Randall
Harkness
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(502) 228-3104 Cell: (502) 387-3194
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SEEKING OPPORTUNITY
SAP R/3
contract as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Functional Consultant: QM,
PP, PP-PI, MM, WM, and PM
PROFILE
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Senior,
Platinum Level SAP Cross Applications Functional Consultant
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Business
Process Expert
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Twelve
(12) years Manufacturing Management as Foreman, Production and Inventory
Control Manager, Materials Manager and Plant Superintendent
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More
than twenty-six (26) years of Information Technology, various roles ranging
from Programmer/Analyst to Manager of Information Services for Coatings
Business Unit in North America for a major chemical manufacturer.
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Over
thirteen (13) years of SAP R/3 experience: Business Blueprint, System Design
and Configuration in the Quality Management (QM), Production (PP & PP-PI),
Plant Maintenance (PM), and Materials Management (MM) and Warehouse Management
(WM) modules.
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Twenty-six
(26) years of ERP experience.
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More
than thirty-eight (38) years of manufacturing coupled with SAP expertise, enables
ability to make strategic business recommendations concurrent with the
configuration of the SAP system.
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Outstanding
Architect
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Dedicated,
go-to business professional with excellent interpersonal and communication
skills.
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Discrete,
lean, process & repetitive manufacturing environments with experience in
Automotive, Chemicals and Diversified Foods / Food Processing Industry, Defense
& Aerospace
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Proven
project management skills, and demonstrated ability in leading a team in the
successful delivery of applied technology.
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Taught
SAP America Partner Academy PP (5-week) Certification course
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ASAP
Methodology, Gathering Business Requirements, Business Blueprinting (BBP), Gap
Analysis, Course Design, Classroom Training, Documentation, Report Design,
Design of Decision Support Applications, Supervision of ABAP/4 Programming
Development, Data Loading from Legacy systems to SAP, Data Archiving, Query,
Developer's Workbench, Data Browser
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U.S.
Citizen
PROFESSIONAL SAP
EXPERIENCE
Project: Akzo Nobel/Tahoe Partners, Chicago, IL
SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 Functional Lead QM
(September
2008 – Present) Roll-off date is February 27
Akzo Nobel, a Swedish-Dutch chemicals and paints company,
purchased British company, ICI. The
Chemicals Business Unit (BU) project merged two ICI manufacturing facilities
and several warehouses into their SAP ECC 6.0 instance.
Chattanooga, TN facilities were migrated from SAP Version
3.1I and Salisbury, NC was migrated from SAP Version 4.6C.
Project: Mercedes-Benz/Telesto, Tuscaloosa, AL
SAP R/3 4.7 Project Manager WM
(April
2008 – August 2008)
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Provided
leadership and guided project.
·
Design
included barcode scanner transactions to perform goods receipts, put away,
bin-to-bin material transfers, system guided stock picking, cycle counting and
periodic physicals.
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Used
standard Function Modules and Customer Exits in WMS for scanner
transactions.
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Kanban
Project: BKI/NDS, Memphis, TN
SAP R/3 4.7 Consultant SD/MM/PP/WM/QM
(April
2007 – February 2007)
BKI is
a spinoff of Procter & Gamble and already running SAP 4.7. I served as Architect to Facilitate,
Blueprint, Configure, Guide Programmers (including xMII), Train and Support. Provided enhancements and solutions to issues
and business process failures. Some of
the processes I implemented include:
Project: Rolls-Royce/EDS/K2 Partnering, Indianapolis,
IN
SAP R/3 4.7 Consultant QM/PM
(January
2007 – March 2007)
Rolls-Royce
Global Convergence Project converted all locations to a single SAP instance
with a goal of one global, common set of business processes to enable improved
corporate efficiency, data/process-management reporting consistency, and lower
costs. This project is considered a
giant step in becoming a globally run company with the achievement of customer
and shareholder satisfaction.
U.K., U.S.
and Canada (R/3 release 4.6C) were converged on one SAP system running SAP R/3
Enterprise, Release 4.70.
Indianapolis
specific business processes were migrated to the International template. Responsibilities included work requests and
enhancements related to SAP R/3 QM and PM.
