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Markus Kuhn, Senior SAP Consultant, Project Manager from Hamburg
Markus Kuhn
Dipl.-Informationswirt (FH)
Senior SAP Consultant, Project Manager
22179 Hamburg
not available by 31/12/2012
Hourly-/Daily rates:
negotiable
Last update: 19.03.2012 16:16
Language skills
german (first language)english (business fluent)polnisch (basic knowledge)russisch (basic knowledge)
Abilities, knowledge, experiences:
10 years of SAP project experience:
SAP Consulting with focus on PM, MM, PP, PS
Integration knowledge in FI/CO, SD, CS, CRM, HR
Releases 4.0, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0
Profound, hands-on experience in all aspects of full life-cycle implementations
Excellent leadership skills developed in various project management & team lead positions
Industry experience:
Oil & Gas
Service Industries
Small & Medium Size Businesses
Software Industries
Steel Production
Transport & Logistics
Real Estate
Country experience:
Asia - India
Europe - Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Rep, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland
North America - Canada
Individual Skill Set:
Leadership skills: Successfully led teams with up to 8 direct and 120+ indirect reports
Project management methodologies: PRINCE2, PERT, Event Chain Methodology & Critical Chain PM (CCPM), Agile PM, BCIM
Key SAP skills: SAP R/3, mySAP ERP; Releases 4.0, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0; Modules PM, MM, PP, PS; SAP Business by Design
SAP integration skills: SAP R/3 FI/CO, SD, CS, CRM, HR; SAP Business One; SAP Business Warehouse
SAP certificate: SAP Solution Consultant SCM ECC 6.0
SAP implementation life-cycle experience: Process Analysis & Design, Blueprint, Customization, Testing, Training, Migration, Cutover, GoLive, Post GoLive Support
IT skills: MS Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista/7, Webserver, HTML, XML, MS Office incl. MS Access & MS Project, Javascript, Visual Basic
Detailed SAP Qualifications & Competencies:
PM Plant Maintenance (Releases 4.0, 4.6C, 4.7)
o Migration
o Functional locations
o Equipments
o Bills of material
o Task lists
o Maintenance plans
o Strategies
o Work orders
o Notifications
o Object links
o Information system
MM Material Management (Release 4.0, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC6.0)
o Master data management
o Materials, services, partners
o Conditions
o Purchasing info records
o Material requirement planning
o Purchasing applications
o Optimized purchasing
o Inventory management
o Material evaluation
o Logistics invoice verification
o Information system
o Customizing
PP Production Planning (Release 4.6C)
o Master planning
o Work centres
o Production orders
o Order BOMs
o Assembly-to-order
o Confirmation
o Capacity planning
PS Project System (Release 4.7)
o Master data & WBS structures
o Planning
o Materials & services
o Budgeting
o Project execution
o Project closure
o Reporting
o Integration aspects
References:
Project History
since 03.2012
Industry: Real Estate (Germany)
Project: SAP Functional Consultant CS MM PM PS SD
• SAP R/3 ECC 6, EHP 4; CS, MM, PM, PS, SD
• Building a supplier interface
• Conceptualization & realization of various change requests
10.2011 – 02.2012
Industry: Service Industry (Germany)
Project: Project Lead, Full Life-cycle Implementation of cloud-based “SAP Business by Design” Product
• Accountable project lead for an implementation of SAP ByD for a group of 5 consulting firms offering projects services in Germany
• Implementation of cloud-based “software as a service”
• Creation of blueprints for all end-to-end business scenarios (sales, purchasing, project management)
• Scoping & business configuration
• Testing, data migration, training & support
02.2011 –01.2012
Industry: Oil Industry (Canada)
Project: Roll-out of a Global SAP System and Streamlined Business Processes in a multi-national Oil Company (Coordinating Change Activities & Advising local PMO TL)
• Fine-tuning project plans, creating and publishing status reports for local and global stakeholders with regards to PMO activities
• Management of stakeholders; local (Canada, US) & global (UK, India, Manila) during an implementation for 1800+ users
• Advising local training lead (TL), leading a team of 8 PMO resources
• Supporting local change & engagement manager
• Accountable for Localization of end user documentation according to Canadian legislation and fiscal requirements
• Interface to local SAP deploy teams
• Consulting Manufacturing business how to apply “best practice” in SAP PM in refineries across Canada
