FRANCIS T.H. KHUONG, MS, CCP, PA.

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SPECIALIZING IN ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT, AND STRATEGIC PLANNING Strategic, Solutions-Driven Senior IT Director and SAP ECC / S4 - Executive Advisor with an expansive track record in driving global IT integration and implementation projects spanning industries and focused on operational excellence, increased efficiency, and streamlined processes. Leverages keen understanding of business requirements and needs, project management expertise, and visionary leadership to produce winning solutions that are closely aligned with organizational objectives and initiatives. An integral technical and functional expert, who drives the success of projects, stimulates cross-functional team collaboration, faces challenges head on, and provides key insights and recommendations throughout the project life cycle. Fluent other languages: French, Cantonese, and Vietnamese Core strengths include:

• Enterprise/Solution Architecture • System Integration • IT Management

• Software Development Life Cycle • Requirements Analysis • Business Process Improvements

• Project Management • Operational Optimization • DevOps Tool-chains - ALM

• SAFe-Agile Methodology • MS Azure, AWS, Dell Boomi • IoT Digitial Transformation

• IT - VP & “C” Level • Capgemini - PMP • HPE’s Six Sigma Black Belt CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Proven track record driving major, large-scale IT projects as an Application and Integration Architect, CIO, Director and Senior Vice President at Fortune 1000 corporations globally.

Credited with successfully leading and supporting global implementation projects in excess of $40M to $500M US Dollars/Euro.

Overall 40+ years of IT - 30+ years of manufacture - 25+ years of SAP, 20 + years of Solutions Architecture.

Championed the creation of a PMO for large-scale global projects, accommodating multiple technical and business users with Big-6 consulting firms.

Pioneer in SAP S4-HANA & CLOUD for ECC Netweaver, SAP PI, SAP Mii, and SAP ME with HA and Load Balancing - VM SLD and SAP HEC.

Manage HP Lead Executive Advisory for SAP S4-HANA – Cloud, HPE Cloud system Enterprise, Helion & Linux, and SAP Cloud Practice.

HPE – Six Sigma Black Belt PMP Certification with SPARTAN, SAFe Agile, Automation Framework, ALM Tools. INDUSTRY EXPERIENCES

40 + years of IT & 30 years of SAP across multiple Verticals: Manufacture (Discrete & Process), Aerospace, Retail, Foods & Beverage, Federal Gov – DOD – ED – State – Agriculture, Railroad, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Chemical, Banking, Loan & Mortgage, Credit Banking & History, Insurance - Life – Health – Medical – Hippaa – Claims – Property & Casualties, Utilities, Pharmaceutical, Software Development & Sale, Liquor, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Clients also included: Lockheed Martin & Boeing, Bell Helicopter, NASA, P&G, Campbell Soup, Duracell, Goodyear, UTAS, Simpson, McCain, Loblaws, Cooper Tire, Asland Oil, Nissan,Toyota, Caterpillar, Nestle, Nokia, Grace, Delphi, Aritztia, Renault Rolls Royce, GM, Ford, KBR, DOD-Army LMP-GFEBDS, Chrysler,,BHP Billiton Oil & Gas, Hilmar Cheese, Hospira, TOMS shoes, Dr. Pepper, Infinera, Aramco Oil + DOW Joint Venture, St. Jude Medical, Baker Hughes Conoco Phillips, Chevron Oil, DOW Chemical, Landis + Gyr, Lockheed Martin, Monsanto, Jabil, Callaway Golf, Department of Defense (DOD), Raytheon, DELL, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Chase Bank, Ohio Savings, Radian, McKesson, Alcon Lab, Merck Pharmaceutical, Johnson & Johnson, Panasonic, Union Pacific RailRoad, ConAgra Foods, Dean Foods, ACH Foods, Shell Oil, Unocal 96, and Skychef. FRANCIS T.H. KHUONG, MS, CCP, PA.

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TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (“TCS”) 2018 – PRESENT

• Chief Architect Officer – SAP MES Global Architect. Managed, Functional &Technical leading the following clients

(Fortune 100) in their Modernization pursuit and SAP S4-HANA's greenfield/brownfield project deployments. All are in exceed of 250 + million dollars projects. Managed over 20- 2500+ Onshore and Offshore Solution Architects, Sr. Managers, Managers, and Software Engineers. Many manufacturers are migrating to Cloud (on premise & off- premise with SAP CPI, Azure, Google, and Microsoft Cloud): Humana Medical Insurance, Bayer Pharmaceutical

(Germany – SAP GATP & SAP IPB), J&J Orthopedics pharma manufacturers (SAP GTTP, IBP), Walgreens global Retailer, BOEING Aerospace, Amazon (Kuipper Satelite).

