Information Technology Real Estate

MANAGEMENT

RANGE OF EXPERIENCE

Mr. Ball has been specializing in SAP business implementations from medium to large, simple to complex and short to long durations. His experience exceeds 15 years in retail and finance with Butler Shoes, Montgomery Wards, Meyers, and Zales Jewelers and 25 years in Information Technology with 4 years as a customer leading a BI department, over 9 years at SAP (SAP ECC/S4HANA, BW, BI, BI-IP, and BPC), 1 year as an independent consultant, 10 plus years in consulting with PwC and Protiviti. The rest of the years were in Hardware, Software and Financial systems such as various financial accounting and reporting packages. He has successfully implemented over 40 SAP implementations where he has been the Lead, PMO or Co-Lead. His industry experience is vast but with specific expertise and knowledge in Retail, High Tech, Nonprofit and Governmental (State, Local, Federal, and Utilities), Consumer Products, Manufacturing and Distribution, Commercial and Non-Commercial Real Estate, Financial Institutions, and Banking. His specific area of expertise is SAP ECC, S/4HANA, Master Data and Governance, Central Finance, Business Warehouse, BI Reporting, SAC, BPC, Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Strategic Planning, Roadmaps, and Legal Consolidation using SAP BPC/EPM and Group Reporting solutions.

Prior to Protiviti, he was working at SAP and PwC leading projects of up to 200 Consultants as a Project and Engagement Lead and Solution Architect for implementing multiple financial and technical rollouts of SAP Solutions. He has also led Financial, Planning and Reporting projects for large to medium size companies. He worked with SAP BPC Product Development team to create Rapid Development Solutions for SAP’s customers on SAP platforms. He also performed work in SAP BI-IP, PBF, BOBJ, and BI for various customers, and was involved in various POCs, RFPs, and demos. He is equally proficient in other products as well including SAP products (e.g., Fiori, CDS and HANA views, BI, Analysis for Office, EPM, ABAP, Fox Code, Script Logic, etc.).

He has leadership experience in managing and mentoring staff personnel. He also led various external and internal projects such as updating our Sandbox systems used for Demos, creating sales plays, content for AWS and SAP marketplace. He was responsible for developing offshore resources to support systems. Before technology Mr. Ball was a Certified Public Account, Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Information Systems Auditor. He has performed various auditing, compilations, reviews, and assessments of systems for a vast number of industries.

PROFESSIONAL AND EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Protiviti: Associate Director – 10/2019 to 4/2025

PricewaterhouseCoopers: Senior Manager 3/2015 to 10/2019

Implementing SAP Application Solutions: Independent Consultant, 5/2014 to 3/2015

SAP America, Inc.: Senior Applications Consultant, 3/2005 to 5/2014

PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Advance experience implementing SAP ECC, S4/HANA, BI, BI-IP, BOBJ, Fiori, Personas, SAC, BW, and BPC solutions for various Industries (13+). Successfully extracted, transformed, and loaded data (i.e., ETL) from SAP and non-SAP source systems (e.g., ECC, Oracle, MS, and S/4HANA) and into BW/BI/SAC systems (e.g., BW 2.x, 3.x and 7.x) via staging areas. Utilizing standard integration loaded over 1B records monthly into BW/BI/BPC/SAC. Loaded data used for Planning and Reporting purposes using ABAP, BAdIs, FOX and Script Logic. As a Lead, he was responsible for making key design decisions on Architecture Solutions, Designs, Modeling (e.g., LSA++), Reporting, Interfaces and Business functionality. Up to date on the latest technologies such as, but not limited to, ODP, Virtual Providers, Transient Providers, Composite Providers, aDSOs, CDS views, and other BW objects as well as performance tuning solutions.

Challenging experiences implementing SAP BW, SAC and BI systems (i.e., 2.x, 3.x, 7.x, BO) for various organizations. Successfully extracted transformed and loaded data from various source systems (e.g. SAP ECC, SLT, Oracle, IBM DB2, MS SQL Servers, Web Services, etc.) and into SAP BW and SAC systems in order to homogenize data across the organization using data modeling, ABAP logic, Data Actions, Analytical Applications, and transformation rules (i.e. line item, look ups, start, end and expert routines). This source data is used to control, monitor and perform financial, operational, regulatory, and internal reporting. Produced 500+ reports.

As Lead Developer and Tester, led various projects to ensure that development was perform according to client, industry, and development standards. Performed Unit, String, Integration, User Acceptance, and other testing (e.g., performance). Provides documented test scripts, cases and scenarios for training and support. Assisted in all training and training material.

Transformation and Loading and Reporting solutions (i.e., Business Objects, BPC, BW and SAC) for several large companies that had little success with previous implementations, including extraction, cleansing, enriching, wrangling, and loading data. For example, one customer had over 30 reports that ran more than 4 hours, Extraction taking more than 16 hours and other performance issues. After the successful implementation, all 30 reports ran in less than 30 seconds and extraction into and made available for reporting loaded in less than 4 hours. Numerous other reporting issues and technical issues were also resolved during the implementation as well.

Global experience implementing SAP ECC/S4HANA, BPC, BW and SAC solutions for other large Companies. Led development and other teams to successfully develop and test implementation solutions running 24/7. This information was now available for the Central Finance, Capex, OpEx, Consolidation, and Compensation and Headcount Models. As a Lead, he was responsible for making decisions on Architecture Solutions, Designs, Modeling, Reporting, and Business functionality.

