Project Manager Sap

Garry Cunningham

Phone: 248-***-****

Cell Phone 248-***-****

E-mail: abnlop@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced IT project manager / EHS Consultant focused on the design, implementation and

support of SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions

Project Management / EHS Consultant –

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o Johns Manville - SAP EHS Product Safety implementation, including implementation of

the Atrion Compliance Suite for EH&S™

o INX International Ink Co. - SAP EHS Global Label Management implementation for

European countries

o Milliken & Co. Chemical - SAP EHS Product Safety / Substance Volume Tracking /

Global Label Management implementation

o INX International Ink Co. - SAP EHS Product Safety / Substance Volume Tracking

implementation, including interface to Atrion's Compliance Engine (Expert Rules)

o Dow Chemical Company – Global SAP Product Safety implementation – including all 4

geographic regions - North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific

Extensive experience in configuration of SAP Specification Database, EH&S Product Safety,

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Report Shipping functions, Document Management System, and Classification System

Management.

Global Label Management Implementation - Inx International Ink Co and Milliken Carpet /

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Chemical

Extensive experience in managing staff of developers and supporting the day-to-day

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operations of a global product safety system and substantial functional upgrade

System Analysis and EHS Project Lead for SAP NetWeaver upgrade for Dow Chemical,

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including all EHS applications

Architecture Specialist for Dow Chemical legacy EHS applications

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Support for many EHS legacy systems at Union Carbide and Dow Chemical

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EHS SAP Project Manager for Union Carbide initial SAP Product Safety implementation

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+30 experience in various IT responsibilities and support, starting in computer operations with

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West Virginia’s largest bank

College Instructor for Systems Analysis and Computer Survey at West Virginia State College

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Linx/AS, LLC King of Prussia, Pennsylvania - July 1, 2006 - Present

An information technology consulting firm focused on providing SAP PLM implementation services

Dow Chemical Company Midland, Michigan - Feb. 2001 - July 1, 2006

US largest chemical company – Architecture Specialist for EHS applications, including the SAP

Product Safety

Union Carbide Corporation Danbury, Connecticut - July 1976 – Feb 2001

Leading US chemical company – Various IT/SAP responsibilities

PROFESSIONAL ROLES

Project Manager / EHS Consultant

Cell: 248-***-****

e-Mail: abnlop@r.postjobfree.com

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Johns Manville - SAP EHS Product Safety

Inx International Co - European Specific Global Label Management

Milliken & Co. Chemical - SAP Global Label Management

Inx International Ink Co – SAP EHS Product Safety

Dow Chemical Co. – Global SAP EHS Product Safety

Union Carbide Corporation – SAP Product Safety

Systems Architect

Dow Chemical Co.

Systems Analyst, Applications Development, Client Services Rep

Union Carbide

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Six Sigma Green belt award while at Dow Chemical – several Black Belt classes completed

• Received several Special Recognition Awards in professional career

• Prior national programmer membership while developing applications

• Implementation of Dow EHS system on a global basis in all languages supported by SAP

(Dow failed miserably at this attempt three prior times)

• Participated in Union Carbide’s Corporate-wide SAP system for all SAP modules

• Developed the Union Carbide Drug Testing system

• Responsible for Desktop computing at Union Carbide and a national account with Apple

Computer

SAP R/3 EXPERIENCE:

• Received initial training in the Production Planning (PP) module

• Initial work was in SAP v 2.7b – several upgrades, extensive knowledge version 4.6c

• Implementation experience with SAP 4.7

• Implementation experience with SAP 5.0

• Initial EHS Product Safety version 1.0

• Extended experience in the General Settings, Classification System, Substance Volume

Tracking, Global Label Management, Interface to Atrion's Open Content Connector and

Compliance Engine

• Experience in Sales Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Cross Application, and

Basis modules

PRIOR PROJECT DETAILS

Johns Manville implementation

• Project team member along with 12 other consulting companies and the Johns Manville

business team members in the overall project development and implementation - project

replaced several legacy systems and particularly a very archaic EHS MSDS solution

• Attend team meetings, meet project dates, supply project deliverables, testing, and

interface for all EHS functionality

• Gather, specify, and insure EHS requirements delivered on time and proper functionality

• Customize and deliver SAP EHS training to the EHS Business group

• Develop and maintain the project plan

• Develop and deliver the many project deliverables as required

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Configure the Property Tree

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Interface the Specification database with Atrion's Open Content Connector and

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Compliance Engine and build custom Expert Rules

