Max Yurov

**** ******* ***** ** **********, Illinois 847-***-**** acxu3r@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary

Over 15 years of SAP ecosystems experience at four Fortune 500 companies. Successfully implemented projects globally, with focus on SAP security, integration, administration, audit and compliance. Demonstrated leadership skills to drive forward challenging and innovative processes to achieve companywide cost savings, while improving customer experience.

Career Objective

Seeking a challenging position that addresses the company needs and allows me grow as a professional and a leader.

Work Experience

WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE INC.

2016 - Present

Lead Supply Chain and Logistics Architect, 2016

Leading Walgreen’s distribution center architecture integration across logistics applications and infrastructure capabilities.

KRAFT HEINZ COMPANY (KRAFT FOODS GROUP, INC) CHICAGO, IL

2007 - 2016

Lead Supply Chain Architect (Sr. Manager) 2015 – 2016

Drove SAP upgrade roadmap for SAP HANA S/4 platform across all global zones in cooperation with key business stakeholders and zone CIOs.

Led global application rationalization efforts to streamline duplicate capabilities within the manufacturing, procurement, order to cash and logistics space to achieve $10MM cost savings.

Created a 3-year supply chain application roadmap and gained alignment with global zones CIOs and business units.

Archived retirement of 3 legacy procurement applications by architecting SAP ARIBA cloud solutions to integrate on premises SAP ERP and BI systems.

Worked with cross functional teams to uncover business gaps and align them to solution roadmaps within the SAP ecosystem across ERP, BI, CRM, SRM, MII and Business Objects.

Member of Architecture Review Board, responsible for reviewing application integration from a security, network, infrastructure, and end-user services perspective to ensure solutions are integrated successfully.

Provided guidance with project costs and design concepts for shop floor applications, HMI, and plant infrastructure.

Safeguarded on premises, SAAS, and PAAS applications with proper integration to KraftHeinz environment and provided scalable, secure and optimal performance to end-users.

Provided guidance for various ETL tools such as IBM Data Stage, SQL, Dell Boomi, and SAP Data Services to identify the proper application architecture and integration into KraftHeinz environment.

Worked with partners such as Rockwell, Intel, and SAP to drive forward new and innovative technologies that provided business benefits by simplifying end-user experience, and reducing overall operational maintenance cost.

Technology Architect (Manager) 2013 – 2015

Led Architecture & Infrastructure initiatives as part of Kraft’s SAP APO implementation and system harmonization to retire legacy applications and re-size existing SAP environments.

Interacted with business and IT leads to build out an architecture roadmap for each process area and supporting applications.

Drove application retirement cost savings roadmap and achieved $6MM cost savings.

Coordinated efforts with infrastructure team to procure additional server hardware and stayed within budget.

Led product development to simplify and redesign SAP ECC security roles, streamline user access requests and enable real-time segregation of duties analysis by interfacing with SAP GRC.

Drove initiative to simplify Kraft’s Identity Management system and user facing service catalog to create a simple dynamic facing request form for customers to request and provision SAP access.

Provided weekly status updates to IT Sr. Leadership on design, development, quality testing, and implementation activities.

SAP Security Manager 2011 – 2013

Managed a team of 5 to phase-out Kraft’s legacy plant maintenances system, transfer operations to Kraft’s ECC environment and communicate new processes to plant managers.

Oversight of SAP GRC 10 deployment (Risk analysis, Firefighter) and security support activities.

Led a team of 14 to spin-off Kraft’s snack operations; redesigned process workflows to account for new organization.

Coordinated integration activities with HR, Identity Management systems, Active Directory and other downstream applications that communicate with SAP and kept IT Sr. Leadership updated with a program status.

Led a security team of 5 in CEEMA region, to implement Kraft and Cadbury SAP ECC/SRM systems across 6 Central European countries, achieving 3,000 users go-live.

Led North America’s Security design for new GL and finance capabilities across SAP ECC, BI, SCM, CRM, and Portal systems.

Sr. SAP Security Project Lead, 2007 – 2010

Designed and implemented Kraft’s global SAP provisioning strategy to provide an intuitive process for requesting access.

Collaborated with SAP functional process teams on gathering security requirements and deployed an efficient security role design that complies with audit and internal controls.

Led Kraft’s SOX compliance program across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific to establish discipline processes, which adhere to company policies.

Harmonized SOD rule sets across Europe and North America SAP systems and coordinated with audit teams.

Drove several POC projects on re-designing capabilities, which enabled SAP user provisioning with real-time SOD analysis.

GRAINGER INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY, INC, LAKE FOREST, IL

Sr. SAP Security Analyst, 2005 – 2007

Participated on a team of 10+ leading Grainger’s big bang SAP implementation delivering ECC, BI, CRM, SRM, APO, XI, and Portal systems across North America and retiring legacy ERP applications.

Coordinated and delivered Grainger’s SAP HR security model, which included positions, jobs, organizations, personnel numbers, and security infotypes, with SAP CUA integration to Novel IDM system to deliver automated user access provisioning.

Led the implementation of SAP GRC toolset consisting of compliance calibrator, firefighter, and access enforcer from a technical and project management perspective.

Facilitated internal and external audits on SOX assessments and resolved SOD issues.

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, INC, ABBOTT PARK, IL

SAP BASIS and Security Administrator, 2001 – 2005

Supported installations of new SAP ECC environments to expand Abbott’s SAP landscape and enabling additional SAP modules for SD and OM.

Implemented SAP 620 Solution Manager system for use by the SAP team in order to conduct research for roadmaps, configuration and implementation of SAP.

Installed and configured BMC patrol on Abbot’s SAP environments, set up automatic paging when an alert was triggered.

Coordinated SAP Security rollouts and upgrades with focusing new security role concepts across ECC 4.6/4.7 systems.

Worked closely with international team on implementing a Global Security Design into Abbott’s landscapes to enable standards and discipline for role design and deployments.

Participated in SOX compliance initiative with audit to review user certifications, SOD, system IDs, and critical access.

Participated on the steering committee for infrastructure and compliance changes to split Abbott and Hospira SAP environments.

Supported Abbott and Hospira split initiative, delivering a mirrored copy of Abbott’s SAP Production environments with appropriate security model in place.

Education

NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO, IL

BS in Computer Information Systems with a concentration in Computer Programming, Jun 2008

Additional Skills

Bilingual: English and Russian

Achievements, Awards and Honors

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (Certification # GR750082103MY)

SANS Security 401 Course

SAP BC400 ABAP Workbench Fundamentals

SAP BW305 Business Information Warehouse (BW) - Reporting & Analysis (3.5)

SAP ADM100 my SAP Technology Administration from SAP of Americas Inc.

SAPEP and EP200 Technology Administration from SAP of Americas Inc.

Microsoft MCSE Course

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