09.2009 –03.2011
Industry: Downstream Oil (Central & Eastern Europe, CEE)
Project: Project Lead Training Global SAP Implementation in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine
• Global SAP Implementation 4.7, FI/CO, SD, MM, PM, PS, CS, CRM and connected portfolio applications
• Plan & implement integrated, x-cluster training strategy for 1400 users in 7 countries across 10 time zones, covering 6 languages in 11 locations incl. off-shore staff in service centers in Chennai and Manila
• Coordination of all training activities & leading a team of 5 training coordinators and 127 trainers
• Global & local stakeholder management
01.2009 – 08.2009
Industry: Oil & Gas (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
Project: Local GSAP Training Lead D-A-CH
• Leading a team of 4 employees organizing training for 4500 end users in the D-A-CH cluster (Germany/Austria/Switzerland)
• SAP Modules: SAP CS, CRM, FI/CO, MM, SD, PM, PS
• Coordinating localization, translation and preparation of training material
• Localizing a global retrofit training strategy on cluster level (3 countries)
• Conducting local training needs analysis
• Building local training approach
• Conducting Curriculum mapping across all CoB/Fs
• Facilitating Train-the-trainer program
• Engaging super users / trainers for training delivery
• Setting up & maintaining training schedule & gather required inputs
• Publishing training materials
• Setting up & executing training reporting
• Evaluating feedbacks and lessons learned
09.2008 – 12.2008
Industry: Oil & Gas (Austria, Switzerland)
Project: PMO Delivery Manager A-CH (Deployment of global approach for Austria & Switzerland)
• Sub-project Lead „SAP Training“ within a Project Management Office
• Ensuring training delivery activities are integrated in a localized training plan on cluster level for ~500 end users in A-CH
• Planning and coordinating Train-the-Trainer program for key trainers and end-user trainers
• Liaising with the Central Training Team to prepare and conduct the knowledge transfer workshops for the local (key) trainers
• Developing a training schedule
• Defining and implementing training administration processes
• Managing the training schedule administration during training delivery
• Working closely with the Training Logistics Manager and Training Content Manager to ensure training resources are available and reserved for a smooth training delivery
• Coordinating training for testing activities
• Managing the process for evaluation of training
• Collecting lessons learnt related to training administration to implement best practices in global “Business Change Implementation Methodology”
09.2007 –08.2008
Industry: Refinery (Germany)
Project: SAP Training Lead Manufacturing
• Leading a team of 3 key users and 25 trainers for Manufacturing business in 3 German refineries
• SAP PM & MM (4.7)
• Receiving & providing knowledge transfer from various Global and local project teams
• Localizing and translating assigned training packages
• Incorporating IT CAP, Legal & Fiscal items, Stepouts & Workarounds into training materials
• Managing the preparation of assigned training packages for delivery to end users, incl. Scoping, planning and Quality Assurance
• Lead Trainer for assigned training packages
• Providing availability information to central Training Team for scheduling
• Providing Post Go Live Support
01.2007 –08.2007
Industry: Refinery (Germany)
Project: SAP Data Quality Team Lead
• SAP R/3 PM, MM, Release 4.0
• Localization & implementation of globally defined data quality standards (DQS)
• Coordination of all data cleanse activities to meet DQS
• Leading a team of 6 “data cleansers”
• Support data migration to prepare the implementation of a new SAP release version 4.7
10.2005 - 12.2006
Industry: Refinery (Germany)
Project: SubEx Data Migration Manager
• Analysing data from 100+ legacy systems
• Migrating the data to SAP R/3 PM
• Sub-project management
• Process conceptualisation and data cutover
• Change management
• End user and admin support (1st & 2nd level)
• Project documentation of systems being shut down
04.2005 - 09.2005
Industry: Steel Production (Germany)
Project: SAP PP Implementation Consultant (Release 4.6C)
• Implementing production planning on SAP release 4.6C in maintenance workshops of a steel supplier
• Process analysis & visualization
• Development of project- & user documentation
• Setting up data in training environment
• Scenario testing
• Planning and delivering training sessions
• First and second level support
