Carlos Pereira Email & Phone Number

Whitby, On, Ca

Toronto

Senior SAP Specialist:• Maintain and update cost center and profit center hierarchies on an ongoing basis• Support and troubleshoot security and access issues for Canadian users after implementation of SAP S4 Hana• Monitoring and approving access requests with segregation of duty violations• Managed data migration, conversion and cleansing for accounts payable and treasury data in support of a major international implementation of SAP S4 Hana.• Reviewed and validated data after cut-over activities to support migration from legacy systems.• Tested conversion programs used to migrate legacy system data.

Toronto, On

Assisted with transition of SAP ECC and SRM infrastructure to an external third party provider. Executed to plan and delivered a successful migration of data and systems on time.Documented and transferred knowledge of processes and configuration specific to Direct Energy SAP ECC and SRM environments to third party outsourcing provider.Supported the SAP ECC and SRM environments, including the BizAps Accounts Payable Workbench (APW) add-on to ECC. Analyzed business requirements and user needs, and translated them into functional and configuration requirements. Configured systems as per requirements. Acted as in-house IS SRM subject matter expert, and supported ongoing change requests and projects related to SRM. Involved in implementation of SAP HR module, focused on impact upon SAP SRM and financial approvals process for procurement.Participated in project to upgrade from SAP ECC version 5 to 6.Participated in various projects to integrate new acquisitions into SAP financial and procurement processes. Responsible for setting up new organization structure, providing direction to vendor master integration activities, supporting testing and training activities.Led the development, configuration and system integration for the implementation of the SAP SRM module for procurement. Also led the implementation of BizAps Accounts Payable Workbench (APW) ECC add-on (used to manage and handle workflow for invoicing exceptions).Supported SAP banking interfaces for inbound electronic bank statements, and outbound payments.Supported interfaces to SAP with other external systems (billing, payroll, subsidiary GL systems).Participated in initial implementation of SAP ECC 5 Financials at Direct Energy.Programmed and tested various banking interface applications (positive pay cheque register, payables plus cheque issue, ACH and EDI payments)

Toronto, On

Worked with business and system users to gather their requirements, and evaluated gaps in Castek's policy administration application in order to estimate the effort required to enhance it to meet the client's requirements Analyzed system interfaces to existing legacy systems and designed the system integration architecture strategies for the implementation of a new policy administration system Programmed and tested Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) components used to wrap a legacy system and provide thin client functionality, and deployed them to IBM's Websphere Application Server. Analyzed and documented XML messaging requirements for communications between a Siebel application and EJB's wrapping a back office system. Designed and architected utility software components for a large insurance application using object-oriented analysis methods and tools. Analyzed business requirements and developed conceptual models for the insurance industry.

Hamilton, Bermuda

Worked on various consulting assignments for a diverse group of clients, including the following:• Designed and developed a custom billing and invoicing application for an e-commerce offshore payment processing company (First Atlantic Commerce).• Maintained and enhanced a custom securities trading application, and automated the creation of trading reports (Bermuda Stock Exchange).• Developed an application for analyzing and tracking actual performance against budget estimates, used by the financial controller (American International Group).• Created custom reports for captive insurance clients from a data warehouse using Cognos Impromptu and PowerPlay (American International Group).• Built various financial data analysis and management reporting tools using Visual Basic, Crystal Reports, MS SQL Server, and Btrieve (Bermuda Commercial Bank).• Developed various financial data analysis and reporting tools using Visual Basic, MS Access and MS Excel for a reinsurance company (Renaissance Reinsurance).• Developed customer portfolio statements from an Oracle-based investment application for a small offshore mutual fund company (Atlantic Corporate Management).Technology used: Visual Basic, Java, C++, MS Access, MS Excel, Crystal Reports, MS SQL Server, Great Plains Dynamics, ERwin, HTML, JavaScript, Cognos Impromptu, Cognos PowerPlay, DB2, Btrieve, Oracle, SQL, Unix, Cobol

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Analyzed and reviewed operational safety coverage provided by nuclear reactor shutdown systems, and documented results for submission to regulatory agency.• Developed an application (in C and PostScript) to generate graphical maps summarizing shutdown system safety coverage, resulting in increased productivity and reduced costs.• Developed and implemented the formal methodology used to analyze and verify safety critical software for shutdown system trip computers at Darlington NGS, prior to it going live.Technology used: FoxPro RDBMS, Objective C, C, PostScript, Basic, Pascal, FORTRAN, Assembler, Sybase, MS Excel, UNIX, dBase IV, SQL, Mathematica

Mba

Activities and Societies: Participant, Queen's International Exchange Program, Belgium, Spring 1994. Chair: MBA Games Organizing.

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Nuclear & Thermal Power Engineering

Engineering Science

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