HUGO DE GROOT
Holisticon, LLC * 721 Sheraton Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
(408) 489-7980 * hdegroot@holisticon.com

ALLROUND SENIOR SAP R/3 CONSULTANT
WITH EXCELLENT BUSINESS, FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS
OVER TEN YEARS SAP IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCE

• Financial Accounting - AR, AP, FA, GL, SL (Special Purpose Ledger) and TV (Travel)
• Controlling - Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis, Projects, Cost Object Controlling/Product Costing
• Treasury - Cash Management
• Enterprise Controlling - Consolidation System, Profit Center Accounting
• Inventory Management and Purchasing
• Integration between FI/CO and logistics modules (SD, MM, PP and PS).
• External Sales and Use Tax System design and implementation with Vertex and Taxware
• Credit Card Processing in SD and FI-AR (Verisign, CyberSource, Paymetric)
• Electronic Banking Interfaces (lockbox, ACH-payments, e-bank statement, AP positive pay interface)
• Report Development - Report Painter and Drill-down Reporting
• ABAP/4 - Report Development, User-Exit Programming, Debugging, Applying Patches
• Project management for SAP R/3 implementation in medium-sized companies

• Independent SAP Consultant (March 1997 - Present)
• Project Manager - Coopers and Lybrand Consulting, San Francisco, CA (Sept 1995 - Feb 1997)
• Financial Product Specialist - QAD Inc, Carpinteria, CA (April 1993 - Aug 1995)
• Financial Applications Consultant - QAD Inc., The Netherlands (Nov 1991 - March 1993)
• Senior-Consultant - Andersen Consulting, The Netherlands (Sept 1986 - Oct 1991)

• Consumer Products -- Tilia, Inc.-- San Francisco, CA -- June 2004 - Current
  Tilia is the company behind such consumer products as FoodSaver and Villaware kitchen appliances. At this company I implemented a wide range of projects: the consolidation system (EC-CS), profitability analysis (CO-PA), cash management, electronic bank statement processing, 1099-MISC reporting, and various ABAP reports in the area of sales tax and inventory reporting.


• Life Sciences -- Thermo Electron -- Madison, WI -- Nov 2003 - May 2004
  Assisted this client with integrating SAP with the external sales and use tax system Vertex in the areas of Purchasing and Sales and Distribution. Work included development of a Sales and Use Tax Policy; customizing this policy in both SAP and Vertex Tax Decision Maker; training of users in sales and use-tax relevant system functions; testing; development of special reports; and go-live assistance.


• High-Tech -- NVIDIA -- Santa Clara, CA -- Nov 2003 - Feb 2004
  Due to corporate income tax restructuring this client needed to be able to prepare financial statements efficiently in additional currencies besides the USD (specifically, in SGD and GBP). In order to meet this requirement I designed and implemented two FI special purpose ledgers, including necessary Report Painter reports, to allow parallel financial consolidation in these additional currencies.


• High-Tech -- Novellus -- San Jose, CA -- Sept 2003 - Dec 2003
  FI/CO consultant. Assisted this client with the Wave II roll-out for Asia (Singapore, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and South-Korea) in the areas of VAT/GST/Consumption Tax customizing and bank accounting.


• Retail -- DFS -- San Francisco, CA -- June 2003 - July 2003
  Assisted this client with the upgrade from SAP R/3 4.0B to 4.6C. Provided help with test plan and test script development (in the areas of FI, CO and EC-CS), test execution, and issues resolution.


• Internet Security Industry -- Check Point, Inc. -- Redwood City, CA -- Mar 2003 - May 2003
  Implemented the Enterprise Controlling Consolidation System for this client. Responsible for all aspects of this project, including user training, requirements analysis, system customizing and testing, legacy data conversion into-EC-CS, and report development.


• High-Tech -- Novellus -- San Jose, CA -- Feb 2003 - July 2003
  Assisted this client with integrating SAP with the external sales and use tax system Vertex in the areas of Purchasing and Sales and Distribution. Work included development of a Sales and Use Tax Policy; customizing this policy in both SAP and Vertex Tax Decision Maker; training of users in sales and use-tax relevant system functions; testing; development of special reports; and go-live assistance.


• Software Industry -- NetIQ Corporation -- San Jose, CA -- April 2002 - Feb 2003
  Lead FI/CO and MM consultant. Full life cycle implementation. Facilitated FI, CO, and purchasing business design workshops and prototyped business requirements. Configured AR, AP, GL, CCA, IO, PCA, PA, EC-CS and Purchasing. Developed program specifications and report painter reports. Integrated finance requirements into SD and MM modules. Developed and executed data conversion and integration test plans. Developed month-end close and batch job schedules. Provided training and production support for business users. Besides the more standard SAP functionality, implemented at this client also credit card processing (Verisign), the SAP external tax system interface with Taxware, and e-banking interfaces (lockbox, e-bank statement, ACH payments).


