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SAP Experience 18 years of SAP experience in a variety of functions: SAP employee in Walldorf, Germany SAP customer and user in finance management at Proctor & Gamble in Schwalbach, Germany SAP consultant at Price Waterhouse in Atlanta, GA Independent SAP consultant at Competitive Edge International in Atlanta, GA Founder and CEO of Intech Professionals LLC, the then leading PS consulting company in North America Founder and CEO of Backsoft Corporation, a SAP integration company Chief Designer and "Solutions Architect" for SAP-Primavera and SAP-MS Project integration applications Participation in over 50 SAP-related projects: Overall responsibility for over 10 complete PS implementations Participation as quality assurance and support person in over 20 more PS and IM implementations Extensive FI and CO expertise, as a consultant in Germany and North America Designed and configured complete SAP systems for service organizations (including my own, as a customer of SAP) PS, process and integration consulting for complex E&C, capital investment, and maintenance projects Solutions designer and implementation manager for 10 SAP-Primavera integration implementations in SAP-PS and PM (various industries) Extensive SAP technical experience in new technologies: Designed first SAP web-enablement technology using SAP API (“bTalk” 1997-1998) Designed, marketed and implemented SAP-Primavera integration solutions (1999 SAP-P3, 2005-2007 SAP-Primavera Enterprise/P3e) Focus on new technologies, including Enterprise Portals, NetWeaver, Java, and integrated composite enterprise applications Designed Internet-based business software applications, in particular an Internet-based portal application for service businesses or service divisions in complex organizations Trainer of SAP-PS Teacher of introductory and advanced courses in SAP-PS at SAP’s Training Centers Teacher of SAP-PS certification courses Designed custom on-site training courses for SAP-PS and integration areas Author and Speaker “Enterprise Portals”, published 2005 “Integrated Project Management in Complex Organizations”, to be published in 2007 Workshops and Seminars involving SAP-centric project management aspects, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Auckland, New Zealand, and at various con Workshops and seminars on how to apply PMBOK principles when using a SAP-centric project management tool Process Expertise Focus on engineering and construction, capital investment, and service projects using SAP technologies: Implementing integrated solution using SAP and Primavera at $1.5 billion E&C company in Northeastern United States. Processes addressed include sales (bidding), engineering, production, and field service delivery, involving SAP-PS, PP and Primavera. Implementation of service solutions using SAP-PS and IM (program and project management), including integration areas of purchasing, sales, asset management and maintenance Implementation of controlling systems using SAP CO (cost center accounting, profit center accounting, cost allocations, standard costing, etc.), integrated with SAP FI, SAP PS, and Primavera Founded service-oriented organizations and managed them and their engagements using SAP Developed solutions: Developed only integrated solution using SAP only, or SAP and Primavera/MS Project, to manage complex capital investment and Engineering and Construction projects Offering seminars and workshops about PMBOK-based solutions using SAP Providing solutions consisting of process consulting, SAP expertise and interfaces to effectively manage complex projects involving SAP and Primavera, for several multi-billion-dollar organizations, in maintenance and E&C/capital projects Management of complex service and R&D projects (i.e., for IT, service delivery, internal management) while applying complex concepts of Project Management according to the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) as propagated by the Project Management Institute. E.g., this includes a multi-phase approach to the management of complex projects, and the consideration of Time, Cost and Resource aspects during that process. Member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s largest and most influential project management organization.
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