Jan 2024 – Jul 2024 · 6 mos · Houston, Texas, United States · Hybrid

• Project Description/Scope: SAP S/4HANA RISE Greenfield Transformation Program S4HANA 2023
• SAP BTP, SAP DWC, SAP EWM, TM, GRC on Azure. Migrating from ECC to SAP S/4HANA
• Role: Sr. SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain Architect Duration: Jan 2024– Jul 2024
• Responsibilities:
• Global program implementing SAP S/4HANA 2023 with SAP RISE with otherSAP SaaS applications
• Project scope involving Core RTR, OTC, PTP, PTD, STP, HCM, SAP GRC, MDG, and Ariba.
• Major business scenarios in scope release 1 include Canada and USA plants
• Managed solution workshops for 16 mega business process large team of SAP America involving solution architectural team, business IT, Transformation leads, functional SMEs, Global process owners and PMO.
• Completed Global business design solution global template and reviewed with stakeholders from North America
• Managed daily standups and weekly status meetings for Supply Chain and Logistics domains
• Managed Steerco presentations monthly
• Provided project progress and key RAID items relating to valuestream Supply Chain and Logistics
• Built testing strategy for SIT, UAT and Cutover for integration business scenario and E2E processes in OTC and Supply Chain and presented daily progress tracking
• Managed OTC, MM, PP, IM and WM business solutions test scope to GPOs and client business stakeholders
• Work closely with onsite and offshore resources for solution delivery tasks and manage daily standups and report progress to client PMO.

Jun 2023 – Jan 2024 · 7 mos · Sacramento, California, United States · Remote

• Responsibilities:
• Global hyper-scale data center firm implementing SAP S/4HANA 2023 with SAP RISE with other SaaS applications such as GRC, MDG, Vertex, Vistex, SAP DMS, SAC and
• Project scope involving Core RTR, OTC, PS, RE&F and PTP.
• Major business scenarios in scope are core business w/ one major plant and large DC in USA for release 1.
• Managing large team of SAP America involving solution architectural team, business IT, Transformation leads, functional SMEs, Global process owners and PMO.
• Built 68 GAP definitions in all 5 workstreams for release 1 golive based on complexity in build and business essential functionality.
• Managed Prepare and Confirm Phases of NTT DATA functional design definitions and development tasks w/ offshore teams.
• Managing the project for next phase and planning resources for Build phase.

Apr 2023 – May 2023 · 1 mo · Washington DC-Baltimore Area · Hybrid

• PMO Advisory role. Helped setting up program PREPARE phase to kick-off and program planning.
• Large global Aerospace & Defense firm implementing SAP S/4HANA 2022 with SAP RISE w/ RTR, OTC, PTP, PTM, MTD, STS and HTR functional processes, migrating from prior ERP
• Project scope involves large business team from Finance, core logistics, Contract mgmt, Government ITAR
• Business scenarios in scope for RELEASE1 are core 90 Mega scenarios
• Managed client and SI implementation teams involving solution architecture, business IT, Transformation SMEs, functional finance leads, Global process owners and PMO group.
• Multi-year Transformation with functional releases planned.
• Developed Master workplan (MS project), resource planning and initiate project kick-off planning with client management

Oct 2022 – Apr 2023 · 6 mos · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · Hybrid

• Lead and helped customer in PREPARE and EXPLORE phases for large SAP S/4HANA on RISE w/ SAP America. Client is a Animal nutrition leader implementing SAP S/4HANA migrating from JDE/Oracle. Customer team involved Finance and Supply chain business teams for Release 1. Release 1 is a best practices Fit-to-Standard Greenfield implementation with over 60 mega business processes and 120 discrete business processes. Interfacing 98 3rd party systems to S/4HANA landscape for global template.

Apr 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · New Jersey, United States · Hybrid

• Lead S/4HANA Global Program Management and Enterprise SAP Solution Architecture efforts for Global Digital Transformation w/ SAP RISE S/4HANA 2020 & SAP ECC on HEC suite w/ SaaS apps Successfactors, Concur, Ariba, EWM, GRC, MDG, Concur, CX Suite (Commerce, Sales, Service cloud) and SAC applications for 72 country global rollouts.

