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Resume11/1994
–
present Consulting
Project
Manager R3 / principal consultant / team lead Clients:
Corning,
Hickory, NC Fiber
cables 05/06
– 09/06 SAP
release:
4.7 “CO
Platinum Consultant” I
was contracted as specialist for Material ledger, transfer pricing,
CO-PA, PCA and reporting during the build-and-test phase.
Especially, I designed, developed, implemented, tested, and
documented an alternative approach to transfer pricing since SAP’s
standard functionality could not be used due to currency issues. EFI, Foster
City, CA Printing
Technology, Industrial printers, Ink 01/06
– 04/06 SAP
release:
4.7 “CO
Platinum Consultant” EFI
recently purchased a new company. This new entity had to be
integrated in EFI’s SAP system. Furthermore, the new company –
unlike the rest of EFI – was partly a manufacturing company
(printers and ink). Therefore, the PP and product costing modules
needed to be implemented. I was contracted to manage the FI and CO
related aspects of the project. This included as-is analysis,
requirements gathering, design, implementation, conversion,
integration, test, and training aspects. The functionality covered
was the following: product costing (make-to-stock), results
analysis, conversion, reporting, inventory controlling, profit
center accounting, and consolidation. Northrop
Grumman, Century City, CA Defense 08/05
– 01/06 SAP
release:
4.7 “CO
Platinum Consultant” Detailed
information withheld (non-disclosure agreement) Reichhold,
Durham, NC and Rotterdam, Netherlands Chemicals 06/05
– 08/05 SAP
release:
4.6c “Material
Ledger Platinum Consultant” I
contracted to Reichhold before (3/2003 –
6/2003 through Cap Gemini) and was “called” back to analyze and
validate current material ledger and product costing (make-to-order
and make-to-stock) configuration, procedures and reports. AMO, Santa
Ana, CA and Uppsala, Sweden through Deloitte & Touche Medical/Optical appliances, devices, and pharmaceuticals in FDA regulated environment3/05
–
6/05
SAP
releases:
4.7 “FI/CO
coordinator” After
recent purchases of subsidiaries, AMO wants these new companies to
be integrated in the corporate SAP system. I was contracted as lead
for FI/CO part for the Swedish subsidiary and implemented
(configuration, data transfer, integration, test, user-training,
documentation) product costing, overhead accounting, profitability
analysis and more. PacifiCorp,
Portland, OR through SAP America Utility Company2/05
–
3/05
SAP
releases:
4.7 “Group
Currency Specialist” I
worked through SAP America as a Platinum Consultant at PacifiCorp
after the client realized that they faced major issues when they
added a non-USD foreign subsidiary to the SAP system and modified
the group currency for existing (USD-based) companies. The changes
caused some data base problems and issues in executing the
reconciliation ledger, product costing, ECCS, the depreciation run
for fixed assets, and clearing. I analyzed and documented the issues
and existing configuration, proposed and implemented changes to the
configuration, provided recommendations (work-around, procedural,
systematical, and technical), and successfully helped the client
resume their normal business routines with the SAP system. As a secondary task, I also provided support for the client’s plan to utilize IM functionality and to improve the planning and budgeting process. Georgia
Pacific, Atlanta, GA Paper and Consumer Products10/04
–
12/04
SAP
releases:
4.6c “Project
Coordinator” Georgia
Pacific implemented SAP many years ago. Recent purchases and
subsequent integration of new businesses and an upgrade from release
3.1 to 4.6c increased the workload of the support groups. I was
contracted to manage, coordinate, and/or implement a set of small
but rather high-impact projects in the areas of product costing,
general ledger, currency and inventory valuation, IM, A/P, A/R,
inter-company accounting, reporting, and period-end processes.
