Manager Project

Resume of Paul Alan LeRoy, CSM

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Website: http://www.the281group.com

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Background

An experienced information systems professional in the design and maintenance of computer software and systems

who can work as an individual contributor as well as a project or departmental lead. Previous financial experience as an account

clerk, auditor and sales.

Summary of Qualifications

* Project management

* Departmental management * SAP ABAP/4 programming

* Data Center operations management * Experience in startups, system conversions

* Data Center relocation * Proven managerial abilities

* End-user support * Self-motivated, able to set effective priorities to achieve

* Change Management immediate and long-term goals and meet operational

* Disaster Recovery deadlines

* SQL databases * Strategic planning

* IBM Mainframe experience * Developed interpersonal skills, having dealt with a diversity

* Extensive programming skills of professionals, clients and staff members

* Data mapping for system conversions * Function well in fast-paced high-pressure atmosphere

* ERP software and configuration expertise * 6 SAP conversions and 3 upgrades

* SAP data dictionary, correction/transport and performance * Pre/Post software and consulting sales

tuning * SAP Solution Manager

* Unit, integration and acceptance testing * Over 17 years of ERP/SAP experience

* Request for Proposal (RFP) & Request for Quote (RFQ) writing * I am a California Small Business Certified #1743701

* COBIT framework * I am a U.S. Veteran Administration VetBiz Company

* SAP landscape and basis management * National Security Agency ARC Registration # 19264

* Design and implement interfaces between SAP and Non-SAP * Certified SCRUM Master (CSM) # 000334484

systems * Over 13 years municipal experience

* Security Clearance

Summary of Technical Qualifications

Computer Hardware: PC’s, HP3000, HP9000, HP-UX, Sun, IBM

Programming Languages and Utilities: SAP ABAP, Python, COBOL, Java, Visual Basic, Perl, Unix/Linux shell scripts

Software: MS Word, Excel, MS Project, Outlook, PowerPoint, Viso, Lotus Notes, NetBeans, Eclipse, Jetbrains PYCharm, HP

Unified Functional Testing software, Open Source Testing Software,, MS Visual Studio, OpenOffice, AceProject, LiquidPlanner,

HP Agile Manager (Prong), Yodiz Agile SCRUM Tool & Issue Tracker, PowerSteering Program & Portfolio Management

Databases: SAP-Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server, HP-Image, mySQL

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, MPE-XL, MS-Windows,

Awards

Applied Materials Presidents Silver Award for CDIS Project

Solectron FY06 SOX Compliance Testing.

I am a United States Citizen and have served in the United States Marine Corp.

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Experience (most recent years)

The281Group

Title: IT Professional 2009 - Present

Project management and change management including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404 IT compliance assistance using COBIT

framework, ongoing support for existing projects, change management and offshore team management and collaboration, SAP

pipeline management (Solution Manager, Quality Management). Function as a company’s Project Management Office. Agile, PMI,

Prince2 development methodologies used.

Client Hardware and software support, installation, upgrades, programming, documentation and end-user procedures (Help Desk),

ITIL, Remedy and other software.

Development of a PMI project framework that follows the PMI methodology. Framework includes over 70 document

templates. This allows a client to create a project plan with all supporting documents in a matter of minutes.

SAP change management and SOX compliance using SAP Solution manager, and SAP transport control system.

I research, plan and write bid responses to RFP, RFQ, RFI's. Bid responses include contracting as a prime contractor, sub-contractor

and as a teaming partner. Software used includes SAP Ariba, Fedbidspeed, Bidsync, Plantbids and others.

Customer facing activities at all levels of the organization.

