Manager Sap

Dave Karpinsky, MBA, PMP

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Objective

Seeking leadership technology opportunity.

Delivery Executive Presales PMO ERP / CRM Data Warehouse Technology

Career Profile

Proven track record with 25+ years international Big-4 consulting experience. Have sold, owned and managed programs over $500M with P&L responsibility to over $70M. Specific experience in strategy, roadmaps, delivery, program management, PMO, solutions development, vendor & alliance management, business development, mergers & acquisitions, global transformation. Have built excellent relationships with customers allowing to sell & deliver solutions that transformed their business. Strong network & personal brand. Knowledge of technology, industry and issues. Experience in consultative selling process and winning work through compelling proposals that address customer’s challenges or goals. Great people and interpersonal skills. Resilient self-starter with positive attitude.

Technical expertise in PMO, ERP (SAP, PeopleSoft, CGI, Lawson), Data Warehouse & BI (Teradata, IBM, Oracle), CRM (Salesforce, Siebel), ETL, systems integration and OCM. Practicing RUP, ITIL, CMM, Agile Methodologies. Certifications in SAP, PMP, Prosci, ServiceMax. Experience teaching over 70 graduate level courses. Strong oral and written communication skills have been leveraged at Board, Advisory, CEO, and CIO level to introduce positive change and improvements in a variety of business and technical environments. Underwent 10-year FBI background check for work with DHS & TSA.

Areas of

Expertise

ERP (SAP, PeopleSoft, EPIC, Salesforce)

Cloud Management Systems, SaaS

Sys Dev / Integration / EAI / architecture

PMO / Program & Project Management

Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Business Process Management (BPM)

Selected

Accomplishments

Delivery Leader for companies such as Google & Nike going through SAP S/4 Transformation. Currently Managing Google Cloud SAP Implementation. Google is Accenture’s largest global account

Delivery Leader at SAP for Western Region involved in presales & solution delivery of all SAP products across all industries. Lead for Leonardo & IoT in the West. Delivery executive responsible for ~2 dozen+ accounts combined services revenue of over $50M/yr.

Grew the market and ran Cognizant’s European Systems Integration Practice out of Netherlands, sales target of over $25M. Created customer value props in conjunction with capabilities. Forecasted sales, revenue & margin.

Built and ran Intertec’s consulting practice. Doubled the practice to 200 in one year.

Delivery oversight experience with multiple projects.

Ran BearingPoint’s global IT Governance practice with delivery oversight, building it from scratch to over 120 individuals forming and nurturing alliances with CA, Primavera & Planview. Became trusted advisor to number of clients.

Program manager for a global consolidation of over 80 systems for a $2.1B Chemicals company onto centralized SAP S4/HANA in Azure Cloud (first ever such deployment in the world). The company consists of 2 major SBUs: Performance Materials (PM) provides specialty chemicals to the Automotive industry, Printing industry, Exploration industry, Electronics industry and others. Agricultural consists of 5 additional entities. Used ASAP 8 RDS (Rapid Deployment Solution) methodology. Implemented global template & two waves going to Europe & Africa. Implemented FICO (Record to Report RTR), MM (Procure to Pay PTP), PP (Plan to Supply PTS), SD (Order to Cash OTC), Solution Manager 7.1 and Fiori Apps. Integration to Hyperion. 1503 Simple Finance template implemented (Suite on HANA). A $25M consulting program. Core project team of over 120 FTEs.

Managed Cloud Broker Platform for a company to globally deploy Cloud Services including SaaS, IaaS, PaaS with AppDirect, Orbitera, SoftLayer & AWS as partners integrating to SAP

Program manager for SAP SAP FICO & HCM upgrade from v5 to ECC 6.0 for Class 1 Railroad company; SAP Virtualization on VMWare vSphere 5.1; Rimini Street tax engine implementation; CA Clarity

Managed Ingram Micro Logistics SAP ECC 6.0 functionality enhancements for Apple incl EDI updates

Program manager of various e-commerce applications that integrated with eBay and SAP in Azure cloud with Ariba for $5 Billion Retail company with 1,500 stores. Also managed SOPs, warranty & defects. Managed Digital Receipts project via ExactTarget and POS integration

Managed PMO rollout for SAP for State of California in 58 counties with over 200 team members for ECC v6 FI,HR, DW, Trust implementation CA Judicial Courts. Implementation included new install, and upgrades of existing SAP components from version 4.7. Scope included PMO, functional, technical and organizational change management.

