Seeking an opportunity to share my experiences and knowledge in SAP R/3 4.6c and 4.7 system implementation methodologies, project management (team lead), requirements gathering, financial/accounting functional analysis, business blueprinting, integration testing, data conversion,  system configuration, report writing, employee training and development and continuing system support in the specialty areas of SPL and ECCS.

September  2005 to Current           I-Tech Solutions, Inc., Boston, MA

FI/ECCS Consultant for I-Tech Solutions, Inc. for EYCapGemini contract w/Enron, Inc.

Remote SAP SPL and ECCS Production Support – Part-time Production Support on an as Needed Basis

n     General IT Support of Production environment on an as needed basis through Remedy Ticket Processing.

n     Analyze Call Tickets for requirements, process business change procedures working with end users, and/or perform configuration/development changes and unit testing as is necessary to move transports to production to resolve the requirement, correct the problem or change the business process moving forward.

n     Update of all Remedy Tickets

Documentation of all configuration changes, unit and integration testing and responsible for acquiring all final sign-off and approval of testing before movement into production.

September  2005 to March 2006           BSolve, LLC, Franktown, CO

FI/ECCS Consultant for BSolve, LLC and Broe Companies

Remote SAP ECCS Multiple Phase Implementation Project of SAP version 5

n     Scheduled and held multiple meetings with Corporate Headquarters and US Accounting Division to determine and document business requirements for new organizational structures.

n     Performed business blueprint analysis and design based on EC-CS implementation requirements.

n     Mapped existing operating chart of accounts to group chart of accounts for the connection to the Financial Statement Items in EC-CS.

n     Created the Group Chart of Accounts and assigned it to the Operating Chart of Accounts.

n     Created and assigned Account Groups to the Group Chart of Accounts.

n     Assigned the appropriate group account to each operating accounts master record.

n     Completed EC-CS System configuration and documentation to setup the dimension, consolidation chart of accounts, ledgers, versions, financial statement items, financial statement item hierarchy and selected items for posting.

n     Performed and documented configuration of Currency Translation and Eliminations in ECCS.

n     Creation of organizational groups, units and hierarchy for consolidation.

n     Creation of flexible upload for opening balance load into period 12 of EC-CS for carry-forward task.

n     Setup and activation of real-time update into EC-CS.

n     Definition of data and consolidation monitors tasks, document types, number ranges, and task groups.

n     Assignment of task groups to dimension.

n     Performed all unit testing and documentation for the FI/CO configuration as it related to the requirements of the EC-CS module and continued the unit testing related to the configuration of EC-CS and development of Report Painter/Writer reports for the data in EC-CS.

n     Support, execution and documentation of 4 project integration tests and required modifications related to system configuration for EC-CS and Report Painter/Writer for two project phases cutover on November 1, 2005 and January 3, 2006.

n     Support and execution of the production cutover for EC-CS configuration and go-live.

n     Created report library, and group.

n     Created report row models for the Balance Sheet and P&L based on FSI hierarchy and set generation.

n     Creation of new consolidated financial reports using the row models, for the new consolidation group.

n     Creation and delivery of user training documentation to support the first month end close process.

August  2005 to October 2005           MyITGroup, Houston, TX

FI/ECCS Consultant for Itelligence, Inc. and Pure Fishing, Inc.

Remote SAP ECCS Implementation Project – Needed Currency Translation and Eliminations Configuration

n     Held meetings with Corporate Accounting to define business requirements related to ECCS Currency Translation Requirements and Consolidation Eliminations Requirements.  Documented Requirements into a blueprint format for approval and signoff.

n     Performed and documented configuration of Currency Translation and Eliminations in ECCS.

n     Documented and executed unit test scripts related to the new Currency Translation Methods and Eliminations Tasks.

n     Transported all configuration into QA environment and worked with End User to document and perform integration test scripts for sign off of functionality in ECCS.  As an outcome of integration testing made necessary configuration changes and repeated the unit and integration testing steps for the changes.

n     Received final user sign-off and moved to release status in production preparation and cutover plan.

n     I continue to receive emails and phone calls regarding other components of ECCS and answer/configure as is necessary.  This will continue until their go-live but is limited to a few hours a month.

February  2005 to July 2005           Robert Half Technologies, San Jose, CA

FI/ECCS On Site and Remote Consultant for Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.

