RODERICK MELVIN JOHNSON, PMP, CSM
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* Accomplished Supply Chain/ Infrastructure / ERP Project Manager with 16 years of experience spanning Food Distribution, Automotive, Retail, Logistics, Travel, Hospitality and Media industries.
* Cloud based integration systems development and deployments
* Fully effective in both Enterprise Agile and Waterfall project environments.
* Key emphasis on customer success, cross-functional coordination, and stakeholder management. CORE COMPETENCIES
* SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Workflow and Inventory management Microsoft Project/ PWA
* JIRA Atlassian Tools
* Microsoft Visio
* Vendor Onboarding
* EDI Projects (810,850,855,856)
* Custom Reporting
* Inventory Management
* Logistics/ WMS Integration
* Warehouse Assembly
* 3rd party projects (API Integration)
* ESB Transformation
* Power BI reporting
* AWS and Azure Cloud deployments
WORK EXPERIENCE
RMJ Investments
July 2024 - Present
Independent Trader / Portfolio Manager
● Capital & Risk Management: Managed dynamic portfolio capital allocation across high-volatility equities and digital assets, implementing strict position sizing, stop-loss protocols, and risk- reward ratios to protect capital and mitigate downside exposure.
● Technical & Market Analysis: Utilized technical indicators, chart patterns, volume profile analysis, and order flow metrics to identify short-term market inefficiencies and high-probability entry/exit setups.
● Strategy Execution & Optimization: Formulated, backtested, and executed intraday and swing trading strategies adapted to changing liquidity environments and macro trends across stock and cryptocurrency markets.
● Performance Tracking & Analytics: Conducted daily trade auditing, journaled quantitative metrics, and analyzed risk-adjusted performance data to refine execution consistency and eliminate systemic trading errors.
● Financial & Regulatory Operations: Handled corporate entity administration, tax reporting compliance, and ledger reconciliation for self-directed investment operations. SkillSoft
Jan 2024 - June 2024
Project Manager/ Scrum Master
Skillsoft is an American educational technology company that produces learning management system software and content. The current financial system of record is Oracle EBS with an expiring license end of Q1. The company initiated a cost-savings opportunity to migrate all customer/product/financial data to Coupa/PeopleSoft/NetSuite. I was hand picked with my previous experience in migrations to aggressively lead this effort for the duration of contract.
● Weekly update slides with PMO on project status, risks and response plans
● Utilizing "Agifall" project methodology with standard project structure and timelines while managing the fluid change of requirements and complexity utilizing Scrum
● Led project implementation to install and configure purchase requisitions and commodities from Oracle to Coupa R40 cloud environment with full workflow design.
● Utilized MS Teams for all project communication and documentation. Managing virtual teams in both US and India
● Conducting all Scrum ceremonies with standups, stakeholder reviews and retrospectives
● Project Launch: Provided support and Hypercare until the remainder of the contract State of Florida AHCA
Nov 2023-Dec 2023
Program Manager
● Worked with PMO in all AHCA compliance projects and initiatives
● Worked with auditors to ensure documentation was within compliance guidelines SpartanNash
July 2022 - July 2023
Supply Chain Project Manager
SpartanNash (Nasdaq: SPTN) is a food solutions company that delivers grocery and household goods to a network of distribution facilities and to our military bases overseas. The Supply Chain IT department received an overage of intake demand for project work that would provide solutions in maximizing their distribution business. I was brought on to provide immediate project management coverage for those ongoing projects.
● Project manager for the following Supply Chain initiatives
Symphony Demand Planning Implementation - Advanced assortment and distribution planning for all DC warehouse locations.
Supply Chain OMS Upgrade - Deployed and migrated OMS to Azure cloud-based system for military DC replenishments from external vendors
DG Beauty Onramp in Bellefontaine DC - Onboarding project for the physical setup/ IT System and logistics integration for new client (pick/pack/ship)
Ship Pat's Foods from Menominee DC - Logistics project to re-route incoming order/invoice messages to new DC facility.
Accounting systems consolidation from Grand Rapids DC to Nash - Each DC had their own
acct system. Project was to customize Nash prompt to accept workflow processes done in Grand Rapids system
● Worked within Project Management Office for all formally assigned initiatives:
Project cross-functional coordination with key members of IT, Warehouse, Accounting, and Demand Planning.
Project tracking via MS Project; spend via internal time tracker.
Documented all change requests for "red status" project items.
Processed all formal closing project protocols.
Rivian Automotive
May2021-June2022
ERP / PLM Project Manager
Rivian Automotive, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIVN) is an electric vehicle automaker and automotive technology company founded in 2009. The company recently rolled out their first vehicles to market in late 2021 with expansion plans to have plants in Georgia and Europe in the next two years. Because of their rapid expansion and consumer demand, Rivian has launched several IT initiatives to enhance their internal SAP infrastructure and processes. I was selected to help facilitate governance and tracking of various ERP projects. I led a Purchasing Module Migration, transitioning purchase order workflows from COUPA to SAP, and worked on vendor invoice management improvements, including EDI 810 integrations. Additionally, I facilitated PLM/MES system integrations, helping to streamline approval workflows within SAP. Lead project manager for all S/4 HANA ERP/ Supply Chain initiatives:
* Purchasing Module Migration, transitioning purchase order workflows from COUPA to SAP. Migrate Purchasing department POs and approval workflows from COUPA to SAP.