10.2003 - 03.2005
Industry: Steel Production (Germany)
Project: SAP PM 4.6C Implementation Consultant
• Implementation of the SAP Plant maintenance PM module (4.6C)
• Scenario testing
• Conceptualizing training materials
• Development of an online training support system
• X-process trainings in maintenance, inventory management and procurement
• X-process trainings in plant maintenance and human resource modules (time confirmation)
• Conducting PMIS management information courses
• Moderating workshops
10.2002 - 09.2003
Industry: Small & Medium-size Retail Businesses (Germany)
Project: Supporting various projects as SAP Business One Analyst
• Implementation of SAP Business One
• Testing of new SAP Business One releases
• Marketing & development of proposals
• Development of an intranet-based knowledge management system (inhouse)
09.2002 -10.2002 Industry: Oil & Gas (Germany)
Project: Connecting an Access Database to SAP R/3 for optimized Inspection Planning and Implementation of an automated Due Date Tracking System using MS Project and Outlook-Integration
• Development of an MS Access-based database with SAP connection for optimized inspection planning in a refinery
• Migration of project data from a legacy system to MS Project and realization of an automated due date tracking system
• Developing a task form for improving project management communication in MS Outlook
• Compiling an organizational manual for ENC-SAP department for auditing purposes
02.2002 - 09.2002
Industry: Oil & Gas (Germany)
Project: SAP Knowledge Management (Information Analyst)
• Knowledge management reflection
• Analysis how to save data during company merger’s with focus on inspection-critical data in SAP
• Modeling information flows in SAP R/3
• Comparing information needs with information available
03.2001 - 01.2002
Industry: Transport & Logistics (Germany)
Project: Shunting Planning Improvement
• Implementing a database for shunting planning for short- and long distance trains
• Substitution of a dBase database by MS Access
• 1st – 3rd Level Support
09.2000 - 02.2001
Industry: Software Development (India)
Project: IT Business Development
• Developing a Business Development Strategy for a software development company in India
• Researching the market for embedded computer systems in Europe
• Accomplishing a mailing-based marketing campaign for the german market
• Implementing a self-developed documentation system
Temporal and spatial availability.:
flexible
10 years of SAP project experience:
SAP Consulting with focus on PM, MM, PP, PS
Integration knowledge in FI/CO, SD, CS, CRM, HR
Releases 4.0, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0
Profound, hands-on experience in all aspects of full life-cycle implementations
Excellent leadership skills developed in various project management & team lead positions
Industry experience:
Oil & Gas
Service Industries
Small & Medium Size Businesses
Software Industries
Steel Production
Transport & Logistics
Real Estate
Country experience:
Asia - India
Europe - Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Rep, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland
North America - Canada
Individual Skill Set:
Leadership skills: Successfully led teams with up to 8 direct and 120+ indirect reports
Project management methodologies: PRINCE2, PERT, Event Chain Methodology & Critical Chain PM (CCPM), Agile PM, BCIM
Key SAP skills: SAP R/3, mySAP ERP; Releases 4.0, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0; Modules PM, MM, PP, PS; SAP Business by Design
SAP integration skills: SAP R/3 FI/CO, SD, CS, CRM, HR; SAP Business One; SAP Business Warehouse
SAP certificate: SAP Solution Consultant SCM ECC 6.0
SAP implementation life-cycle experience: Process Analysis & Design, Blueprint, Customization, Testing, Training, Migration, Cutover, GoLive, Post GoLive Support
IT skills: MS Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista/7, Webserver, HTML, XML, MS Office incl. MS Access & MS Project, Javascript, Visual Basic
Detailed SAP Qualifications & Competencies:
PM Plant Maintenance (Releases 4.0, 4.6C, 4.7)
o Migration
o Functional locations
o Equipments
o Bills of material
o Task lists
o Maintenance plans
o Strategies
o Work orders
o Notifications
o Object links
o Information system
MM Material Management (Release 4.0, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC6.0)
o Master data management
o Materials, services, partners
o Conditions
o Purchasing info records
o Material requirement planning
o Purchasing applications
o Optimized purchasing
