Wendy N. Email & Phone Number

Cupertino, California, US

Provide leadership and guidance in all areas of SAP Security including but not limited to access controls, user administration, role design/re-design, SOD controls.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Improved the company’s current IT security administration processes and systems, documenting as required
• Proactively assessed and improved potential items of risk and opportunities for improvement
• Forecast security efforts and managed resources for staffing multiple projects per year using both waterfall and agile methodologies
• Researched and identified appropriate security solutions and implementation designs to support functional business requirements
• Provided leadership and mentoring of outsourced support team and consultants that provide level 1 & level 2 support
• Facilitated transfer of knowledge among team members

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Improve the company’s security checklist process and monitoring.
• Identify potential risks and areas of opportunity to improve SAP security operations.
• Provide structure and documentation of all SAP security processes and procedures.
• Provide leadership and consulting for many development projects, business users and offshore support team in order to provide secure business processes for both technical and business initiatives.
• Provide security reviews and approvals for all role changes moved to production.
• Manage and document operational processes for quarterly audit control testing.

San Jose, CA, US

• Responsible for the facilitation of cross-functional collaboration to achieve the framework necessary to define, govern, organize and manage data in order to achieve corporate goals and objectives on data governance.
• Analyze sources and lineage of data; provide guidance and rules on managing data; analyze root causes of data fallout and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Identify and eliminate unnecessary processes, customization and redundancies in order to optimize data management.
• Document material master field usage and process flows.
• Spearhead user access cleanup initiative in order to improve security controls with user access to the material master, BOM, routing and supporting custom tables.

Houston, Texas, US

• Lead offshore team in providing SAP Security support for multiple SAP systems within and often exceeding service level agreements
• Managed multiple security projects and audit compliance initiatives
• Project Manager for the development and deployment of a customized global user administration tool, resulting in an efficient common process across multiple worldwide platforms and reducing support costs
• Lead the re-design of new user roles and review the content against critical IT capabilities and SOD conflicts
• Managed all security changes with no business disruption and no audit issues during the SAP R/3 to ECC 6.0 upgrade as well as BW upgrade
• Consultant to IT development team for multiple projects as well as business users for security concerns and access issues and/or requirements

Houston, Texas, US

• Served as the liason across multiple IT teams within the company. Facilitated the communication, gathering and finalizing of IT requirements for the Supply Chain IT team.
• Established strong working partnership relationship with multiple internal IT partners.
• Improved communication and understanding of support model to multiple internal IT partners.
• Provided consulting services for process optimization
• Developed and communicated SLA for IT partners.
• Lead technical team through a successful SAP R/3 upgrade from 4.6c to 4.7 with minimal downtime and delivered project on time.

Houston, Texas, US

• Lead various programs and projects focused on sustaining the entire platform and to optimize / re-engineer existing processes to reduce costs. Served as platform representative in various forums and meetings from a.
• Served as gate keeper of Master Data design decisions
• Developed and facilitated platform Material Master users group forum
• Documented Master Data processes, definitions & published on central website
• Implemented various Business controls and Security around Master Data
• Identified Audit risks and adopted control measures for audit compliance with SOX

Houston, Texas, US

• Developed inventory reconciliation tool that aided in variance control
• Established a standard cost master/slave relationship and process between Legacy and SAP platforms
• Transitioned Business Operations from Legacy systems to SAP platform assisting with inventory control and business management issues
• Facilitated the Master Data Management Team to design the MDM Model
• Researched and designed how to implement Internal Accounting practices on SAP
• Co-created and provided system training for the Finance Department

Houston, Texas, US

• Product Line Financial Analyst:
• Improved financial reporting to Worldwide Product Line and Operations
• Influenced the decision to co-develop and excess and obsolete reporting tool
• Partnered with Operations team to improve inventory / procurement processes
• Designed month end reporting tools
• Established and documented various business processes

• Responsible for implementing and managing a multi-module computer based accounting system and relational customer database.
• Set accounting standards for the company and wrote accounting procedure manuals.
• Established daily data entry, weekly check run, invoicing, collections, cash receipts and financial state preparation process.
• Setup and implemented a multi-project cost tracking system.
• Prepared Quarterly Sales & Use Tax Return, financial analysis, forecasting, and management reporting.
• Responsible for maintenance and supervision of input from others into a 10,000-name database.