SAP FI Modification and ECCS Start to Finish  Project

n     Scheduled and held multiple meetings with Corporate Headquarters in Japan, Tax and Legal Departments and local US Accounting Division to determine and document business requirements for new organizational structure.

n     Performed business blueprint analysis and design based on company code separation and EC-CS implementation.

n     Completed System Configuration to set up all new required Global Companies, Company Codes, modification of FI document types, the inter-company relationships for cross company code postings for payables/receivables, sales/cost of sales and revenue/expense and FI trading partner validations.

n     Creation of Inter-company Customer and Vendor master records for Inter-company relationships.

n     Mapped existing operating COA to group COA for the connection to the FSIs in EC-CS.

n     Created the Group Chart of Accounts and assigned it to the Operating Chart of Accounts.

n     Created and assigned Account Groups to the Group Chart of Accounts.

n     Assigned the appropriate group account to each operating accounts master record.

n     Completed EC-CS System configuration and documentation to setup the dimension, consolidation chart of accounts, ledgers, versions, financial statement items, financial statement item hierarchy and selected items for posting.

n     Creation of organizational groups, units and hierarchy for consolidation.

n     Creation of flexible upload for opening balance load into period 12 of EC-CS for carry-forward task.

n     Setup and activation of real-time update into EC-CS.

n     Definition of data and consolidation monitors tasks, document types, number ranges, and task groups.

n     Assignment of task groups to dimension.

n     Performed all unit testing and documentation for the FI/CO configuration as it related to the requirements of the EC-CS module and continued the unit testing related to the configuration of EC-CS and development and modification of Report Painter/Writer reports for the data in EC-CS.

n     Support, execution and documentation of 2 project integration tests and required modifications related to system configuration for GL, EC-CS and Report Painter/Writer.

n     Support and execution of the production cutover for EC-CS configuration and go-live.

n     Created report library, and group.

n     Created report row models for the Balance Sheet and P&L based on FSI hierarchy and set generation.

n     Creation of new consolidated financial reports using the row models, for the new consolidation group.

n     Creation and delivery of user training documentation to support the first month end close process.

January  2005        Signature Consultants, Woburn, MA

FI/ECCS Consultant for Serologicals Inc.

SAP FI/ECCS Modification Project

n     Analyzed, modified, and tested existing FI & ECCS configuration to accommodate the use of a new data element called “Functional Areas” for cost of sales accounting breakdown on the P&L.

n     Modified all existing P&L reports in ECCS for their legal and management reporting to accommodate the new method of “Functional Area” breakdown for the P&L SG&A lines.

n     Documented, tested and received sign off for all configuration changes to support the “Functional Area” breakdowns by cost centers on the FI/CO side and subitems on the consolidation side.

n     Created customized documentation of all configuration changes and the business processes that support them.

n     Analyzed and documented data entry requirements into the Add’l. Finanacial Data table for the consolidation of investments configuration in ECCS to accommodate a tax restructuring requirement before the year end close process.

n     Analyzed and corrected a production issue for the Profit Center dimension, whereby all of the profit center consolidation units were not receiving detail actual line data from FI/CO into the consolidations module for execution of a consolidation.

n     Provided knowledge transfer to an existing employee for the changes made and the business processes that support these changes.

September 2004 to November 2004       A&D Corporation, Cary  NC

FI & BW/SEM-BCS Consultant for RTI International Metals, Inc.

6+ month Start to Finish SAP FICO BW Based SEM-BCS Project

n     Worked with BW consultant and Finance Accountant to perform the project blueprint requirements.

n     Analysis of existing business processes as they related to the implementation of SAP and the blueprint requirements for SEM-BCS.

n     Analysis, modification and documentation of 15 thousand lines of master data for Customers and Vendors for inter-company relationships.

n     Analysis, modification, testing and documentation of the OBYA inter-company relationship table for payables and receivables.

n     Analysis and documentation of inter-company business processes and related data requirements for the blueprint of SEM-BCS.

n     Testing, validation and sign off of all inter-company business processes within SAP.

n     Definition, creation and testing of a BW info cube for use with the SEM-BCS bolt on for the business blueprint.

n     Baseline configured SEM-BCS to include all unit testing.  The next phase was to encompass inter-company sales relationships.  These business processes were not being performed automatically between SD and MM through IDOCS functionality.  The client could not accommodate the timing of these transactions that would ensure the necessary data that BCS would need to perform automatic eliminations of these for the consolidation steps.  It was decided to place the BCS project on hold until the client could acquire professional services to make the configuration changes necessary in SD and MM to automate them.  Once these are complete the BCS project will be reconvened to be taken to completion.