Managed successful delivery of world’s largest SAP / HR 3.8 integration at $75 million going to 110,000 users in 2,100 sites for SW Bell (RBOC). Project team consisted of over 220 working in several states.

Sold largest project in history for a Big-5 Consulting Firm to Wireless Manufacturer. Crafted a multi-national SAP deployment strategy consisting of 130 countries, and presented a proposal in amount of $550 million to a board of directors in Europe. Led global implementation strategy and delivery of first phase.

Managed $200 million PeopleSoft implementation for State of Florida

Managed PeopleSoft implementations for two largest Florida public Universities consisting of HRMS/HCM (8.8), Financial (8.4), Student (8.8), EPM (Warehouse) and Portal implementations. Combined budget over $90 million with team of over 120 full time individuals.

Established PMO & planning for $98 million, 200+ FTE team PeopleSoft 8.4 implementation for Utilities Company.

Set up PMO for State of Alaska ERP (CGI) Finance & HR/HCM implementation.

Managed EPIC clinical ERP system installation and integration for a consortium of 42 hospitals in Southwest.

Managed Salesforce / SFDC Sales Cloud & ServiceMax project for $1.5 billion Precision Instruments Company with SAP & Mulesoft back end integration & CTI deployment for Medical / Scientific Company.

Managed Salesforce / SFDC Sales Cloud project for $11 billion Pharmaceutical Company with custom development and back end SAP integration.

Dave Karpinsky, MBA, PMP

cell: +1-480-***-**** email: *************@*****.***

Objective

Delivery Executive PMO ERP / CRM Data Warehouse Technology

Experience

4/2019 to

present

Accenture

Director

Los Angeles, CA & Phoenix, AZ

Professional Services SAP pre-sales and delivery in Western USA.

Sales: work with Sales & Delivery on putting together proposals, SOWs, respond to RFPs, demo’s, identify and secure contract extensions. Work with alliance partners such as SAP, Vistex, etc.

Delivery: manage complex, high dollar value & strategic SAP implementations.

Delivery lead for Google Cloud for SAP S/4 implementation. Google is Accenture’s largest global client. Project phases included Inception, Requirements, Design (Blueprinting) following Google SDLC. Functional areas included OTC, SAP SOM, BRIM, CI, CC, RAR, GRC, GDPR. Vistex implementation & SAP integration. The work required strategy, 3 year roadmap development, validation / discovery workshops, Capability Workshops, business/functional requirements & design, RICEFW, Release roadmap, Data strategy, MDM, etc. SI team size was 170 FTEs geographically dispersed. Developed several change orders & additional contracts incl Vistex.

S/4 HANA Retail lead for Nike. Managed first phase to identify and document scope and requirements through series of workshops. Developed strategic 3 year roadmap that included first phase deployment to Greater China. Scope included Central FIN, RTR (record to report), PTP (plan to produce), STP (source to pay), OTC (order to cash), data & analytics, architecture, integration & security. Key modules included FICO, Project Systems, Plant Maintenance, Sales & Distribution, Intercompany, Material Management (procurement)), Master Data Governance, HR Mini Master, Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS), Reporting, GRC, Global Trade. Project team of over 80 consultants.

Representative Accounts / Clients include:

oNike, Google, HPE, ESRI

10/2016 to

4/2019

SAP

Delivery Executive, Digital Business Services, Premium Accounts

Phoenix, AZ

Run Professional Services (pre-sales & delivery) in the West Region. Solutions include delivery work with Hybris, Concur, Ariba, SLO/DMO database carve out, SuccessFactors, Fieldglass, IoT, Leonardo, Fiori, HCM, CRM, C4C, C/4 HANA, ECC 5.0, 6.0, S/4, HEC / cloud, S/4 HANA, SaaS, Callidus, Gigya, CORE Systems, Digital Boardroom, SAP Activate methodology.

Sales: work in pre-sales capacity to negotiate deals and extensions. Deliver SAP point of view (POV), provide strategic thinking and built key client relationships. Manage scoping workshops.

Delivery: Manage client satisfaction, customer success, protecting the brand, program KPIs, financial health, resources, quality gates, overall delivery. Programs from small POC to over $25M engagements. Involved with alliances, strategic partnerships, roadmaps, strategy, mergers & acquisitions and carve outs / divestitures.

Western Leader for all company divestiture & mergers / acquisitions with SLO & DMO solutions.

Western Leader for all Leonardo & IoT programs and deals.