Performed configuration, migrated data, created ABAP specs for custom
development, wrote unit/integration test scripts and performed testing.
Microsoft
SharePoint was used for collaboration and document management.
Project: Matthews International/Titan Consulting,
Richmond, IN
SAP R/3 4.6C Project Manager FI-CO, MM, PP and SD
(February
2006 – December 2006)
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Implemented
corporate SAP design, which included FI-CO, MM, PP and SD at Milso (a newly
acquired company).
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Mapped
business processes to design.
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Identified
legacy data and loaded in SAP.
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Made
adjustments to configuration as required.
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Delivered
Training
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Accomplished
implementation on time and within budget.
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Provided
post go-live support.
Project: U. S. Army/CSC/Bearing Point/MyITgroup,
Moorestown, NJ
SAP
R/3 4.6C Consultant QM, PP, PS, MM, ASAP Methodology
(December
2003 – February 2006)
U.S
Army Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) efforts are focused on modernizing
the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) at the national level. LMP will provide
agile, reliable and responsive services by leveraging best practices and
technology that enable AMC to deliver world-class logistics and readiness to
the warfighter.
The
goal of the modernization effort is to reengineer the current national level
logistics business processes, facilitated by SAP, to provide integrated,
seamless, flexible information management services in support of the Army's
logistics mission. The goal is not to just enhance the current process, but
rather to employ creative solutions that best leverage commercial technological
advantages; i.e., the modernized services will leverage the advantages of using
commercial software with large customer bases. The intent is to achieve a
functional architecture capable of meeting immediate business requirements, as
well as having the flexibility to accommodate emerging requirements while
evolving with the commercial marketplace. This will result in quantifiable
improvements in materiel management, weapon systems management, customer
service levels, and readiness.
This
program is one of the largest SAP implementations undertaken and considered by
SAP to be top-5 worldwide in complexity and criticality. In addition to the Modernization component,
which focuses on realization of the to-be SAP solution, the program also
includes sustainment of the major legacy applications that will be replaced by
the modernized solution. Total program
staff exceeds 600 resources.
I
am working on the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Team from Bearing
Point/MyITgroup as a SAP QM, PS, PP, MM Functional and Training Consultant.
Assignments
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LMP IBTO
Master Production Scheduling (MPS):
o
Developed “best
practice” course for Maintaining Inventory Accuracy.
o
Developed “best
practice” course for Maintaining Order Accuracy.
o
Delivered
training to Tobyhanna Army Depot.
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LMP 2nd
Deployment Expert User Program (EUP):
o
EUP Lead for QM,
PS and PP at Letterkenny Army Depot.
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LMP 2nd
Deployment Training Team:
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As Lead, managed
and "owned" the training courses for the QM, EHS and HR portion of
the LMP training solution.
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Provided daily
metrics on course development.
o
Configured/Corrected
Training System environment.
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Ensured exercises
for the solution are complete and functional.
o
Wrote training
content, which included procedures, job aids, quick references, process flows,
simulations, exercises, lesson plans, etc.
o
Ensured data
requirements were accurate and loaded data in the training client.
o
Transferred
knowledge to instructors and other project personnel and incorporated their
feedback.
o
Conducted
classroom instruction.
o
Adhered to
schedule to ensure delivery of course material.
o
Provided first
line of support to instructors for LMP solution.
o
Worked with
Curriculum Development Lead to manage scope and modify course material based on
feedback from functional teams and government Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
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U.S
Army Industrial Base Task Order (IBTO):
o
As QM Lead,
visited and analyzed business processes and procedures at U.S. Army depot sites
at Corpus Christi, TX; Red River, TX; Anniston, AL and Letterkenny, PA in
preparation for the blueprint.
o
Prepared QM
blueprint and assisted with MM blueprint using ASAP Methodology for Logistics
Modernization Program (LMP).
Project: Visteon/Ernst & Young/Compuware, Durant,
MS, Industry Solution (IS) - Automotive
SAP R/3
4.6C Consultant MM, PP, SD
(May
2003 – August 2003)
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At
Visteon’s new plant in Durant, MS supplying automotive assemblies to Nissan and
Visteon in Canton, MS, identified and resolved major physical inventory issues
surrounding a 50% production capacity leading to building 400 new vehicles per
day.