Swarovski,
Cranston, RI Specialty Crystals and Optics8/04
–
9/04 (continued part time from 1/05 through 3/05) SAP
releases:
4.6c “Advisor
to the Controller” During
this short term assignment I trained (informally) the new Controller
and other employees on SAP CO functionality and provided advice and
recommendations regarding production cost planning, product costing,
investment management, profitability analysis, material ledger,
reporting, and period-end-closing functionality. Tennant,
Golden Valley, MN Manufacturing and Services5/04
–
8/04
SAP
releases:
4.6c “Platinum-level
CO and CO-PA specialist” Tennant
has been using SAP for several years and decided to make changes in
the organizational structure (assignment of companies to controlling
areas) and major changes to their operating concern (deletion of
CO-PA characteristics and value fields, creation of new
characteristics and value fields, optimization of CO-PA through
additional indexes and summary levels, streamlining of reporting,
interfaces to BW and FI-SL). My role at Tennant was to support,
implement, document and test all relevant changes as consulting-lead
of their project group, and to adjust the interfaces between CO-PA
and other modules (as product costing, PCA, IM, MM, SD) SAP
Canada/Bombardier, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Aerospace2/04
–
5/04 SAP
releases:
4.6c “Platinum-level
ML specialist” Bombardier
wants to change their SAP system’s
group currency from Canadian to US dollar (CAD to USD). SAP Canada
provides support to Bombardier and coordinates technical conversion
support with SAP Germany’s
SLO team in Walldorf. The
currency conversion comprises currency changes in financial
accounting (FI), controlling (CO), product costing, project systems,
profitability analysis (CO-PA), profit center accounting (PCA),
special ledger (SL), investment management (IM) cost element ledger,
and material ledger (ML). I
have been contracted (by SAP Canada) to provide support for
conversion and especially for conversion test activities as well as
to analyze the current system and provide recommendations for
optimizations and best business practices for utilizing material
ledger with dual currencies after completion of the conversion.
While supporting all relevant modules and sub-modules, my main focus
has been the material ledger (ML) and prduct costig. Amongst others,
I was responsible for reconciling FI with ML data in local and group
currencies. Wolverine,
Rockford, MI
Apparel and Footwear8/03
–
12/03 SAP
releases:
4.6c Industry
Solution: Retail / AFS “Platinum-level
specialist” Wolverine
already was using SAP (FI and EC-PCA only) in a productive
environment when I was asked to provide a review existing and design
of new (product) costing concepts. These concepts applied for a
projected go-live in early 2004 for SAP modules CO, SD, PP, MM.
Costing in an AFS environment is very specific and comprises
sales and production order costing with costing data potentially
broken down to “grid”-level. Phillips
Medical Systems (formerly ATL), Bothell, WA
Medical devices7/03
SAP
releases:
4.6b “Platinum-level
specialist” The
client contracted me to do a high level analysis of their
controlling practices including results analysis, accounting based
CO-PA, profit center accounting allocations, period end closing,
reporting, and more. Amongst others, development of procedures,
programs and documentation for the (non-trivial) reconciliation
between PA and FI in the context of RA (results analysis – product
costing) was required and has been performed. Cap Gemini, Raleigh/Durham, NCChemicals3/03
–
6/03 SAP
releases:
4.6c “Platinum-level
specialist” I
was sub-contracted by Cap Gemini to work for their client
(Reichhold, Inc.) on period-end-closing, fiscal-year-end-closing,
material ledger, actual costing, profitability analysis, profit
center accounting, and reconciliation issues. The client recently
upgraded their SAP system from release 3.1 to 4.6c. Also the client
just finished their so-called “second wave” –
the integration of their European and Asian plants into the system. My
objective was to manage and consult (mixed teams of consultants and
business owners incl. Controller), develop, configure, test and
document strategies to solve remaining problems related to currency
issues in the material ledger, actual costing, investment management
(IM), reconciliation between profit center accounting (PCA) and
costing based profitability analysis, and make-to-stock ,
make-to-order, and assemble-to-order product costing, as well as
“third-party-order-processing.
