Ray Berry Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Oxford Industries, Inc. is an international apparel design, sourcing and marketing company including a diverse portfolio of owned lifestyle brands featuring Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer and Southern Tide, as well as owned and licensed brands of tailored clothing and golf apparel.- Responsible for development and support of Oxford's business application portfolio

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Responsibilities include Application Development governance, managing solution architects and providing technical leadership for both development and support in a global SAP implementation• Managed full SDLC delivery of solutions using SAP, Clarity, Tibco, and Java, including staffing and vetting of resources, as well as managing the global contracts for multiple vendors• Technical leadership on all SAP upgrades, Unicode/database conversions, and support pack applications• Outsourcing from RFP through metrics: Extensive experience negotiating and partnering with service providers on an offshore focused delivery model with emphasis on vendor accountability• Managed specific initiatives, including a software evaluations (Integration broker, Quality/Testing, LiveCompare evaluation, purchase and implementation)• Managed SAP Max Attention program, managing SAP services and evaluation of BW and EPM on HANA• Responsible for SAP production archiving operations and data volume management, deploying several new objects and upgrading our PBS utilities

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Drawing from a broad experience in implementing and sustaining SAP landscapes, served as the primary SAP knowledge base for the software engineers developing a robust SAP monitoring and management application called Horizon for SAP (now owned by Cisco)• As the primary developer of content for the product, was the key liaison between sales, engineering and the customer base• Provided Basis services, installing and maintaining several SAP systems for the company’s testing landscape.• With a growing install base, the ‘expert-in-a-box’ content has withstood the tests of many installations and been proven accurate.

Houston, Texas, Us

HP Director, Information Technology, 2000 - 2003.• Managed staff of 90 and $20M budget for the Enterprise Systems Group• Set development standards and best practices for ESG's SAP implementations• Participated on Integration “clean team” helping to plan and execute one of the largest technology mergers in history (Compaq-HP), performing assessments and developing action plans for pre-merger HP’s SAP implementations• Post-merger, assumed a role with Enterprise Systems Group Core Supply chain, developing new joint SAP development standards and continued to provide development services for Core and regional Fusion SAP environments as well as internet/intranet development for ESG• Outsourced the sustaining development and support of Compaq's pre-merger SAP landscape. This involved vendor selection, establishment of the SOW/SLA, as well as ongoing management of the outsourced support effort. Defined metrics and managed team efforts to continually improve efficiency and reduce cost• Regularly showcased Compaq’s SAP landscape, technology, and implementation strategy to industry IT executivesCompaq, Manager, Technical Development, 1996 - 2000. • Responsibilities included managing ABAP, EDI and ALE development, BASIS, SAP Security, and EAI middleware functions. As a technical shared service provider, I built solid relationships with other IT teams and managed multiple concurrent development projects, upgrades and support packages• Championed creation and adherence to development standards, performance tuning activities and SAP development best practicesCompaq, Systems Analyst, 1990 - 1995. • Began the SAP Implementation at Compaq as the SD/AR team lead, performing requirements gathering, gap analysis, project management and performed SAP SD configuration and ABAP development of reports and enhancements.

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