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Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Tampa, Florida

Responsible for leading the PMO team at Refresco/Cott Beverages including project management and organizational change management.• Established a PMO including best practice project methodology and structure for delivering visions into reality. • Established a Project Portfolio site on MS SharePoint to present a portfolio dashboard, layout project methodology, present project status, and house project documentation and project templates. This site is the central repository used by upper management, steering committees, project managers, stakeholders, team members.• Introduced team to software development life cycle (SDLC) project management including setting up a library of templates for project development, a process to onboard projects and a set of gates to ensure project deliverables are met and ensure a high level of quality is maintained throughout the project.• Led major projects including multimillion dollar SAP implementations, production and supply chain innovation projects, global compliance projects, and infrastructure projects.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Responsible for leading medium and large scale projects including: process improvement, defining business charters including scope and deliverables, resource management, vendor management, project management, change management and overall budget responsibility.• Led a global SAP migration and implementation of SAP HANA and the SAP HANA Enter Enterprise Cloud (HEC). Systems included SAP ECC, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP BPC, and Business Objects. Service integrators included SAP HEC, SAP North American Services, SAP Global Delivery, SAP Application Management Services (AMS), Capgemini North America, and Capgemini India. • Managed the implementation of an EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and OpenText Vendor Invoice Management system in the United Kingdom to streamline the invoicing process and reduce the manpower needed in accounts payable.• Implemented a set of PMO (Program Management Organization) best practices methodologies and tools that aligned IT with business and provided better visibility of project budgets, resource constraints, and project deliverables.• Established project governance practices bases on Project Management Institutes (PMI) book of knowledge (PMBOK) and SAP’s Accelerated SAP (ASAP) methodology.• Worked with business owners and stakeholders to understand the business need and drive business cases including a high level rough order of magnitude (ROM) so that we could help prioritize projects and deliver project on time and on budget.• Developed new project management talent to meet the increased demand for new projects.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Responsible for leading a global team of 17 talented people through a transition from distributed legacy applications to a new centralized ERP platform.• Led ERP team through multiple global branch rollouts of SAP. Implementations included sales branches, warehouses and manufacturing location throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Pacific Asia. New ERP platform included SAP ECC (SD, FI, CO, MM, WM, PP, PP-PI, QM), SAP BW, BOBJ, MII, and Solution Manager.• Introduced best practice methodologies for change and release management as well as introduced best practice document management processes for sustainability of the new global platform.• Managed the basis and SAP security practice and worked with an outside basis provider to implement governance, risk, and compliance software (ControlPanelGRC) • Transformed Cognos financial reporting systems into a global SAP business intelligence suite including sales, finance, manufacturing, supply chain, consolidations, and planning data. Tools include SAP BW, Business Objects Advanced Analytics, Web Intelligence, and SAP Business Planning and Consolidations.• Enhanced system visibility and issue resolution through better business processes and tools.• Responsible for budgeting and resource management of ERP systems and 17 global resources. • Recruited and managed global IT talent with employees located in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and Singapore. By expanding the global IT resources, we were better able to work with resources in local time zones to ensure quicker response times and to better understand the user needs at the local branches. This shortened time to resolution and increased quality of service.• Implemented SAP interfaces for customers, materials, orders, and invoices, to a new Microsoft Dynamics CRM system for better customer visibility by the sales force.

Joplin, Mo

Main areas of responsibility included program management, resource management, ERP functionality, IT vender management and business transformation. Worked with business leaders to move from a reactive center of competency to a proactive center of excellence. Managed resources, projects, budgets, vendors (including negotiations), business process development and strategic planning. Responsible for department of 19 people including 4 direct reports and project teams of up to 64 people including on site, on shore and off shore resources.

Chicago, Il

Sr. Project Manager for the market and technology leader in business software solutions, providing comprehensive business software through SAP applications, services and support.

Senior Information Technology executive with solid background in directing and managing business application systems and IT departments including the design, development, release and maintenance of ERP, Supply Chain, BW and Web Applications. Recognized as an industry leader in providing strategic direction and ensuring the security, effectiveness and efficiency of IT, telephony and online services for multiple locations, and geographically dispersed users. Defined, developed, tested and implemented multiple ERP projects including SAP, supply chain, customer profitability, and business intelligence systems.

Chicago, Il

Led Information Technology department for Amer Sports including: Wilson Sporting Goods and Precor Fitness world headquarters as well as sales organizations of Salomon, Atomic, Suunto, Amer Canada, Amer Latin America and Amer South America. Responsible for department of 48 people including 15 direct reports. Main areas of responsibility included ERP applications, Web applications, EDI, and IT infrastructure.

Vernon Hills, Il / Madison, Wi

Responsible for the Information Systems at Pacific Cycle including global SAP systems, Business Warehouse, BPCS, EDI, RFID, and other systems. Managed team of eight internal personnel and from two to 14 consultants. Managed outside basis organization that monitored SAP system and applications.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Management

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