·
Performed
analysis, identified the issues/gaps, prepared an action plan, and
designed/delivered training.
·
Effected
functionality changes in MM, PP and SD, which included Scheduling Agreements,
Inbound Deliveries, Goods Receipts, Backflushes, Kanban, Repetitive
Manufacturing, Transfer Postings, Physical Inventory, Inventory Management,
MRP, Control Cycle Maintenance, Outbound Deliveries, JIT Monitor, EDI, Product
Cost Collectors and BOMs.
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Added
three (3) major transactions – two in PP and one in MM.
Project: Sara Lee Bakeries/R/3 Services, St. Louis, MO
SAP R/3 4.6C Team Lead QM, WM
(October
2002 – April 2003)
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Configured
and implemented QM in procurement, Document Management System, quality
notifications, results recording, usage decisions, vendor audits, reporting and
evaluations using ASAP Methodology and international standards defined in the
guidelines on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for the pharmaceutical and
food-processing industries.
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Used
QuickTest Professional to load legacy, master data into SAP and OnDemand to
create tutorials and training documentation.
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Performed
analysis and created ABAP/4 program designs.
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Facilitated
training classes.
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Assisted
reconfiguration of functionality in Warehouse Management (WM) to support QM.
Project: Degussa and Dopaco/ICM America, Philadelphia,
PA
SAP R/3 4.6C Consultant QM
(August
2002 – September 2002)
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Provided
temporary training assistance to two clients of ICM America
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Designed
and delivered training courses in QM version 4.6c.
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Delivered
an eight-day course at Dopaco.
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Delivered
nine days of QM training at Degussa in Mobile, AL.
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Both
courses were very successful and well received.
Project: Century Aluminum/ APAR Infotec, Hawesville,
KY
SAP R/3
4.6C Team Lead PM, PP-PI, QM
(November
2001 – July 2002)
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Evaluated and
blueprinted the new Plant Maintenance design.
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Configured and
implemented PM.
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Recovered and
mapped data from legacy, FoxPro applications to SAP including Functional
Locations, Equipment, hierarchies, Bill of Material, Maintenance Plans,
Maintenance Orders and Maintenance Plans.
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Created CATT
Scripts and programmatically loaded the FoxPro master data into the SAP design.
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Created multi-dimension maintenance strategies.
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Consolidated
three plants from an earlier disjointed implementation in which each department
was operating as a separate plant, into one integrated plant by rearranging all
Master Data.
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Configured
Production Planning and Execution (PP-PI), Quality Management (QM), and
migrated the data from three plants into one plant.
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Delivered
oral and written presentations.
Project: Astaris/ComSys, St. Louis, MO
SAP R/3 4.6C Team Lead QM, PP-PI, PM, MM, WM, ASAP Methodology
(May
2000 – August 2001)
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Quality
Management (QM) Team Lead for full lifecycle implementation.
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Used
international standards defined in the guidelines on Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP) for the pharmaceutical and food-processing industries.
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Assumed
PP-PI Team Lead role and provided a smooth transition to the new PP-PI Team
Lead. Project included Batch Management,
MRP, Demand Management and master data such as Recipes, Work Centers and Bill
of Material.
·
Utilized
Plant Maintenance (PM) for equipment calibration and equipment inspections.
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The
project created one computing system to merge corporate activities and multiple
plants for the new company formed as a joint venture between FMC and Solutia
(spun-off from Monsanto).
Project: Nokia/IT Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Upgrade
SAP R/3 4.5B Team Lead PP
(January
2000 – March 2000)
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Member
of cross-functional team.
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Updated
training documentation preparing for the 4.5b upgrade.
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Designed
and delivered 4.5b training classes to the users, provided post-implementation
support and resolved open issues.
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Provided
subject matter expertise for Production Planning (PP) including MRP, Production
Control, Demand Management, Master Data and Capacity Planning.
Project: Shultz Foods/NanoByte, Hanover, PA
(June
1999 – December 1999)
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Utilizing
R/3 4.0b and ASAP Methodology, configured Quality Management (QM).
