sap manager (Project, Cutover, Test, Data Migration, Technical)

 

1. TCS/Axalta Coating System (data Migration and Cutover  Project Lead) (October 16 – Present)

• Leader of a team of onshore /offshore professionals in a migration project of a SAP ERP regional instance to a global instance.
• Responsible for :
  • Project management (Scope, Quality, Time)
  • Project Plan Definition
  • Data Migration Strategy and methodology definition
  • Data Field mapping definitions and workshops
  • Data Migration Plan Definition
  • Master Data Governance Transition Planning Talend
  • SAP infrastructure landscape definitions
  • MDG Assessment

 

1. Neoris/Fleury Labs (SAP Test, Migration and Cutover Project Advisor) (September 16-October 16 )

Environments: ECC, PI, BW, GRC Solution Manager,
Responsible for:

• Elaborating the test plans and methodology
• Leading and defining integration, migration and performance tests
• Elaborating the Cutover Plan and project schedule

 

1. Cargill – Centro Americas (SAP Cutover Project Manager) (Apr 2016 – August 2016)

Environments: ECC, MDG, Solution Manager, BW, GTS, IBP, MII, EWM, PI
Responsible for:

• Leading cutover and data management activities for Honduras SAP Implementation
• Reorganizing the migration sequence and extraction method / MDG migration flow
• Elaborating the Cutover Plan
• Responsible for controlling Cutover and Mock Simulations
• Responsible for the cutover schedule revision
• Presenting the Cutover Sessions kickoffs
• Revision of the MDG Load Strategy (GL Account Master, Classes and Characteristics, Cost Centers, Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer Master)

 

1. Huawei (Program /Project Manager) (Mar 2015 – Apr 2016)

Customers: Tim Brazil
Program Manager with a range of 70/100 USSD MI budget

• Responsible for coordination of project managers in the Branch Offices and manage complex projects directly.
• New ERP/Legacies implementation project (Requirements, customization, parameterizations, data migration, tests (integrated, performance, data migration, Security model, cutover, Training)
• Project Controlling Process Revision
• Project Status Presentations
• Sales lead management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Issues and Risks Control Implementation
• Kickoff Presentations
• Financial Control (Forecast, Revenue, Collection)
• Suppliers quality controls

 

1. Indra Company (SAP Project Manager/PMO Officer) (May 2013 – Mar 2015)

Environments:  ECC, BW, PI, BPC, GRC, Portal, SRM, CRM
Customers: All main Brazilian public Banks
Project Manager/ PMO Leader in a SAP full implementation project (US$30 million/70 specialists under direct management/almost 200 indirect)
Responsible for:

• Project Management scope, time, cost and quality definitions and control
• Project Plan (Risk, Issues, Quality, Human Resource, Change Control, Communication) and WBS definition
• Blueprint strategy definition
• Solution Manager (ASAP/RUNSAP) and MDG (MDG-F) Technical Leadership
• Integration Architecture Model Definition (logical and physical interfaces, SAP PI)
• Cutover Management (Planning, Simulations, Business Control)
• Tests Management (Strategy, Unit, String, Integrated, Regression, Performance) with ECATT
• Data Management (Quality, Cleansing, Migration)
• Customization Coordination (ABAP, WRICEF, Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications)
• Project Team Training and Kickoff Presentations
• PMO Governance methodology and templates revision
• Business Process Management definitions (Notation, Approval, Change Control, Quality Assurance)

 

1. Orga Systems Gbmh (Americas Regional Delivery and Service Manager) (June 2012 – May 2013)

Customers: Tim Brazil, 14 Claros (s) (Latin America), Entel (CL), TPA (AR), OI (BR)
Leader of a team of business and technical experts (25) spread in Brazil and Argentina responsible for support and consulting services of Billing and VAS solutions (BSS/OSS) in all over South and Central Americas.
Responsible for:

• Delivering medium sized projects (Scope, Time, Cost, Quality)
• SLAs, financial, efforts and knowledge management controls.
• Team Management and Development (Training, Coaching and Mentoring)
• Service level management presentations (and pre-sales) for customers in all over Latin America.
• Definition of a knowledge management plan containing learning plans.
• Improvements in the governance model defined in the company´s Statement of Work.
• Revision of the Incident, Capacity and Availability Management processes.

• Creation and control testing plans, creating and supporting the review of the current methodology.

 

1. Neoris (British American Tobacco/Anglo American/wilson and Sons)  (April 2007 - May 2013)

E.1) British American Tobacco /Souza Cruz/ Neoris (Project Delivery Manager) (4 years and 6 months)
ROLES: Project Manager/ Technical and Functional Leader/ Migration Manager / Test Manager  
 
Project Manager and Leader of functional and technical teams (3-25 direct />200 indirect) responsible for delivering new SAP solutions, architectures and infrastructures (R3/SCM-APO/GRC, MII, Portal and BW). This team included SAP basis, business experts, functional consultants, integration architects, developers, DBAs, system administrators, network administrators, it security specialists and access management specialists.
 
