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Senior Program Manager, SAP S/4HANA Senior Delivery & Integration Project Manager

Plzen, Czech Republic
Worldwide
BSc (Corporate Finance); MBA (General Business); DBA (Business Administration; in progress)
Plzen, Czech Republic
Worldwide
BSc (Corporate Finance); MBA (General Business); DBA (Business Administration; in progress)

Profile attachments

2023 S4HANA Program Manager profile DanCisar.pdf

E-CommerceMachine LearningManufacturingProject ManagementPharmaceuticalsPRojects IN Controlled Environments Version 2 (PRINCE2)Procurement ManagementScrum MethodologyProgram ManagementSystems Development Life CycleSAP HANASupply Chain ManagementLogistics OperationsPlant Operations
- S4HANA: FI/CO; SD; Logistics; Procurement; Manufacturing; Plant Maintenance.
- Project Management Methodology: PMP, PRINCE II, SCRUM, SDLC
- Program Management Methodology: MSP (Managing Successful Programs)
- Industries: Supply Chain and Logistics, e-commerce, pharma, Material Production.
- Management: Stakeholder, Vendor (near shore, off shore)
- Machine Learning

Languages

GermanBasic knowledgeEnglishFluentSlovakNative speakerCzechNative speaker

Project history

ERP (SAP ECC) program manager of de-merger activities for Slovenia (Novartis)

Novartis

Pharmaceuticals & Medical Technology

1000-5000 team member

Orbit program / Sirius SAP ECC – Complex Carve Out Slovenia ERP Program Manager:
• Been joining the ongoing project to replace the current program manager and bring the program back to "Green"
• Responsible for OQ and PQ execution of core ECC functionalities across FICO, MM, QM/BM, and SCM modules
• Responsible for non-ERP and 3rd party systems integrations
• Responsible for the coordination of activities across business and technology organizations
• Interface with Change Management, and Change Advisory Board, as well as delivering regular and frequentCxO-level communication on status and progress.
• Overall budget responsibility of $ 9mil

SAP S/4HANA Fit to Standard (Explore Phase) Project Manager (Knauf)

Knauf

Architecture & Civil Engineering

>10.000 team member

Construction material manufacturing client engaged in EXPLORE phase of S4HANA project leading preparation
for REALIZE phase.

SAP S/4HANA Fit to Standard (Explore Phase) Project Manager:
* Responsible for overall execution of Explore Phase of S4HANA project (setting up Training environment,
enable Test Sand Box, execute DDA (Digital Discovery Assessment), execute Business Process Mapping and
Business Process Mining, deliver next Phase Program Planning, to formulate Key Design Decisions for
Change Advisory Board and prepare Business Case documentation).
* Covering all modules: FI/CO, SD, TR, PS, MM, PM/PP, and BW.
* As part of architectural decision, three platform types (Public Cloud, Private Cloud, On Premise) were
assessed considering current business process requirement.
* Reported on forecasted project budget of $ 2mil.

Senior Program Manager (MSD)

MSD

Pharmaceuticals & Medical Technology

1000-5000 team member

Managed financial and resource aspects of multiple programs in the category of "KBR Keep the Business Running"
within Research, Laboratory and Compliancy space . Proper and on-time delivery of these program business
benefits, and underlying project deliverables is essential for maintaining status quo of business essential IT
services. Detailed business case preparation and professional presentation was required for each scope extension
to CxO-level stakeholders as these programs were granted very narrow annual budgets.

Machine Learning and Operational Effectiveness Program Manager:
* OA / OEE - Operational Availability / Operational Equipment Efficiency - Collecting Operational data from
production sensors and through automated calculations to analyze and display them on Dashboard
* PCM - Predictive Maintenance - Machine Learning on processing Operational data and predicting most
efficient Maintenance Windows for production line components
* Utilized Development external resources from Amazon.
* Program budget: up to $2 mil; Total team size: up to 15 members.

