Lesa Watson Email & Phone Number

Huntersville, Nc, Us

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Director of IT – Enterprise Applications & ProductsDirector of IT leading an enterprise applications team to support NVA’s corporate functions. Responsible for building a roadmap for enterprise applications that align with business strategy and priorities. Leads applications delivery and support for enterprise systems and tools for corporate functions such as Finance, Human Capital, Legal and Procurement etc.Responsible for creating roadmaps that prioritize high impact strategic projects and implement best practices and standards for packaged applications implementation, software development and application support methodology.

London, United Kingdom , Gb

Total of 23 years with Dimension Data/NTT Limited, recent roles described below.Responsible for global solution design for the Technical and Consulting Services value stream, primarily focusing on the process harmonization and globalization of Changepoint, Dimension Data’s Professional Services Automation tool. • Led the solution design to consolidate disparate Changepoint regional implementations to deploy a global MVP using the SAFe Agile Methodology, streamlining the processing and system integrations with SAP and the other T1 applications. • Led the technical portion of the RFP and selection panel for the Changepoint toolset. • Responsible for working with the business and the technical teams to translate business requirements into Solution Design documents for sign-off and backlog prioritization across the 5 global regions. • Lead Architect on the integration design connecting Changepoint to Tier 1 systems including SAP, Workday, ITSM, SFDC and on global process harmonization across Americas, UK, Asia Pacific, Australia and MEA. Participated in quarterly Planned Iteration workshops in South Africa as part of a Global planning 3-day event.

London, United Kingdom , Gb

Responsible for planning and directing all ERP system and associated integrations including system availability, development, support and implementation of all system modifications, customizations, integrations and upgrades for Dimension Data America (USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile) with combined revenue of $2 billion. Oracle Integration - SAP implementation• Lead for Tier 2 systems integrations, notably Oracle Projects integration to SAP including AP invoices, GL data interfaces and data conversion. • Project-managed teams in design, build deployment and user work instructions of custom solution. • Designed and managed data conversion from Oracle Projects to open Sales Orders in SAP. Team lead on tax calculation interface between SAP and OneSource tax solution

Bryanston, Johannesburg, Za

ERP Applications Manager 2006 – 2016 Built a high-performance team of technical and functional personnel responsible for the support and continued process improvements of over 2000 US-based employees utilizing 14 Oracle ERP modules. Key Achievements:• Upgraded Oracle 11.5.10.2 to 12.1.3 under budget and on time using internal talent across 5 countries • Completed the implementation of the full suite of ERP modules. • Developed, supported and managed continuous improvement of complex integrations and automations including sales and purchase orders, order and shipment status and automated goods receipt transactions.• Custom integration of OneSource tax with Oracle for US sales and Canada VAT taxes.