* Enterprise Warehouse Management/ Logistics: (SLOC, Variants, Bin Location setup). Migration of MRO team spare parts data to SAP from AutoCrib
* Vendor invoice management improvements, including EDI 810 integrations.
* PLM/MES system integrations, helping to streamline approval workflows within SAP.
* Integrations from PLM and MES systems - SAP module integration for enhanced approval workflows of new material BOM (MBOM)
* Performed role as Scrum Master for Supply Chain and Financial Systems scrum teams
(10+ developers).
* Weekly backlog grooming and prioritization with Director level stakeholders.
* Managed the ERP portfolio using JIRA Advanced Roadmaps, using Smartsheet WorkApps for project plan communication.
Ashley Furniture
October 2020 - March 2021
Project Manager
Ashley Furniture is the world's leading retailer in home furnishings and decoration. Because of the pandemic, supply chains have been disruptive to their ordering systems and processes. They created this role to have someone create workflows for how their backend systems adapt to new customer demand.
● Worked in SAP S4/HANA environment for SAP EWM and MM modules
● Projects were focused on inventory and warehouse optimization processes
● Performed all project initiation and kick-off with several stakeholders, vendors, and executives.
● Created project scope and business requirements documentation interfacing updated executives weekly with project updates.
● Wrote user stories for all development tasks in upcoming sprints.
● Created Use Cases/ Acceptance Criteria for each deliverable.
● Conducted various Sprint activities (stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning). Jagged Peak
November 2016 - December 2019
Customer Success Project Manager
Jagged Peak is an Omni-channel commerce solutions provider offering high-profile client's products and data integration services for their eCommerce/fulfilment needs. I was hand-picked for my retail and PC/ experience to serve as their engagement lead for the successful conformance and upgrade of client retail servers. My active client engagements were Honeywell Muck Boots, lronman, KIND, Louis Vuitton, Lenox, and Melitta.
● Projects were primarily onboarding / logistics integration of retail client orders to EDGE Omnichannel OMS and Distribution facilities (receiving, dock2stock, warehouse engineering, WMS/TMS integration)
● From the client SOW, collaborated with the client directly to confirm project scope, deadlines, and prioritized requirements.
● Created formalized project documentation with client prior to implementation.
● Reported to PMO with weekly dashboard updates of all relevant KPls.
● Utilized JIRA/Confluence to upload and maintain all project documentation and change requests.
● Managed project initiatives to integrate purchase order and sales data from various systems into Power BI for reporting.
Travelopia
October 2013 - September 2016
Project Manager
Travelopia is a world-renowned tour operator offering high-end sailing adventures, safaris, sports tours, arctic expeditions operations and management. I was referred to this company for my previous project management experience in tourism and ecommerce retail websites. Utilized ''AgiFall" project methodologies to combine traditional project sequential planning with iterative sprints for transparent development with key stakeholders.
● Performed project kick-off/ project initiation and planning for all project activities.
● Reported to PMO with standardized reporting of project scope, cost, and schedule.
● Used both Waterfall and Agile methodologies in working with development teams.
● Provided weekly project updates to all stakeholders. TUI Marine Provisioning
March 2011 - September 2013
Online Retail Manager/ Product Owner
TUI Marine, now defunct, was a world-class yacht charter company for high-end clientele providing luxury sailing destinations all over the world. I was picked to pioneer and leverage Magenta in offering sailors full online provision ordering from the comfort of their home well before they arrived at their destination. Sales exceeded £2 million GBP/year across all charter bases for which I was retained as commercial manager.
● Established the company's first online retail store for the distribution of TUI Marine's food and beverage yacht provisioning products in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
● Managed the implementation of selling system, AWS cloud based, front end UX, and operational integration (Budget $1.0SM).
● Expanded operation to over twenty-two locations in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and the Exotics.
● Drafted all business cases for capital investment as professionally managing the delivery of those projects.
Central Holidays Travel Group
August 2005 - February 2011
IT/ Web Project Manager
● Responsible for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward hotel/air reservation systems and company LAN/infrastructure objectives.
● Managed migration email project to Microsoft Cloud Services from Sendmail/Postfix (Budget
$100k).
● Migrated reservation system to Microsoft virtualized server technology with RAID 5 redundancy and clustered computing (Budget $300K).
ESSENCE/TIME Inc.
July 1999 - October 2002
Web Site Project Manager
● Created, developed, and managed the company's first internet presence for ESSENCE.com
(Servers/ Programming).
● Directed the coordination of all implementation tasks involving third party vendors and/or partners.
● Produced entertainment webcasts for annual ESSENCE events (ESSENCE Awards, ESSENCE Music Festival).
● Installed information kiosks in coordination with major event production companies (FOX, Universal Studios).
● Managed transition of web-site operation from ESSENCE Communications Media to AOL/Time Warner.
CABLEXpress Technologies
August 1996-July 1999
Webmaster
● Designed, developed, and managed the company's first Internet web presence.
● Integrated TechData database of prices, SKUs, and descriptions into online storefront.
● Coordinated with various departments for purposes of content management, product inventory, hardware, and software configuration.
● Provided customers with phone and online technical support. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
TUI Marine: Project of the Year 2012 ASA Certified Sailor Toastmasters Member - District 48 since 2013
Haitian Empowerment Foundation (HEF), Member since 2010 Project Management Institute (PMI), Member 2007 - 2013
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
Master of Science: Information Resources Management, Syracuse University Bachelor of Science: Information Resources Management, Syracuse University Formally Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification of Completion: Computers and Networking, PCAge Technical Institute