·
Utilized
international standards defined in the guidelines on Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP) for the pharmaceutical and food-processing industries.
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Defined
master data requirements, loaded data using CATT scripts and Excel
spreadsheets.
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Created
user documentation and conducted end user training.
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Configured
problem management with quality notifications, quality certificates using
SAPScript for Sales and Distribution (SD) deliveries, inspection plans,
automatic inspection lot creation for deliveries, purchase order receipts, and
production orders.
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Configured
Plant Maintenance (PM) for equipment calibrations and equipment inspections.
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Engaged
post go-live to re-configure and re-implement Production Planning (PP) as original
QM consultant was unable to implement Quality Management due to the original PP
design and blueprint.
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Rearranged
master data to improve PP operations as well as implemented QM.
Project: Nalco Chemical/Spearhead, Naperville, IL
(December
1998 – February 1999)
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Configured
PP-PI and created/modified master data for interface with in-house Process
Control System for shop floor integration with SAP.
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Developed
and wrote documentation
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Provided
training for Nalco's Visual Basic programmer to establish communications
between SAP and Visual Basic.
Project: SAP Partner Academy/Spearhead, Oak Brook, IL
SAP R/3 4.0 Instructor PP
(January
1999 – February 1999)
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Requested
by SAP America to teach Production Planning (PP) at Partner Academy.
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Using
release 4.0 curriculum, provided specific training and product support to
fellow consultants required to pass the certification examination.
Project: Coca-Cola/Ernst & Young/CDI Information
Services, Atlanta, GA
(September
1997 – September 1998)
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Worked
on the team at corporate headquarters to help establish a support organization
for additional plants as they go live on SAP.
Used Ernst & Young's Fusion Methodology.
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Configuration,
master data, implementation and support of PP-PI, QM and MM.
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Utilized
international standards defined in the guidelines on Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP) for the pharmaceutical and food-processing industries.
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Provided
post-implementation support to Lehigh and performed various projects.
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Designed
prototype, configured, and tested Warehouse Management.
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Configured
SAP for multiple-plant environment for fountain manufacturing and proved
supply-chain, business processes.
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Provided
analysis and design for ABAP/4 reports and decision support. Worked with programmers using the ABAP/4
Workbench. Used SAP Query to write
reports.
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Re-configured
PP-PI because the initial IBM system sizing study did not provide adequate
resources since it did not properly account for PP-PI.
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Provided
analysis to improve utilization of system resources.
Project: Coca-Cola/Ernst & Young/CDI Information
Services, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
(April 1997 – September 1997)
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Worked
on team to Configure and implement SAP R/3's, version 3.0F, PP-PI, MM and QM,
which included master data, training documents, and training. Used Ernst & Young's Fusion Methodology.
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Automated
manufacturing, integrating SAP with shop floor control systems utilizing
Sequentia (formerly PID) as the middle-ware interfacing to Process Logic
Controllers (PLCs).
·
Utilized
international standards defined in the guidelines on Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP) for the pharmaceutical and food-processing industries.
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A
newly constructed plant, Lehigh was brought live on SAP in August 1997. I was on-site to provide go-live and
post-implementation support.
AKZO
Nobel, Columbus, OH
SAP
R/3 3.0F Team Lead PP, QM, MM
IS
Manager
(August
1996 – October 1996)
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Business Unit
decision-makers wanted to be assured that a SAP implementation could be done on
time and within budget. The prototype
for the roll-out had to be completed in 10 weeks, and the design had to realize
goals as prescribed by our "Order Fulfillment" chain study produced
by the 15 member cross-functional team organized at the plant level in
Columbus. The project included modules
MM, PP, SD, FI, CO, and QM. Used CPG's
Methodology.
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Served
on the configuration team using the Implementation Guide (IMG) to configure the
organizational structure.
·
Served
as team lead to configure, prepare master data, and model the business
processes for Material Management (MM) and Production Planning (PP) including
material masters, bill of materials, routings, work centers, QM data, vendor
data, production orders, purchasing, receiving, MRP, capacity planning, and
physical inventory.
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The
prototype was immensely successful completing on time and within budget. Customer was extremely pleased and the
prototype was approved March 1997 for rollout to all plants.
