WESSAM AYAD
E-mail:
Tel.: (204) 231 5161
------ PROFILE ------
A
Professional Engineer with a wide experience in the management and development
of business applications. My experience includes maintaining and enhancing
ready-made packages to satisfy business needs in different environments, as
well as, complete analysis, design, development, and implementation of totally
new systems. I am a detail oriented certified Project Manager who has a very
strong analytical ability and problem solving skills with a solid understanding
of manufacturing processes and techniques.
------ EDUCATION ------
BSc.
in Electrical Engineering,
(Computer
and Control Department)
Faculty of Engineering
Licensed
Professional Engineer in
Certified
in Production and Inventory Management CPIM
(APICS).
Project
Management Professional PMP (PMI).
------ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ------Summary----
CONSULTANT Sept.
2004 – Present
Gabra B.E.C. Inc.
Representing Gabra B.E.C. Inc. as a
consultant supporting client objectives and conforming to the client’s
operating practices. As a consultant, the main goal is developing practical and
workable solutions to client’s technical and business problems.
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE and ERP (MAPICS and GEAC System 21).
MANAGER, APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT/MFG. Sept.
2002 – Sept. 2004
Palliser Furniture Ltd.
In charge of managing the manufacturing
application development team. The team is responsible for the development and
implementation of all the manufacturing information systems in the company.
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE and ERP (MAPICS and JDE One World).
TEAM LEADER Jan
1998 – August 2002
Nutech Systems, Inc.
Responsible for the development and
implementation of Bar-coding Data
Collection solution
Suitable for production and distribution
industries. The application is developed using RPG/400 ILE, to run
on the i-series/400 (AS/400) and
interface with the client’s business system.
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE, ERP (JBA System 21, BPCS, North American Software, SYNTAX and Future 3) and Bar coding / Data Collection.
CONSULTANT June
1997 - Jan 1998
Keane Canada, Inc.
Representing Keane as a consultant for their
client, Polytainers, working as a programmer on an RF data collection project.
Technology:
AS/400, RPG400, ERP (BPCS) and Bar coding / Data Collection.
Trends Solutions and Services
Working
as a Programmer / Analyst, (using RPG/400), performing enhancements for a
software package that controls
inventory, purchasing and sales cycles for the automotive and parts industry.
Technology:
AS/400 and RPG400.
Responsible for implementing a software
package called MAPICS/DB suitable for manufacturing industries, running on
IBM’s mini computer AS/400.
Technology:
AS/400 and ERP (MAPICS).
------ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ------Detail----
Client: Palliser / Upholstery
Division
Duration: November 2005 – Present
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE
and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Successfully completed the
suggested implementation plan for MAPICS Inventory Management module (IM) for
Palliser’s upholstery division.
·
The plan includes process
improvements in addition to system changes to facilitate these improvements.
Client: Nutech Systems / Frozen
Specialities
Duration: August 2005 – Present
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE,
Bar coding / Data Collection and ERP (System 21).
·
Successfully managed the
implementation of RF data collection solution for the Raw Material inventory
control.
·
The new system included
transactions for receiving, put-away, WIP production and back-flushing of
material.
Client: Palliser / Upholstery
Division
Duration: October 2004 –
September 2005
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE
and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Successfully managed the
implementation of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) module of MAPICS.
·
The new system allows for
proper planning of the procurement of leather in order to eliminate stock-outs
and optimise inventory levels.
·
The implemented system is
expected to significantly improve the leather inventory turns which will result
is great cost savings.
Client: Palliser / Upholstery
Division
Duration: April 2004 – March
2005
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE
and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Successfully managed the
re-implementation of Knowledge Based Configurator (KBC) and Product Data
Management (PDM) modules of MAPICS.
·
The new system allows for
practical centralised storage and maintenance of the product data to facilitate
more consistent product and order costing.
·
The implemented system also
helps resolve an existing speed to market issue.
Duration: October 2003 – March
2004
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE,
Bar coding / Data Collection, UPC/SCC and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Successfully managed the
development and implementation of UPC/SCC support in the existing serialised RF
data collection system.
·
UPCs and SCCs were needed for
the growing retail operations. Its support had to be integrated seamlessly with
the application that was shared with five other divisions.
·
The new system also achieved
its goals of speeding up the receiving process for large quantities of small
items, as with UPC/SCC there is no need to serialise these items.
Client: Palliser / Logic Division
Duration: Oct. 2003 – Dec. 2003
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE
and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Successfully managed the
development and implementation of automation to the Work-In-Process (WIP)
tracking system.
·
The developed system achieved
cost savings due to the reduction in the labour needed to handle these WIP
tracking transactions.
Client: Palliser / Customer
Experience Initiative (CEI)
Duration: Sept. 2003 – Feb.
2004
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE
and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Successfully managed the
development and implementation of an order movement/allocation system.
·
The system was designed to
find the earliest possible date where all the order’s items are available
and move the order to this date.
·
The system achieved its goals
of saving extra time spent by the customer service representatives and the
demand planners.
