Paul Major Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

As CEO & Founder of Major Data Solutions, I leverage over 27 years of experience to help businesses overcome data challenges and achieve success with SAP S/4HANA. Our team specializes in data strategy, governance, and integration, delivering exceptional value through:- Data Strategy & Governance: Develop a clear roadmap for data, ensuring quality.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Responsible for all data management activities and deliverables for Norfolk’s S/4HANA Finance projectincluding data strategies, tool selection, environment planning, data profiling, data cleansing, data.
• Led Data Governance Strategy and produced implementation roadmap
• Led data migration team of 9 to deliver all data quality and data migration deliverables on schedule for Norfolk’s S/4 Finance project
• Built and led a team of 7 that installed, configured, and implemented SAP MDG Finance (GL and Cost Center/Cost Center Group) and SAP MDG Business Partner (customer and vendor) resulting in single source of truth and.
• Integrated Ariba SLP to SAP MDG Business Partner (vendor)
• Integrated RPMS and T-Company legacy systems to MDG Business Partner (customer)

• Responsible for consulting practice business development, go to market plans, account management, sales pipeline generation, contract negotiations, staffing, and delivering innovative data and analytic client solutions.
• Led solution design and development of EnterpriseHub, an innovation in-memory data management on-premise/cloud solution, that is now IBM’s premier go to market offering for data quality and data migration.

• Established, led, and operationalized the EIM Competency for IBM’s SAP Business Analytics and Data Practice. Emphasis was on creating new and standardizing existing IBM offerings in order to improve sales and ensure.
• Led efforts to consolidate solution offerings, qualifications, best practices, estimation models, white papers, proposals, functional specifications, tools, and methodologies.
• Improved sales and delivery excellence by developing standard solution offerings, playbooks, toolkits, templates, and EIM best practices.
• Provided EIM SME coverage and assign out staff for many SOWs, sales pursuits, proposals, orals, and RFP responses.

Led teams responsible for strategic planning, program management, data cleansing, data governance, data integration, analytics, and data conversion for multi-year global rollouts of SAP ECC, SAP MDG and S/4HANA at Caterpillar, AO Smith, Schlumberger, EY, Abbott Labs, Cleco, Pitney Bowes, Panasonic, Mauser Packaging Solutions, Axalta, Newmont, and Norfolk.

Led and managed an Information Management organization of 200+ ($30M annual budget) responsible for strategic planning and delivery of data cleansing, data security and privacy, data governance, data migration, data integration, business analysis, business process improvements, MDM, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and data warehousing/analytics for.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Provided leadership for team of 20 Data Stewards that defined global SAP master data standards, policies and procedures, and maintenance processes for customer, material, and vendor master.
• Built Enterprise Master Data Strategy that established a central master data management organization and governance model for CCE.
• Cleansed and converted master and transactional data to support North America A/R, European Supply Chain, and European CRM rollouts.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Responsible for staffing, leadership, and project management for all data warehousing projects for 75 member DSS department. (SAP BW / DB2, MicroStrategy / Teradata, Business Objects / Oracle).
• Implemented data warehouse for customer, product, and sales data for top seven North American bottlers representing over 80% total Coca-Cola volume. Over three million invoice lines processed per day.
• Setup Evaluated Receipts Settlement system that saved over $2M per year in write-offs and A/R staff time.
• Provided sales reporting (volume, penetration, dead net NSI) for top 128 national customers.
• Reduced national customer complaints by 25% by implementing pricing exception reporting.
• Setup DSS Project Management Office and implemented SDLC process to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Accountable for master data standards, processes, and conversions necessary to support the multi-year ERP rollout of SAP (Project Pinnacle). Part of Project Pinnacle core team that built business case, strategies.
• Defined the Master Data Strategy, Analytics Strategy, Language Strategy, Data Cleansing Strategy, SAP Organization Structure Strategy, and Data Cutover Strategy for Project Pinnacle.
• Leader of the data cleansing, data migration, data validation, and data cutover for the SAP implementations in Canada, France, and United States.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Leader of a team of 30 Corporate Business Analysts for the following areas: customer, material, pricing, ordering, invoicing, distribution, logistics, settlement, mobile computing, service, and vending. Team.
• Developed strategies for assimilating new acquisitions of Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Great Britain, Canada, and numerous domestic US acquisitions onto standard global template.
• Led the global implementation of a standard global ERP model for all 454 CCE sales and distribution centers during time CCE doubled in size via acquisitions.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Setup and ran Project Office responsible for vendor management, project portfolio management and staffing of all corporate IT projects for 600+ member corporate IT staff.
• Utilized a skills and career development database to match 600+ IT internal candidates to project work.
• Led annual IT strategic planning sessions with CIO, directors, and Group CFO’s.
• Reduced CCE’s consulting costs by 30% by partnering with Coca-Cola Company to institute a preferred vendor list. Setup standard consulting contract that protected CCE’s interests and reduced legal exposure.

Information Technology Management Certificate

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Computer Information Systems