• Internet Services Industry -- TiVo Inc. -- Alviso, CA -- Dec 2000 – May 2002
  Responsible for post-go live support, post-go live system enhancements and providing business user training in the areas of FI and CO. Implemented the following system enhancements: support for high-volume credit card processing (Cybersource); dunning and delinquent account processing; converting the system to a different fiscal year-end (12/31 --> 1/31); setting up the UK legal entity; development of financial reports; development of B2B interfaces with external logistics order fulfillment house.


• Internet Auction Industry -- eBay, Inc. -- San Jose, CA -- July 2000 - Nov 2000
  Lead FI/CO consultant. Designed and configured system. Developed financial reports using the tools Report Painter and Drill-down Reporting. Developed and executed data conversion and integration test plans. Provided training and post-go live support for business users in the areas of AP, GL, CCA and Purchasing.


• Internet Security Industry -- Check Point, Inc. -- Redwood City, CA -- Oct 1999 - Jul 2000
  Hands-on Project Manager. Responsible for all aspects of the implementation of the SAP system for a US subsidiary of an Israeli company. Enhanced the system in order to meet US-specific requirements (invoicing, sales and use tax, 1099, check payments, bank accounting). Developed and executed data conversion and integration test plans. Provided training and post-go live support for business users in the areas of AP, AR, GL, CCA and Purchasing. Implemented the Vertex tax interface at this client.


• Engineering Industry -- Heat and Control, Inc. -- Hayward, CA -- an 1998 - Oct 1999
  Lead FI/CO and Product Costing consultant. Full life cycle implementation. Facilitated FI and CO business design workshops and prototyped business requirements. Configured AR, AP, GL, CCA, PCA, and PA. Developed program specifications and report painter reports. Integrated finance requirements into SD, PP, PS and MM modules. Developed and executed data conversion and integration test plans. Developed month-end close and batch job schedules. Provided training and production support for business users.


• Software Industry -- Avant! Corporation, Fremont, CA -- March 1997 - Oct 1997
  Lead FI/CO consultant. Full life cycle implementation. Facilitated FI and CO business design workshops and prototyped business requirements. Configured AR, AP, GL, and CCA. Developed program specifications and report painter reports. Developed and executed data conversion and integration test plans. Developed month-end close and batch job schedules. Provided training and production support for business users.

• $900M high-tech manufacturing company
  Responsible for FI-AR, FI-GL, FI-AP and MM part of the implementation.


• 25B$ telecommunications equipment manufacturing company
  Responsible for high-level financial information requirements gathering and translating these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy (enterprise model).


• Information Services Company
  Team leader on a project, which had as objective to assess a financial system's usability and compliance with GAAP.

• European Localization Product Specialist
  Responsibilities included: 1) Definition of enhancement projects in the distribution and financial area; 2) Management of contacts between customers and business partners with QAD Research & Development; and 3) Facilitation of Special Interest Group meetings with customers and business partners.


• MFG/PRO Version 7.4 Beta Team -- Team member
  Responsibilities included: 1) Managing contacts between beta customers and Research & Development; 2) Delivering product training to distributors and customers; 3) Performing product integration testing; and 4) Technical writing of user documentation.


• "Intrastat" Foreign Trade Reporting Team -- Team leader
  Responsibilities included: 1) Development of functional specifications; 2) System testing and quality assurance of the development; and 3) Technical writing of user documentation

• Serving MFG/PRO customers and business partners in Europe, both in pre-sales and post-sales situations.
• Actively involved with the product development process.
• Preparing functional requirement definitions for the localization of the MFG/PRO software for the European market (for example, draft management, VAT 1993 / Intrastat Foreign Trade Reporting).

• Implemented the SAP R/2 financial modules for a large retail chain with 60 stores. Was involved in all activities, from project initiation through post-conversion support, of this two-year project (i.e., process re-design and procedures development, system configuration, unit and integration testing, conversion preparation and conversion, and end user training). Obtained during this project in-depth SAP knowledge and heavy SAP configuration experience.
• Implemented the MSA Accounts Payable system for the Dutch Post Office.
• Developed an information plan for an internal bank of a multi-national manufacturing company.

• Certified SAP FI/CO Consultant
• Certified SAP MM/PP Consultant
• Certified SAP ASAP Consultant
• SAP R/3 EC-CS Consolidation Functions - AC660
• SAP R/3 EC-CS Consolidation Integration - AC670
• SAP R/3 Travel Management -Travel Expenses - AC270
• SAP R/3 Business Information Warehouse Analysis - BW205
• SAP R/3 Business Information Warehouse Configuration - BW210

• Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), The American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) (1988)
• Certified in Integrated Resource Management (CIRM), The American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) (1995)

• Object Oriented Analysis and Design (Rumbaugh), UCSB Extension, Grade A (1994)
• Introduction to Programming in C, UCSB Extension, Grade A+ (1994)
• Introduction to Programming in C++ and Eiffel, UCSB Extension, Grade A (1995)