Keith P. Davis
Rohnert Park, California 94928
USA mobile (+001) 1 707 548 1036
Email LesAnatifes@gmail.com
SAP contractor for PM. SM (aka CS & EAM),- MM,PP & WM experience
Project and/or Change Management
Thyssenkrupp Stainless USA (May 2011 to June 2012): Sole PM consultant to improve PM
use in new $ 3 billion steel plant. 6.0 copied from German template. Restructured hierarchy,
created maintenance plans, task lists, training, solving MM problems related to PM, designing
the DMS system for implementation & utilization; bringing in use of RFID, electronic signatures.
New Gold Ltd. – near Yuma, AZ(Feb 2011 to May 2011): PM role at a new SAP PM 6.0
implementation for a global gold mining firm roll-out; doing system building, config. and training
at all levels for the gold refinery and the mining fleet of motorized vehicles & equipment..
White Sands Missile Base -U.S. Army Las Cruces, NM (Dec. 2010 to Feb. 2011): Was sole
SAP PM consultant for go-live support and end user training of U.S. Army GFEBS project at this
base.
RTI Metals Intl., Inc. Niles, Ohio(Oct 2010 to Dec 2010): created plant, equipment,
maintenance plans, task lists, etc. in the PM module [in ECC 6.0] during Blueprint phase for a
new green field titanium plant.
Warner-Chilcott - Rockaway, NJ(Dec 2009 …June 2010): Was one of the three-man team
for data migration from one ECC 6.0 SAP system to Warner’s ECC 6.0 system an acquisition of
a pharmaceutical firm by the client. Global data extraction across nine countries and four
languages, data mapping, writing functional specifications, working in cut-over extract file
preparation, data loads, testing, et alia for two go-live dates. I was subcontracted to Lodestone
(CH). The team’s letter of commendation is available on request.
Pakistan Army ERP competition - Lahore, Punjab(Sept 2008 to April 2009) pre-Blueprint to
Go-Live project advisor and PM Team Lead of an SAP team designing DFPS logistics demo in
competition against Oracle team for award of ERP logistics contract for the Pakistan Army. I
helped to initialize, plan, execute, control and close the project to build an SAP system for
demonstration from beginning to end. I concurrently managed PM/MM teams to create
Functional Locations, Equipment, measuring points, classifications, characteristics,
maintenance task lists for scheduled maintenance, et alia of the army data supplied to us and
built history for reporting demonstrations; and, ensuring that these technical objects linked to the
corresponding DFPS technical objects (DIMP) would work.
Applied Materials - Santa Clara CA(Jan 2007 –May 2008) SM consulting role. Started in preBlueprint stage thru to post-go-live support in designing & creating the entire Install Base
[Functional Locations, Equipment, Classifications, Characteristics, Values,Partners, etc.] in SAP
ECC 6.0 w/ NetWeaver Enterprise Portal. It was installed and now in use in 21 countries]. Did
massive, thorough data scrub, wrote and ran unit test scripts, did preparation for conversions,
master data creation of Install Base [Functional Locations, Equipment, Customer and Vendor
master record maintenance] , technical objects, classes, characteristics and values. Wrote test
scripts, did system testing. Taught overseas power users via remote meetings how it would
work and how to use it. Did a lot of support for offshore locations.
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Chevron - San Ramon CA( May 2006 to July 2006) 2 month contract to design blueprint for
fleet maintenance module in current SAP ECC 6.0 project to create global template for
Chevron’s lubrication plants and truck fleets; i.e., functional locations of oil lube plants, fueling
and storage locations and shops; converting master records of fleet vehicle data by class and
characteristics from Chevron’s legacy system..
Pacific Gas & Electric - San Luis Obispo CA( July-2005 to Jan 2006): nuclear power plant
SAP PM implementation team. Role – from brown paper pre-Blueprint stage thru Realization.
Did Master Data migration prep., TDD,FDS & BPP authoring; designed and created master
records of functional locations, equipment, vendors & components with respective
classifications, characteristics & values based on legacy system design. Configuration and
related tasks to migrate from late ‘60s legacy system to R/3 4.7C. Configured PM module to
accommodate nuclear reactor requirements..
SBC Corporate Real Estate - Dallas TX(Jan-July 2005 ): I was sole consultant in PM role in
Blueprint of largest SAP real estate project to date. SBC owns 24,000+ real properties.
Responsible for design and creation of functional locations, inferior and superior and
parent/child relationships of same for work order capture. Designed work center concept and
work orders for in-house and third party maintenance. The company stopped the project, at this
point, for internal reasons.
