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Sedona, Arizona, United States

Providing Supply Chain Process Execution and Consulting based on SOW/Project support for SCM applications across industry and business environments for various customer engagements.Huge announcement coming… Leading the Kinaxis VAR Program to deliver and implement Kinaxis Supply Chain PlanningOne. Look for more to come. Roles include:• Global BPO NCP P2P – Sourcing/Procurement SAP S4 Hana; Global Food Ingredients Supplier. • Materials Management role - Planning Assessment of Commercial Changes across 5 Business units focused on Slow Moving and Obsolete Inventory for Global CPG MFG.• Global Test Strategy Lead on PMO team, supported multi-country SAP Enterprise roll out for 3PL EDI environment, Global BioPharma MFG.• Onsite support; critical supply shortage/production planning in Cork Ireland and El Paso/Juarez for BioPharma MFG plants with multi-level BOMs and complex routings leveraging Infor Syteline v10 ERP.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Delivering SAP Business One with FORZA and/or WMS solutions for the Copier/Printer/Imaging Channel. Responsible for functional areas with Purchasing driven by MRP and/or forecasting tools along with warehouse management, inventory control, Service Mobile application on IOS and Android OS. Drove the enhancements required for customized Resolve WMS while fully vetting the latest RF/Android Handheld solutions.

Scottsdale, Arizona

Recruited to grow the Professional Services Practice for the Qstock Inventory WMS solution in the exciting and ever growing Sage Intacct environment. As a pure cloud based application, Qstock stands out as a "go to" Intacct solution for Warehouse Management and Inventory control as well as E-Commerce/Shipping integrations for various Web-based solutions; like Shopify, Amazon, Amazon FBA, ShipEasy, Shipstation and UPS/Fedex. Responsible for the Project Methodology and Delivery for this exponentially growing ecosystem. Focused on process improvements with workflow and methodology documentation to enable scale to meet the demand for the Qstock Products enabling customer to meet their Inventory Managment and revenue with handheld technologies.

South West Region

Leveraging practical Supply Chain and ERP experience delivering Implementations on SAP Business One with Nware and/or Produmex WMS solutions for customers across SW Region of the US.

Scottsdale, Az

As the Supply Chain lead, provided implementation consulting for Inventory Control, Service Mobility, Warehousing and Procurement in support of MWAi’s Forza powered by SAP Business One and N’ware WMS for the Imaging Channel industry vertical. Leveraging practical Supply Chain, Project Management and Project Delivery Methods experience, established and delivered cross-industry best practices to the Imaging Channel. Responsible for the configuration, data conversion, training as well as go live support for each implementation. Applied learned SQL reporting and Boyum feature skills while completing 7 go lives as of January 2017. As a direct report to the CIO, my responsibilities include counsel and collaboration on project delivery structure, quoting for implementations, consistent processes procedures, talent recruiting for key roles as well as mentoring staff on Supply Chain components of the solution.

Scottsdale, Az

Drove Project Management, methodology infrastructure and functional support for SalesForce.com CRM application for CVS Health's Pharmacy Benefit Management division. Supported single sign-on applications for customer portal into CVS PBM applications while building strong relationships with Large Employer and Health Plan client support teams. Key contributor to Director and VP leadership for presentations, funding requests and project updates.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Responsible for the pre-sales and delivery activities for SAP Business One. Soliton Solutions was a Channel Partner with SAP delivering SAP Business One ERP Solutions to the small to medium businesses. These are exciting times when an ERP solution that is fully integrated, proven world-class and affordable can be delivered to the heart and soul of American Small Businesses.

Scottsdale

As an SAP Project Manager for a Phoenix based client in Hotel and Tourism Industry, I lead FICO/SD SAP solution for the clients Hotel rollouts across EMEA and APAC regions. During the 2 years there, I managed 22 releases across 18 countries with 9 offshore, 3 Europe based and 6 US based resources. Responsible for all PM related activities including the co-development and tracking to annual budgets exceeding $2 million. Structured applicable templates and project mothodology based on Accenture Delivery Methods (ADM). Drove the adoption and use of the practice with internal and client team. Accenture provided application support and development for over 49 applications including the SAP Tower.