o Inventory management
o Material evaluation
o Logistics invoice verification
o Information system
o Customizing
PP Production Planning (Release 4.6C)
o Master planning
o Work centres
o Production orders
o Order BOMs
o Assembly-to-order
o Confirmation
o Capacity planning
PS Project System (Release 4.7)
o Master data & WBS structures
o Planning
o Materials & services
o Budgeting
o Project execution
o Project closure
o Reporting
o Integration aspects
References:
Project History
since 03.2012
Industry: Real Estate (Germany)
Project: SAP Functional Consultant CS MM PM PS SD
• SAP R/3 ECC 6, EHP 4; CS, MM, PM, PS, SD
• Building a supplier interface
• Conceptualization & realization of various change requests
10.2011 – 02.2012
Industry: Service Industry (Germany)
Project: Project Lead, Full Life-cycle Implementation of cloud-based “SAP Business by Design” Product
• Accountable project lead for an implementation of SAP ByD for a group of 5 consulting firms offering projects services in Germany
• Implementation of cloud-based “software as a service”
• Creation of blueprints for all end-to-end business scenarios (sales, purchasing, project management)
• Scoping & business configuration
• Testing, data migration, training & support
02.2011 –01.2012
Industry: Oil Industry (Canada)
Project: Roll-out of a Global SAP System and Streamlined Business Processes in a multi-national Oil Company (Coordinating Change Activities & Advising local PMO TL)
• Fine-tuning project plans, creating and publishing status reports for local and global stakeholders with regards to PMO activities
• Management of stakeholders; local (Canada, US) & global (UK, India, Manila) during an implementation for 1800+ users
• Advising local training lead (TL), leading a team of 8 PMO resources
• Supporting local change & engagement manager
• Accountable for Localization of end user documentation according to Canadian legislation and fiscal requirements
• Interface to local SAP deploy teams
• Consulting Manufacturing business how to apply “best practice” in SAP PM in refineries across Canada
09.2009 –03.2011
Industry: Downstream Oil (Central & Eastern Europe, CEE)
Project: Project Lead Training Global SAP Implementation in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine
• Global SAP Implementation 4.7, FI/CO, SD, MM, PM, PS, CS, CRM and connected portfolio applications
• Plan & implement integrated, x-cluster training strategy for 1400 users in 7 countries across 10 time zones, covering 6 languages in 11 locations incl. off-shore staff in service centers in Chennai and Manila
• Coordination of all training activities & leading a team of 5 training coordinators and 127 trainers
• Global & local stakeholder management
01.2009 – 08.2009
Industry: Oil & Gas (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
Project: Local GSAP Training Lead D-A-CH
• Leading a team of 4 employees organizing training for 4500 end users in the D-A-CH cluster (Germany/Austria/Switzerland)
• SAP Modules: SAP CS, CRM, FI/CO, MM, SD, PM, PS
• Coordinating localization, translation and preparation of training material
• Localizing a global retrofit training strategy on cluster level (3 countries)
• Conducting local training needs analysis
• Building local training approach
• Conducting Curriculum mapping across all CoB/Fs
• Facilitating Train-the-trainer program
• Engaging super users / trainers for training delivery
• Setting up & maintaining training schedule & gather required inputs
• Publishing training materials
• Setting up & executing training reporting
• Evaluating feedbacks and lessons learned
09.2008 – 12.2008
Industry: Oil & Gas (Austria, Switzerland)
Project: PMO Delivery Manager A-CH (Deployment of global approach for Austria & Switzerland)
• Sub-project Lead „SAP Training“ within a Project Management Office
• Ensuring training delivery activities are integrated in a localized training plan on cluster level for ~500 end users in A-CH
• Planning and coordinating Train-the-Trainer program for key trainers and end-user trainers
• Liaising with the Central Training Team to prepare and conduct the knowledge transfer workshops for the local (key) trainers
• Developing a training schedule
• Defining and implementing training administration processes
• Managing the training schedule administration during training delivery
• Working closely with the Training Logistics Manager and Training Content Manager to ensure training resources are available and reserved for a smooth training delivery
• Coordinating training for testing activities
• Managing the process for evaluation of training
