SAP PM Functional

Bertus Barnard SAP PM/MM

Resume

Personal Data

First Name Bertus

Surname/Last Name Barnard

Mobile Telephone 610-***-****

E-mail *********@*****.***

Professional overview

Education in electrical engineering

Instrumentation and process control technician in mining, manufacturing and petro-chemical industries. 9 Yeas industry experience.

SAP consultant with more than 15 years consulting experience and 9 FLC projects.

Project positions held span team member, team lead, process lead, integration test lead, project manager.

Implementation projects at petro-chemical, electric utility, pharma, life science, mining and manufacturing and food processing industries.

SAP functional experience in:

Design of plant structures and technical objects.

BOM’s (Bills Of Material).

Maintenance planning and processing.

Scheduled maintenance.

Inventory management.

Procure to pay – Goods, equipment and services for Maintenance, inventory and projects.

Document management.

Project structure definitions.

Project budget management.

SAP authorization role definition, testing and assignment.

SAP training in document management (SAP Academy in Toronto), PM, PS, MM.

Eduction

Certified plant maintenance manager with AFE

ASAP certified

Registered engineering technician with South African engineering council.

SAP and other training as detailed in resume.

Employment History

Name Of Company Clarkston Consulting

Type Of Company Consulting

Position Senior – SAP PM/MM

Period January 2007 – Present

Main Job Functions Responsible for all phases of SAP PM/MM implementations using Clarkston Consulting implementation methodology. Clients consisted of mainly pharmaceutical companies. Was assigned to three implementation projects in which I fulfilled a team lead role. One for SAP MM and two for SAP PM. As team lead I was responsible for business process re-engineering, prototyping, demonstration of processes using SAP, review and approval of business process procedures, data clean-up and preparation for migration. As team lead for Materials management included workshop facilitator, business process re-engineering, prototyping, demonstration, review and approval of business process procedures, data preparation and clean-up, writing technical specification for forms and report development. This project was a very challenging project in that the client produced live animals that had to be tracked, sold and surgically modified using SAP functionality. The last project was with a food processing and canning company in San Diego. I was responsible SAP PM and MM and leading the implementation team through design, blue print, different phases of testing, data gathering, clean-up and preparation, data migration, go-live and support.

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Name Of Company Deloitte Consulting

Type Of Company Consulting

Position Senior Specialist – SAP PM

Period May 2005- January 2007

Main Job Functions Responsible for all phases of SAP PM implementations using Deloitte implementation methodology. Participated in RFP preparation, writing qualifications for various proposals. Was assigned to two implementation projects both at Electric utility companies. The first client in Baltimore implemented MAXIMO for which I was responsible for the work management portion. As team lead I was responsible for business process re-engineering, prototyping, demonstration of processes using MAXIMO, review and approval of business process procedures, data clean-up and preparation, gap analysis and risk management. The second project, a SAP implementation was in Michigan and my responsibilities as team lead for the fleet and facilities team included workshop facilitator, business process re-engineering, prototyping, demonstration, review and approval of business process procedures, data preparation and clean-up, writing technical specification for forms and report development. Responsible for overseeing and approving test results for unit testing, string testing and data migration validation.

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Name Of Company Essroc – Italcementi Group

Type Of Company Cement producer - Mining

Position Competence center business analyst

Period May 2000 - May 2005

Main Job Functions Business process analyst in plant maintenance and project management for all the company cement plants across the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. Providing SAP development and support services for the ( PM ) Plant Maintenance Module, (MM) Materials management and (PS) Project systems. Developing training material and providing training as required to the end user community and new development. New report definition and testing as required. Troubleshoots and resolves problems to complex business functions. Liaison between US facilities and the Italian parent company.

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Name Of Company The Inc Group Inc.

Type Of Company Software Implementation and Support

Position SAP R/3 Functional Consultant

Period February 1998 – April 2000

Main Job Functions Implementation of SAP R/3 PM (plant maintenance), WM

(Warehouse management) and MM (materials management) modules. Tasks at client sites included:

* Detail requirements analysis and design

* Prototyping and demonstrations

* Gap analysis

* Enterprise application integration

* Business process reengineering

* Customizing and configuring the PM module and integration to MM and WM.

* Setting up and maintaining regular and preventative maintenance strategies referring to task lists created, creating relationships and doing cost analysis

* Defining up functional location structures

* Accumulation of all relevant plant and equipment data

* Setting up master files and importing the relevant data

* Setting up and maintaining maintenance schedules with reference to time and performance

* Creating and maintaining equipment tasks lists allocating time, material components and PRT’s

* Creating bills of materials (BOM) for functional locations and equipment masters

* Developing all relevant reports as per user requirements

* Writing standard texts for use in task lists, work order operations and work order confirmations

* SAP R/3 user training including writing of material and creating presentations.

