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Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Working with our Executive Leadership in presenting to the GPI Board to implement 2 automated, vertical warehouses in Kalamazoo, MI and Texarkana, TX - $150 million ask
• Researching diligently on Automation (Vertical) Warehouse in the paper industry (YouTube & Partners)
• Part of Leadership Team (consisting of Digital Manufacturing, Support, and Security) currently rolling out IT/OT strategy to our 7 Paperboard Manufacturing Facilities
• Collaborating with Buyer to formula an 18-month migration plan from SAP/PPR to JD Edwards/Elixer
• Coordinated leaders in perspective IT TSA areas to accurately separate data, reporting, and security from GPI and the buyer in the same SAP/PPR systems to meet a 72-day close date from announcement
• TSA IT Leader in $700 million divestiture of Augusta SBS Mill for 18-24 months from May 1, 2024 - https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/graphic-packaging-holding-company-to-sell-augusta-paperboard-manufacturing-facil.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Hired as a stratactical MDM contractor from CIS to generate a Global Data Supply Chain roadmap. After 45 days, GPI presented a full-time offer as MDM Manager to implement the proposed, approved strategic roadmap. Direct to the VP of Mill IT and dotted line to the SVP/CIO, I am repeatedly given challenges by SVP\CIO, VP\CTO, and other IT VPs to innovate and.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Orchestrated/Delivered MDG (Business Partner & Finance), SLT, and upgraded BODS to v4.2 SP13 100% remote with various Vendors and independent contractors
• Developed/Implemented a technological active data governance strategy including MDG (Customer/Vendor/Finance), BTP, and RPA BluePrism for better Data Quality at entry
• Weekly cadence with Order2Cash, Procure2Pay, Record2Report, and Hire2Retire Leaders to review SAP Information Steward Data Quality scorecards and discuss project(s) & enhancement(s) progress
• Weekly cadence with HR/Finance/Data Stewards/Compliance to cover RPA project opportunities
• Enhanced/Implemented the prior technological passive data governance strategy including BTP, BODS, and RPA BluePrism with MORE automated solutions which cleanses majority rules/standards 23 X 7 X 365
• Orchestrated the construction of the project/support teams by hiring FTE, Strategic Partners (on/near/offshore), and local, talented contractors

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Led SAP ECC (and other app LPARs) migration from AIX P8 hardware to AIX P10s with a storage migration from IBM physical disk to PureStorage Flash Array X90R3
• Worked closely with Google Cloud to evaluate an alternative cloud provider for our global cloud strategy – 100% Azure Cloud currently
• Evaluated Virtual Desktop options’ Citrix VDI and Azure Virtual Desktop against our gathered personas
• Personally implemented SAP BTP for the following applications on Cloud Foundry – Global Address Microservice, Process Automation, Integration Suite, and Document Reporting Compliance (DRC)
• Reported to the VP of Business Transformation with dotted line to VP/CTO

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Created a 5/3/1 year roadmap for GPI’s Master Data technological landscape working with the Director of Master Data & Compliance
• Owned/Developed/Supported BODS, BOBJ, and RADAR technologies
• Migrated BODS/BOBJ environment from physical to virtual servers to Azure Cloud
• Created upgrade plan to keep BODS/BOBJ environments upgrade at minimum twice a year
• Created standard monthly maintenance plan to implement USPS/CAN Address Packages
• Implemented SAP DQM on GPIs’ 2 SAP ECC environments to validate addresses for Customer/Vendor

Provide all duties as mentioned in OIS below. Provide client consultingin Master Data Management (DQ), BI, Analytics and Consolidated DataLakes. Provide SAP tools consultation including implementation,migration, configuration, upgrades and support (on and/or offshore). Ialso manage the offshore office in Chennai, INDIA. The companiesconsulted.

