifications development, and full

implementation for custom automated high-volume purchase order

generation based on MRP stock requirements calculations.

Integration of real-time cost data, sales volume data, package

quantity optimization and custom algorithms for stock management

within the purchase order creation

Successful Go-live with no work stoppages

Navionics S.r.l., March to July 2008, Navionics Inc. March to December

2008

Industry Digital Nautical Chart Production and Sales

:

Role: Senior MM Consultant for Navionics S.r.l.; Project Manager for

Navionics Inc.

Activiti Fast-track Full Implementation (Pre-configured solution)

es: US rollout with additional functionalities: serial number

management, bar-code generation, print and reading, Fedex / UPS

automated interfaces.

Successful Go-live with no unplanned work stoppages.

Daikin Air Conditioning Italy S.p.A., January to April 2008

Industry Air Conditioning Systems

:

Role: Senior MM Consultant

Activiti SAP standard Physical Inventory execution with a third-party

es: logistics provider, serial number management, multi-storage

location and stock status

General MM support during internal IT staff changeover

Coordination of BMS consultants' schedules and communication with

IT manager

Vitrablok, Sept. 2006 to Jan. 2007

Industry Building Materials

:

Role: Senior MM Consultant

Activiti Rollout of Multinational based in Florence, Italy, for the Czech

es: affiliate.

Transferral from a local SAP installation to a corporate rollout,

requiring harmonization of material codes, accounting structures

and material management procedures, while maintaining critical

local functionalities.

WM customizing settings to replicate local SAP functionalities,

with improvements.

Responsibile for material master data transferral from legacy

system.

Fiorini International Industrial Packaging, S.r.l., Feb. to Aug. 2006

Industry Packaging

:

Role: Senior MM Consultant, MM Team Leader

Activiti Coverage of material management area for a full SAP

es: implementation.

Implementation characteristics:

Split valuation raw material management

Intercompany purchasing flow and invoicing

Intercompany with external consignment

Handling units management

External, non-valued warehousing

Customer order-specific valuated stock

Material planning with automated forecasting

QM module solution design and customizaton

Quality notifications, notification screen creation, embedded

follow-on functions for vendor return, status management,

statistics.

Ad hoc catalogue profile for non-conformity management and

statistical tracking.

PP module solution design and customization:

Design and implementation of Material Requirements forecasting

Customization of Material Requirements list

Customization of raw material batch determination at component

goods issue stage of production order.

Recordati S.r.l., June to Nov. 2005

Industry Pharmaceutical

:

Role: Change Management, Business Process Flow Mapping

Activiti Development of presentation materials for Change Management of

es: the intercompany materials flows between Italy and affiliates in

Ireland, Spain, and other EU countries

Business process flow identification and mapping, communication

support at affiliates

Christian Hansen S.p.A., Apr. to May, 2005

Industry Food

:

Role: Change Management Consultant, Warehouse Management training

Activiti Development of presentation materials for Change Management in

es: the SD, FI, and CO process flow areas.

Material development (in Italian) and Italian end-user training

for Warehouse Management processes.

La Magona d'Italia (Arcelor Steel), Sept. 2004 to Jul. 2005

Industry Steel manufacturing

:

Role: MM Consultant

Activiti Introduction of Arcelor-specific SAP implementation (TBO) to

es: local staff, including: repair cycles, consignment, automatic

invoicing, etc.

Preparation, editing and translation of process analysis and

training documentation (French to Italian)

Assistence to local staff in training and system test.

SAP Italia Education, Jan. 2001 to Dec. 2002

Role: Trainer

Standard Purchasing Overview (LO020) Purchasing Services (LO540)

Courses Stock Management (LO510) Advanced MM Customizing

taught: Invoice Verification (LO515) (LO550)

Purchasing Process Optimization Classification (LO985)

(LO520) SAP MM Academy (TAMM)

GENERAL CONSULTING AND Teaching Experience

iCons S.r.l., Lodi, Italy, Jan. 2003 to Sept. 2004

Industry Market Analysis and Consulting

:

Role: Controller, Customer / Marketing Management

Activiti Creation and implementation of financial and managerial

es: accounting, planning and management reporting systems, also of a

customer management database system in Access, for a small market

consultancy firm.

Hello Truck S.r.l., Turin, Italy, Jun. 1999 to Jun. 2001

Industry Electronics

:

Role: Controller

Activiti Creation and implementation of Excel-based financial and

es: managerial accounting, MS Project-based planning and management

reporting systems for a start-up in the electronics sector.

Auchan, Milan, Italy, Apr. to Jul. 2000

Industry Large Scale Retail

:

Role: HR Planning and Budget System Development

Activiti Adaptation of French corporate HR planning tool (Excel) to

es: Italian requirements, updating and streamlining to permit

consolidation of data from 15 Italian stores.

TQM Consult S.r.l., Turin, Italy, Jun. 1997 to May 1999

Industry Automotive, Hospital, Logistics, Software development, etc.

:

Role: ISO 9000 Certification

Activiti ISO 9000 certification and process quality improvement for small

es: and medium sized companies in the metalworking, automotive,

distribution, software, and other industries. Based in Turin.

University Studies Abroad Consortium, Turin, Italy, Sept. 1996 to Dec.

2004

Industry Higher Education

:

Role: Course designer, Author, and Lecturer

Activiti Erasmus international studies program at the university level.

es: Full semester courses developed and executed, with

responsibilities for exam preparation, administration and

grading, in Operations Management, Leadership, Creative Problem

Solving (2000).

Master's level course in Operations Management, case-based. In

collaboration with the Scuola di Amministrazione Aziendale, Nov.

- Dec. 2004.

Independent Professional Trainer, Turin, Italy, Sept. 1994 to Sept. 2004

Industry Various

:

Role: Course designer, Author and Trainer

Activiti Various management topics: Project Management, Quality

es: Management, ISO 9000 and Certification, Continual Improvement,

Japanese Management, Managing Services, Negotiations,

Multi-cultural Management, Statistics, Problem-Solving,

Organizational Models, Productivity Improvement, etc.

Clients include: Praxi Formazione, the Centro Estero delle Camere

di Commercio di Piemonte, the Turin Industrial Union, TQM

Consult (ISO 9000).

Courses taught in English, Italian, and French.

Personal Information

1. Married to an Italian citizen since 1997. Two sons.

2. US citizen.

3. Hobbies: languages, reading, travel, writing, watercolor, choral

singing.

languages

4. English (American) - mother tongue

5. French and Italian - fluent

6. Spanish and German - scholastic level

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