Ken Medal Email & Phone Number

Greater Denver Area

Greenwood Village, Co

Greater Denver Area

Participated in strategic project planning processes. Provided initial estimates, allocated resources and facilitated implementation time frames, priorities, and viability of projects. Collaborated with SAP business support teams to confirm or revise requirements, support testing, resolve defects and create / revise implementation plans.• Managed development across multiple complex landscapes and environment, supporting significant increases in modules implemented, external systems, custom development, and volumes of data processed.• Planned for and successfully completed quarterly business continuity exercises with increasing degrees of complexity and participation of systems areas. Documented results and made necessary improvements.• Documented and upgraded plans for numerous tasks, including business continuity exercise (BCE) tests, planned maintenance outages, upgrades, hotpacks, and production problems. Assigned experienced developers to mentor junior staff that facilitated quick contribution to overall team performance.• Defined team procedures, including requirements and code reviews. Enforced team, departmental and corporate policies, standards and procedures. Wrote semi-annual performance appraisals, conducted reviews with team members, and provided constructive feedback.• Supported company’s globalization by customizing SAP development to meet requirements as defined by impacted lines of business. Created off-shore development team (hired 2 of 4) in Bangalore.• Approved internal team development goal to prototype SAP Fiori application that provided mobile access for paid annual leave (PAL) approval / denials with potential savings of $100K+ upon implementation.• Evaluated new technology to replace aging in-house developed batch scheduling application. Developed RFP, researched potential vendors, distributed RFP’s, reviewed and collated responses from vendors and recommended proposal to senior management.

Greater Denver Area

• Designed and implemented standardized technical requirements document template that replaced numerous misleading or outdated versions that existed, helping the business support team to spend less time documenting clear and concise requirements for use by development teams.• Assisted in divestiture of Great-West Healthcare business after sale to CIGNA, creating separate instance of SAP for CIGNA containing only CIGNA programs / data. Provided documentation and training to CIGNA support staff.• Supported development (DEV) and quality assurance (QA) versions of each landscape with additional DEV and QA systems created for extended duration projects, including upgrades, resulting in increased intricacy in delivering projects by required due dates.• Installed additional SAP modules, including Managers Self Service (MSS), Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM), Incentive Compensation Management (FS-ICM), Global Trade Services (GTS), and Travel. Managed development team in SAP system upgrades from 4.7 Enterprise to Enhancement Pack 4 to Enhancement Pack 5, providing more complex landscape and additional security.

Greater Denver Area

CO, FS-CD, CM, AP, MM, FI-SL, CCA, COPA, PY, HCM, AA). Overcame numerous technical challenges, including having to develop custom in-house batch scheduling application. At time of go-live, was largest implementation of FS-CD in North America. • Resourced installation of additional SAP modules, including ESS (Employee Self Service) and EBP (Enterprise Buyer Professional). Supervised development teams’ successful SAP system upgrade from 4.6c to 4.7 Enterprise.• Prepared SAP training plan for internal technical resources, determining break-even point for bringing training on-site (all but one class).• Communicated with project leadership, prepared weekly status documents, and partnered with business support teams to review requirements and set priorities, monitoring and adjusting as needed.

Greater Denver Area

Served as team lead for cash-related systems including automated clearing house (ACH), internal checkwriter, banking merge and purge, positive pay, human resources, and payroll.• Implemented first Automated Clearing House (ACH) system at Great-West and customized to support increased volumes and types of business that utilized system. Decreased per item costs from $2per check to $.08 per ACH.• Designed and developed mainframe application to print checks for financial lines of business. Incorporated significant security measures to prevent fraud. Revised all supported systems that ensured continued performance for Y2K. (ACH, Banking, Payroll, HR, Checks, positive pay).• Utilized PL/1, COBOL, MARKIV, TSO, ISPF , clists, assembler, IBM S370, JCL, delivering effective projects.