SAP internal change champion for Callidus acquisition and rollout within SAP

SAP internal owner of PROQ partnership & POC deployments.

Representative Accounts / Clients include:

oAgilent, Amgen, Amkor, Chewy, Costco, Daimler Trucks North America, Disney, FFF Enterprises, Gallo, Gates, Lamb Weston, Micron, MillerCoors, NetApp, Paccar, Petsmart, San Jose Sharks, Sonos, State of Alaska, State of Hawaii, TicketMaster, Yamaha

3/2012 to

10/2016

NVME, Inc

Vice President, Professional Services

Phoenix, AZ and Europe

Ran professional services in Americas, staff of over 200 consultants. Programs included:

2015-2016: A global consolidation of over 80 systems for a Chemicals company, Arysta, onto centralized SAP S4/HANA in Azure Cloud (first ever such deployment in the world). The company consists of 2 major SBUs: Performance Materials (PM) provides specialty chemicals to the Automotive industry, Printing industry, Exploration industry, Electronics industry and others. Agricultural consists of 5 additional entities. Used ASAP 8 RDS (Rapid Deployment Solution) methodology. Implemented global template & first two waves going to Europe & Africa. Implemented FICO (Record to Report RTR), MM (Procure to Pay PTP), PP (Plan to Supply PTS), SD (Order to Cash OTC), Solution Manager (SolMan) and Fiori Apps. Integration to Hyperion. 1503 template implemented (Suite on HANA).

2015: Salesforce / SFDC Sales Cloud & ServiceMax with SAP & Mulesoft back end integration & CTI deployment for Horiba, Global Medical / Scientific Company. AWS for hosting.

2015: Cloud Broker Platform for Avnet, a $25B technology company to globally deploy Cloud Services including SaaS, IaaS, PaaS with AppDirect, Orbitera, SoftLayer & AWS as partners integrating to SAP

2014: Merger & Acquisition (M&A) of two grocery giants Safeway & Albertsons (combined stores 2,400 becoming 2nd largest grocery chain in USA with 250,000 employees). Developed implementation strategy for two work streams: Financial / Lawson and Business Intelligence / reporting; Mapped PMO waterfall processes to client Agile methodology.

2014: Various e-commerce applications that integrated with eBay and SAP ECC 6.0 for PetSmart, a $5 Billion Retail company with 1,500 stores. Also managed warranty & defects.

2013: Ingram Micro Logistics SAP ECC 6.0 functionality enhancements for Apple incl EDI updates

2013: PMO for State of Alaska ERP (CGI) Finance & HR/HCM implementation.

2012-13: SAP SAP FI & HCM upgrade from v5 to ECC 6.0; SAP Virtualization on VMWare vSphere 5.1; Rimini Street tax engine implementation for a Kansas City Rail, a Class 1 railway company; CA Clarity

10/2008 – 3/2012

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Director / European Leader - Advanced Solutions Practice

Phoenix, AZ and Amsterdam, NLD

2011-12: Managed EPIC clinical ERP/HCM system installation for a consortium of 42 hospitals in Southwest.

2010-11: Developed next generation solution architecture & application migration strategy for KPN Telco.

2010-11: Ran sales & delivery in Advanced Solution Practice in continental Europe. Worked with client partners, strategic partners such as Computer Associates, others in building solutions & taking to market to clients. Clients include Merck, KPN, ABN Amro, ING, Rabo Bank.

2010-11: Developed & implemented project portfolio management & PMO strategy for ING bank & ING IM.

Salesforce deployment for High Tech company; back-end integration to SAP

2009: Managed all of delivery for McAfee account incl. portal, integration, data warehouse, business intelligence & analytics, security and infrastructure for special projects at $18 million annual IT spend.

2008-09: Managed CareLink program for Medtronic to replace existing artificial heart internet-based heart monitoring & analytics system affecting 250,000 patients in 20 countries.

2007 - 2008

Intertec Consulting

Phoenix, AZ and San Jose, Costa Rica

Director of Professional Services (Contract)

Managed Delivery of Solutions for Intertec worldwide, particularly Phoenix, Costa Rica operations and UK services. Clients include Honeywell, Intel, Walmart, Symantec, Phelps Dodge, etc. Projects were SAPR/3 upgrade and functionality enhancements.

Projects include SAP enhancements, managed services, remote monitoring, application development & maint.

Managed staff of over 250 person delivery team around world and development of solutions.