July 2004                Signature Consultants, Woburn, MA

FI/ECCS Consultant for Serologicals Inc.

SAP FI/ECCS Modification Project

n     Modified existing FI & ECCS configuration to accommodate multiple new acquisitions.

n     Set up FI-CO configuration to post automatic inter-company elimination entries for payables and receivables.

n     Set up FI Customer and Vendor master records for automatic elimination entry use.

n     Configured FI-GL Validation rules to ensure trading partner information is always entered for inter-company transactions and send a hard error if it is not present.

n     Created customized documentation of all configuration changes and the business process to accommodate this type of functional event in the future.

n     Left detailed ECCS configuration modification instructions and data conversion guidelines for future FI/CO go-live for 3 of the new company acquisitions that are being reported at a summary level at this time.

n     Provided knowledge transfer to a new employee to take on this role after my departure.

June 2004              Quo Vadis, Inc., England

ECCS Lead Consultant for NCO Group, Inc.

SAP ECCS Start to Finish Project

n     This was a 4+ month contract assignment that was in a delayed blueprint for the ECCS portion, it was postponed after two weeks due to a lack of resource availability on the Client side.  Will be implemented during the next phase after the financials are implemented on September 1, 2004.

April 2004              Oxford Consulting, Boston, MA

SEM-BCS Consultant for Bell Helicopter, A Division of Textron, Inc.

SEM-BCS Start to Finish Project

This was a 6 month project assignment that was in the blueprint phase for SEM-BCS.  After presentation of the effort needed to implement this module, it was cancelled two weeks in due to project modifications and prioritizations.  SEM-BCS will be reconsidered once progression is made on the FI/CO and Logistics modules, which were behind and jeopardizing the initial go-live.

April 2000 –  March 2004  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.      Austin, Texas

Enterprise Analyst II/SAP IT Project Manager

SAP GL, SPL & ECCS Joint Venture Global Implementation Project

SAP Technical/Business Finance Lead – January 2003 to February 2004

n     IT Technical & Finance Business Lead for 3 SAP modules to include:  Enterprise Structure, FI-General Ledger, FI-Special Ledger, and EC – Consolidations System.

n     Worked with Executives, Tax and Legal Departments to determine and document business requirements for new organizational structure based on the legal requirements of the minority owned joint venture, which required re-configuration of existing SAP modules in production.

n     Completed System Configuration to set up all new required Global Companies, Company Codes, Maintenance and additions to the Operating Chart of Accounts, creation of new Company Code Charts of Accounts for the 8 new Company Codes, required Company Code Fiscal Year Variants, Multiple Currencies, Quantities, assignment to the appropriate local Special Purpose Ledger (SPL), corporate SPL, assignment of correct SPL activities, field movements, ledger selections, validations, substitutions, maintenance of SPL posting periods, and versions.

n     Support of all 3 global project integration tests and required modifications related to system configuration for GL, SPL, and ECCS, as well as the production and cutover for the 3 related go-lives in this project.  This production coverage included 24 by 7 coverage over a weekend timeframe.

n     Update of domestic and global inter-company processing and ECCS elimination entries related to the inter-company transactions with validation of entries in consolidated financial reports.

n     Performed configuration to create 4 new manual rollups, 2 related data and consolidations monitors, and the related actual and plan versions, to move the PCA Actual and Plan Data from PCA to SPL and ECCS.  Created new consolidated Plan and Actual P&L’s in ECCS by profit center.  Previously, the PCA data for actual and plan went into SPL only, and so consolidated P&L’s for plan and actual were not available primarily because currency translation could not be performed in PCA and there was no automated means to eliminate inter-company transactions in PCA.  Based on the joint venture this was a new requirement.  This configuration was tested outside the original scope of this project, but was done using the same budget since they were requirements of the new global legal entity.