Client: Palliser / HR Department
Duration: Feb. 2003 – April
2003
Technology: i-series/400 and ERP
(JDEdwards).
·
Management of the final phase
of the implementation of JDEdwards One World application for the HR/Payroll
department.
Client: Palliser / Customer
Experience Initiative (CEI)
Duration: Sept. 2002 – August
2003
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE
and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Successfully managed the
development and implementation of a forecasting and capacity allocation system.
·
The system was designed to
provide a facility to define the manufacturing capacity and allocate it to
segmented customers according to their strategic importance.
·
Controls were added throughout
the system to ensure that the company meets its commitments to its
customers.
Client: North American Lighting (NAL)
Duration: March 2001 – Sept.
2001
Technology: i-series/400, RPG400/ILE,
ERP (North American Software & Future 3), and Bar coding / Data
Collection.
·
Successfully implemented a
complete data collection solution replacing an old problematic system. The
solution worked efficiently and problem free, especially for their high volume
complicated Shipping process.
The system
included:
-
Kanban Vendor Re-ordering
system for purchased material.
-
Same plant and inter-plant
transfer transactions.
-
Adjustment transactions.
-
Production reporting and its
reversals.
-
Palletized Shipping and its
reversals or additions.
·
Successfully supported and
co-ordinated the rollout of the system to one other plant.
·
Successfully completed the
system requirement definition of a sequence-broadcasting project for
NAL’s customer Nissan.
Client: Arden Companies
Duration: June 2000 – March
2001
Technology: AS/400, RPG400/ILE, ERP
(JBA System 21), and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Successfully implemented the
first phase of the project on time and within budget. In this phase the goal
was to implement a data collection system for Shipping and related transaction
to reduce the shipments charge backs due to inaccuracy.
·
Successfully supported the
rollout of the system to five other plants.
·
Successfully completed the
system requirement definition for the second phase of the project.
Client: Gerber Childrensware
Duration: Aug. 2000 – Dec. 2000
Technology: AS/400, RPG400/ILE, ERP
(JBA System 21 – Style Vertical), and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Successfully developed and
implemented of Manifest shipping system to control transfers between the
client’s plants and generates internal and external ASNs as needed.
Client: TRMI Inc.
Duration: May 2000 – June 2000
Technology: AS/400, RPG400/ILE, ERP
(BPCS), and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Successfully completed the
system requirements definition for the client’s data collection
project.
Client: Ademco Group.
Duration: July 1999 – Aug. 1999
Technology: AS/400, RPG400/ILE, ERP
(BPCS), and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Successfully completed the
proof of concept, with a simple location transfer transaction interfacing to
BPCS business system.
Client: Saturn Electronics, Inc.
Duration: Feb. 1999 – Sept. 2001
Technology: AS/400, RPG400/ILE, ERP
(JBA System 21), and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Worked in the development and
implementation of the production and inventory control transactions.
·
Provided consultation and
implementation support services..
·
Successfully developed and
implemented a physical inventory system using tag id concept.
·
Successfully managed the
implementation of the system to three other plants (Marks MS, Monterrey MX, and
Client:
Duration: Sept. 1998 – Sept.
2001
Technology: AS/400, RPG400/ILE, ERP
(JBA System 21), and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Successfully managed the
implementation of their bar-coding data collection system, which interfaces to
JBA System 21 ERP software.
The system
included:
-
PO Receiving and returns.
- Core receiving
and putaway.
- Production
recording and raw material issue.
- Printing
bar-coded pick list for both raw material and finished goods.
- Picking for
both production and shipping.
Client: Innova Envelopes, Inc.
Duration: Jan 1998 – Sept. 2001
Technology: AS/400, RPG400, ERP
(SYNTAX), and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Providing general consultation
services.
·
Successfully developed and
implemented a shipping control system to help customer service department know
when exactly goods were shipped to their clients.
·
Successfully managed and
worked on the Year2000 (Y2K) project for the bar-coding system, and its
automated interface to payroll.
Client: Pollak (
Duration: Nov. 1999 – Dec. 1999
Technology: AS/400, RPG400/ILE, Job
Recording and Time & Attendance.
·
Worked in the development and
implementation of Job Recording system, together with its performance
efficiency and work log reports.
Client: MSC Pinole Point Steel.
Duration: March 1999 – Aug.
1999
Technology: AS/400, RPG400/ILE, ERP
(JBA System 21 - Metal Vertical), and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Worked in the development and
implementation of the production and inventory control transactions.
·
Provided consultation and
implementation support services.
Client: Dominion General
Manufacturing (DGM), Inc.
Duration: July 1998 – Dec. 1998
Technology: AS/400, and RPG400/ILE.
·
Provided general consultation
services.
·
Worked on a project to facilitate
and automate the receiving of carload tag labels from GM (as a spool file),
extracting the data received into a file for later use, and re-printing the tag
with additional information.
Client: Houston Harvest, Inc.