Celebration, FL, US

I secure funding for all travel, payroll and internal R&D. I leverage social media to promote and make individuals/organizations aware of our patent-pending mobile technology. Implement Mobile-Flex(R) POCs for clients (remotely or on-site). Guide potential/existing clients on leveraging Mobile-Flex in their organization. Consult clients on cost effective.

As a small business, many hats is mandatory to operational success. I am responsible for working out partnerships with other firms to keep consultants off the bench. I secure funding for all travel, payroll and internal R&D. I handle all regulatory paperwork including federal, state and local monthly, quarterly and yearly documents. I make sure consultants.

Dublin, IE

Designed Logical Models to start discussions with business users about needed entities and attributes with their definitions. Designed physical Data Models that consolidates dispersed business data into one simplified schema specifically for reporting and analysis. Leveraged BODS 4.2 SP2 to Extract data from dispersed sources (including Excel files.

Las Vegas, NV, US

Assist Rimini Street in expanding their support package in the SAP/BO space. Third tier support for ALL SAP/BO products. Engineer workarounds or recommend other SAP/BO products to resolve architectural/development issues.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Deployed/Modified SAP RapidMarts 4.0 for AP, AR, CA, FA, GL, IA, PM, PP, PR, PS and SA. Used BODS 4.2 SP1 to extract data from ECC 6.0 using RFC connection. Modified SAP RapidMart 4.0 WebI Reports and IDT Universes to meet client’s requirements. Installed BOE 4.1 SP2 on Windows 2012 for POC with SQL Server 2014 (Heckaton, in-memory database). Upgraded.

Led, mentored & coordinated the team of BODS (ETL) developers. We implemented Kimball DW method for SAP Purchasing, Materials, FICO, COPA, Sales, Inventory, Backlog and MRP for NA, Canada & Mexican divisions for Commercial & Residential. Generated project plans with milestones for management. Installed and configured BODS 4.0, BI 4.0 SP4 and Explorer 4.0.

Met with Sr. Management to discuss total BOE software license and architectural landscape to document a product technical need/usage analysis (products including - Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, Explorer, Web Intelligence, Data Integrator) and BOE consolidated license & architectural roadmap for implementation.

Durham, North Carolina, US

Implemented BODS v12.2 in Dev, QA and Prod on Red Hat Linux 5. Installed BODS client tools on Developer’s PCs. I trained/guided BODS developers. Deployed the BO Financial Rapid Mart packages (GL, AR, AP, Project & Purchase) and modified code where necessary to work with any Oracle ERP customizations. Designed/Developed BODS jobs to replace PL/SQL jobs and.

** REMOTE ** Consulted on moving BOE XI R2 and BODI/BODQ 11.7 VMWare instances to NEW domain and debugged/corrected issues that prevented this task from being successful.

Performed BOE sizing exercise with optional architectual solutions to support International usage. Provided valuable support for the Administrators w/ existing BOE 3.X environment while performing a standard health check. Worked with BO Sales Consultants to develop 3 Xcelsius 2K8 POC dashboards leveraging Live Office connection. Setup a POC for BO Metadata.

Consulted/Oversaw the installation/configuration of BOE v3.1 SP2 for Dev, QA and Prod. Consulted/Oversaw the installation and implementation of BO SAP Integration Kit v3.1 SP2 for the same above environments.

Avon Lake, OH, US

Upgraded both BOE & BODS from XI R2 to XI 3.1. Created both Universe & Business View w/ Cascading for report development. Created both parameter driven WebI & Crystal reports for Sales, Account & Operations. Created Xcelsius 2K8 Dashboards that linked to detailed report via OpenDoc passed parameters. Developed BODS ETL jobs that populated custom mini marts.

US

Worked in UHG's Ovations & Heathcare depts. Ovations - Gathered requirements to layout a draft BI architecture which included DBs, ETL, Dashboards & Enterprise Reporting. Presented a BOXI 3.0 demo including Crystal, WebI and Xcelsius 2K8. Established environments for 360 project in Dev, Test & Prod through proper UHG protocol. Documented the process for.

