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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Helped establish the Applications, Data and AI Practice, with an emphasis on SAP Transformative work.Worked with the core team to mature SAP transformation, migration and modernization servicesSupported growth through hiring, knowledge-sharing, partner-alignment and more.Helped build and implement targeted sales motions, complete with sales plays and supporting collateral.Established the internal SAP Guild as a forum for learning and collaboration.Collaborated with industry experts to build Automotive and Discrete Manufacturing points of view.Grew external eminence through conference presentations, analyst-reviews, partner-presentations and more.Drove the complete sales cycles for specific customers, from opportunity identification to validation, maturation, closing and delivery.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Helped launch the Advisory Services Practice, with a focus on ERP Transformation.Enabled Sellers and Customer Partners on ERP Services.Built engagement and delivery assets, additional collateral and supporting materials.Identified, matured and managed customer opportunities.

- Launched a high-quality service-focused SAP consulting practice.- Built relationships with and sold engagements at mid-to-large sized businesses in Healthcare, Retail and Manufacturing, including Kohler, McKesson, Fresenius Medical, Agilent Technologies, L. Perrigo, OC Tanner and more.- Worked closely with on-shore and off-shore resources in various countries and time-zones.- Consulting services delivered include:• Implementation, Configuration and Integration of various Cloud-based solutions, such as SAP CPI, Analytics Cloud, CPQ, Marketing Cloud.• Technical leadership and hands-on services for several environment upgrades (SAP ECC, HANA, CRM, BI, SCM, BO, Solution Manager, Oracle DB, Vistex and more), including optimization, training and support.• Support and Leadership for SAP S/4 HANA evaluations, migrations and upgrades.• Environment migrations (OS/DB), redesigns and re-implementations.• Support for conversion of the corporate Fiscal Year calendar through the SAP SLO toolset.• Monitoring configuration for mixed system landscapes via SAP Solution Manager.• Delivery of customized and synchronized clients using SAP TDMS.

- Launched a quality-focused SAP consulting practice.- Established relationships with and sold services to several mid-to-large Software, Retail and Manufacturing businesses, including T-Mobile Corporation, Corbis and Welch Allyn.- Helped establish an off-shore center of competence and service delivery.- Mentored, trained and led a global team of developers and consultants.- Led business-reorganization and redirection during a period of significant economic downturn.- Consulting projects delivered include:• Performance optimization of a highly customized SAP CRM environment.• A new multi-phase rollout of SAP ECC, CRM and BI.• Technical leadership in upgrading a highly-customized 10TB SAP ECC 5.0 instance to 6.0.• Installation, configuration, optimization and hardening of multiple SAP instances on the Amazon AWS/EC2 cloud environment.

- Participated in the Global SAP Rollout as an SAP Basis and Unix Lead.- Helped upgrade, stabilize and enhance the SAP CRM environment.- Co-ordinated a full Disaster Recovery test of the SAP R/3 environment. Led a team of System Administrators, DBAs and Functional SMEs to execute and gather learnings.- Developed technology roadmaps. Promoted best practices to global business and technology leaders.- Helped develop, pilot and implement a company-wide VPN solution.- Participated in various network upgrades and enhancements.

Masters, Technology Management

Activities and Societies: Grad coursework at Wharton in Management, Operations and Information Management.

Bachelors, Engineering

Activities and Societies: MECA, IEEE, Squash, PSA,

Regional Leadership Forum

Activities and Societies: Society for Information Management's Regional Leadership Forum.

A-Levels

Activities and Societies: Swim team captain, College Prefect, Full College Blazer (Academics), Editor - The Scientific.