• Led APO project with SAP GATP & IBP for J&J Orthopedics Manufacturing via Jabil Ortho division..

• Lead Deployment of SAP S4 - PLM and Manufacturing along with SAP ME on Amazon Azure Cloud. Lead all Gaps & Fits analysis, FRICEW Estimation, Design Analysis, and Integration for SAP S4 (MM/PP, IM, EWM, PM, QM) on Azure, Siemen Team Center MES, for eBom & mBom Design, Integration TS4, SAP CPI & SDI, and SAP ME integration On-Premise and Cloud Azure, including SAP DMC, and SAP PEO with SAP ME Integration.

• Functional Lead for Dupont Manufacture Sites on Digital IoT Transformation & Productivity Improvement for 6 Dupont major plants. Reviewed all IT processes from A to Z, gather all functional and technical process, document all areas, and architect design changes and process improvements.

• Lead AWS migration projects including Aurora DB and Amazon Security Encryption KMS, CMK, and ESDK.

• Lead Architecture Design with Amazon AWS Scaling, Resource and DB Scaling.

• Responsible for TCS’s Client Dupont (DOW Chemical) SAP Merging of SAP ERP and MES initiative including integration, migration, unification, transformation, and architecture SAP MES Cloud migration.

• Responsible for TCS’s Client Owens Corning 17 Global Plants MES, ERP COE, and Production Support and BASIS rollout for all SAP S4 - 2020 Upgrades.

• Completed the following tasks for SAP PI/PO 7.4 & 7.5. Pioneered in SAP HCI for SAP HEC Connector and SDI (for HANA Integration and Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) with SAP Lab. Deployed PI PO with CPI for over 20 Cloud Migration.

• Global Leader for S4-HANA Cloud Digital Pre-Sales and Architecture Solutions, respond to over 20 RFI/RFP with highly intensified functional/technical solutions.

• Chair Shopfloor Workshops –functional requirements gathering – Deliver Specs and Mii Dashboard.

• Lead Architecture Design for Work Center, Supervisor, & Manager Dashboards with OEE.

• Lead Functional & Technical Solutions Architect deployment for other TCS’s Clients’ Plants globally (Asia, Mexico, USA) in SAP MES, ECC,, PLM, S4-HANA, S4-HANA migration, SAP PI PO, and SAP Mii.

• Solution Architect for Pre-Sales in SAP PLM & S4-HANA and SAFe Agile projects.

• Architect and Lead implementation SAFe Agile DevOps for Pepsico with TCS onshore and offshore.

• Lead Managed Services Onshore and Offshore Technical and Functional to provide hypercare to clients HP ENTERPRISE 2015 – 2018

Director Global Leader Sr. SAP Advisory Chief Solutions Architect Lead HPE practice in S4 HANA Enterprise Cloud (public and private) to pursue clients in HEC and SAP Mobility. Work closely with SAP of America Acct. Exec. to deliver SAP S4-HANA “out-of-the-box”. Work closely with SAP of America Account Executives to prepare RFP, Bids, and present A->Z to clients. Successfully presented and won over 30 RFP Responses ranging from $300K to $225 million. Work closely with SAP of America Account Executives to prepare, propose, and submit RFP responses, Bids, and present A->Z solutions to clients. Subsequently, chaired or co-chaired Oral Sessions in front of clients (ranging from Network, DBA, BASIS, Architect, IT managers, VP, CIO, and CFO). Solutioned and Architected [functionally & technically] SAP ECC SCM (includes SD, MM/PP, WM, BW, EWM, PM, QM, FICO, HCM), Infrastructure and architected [functionally &technically], SAP Order to Cash, HANA (private, public, on- demand, hybrid) landscape which included hardware sizing, DB sizing, processor capacity in VMware and HPE CS’s top HANA performance CPUs.

Lead SAP Basis S4-HANA to perform Homogenous and Heterogeneous migration via SAP Landscape Transformation

(SLT) with SUM & DMO - SAP ECC BW & FI –CO to S4-HANA Central Finance including ECC SAP EHP versions upgrade, SAP Cloud Practice, AWS, Google Cloud, and MS Azure, and DELL Boomi. Manage BASIS Teams onshore and offshore vary between 6 – 25 depending upon types of support: onsite, remote, on-demand, cloud, and client’s on- premise.