Reichhold
required detailed specific documentation intended for
“business-owners” and key-users. I provided this documentation
in multiple formats for some areas and coordinated/managed
documentation for other areas. Chiron, Emeryville, CA and Tokyo, JapanPharmaceutical Products1/03
–
3/03 SAP
releases:
4.6c “Support
manager and consultant and knowledge transfer” Chiron
was already life with release 4.6c (in an FDA regulated environment)
when I arrived. I was contracted to provide ongoing support (FI/CO
including CO-PA, PCA, product costing, IM, AM, ECCS) and other
areas) including support for multi-currency issues, period and
fiscal year closing. Chiron employs all common SAP modules. My
responsibilities included management and the (complete)
configuration of FI/CO and AM and assignment of authorization
profiles/objects for users of these modules. Defense Contractor, France and Germany11/02
- 1/03 SAP
Management Consulting [Information omitted because of non-disclosure
agreement] ABB Automation, New Berlin, WI, and Helsinki, FinlandElectronics10/01
–
10/02 SAP
releases:
4.6c “Co-project
manager and architect reporting to CFO” ABB
Automation
implemented SAP on a system run by another ABB division in Finland.
Except for the operating concern (CO-PA) –
which is shared between the companies - the implementation is
independent. The ABB Automation implementation was intended
to serve as a template for additional ABB companies in the United
States. The following modules are used: FI, CO (incl. IM, product
costing), MM, PP, SD, SM, and PS. ABB engineers and manufactures
electric and electronic products in mixed make-to-stock,
make-to-order and make-to-engineering environment. I
have been assigned to work as co-project manager and team lead for
the controlling module (including costing and results analysis for
the project system). The
implementation started with my arrival and ‘went
live’
in June 2002. I provided post-go-live support afterwards until
October 2002. This included supervision and management for
successful period end closings for the first periods in a multi
currency, multi company corporate environment. Pillsbury and General Mills, Minneapolis, MNFood2/01
–9/01 SAP
releases:
R/2, 3.1h, 4.5b, and 4.6c “SAP
system upgrade and merger specialist” General
Mills acquired Pillsbury. Pillsbury’s
Sap system (3.1c) was about to be merged into General Mills’s
system (being upgraded to 4.6c). I was contracted to support all
controlling and general ledger related integration, migration and
update activities. This especially involved profitability analysis,
product costing and profit center accounting and consolidations (FI-LC
and EC-CS). LAM Research, Fremont, CAHigh-Tech7/00
- 2/01 SAP
releases:
4.5b and 4.6c Database:
Oracle “CO
consulting team lead and architect” Worked
as LAM’s
consulting resource for product costing, profitability analysis,
investment management, overhead controlling and integration. The
client went life shortly before my contract started. I initiated,
scoped, designed and managed several projects to optimize the
functionality of the controlling functionality and processes in
production planning. I also managed a release upgrade from 4.5b to
4.6c and a project to scope out usage of EC-CS. Boeing,
Inc., Sylmar, CA (Spectrolab) Manufacturing
(solar panels for satellites) 5/00
–
7/00 and continued remote support until 8/1/01 (5-10 hours / week)
SAP
releases:
3.1h, 4.6b, and 4.6c Database:
Oracle on Unix “Integration
and reporting specialist” I
was contracted to manage Spectrolab’s
release upgrade project and a full implementation of EC-CS and
product costing (make-to-engineering, make-to-order). Furthermore,
Spectrolab was about to be purchased by Boeing.