• Collecting lessons learnt related to training administration to implement best practices in global “Business Change Implementation Methodology”
09.2007 –08.2008
Industry: Refinery (Germany)
Project: SAP Training Lead Manufacturing
• Leading a team of 3 key users and 25 trainers for Manufacturing business in 3 German refineries
• SAP PM & MM (4.7)
• Receiving & providing knowledge transfer from various Global and local project teams
• Localizing and translating assigned training packages
• Incorporating IT CAP, Legal & Fiscal items, Stepouts & Workarounds into training materials
• Managing the preparation of assigned training packages for delivery to end users, incl. Scoping, planning and Quality Assurance
• Lead Trainer for assigned training packages
• Providing availability information to central Training Team for scheduling
• Providing Post Go Live Support
01.2007 –08.2007
Industry: Refinery (Germany)
Project: SAP Data Quality Team Lead
• SAP R/3 PM, MM, Release 4.0
• Localization & implementation of globally defined data quality standards (DQS)
• Coordination of all data cleanse activities to meet DQS
• Leading a team of 6 “data cleansers”
• Support data migration to prepare the implementation of a new SAP release version 4.7
10.2005 - 12.2006
Industry: Refinery (Germany)
Project: SubEx Data Migration Manager
• Analysing data from 100+ legacy systems
• Migrating the data to SAP R/3 PM
• Sub-project management
• Process conceptualisation and data cutover
• Change management
• End user and admin support (1st & 2nd level)
• Project documentation of systems being shut down
04.2005 - 09.2005
Industry: Steel Production (Germany)
Project: SAP PP Implementation Consultant (Release 4.6C)
• Implementing production planning on SAP release 4.6C in maintenance workshops of a steel supplier
• Process analysis & visualization
• Development of project- & user documentation
• Setting up data in training environment
• Scenario testing
• Planning and delivering training sessions
• First and second level support
10.2003 - 03.2005
Industry: Steel Production (Germany)
Project: SAP PM 4.6C Implementation Consultant
• Implementation of the SAP Plant maintenance PM module (4.6C)
• Scenario testing
• Conceptualizing training materials
• Development of an online training support system
• X-process trainings in maintenance, inventory management and procurement
• X-process trainings in plant maintenance and human resource modules (time confirmation)
• Conducting PMIS management information courses
• Moderating workshops
10.2002 - 09.2003
Industry: Small & Medium-size Retail Businesses (Germany)
Project: Supporting various projects as SAP Business One Analyst
• Implementation of SAP Business One
• Testing of new SAP Business One releases
• Marketing & development of proposals
• Development of an intranet-based knowledge management system (inhouse)
09.2002 -10.2002 Industry: Oil & Gas (Germany)
Project: Connecting an Access Database to SAP R/3 for optimized Inspection Planning and Implementation of an automated Due Date Tracking System using MS Project and Outlook-Integration
• Development of an MS Access-based database with SAP connection for optimized inspection planning in a refinery
• Migration of project data from a legacy system to MS Project and realization of an automated due date tracking system
• Developing a task form for improving project management communication in MS Outlook
• Compiling an organizational manual for ENC-SAP department for auditing purposes
02.2002 - 09.2002
Industry: Oil & Gas (Germany)
Project: SAP Knowledge Management (Information Analyst)
• Knowledge management reflection
• Analysis how to save data during company merger’s with focus on inspection-critical data in SAP
• Modeling information flows in SAP R/3
• Comparing information needs with information available
03.2001 - 01.2002
Industry: Transport & Logistics (Germany)
Project: Shunting Planning Improvement
• Implementing a database for shunting planning for short- and long distance trains
• Substitution of a dBase database by MS Access
• 1st – 3rd Level Support
09.2000 - 02.2001
Industry: Software Development (India)
Project: IT Business Development
• Developing a Business Development Strategy for a software development company in India
• Researching the market for embedded computer systems in Europe
• Accomplishing a mailing-based marketing campaign for the german market
• Implementing a self-developed documentation system
Temporal and spatial availability.:
flexible
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