Enterprise Lab Platform KBR Program Manager:
* Laboratory space platform maintaining program covering multiple critical platforms (e.g., LIMS, Empower,
Nugenesis, OpenLab).
* Main project goals were to deliver capacity and functionalities to business requirements and to support
estimated business growth .
* Removal and upgrade of obsolete platforms was also key deliverable of respective projects.
* Program budget: up to $2 mil; Total team size: up to 20 members.




Pre-Clinical Development and Compliance KBR Program Manager:
* Laboratory and Compliancy space requirements driven cluster of projects with varying deliverable, starting
from Proof of Concept, through EDI integration development to essential service build up and delivery to
Production.
* Compliance segment deliverables were regulatory bodies requirements on reporting allowing auditors to
have all information readily available when required.
* Program budget: up to $1 mil; Total team size: up to 15 members.

Acronis Back Up (Disaster Recovery) capability for IT manufacturing infrastructure (GxP regulatory):
Managed global delivery of off-the-rack solution for data backup and restore capability to comply with new GxP
and Data Integrity policies.
* Building infrastructure in each of 25 manufacturing sites globally to prepare basis for solution delivery
(managed procurement of HW equipment (initializing tender, quotation, vendor selection).
* Organizing local technology teams to deliver workstream assignments , perform application deployment
and GXP testing and validation (overseen by Quality Assurance team).
* Managed delivery of SDLC (Solution Delivery Life Cycle) documentation to comply with regulatory and satisfy
Quality Assurance requirements .
* Project budget planned for over $2,000,000; Total Team size: app. 30 people concurrently, overall app. 130
people.

Access Center Application Interface Migration (GxP regulatory):
Managed initiative to provide uniform UX user experience for particular business process (URF, User Request
Form, to request access to be granted) for extensive list (70+) of business-critical applications.
* Managing Business Requirements discussions between Business Owners and Development team (to map
current processes and to propose improvements to be delivered during migration).
* Managing off-shore Development team (3rd party vendor) delivery to meet business requirements, scope
and timeline.
* Complete budgetary responsibility of project financials.
* Project budget planned for $1,000,000; Total Team size: app. 15 people concurrently; overall app. 200
people.

SAP S/4HANA Delivery & Integration Senior Project Manager (Zentiva)

Zentiva

Pharmaceuticals & Medical Technology

>10.000 team member

Leading the turnaround of a behind-schedule global SAP S/4HANA delivery project in the highly regulated
pharmaceutical space . Selected by this private equity-owned European pharmaceutical company to turnaround
and stabilize at-risk global SAP S/4HANA delivery project that was moved from RED to GREEN status in just 3
months.

SAP S/4HANA Delivery & Integration Project Manager:
* Lead all integration activities for the global SAP S/4HANA template rollout.
* Manage delivery of multiple SAP modules' functional components , including MM, SD, FI, and CO.
* Direct the SAP S/4HANA deployment in Bulgaria , including integration with third-party logistics (3PL)
provider Scorpion Shipping.
* Create new reporting structure, fully aligned PMO processes , and stakeholder engagement channels,
including office hours and regular Q&A sessions, to improve communication, collaboration, and buy-in.
* Plan and manage $1.5mil project budget.

Senior E-Commerce Program Manager (Tech Data)

Tech Data

Internet & IT

5000-10.000 team member

E-Commerce Organizational Change Program (Apple Care insurance product):
Oversaw and managed delivery of product and process re-definition (initiated by EU legal requirements) and
organizational change (business process and organizational structure). This change created opportunity for
leaning the process up and introducing number of functional improvements.
* Business Organizational Change as the result of legal requirements change where EU legal ruling required
to sell insurance product in certain way required organization to modify process and implement it across
number of EU countries (AT, DE, CH, IT, FR, NL, UK, SE).
* Managed requirements and knowledge gathering sessions driven by Business Analysts across all countries
in scope to map and document future solution design and delivery.
* Managed delivery of SAP team (SD, FI, BW, MM, TM, LO), e-commerce web-portal modifications, and
Integration teams.
* Managed Stakeholder and Customer involvement, expectations and communication channel to maintain
involvement and secure resources for extended testing phase.
* Project budget planned for €200,000; Total Team size: app. 60-70 people.