2000 - 2007

BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting)

Phoenix, AZ

Program Manager / PMO, Technology Integration

Engagement / Project Manager for SAP ECC 6.0 FI,HR, DW, Trust implementation for State of California Judicial Courts. Implementation rolled out to all 58 counties, which included new install, as well as upgrades of existing SAP components from version 4.7. Scope included PMO, functional, technical and organizational change management. Project team of several hundred.

Program manager for $200 million PeopleSoft implementation for State of Florida; project team of over 200.

Project manager for PeopleSoft implementation for two Universities consisting of Financials, HR, Student Administration, Warehousing & Portal modules. Managed a team of 130 individuals in 10 teams.

Managed $8M PeopleSoft 8.9 implementation for New York University consisting of Financials (GL, AP, AR, Projects) and HR (HR, Payroll, Time & Labor)

Filled a client VP of IT Operations role for Bertlesmann, successfully deploying 9 IT projects, and migration of client architecture to new ISP platform.

Managed $10M data warehouse project using Oracle & Cognos architecture.

Developed IT Strategy for $1.5B division of Sprint.

Developed strategy and architecture for existing and new plant for Genentech, a biotech company, following ISA 95 standard. Architecture included supply chain model, application, data, information and process flows.

Managed and technical lead of Oracle Data Warehouse project for GM Powertrain.

Managed National Security project at Detroit Metro Airport (security checkpoints) and organizational change management consisting of 1,200 screeners.

Developed PMO and program structure for $98M PeopleSoft 8.4, Data Warehouse and BPR program for Entergy, southeast Utilities Company.

1999 - 2000

IBM Global Services, Integration Services

Southfield, MI

Senior Manager

Managed Sales & Delivery of General Motors BuyPower© eCommerce project, reporting to CIO. Managed strategy, execution, validation, deployment, PMO, workplan, process & methodology of $16 million, 6-month project in 7 countries.

Managed Sales & Delivery of eGM Saturn BuyPower eCommerce $5 million project. Managing requirements gathering, OO analysis & design, process, custom dev (Java, HTML, SQL), testing, architecture (ATG Dynamo, Net.Commerce, Oracle), legacy data migration, hosting and deployment. Utilized SDP-21 methodology.

Managed execution and delivery of DaimlerChrysler global e-Commerce projects, $40 Million with collaboration with Organic.com.

1997-1999

Ernst & Young, LLP, Management Consulting

Sears Tower, Chicago, IL and Amsterdam, NLD

Manager

Managed IT projects to $75 million; sold E&Y’s largest project in history - $550 million SAP proj.

Developed global SAP (5 modules) v3.1 implementation strategy for 130 countries, 90,000 users.

Managed delivery of SAP/HR application v3.0g, largest in the world going to 110,000 users.

Managed end-to-end testing of Euro currency for world’s 5th largest bank in 13 countries.

Established E&Y Telecommunications Center of Excellence in Chicago. P/L $1 million.

Teaching

2000 - 2005 Lawrence Technological University Southfield, MI

Adjunct Professor

Taught the following courses: strategy, management information systems, information systems capstone, e-commerce capstone, telecommunications, project management. Moved to Arizona.

2004 - 2006 Colorado Technical University Online

Adjunct Professor

Taught project management, business, technology and operations courses.

2003 - 2006 University of Phoenix Online

Adjunct Professor

Taught the following courses: E-businesses Principles and Practices; Contracts, Ethics and Intellectual Property; Information Management in Business; and, Applications of Technology Management.

Adjunct Professor at the following Universities, having taught undergraduate and graduate IT and business classes:

Breyer State University Online

Northern Arizona University – Graduate College Online

DeVry University – Keller Graduate School of Management Online

e-Army Online

Western International University Online

Education

Nova Southeastern University

Davie, FL

Ph.D [ABD]., Information Systems

Completed 64 of 64 required classroom credits (including residency) and 24 of 24 required dissertation credits. Area of study: Wireless event-based architecture.

University of Phoenix

Sacramento, CA Campus

MBA, Technology Management

Graduate School of Business Administration MBA program with concentration in Technology Management. Completed 51 credits. Degree awarded.

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

Bachelor of Science from WSU School of Science, Carnegie I Research Institution

Completed 121 credits, half in science. Received full scholarship. Degree awarded. High school graduate.