As a Project Manager, successfully led multiple projects in various industries. Had the responsibility for managing over 200 consultants in various countries on various projects. Because of failed project management, I was recruited to effectively and efficiently manage eight work streams. On one project, four previous individuals were removed prior to my arrival, which was proven to be a challenging endeavor. Responsible for reporting status of the project, project planning, managing resources, presenting to management, and mitigating risks and issues. Primary person to schedule and facilitate meetings during issues and resolution. In addition, successfully works with various other teams during implementation and support Change Management, Support Personnel, Training, Human Resources, and other teams.

PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS AFFILIATIONS

●Linked In - Member (2014-present)

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

●Masters Information Technology, MIT, American Intercontinental University

●B.S of Accountancy, Bachelor of Science, Walsh College

●Certified Public Accountant, Issued in Michigan (Non-Practicing)

●Certified Internal Auditor, Issued in Georgia (Non-Practicing)

●Certified Information Systems Auditor, Issued in Georgia (Non-Practicing)

TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITIES

As the information relates to SAP Applications:

●SAP Analytics Cloud, Eclipse, and HANA Studio

●BPC EPM 7.5, 10.0, 10.1, 11.0

●Business Warehouse 2.x, 3.x, 7.0, 7.1, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, BW4HANA, BI-IP and PBF

●Business Objects 3.1, 4.0 (Webi, Analysis for Office, Crystal, Data Federator, Universe)

●ECC 6, Central Finance, and S/4HANA (e.g., Fiori, Personas, HANA views)

●SAP Business Objects PCM

●SAP MDG and Data Services (aka BODS)

●Security – BW, BPC, S4HANA, Authorization Analysis

●Group Reporting, CDS Views and Design Studio

●Databases – S/4HANA, MS Enterprise, SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, IBM DB2

●Programming Languages – FOX, Macros, VBA, SQL, SQL Plus, Oracle, Visual Basic, Java, ABAP

●Operating Systems - Microsoft DOS and various Windows based platforms

●SAP Functional in FI, FIGL, FIAR, FIAP, FIAA, CO, CCA, COPA, PS, PCA, HCM, Payroll, Time Entry, Benefits, PP, MM, VC, FM, FA, SD, and Logistics.

●Other – Sharepoint, JIRA, MDG, Workflow (SAP, SAC & BPC), Eclipse, Blackline, HANA Studio, RPO, DevOps

FOREIGN LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

●English. Fluent writing and speaking.

PUBLICATIONS

●SAP BPC Financial Planning Rapid Deployment Solution: Co-Authors – Mark White and Gary Ball

●SAP BPC Public Sector Budgeting Planning Rapid Deployment Solution: Author

TESTIMONY EXPERIENCE

●None.

SPEECHES

Speech presented during employment:

●Award presented to first blind Eagle Scout in the State of Ohio

AWARDS

Awards received during employment:

●SAP America’s HCM Top Talent Award

●SAP Top 25 Billings

●Numerous SAP Peer to Peer Awards

●Professionalism

●Loyalty

●Ethics

●Teamwork

●Dedication

●SAP Certifications and Badges

●S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition (Grow)

●S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition (Rise)

●Business Data Cloud

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Information relates to functional and technical experience:

●Residential Real Estate – 5 years

●Commercial Real Estate - 4 years

●Life Insurance - 4 years

●Manufacturing – 4 years

●Public Sector (Federal, State, Local, Municipalities) – 4 years

●High Tech – 3 years

●Retail – 10 years

●Banking and Financial Services – 3 years

●Utilities – 3 years

●Consumer Products – 8 years

●CLIENTS EXPERIENCE

●As the information relates to client’s experience:

●Zales Jewelers (District Manager)

●Equitable Life Assurance Company (Supervisor IT and Auditor)

●Americe, Inc. (Accounting and IT Manager)

●Morrison Homes (Auditor, BI Department Head)

●North Carolina Department of Transportation (SAP PS and BW)

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●Minneapolis Public Schools (SAP ECC and BW)

●City of Toledo (SAP ECC and BI-IP),

●City of San Diego (Business Planning and Consolidation, SAP BPF)

●Hawaiian Electric Company (Roadmap, Strategy, SAP ECC and BI)

●Adobe (SAP BW)

●Ebay (SAP BW)

●Intel (SAP ECC, SD, and BW)

●CDC (SAP SD, and BW)

●Marathon Oil (SAP ECC, BW, BI and BPC)

●EMC (SAP ECC, BW, BI and BPC)

●PSEG (SAP BW and BI)

●Remington (SAP ECC, SD, BI and BW)

●Bank of Montreal (SAP BW and BPC)

●Harris Bank (SAP BPC)

●NextEra (SAP BPC)

●Nordson (SAP BPC)

●Enable Midstream Partners (PMO, SAP ECC)

●Wisconsin Energy Corporation (Strategy, Roadmap, SAP Business Suite and BI)

●Trader Joes (SAP ECC, BW, BI and BPC)

●Nordson (SAP BPC Upgrade)

●Cubic (SAP ECC, BW, BI and BPC)

●CenterPoint Energy (SAP S/4HANA, Blackline, BW and BPC)

●Korn Ferry (SAP BPC and Group Reporting)

●Shiseido (SAP S/4HANA, BW, BI, Fiori, IBP, and BPC)

●Konica-Minolta (Fastpath, SAP Ariba and BPC)

●Flowserve (BW4HANA, BPC 11.1)

●Freeport LNG (/BW 7.4, BPC 10.1)

●Hostess (SAP AOP SAC)

●Aflac (BPC 10.1 Embedded Planning and Consolidation)

●Kimberly Clark (SAC)

●Sompo International (S/4HANA and BW/4HANA)

●Hardrock (BPC)

●United Therapeutics (SAC and Datasphere)

●National Vision (BPC)

●Johnson & Johnson (SAC)

●Spectrum (SAC, Datasphere, BW and Azure)

●Caleres (SAC, Datasphere, BW and Azure)

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