Senior Technology Program Manager (DHL)

DHL/DHL Supply Chain EMEA

Transport & Logistics

>10.000 team member

Delivery and Test Lead for 4PL Supply Chain integration:
Assigned to deliver on time, within specification and within budget replacement of currently used logistics
systems of previous 3PL provider with newly contracted DHL Supply Chain infrastructure.
* Work streams:
* Business processes (complete mapping of generic and in-country specific processes)
* IT systems implementation, integration, throughout integration and user-acceptance testing resulted in
GO LIVE and production operations switch to new systems.
* EMEA-wide Warehouse Management Solution supported by Blue Yonder (JDA) and Oracle R12.




* Project included all EMEA, and Pakistan.
* Project budget of €2 mil; Total Team size: app. 30 people.

Warehouse Management (JDA/Red Prairie) Cloud Transformation and Migration initiative:
Operating system license (Red Hat 5.x) required build of new environment (Red Hat 7.x; 30+ cloud-based
servers) and migration of 120+ JDA instances to this new environment:
* Business change strategy planning and delivery : Very detailed program plan was delivered within very short
time frame and approved by Board with only few minor comments.
* Business change planning: Overall migration broke into 10 migration waves. After initial pilot, when process
settled down, all upcoming migration waves were issue and disruption-free.
* Strong stakeholder management : Effective relationship enabled to communicate implementation windows
sufficiently in advance to prepare business units and avoid any issues.
* Cloud Infrastructure Transformation Solution supported by Google Cloud Platform (Google Storage, VPC,
Cloud Load Balancing, and Cloud IAM), Blue Yonder (JDA) and Oracle R12.
* Project budget of €1.5 mil; Total Team size: app. 40 people.

Vision Picking WMS functionality Global Pilot for UK and NL:
Took over IT work stream in DHL Supply Chain pioneered program initiative with Augmented Reality and Google
Glass equipment implementation:
* Managed Infrastructure Delivery to provide grounds for interface testing among WMS components
(JDA/Red Prairie and Manhattan)
* Overlooked Business Change process analysis and Solution Improvement Delivery for post-Pilot Clients
* Responsible for global vendor performance management
* Infrastructure Solution supported by Blue Yonder (JDA), Ubimax software interface and Oracle R12.
* Project budget of €2 mil; Total Team size: app. 40 people.

Global Infrastructure Network Backbone Upgrade:
Took over and turned around massive project to upgrade bandwidth for regional data centers in the U.S. (new
site), Europe (EU), and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) to global MPLS Cloud. Led global change initiatives and
implemented stringent vendor controls to bring project back within time and performance goals while:
* Driving interconnectivity across data center sites to attain "global Cloud" presence.
* Enabling delivery of high-performance enterprise-level SAN.
* Boosting performance and availability to meet five-nines (99.999%) SLA target.
* Project budget of €25 mil; Total Team size: app. 70 people.

Virtualization Upgrade:
Hand-picked to manage supplier in upgrade of virtualized environment (server and desktop) to new Citrix release
(XenApp/XenDesktop 7.6).
* Served as primary liaison to define delivery timelines and to ensure solution testing.
* Managed stakeholder communications and delivered weekly board reviews.
* Project budget of €500.000; Total Team size: app. 20 people.

Global Machine Security Certificate:
Collaborated with security partners to design robust machine security certificate program to guard corporate
data, strengthen IT asset management/hardware lifecycle policies, and control acceptable use of personal
devices to remediate findings and recommendations for IT services audit.
* Crafted and managed comprehensive BYOD/COPE policy framework.
* Directed application testing to facilitate seamless production launch.
* Project budget of €1.5 mil; Total Team size: app. 40 people.

