➡️ Global Program-, Project & Roll-Out Management for SAP® products.
➡️ Expert for SAP® Roll-outs to Latin America.
➡️ 20+ years of international experience. APAC / EMEA / LATAM / North America.
➡️ Stakeholder, People, Scope, Risk, Escalation, Budget, Incident, Test & Change Management.
➡️ FI/CO background and good SD/MM understanding.
➡️ ERP/ECC, S/4HANA (on-premise, cloud, hybrid)
➡️ ASAP, SAP Activate - Agile/Sprints-cycles, Jira
➡️ Brownfield, Greenfield or selective migration approach
➡️ SAP best practices and guided configuration
➡️ English / German / Portuguese / Spanish

➡️ Over 20+ years of international experience. APAC/EMEA/LATAM/North America.
➡️ Stakeholder-, People-, Scope-, Risk-, Escalation-, Incident- & Change Management. ITIl and agile practices in addition to the waterfall strategy.
➡️ ECC & S/4HANA - ASAP, SAP Activate - cycles/sprints
➡️ FI/CO background and good SD/MM understanding.

I am German passport holder, business knowledgeable and fully four lingual (English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish).
IT Manager with over 20 years of experience managing IT operations at the strategic and tactical level. My objective has always been to enhance the value of IT as a business enablement function by bringing the simplest and most cost-effective application of technology to any business challenge requiring an IT solution.
Leader with Strong Management Skills - Broad experience in technology assessment and deployment. Strategic IT planning and implementation, as well as IT/SAP® project management, personnel administration and development, and cost accounting.
Able to effectively create a technological IT pathway aligned with business strategy, communicate it to managers at all levels and successfully incorporate it into business processes and systems in a cost-effective manner.
Thoroughly familiar with state-of-the-art ERP (SAP ECC & S/4HANA) solutions in operation. Client-server architectures based on SAP HANA, Microsoft technology, SQL databases, wide area networks, local area networks, storage area networks, telecommunication services, computer operations, security systems and policies, software quality assurance and Windows/Linux operating systems.
Many full life cycles. Brown- & Greenfield implementations/transformations/conversions, roll-outs including localization, upgrades, re-designs, system replacements and improvements, great focus on testing and data/object migration. Worldwide experience.
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Program, Project & Roll-out Management based on PMI, Prince2, ASAP and SAP Activate incl. agile practices (Scrum) with focus in Stakeholder & People Management. Furthermore Change-, Risk-, Scope-, Time-, Test-, Escalation-, Incident- and Stress Management, as well as Performance Improvement, Quality and Budget Control. Feasibility Studies, Business Process Analysis and Re-engineering.
SAP® implementations/conversions, international roll-outs and upgrades, carve-outs, global templates, F&G - local blueprints, ASAP® and SAP Activate framework methodology.
Global Chart of Accounts, legal requirements, IFRS/USGAAP/HGB/Local GAAP's.
ECC 6.0 incl. New GL, S/4HANA, Fiori and Solution Manager.
SD and MM skills. Harmonization – streamlining business processes. Big Bang projects all modules.
Legal and Local Requirements Europe, South America incl. Brazil (Nota Fiscal and Nota Fiscal Eletronica – GRC NF-e 2, SPED, DANFE, EFD PIS/Cofins, ICMS, IPI, Carta de Correcao Eletronica, CT-e, TAXBRA & TAXBRJ, IN86, CoA, Import/Export, Synchro, Procwork, Softway, Mastersaf, Microsiga, Primavera, etc).
Interface projects and add-ons - e.g. cloud based solutions (SAP Concur, Ariba, etc.)