Oct 2020 – Jul 2021 · 9 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Public sector - A large school district in USA S/4HANA Greenfield Transformation program using SAP S/4HANA 2020 w/ Ariba, SAP Funds & Grant mgmt and other cloud applications such as GRC.
• Project scope involving Core finance, P2P, OTC (SM-CS), LE-WM, ML, Ops, Analytics w/ planning, and asset management.
• Major business scenarios in scope are Fund management, budget management, budget planning, operational reporting, service management, asset management, supplier collaboration, sourcing w/ Ariba network, Concur travel management, and approvals.
• As S/4HANA delivery executive and Enterprise architectural team, developed 4 major workstream functional specs, wrote 42 WRICEFs, and presented to business during signoff.
• Worked alongside and managed the Analytics team replacing the existing large budget planning tool with SAP Analytics cloud-integrated to S/4HANA 2020.
• As senior S/4HANA project manager, provided direction during daily stand-ups, hired many technical and functional resources, burn rate planning, and project deliverables responsibility for S/4HANA and SAC teams.
• Developed S/4HANA w/ Ariba, Concur master project work plans aligned with timelines for 15 months and 1-month hyper care.
• Defined and drove the Fiori UX design and architecture, wrote functional design, worked with security resource in developing business roles for business.

Mar 2019 – Feb 2020 · 11 mos · Houston, Texas Area

• Managed S/4HANA ERP transformation program spanning multi-year business strategy and technology innovation initiative at Phillips66 to oversee various verticals of technical foundation tower involving architecture, platform, integration, analytics, UX and development teams. Scope involved Hydrocarbon value chain, Asset management projects. Develop planning for resource on-boarding, resource planning and alignment cross projects, developed mega project workplans (MS Project online tool), work on DevOps visualization boards to facilitate build phase, coordination w/ other project managers of the program, provide weekly overall stakeholder reports and manage tech foundation tower vertical KPIs.

Jan 2019 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Global Implementation

• As Senior SAP Project Manager on a worldwide Business Transformation SAP S/4HANA implementation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, assist Global HP PMO and IT mgmt in deployment and planning, strategic project progress and tactical dash-boarding of various program level KPIs for executive management and key program leaders. Manage daily triage of CRs and SIT UAT defects and reporting project health to mgmt. Planning SAP MDG and Data migration project planning and strategic alignment into S/4HANA global deployment waves.

Jun 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Global rollout

• Managing a global SAP S/4HANA greenfield transformation program for a multi-billion dollar food services firm. The project involved S/4HANA 1709 On-prem w/ SAP Cloud solutions cFIN, EWM, IBP, MDG lite, BPC, Vistex, Vertex and interfaces to multiple other systems. Scope is to bring multiple companies (Hillshire Foods & Advanced Pierre Foods) into Single Tyson S/4HANA (from legacy JDE, Oracle and prior ECC 6.0 landscape). The S/4HANA transformation program also gives the opportunity to merge and consolidate newly acquired businesses. Scope includes over 200+ plants and over 300+ warehouses with EWM , QM & TM streamlining the operations into S4HANA OTC and Central finance. This is also SAP Premium engagement services client implementation with SAP maxATT and ServiceOne models in place with Activate methodology implementation solution. There were multiple projects in flight during the course of implementation which was crucial for success of this large multi million dollar implementation project.

Feb 2016 – Oct 2016 · 8 mos · United States

• As SAP S/4 HANA Functional Architect and Implementation Manager, provide strategy and subject matter expertise to CXOs, stakeholders and corporate IS/IT management on the direction for implementing new S/4HANA solution based on the required company long-term direction and vision with SAP solution that integrates and leverages the existing systems and ERP. Defining the roadmap , project planning, resource needs, S/4HANA based change mgmt strategy and transformation direction for the complex integration and SAP S/4HANA to leverage both on premise and HANA cloud based solutions. Lead and provide techno-functional knowhow for client business teams on sales order mgmt of SAP Hybris C4C / ecommerce platform and integration pains and critical tasks with backend systems such as SAP ECC. Develop various pilot systems and prototypes for customer steering committee and stake holders. Develop and implement GRC access control using risk analysis and risk mgmt for oil & gas customers via various rules and functions.