U.S. Army – Logistics Modernization Program -Moorestown NJ( July 2004 to Jan 2005):
Quality assurance & documentation team for the PP, MM, and PM facets of the biggest SAP
project of all time. I did much Solution Manager work. I corrected design of erroneous
transaction processes. Budget for project was stopped by Army because of Iraq invasion and
team was rolled off.Dept. of Transportation – State of North Carolina- Raleigh & Charlotte
NC(March 2003 to Dec. 2003 R/3 4.6C project. Blueprint to post-go-live support. Created
Master Data for loading from their legacy system; training employees in various sites in use of
PM & MM transactions for their fleet of 36,000 vehicles, bridges, tunnels asphalt plants, location
and vendor master record maintenance, etc. Went ‘live’ April 21st. Helped create variants,
master warranty lists, “how to” BPPs for specific transactions, helping find & solve glitches, etc.
to streamline workflow, maintenance strategies, PM task lists, and other PM functionalities. Did
a lot of training and support. The implementing firm did not use the fleet maintenance module
but used, instead the regular maintenance module which required a lot of configuration changes
to make it work for a fleet. I corrected erroneous parent/child structure of vehicles in the
Equipment records for the entire fleet of 36,000 pieces of motorized equipment, bridges, boats,
etc.
C.R.Hammerstein AG - Solingen, Germany & Clanton, Alabama: Functional (Sept2002 Feb2003) Functional work creating master records and design in MM ,PP, and WM facets of
R/3 4.6C in green field plant implementation for CRH, a manufacturer of auto seats – materials,
vendors, plant layout, etc. Worked in Solingen plants prior to their ‘go-live’ (in German) and
helped prepare their new plant in Alabama to duplicate the German plant and implementation
(in English).
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Delphi Aftermarket-Europe: Project Management – various locations in Europe: (Sept
2001 –April 2002) Brought in as expeditor to ramrod late projects for on-time “go lives” of R/3
4.6 Automotive 2.0 w/minimal post-go-live problems at Delphi France & Benelux (ask for
references); did same in Germany and Spain aftermarket locations simultaneously while
minimizing post-go-live problems given the client’s accelerated “go-live” scheduling to go live by
cut-over to euro currency. Main accomplishment (besides beating deadline) was to have
conducted data migration from multiple legacy systems ensuring squeaky clean data for go-live
cut-over.
Delphi Automotive HQ USA – Troy MI- Senior Analyst (Dec1999-July2001)
At HQ in Troy, Mich. Migration project from 4.0 to R/3 4.6 D, w/ Automotive 2.0. Worked many
roles in MM& PP for BPP to-be preparation w/ core teams including Engineering Change
Management [a 96 pg. Document]; data migration, backflush, EDI & bar code change for
Kanban (certification team), and systems integration. Post-migration support in Span. for Mex.
Plants; e.g. MRP, ATP, cost collectors, etc. Live Synchroniser, Win Runner Testing, and
Mercury tools. Fielded pre-implementation issues (in Spanish & English), in manufacturing, for
two Delphi Mechatronics plants in Mexico - e.g. transition to SAP of parts numbering, MRP,
forecasting, Master Data & one post-implementation.
KPMG, Team Manager – Mexico City MX: (Feb1998-Sept1999)
SAP implementation at Telmex, the Mexican telephone company. Co-managed, and worked in,
the BASIS team, MM Team, legacy uploads, Change Management Team, Test Team and
Training Team. Created training tools on CDs using Lotus ScreenCam w/Spanish voice track,
which saved incalculable man/hours in staff training, nationwide in R/3 4.0; used Mercury test
tools and MS Office package for tracking, reports, etc. Lead data migration team for conversion
from 40 legacy systems across Mexico.
Part of the 30 man team of KPMG consultants on the 18 mo. re-engineering/business
transformation at the Halter Marine Group; a conglomerate of 26 shipyards in the Gulf states
and abroad. Responsible for implementation of the Primavera project management software for
shipbuilding scheduling in the firm and documented all new processes in a Visio 5.0c “living
document” w/ hyperlinks to RACIs, and MS Word documents where in-depth explanations of a
flowchart process was deemed necessary.
OSS Testing at Bell South, Atlanta, Georgia; Repair & Maintenance team (short stint just prior to
a contract with the Delphi Automotive project in Troy, Michigan.
Delphi Packard South America - Buenos Aires, Argentina (Jun 1996 – Jan 1997) Project
Manager: Managed three country ( Argentina, Brazil, Venezuala) preparation of SAP
implementation through the Blueprint phase including setting up a 3-country satellite project
communication system. At end of Blueprint GMC decided to sell Delphi Division and stopped
the project. At that point I was on-time and under budget.
IBM - Guadalajara, Mexico (Jan 1996 – Jun 1996) Asst. Project Manager during realization
and testing phase of R/3 3.5 implementation at IBM factory. Coordinated 102 consultants and
kept project moving forward according to SAP’s implementation methodology regardless of
obstacles.
VSG Software GmbH, Haan, Germany (Jan 1995 - Jan-1996) Served one year as an SAP
consultant trainee w/ professional consultants to create an English version of their PM BAPI
development; work in field w/ consultants creating MM and BOM Master Records at Lufthansa
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brake shop, Hamburg; PM blueprinting at Waters Instrument Company in Paris; and PM
blueprinting at Stuttgart’s privatized public transit company; and helped create demos for the
1995 Sapphire in Vienna in English & German.
Independent Consultant (June 1985 – mid1995)
Consulted in re-engineering business operations, implementing computer systems and repairing
or cleaning up existing systems. After leaving submarine service in the USN, I completed an
apprenticeship as an electromotive mechanic while attending college at night.