For this reason I had to develop and implement a strategy to
roll Spectrolab’s
books into those of Boeing. Rochester
Public Utility (RPU), Rochester, MN Water
and electricity 5/00
SAP
releases: 4.6b Database: Windows
NT with Microsoft SQL server “Troubleshooter” (Please
also see below). I was contracted to solve issues related to the
upgrade from release 3.1h to 4.6b and to integrate an additional SAP
module (plant maintenance, PM) into the cost reporting
functionality. Colgate
Palmolive, Morristown, NJ and Guatemala City, Guatemala Consumer Goods5/99
–
9/99
2 or 3 days per week SAP
releases: 4.0 to 4.6 Database: Oracle
on Unix “World-wide-rollout
executive CO consulting” Designed
and implemented strategy, configuration and interfaces to integrate
sales and revenue planning between external (non-SAP) system and SAP
and between SAP modules CO-PA, product costing, CO-EC, CO-IM, SOP
and CO-CCA for U.S. and Latin America based divisions.
Implementation was done on releases 4.0 and 4.6. The
project went successfully into production in September 1998. Since
then the company is working on improvements in reporting, data entry
validation and optimization of response times and a release upgrade
to 4.6. Pilgrim's
Pride, Pittsburg, TX, and Monterey, MX Chicken,
eggs, and prepared foods
4/97
–
4/99
SAP
releases:
3.1 to 4.6b (on IS-OIL) Database: Oracle
on Unix, later Windows NT with Microsoft SQL server
“Technical
and functional project manager reporting to CFO”
The
implementation focuses on production, product costing, investment
management, enterprise controlling (EC-PCA and EC-CS) and sales.
Other modules to be customized are FI, MM, HR, QM and PM. My
responsibilities include project management and customization of
costing (ABC, CO-PA, CO-PCA, product costing, overhead accounting),
financial accounting (including consolidation) and partly production
planning. Rochester
Public Utility (RPU), Rochester, MN Water
and electricity 1/99
- 5/99
2 or 3 days per week SAP
releases:
3.6 to 4.0 Database:
Windows NT with Microsoft SQL server “Fire-fighter” Rochester
Public Utility (RPU) started its SAP project (release 4.0) in April
1998 with the following modules: CO (CO-ABC, overhead accounting),
FI and MM. I
was contracted to take over management and configuration of
unfinished functionality during the last months before go-life date. Halliburton, Houston, TXEngineering
and manufacturing 5/97
- 6/97 every
second week SAP
releases:
3.1 to 4.5 Database:
Oracle on Unix “Specialist” Contracted
to create a product costing and investment management (IM) prototype
and to teach customizing skills to Halliburton's employees and their
consultants (Anderson Consulting).
Flowers,
Norcross, GA (specialty food division) Bakery,
bakery snacks, frozen food 3/96
- 4/97
mostly full time SAP
releases: 2.2 to 3.x Database: Oracle
on Unix “CO-Team
lead” Flowers
contracted Anderson Consulting to implement an SAP system with the
modules CO (CO-ABC, CO-PA, CO-EC, product costing, CO-PCA), FI, PP,
MM, and SD. The project
started in 1995. I
was sub-contracted to Anderson Consulting to manage, define, and
implement cost center overhead, and product costing, and several
interfaces to and from an old legacy system as well as to coordinate
integration issues between the SAP modules CO, FI, IM, MM, PP, and
SD. Cerdec,
Washington, PA Manufacturer
of inorganic chemicals 10/96
- 11/96
every second week “Specialist”
Cerdec
was to implement an SAP system with modules CO, FI, MM, PP, and SD
in mixed make-to order and make-to-sales environment. Cerdec
contracted me (through RSA) to review designs and specifications for
its SAP system, to audit the project and to consult and train the
internal configuration team in specific areas.
PowerComputing,
Austin, TX Manufacturer
of Apple McIntosh clones. 7/96
- 10/96 3 days / week “Project
manager”
Contracted
as project manager with budget responsibility for a fixed price SAP
project, designed and configured costing strategies in
make-to-sales-order environment with SAP variant configuration and
pricing, product costing, and verified proposed concepts and built a
prototype. W.R.
Grace, Boca Raton, FL Specialty
chemicals 1/96
- 2/96
full time “Reporting
specialist” W.R.
