Principal Architect, Designer & Technical Pm Roles
Redmond, Washington, Us
Initially, configurer, designer of a localized catalog pricing solution using core SAP, this effort allowed me to grow to principal architect of the primary system that does 85% of all Microsoft catalog pricing - covering volume licensing, OEM and managed retail - a "dream" engineering project & team using MM/SD/MDGOver 15 years of leading and mentoring a single corporate SAP team that managed to keep most contractors and employees together for over a decade, the architecture of the solution involved growing 6 basic components over the decade with the following impact:Catalog Localized Pricing Platform - The initial platform component created as a customized pricing catalog generator based on standard SAP pricing procedure/customer mastering/ listing & exclusion and inquiry document BAPI. This platform component initially went into production use in late 2005 and to this day continues to manage over 60 million active catalog pricepoints each month to data warehouses and Azure cloud repositories. This catalog pricing covers over 85% of Microsoft revenue. To date, this solution is managing over 1 billion historical prices for has simulated 10's of billions of rows of pricing with approximately a 10% add, change, delete each month. The user base is approx. 100 global super users who maintain the business rules solely in SAP’s pricing configurator. The pricing engine also encompasses bundle component pricing, pricing to feed revenue recognition rules and costing processes requiring more than a “standard price”. To date the solution manages over 60 million active prices & 1 billion historical prices. The architecture has simulated billions of rows of pricing within the same single primary SAP system that Microsoft operates today. From this modest beginning, the architecture was enhanced to manage promotions & sales deals (10K per month), orderable SKU/Sales BOM/materials management (1M active part numbers and BOMs), & quoting (10 million quotes yearly).