n     Modified the ECCS Hierarchy and created a new Tax Hierarchy to reflect new Legal Corporate Organizational Structure, and Corporate Tax Structure to include many domestic entities and global entities to include Germany, Malaysia, China, Japan, Thailand and Singapore.

n     Created the Corporate Financial Statement Item (FSI) Hierarchy based on the ECCS group Chart of Accounts for the consolidated financial statements out of the ECCS module.  Used the system generated sets that were automatically created after saving the ECCS hierarchy to update the consolidated financial reports so that newly created FSI’s would automatically update all corporate consolidated financial reports.  For all those FSI’s that were stand alone FSI’s I created individual sets and used these sets in the report lines, if another FSI needed to be added to the financial report line, the user would just need to add the FSI to the set, which would update the reports that use that set.  This change was incorporated to accommodate Corporate legal reporting as well as local reporting for our foreign counterparts.

n     Created new Report Painter row models the new FSI sets, for the Balance Sheet and the Profit and Loss Statement.  Applied the new row models to the existing reports, and the new required reports based on the domestic and global organizational change.

n     Creation of new consolidated financial reports for new Legal Entity. Update of all existing ECCS consolidated financial reports for the new AMD corporate structure using Report Painter and Writer.

n     Created customized local reports for our Fujitsu joint venture counterparts located in Japan.  These reports included a Trial Balance, Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Statement based on Japanese Commercial Code.  Coordinated team efforts with our US and Japanese counterparts to determine the JCC requirements then took the SAP Company Code Chart of Accounts and mapped them to the appropriate financial statement line items.  I used this mapping to create account sets that I then brought into the local reports written on the SPL local library.  All of these were tested, with the help of the Japanese project team members, during the year end close process.  I made modifications as were necessary based on the testing iterations.

n     Functionally and technically supported 2 month end close processes, one quarter end close process, and one year end close process related to the 3 modules I supported (GL, SPL and ECCS).

SAP Project Assignment for AP & MM

GR/IR Year End Project Team Lead – December 1,  2002 to January 1, 2003

n     Management of two AMD employees from the AP and MM departments to perform SAP year end system cleanup assignment to analyze, correct and balance Goods Receipts and Invoice Receipts related to a 10 million dollar error made during transaction entry in the previous 2 month period.

n     Managed the completion of correcting entries, and creation of documentation for control total validation and presentation material for AMD Executive management.

n     Delivered AMD Executive presentation on existing problem, analysis, execution of corrections, and plan for delivery of training to prevent future issues of the same nature.

n     Primary AMD resource working with outside Audit representatives related to these errors, corrections, and control reports to obtain official sign off for SEC filings.

SAP HR/Payroll Domestic Implementation

HR/Payroll Interface Team Lead  – May 2002 to November 2002

n     SAP IT Project manager of 58 required interfaces for the 7 month domestic implementation of the Human Resources –Personnel Administration (HR-PA) and HR-Personnel Development (HR-PD) modules to include:  HR-PA (Employee Management -EMP, Benefits Administration - BEN, Compensation Administration - COM, Time Management - TIM, Payroll - PAY); HR-PD (Organizational Management - OM, Training and Events Management - TEM).

n     Personally responsible for the development, testing and implementation of 5 Payroll interfaces to include:  bi-weekly payroll deductions for employee fitness system memberships, stock purchase plan payroll deductions,   positive pay reconciliation with Bank of America for payroll check runs, external third party legacy data file of W-2 reportable income, related to expatriate assignments, and internal legacy feed on W-2 reportable income for employee temporary duty assignments.

n     Created excel file for daily tracking and update to project, and executive management on all 58 interfaces.

n     Organized and executed daily team meetings to obtain update on the progression of each interface.

n     Performed continuous updates of the access database, and held weekly meetings with the project Chief Operating Committee (COC), explaining in depth any completions, interface progress, and arising issues.

n     Assisted the COC and HR/Payroll management in the development of plans to address high profile obstacles for all interfaces in jeopardy, followed up with team members responsible to explain plans of attack, and expected results.

n     The team was successful with the implementation of 55 of the 58 original interfaces.  The other 3 interfaces had temporary alternative solutions developed due to a third party vendor’s inability to meet AMD’s SAP requirements within the specified timeframe.  The project concentration was considered a success.

n     For those interfaces that were not completed before go-live, a work around was devised in the interim period until work could progress with the third parties to finish the other 3 interfaces.

