About
An accomplished, organised, conscientious SAP professional with a proven track record and expertise in complex delivery in the areas of cutover management, project management and SAP integration architecture with 26 years of SAP implementation experience. Ability to pitch communications to the appropriate level of stakeholders whether Project, IT or Business. Delivered successfully projects in Retail, Pharma, CPG, Energy Industries for multinationals.
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Location
- Bebington, United Kingdom
- Contract preference
- Contract
- Contract location
- Remote
- Languages
- English
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Systems
Industries
Skills
Cutover Experience
Commercial Cutover Lead
ASDA
Jul 2022
– Jun 2024
Remote
- Successfully managed 2 Production Cutovers (each spanning 5 weeks) & the dress rehearsal remotely with 80 multi-vendor resources in 7 applications.
- Successful supported the Finance Production Cutover from a Commercial Business aspect.
- Created a detailed technical cutover plan with 1800+ tasks; holding numerous planning review sessions with colleagues, Partners & Solution Architects to build a robust plan.
- Built cutover plan formulas, reporting templates, high level plan & WoW presentations.
- Facilitated the build of the Enterprise System Schedule for the Commercial Business
Senior IT Cutover Lead
The Body Shop
Dec 2021
– Jul 2022
Remote
- Successfully executed cutover remotely for the 3 core markets on the new global platform within agreed timelines, with daily stakeholder status communications.
- Created High level POAP, detailed cutover Smartsheet plans, reporting dashboards & defect trackers to provide management with progress; holding numerous planning review sessions with various international staff & 3rd party companies.
- Prepared and executed various Checkpoints & Go/No Go, weekly work stream status reports, Risk/Issue management & town hall meetings.
Senior IT Cutover Lead
The Body Shop
Nov 2020
– May 2021
Remote
- Successfully managed remotely the dress rehearsal with 120 resources to project timeline.
- Created a detailed technical cutover MS Project plan with 1200+ tasks for 50 applications; holding numerous planning review sessions with Partners & SMEs to build a robust plan.
- Built reporting template, defect tracker, interface ramp down and ramp up schedules.
- Worked with the Business to produce a detailed Business Ramp down and Ramp up plans.
- Contributed to the business communication team & presented cutover at various town halls.
- Co-managed, prioritised & triaged defects with Accenture cutover team.
- Presented cutover status at weekly work stream leads meetings.
- Assisted in CV reviewing and interviewing of UAT Manager.
Senior Manager
Accenture
Nov 2010
– Sep 2020
Hybrid
Project – Astellas Pharma - EMEA S/4 Technical Cutover Lead (8 months)
Accountable for the technical cutover planning and execution for the complex deployment of 4 major EMEA countries to the Global S/4 HANA, GTS, B/4 and PO applications.
- Successfully executed the first dress rehearsal with 130 resources to timeline remotely.
- Created a detailed technical cutover MS Project plan with 1200+ tasks and 33 new interfaces.
- Produced the level 3 post UAT phase project plan and POAP for the 3 wave deployment
- approach in to the BAU landscape.
- Finalised the Deployment Cutover Approach deliverables.
Accountable for cutover planning and execution of the highly complex Italian SAP ECC Finance system to Corporate ECC on HANA deployment.
- Successfully executed production cutover deployment with zero P1/P2 tickets.
- Created a robust cutover MS Project plan with 1300+ tasks, 54 data objects, 53 interfaces.
- Planned and executed two complex cutover rehearsals with 170+ multinational resources.
- Delivered successfully despite a number of major challenges impacting the project (country shutdown during August, major fire in the Italy data centre affecting all Italian system environments and execution in parallel with UAT in to the production test system).
- Dealt with a large number of stakeholders, with different languages/cultures in a calm
Accountable for the technical cutover planning and execution for a global technical migration of 615 interfaces in to 2 SAP PO environments handling transaction worth $50million/per day.
- Successfully executed cutover with zero major issues with a multi-vendor team.
- Produced Integration project deliverables and planning of the 9 cutovers (3 wave) with the
- various worldwide operations to minimize the impact to current service levels.
- Managed 6 End-to-End cutover tests involving Project, IT, Business and 3 rd Party resources.
- Responsible for raising RFC requests, and presented the project in various CAB and release
- management meetings without rejections.
Project managed the SAP Legal Entity Restructuring (split each country into two Legal Entities) for 16 countries using ECC, SCM and MDG.
- Developed the core project plan for an 18 months duration for eight PM's to execute.
- Presented the SAP LER project approach to stakeholders in all 16 markets.
- Managed the core SAP team including planning, driving testing and status reporting.
- Performed the first cutover for the USA manufacturing plant restructuring
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