Avon Lake, OH, US

Prepared Disaster Recovery test by checking that all backup functions were properly running at documented scheduled times. During DR exercise, I observed the team to make certain BOE XI R2 was fully restored (by following the detailed document produced by Oasys Information Systems). System was fully restored & functioned in 3 hours (target SLA was 24.

** REMOTE ** Gathered design and NC state requirements from caseworkers and business users for a custom web application to handle client medical information. Built a security model using PHP & MySQL to secure future, multiple PHP web applications with roles to View, Update, Insert and/or Delete. Implemented a PHP Administrative Console application for.

Gathered reporting & integrating information and documented in Visio the proposed architecture for BO XI R2 Enterprise, DI XI R2, DQ XI R2 and Metadata Manager XI R2. Installed and configured a Test/QA BO XI R2, DI XI R2, DQ XI R2 and Metadata Manager XI R2 on Windows 2003 x64 SP2 Server on VMWare ESX instances. Guided the Infrastructure Team on creating a.

Avon Lake, OH, US

Assessed & prepared all BO environments for upgrade to BOE XI R2 SP3. Wrote the support document for Crystal Reports & BO Client Tool installation. Installed & configured a Dev BOE XI R2 SP3 patch on MS HyperV. Documented regression & validation test scripts for current & future BOE upgrades. Prepared the Project Plan to upgrade BOE XI R2 to SP3 in Prod..

Irving, TX, US

Assisted w/ implementing SOX compliant integration governance w/ BODI. Documented SOX Compliant migration document for all 3 environments. Sized & architected the Development, QA/Test & Prod BODI environments. Interviewed several business & IT staff to gather the functional & dataflow requirements. Assisted in setting up DI Knowledge Transfer (Training).

Nationwide, US

** SOME REMOTE ** Learned the core competencies and how the client did business. Learned the main information system - Inroads 360 (customized Seibel CRM). Educated all Regional Mgrs on dashboard concepts. Created a survey to gather critical KPIs. Performed a tool evaluation so client could select standard dashboard tool (Flex 2.0, Xcelsius 4.5 or Oracle.

Brookfield, Wisc., US

** REMOTE (expect training) ** Created a custom training specifically for the HR Dept (included professional bound manual with custom HR FDC hands on assignments). Setup the training environment at HQ office. Performed Knowledge Transfer training sessions for the 10 new Xcelsius developers in a three and half (3 1/2) day course. Guided the new developers.

Kansas City, MO, US

** REMOTE ** Put together a 1 page questionnaire to get critical information for a high-level time frame BO migration estimate. Put together a high-level project plan (based off questionnaire responses) with high-level task for the BO migration. Conducted a conference call to assist the client in presenting the project to Executive committee for approval.

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, US

Gathered metrics, functions, workflows and business requirements to logically architect the first dashboard deployment using the BO tool suite (including CR, Xcelsius, WebI and Dashboard/Performance Manager) for sales, finance and distribution. Designed 5 prototypes on paper and w/in BO Dashboard Manager for review & selection. Developed the chosen.

Brookfield, Wisc., US

Assisted in a BI assessment by conducting interviews w/ stakeholders; compiled notes; and wrote up proposed options for executive management. Provided BOE & CR best practices (including sizing, disaster recovery, patch releases, etc.). Modified existing CR for optimization and required functionality. Created new CR to help HRIS team meet project dates..

Finalized the project plan for Dashboard Initiative. Provided developers with the necessary Xcelsius technical information & best practices to produce expected dashboards. Analyzed current Crystal Reports to find and document ways to optimize performance. Developed Auditing Crystal Reports off CE10 Audit database to analyze concurrent usage & generated a.

