Tamas Szeier, MBA, MSc IT, BA Finance/Economics

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Education: MBA, MSc in IT, BA in Finance and Economics

Proven track record of successfully implementing BI and IT strategies in complex environments (SAP), which enabled organizations to improve performance, save money, cut costs, discover opportunities and identify issues/weaknesses.

15+ years management (projects, organization, SDLC) experience

20+ years business analysis, system design and architecture, software engineering, QA experience

20 years SAP (ECC6/BW/BI/BOBJ) experience

Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills;

Strategic and System planning and execution; Business Intelligence Strategy and Architecture; Project and Change Management; Budgeting and Cost monitoring;

SDLC; Agile and Lean development, Kanban, Scrum

ERP and BI systems: SAP ECC6, SAP BW/BI, BusinessObjects, Business Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Hadoop, Hyperion/Essbase, QlikView, SSIS, SSAS, MS PowerPivot, Netezza, Tableau,

Microsoft stack: Office – Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project, MS SQL Server, LDAP, Active Directory, SourceSafe, SharePoint

Languages: English – fluent, German - advanced; Spanish, French – basic; Hungarian - native

Work authorization: US passport, EU passport

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Jun 2013 – ASICS America, Irvine, CA

Director, SAP COE and BICC – PMO IT and Information Management,

Leading ASICS’ SAP COE (SD, MM, FI/CO, HR, Retail/Wholesale) and BICC focusing on strategic initiatives, inter and intra department communication, governance, SDLC and quality control, budgeting and financial controlling.

Direct reports: 27 FTEs (managers, leads, developers, architects, analysts, DBAs), 16 Offshore support, 3-50 contractors

Established and headed BICC, responsible for all aspects of BI landscape: operations, development and projects

Implemented strategic partnership between IT and Business departments

Responsible for departmental strategic and Financial planning, Budgeting, and Cost/Revenue analysis

Implemented new business and IT processes to drive down costs in all business departments

Participated in global design and harmonization of Financial and Operational KPIs

Responsible for enterprise HW and SW portfolio and purchases

Cultivated inter and intra-department collaboration to leverage synergies, reduce cost and increase overall visibility of company and global metrics

Improved Financial processes in order to pass quarterly and annual audit

Assessed and Transformed BI solution from report writing factory to self-service model empowering the business and enabling users using traditional and innovative mobile platforms

Managed BI and ERP Programs and Projects for BI Strategy, Data Quality and Governance, SAP BW, SAP BOBJ, SAP COE – SD, MM, FI/CO, HR

Established key performance metrics and monitoring scorecards in Finance, IT, Sales, Procurement and HR departments

Participated in global cost saving initiatives: Travel system, Global Procurement, Global HR/HCM, Invoice and Vendor management, Global BI system consolidating diverse portfolio (BW, BOBJ, SSIS, Tableau) - Transitioned BI, HR and Travel solutions to cloud

Vendor negotiation for SW and HW components, and RFP responses

Coached and mentored project teams during SAP/SD/MM/FI/CO/BW/BOBJ/BI implementation

Introduced Agile development practices: Kanban

Worked with internal Audit to implement IT governance, setup internal controls to manage risk and security

Projects:

Established SAP BI CC

Benefits: clear, consistent and actionable enterprise BI strategy, well defined governance, simple source of truth reporting and analytics, improved data quality, effective communication of value and “power of BI”, executive level leadership support for BI, institutionalized capacity to influence business leaders and executives

BW architecture redesign, definition of governance, meta-data and report catalog

Benefits: improved reporting performance, improved quality of data and reports through governance, cost savings through increased visibility of trends and opportunities in Inventory management and Sales (wholesale, retail, eComm), standardized reporting, common understanding of terms and metrics, increased user confidence and adaption, cost savings by reducing SW portfolio

Complex Financial and Production planning implementation

Benefits: accelerated and simpler month end quarter end processes, improved, self-service Finance reporting

Portal self-service strategy and implementation with OpenText, SAM Jam and SharePoint integration

Benefits: unified excess to all internal and external applications and platforms, standardized look and feel, reduced costs of HW and SW

Vertex Tax solution – SAP ECC6 add-on

Benefits: tax compliance – accurate tax calculation and filing, smooth audit process

Retail and eCommerce solutions – Mexico subsidiary, eBay, Neuegg, DTC Marketplaces

Concur – global cloud based travel solution

Benefits: cost savings through simplified workflow and approval process

Global ASICS BI solution

Benefits: simplified and integrated global BI reporting and analytics, cost effective global solution based on regional synergies

Hadoop and Apache Hive – cloud pilot

Aug 2011 – May 2013 REI, Kent, WA

Sr.Manager – BICC, SAP COE

Leading REI’s BICC focusing on strategic initiatives, governance, information management, SDLC and quality control.