Relevant SAP/ERP and Project Management Experience
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Training on current project throughout locations in North Carolina for the State
Department of Transportation.
Project Manager of R/3 4.0B implementation for Delphi Packard Electric-Buenos
Aires- implementation covering Argentina, Brazil & Venezuela locations using three
languages (in 1997) including a satellite communication network instead of telephone
system.
Assistant Project Manager of SAP implementation at IBM – Guadalajara keeping
resources available regardless of circumstances to stay on schedule (1996-1997). It
was IBM’s 3rd attempt at implementing SAP, at a first IBM location, after two previous
attempts in Texas. This was successful.
Member of German team [VSG GmbH Software] in 1995-96 ( R/3 version 3.0F;
PM/SM and MM modules) at Waters Instrument Company SAP implementation nr.
Versailles, France. Part of team which created the warranty masks later implemented
in SAP 3.0 H. Translated work order BAPI tool created at VSG from German to
English (for PM and SM module utilization in English applications of SAP R/3) and
MM master data work in Lufthansa hydraulics shop (Hamburg) from Boeing manuals
of new aircraft into SAP
Taught the use of PM and SM modules and the BAPI to customers in both German
and English (1995-6). VSG created a PM/SM BAPI that enabled use of a cellular
phone and laptop in the field to communicate with SAP system in the work order
system. I translated this from German to English.
Concurrently managed shop operations while rebuilding corrupted computerized
maintenance management systems for: City of Whittier’s corporate yard; City of San
Francisco’s corporate yard (5000 vehicle maintenance system running on a Data
General; City of Hayward’s Fleet Management system (plus added a warehouse and
added it to system)
Designed, wrote and implemented the entire San Francisco Municipal Railway’s (’79’82) maintenance management system (on HP equipment) from schema to after “go
live” and added enhancements for three years. Designed the integrated system to be
modularly expandable to all other agencies of the city and county government for
fleet and facilities maintenance management. Used in Canada, Atlanta &
Washington, D.C.
Implemented, as project manager, a public works maintenance management system
(on a Honey-Bull computer using GTE’s program) for Public Works. At Mare Island
Naval Shipyard (1986 – 89) for all cranes, vehicles, generators, steam plant and
created cost accounting to make maintenance and car pool cost centers. These
generated a “profit” within federal government’s “zero balance” accounting systems.
Created a barcode system (on Macintosh computer in 4th Dimension) to track all
parts in and out of reactor compartments during repairs and refueling aboard nuclear
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submarines at Mare Island Naval Shipyard (secret -called confidential- clearance
status)
Training in SAP
Just attended the four day 2011 SAP PM-Centric conference (7th annual) in March 2011.
PLM301 and BC400-ABAP Workbench Foundation (2008).
Other courses in the past: SAP Academy @ CSC: Technical Boot Camp
At SAP Academy courses completed: SAP NetWeaver- Fundamentals of the Platform; MY301
4.6-mySAP.com Workplace; LO805 – Structuring Technical Objects;
WB140- Work Order Cycle; WB915-ASAP Roadmap; BC420-Data Transfer Made Easy; LO810
– Preventive Maintenance & Service; LO100 – Plant Maintenance;
LO815 – Maintenance Processing: Operational Functions; MM Procurement; ASAP System
(1997-9); Thomas Cook, PM Seminar (one week), 2002, Birmingham, England;
Trained (in German) in SAP R/3 architecture, MM, PM,SM (CS) and some PP at VSG Software
GmbH. Dec. 2004 took first NetWeaver class at SAP Academy in San Mateo.
Professional Background
Senior Member, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (member 14664939)
Extensive Cisco systems and E-Commerce training at KPMG Inc. development in their Silicon
Valley Solutions Center. On-going language skill improvement at Goethe Institut, Alliance
Française, and Casa Hispana
Education
BA International Business, San Francisco State University
Graduate courses, Freie Universität Berlin’s Otto Suhr Institut (International Business )
Other Training & Experience
Currently pursuing PMI project Mgmt Certificate at San Francisco State UniversityB2B
Development – Internet Academy, San Francisco; Jan - Feb. 2000 (achieved 96% score)
Primavera Software Academy, San Francisco 1999; P3 courses 601, 602, and 603.
Cisco Router Networking: Cisco training ctr. Nov. 1999
Internet 101 course certified (KPMG course from Digitalthink)
Cisco Service Provider Market Fundamentals: at Cisco Systems, Oct. 1999
Numerous seminars and short courses in project management, re-engineering (CAP Gemini),
manufacturing, maintenance, inventory systems, warehousing, computer technologies,
telephony, etc.
Served apprenticeship as marine electrician at Hunters Point Navy Yard, San Francisco
Security Clearances
Recent security clearance on Dept. of Defense SAP project in Moorestown, New Jersey (see
c.v.). Have previously held confidential (secret) clearance status at Hunters Point Navy Yard
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(San Francisco, CA), Alameda Naval Air Station and Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, CA) for a
total of seven years.
Languages
Speak, read and write fluent, technical German, French and Spanish (ranked in order of
fluency).
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US Navy, Honorable Discharge
Excellent references available upon request.
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