Oct 2015 – May 2016 · 7 mos · US and Japan

• Providing leadership, direction and mentoring Executive board on enterprise application roadmap and building the SAP landscape. As part of steering committee, bridging & aligning business w/ IS/IT transformation programs to leverage best of SAP S/4HANA, hybris and HANA landscape for current and future projects. Enabling smoother strategy, landscape simplification and bringing Value-Chain system in place to lower TCO and quick ROI of the new applications and systems in an aggressively growing CPG client business. Build stronger program management and project planning for current S4HANA 1611 Public cloud Enterprise edition project implementation with primary emphasis on Order to cash & financials integration w/ "Sales from stock and Make to order" scenarios. Demonstrated and prototype C4C for marketing, Hybris cloud for sales and Digital Asset mgmt applications integrating to S/4 & ECC customer, product masters and order system. Integrated GRC access and process controls for higher governance and controls for marketing and sales team price protection and quote processes.

Oct 2015 – Jan 2016 · 3 mos · Princeton, NJ

• Atlas Systems with offices worldwide, over 500 employees and 1000+ clients. Atlas is a certified SAP Application Development Partner for SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA Cloud platform services, SAP cloud applications and SAP Mobile Apps.
• Heading the Global SAP Business solutions BU for Atlas. His role includes Client engagement management, lead SAP S/4HANA goto market strategy for SAP project initiatives, architect SAP S/4HANA upgrade strategy and implementations. Undertaking major initiative to build complementary Add-on Applications and IPs using SAP HANA platform to build various accelerators and tools via SAP Application Development partnership of SAP partnerEdge program.
• Responsible for building credible SAP S/4HANA implementation strategy, help with client thought leadership and direction for technical upgrades to SAP HANA platform and LoB enhancements to SAP S/4HANA simpleFinance, SAP S/4HANA SimpleLogisitics and SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Suite.

Apr 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Houston, Texas Area

• Strategic Global Program manager role to implement business process improvements, systems integration for various business units needs and system enhancements in SAP and non-SAP systems for business teams and Global Supply chain services organization. Deployed 9 major initiatives on a record time of 18 months. Develop Capital projects and digital marketing teams to use SAP Hybris CRM solution for managing customer account mgmt via Hybris C4C and integrated sales order status tracking in CRM solution of Hybris. Manage customer leads and opportunities by field sales using Hybris cloud solution on Fiori frontend on mobile devices. Integrated inventory tracking App using YAAS extension to provide field sales with Hybris frontend on tablets in warehouses and customer locations (Hybris Pilot solution). Integrated GRC access and process controls for governance and controls for capital projects team for price validations, sales orders, POs, Invoice and quote approval processes.

Oct 2013 – Mar 2014 · 5 mos · Houston, Texas Area

• Lead a strategic initiative with large wholesale distributor in North America. Provided leadership, implementation strategy, delivery tasks and project management for multiple projects on the engagement. Design and develop planning scenarios on integrated BW w/ ECC for demand mgmt, supply and inventory. Managed teams for design and development of pricing data model using ECC master data and BW transactional data models

Jun 2010 – Oct 2013 · 3 yrs 4 mos · USA

• SAP Project Delivery manager and Solution Architect-North America

Sep 2009 – May 2010 · 8 mos · Southbury, CT

• Global SAP Roll-out Blue Harmony project, led a Enterprise Solution team during roll-out of project in various countries. The solution functionality includes contract management, global pricing template with variations to country needs using Vistex price approvals, designing of quote to cash scenarios, integration to other workstreams, address RICEFW needs for various modifications and custom solutions.

Aug 2008 – Apr 2025 · 16 yrs 8 mos · Houston, Texas, United States · Hybrid

• Founder & CEO of Elitecal Global, an IT Management Consulting firm providing Project/ Program management and SAP Cloud Application Solution Advisory services worldwide.

Feb 2006 – Apr 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Manage and practice development activities, provide consulting services leading clients, identifying budgeting needs, planning, develop strategic initatives

Feb 2004 – Feb 2006 · 2 yrs

• Practice leadership for SAP

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• Project implementation

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• SAP Project implementations

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• Lead and manage SAP implementations in SAP SD, MM, logistics and financial modules

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