Flextronics, Inc - (Solectron Corp has been acquired by Flextronics) 2005 – Jun/2009

Title: SAP Application Change Management Manager

As the Change Management Manager I support all functions to plan, schedule and coordinate parallel and staggered SAP changes

(break-fix, new functionality, hardware) and related bolt-on and interfaces into the production environment. I review and approved

all SAP transports to the production environment. I keep up and publish release schedules and supporting statistical data. Working

with the application project managers I plan and coordinate all movement between the development and quality environments. I

develop, publish and maintain change management procedures (policy & procedures) that meet corporate and S404 Sarbine-Oxley

requirements. I attend and facilitate weekly Change Review Board meetings. I attend project meetings for the purpose of

coordinating and facilitating change and assuring S404 Sarbine-Oxley requirements are meet. I provide project management for

special projects such as the evaluation and purchase of testing software. Planning the migration of SAP activity to SAP Solution

Manager and Remedy. Migration of HR functions to a Workday SaaS solution.

* Approve all changes to the production system to mitigate risk to the production environments.

* Verify all SAP transports are error free.

* Verify all SAP transports contain the proper objects.

* Verify changes have been properly tested and has end-user approval.

* Review and approve all functional/technical specifications and test cases.

* Schedule updates to have minimal impact on running production.

* Assure all changes meet internal audit and S404 Sarbine-Oxley requirements.

* Represent Flextronics in dealing with outside auditors in audits for S404 compliance.

* Trouble-shoot and correct any failed SAP transports.

* Management of offshore resources.

* Project management.

* Migrate current SAP activities to SAP Solution Manager.

* Procedure writing.

* Created change review board.

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Alan LLC 2003 – 2005

Title: Self Employed, SAP Consultant

Working as a Consultant to the California State Department of Water Resources developed of a SAP RFP Bidder Evaluation Plan and

Report for a SAP upgrade from v4.5b to the latest version of SAP with public sector (EA-PS) extensions. Pertinent document contents

where “RFP Multi-Step Procurement Process”, “Evaluation Teams”, including team organization, roles and responsibilities, “Draft

Bid” and “Final Bid” steps, and 16 supporting documents such as “Administrative/Finance Requirements Evaluation Checklist”,

various reference check lists and minimum qualifications check lists.

I have over 13 years of city, county and state public sector experience.

Project Manager for a consulting and placement company to development a response to a major client RFP to consolidate twenty-

eight (28) legal banking entities into a single entity on SAP. SAP modules to be used were Financial Accounting (FI), including General

Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Asset Accounting (AA), Controlling (CO), Enterprise Controlling

(EC), including Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Project Management (PS), for project accounting only, Materials Management (MM),

for purchasing only, Treasury (TR), including Cash Management (CM) for lockbox functionality, Real Estate Management (RE) and

Workflow (WF), minimal functionality.

Extensive use of Microsoft Project, Excel OpenOffice Calc and Open Workbench for all planning activity.

I do user presentations to individuals and large groups using Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice Impress.

Applied Materials, Inc. – Santa Clara, California

Title: Systems Project Manager 1997 – 2003

As the Systems Project Manager I was part of the IT Production Support Organization providing daily hardware/software support,

project support, internal developer support and end-user problem resolution.

I was one of the hiring managers for the IT production Support Organization and as such participated in all hiring interviews.

Review staff training requirements and approved all training. Organized and scheduled internal SAP training sessions.

Selected for global technical insight to serve as key member of corporate-wide Information Technology Change Board that controls

and approves all hardware and software changes throughout company. I work with project managers, deployment and support

functions to plan, schedule and coordinate software/hardware changes in a worldwide production environment.

I was the co-developer and Chair of the SAP Change Review Board (CRB). The CRB coordinates and approves all changes to the SAP

Production Instance. It assures that all ‘due diligence’ is completed. A typical CRB meeting would include the interested users,

functional and technical leads from each SAP functional area (ex. Finance, Sales & Distribution, etc). The change would then be

reviewed for its impact to each functional area, current scheduled production and/or current development activity, performance,

technical completeness, testing and user acceptance. As the Chair of the board, I had the final approval or disapproval authority. I

maintained and published release schedules and related deliverables. I was the developer of the Change Review Form as well as co-

developer of the Lotus Notes Change review system that provides collaboration, work-flow, approvals and change/project

documentation for SAP. This system was Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.