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Lead Technical Teams to Setup, configure, and host workshops on SAP MDG, SLT, AIM, ACDOCA for S4-CFinance. Do all BASIS estimations, installation, configuration, MaxAttention SAP ECC, PI, Mii, and ME Tunning as well as S4-HANA installations. Managed Onshore/Offshore BASIS support for multiple clients (USA, Canada, Brazil, & Mexico) as Onsite, Remote, Cloud, SAP-on-demand. Hands-on BASIS Lead for HPE in the USA. Lead design Architecture for AWS and MS- Azure Cloud platform migration (OS included Windows, Redhat, and Suse - Public, Private, and Hybrid) with top Security. Champion in SAFe Agile in combination with SAP’s RDS ASAP to expedite deployment. Lead ALM Tools and Automation Framework workshops for various SAP Modules including SAP PLM and S4-HANA migration. Lead completion of various installations, configuration and setup initiatives between SAP Mii, SAP ME, PCo, Scada, Wonderware, Siemens, and other Historian PLC hardware at shopfloor level (Discrete and Process Manufacturing). Conducted, Chaired, and managed S4-HANA workshops with end-clients to produce “blueprint”, architecture SLD, and deployment for various SAP modules (SD, MM/PP, POS, and MDM) integration with S4-HANA. Lead Cost models Estimation for HANA SAP Basis S4-HANA Migration (DMO & SUM) Homogenously and Heterogeneously with FICO & BW/WM/EWM which also include SAP BASIS cost estimation - SAP ECC BW & FICO to S4-HANA Central Finance including ECC SAP EHP versions upgrade.

Lead pursuit (as well as manage Solutioning & Delivery) on various S4-HANA Cloud migration, SAP PPM - PLM, RFID, SCM, PI/PO, Mii (up to 15.0) & SAP MES (eWM to ECC) opportunities in North America and Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica) Industry as well as manage Delivery effort. Led various Functional and Technical workshops on SAP PLM with Recipes, Specifications, Documents, BOM, Recipe Geonology, Recipe Structure, Quality Inspection for Foods, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and P&G clients.

Pursued across various Verticals: Aerospace (Airbus, Lockheed Martin, BOEIN, and NASA,– DOD Top Secret Clearance, Chemical, Oil & Gas, Pharma – Discrete & Process manufacturing. Foods & Beverages. Tires Industry, Retails – Largest USA and Canada, Automotive… Manage Onshore and Offshore teams in Brazil, India, the Philippines, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Bratislava staff of 50+ members. CAPGEMINI LLC 2013 – 2015

SENIOR PRINCIPAL ARCHITEC – SR. MANAGER SCM SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT Owned all responsibilities of MES, SAP EWM, and ECC integrations using SAP Mii design and development, as well as Capgemini proprietary system development methodology ISAP. Integral team member providing functional and technical expertise for MES proof-of-concept (POC) projects in order to make functional decisions and perform Fit and Gap analysis. Led onshore and offshore functional and technical teams consisting of 16+ Functional and Technical Analysts, Developers, and Offshore Basis team.

• Delivered point-to-point 35+ integrations between SAP ECC, MES, PI, and SAP EWM.

• Solutioned and Architected Infrastructure and HANA landscape which included hardware size, processor capacity in VMware and HPE CS’s top HANA performance CPUs. Lead Cost models preparation, Estimation, and all Technical Solutionning for HANA Migration (DMO & SUM) Homogenously and Heterogeneously.

• Managed directly all functional technial project activities in workshops, blueprint, and functional specifiation phases as well as technical development and testing. Ensured of Order-to-Cash – OTC and Procure-to-Pay – PTP activities.

• Designated as SAP SCM, SAP Mii, SAP ME, and MES Functional Lead for Johnson Controls Plan-to- Deliver (PTD), steering all functionalities and designs and ensuring all business requirements were met.

• Acted as Consulting Manager and Lead Integration Architect for global SAP projects for 385 automobile manufacturing plants, including Enterprise SAP ECC SCM and various MES applications (Autopro, JTDS, Scada, Wonderware, LIMS, Siemens, and other customized in-house MES).

• Member of Executive PMO and Project PMO to maintains and controls the project budget, schedule and resources. Responsible for project planning, resource allocation, steering committee leadership and team organizational structure management, project communications-scopes-risk-mitigation and resolution to meet project deliverables.