Grace was about to implement a system for financial consolidations
in which the SAP modules FI-SL (special purpose ledger (formerly
known as extended general ledger)) and FI-CONS (consolidation) would
be implemented. I analyzed reporting requirements and was
responsible for the creation of reporting concept (report writer,
report painter, ABAP/Query, ABAP, active EXCEL). Developed reporting
prototype. Defined data base structure of special purpose ledgers.
Analyzed third-party reporting tools. Schwans,
Marshall, MN Manufacturing
and distribution of frozen, fresh, and heated food 1/95
- 1/96
full time “Multiple” Managed
a project to implement the SAP modules financial accounting (FI),
controlling (CO), material management (MM), sales and distribution
(SD), and production planning (PP) in a make-to-stock environment.
The project started 1/95 and successfully finished 11/95. All
modules are used in a production system since 11/95. Besides
coordinating the integration of the modules I was also responsible
for the design, configuration and implementation of all CO
sub-modules including product costing. I trained team members on all
relevant CO functionality and did some key programming (like SAP
user exits, special reports). Designed and configured user
authorizations and authorization profiles. Supervised creation of
end-user training materials and the training itself. Designed
cutover strategy and defined usage of clients within the SAP system
as well as rules for corrections and transports. Exxon,
Houston, TX Petrochemicals 11/94
- 1/95
full time 1/95
- 1/96
20-40 hours / month SAP
releases: 2.2 and 3.1 (on IS-OIL) “Consultant
and specialist”
Provided SAP training (CO-CCA, CO-CPA, CO-PA, CO-PCA, CO/PP-PC) for Exxon employees. Analyzed database sizing requirements. Worked on SAP user authorizations. Defined product and project costing and the overhead accounting strategy. Defined and implemented reporting (report writer, report painter and ABAP/Query). Coordinated integration issues (CO, FI, AM, PP, PS, PM). Defined and implemented interfaces from and to mainframe systems (FI document interface, upload / download of cost center hierarchies). OngoingDevelopment
of implementation strategy, hiring of SAP consultants, development
of SAP training plans, staffed SAP project teams with consultants,
pre-sales and sales activities.
Other short-term assignments (concurrent with one of the above mentioned primary assignments) · Northrop
Grumman, Baltimore, MD
2001 ·
Logistix, Fremont, CA
2001 ·
Encore, Irvine, CA
2000 ·
Toro, Minneapolis, MN
1999 ·
Allergan, Waco, TX
1998 ·
Heidelberg, Atlanta, GA
1997 · Guidant,
Temecula, CA
1996 2/94
- 10/94
SETAC, Boca Raton, FL SAP
consultant CO Clients:
HP,
Apple, ATL, Varian, Merisel, SAP Australia (taught CO in Partner
Academy Sydney, Australia)
I
was sub-contracted to SAP of America, Western Region and worked as
one of the first SAP R3 consultants in Foster City as expert for the
CO module.
11/91
- 1/94
Lufthansa German Airlines, Headquarters, Cologne, Germany Manager
for in-house R2 implementation (managed staff of about 10 ABAP/4
developers and functional specialists) Managed,
defined, configured, and implemented technical aspects of
Lufthansa's in-house R2 system. Specified, defined, documented,
coded, coordinated, and implemented more than 20 interfaces to and
from old legacy system, programmed more than 18 transactions (screen
painter) and 25 reports. 1/88 - 10/91
Lufthansa / Amadeus (Miami, FL and Antibes, France) Developer
(airline reservation system) / Systems analyst Participated
in selection of financial and cost accounting software (resulting in
purchase of SAP licenses). Coordinated special program (ABAP/4)
development with SAP AG. 1/87 - 12/87
Lufthansa, Frankfurt, Germany Systems
Analyst Cargo Reservation Systems Education:
Masters
degree in
Computer Science/Business Administration, Technical University of
Munich / Germany Military
Service: Drafted
to serve 15 month in the army of West Germany (1980/1981) Citizenship:
Dual
citizenship: German and United States Languages:
German,
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