SAP Start to Finish FI/CO; CO; PCA; MM; PS; IM; & BW Global Implem. Project

SAP PS and IM Team Lead  – March 2001 to April 2002

n     Project Team Lead and Key Contributor of the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning Applications R/3 v. 4.6C Global Requirements and Implementation Project over 5 Global locations and 2 Domestic locations for Project Systems (PS), and Investment Management (IM).

n     Managed the completion of business requirements gathering, business process procedure documentation, module configuration, data conversion, development and execution of integration test case procedures, go-live preparation and cutover, development and delivery of end user training, production post go-live support.

n     SAP part-time team member for the Asset Accounting (AA) Module to ensure smooth integration and transition from the Project Systems module for Assets under Construction (AUC) and Final Assets (FA) posting.

n     Management of continuing integration issues related to other SAP modules to include General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), MM (Material Management), MD (Material Distribution), Plant Maintenance (PM), and other Legacy Systems still in the production environment.

n     Management of 7 SAP project employees.  Performing the assignment and direction for their daily project tasks, weekly progression updates, and issue guidance and resolution.

n     Assisted my team members in the development of their Quarterly Goals and Assessments (QGA’s).   Prepared and delivered individual monthly reviews and continuous task plans to reach all individual and team project goals.  Prepared and delivered project end evaluations and made recommendations for bonus opportunities to Executive Management.

n     Interview, selection, and management of 4 SAP Certified Consultants related to SAP modules implementation support for AMD team members.  Management of Project budget related to contractual salary obligation and schedules, travel expenses, time sheet management, activity assignments, execution, delivery and continuing support.

n     Development of Legacy data conversion methodology.  Performed multiple data scrub executions and control validations with a technical ABAP programmer before delivering the final data load file, for upload during the go-live cutover plan.  Presented methodology and control totals to Project Executives to get buy off of methodology, and approval for final data load file for go-live.

n     Executive Presentation Development and Delivery of SAP Project Progress in the form of Project Planning, Execution, update of Scope and Deliverables using the Microsoft Suite of Products.

AMD IT Support & Database Administration

GEAC Mainframe Applications  – April 2000 to February 2001

1998 – 1999            Electronic Data Systems,     Austin, Texas

Consultant – Advanced Business Services Analyst

1997 – 1998            State of Texas Auditors Office,    Austin, Texas

Assistant State Auditor IV – Lead Information Technology Auditor

1995 – 1996            Student  in MBA Program at St. Edward’s University,    Austin, Texas

1987 – 1995            Travis County Information Systems Management,     Austin, Texas

Senior Management Analyst

1991 – 1996           Saint Edward’s University                                                            Austin, Texas

Masters of Business Administration

1982 - 1990            Saint Edward’s University                                                            Austin, Texas

Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance

Certified Completion of SAP Courses                                            All Courses Completed 2001

n         SAP R/3 4.6C All Level 1 & 2 Introduction Courses

n         SAP R/3 4.6C Investment Management Level 3

n         SAP R/3 4.6C Investment Management Configuration Level 3

n         SAP R/3 4.6C Project Management Structures Level 3

n         SAP R/3 4.6C Project Management Accounting Level 3

n         SAP R/3 4.6C Project Management Reporting Level 3

n         SAP R/3 4.6C Management Controlling Level 3

n         SAP R/3 4.6C Cost Center Accounting Level 3

Certified Completion of Project Management Courses                                        Plano, Texas

n         Project Management:  Basic Scheduling, Start-up and Planning, Execution and Close Down and Advanced Leadership

Capability Maturity Model Methodology                                                               Plano, Texas

n         Performed Certification Level assessment of EDS-Financials Account

Operating Systems

n         SAP R/3 4.6C; Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP; TSO/ISPF; BaaN G/L; Cobol using NFS Maestro

Database

n         SAP R/3 Business Warehouse; SQL; QMF; File Aide; Info-Pac; Hyperion Pillar; Hyperion Essbase; MS Access

Support Tools

n         MS Office (2000, XP); MS Project (2000); SAP Report Writer & Painter; Visio Technical; PC Anywhere; PCLink32