Kofax, Inc.
EMEA ERP Project Management Consultant
Project Description: Provide consultation and project management for the divestiture of the corporate hardware division and restructuring of the remaining software division, re-engineering key corporate processes and re-integration with the Microsoft Dynamics AX Financial ERP platform in 13 countries across EMEA.
Responsible for global facility planning for 26 companies through this change and act as liaison between Kofax CFO, CIO, CAO, Operations, country finance executives, AX consultants, local vendors, operations and IT. Identify business process gaps and developing strategies for business process re-engineering. Manage facility moves, closures, lease shares and splits.
Key Accomplishments:
- Followed strict Sure Step methodology of deliverables in coordination with business and vendors.
- Developed tools for management to place a monetary and operational value on each of the companies that were being divested into two companies. This valuation was a key component in placing a final price tag on the sale of the hardware division.
- Determined a timeline for facility conversions and lease modifications that took into account facilities to share, to close, or to remain occupied by Kofax or the buyer after the sale.
- Developed a project plan to manage the facility changes and moves including developing the infrastructure for the buyer and which allowed Kofax to host and support the buyer for 9-12 months until they were able to take over operations themselves.
Kofax, Inc. II
Global ERP Project Management Consultant
Project Description: Provide project management coordination for the deployment of Microsoft Dynamics AX Financial ERP platform to 13 countries across EMEA and APAC. Responsible for global release and deployment through back to back 25-day implementation plans over 8 months. Liaise between Kofax CFO, VP IT Operations, country finance executives, AX consultants, local vendors, operations and IT. Identify business process gaps and developing strategies for business process re-engineering.
Responsible for supporting the migration of current business solutions with minimal application modifications and promoting and supporting process re-engineering to more efficient business processes that meet “out of the box” application functionality.
Responsible for integrating newly streamlined supply chain operations in Germany and Switzerland with order processing and fulfillment across all subsidiaries, identifying and solving gaps in subsidiary business processes caused by the new operations. Also provide support for Hyperion Planning implementation and new Field Servicing module implementation each with integration into the General Ledger of the AX platform.
Key Accomplishments:
- Followed strict Sure Step methodology of deliverables in coordination with business and vendors.
- Deployed Dynamics AX to 26 companies on schedule and preserved business continuity placing the corporation on a single financial platform globally.
- Successfully executed 25-day rollout strategies for each deployment including data migration, user acceptance testing, training and managing all open sales orders.
- Integrated with corporate manufacturing SCM reorganization with re-engineered business processes.