Certifications

PMP (Project Management Professional) by Project Management Institute (PMI), 2000

Salesforce ServiceMax Certified Administrator, 2015

Prosci ADKAR Change Management Practitioner, 2015

SAP HR, 1997

SAP, Solution Manager 7.2, 2017

SAP, Solution Manager Business Process Modeling for SAP S/4 HANA, 2017

SAP, SAP S/4 HANA planning with SAP Solution Manager 7.2, 2017

SAP, SAP Solution Manager Strategy, 2017

SAP, Project Management for Cloud Implementations, 2019

Languages

Besides fluent English, fluent in Slavic languages: Ukrainian, Russian and Polish. Also some Bulgarian, Czech, Yugoslavian.

Technical

Applications & COTS: MS Office Suite, Lotus Suite, SAP HR R3.0f / 3.1g / 4.0b / 4.3 / 4.7 / 5.0, ECC 6.0, S/4, Suite on HANA, S/4 1503 to 1909. SAP ABAP, Financials (FI), General Ledge, (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Controlling (CO), Travel Management, Treasury, Investment Management, Project System, Material Management (MM), Inventory Management, Fixed Assets, Real Estate Mgmt, Treasury, BRIM, OTC, APO, TADM, APO, BW, CO, EBP, PP, SD, HCM, WMS, EWM, Payroll, PA (Personnel administration), OM (organizational management), cloud manager, Solution Manager (SolMan) 7.1, Business Objects 13.1, eSourcing 5.1, BW 7.0, Rimini Street tax engine, etc; Lawson; Hyperion, PeopleSoft 8.4; 8.8, 8.9, 9.0, 9.1, 11, 12 (Financials, HRMS, Payroll, AR, Contracts, GL, COA, AP, CFM, EPM, Portal, Student, Technical modules); Ulti Pro 10.2 (recruiting, onboarding, payroll, time & attendance, core); Pivotal Relationship 2.0, ERWin, Rational Rose. QA Automated tools: preVue, Aprimo, Aster, SalesForce.com. SFDC Sales Cloud, McAfee SIEM, ePO, Ariba, ServiceMax (certified administrator), Hybris, HEC, Concur, C4C.

Application & Web Servers: Lotus Domino & Notes, ATG Dynamo 4.5, IBM Netfinity, IBM NetCommerce3, WebSphere 3.0.x., Vignette v7.0

Databases & Warehousing: Teradata 13, 14. Oracle 7.1-7.3, 8.1, 9, 11, 12; Microstrategy, SAS, Cognos, Tableau, Embedded SQL, PL/SQL, Informix, 4Gen, Interbase, Paradox 5.0 and MS NT SQL Server 6.5, dBASE, Focus, Sequential Flat Files, Terabyte databases, Multimedia databases, Data Warehousing/marts, Data Mining. SQL scripting, database normalization, DSS. Aster Platform / Big Data, Hadoop. Informatica; Cloud services (Azure, VMWare, Rackspace, Amazon)

Platforms: SUN Solaris, Windows, NT, HP-UX, Linux, X/OPEN, SCO UNIX, AIX.

Middleware: CrossWorlds, Active Software, JDBC, ODBC, CORBA, COM/DCOM, Vitria, Tibco, BEA, Weblogic, BizTalk, Kintana, publish-subscribe, event-based architectures. Mulesoft.

Other: IAM (Identity Access Mgmt), ITIL, GISP/GISS, SOX, Safe Harbor; RUP, ITIL, COBIT, TOGAF, CMM, Scrum, Agile, ASAP, ILM Methodologies

Management: MS Office, MS Project (Gantt, PERT, scheduling), Primavera TeamPlay 3.5.1,4.0, P6.0, estimation (COCOMO, wide-band Delphi, FPA), RFP, CMM, SOW, Risk & Quality Management, PMO (program management office), IT Strategy, business strategy, Organizational Change Management, Business Process re-engineering (BPR). R2I for Oracle, SAP, ASAP RDS, and PeopleSoft. Extensive experience in change management, training, workforce transition, and business process reengineering. P&L (profit & loss) statements. Agile, Scrum, Scrum Master, daily standups, scrum meetings, post scrum, managed ceremonies, performed grooming, planning sessions; worked with epics, stories. VersionOne, Asana; Activate Methodology, Prosci Change Management Practitioner ADKAR. Workfront.

Executive Systems: Financial Management (capital budgeting, risk & cash flow analysis, capital structure, financial forecasting), Marketing (opportunity analysis, new product development and positioning, consumer analysis, selecting & managing market channels), Strategic planning. IT Governance & PMO (NIKU Clarity, Primavera, Artemis).

Personal

US Citizen

Traveled and lived to over 40 countries

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