Work with BASIS and IT personnel for interface server and application setup

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Test the verify Report Shipping functionality

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Interface with EHS Project Business Manager

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Load all EHS data and reports for startup

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Insure all that all functionality worked as stated in Blueprint

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INX International Ink Co EU implémentation

• Stand alone EHS enhancement to the upgrade solution supplied by LINX 2 years prior -

this allowed the European Union to use the Global Label Management

• Gather project requirements

• Develop templates required for European labels

• Align to EU custom labels (A4)

• Configure Property Tree changes

• Develop specifications for Master Data loading to accommodate European products

• Coordinate the loading of Master Data

• Test and move templates and setup to Production

• Provide management of developer resources

Milliken Carpet / Chemical implementation

• Project team member along with Hitachi to replace numerous legacy systems, including

several EHS systems, and specifically three label printing solutions

• Visit plant locations and gather system requirements from all functional areas

• Provide direction and training for all template and Global Label Management (GLM)

functionality

• Gather existing labels and manage the consolidation and reduction of 175 labels down to ~

15 templates within SAP

• EHS team member responsible for the EHS Product Safety / Substance Volume Tracking

solution

• Configure GLM items and touch points with other functional areas

• Develop the EHS templates

• Coordinate with the other IT consulting company and Milliken business leads

• Test and verify GLM functionality

• Develop and Deliver project deliverables

INX International Ink Company implementation

• Project team member working with other consulting companies to upgrade the existing

SAP system and incorporate EHS Product Safety

• Gather and specify system requirements

• Attend project meetings, supply deliverables, testing meet project delivery dates, testing,

and implementation

• Develop and maintain the project plan

• Establish the database structure (Property Tree)

• Determine the Legacy Data / Document Migration Strategy

• Complete all configuration for EH&S functions

• Set up of Classification System characteristics and classes

• Provide specifications for the custom built function modules for developers

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Implement Substance Volume Tracking

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Provide management of resources

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Work with Atrion International for installation of their Compliance Engine with the

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specification database.

Conducted EH&S training sessions

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Configure and test various components of the module to insure customer satisfaction (

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including customer report distribution and BOM/BOS interface)

Meet the project requirements

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Dow Chemical Company

• Direct the requirements gathering (from an initial list of 1500 requirements to a final list of

~500 requirements)

• Work with Business partners around the world to prioritize requirements

• Direct effort to develop all custom functionality

• Review and approve all development

• Configure the entire system

• Lead setup of interfaces to other legacy systems

• Set up the Classification System characteristics and classes

• Coordinate testing efforts

• Key member of the project team leadership where ~ 200 people were involved

• Lead data migration efforts for migrating data and documents from ~ 12 legacy systems

• Meet the requirements on time and on budget

• Lead enhancement project twelve months after initial implementation for additional

functionality

Union Carbide Corporation

• Received initial training in the PP module

• Led IT effort to implement the new SAP EHS Product Safety module. These efforts began

prior to the time that the module was a released product. Worked with SAP developers in

establishing and testing the product

• Product Safety went live with a different version of SAP than the other modules and

interfaced to these modules for implementation

• Performed all configuration

• Led IT data migration efforts

• Developed wwi skills – self taught since no material was available then

• Conducted training for the business partners on the SAP functionality

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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science – West Virginia State College 1982 - 1986

Institute, WV

Major course of study: Management Information Systems (MIS)

GPA: 3.70 (4.0 scale) - Graduated May 1989

Master of Science – W est Virginia College of Graduate Studies 1987 - 1989

Institute, WV

Major course of study: Management Information Systems (MIS)

GPA: 3.70 (4.0 scale) - Graduated May 1989

WORK HISTORY

2006 – Current LINX-AS Consulting for EHS solutions

2001 – 2006 Dow Chemical Company, Southfield, MI – Architecture Specialist

(2001 Union Carbide merged with Dow – 30 years experience)

1976 – 2001 Union Carbide Corporation, South Charleston, WV – Development Specialist

1973 – 1976 Kanawha Valley Bank, Charleston, WV Computer Operator

COMMUNITY SERVICE

1999 – 2002 Soccer Coach – South Lyon, MI & Clear Lake, TX Recreational Leagues

1973 – 2009 Numerous Church responsibilities

1984 – 1991 Basketball Coach – Elementary School & Charleston, WV Area All-stars

1984 – 1986 PTO Vice President – J.E. Robins Elementary School

1982 – 1988 Soccer Coach – Charleston, WV Recreational League

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