Provide management and hands-on technical support for worldwide implementation of SAP, including Data Dictionary, ABAP

programming, Transport, Basis, QA, change control, conversion planning and execution. Responsible for managing overall health

and growth of the SAP system and its interfaces to other systems, with duties that include monitoring daily operations, review and

resolution of trouble tickets coordinating cross functional development teams and managing SAP modifications, conversions and

upgrades.

In addition to my managerial and project responsibilities: I am the hands-on person for SAP DDIC. I made and control every DDIC

entry. I was the hands-on for all SAP transports throughout the SAP Pipeline; hands-on for identifying and correcting all long running

and resource ‘hog’ ABAP programs; hands-on for the SAP interfaces at the Unix level, correcting any failed FTP’s, recovery from

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incomplete or aborted updates; hands-on for the daily monitoring of system logs, hands-on for the monitoring of any SAP dumps,

and the analysis and proposed fix for the dumps; hands-on for the mentoring and correction of any locked objects; hands on for SAP

performance monitoring using CCMS monitoring tools; hands-on for the correction of any failed updates; hands-on for the

development of Java program(s) that ran as system deamons for system interfaces; hands-on for the evaluation, configuration and

installation of SAP BC Connector (WebMethods); hands-on for the development of Mercury Interactive test scripts; hands-on using

Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Daily review and resolution of end-user trouble tickets. Meeting with end-users and internal IT organizations to resolve trouble

ticket issues. Worked with the end-user and internal IT organizations to change unresolved trouble tickets into Production Change

Requests (PCR).

Resolved project conflicts and timing with the individual projects teams.

Provided internal developer support across all Information Technology departments.

Technical Manager for eight (8) contract ABAP programmers and a consulting company for the development of interfaces between

SAP Sales and Distribution and Material Management and i2’s Demand Fulfillment system. Working from detailed technical

specifications, we would make the appropriate SAP ABAP modifications. I approved all specifications, participated in program

development, testing and troubleshooting.

Project manager for three (3) contract functional analysts, four (4) ABAP programmers, key end-users and the departmental ‘stake-

holder’ for the conversion of Applied Materials spare parts fabrication, purchasing and sales order processing from Oracle to SAP.

Developer of a web application using Macromedia Dreamweaver for the purpose of publishing technical standards. I also

maintained the NT server this application ran on.

Manager and participate in 4 (four) disaster recovery exercises using SunGard facilities. I provided SAP management; planning,

staffing and test plan development for these exercises. All SAP disaster recovery exercises were successful.

Evaluation of Mercury Interactive Software's monitoring software that was eventually used to monitor servers, software and

interfaces between SAP and i2’s Demand Fulfillment system.

Managed the integration of Vastera’s export management EMS-2000 Global Passport software to SAP as well as version upgrade.

Provided daily monitoring of the EMS-2000 software as well as the interface between SAP and EMS-2000. Reviewed and approved

all end-user requests for system modifications.

Manager and individual contributor for the development of a Java File Integration Engine (JFIE). The Java File Integration Engine

moved data files to and from (inbound/outbound) the SAP Server(s). It also provided data validation, and email notification. The

engine was a developed using the Java Io, Lang and Util packages. This software ran as a Unix Daemon. It was developed using

Sun’s Forte for Java (NetBeans) IDE.

Manager for the migration of SAP and its interfaces from the Santa Clara Data Center to the newly build Austin Texas Datacenter.

This was a company wide, $600 million dollar effort effecting in excess of 60 computer applications and over 6,000 users. My

responsibilities included planning, scheduling, testing and certification of SAP and its interfaces upon completion of the migration.

Evaluation of SAP BC Connector (WebMethods) for Java that was later used to interface to an external web-based purchasing system

that was used to order office supplies. I did the initial installation and maintained the BC Connector server. I participated in the

evaluation process and approved the use of this product. I was the project manager from the production Support Organization

during the development of this interface to the external web based purchasing system.

