Boris Nikulin Email & Phone Number

Tallinn, Ee

Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Moscow, Russian Federation

Key responsibilities:* Collecting and understanding business requirements. Making fit/gap analysis, and defining the analysis results as software requirements (functional designs), which describe the solution to accomplish the business needs.* Designing and negotiating solutions with all relevant parties. * Consulting and providing information about the solution’s current and planned functionality to developers, customer analysts, and stakeholders.* Testing modifications. * Writing user guides and project documentation.* Teaching and training team members and customer’s users.* Participating in presales.

Russian Federation

Worked as an independent functional consultant both remotely and on-site. See major projects in "Projects" section.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Agrisovgaz – a large metalworking factory in Kaluga oblast (Manufacturing: Production of welded tubes and pipes in carbon steel, aluminum sections and constructions, greenhouses and tools) (Automation of business accounting, management accounting, manufacturing, trade and logistic. Axapta 2009);Primary activitiesCoordinating work of a customer’s employees;Business-processes analysis and design in MS Dynamics Ax (Axapta);Analyzing and re-engineering business processes;Creating a technical requirements for Axapta modification;Modifications development control and modified functionality testing;Trainings of a customer’s employees;Trainings of a project team’s novice consultants;Migration from old accounting system (From Russian accounting system named 1C and some others to MS Dynamics Axapta)Achievements Became a MS Dynamics AX support team leader in the company.I was responsible for supporting and improving Inventory Management, Manufacturing, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank, General ledger modules. I was responsible for reimplementation and migration from AX4 to AX2009 in Inventory Management, Manufacturing, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable modules. Did a lot of data changing in inventory dimension table for correct migration and cleaning double records. Was responsible for some customization because of specific customer's business processes in these modules, e.g. we added functionality for financial control before new item manufacturing process launch, added some new reports, added barcode scanner support for Inventory management etc. In addition, was responsible for internal tech.support accounting and reporting to our customers and our managers.Finally, was responsible for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable module in Microsoft assessment for MS DAX 2012. Our company was in Russian TOP-10 on this assessment results.

Moscow, Russian Federation

In AFM Consulting I participated in the most valuable project in my career.Agrisovgaz – a large metalworking factory in Kaluga oblast (Manufacturing: Production of welded tubes and pipes in carbon steel, aluminum sections and constructions, greenhouses and tools) (Automation of business accounting, management accounting, manufacturing, trade and logistic. Axapta 2009);Primary activitiesCoordinating work of a customer’s employees;Business-processes analysis and design in MS Dynamics Ax (Axapta);Analyzing and re-engineering business processes;Creating technical designs for Axapta modification;Modifications development control and modified functionality testing;Trainings of customer’s employees;Trainings of project team’s novice consultants;Migration from old accounting system (From 1C at so on to MS Dynamics Axapta)As Senior MBS Axapta consultant joined the project on its pre-project examination stage. I was responsible for Inventory Management, Manufacturing, Accounts Receivable modules. Made a lot of designs for customization because of specific customer's business processes in my modules - e.g. we added functionality for financial control before invoice posting, added functionality for access control in inventory management etc.In addition, I made a few new reports for customer's top-management.

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Bicomp - ERP implementation company.Primary activitiesCoordinating work of a team;Business-processes analysis and design in MS Dynamics Ax (Axapta);Re-engineering business processes;Creating technical requirements for Axapta modification;Modifications development control and modified functionality testing;Trainings of customer’s employees;Trainings of project team’s consultants;AchievementsNursat project - Set up custom reporting system for accounting data reports;KazTransCom project - Made some customization for Accounts receivable module. In addition, I was responsible for reading and checking all functional designs for our developers. Made a lot of data modifications in database for errors cleaning and successful migration from old accounting system to Axapta. Taught company's management how to use AX reporting system. I successfully launched my modules and supported them until my contract expired.

Moscow, Russian Federation

GMCS - ERP implementation company. This company is in TOP-10 Russian ERP implementation companies. They implement MS Dynamics AX, Oracle BS, Baan and SAP.Primary activitiesBusiness-processes analysis and design in MS Dynamics Ax (Axapta);Trainings of customer’s employees;Trainings of project team’s consultants;Creating technical requirements for Axapta modification;Modifications development control and modified functionality testing;Data modification;Creating user manuals and project documentation;Trainings of customer’s employees;AchievementsOn RIA project I was an intern. Helped with data modifications on VAT accounting stage. Also helped with pilot testing in Bank module.On OGK-4 (EON AG) project I was a consultant. Trained customer's accountants on Bank, General Ledger, Accounts payable and Accounts receivable modules in the main office and one branch office. In addition, trained storekeepers for Inventory management module in main office.Found and processed a few critical errors with assets data in branch office while migrating data from old accounting system to MS Dynamics AX. Tested our new custom module for special clothes (coveralls etc.) accounting. Designed and tested new custom functional for contracts processing.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Informcontact consulting JSC - ERP implementation company. They develop and implement own ERP system named "Alfa-system"Primary activitiesBusiness-processes analysis and design in ERP Alfa system;Project’s time and resource planning;Coordination of ledger general, procedures of carrying data from 1C (Russian accounting system) to ERP Alfa;Developing technical requirements;Creating user manuals and project documentation;Trainings of customer’s employees;AchievementsJoined the project after pre-project examination stage and was on a project launch stage. All the system customization was completed on time. All data from previous accounting system was successfully migrated to Alfa-system. Customer’s employees received trainings.Project successfully launched.

Ufa, Russian Federation

BashkirNefteProduct - BNP - Biggest petrol company in one of the biggest region in Russia - Bashkortostan.Primary activitiesSupport garage accounting software;Develop software for internal projects - gas payment card's data processing software.AchievementsI developed gas payment card's processing software - it got data from gas stations, processed them, stored processed data in MS SQL databases. Made many reports for company management. Integrated this software with Russian accounting system named 1C. Software still worked for 4 years after I left BNP company.

Ufa, Russian Federation

Primary activitiesSoftware development for internal projects - mainly VBA applications for MS ExcelSystem administration - about 20 PC and 2 serversImplementation and support company software in company customer’s offices. The software was designed for ordering medicine for drug stores.AchievementsEvery major customer had order-software and full on-time support and was fully satisfied. It raised company sales level, because orders via special software were processed faster than phone-orders.

Ufa, Russian Federation

Emmicard - software company mainly specialized in software for gas stations and gas payment cards.Primary activitiesDevelopment of internal network project Emminet. The aim of the project was to link the gas stations and a card-processing center.AchievementsMade full functional beta-version Emminet from Alpha-version.

Specialist'S Degree, Software Development

Specialist'S Degree, Economics