Responsible for:

• Project Planning and Control (Risk, Issues, Time, Quality, Human Resource, Change Control, Communication) and WBS definition
• Customization Coordination (ABAP, WRICEF, Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications)
• Cutover Management (Planning, Simulations, Business Control)
• Tests Management (Strategy, Unit, String, Integrated, Regression, Performance) with ECATT
• Data Management (Quality, Cleansing, Migration)

• Revision of Service Maturity and implementation of Service Governance Models.
• Requirements analysis, process model reviewing (scenarios, processes, steps), blueprint control, data conversion, Performance, z development, unit, integrated, UAT and regression tests in Solution Manager.
• Revision of unit tests methodology with inclusion of White Box, Black Box and Performance tests. 
• Managing outsourcing services related to the implementation projects.

 
Main projects:

• Implementation of solution of SAP Supply Chain (SCM/APO) for Brazil (Leader) and the rollouts of the Supply Chain solution for all Latin America plus Canada (PM).
• Redeployment of ILM solutions (Hitachi content platform and Opentext Livelink archive server)
• Leader of Implementation of SAP SD and FI modules in R/3 to Brazil (Functional, Technical and Integration Leader).
• Integration of SAP Americas Supply Chain Solution to Global Template (PM).
• SAP MII full re-implementation
• Responsible for cutover management, tests management and data migration management of all the related projects
• Service Handovers to India, Malaysia and England (PM).
• Integration of GRC to SAP solutions (Leader).
• Hardware migrations of SAP solutions (PM)
• Transition manager of the implementation of BW solution in Americas.
• Assessment for implementation of MDM solution for Latin America

 
E.2) Anglo American / Complex (SAP Service & Delivery Manager) (6 months)
ROLES: Project Manager / PMO/ Change Manager/ Service Manager
Responsible for:

• Leading a team of functional consultants (8) in small/medium projects and change requests.
• Controlling the delivery of Accenture in bug fixing and small changes.
• Improvements in project and incident control methodology of Anglo American in Brazil in Solution Manager with Charm.
• Supporting the integration of global template and Brazil template in Solution Manager

 
E.3) Wilson and Sons /Neoris (Cutover Manager /Data Migration Manager) (8 months)
ROLES: Migration Manager / Cutover Manager 
Responsible for:

• Definition of Cutover Plan (Communication, Fallback, Ramp Up, Ramp Down) (ECC, BW and Portal)
• Coordinating the cutover mocks and dress rehearsal tests
• Coordinating Data Management and Cutover Activities
• Data Cleansing Control
• Data Migration Unit Testing Control
• Data Model definitions
• Data Governance definition
• Migration Sequence Revision and adjust
• ETL definition strategy (Oracle and PL-SQL)

 

1. Orga Systems (Project Manager/ Technical Leader) (February 2003 - April 2007)

Customers: Tim Brazil, 14 Claros (s) (Latin America), Entel (CL), TPA (AR), OI (BR)
Project Manager/Technical Leader of a team (2-6) responsible for develop, integrate and deliver Billing and Vas solutions for telecom companies including developers, testers and service engineers.
Responsible for:

• Coordination of team activities (development, design, tests, deployment) and controlling project budget, scope and delivery time.
• Redefining hardware architectures for customer (+ 60 servers)
• Managing the relationship with the hardware players.
• Defining new methodologies for sizing and performance verification.
• Development of new solutions
• BSS/OSS, Billing, Rating, Charging,  Prepaid, Mediation, PostPaid, VAS Solutions, Voucher Systems, SS7, HLR, SCP, MSC, IVR, STP, SCP, USSD, Diameter, PCRF, GPRS, GGSN, 3G, 4G, LTE, UMTS, NodeB, RNC, BSC, DWDM,FTTS, PTH, SDH

 

1. HP/ Init Systems / Loterj (Data Center and Services Manager, Project Manager) (July 2001-January 2003)

Role 1 - Project Manager and Technical Leader (10 months)
Project Manager and Technical Leader responsible for the implementation of a datacenter with a huge size and complexity together with HP from the scratch until the full establishment of business services. This datacenter was designed to be 100% redundant in terms of application, database, electrical, logical and cooling.
Responsible for:

• Project Management Plan elaboration
• Project Controls (Scope, Budget, Efforts, Quality)
• Data center Implementation plan containing schedules, critical success factors, test plan and acceptance of technical standards.
• Technical specifications and decisions during the project
• Controlling the Acceptance Tests

• Financial, HR, Knowledge Management, SLA´s Controls.
• Implementation of the governance model (Incident, Problem, Change, Capacity, Event, Service Level Management)
• Managing outsourcing contracts.
• Implementation of a GPRS network

 
F) TBM/Otoch – (Infrastructure Manager) (1994-2001)
TBM is a Brazilian market leader in cotton yarn with revenues of approximately 200 million reais per year.
 
Technical Leader of a team of professionals (6) in the area of applications and infrastructure service delivery including Business Analysts, System Administrators, DBAs, Network Administrators, Local Support experts
Responsible for:

• Managing contracts of telecom, database, operating systems, and local support service providers.
• Implementation of 3 full datacenters.
• Implementation of new architectures of hardware and operating systems.
• Implementations of high availability architectures.
• Definition of new LAN and WAN topologies.
• New governance service model. (Service Desk / incident and change management)