Direct reports: 21 FTEs (tech.leads, developers, architects, analysts, DBAs), 20 Offshore support, 10-50 contractors

•Responsible for SAP COE Business Intelligence including BW, BI, BO, Financial Planning and Budgeting, Merchandize Planning, Interfacing and System/Portal Integration

•Worked with senior leaders to shape and define the future of SAP COE

•Defined EIM framework, BI strategy and platform

•Established governance, roadmap and strategy

•Responsible for SAP BI Program and Project management

•Performed budget planning, monitoring and controlling

•Responsible for business partnership and communication including executive andleadershipteam, Finance, Retail, Merchandizing, Marketing, HR directors and managers

•Managed development and project teams – SAP BW, BusinessObjects, EDW, SAP Portal and SharePoint, Netezza, SAP HANA, SSIS

•Participated in strategic planning, technology evaluation and selection: Tableau, SharePoint, PowerPivot

•Responsible for ERP Integration: SAP ECC6 MM/SD/PP/FI, SAP BO/BW and SharePoint; technical design, and implementation

•Agile development practices: Kanban and Scrum

Aug 2007 – Jul 2011 Newport Corporation, Irvine, CA

Sr.SAP BI Manager

Newport IT global BI Manager

Global BW 7.0 NetWeaver 2004s, BO XI landscape - strategy definition, design, configuration, development and governance of Newport’s BW/BI/EP system.

•Direct reports: 6 FTEs, 4 Offshore support, 2-10 Contractors

•Revamped BI solution: defined BI mission and strategy, created BI road map and landscape, re-designed and deployed global BI reporting solution, established IT/Business communication channels, aligned IT and Business strategy

•Migrated financial planning and consolidation from Hyperion/Essbase to SAP BPC.

•Headed and managed BI COE and governance team, participated in IT budget planning and monitoring

•Created 3 level reporting and analysis strategy (executive, management, operative), and transformed strategy into action plan.

•Budgeted, monitored and coordinated BI/BO projects

•Evaluated vendor solutions; negotiated with vendors

•Established out-sourcing and off-shore structures, managed outsourcing partners and workforce

•Implemented and enforced SDLC and development standards, liasoned with Business and IT executive team

•Managed and coached BI Team (permanent employees and external contractors), performed merit raise and performance reviews, conducted pre-screening and hiring interviews, defined development plans

•Established Enterprise Portal governance team, defined BI Portal strategy and security

•Project management: Planning and Forecasting model (CCA, PCA, B/S, P&L); Executive/Financial/Marketing/Operationscockpits and dashboards; domestic and international roll-outs (Tucson, Rochester, Mountain View, France, Germany, UK, Japan, China); SAP Federated Portal; Service profitability dashboard; corporate HCM reporting

•Integrated BI into SAP COE

Sep 1996 – Jun 2007 Freelance Consultant

Sr.SAP BW Architect/Project Manager

Aug 2006 - Jun 2007 Novartis Consumer Health, Nyon, Switzerland

Sr.SAP BW Architect/Project Manager

Aug 2005 - Aug 2006 Nike Inc., Beaverton, Oregon.

Sr. SAP Consultant/Business Analyst, Team/Project Lead

Jan 2005 - Aug 2005 Coca Cola, Vienna/Bratislava, Austria/Slovakia, EU

Feb 2003 - May 2004 MOL Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

Mar 2002 - Oct 2002 Nike Inc., Beaverton, OR

Jan 2001-Dec 2001 Lam Research Corp., Fremont, CA

May 1999-Dec 2000 Lam Research Corp., Fremont, CA

Feb 1999-Apr 1999 Acta Inc., Palo Alto, CA

Sep 1998 – Feb 1999 BMW Motors Ltd., Steyr, Austria

Sep 1996 – Aug 1998 Dialogic Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

Oct 1997-Aug 1998 Unilever Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

Feb 1997-Sep 1997Tauril Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

Sep 1996-Jan 1997Dialogic Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

Feb 1992 – Sep 1996 C&D Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

Senior SW Architect, Team Lead

EDUCATION

DMS & MBA 1999 - 2005

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and Business School, Buckinghamshire, England

M.C.S., Programmer-Mathematician 1986-1990

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

BA/Finance, Chartered Accountant - Economist 1991-1995

College of Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Financial Institutes, Budapest, Hungary

SAP Consultant / ABAP Certification 1996

Dialogic Ltd, SAP Training: Basis and ABAP/4 Development, MM, FI, SD, Budapest, Hungary

BW Certification 2001

SAP Partner Academy, Irvine, CA

SAP Trainings and Conferences 1996 - to current day

ABAP, BW/BI, BPC, SAP Conferences – ASUG, SAP BI, TechEd

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