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.

• 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• Provided security guidance and architecture solutions for multiple complex projects, system upgrades and new system implementations• Lead successful upgrade of SAP GRC 10.0 to SAP GRC 10.1 • Trained role approvers on how to use GRC system as well as basic security investigation • Significantly reduced the number of SOD violations within the company through effective user access review and cleanup as well as role redesign• Successfully cleaned up several areas of concern within IT general controls and eliminated audit findings

• 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.

• 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.

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• Subject matter expert for SAP security and SOD in many SOX assessments for multiple SAP platforms• Developed and hosted monthly business approver meetings and training sessions to a group of 150+ members worldwide• Cited by many as being extremely thorough, proficient and knowledgeable, delivering results and complete solutions on-time, routinely going above and beyond to get the job done, building trusting relationships by keeping customers, coworkers and management well informed with open and honest communication, offering suggestions to improve teams’ efficiency, and providing expedient resolutions to user problems

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.• Provided IT user access to SAP development, test and Production systems as appropriate while ensuring audit controls and compliancy were in place.

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 regional and enterprise wide perspective. • 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• Managed several platform wide projects and initiatives • Taught new functionality to all business users on the platform across multiple geographic regions• Subject matter expert and co-team lead for Master Data functions during Compaq merge project.

• 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• Taught several internally developed SAP classes on Basic Navigation and Material Master to IT & business users

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• Ensured accuracy of monthly Product Line statementsStandard Cost & Variance Analyst:• Re-engineered the standard revision process• Achieved measurable improvements• Ensured optimal valuation of inventory for all product lines• Worked with various operations teams to educate on standard revision processes• Developed useful reporting tools for Standards and Price Variance analysis• Documented new 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.• Generated quarterly reports and departmental reports on an as needed basis; designed forms.• Tracked subscriber base of 500 for monthly distribution, multi-letter renewal notices, and income recognition.• Provided management reports, including marketing pinpointing and list development for direct mail pieces, source code tracking, marketing promotion tracking, renewal analysis reporting, statistical reporting by geographic area, customer type, and year-to-date comparisons.