AKZO
Nobel, Louisville, KY
SAP
R/3 3.0F & 2.2 Consultant
IS
Manager
(September
1995 – August 1996)
·
While working for
AKZO Nobel Information Services, a separate legal entity from AKZO Nobel Coatings,
provided consulting and operational services to several Business Units (BU)
from offices in Louisville, Kentucky and Troy, Michigan.
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Began
in-house training on SAP R/3 version 2.2 in September 1995.
·
Commenced
formal training from SAP in March 1996 on version 3.0.
PROFESSIONAL
NON-SAP EXPERIENCE
AKZO Nobel
(acquired Reliance Universal) Louisville,
Kentucky
North American Information Services
Manager 1993 to 1997
Coatings
Business Unit.
Windows
programming (Access, C++, C, and Visual Basic).
Provide programming, business consulting, integration services, hardware
installation/support, LAN services (Novell).
Support/install Computer Associates PRMS (AS/400 and RPG/400) and R
Shriver/Cardinal/In-house (HP 3000/ COBOL) business packages for twenty
manufacturing facilities distributed across North America. Responsible for two offices that provide
services (Louisville, KY and Troy, MI). Provide leadership to transition
Information Services from a corporate staff function to a separate entity
selling competitive services to the business units. I was responsible for the design of service
offerings as well as budgets and pricing.
AKZO Nobel Louisville, Kentucky
North American Information Services
Manager 1990 to 1993
AKZO Nobel
acquired Reliance Universal. Provide
programming, business consulting, integration services, hardware
installation/support, LAN services (Novell), RSA/Cardinal/In-house (HP
3000/COBOL) business packages for twelve manufacturing facilities distributed
across North America. Designed, created,
and implemented Purchasing and Receiving System. I was promoted.
AKZO Nobel Louisville, Kentucky
Senior Programmer/Analyst 1988
to 1990
Designed,
programmed, and implemented Physical Inventory, Finished Goods Management,
Master Scheduling and MRP. Installed
integrated business package in twelve manufacturing facilities (HP 3000,
MPE/IX, and COBOL). I was promoted.
AKZO Nobel Louisville, Kentucky
Programmer/Analyst 1984
to 1988
Designed,
programmed, and installed Material Safety Data Sheets, Capacity Planning, MRP,
Laboratory Management System (Honeywell GCOS / COBOL). Promoted to the corporate office.
AKZO Nobel Louisville, Kentucky
Total Quality Management Facilitator 1986
to 1988
TQM
Facilitator position was concurrent with programmer/analyst duties.
Self-employed Louisville, Kentucky
Contract Programmer 1982
to 1983
Vermont
American Louisville, Kentucky
Plant Superintendent 1981
to 1982
Tube Turns Louisville, Kentucky
Machinist 1979
to 1980
Hobart Savannah, Georgia
Materials Manager 1977
to 1979
This was a
start-up of a new production facility.
ITT Grinnell Princeton, Kentucky
Production and Inventory Control
Manager 1974 to 1977
As foreman,
supervised fifty union employees.
Ford Motor
Company Louisville, Kentucky
Foreman 1969
to 1974
Material
Handling foreman at new plant start-up.
FORMAL SAP
TRAINING
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JSL10 Logistics
Introduction (10 days)
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LO260 MM Variant
Configuration (5 days)
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LO210 Master
Planning (4 days)
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LO910
Configuration and Organization (2 days)
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LO911 Logistics 2
(1 day)
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LO955 Batch
Management (2 days)
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LO060 Process
Manufacturing (5 days)
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LO250
Configuration and Organization in Manufacturing (5 days)
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LO305 Master Data
for Process Manufacturing (3 days)
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LO230 Capacity
Planning (3 days)
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LO315 Process
Management (3 days)
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LO310 Detail
Functions in Process Orders (3 days)
EDUCATION
Jefferson
Community College (University of Ky.) Louisville,
Kentucky
Computer Science 1982-1983
University
of Louisville Louisville,
Kentucky
Bachelor of Science in Business
Administration 1974
Western
Kentucky University Bowling
Green, Kentucky
Business Administration 1967-1969