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Southfield , Michigan, Us

Organized and led a world class Enterprise Application transformation team of 250+ to provide technical, functional, and process expertise aligned with business unit/regional requirements and company’s vision, mission and goals. Set and managed IT departmental budget of $40M. (through September 2024)• Developed long term strategic application transformation plan across groups including future state, cyber security and recovery, landscape, and feature sets enabling long term business forecasting.• Creation and execution of a centralized shared services application for accounts receivable and accounts payable that will increase controls and cash visibility, and allow migration of resources from high cost to low cost countries.• Planned and migrated internal hosted applications to external hosting provider that reduced cyber recover risk and timing.• Implementation of a data / low code application creating a global repository resulting in increased task visibility, error resolution, and cash visibility.• Strategic implementation of cloud-based solutions and SaaS platforms, reducing costs, enhancing scalability, and enabling innovation resulting in lower cost of ownership by 20% for applications. • Established and managed application portfolio increasing awareness of priorities and risk resulting in business alignement of deliverables.

Southfield , Michigan, Us

Organized and led a team of 100+ diverse resources to established global strategy and roadmaps for the SAP and procurement groups. Architected and deployed landscape, system, integration, and data strategies to provide robust environments that maximize uptime and minimize latency. • Organized global and regionalized partners to expand localized expertise while maintaining global standardization resulting in 25% reduction in delivery time.• Organized and staffed diverse European team resulting in a 100% increase in SAP deployments.• Established a cyber-security strategy and plan to respond to cyberattacks reducing risk and business downtime (loss revenues) in the event of an attack.• Stengthened application integration points that promote increased visibility, error handling, and efficiency allowing business resolution reducing additional IT support by 5%.• Optimized the SAP and procurement landscapes resulting in reduced latency and 0% unplanned downtime.

Southfield , Michigan, Us

Organized and managed a team of 50 internal and external resources to migrate legacy systems to SAP including financials, operations, and logistics. • Built an internal SAP Delivery team and developed global delivery templates that increased plant migrations by 500%.• Identified key integration partners that provided increased functional expertise and offshore presence to save $1.1M annually.• Initiated project gate reviews to increase communication and visibility of projects.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Directed and mentored the SAP global project and support team group of 60+ resources to deliver projects within defined scope, budget, and time-frame. Established long term strategic vision of the SAP organizational structure, landscape, architecture and integration to support the business. • Built and mentored SAP organization that provided global project delivery and support resulting in increased deliverables and increased stability in environment.• Establish partnership to provide an offshore development factory leading to increased flexibility in resources resulting in $250K annual savings.• Managed 3 acquisitions that required carveouts and integration of SAP systems (Chassis, Friction and Ignition business units) resulting in early adoption of company processes.• Established a new support contract that utilized off-shore resources that reduced salary/contract cost by $1.2M annually.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Manage the SAP project delivery team within the aftermarket division. Led an internal staff of 25+, managed and controlled a department budget in excess of $4M+ and project budgets in of $ 20M+.• Built global and regional SAP Delivery teams to effictively migrate and update legacy applications to reduce ERP cost of ownership.• Strategically planned and performed SAP carve-out into two divisions (Powertrain and Motorparts) to allow divestiture. • Planned and managed SAP upgrade from ECC5 to ECC6 while simultaneously performing segmentation resulting in long term reduction in application support cost.• Established a Maquilladora template within SAP resulting in Mexican tax benefits.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Managed Global SAP Supply Chain Execution (SCE) team to provide solutions for internal logistics.• Designed and implemented SAP logistic templates to provide standardized global solutions to produce increased process efficiencies decreasing cost of ownership.• Built global mobile warehouse transactions to create a real-time transactional system that decreased inventory by 10%, causing reduced annual warehousing costs.• Built and deployed mobile physical inventory system that reduced resources and time that reduced resources by 100 hours per plant per count.• Collaborated with business to determine WMS selection and strategy for our high-volume and highly complex global aftermarket warehouses that produced reduced warehousing costs.

Canton Township, Michigan, Us

Managed Information Technology group for both internal operations and external client projects. Architecture and controlled software specification designs, programming and delivery for software division. Support for internal infrastructure, systems, technical certifications, technical operations and support. Led client wireless infrastructure deployments.• Built and established software application division that diversified company portfolio to increase revenues by $1M annually• Developed and managed the client implementation of SAP automated logistic transactions for a real-time inventory tracking system to save clients on annual operational and inventory carrying cost.• Supported sales team with technical expertise that resulted 90% new business awarded.• Evaluated and analyzed client processes and developed integrated systems to provide the client with a strategic business transformation incorporating standards and best business practices.

Provided pre-sales technical support, evaluated and marketed Automated Data Collection Systems, and compiled budgetary proposals. Streamlined material flow through client warehouse processes, managing integration specifications and development to ensure projects were completed on time and under budget.

Plymouth, Mi, Us

Led a team to select, design, implement and deploy an integrated ERP software package. • Managed and improved material flows at 9 manufacturing facilities and 15 distribution warehouses significantly improving inventory record accuracy resulting in reduction in obsolescence and inventory carrying cost. • Designed, developed, and deployed an Accounting, Financial, Manufacturing, Warehouse and Distribution, Payroll, Human Resources and Advance Planning software package (CA-PRMS) resulting in increased operational and financial visibility, and standardization across facilities. • Designed and installed wireless network solutions and a automated data collection system for all manufacturing facilities and their distribution centers resulting in real-time inventory visibility reducing inventory handling cost.• Designed, implemented and managed EDI solution that resulted in automated processes reducing manual data entry processes.

Plymouth, Mi, Us

Managed customer credit and financial health to determine optimal business exposure.• Built and established software application to track customer exposure, correspondences, and current credit standing increasing customer financial visibility resulting in substantial reduction in financial risk.

Plymouth, Mi, Us