Duration: May 1998 – Nov. 1998
Technology: AS/400, RPG400/ILE, ERP
(JBA System 21), and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Worked in the development and
implementation of the production and inventory control transactions.
·
Successfully developed and
implemented an Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) system and interfacing it to both
JBA ASN files and Viewpoint shipping transaction.
·
Provided consultation and
implementation support services.
Client: Polytainers, Inc.
Duration: June 1997 - Jan 1998
Technology: AS/400, RPG400, ERP
(BPCS), and Bar coding / Data Collection.
·
Worked as a Programmer /
Analyst, (using RPG/400), on a Radio Frequency Data Collection (RFDC) project.
Also involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including analysis,
design and implementation of the system.
·
Successfully completed
development and implementation of Box Label Printing programs to create
bar-coded labels for inventory control.
·
Development of programs for
recording and inquiring on inventory movements of inventory items using the
RFDC units and its interface to BPCS business system.
Client: 3-Brothers
Duration: April 1996 – Oct.
1996
Technology: AS/400, and ERP (MAPICS).
· Successfully implemented the IM and PDM modules of MAPICS/DB.
·
Provided a complete workable
solution to the client’s planning and scheduling problems through
MAPICS/DB planning and production modules.
·
Initiated the implementation
of the solution starting with Material Requirements Planning (MRP) for
Production and Purchasing, then Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) to analyse
Capacity constraints, and finally Production Control & Costing (PC&C)
to schedule production and monitor and eliminate bottlenecks.
Client: Makarem Group of Companies (
Duration: Aug. 1996
Technology: AS/400, and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Managed and performed
successfully the upgrade of AS/400 Advanced Series (CISC) to POWER PC AS system
(RISC), in two locations, which was among the first of its kind done in
Client: Electrostar
Duration: Jan. 1996 – May. 1996
Technology: AS/400, and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Worked in implementation of
the Inventory and Production modules, and managed the implementation of the
financial modules.
·
Successfully completed the
first phase of the project, which was implementing the following modules (IM,
PDM, General Lager GL, and Accounts Receivable AR).
·
Initiated the second phase of
the implementation, for the remaining modules ( PUR, Accounts Payable AP, and
Production Control and Costing PC&C).
·
Worked in the implementation
of the PC&C module, which involved a lot of Process Re-Engineering for
their production and scheduling processes.
Client: Juhayna
Duration: Mar. 1996 – July 1996
Technology: AS/400, and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Successfully implemented the
Inventory Management (IM) module of MAPICS/DB.
·
Participated in the analysis,
design and testing of the customised Sales and Distribution system, was
responsible for the integration of the new system with MAPICS/DB Inventory
Management.
Client: El Araby (Toshiba Manufacturer)
Duration: Dec. 1995 – March
1996
Technology: AS/400, and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Successfully implemented the
Inventory Management (IM) module of MAPICS/DB in three plants.
·
Successfully implemented the
Product Data Management (PDM) module of MAPICS/DB in the TV plant also helped
the client in cleaning up the data to get accurate product cost.
·
Successfully implemented the
Material Requirements Planning (MRP) module of MAPICS/DB in the TV plant.
Client: Baraka
Duration: Nov. 1995 – July 1996
Technology: AS/400, and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Provided consultation
services, and solved the client’s different software and system problems.
Client: Electro-Cables
Duration: Sept. 1995 – Oct.
1995
Technology: AS/400, Wang, and ERP
(MAPICS).
·
Successfully implemented the
Purchasing (PUR) module of MAPICS/DB.
·
Participated in a data
conversion project, to convert data from Wang system to AS/400.
Client: Vanleer
Duration: Sept. 1995
Technology: AS/400, and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Conducted detailed analysis of
some special customer needs for add-on programs and reports.
·
Performed testing of the
programs after they had been coded by the programmers.
·
Successfully trained the users
and rolled-out the programs / reports.
·
Developed more business by
getting a one year support contract, and was responsible for providing the
support and solving their system or software problems.
Client: Dolce
Duration: July 1995
Technology: AS/400, and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Successfully implemented the
Product Data Management (PDM) module of MAPICS/DB.
Client: TAKI
Duration: May 1995 – June 1995
Technology: AS/400, and ERP (MAPICS).
·
Successfully implemented the
Product Data Management (PDM) module of MAPICS/DB.
·
Initiated the implementation
of the Purchasing (PUR) module.
------ TECHNICAL SUMMARY ------
Hardware: i-series
/400 (AS/400), Personal Computers, and Computer
and Control systems design concepts.
Software: i-series/400:
ERP solutions (MAPICS/DB, BPCS, JBA System 21, SYNTAX, North American Software,
Future 3, JDEdwards), Development Tools: PDM, SDA, RLU, SQL and Query/400.
PCs: MS Office, MS Project 98, ORCAD, Auto-CAD,
3D-Studio, and Prod-star.
Operating
Systems: DOS,
OS/2, Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP, and OS/400
Programming
Languages: RPG/400
ILE, CL and Assembly.
Business
Consulting: Project
Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Production and Inventory Management,
Lean Manufacturing, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).