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Name Of Company Drafthire

Type Of Company Subcontracting To Mossgas ( Petro-Chemical)

Position Maintenance/Shutdown Planner

Period April 1994 – December 1997

Main Job Functions Introduction to SAP R/2. Maintenance planning (multi-

discipline), data capturing of completed work orders for history build up, identifying unreliable equipment using breakdown and maintenance history, preventative maintenance planning. Shutdown planning for the FA platform. (custodian of the shutdown workscope). Creating routings for equipment included in the bi-annual shutdowns. Compiling and checking bills of material. Material reservations and procurement of resources, local and international. Expediting of material orders, liaising with vendors and inhouse buyers. I became very familiar with the maintenance management side of SAP R/2 and was selected to be trained in the applications of SAP R/3. Providing engineering support to the Mossgas FA platform

SAP R/3 implementation Project - BPR team member. SAP R/3 implementation project team member, responsible for the PM module and integration areas between PM, MM, WM and PS. Tasks included:

- Requirement analysis and design

- Gap analysis

- Prototyping and demonstration

- Configuration and customizing

- Coordination of data cleanup exercise for data transfer from SAP R/2 to SAP R/3.

- Setting up of BOM’s, preventative maintenance schedules, master data for equipment, functional locations, material and tools

- Report specification and development

- Maintenance planning using SAP PM module

I was also trained to be a trainer to train offshore personnel in the Sap intro (SAP20) and PM (LO100 and LO810) classes. I also developed job specific classes to train personnel in areas specific to their jobs.

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Name Of Company Drafthire (Division Of Technihire Limited)

Address Po Box 1139, Johannesburg, South Africa

Type Of Company Subcontracting To Soekor (Southern Offshore Exploration Corporation, Po Box 307, Parrow, South Africa)

Period August 1993 – April 1994

Position Technical Consultant – Instrumentation

Main Job Functions Working on a project creating and implementing a

scheduled maintenance system (Engaurde) for the Mossgas FA platform. My main job function was to ensure that all the equipment on the FA platform were tagged as per P&ID drawings and did in fact exist. Determining maintenance requirement for equipment. Creating equipment masters, compiling BOM’s for each piece of equipment. Writing of maintenance procedures, safety procedures and task lists. Development of a database for data cleanup and correction. Identifying and writing of business process documentation. Change management documentation.

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Name Of Company Self Employed

Type Of Business Installation, Maintenance and Repair of Instrumentation And Control Systems

Period May 1993 – August 1993

Functions Did work for sugar mills, sawmills and timber plants, citrus

Pack houses and bean producers in the Eastern Transvaal, South Africa, and Swaziland. Work included automation of boilers, automation and control of kilns, maintenance of recorders, level measuring systems, temperature measurement, log scanning and counting systems and telemecanique PLC systems.

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Name Of Company President Brand Gold Mining Co (5 Shaft)

Address Po Box 64 Welkom South Africa

Type Of Company Gold Mining Company – Underground

Period October 1992 – March 1993

Position Shaft Technician

Main Job Functions Installation, maintenance and repair of all instrumentation

and control systems on underground pump stations and crushing facilities, instrumentation included the following: magnetic flow meters, pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters, electromechanical valve actuators, load cells, electromechanical beltscales, open channel flowmeters, liquid level measurement (capacitance and pressure) load cells and water treatment (flocculant dosing system) control and monitoring was done by Allan Bradley PLC and Cygness operator interface. Labour control and section budget management.

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Company Lta Autecon Limited (Groenewalds)

Address Po Box 920 Southdale, Johannesburg South Africa

Type Of Company Subcontracting To Various Industries

1st Period May 1991 – December 1991

Position Commissioning Technician (Mossgas Offshore)

Main Job Function Commissioning of fire and gas detection and emergency

shutdown systems (ESD and DCS systems) this included loop checking of all related systems, calibration and testing of loops and instruments such as gas detectors, smoke detectors, infra-red detectors, heat detectors, pneumatic valves and actuators, solenoid operated valves, rtd’s and temperature indicators, record keeping of all modifications and changes. Maintenance on equipment already in operation was carried out according to maintenance schedule.

Reason For Leaving Aircraft accident. Eight months recovery period after the

accident. The project was completed during my recovery period.