• Represented Capgemini at client sites for the purpose of conducting functional discrete manufacturing blueprint workshop sessions detailing integration requirements for SAP modules including: SCM,SD, MM, PP, PM, QM, BW, EWM, MES, CRM, SAP PI, SAP Mii, SAP Aii-OER w. RFID.

• Served as a member of Capgemini’s Pursuit Team, producing SAP ECC and MES RFPs, presentations, and FRANCIS T.H. KHUONG, MS, CCP, PA.

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bids for major multi-million and billion dollar SAP projects across the US, Latin America, EU, and Asia. ERP-SAP EXPERTS 2001-2013

VICE PRESIDENT DELIVERY

Delivered expertise and strategic vision focused on planning architecting, and directing SAP HANA deployment projects for local and global platform including CLOUD VMware architecture. Managed the full project lifecycle including: preparing all requirements, determining capacity, coordinating and performing installation, training team members, and working collaboratively with cross-functional team of DBA, Network, Security, and Hardware team members to ensure successful and on-time delivery. Provided key technical milestone requirements to govern project deadlines and key

• Led teams of 10 Basis offshore and up to 5 Basis Onshore members.

• Managed full-scale Basis and Application upgrade project for SAP Netweaver 7.3 EHP SP10 with SAP Mii from 12.1 to 14.0, including installing eight instances of ECC, Solution Manager, NWDI for tracking with CTS+ for over 1000 object and configuration migrations, in addition to architecting and deploying all eight instances to SAP CLOUD with SQL database and HANA (for Solution Manager) with HA and Load Balancing.

• Served as Lead Architect for large retail integration project for TOMS shoes’ front-end eCommerce website to back-end SAP ECC, encompassing the design of all SAP PI landscape, performance, capacity, and fault-tolerant load balancing infrastructure.

• Provided direction to the Review Team in re-evaluating Hilmar’s overall SAP Mii Blueprint by an offshore firm for functional, architecture, and technical requirements including physical SLD, resulting in an amended blueprint document and functional specification packages including SAP PI and SAP Mii infrastructure. PRIOR RELATED EXPERIENCE 1992 - 2001

• Chief Information Officer (“CIO”) & Vice President of eCommerce Development and Integration Vatav, Inc.

• Senior Director of B2B/SAP Projects Origin Technology

• Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner Data Pool, Inc.

• Manager, Senior Manager, Group Manager, & Director of IT at other Fortune 500 FRANCIS T.H. KHUONG, MS, CCP, PA.

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BEGINNING YEARS OF IT EMPLOYMENT

Over 15 years of Mainframe Assembler, CICS Macro, Cobol I, Cobol II & 370 with CICS Command Level, IMS, DL/1, IDMS Network and IMS, DB2 Relational Fourth Generation Language, ADSO, Culprit, OLQ, IDD, DMLO, IDEAL programming language, Easytrieve, Panvalet, JCL, TSO/SPF, Syncsort, various mainframe utilities for development and testing, and EDI Gentran in IBM and Amdahl mainframe.

• Employed at Washington Insurance, Bankers Insurance, Metro Dade County, TransUnion Credit, First Data Resources (largest and fastest Data center in the world – still is today), and Nissan.

• In the junior, mid- and senior management roles, directly managed and lead many IT projects with small, medium, and large budgets.

EDUCATION

Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science (Minor: Actuarial Sciences)

(Graduated Summa Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa), University of Illinois – Chicago Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science

(Graduated Summa Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa), University of Illinois – Chicago Certification and Training Courses: Hobbies:

Actuarial Risk Exams 1, 2, and 3 Loma Exams 1 and 2 Loma Exams 1 and 2

Bonsai Master Artist, Rare discuss Breeding

CA-Cullinet IDMS DBA & Applications ADSO Tae Kwon Do Master IBM Training (Assembler, CICS, PL1, and Pascal)

Oracle Manufacture & Financial

Martial Arts Shaolin 7th Degree Black Belt

AS400, EDI, B2B – Gentran, GIS, SI, webMethods

Certified Scuba Diving

eCommerce ATG, Amazon AWS, & eBay App

Cloudsystem Enterprise - Mobility

European Fast Driving Club

SAP MM, PP, BW, WM, BI, XI/PI, SAP Mii, SAP ME Wine Collector SAP Manufacturing, SAP HANA –HPE

Numismatics Coin Collector

Rare Tropical Fish Breeding : Discus

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