Saint Louis, MO, US

Gained control over the prod environment by assisting the Admin in implementing processes, procedures, security and best practice. Defined (based on client goals & objectives) Short, Mid and Long term tasks and objectives, so the client fully leverages BI on CE10 system. Documented an upgrade plan from CE to Crystal Server XI R2. Developed a sales self.

St. Louis, Missouri, US

Planned for a BI Roadmap for the client (tasks, dates, resources and necessary information). Interviewed business teams to get requirements and necessary functionality. Analyzed all gathered data in order to generate a final BI Roadmap deliverable presentation of findings and direction including: Business Information Needs / Vision, Information.

Optimized their BI environment. Performed a full analysis of the BO & Tomcat environment to write findings & present recommendations. Performed BO system health check and documented suggestions that would optimize current system (architectural and development suggestions & best practices). Generated a high-level task list of my efforts with a Gantt chart.

St Louis, Missouri, US

Responsible for organizing the internal Wiki for all BI material (including material for BO, Cognos & MS Reporting Services). Responsible for organizing the internal training (including hands-on) for BO's Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Universe Designer, Crystal Xcelsius, BO Performance Manager, BO Dashboard Manager, BO Data Integrator (Infrastructure.

Saint Louis, MO, US

Did a full analysis on the current BO XI Prod environment (documenting settings & configurations). Compiled all information gathered & generated an upgrade plan with minimal risk for the off-hours. Generated a recommendations document for Centene's BO XI R2 Prod environment based on future projects, tool usage and user base. Produced an upgrade plan with.

Avon Lake, OH, US

Implemented & configured the Prod environment w/ BOEXIR2 SP1 on Windows 2003 (including the setup of Performance/Dashboard Mgr). Trained the future BOE Admin how to implement and configure the Dev environment while I documented a step-by-step plan to get Prod & Dev back to Sun Solaris. Implemented & configured the Prod environment w/ BODI 11.7 on Windows.

Rochester, Minnesota, US

Was called to the project by BO's Executive Mgt, to fix project direction (for MAGIC project), timeline & business relations. Mayo Mgrs evaluated my value for 2 wks to see if BO/Mayo Clinic business relationship would continue - it did after two (2) days! Managed 20 Crystal, Web Intelligence and Universe developers. Implemented a status forum to replace.

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, US

Area of Responsibility - Service to Customers (70%), People Development (20%) and Business Development (10%). Project manage smaller engagements w/o supervision. Supported the Program/Project Manager(s) on larger projects in putting together proposals, business & functional specifications and project plans. Conducted vision workshops with Practice.

Developed 3 critical Corp Crystal Reports - 1) Rolling 6 month, 2) Top 10 Client Report, and 3) Trade Audit Report. Modified some existing CR reports to improve performance. Implemented optimization strategies for report development to obtain optimal performance on XI Enterprise. Assisted with the implementation of LDAP with XI Enterprise. Resolved XI.

Plano, TX, US

Implemented a Distributed POC BOE XI Java environment with Performance Manager. Demonstrated the BOE XI deployment for the future Admins. Delivered a high level BOE XI R2 migration document (XI R2 was not available at the time, so document was based off BO's Roadmap).

Charlotte, NC, US

Implemented a High Available POC BOE XI Java environment. Configured the POC BOE environment for Prod performance. Educated and had meeting with the future Admins on the BOE Security concepts, direction, etc. Documented a step-by-step of how to implement a Java BOE XI for all environments for Disaster Recovery. Delivered the proper deliverables on time and.

St. Louis, MO, US

Co-developed a BI Competency Center with 100% Executive commitment & support. Interviewed & recommended candidates for positions w/in the BI team. Architected the system infrastructure for the NEW BI CE v10 and BO 6.5 upgrade for overall cost savings, performance, reliability and future upgrade flexibility. Orchestrated corporate standards, guidelines &.

Masters, Business Administration

Bs In Agricultural Economics, Accounting And Business/Management

High School Diploma, Mathematics And Computer Science

Mathematics