Manage Projects in Partner Solutions & Technology

Manage Projects in Partner Solutions & Technology

Utilize broad scope of industry knowledge and dynamic IT / business acumen toward leading forward-thinking project teams in delivering multiple simultaneous cross-functional projects, including building project plans, tracing and managing comprehensive project schedules, and effectively monitoring and measuring progress on an on-going basis.• Serve as an integral conduit between IT teams and the customer community (e.g. internal business users).• Identify and analyze preliminary business needs, budget considerations, time / resource estimates, along with defining project scope and objectives and resourcefully attaining business user consent to drive projects’ start-up.• Directed a Corporate Credit Card Project that implemented a corporate credit card procurement program, enabled the capability to pay vendor invoices via credit card, automated auditing of employee submitted expense reports per company policy, and upgraded software packages (e.g. payment manager, travel and expenses).• Led a GT Nexus Supply Transformation Project that delivers accurate and detailed visibility to shipments 10 days prior to arrival at the Distribution Center, automated receiving to reduce costs to Ariat and distribution centers, and achieved better and more accurate and timely documents to and from the factories.

Global Trade & Customs | Global Supply Chain IT | Printing & Personal SystemsMaximized global success as an Asset Lead for RegsLink (Worldwide Technical Regulations for HP Products), Pulse (Product User Legal Safe Environment), ImportSys (Customs Processing in Latin America), CIMEX (Customs processing in Mexico), and WWCLASS (Worldwide Product classification) managing applications’ health, maintenance, and innovation.Applied strong leadership talents toward directing IT and business partner project teams through requirements, design, and implementation phases of information technology projects in support of company profit, growth, and goals.Recognized as a valuable part of a team supporting development and innovation projects for SAP Global Trade Server.• Served in an IT PM role for Enable Flow of ODM shipment data in AMS (Juarez) to migrate from a manually-generated Customs PDF solution to an automated SAP-generated Customs Invoice.• Led first-ever production cloud solution as IT PM for Global Supply Chain to create a read-only database for reporting separate from WWCLASS production database, and further led WWCLASS Broker Migration and ASTA Mitigation project to deliver a new web hosting platform that adheres to HPIT security standards; went live in 2012.• Co-led a team to execute a GTS Get Well Plan designed to drive improvements in Customs Invoice availability – end-to-end and worldwide through a stable operational environment, and led team achieving the stated objectives of closing all Problem Management Reports that were GTS related and trending positively to meet 30% ticket mean reduction and UCL reduction targets (mean of 7.4 and UCL goal of 20.96 project is at 9.2 and 26.2).• Project-managed an Americas region-based Global Trade and Customs initiative with responsibility for project portfolio planning, including proactively executing projects in both an IT PM role and as a team member.

Spearheaded IT / business partner project teams through requirements, design, and implementation phases of information technology projects in key support of companywide profit, growth, and customer satisfaction objectives.Optimized success via planning, resource management, risk assessment, and quality assurance of assigned projects.Liaised among external partners and EDI stakeholders for comprehensive enterprise business areas supported by EDI delivering timely business-critical implementations encompassing Accounts Payable, Internet Commerce Ordering, Manufacturing Supply Operations, Manufacturing and Logistics, Accounts Receivable, and Channels Marketing.• Created an EDI roadmap enabling enhanced visibility into supply and demand for EDI resources within EB2B.• Cost-effectively negotiated process improvements for EB2B to take advantage of projects’ QA resources offshore.• Provided outsourced EDI mapping, development, and support managed services via Vendor GXS, including holding quarterly briefings with Cisco and GXS management to review performance to managed Service Level Agreements.• Led a cross-functional team through the integration of common customers on EDI purchase orders, acknowledgements, and invoicing after company acquisition, as well as a team through the implementation of a disti scorecard project that allowed Channels team to capture metrics and measure disti performance allowing incentives to be extended to top performers strengthening business relationships and leading to increased sales.• Directed 4 Solutions Analysts in executing projects from on-boarding existing EDI messages to large-scale efforts.

Strategically steered results-focused project teams (IT / business partners) through requirements, design, and implementation phases of information technology projects in support of profit, growth and customer satisfaction initiatives, and worked with a Sales & Distribution (SD) business community to drive improvements of QTC processes.• Led teams to integrate common customers on EDI invoicing, inventory, POS, and claims in / out of SAP after merger.• Increased revenue recognition accuracy at $50,000 / monthly and achieved expense reduction and headcount decrease by leading the EDI Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) implementation, and further received the “Vice President’s Recognition Award” for implementing scalable EDI VMI automation to enable global demand growth.• Directed a B2B / eCommerce team defining a process to decrease time-to-market 10% for implementing new messages, performed led EDI process mapping to SAP order management and channel management applications, and guided functional / technical support processing 12,000+ EDI transaction weekly with 100 trading partners.• Initiated a new memory product line divestiture (Spansion) and led team to decouple EDI interface for new company.• Led a project team in implementing new communications architecture for EDI interface moving off of legacy mainframe to a Windows platform, and further consolidated VAN mailboxes and related processes in the U.S.

Capitalized on the opportunity to develop and support state-of-the-art software systems and environments for business applications, including managing large-scale projects and software enhancements to meet or exceed goals.• Directed a cross-functional team from design through to implementation of a RosettaNet Pilot Project establishing key system-wide aspects, and received “Vice President’s Recognition Award” for scalable program implementation.• Led migration of EDI interface from BAAN ERP to SAP Sales & Distribution (SD) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) ERP applications, and further led knowledge transfer for offshore SAP SD, CRM, and EDI support.• Designed web-based Snapshot report replacement, including creating functional and technical specs and coding.• Evaluated and selected Crystal Reports to efficiently replace legacy mainframe-based application, and coordinated efforts among vendors for product evaluation demos, building proof of concept, and pilot testing applications.• Participated on a development project team tasked with implementing SAP FI / CO ERP to replace BAAN ERP finance functionality, and handled vendor and purchasing info conversions and functional analyst liaison roles.

Drove operations success by developing and supporting software systems and environments for business applications.• Saved $6 million annually by participating in all facets of the comprehensive implementation of BAAN ERP application to replace COMET with a Y2K compliant system across a Sun Solaris Unix / Oracle database platform.• Selected, evaluated, tested, and implemented a job scheduling tool (Control-M) to provide batch interface to BAAN.• Delivered high-quality post-implementation support for Sales / Marketing applications from BAAN ERP to Mainframe.