Senior E-Commerce Program Manager (Tech Data)

Tech Data

Internet & IT

5000-10.000 team member

Business Change Program & SAP Service Management Transformation:
Propelled business performance by 30% through program management of EDI infrastructure build-out and
development of optimized B2B workflows.
* Business Change as the result of technological upgrade where new, customer dedicated environment
resulted in massive business process change (re-design of process (Standard Operating Procedures).
* Change Management process for SAP Center of Excellence required process consolidation and improvement
which when successfully delivered improved process performance and reliability significantly.
* Expanded ERP (SAP) capabilities to provide real-time pricing for HP distributors through $250K custom
database application design and delivery.
* Selected by senior management board to stabilize business and IT change processes, developing and
delivering change plans and managing communication for implementations , working with across-thefunction
Change board.
* Managed stakeholder involvement and participation on change programs.
* Project budget of €500,000; Total Team size: app. 20 people.

E-Commerce Software Development Project Manager:
Assigned to manage Business Unit account from perspective of Business Functionality development in Agile
(SCRUM) environment.
* Assigned to manage Business Partner (Internal Business Unit) account from perspective of Solution Delivery
* Managed portfolio of projects to deliver variety of functionalities for ecommerce web portal (main sales
channel for the consumer electronics wholesale client).
* In close cooperation with Product Owner , organized and manage definition of requirements, their
prioritization (Business Criticality) and setup of product roadmap.
* In close cooperation with Scrum master, evaluated requirements, defined interdependencies, sprints and
sprints delivery.
* Supported Product Owner in story, organized daily Standups, Sprint Demonstration and Groomed backlog.
* Project budget of €500,000; Total Team size: app. 10 people.

Regional Manager (K+N)

Kuehne + Nagel

Transport & Logistics

500-1000 team member

Project Management Methodology:
Sparked 90% decrease in incident response and delivery time by deploying ITIL incident management process
throughout the company.
* Engineered change management processes, spearheaded employee adoption and engagement, and
oversaw change management board .

Global Project and Business Change Delivery:
Reduced operation and administration costs 60%+, enabled client to track goods en route from Asia.
* Simultaneously acted as business analyst and project lead, visiting client's Moscow site on 3 occasions to
develop business case and execute plan.

IT Program Manager (DHL)

DHL IT SERVICES

Transport & Logistics

>10.000 team member

Virtual Team Leadership:
Led cross-functional distributed virtual team of 30+ remote business consultants, testers, B2B engineers, and
business process testers to implement solutions across Europe.
* Managed series of user acceptance-testing workshops in US and Asia , motivated development team to
resolve issues and solidified client relationship.
* Cut resource and program costs by 20%, centralized processes through business needs analysis, and built
strategic alliances across the organization.

Regional Data Center Optimization Program:
This program was triggered by the opportunity to materialize cost savings by consolidation of IT services hosting
facilities from number of country-based data centers to state-of-the-art centralized solution.
* Delivered Consolidation program , established new IT Support structure and processes for 100's of IT and
ERP business solution (SAP WM, OM, HR, FiCO, TM, IT).




* Successful delivery of SAP Service Management Transition (EMEA-wide Data Center consolidation program
including build of new SAP infrastructure and consolidation of countries SAP instances into central Data
Center). This program included full SAP Template rollout delivery.
* Project budget of €35 mil; Total Team size: app. 40 people.

Global Warehouse Management Systems Project Implementation:
Supported project delivery for global implementations of SeLECT (SeLECT UPGRADE), PROLOGS and JDA/Red
Prairie WMS. Global implementations covering U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.
* Managed a team of 15+ virtual resources to deliver a $1.5M warehouse management system
implementation.
* Invited to lead a 2week-long user acceptance-testing workshop in Houston, TX, motivated development
team to resolve issues and solidified client relationship.
* Managed end-to-end project delivery covering all project components of project integration, scope, time,
cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, and procurement with full budgetary responsibility
* Managed business and change process analysis by overseeing business analyst team delivery covering
number of Supply Chain processes
* Successfully managed offshore vendor delivery covering customization of business process flow
* Project budget of €2 mil; Total Team size: app. 35 people.

Certificates

SAP ACTIVATE (in progress)

SAP

2022

PROSCI Change Management Practitioner

PROSCI

2018

MSP Managing Successful Programs

Axelos

2017

PMP (Project Management Professional);

PMI

2015


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