Extended Java expertise by conducting comprehensive evaluation of SAP BC Connector (WebMethods) for Java, later successfully

integrated with external web-based purchasing system for ordering office supplies.

Member of the technical team that evaluated WebMethods Rosetta Net for supplier integration.

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Development of numerous interfaces between SAP and external systems such as interfaces between SAP and Oracle using db-link

and triggers to populate user specific tables as well as specific applications creating flat-files that were moved between systems using

UNIX deamon(s). Mercator was also used to map data and upload/download EDI data.

Working with the SAP Batch Scheduler, review and correct any canceled or excessively long running jobs. This activity could include

an ABAP program modification (for excessively long running jobs), such as reducing the amount of memory used by using

WHERE/HAVING CLAUSES, minimize the data transferred to the program, restrict the number of columns fetched, avoiding repeated

I/O access, avoid nested IF statements, use SAP Dictionary VIEWS where appropriate, use AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS were appropriate,

creating database secondary indexes, table buffering or by simply rescheduling to resolve any batch scheduling and server load

conflicts.

Daily review of the activity logs of an internally developed program (UNIX) that was used to interface to dissimilar systems.

Corrections could include rescheduling jobs, resolving system interface issues or working with the end-user to recreate the data. I

also approved any interfaces and the interface method used such as db-links and BC Connectors.

Daily review of SAP system Short Dumps. This activity would involve identifying the cause of the Short Dump and taking corrective

action. Typical corrective action could include identification of any OSS Notes that may correct the problem, SAP system

configuration changes or hardware changes. If an OSS Note requires an ABAP program change, I would make that change, work with

the end-user and functional group to test this change and transport it thru the SAP Pipeline Instances of Sandbox, Development, Q/A

and Production. This activity may also include ith the SAP Basis Group to make any SAP instance/buffer changes, as well as the

Database and Unix Administrators.

Created and controlled all SAP Data Dictionary entries for the purpose of maintaining system consistency across all SAP configuration

changes. Worked as part of each development team(s) to maintain consistency and to prevent conflicts for SAP Data Dictionary

entries.

Hands-on execution and management of all SAP Transports between sandbox, development, Q/A and Production SAP Instances.

Resolved SAP transport conflicts and timing with the development teams. Worked with the development teams to test the

successful transports of changes to the SAP production instance as well as execution of any rollback activity, if needed

Responsible for the scheduling and management of weekly SAP EarlyWatch Performance Reports. I chaired a monthly SAP system

performance review meeting with selected functional and technical leaders, SAP Basis Group, Database Administrator and the Unix

Administrator to review and take corrective action.

Expatiate to Amsterdam Holland for the conversion of European legacy systems to SAP. My activities included creating and

controlling SAP Data Dictionary entries, controlling and executing of SAP Transports between the Sandbox, Development, Q/A and

Production SAP Instances, and stress and regression testing using Mercury Interactive WinRunner testing software. During Go-Live I

was responsible (hands-on) for the transport of all configurations to the SAP production Instance.

I have participated in six (6) legacy conversions (Initial Asia/pacific, initial SAP Corporate conversion, Purchasing, Horsham, Europe,

and Asia/ Pacific) and three (3) SAP upgrades.

Extensive use of Microsoft Project and Excel for all planning activity.

MIS Project Manager (Applied Materials) 1995 – 1997

Hand-picked for project management skills to direct critical components of firm’s corporate-wide two (2) year effort to convert

finance, purchasing, inventory and warehouse-operations from their legacy systems to SAP (FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI, CO, SD, MM-

Purchasing, Inventory Management, Material valuation WM-Warehouse Management and PM). During this two (2) year conversion,

I provided hands-on SAP Data Dictionary, SAP transport, legacy planning and execution, data mapping for data conversion to SAP as

well as project planning and management.

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Manager of four (4) ABAP programmers and individual contributor for the conversion of legacy data into SAP and interfaces to other

systems. I was also responsible for the execution of legacy data loads to SAP during the conversion.

