Manager Project

Christine Skulstad

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Information Systems Management Profile

Strategic Planning & Execution / Team Building & Leadership

Project Release Management / Technology-Business Alignment

2

3 Quality-focused. Consistent track record of successful on-time project

deliveries. Performance and cost savings improvement driven. Effective

communicator across all levels of an organization.

Core Competencies

Team Training & Mentoring Systems Strategic Planning

Testing/Troubleshooting Application Development

Release Management Installation and Hardware & Software

Process Analysis & Configuration Upgrades

Redesign Budget Planning &

Administration

Extracurricular experience

YearUp - Chicago, IL 08/2014 - present

Professional IT Mentor/Tutor (Pro Bono - volunteer)

YearUp is a one year, intensive training program that provides low

income young adults (ages 18-24) with a combination of hands-on skills

development, college credits, corporate internships, and support to

transition them into productive adults. 85% of the students become

employed or attend college full time within 4 months of completing the

program. Mentor responsibilities included providing professional

guidance, support, and advice to the students assigned to me for that

year. Tutoring entailed providing academic guidance during technical

training sessions.

Professional Experience

Smart Caliber/Fujitsu 11/2014 - 03/2015

SAP Acquisition Project Manager

Mizkan Americas - Mount Prospect, IL

Test Strategy Manager: Lead Business Users and Subject Matter Experts

through Integration and User Acceptance Testing Process, many who were

new to SAP. Partnered with Infrastructure and other application leads

to ensure architecture platforms and payments processing solutions

were ready for test cycle starts. Managed senior level client team

members to build, run, and prepare audit tracking for required test

scenarios from each business area. Coordinated with client to ensure

smooth transition out of testing and into Go Live.

Cutover Manager Orchestrated technical and business teams with

migration all components across test environments (Dev to QA) and into

production (QA to Prod).Partnered with Basis team with transport

sequencing and all touch point activities required with the cutovers.

Facilitated business leadership teams with phase gate review and

signoff requirements.

Grom Associates 07/2013 - 08/2014

SAP Global Test Lead

PepsiCo - Chicago, IL

Built and implemented the Rapid Implementation Service (RIS) testing

strategy. High quality, shortened project life cycle utilizing global

test set assets, automation testing, right-sized testing efforts and

requirements, and a prototype SAP test environment. Intention was to

build, test, and deliver high quality project developments quickly

servicing both infrastructure and business project efforts.

Primary test lead for the first test cycle of the (PI) PepsiCo

International Upgrade project. Multiyear initiative to upgrade SAP

across sectors of: North America, Latin America, Asia Minor, and

Europe. Goals focused on both the project and support landscapes

targeting upgrades to minimize disruptions in service. Utilized

manual and automated testing processes to streamline and standardize.

Built global test strategy processes used throughout the company to

promote efficiencies with reuse across the company. Built and

published strategy documents into the Global SAP Test Methodology

PepsiCo web enabled community.

Kraft Foods Group - Northfield, IL 11/2007 - 07/2013

SAP PMO Release Manager

Aggressively led the IS and Business organizations to upgrade the SAP

environments (ECC, SCM, Portal, BW-Big Data, and CRM) to right fit

enhancement and support pack versions. Collaborating with Basis and

SAP Max Attention teams, implemented binary updates and monitoring

tools to ensure that the Kraft implemented SAP versions were tightly

tied to the overall business strategy while continuing to support the

business goals focused on the company split initiatives. Implemented

release driven timelines with business leads across full organization

structure.

Led cross functional global teams specializing in the SAP practices of

HCM, MTI, STP, RTR, OTC, STC, BI/BW, and MTC through the build,

execution, and problem resolution phases of their regression testing

ensuring that incoming changes work perfectly with current production

environment. Managed development/test team to build and maintain 300-

400 manual and automated regression test scripts - each full end-to-

end process flows done with an agile methodology to fit with the phase

gate timelines.

Orchestrated technical and business teams with migration all

components across all SAP environments for major releases including

the company split efforts. Partnered with Basis team with transport

sequencing and all touch point activities required with the cutovers.

Facilitated business leadership teams with phase gate review and

signoff requirements.

W.W. GRAINGER, INC. - Lake Forest, IL 04/2004 - 11/2007

Senior Project Manager

Directly accountable for full life cycle deliveries of the following:

Real Estate Business Process Lead - Worked with project sponsors to

review two integrated replacement options aimed at centralizing Real

Estate and Facilities Management business processes. Strategies

focused on choosing best practice option between ASAP R/3 or Tririga

solutions - both targeted to replace 25-30 standalone systems. Goals

were to improve productivity & efficiency, lower incidence of error,

build a central budgeting and reporting system, increate warranty and

service agreements savings, and foster compliancy with regulatory

requirements.

AP/SRM Business Process Lead - Collaborated with senior leadership

team to deliver one of the largest multi-million dollar SAP

implementations. Built integration with Bottomline-PayBase payroll

manual check printing solution designed for all vendor supplier and

employee paper checks and positive pay communications to outside

financial organizations. Solution eliminated manual check printing

throughout the organization.

CAREMARK, INC. - Bannockburn, IL

02/2001 - 04/2004

Finance IT Systems Manager

Directed 24 systems team members with goals/objectives focused on

successful deliveries for Payment Processing, Integrated Client

Billing/Invoicing, 3rd Party Payment Processing & Reconciliation,

General Ledger/Accounts Receivable, and SAP G/L. Managed annual

project budgets up to $1,000,000 capital / $500,000 expense. Fostered

business relationships with clients, participants, and pharmacies

aligned with the client.

COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION 05/1996 - 02/2001

Senior Consultant

FCC/NBD/ANB/BankOne/Chase - Chicago, IL

SAP Testing Manager - Designed assessment phase of merger conversion;

created deployment and risk mitigation plans, resource/time estimates,

and training program. Aligned corporate and merger integration

strategies.

SAP Interface Manager - Guided group of 4 team leaders and 21 system

analysts in transfer of 102 GL, Profitability, and Cost Accounting

interfaces from mainframe to SAP Financial software.

PeopleSoft Conversion Manager - Led mainframe to PeopleSoft

HR/Payroll/Benefits conversions for 55,000 employees. Built framework

solution leveraged across all acquisition efforts. Trained technical

development team to create & implement reusable objects used with each

of the client's conversion releases.

Professional Development

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

PEOPLECERT GROUP

Masters of Business Administration / Specialization: Quantitative Methods

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Science in Applied Data Processing / Minor in Business

Administration

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, DeKalb, IL

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