Sample Roles within Accenture SCM SAP Consulting Practice.Proposal Architect (Accenture Internal Role) - The Proposal Architect manages various aspects of the proposal development campaigns for high-value opportunities for SAP. Contributed on 12 Proposals and maintained multiple references content used to populate RFP's as it related to Accenture Delivery Methods; comparisons to SAP ASAP methodology and current Accenture facts relevant to Accenture's position in the market place.IMGlobal Progam - Short term project - Global IT Technology services and products Distributor throughout North America, Europe, Middle East, Turkey, Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific. I joined the project to launch the SAP configuration build activities across the full solution landscape (ECC, SCM, SRM, MDM, GTS, TMS, and BI); drove the transition of the configuration management activities to the SAP configuration lead. Solution Manager (Large Fiber Optic High Speed Set top Box provider) for ERP-EPIC SAP instance. Led team of 11 functional, Testing, deployment, & business readiness members. Enhancements in MM (MRP), WM & minor SD transformed for 229 locations; satisfying 20k orders per day from 7 dist. centers with replenishment for serialized pick/ship of full pallets. Increased line count efficiency for pick/pack/ship rate of 126 per hour up to to 545 per hour with customized Handling Unit solution built from ASN tables. (US Army-GFEBS) Functional designer of ERP interface objects w/MM functionality to establish commitment (PR), obligation (PO), and GR in Public Sector SAP.

Scottsdale, Az And Birmingham, Al

Advisor Level – (SAP R3 4.6C) PP & WM Functional Lead for business process documentation, development requirements, system design validation, unit/integration testing, UAT coordination and go-live master data preparation as well as post go-live support.Materials Manager in – Multi-Plant MM/WM SAP with RF; high volume pharmacy (35K scripts shipped daily, > 10,000 SKUs, $36million inventory, & 32 direct reports) Key SAP user and business enhancements driver. Within one year turned the facility around from to leading location of materials management practices and execution.Inventory Manager, SAP Project lead –Business owner of all WM & IC (SAP R3 4.6c) activities driving best practices. Drove Requirements, build, testing as well as PM status. Designed the custom Inventory/Cycle count and inventory conversions process with in SAP for annual inventories across all locations.

Manager, APO Functional Team Lead SAP APO/R3 4.7 global instance w/4 countries & 3 currencies. Responsible for Master Data for DP, SNP, & GATP for APO; responsible for DP macros and SNP/CTM MRP Planning jobs as well as APO/R3CIF interfaces.Manager, Materials Analyst for key Global Accounts – Procurement, Inventory & data integrity Management of 500 complex BOMs, & 3000 SKUs back-flushed; liability reduction and disposition for Key Global OEM and Subcontractors; Inventory > $120 million ; successfully transitioned the procurement from California to Arizona with brand new team; achieved inventory reductions through planning discipline and focus on BOM data cleansing. 1st Large Account - through new part add process grew business from $3.5 million to $15 million billable each month in less than one year.Senior Buyer – IMS Division - Establish and maintain product pipelines supporting customer engagements utilizing various standard and “ad-hoc” planning tools (i.e. Mapper, Stock Reservation, Manugistics, Access, & Excel platforms). Implemented customer accounts to the “best-fit” tools. Tasked with shortage resolution for Avnet’s largest global customer. Reported and maintained improvements in critical performance metrics such as ROM, Turns, & minimum on-hand inventories; total annual inventories managed $30 million

Tempe, Arizona

VLSI Technology, Inc was a company which designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom ICs. The company was based in Silicon Valley, with headquarters at 1109 McKay Drive in San Jose, California. Along with LSI Logic, VLSI Technology defined the leading edge of the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) business, which accelerated the push of powerful embedded systems into affordable products. VLSI maintained operations throughout the USA, and in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. One of its key sites was in Tempe, Arizona, where a family of highly successful chipsets was developed for the IBM PC. VLSI was acquired in June 1999 for about $1 billion by Philips Electronics and is today a part of the Philips spin-off NXP Semiconductors.Started my career on the production floor as tape and reel Leading a shift team. Moved into Finished Goods and supply warehouse providing order fulfillment, inventory and warehousing support while I completed my BSBA with emphasis on Materials Management. Was promoted into purchasing as an Assistant Buyer responsible for engineering, facilities and site procurement support. Built strong supplier negotiation and relationship skills enabling promotion to the Buyer II position. Responsibilities grew to Direct Materials and Domestic Assembler Subcontractor services.