Co-Project Manager for the conversion of a legacy Purchase Order System to SAP. As Co-Manager, I was responsible for the project

plan and the scheduling and execution of all Go-Live activity.

Co-Manager for the SAP Go-Live activity that included scheduling and management of all activity and conflict resolution.

Systems Administrator Manager, MIS Applied Materials Asia / Pacific 1991 – 1995

Selected to manage and be an individual contributor of MIS activities for a subsidiary of Applied Materials with LAN/WAN database

servers in Santa Clara California, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.

I supported Applied Materials in its expansion of its Asia/Pacific operations from a single office over a mattress factory in Soul South

Korea to offices and data centers in South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.

In addition to my managerial and project responsibilities: I was the hands-on for network administration, software installation,

database administration, server upgrades, computer repair and upgrades.

Part of a company wide effort to write procedure manuals using Paradigm procedure software methodology and Lotus Notes.

Maintained the IT budget.

Applied Materials Asia / Pacific was a subsidiary of Applied Materials, Inc. It has been absorbed into the parent company.

Consultant to Applied Materials 1983 – 1991

As a consultant to Applied Materials, I was the principal Programmer/Analyst for the Spares Inventory Control System. Working with

the system users (end-users), I wrote detailed specifications, coordinated system testing and wrote computer programs.

Installed, managed and programmed the first EDI system at Applied Materials using IBM’s packaged EDI solution.

Expatiate to Horsham England for the purpose of developing and enhancing reporting from European operations to corporate

headquarters in Santa Clara California.

As part of a conversion team, we converted the Spares Inventory Control System to the CDIS System. This was a 6-month conversion

effort. The Applied Materials Silver Award was presented to us for this conversion effort. Extensive data mapping for data

conversion to new system.

While a consultant to Applied Materials, I also had other clients such as Ungerman-Bass, Sun, Bank of America, ASK, etc. I provided

programming and project management for financial, manufacturing, warehousing and material management systems.

Previous employment not listed in detail

Gemunis Computer Systems – Job Title: Manager Software development & Operations Municipal Systems

Computer Usage Co. Job Title: Manager International Banking Systems

Optimum Systems Inc. – Job Title: Manager/Programmer for municipal systems service bureau

County of Santa Clara – Job Title: Programmer/Analyst III

City and County of San Francisco Job Title: Programmer/Analyst III

County of Onondaga – job titles: Account Clerk, Auditor, Computer Programmer

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Education and Professional Training

* Bachelor Science Computer Information Systems * SAP Financial Accounting Online Functions

* Certificate in Computer Programming * SAP Intro. Sales & Distribution

* Linux/Unix System Administration * SAP Sales, SAP Detail Sales & Distribution

* Linux/Unix File System * SAP Configuration Sales & Distribution

* Linux/Unix Networking and DNS * SAP Configuration Materials

* Quality Software Project Management * SAP Data Dictionary

* Java Programming * SAP ABAP/4

* Advanced Java programming * SAP Script-Programming Interfaces

* Oracle Tuning * SAP Administration I, II & III

* HP Interactive Stress/Regression testing * SAP Computer Aided Testing Tool

* Softbridge Stress/Regression Testing Software * SAP Oracle Administratio

* SAP Architecture * SAP ALE Workshop

* SAP Solution Manager Admin v4 * SAP Communications Interfaces

* Sarbanes-Oxley Certification * IBM EDI School

* BMC Remedy Service Desk * New York State Finance School of Government

Accounting

* BMC Remedy 7.x Change Management * i2 Spare Parts Planner*

* National Security Agency (NSA) ARC Registered # 19264 * I am a California Certified Small Business,

Supplier # 1743701

* Certified Agile SCRUM Master # 000334484 * I am a U.S. Veteran Administration VetBiz Company

Current Business Reading Material

* ITIL Foundation Exam Study Guide

* Prince2 Certification

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