2nd Period March 1993 – May 1993

Position Commissioning Technician (Jwaneng Diamond Mine in Botswana)

Main Job Functions PLC retrofit project. Commissioning of new

instrumentation. This included termination of cables, loop-cheking and testing of instrumentation and control systems, piggy backing so that both the existing relay system and the new PLC system can run of the same instruments giving operational personnel the opportunity to operate the plant from the old system while learning to operate the new system. Instruments included the following: nuclear density gauges, electro-mechanical beltscales, ultrasonic and capacitance level measuring instruments, belt speed switches, proximity switches and belt slip detectors.

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Company CDM (Pty) Limited

Address Po Box 35, Oranjemund, Namibia 9000

Type Of Company Diamond Mining

Period January 1985 – April 1991

Last Position Recovery Technician – Instrumentation

Tasks included: installation, maintenance and repair of all instrumentation used in the recovery section. These instruments included the following: x-ray diamond sorting machines (XR 112B, XR 22MK1, XR 23MK1, DBX 112-2, BDX 216 and BDX 2112 machines), density measuring and control systems, nuclear and electro-mechanical beltweighers, capacitance and ultrasonic level measuring systems, vibration feeders (Jeffery and Sytron) weighfeeders, beltslip detectors, cctv systems, tilt switches, Jones air dryers, Maxon air dryers, temperature control systems, various pneumatic equipment and recorders, repairs on all electronic equipment were done down to component level

Leadership Roles Management of recovery section budget, stock and

equipment, personnel and labour control. Personnel working under me included 2 technicians, 1 instrument mechanic and 5 general labourers.

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OTHER EXPERIENCE

Name Of Organisation SADF Dog Centre

Address SADF Dog Centre, Bourkes Luck, South Africa

Type Of Organisation Military

Functions Dog Trainer/Handler

Period January 1983 – December 1984

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Last School Attended High School Sybrand Van Niekerk

Sabie South Africa

Highest Standard Passed Matric (Grade 12, Technical)

Subjects Passed Afrikaans, English, Math, Science, Technical Drawings, Motor Theory

Prizes And Awards Best Motor Theory Student For Three Consecutive Years. (Std 8 – 10)

Leadership Roles Cadet Instructor (Std 9 – 10)

HIGHER EDUCATION

US Equivalent BSC in electronic engineering per Washington Evaluation Service.

Technicon Attended Cape Technicon (South Africa)

Leadership Roles Student representative council (1986)

representing the electrical school

Other Courses General Instrumentation Course At AAC Divisional Engineering Training Centre in Welkom, South Africa

Electronics Course At AAC Training Centre in Kimberly, South Africa

Basic Boilermaking Course, Basic Fitting Course And Advanced Electrical Motor Concepts Course At Technical Training Centre In Oranjemund (Namibia)

Ups (Uninterruptable Power Supply) Course At Meisner Power Systems In Johannesburg, South Africa

Conet Basic Training Course in Oranjemund, Namibia

Mitsibushi A-Series Basic PLC Training in Oranjemund, Namibia

Density and Massflow Gauges

Nuclear Belthweighers And

Basic Electromechanical Beltscale Weighing at Process Automation in Johannesburg, South Africa

SAP R/2 Training Course at Mossgas, Mossel Bay, South Africa.

SAP R/3 LO100 – Plant Maintenance In Johannesburg, South Africa

SAP R/3 CA080 – Basics of Project Planning In Cape Town, South Africa

SAP R/3 LO810 – Preventative Maintenance in Durban, South Africa

SAP R/3 LO530 – Warehouse Management in Boston, Ma, USA

SAP R/3 LO930 – Logistics Information System

SAP R/3 LO530 – Warehouse Management

SAP R/3 HR050 – Human Resources in Philadelphia, PA, USA

SAP R/3 AQ100 – ABAP/4 query at PSEG in Newark, New Jersey, USA

SAP R/3 PLM120 – SAP Document management, Philadelphia, PA, USA

SAP R/3 PLM130 – Classification

SAP R/3 WUS614 - Document Management and Records Management in detail

SAP R/3 CA010 – Financial Accounting and Reporting

Certificates Awarded Registered As Engineering Technician At The Engineering Council Of South Africa Reg. No 9140086/13

ASAP Certified In Cary, NC, USA. (ID: 984050)

CPMM (Certified plant maintenance manager) with AFE. Reg No. 1533

GENERAL

Outside Interests Flying, Fishing, Small Scale Farming, Reading And I Enjoy Being Involved In Team Or Group Activities Such As Hiking And Camping

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