Candidates About

 

Christopher William Kennedy

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

·         To work in a management position where my skills with SAP GTS and knowledge of trade compliance can be utilized to further my career.  

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. IT Business Systems Analyst SAP GTS- Global Trade, PerkinElmer.

Shelton, Connecticut (February 2015 – Current)

·         Create future roadmap for continued GTS rollout.

·         Write functional designs for GTS Enhancements.

·         Daily monitoring of system to ensure optimal performance.

·         Manage and staff projects with internal and external resources when necessary.

 

                                                                                                               

 

                IT Consultant - Global Trade, Henkel KGaA.

Dusseldorf, Germany (September 2011 – February 2015)

·         Manage monthly budget reporting and yearly budget planning for SAP GTS maintenance, enhancements, and projects.

·         Coordinate Change management for SAP GTS.

·         Write functional designs for GTS Enhancements.

·         Coordinate external service providers with maintenance and project related work.

·         Manage and staff projects with internal and external resources when necessary.

 

                                                                                                               

                Senior Analyst - Global Trade, Henkel of America, Inc.

Rocky Hill, Connecticut (May 2008 – September 2010)

·         Assisted with development and implementation of SAP GTS system for Asia and North America.

·         Managed all Foreign Trade compliance issues and government regulations including ITAR and EAR.

·         Worked with development of technology controls of EAR and ITAR data in SAP R/3 systems.

·         Process Owner for SAP GTS.

·         Managed Henkel’s NAFTA system, both finished goods and raw materials.

·         Implemented and managed NAFTA module in SAP GTS from a business side.

·         Managed customs brokers and freight forwarders.

·         Managed transfer of tasks to overseas share service centers.

·         Coordinated the implantation of electronic export declarations from GTS for US exports (AES).

 

 

EDUCATION:

·         Eastern Michigan University; Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Master of Business Administration December 2014

Concentration:  International Business

 

·         Eastern Michigan University; Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Bachelor of Science awarded December 2007

Major: Chemistry

Minor: Biology

 

 

REFERENCES:

·         Available upon request

 

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

SAP Global Trade Services (GTS)

·         Risk Module

·          EU Preferences – Initial Rollout on GTS 10.0

·         NAFTA – Initial rollout and Upgrade from GTS 7.2 to 10.0

·         Customs Module

·         AES (US)  – Initial rollout and Upgrade from GTS 7.2 to 10.0

·         ATLAS (DE) – Upgrade from AES 2.0 to 2.1

·         Compliance Module

·         SPL – Screening optimization and configuration

·         Legal Control – initial setup of legal regulations for APAC Region

·         Experience with ITAR and EAR license filing.

·         Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, Power Point, and Word Perfect.

 

 

 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPIERENCE:

PerkinElmer

 

·         Regulatory Screening on GTS Rollout (February 2015 to Current)

Project Manager IT

·         Assisted in development of test cases for project.

·         Responsible for defining scope, and documentation of project.

·         Project and Resource Planning. 

·         Secured development resources. 

 

·         SPL Optimization (May 2015 to October 2015)

IT Driven Project – Project Manager

·         Developed proposal and presented to the Business.

·         Developed test cases and documented before and after results.

·         Reduced false positive hits in GTS by 95%.

·         Resulted in reducing screening resources necessary to conduct daily business.

 

·         SAP GTS Invoicing Singapore (February 2015 to April 2015)

Technical resource SAP GTS

·         Developed test cases and assisted in testing and documentation.

·         Responsible for training local IT contact on first level support.

·         Writing functional designs for custom reports for freight forwarder for daily exports. 

 

Henkel KGaA

 

·         AES (US) Deployment on GTS 7.2 (September 2011 to March 2012)

Project Manager Business side and later IT side (5 FTE’s on Project)

·         Development of test cases for AES implementation.

·         Responsible for passing US Customs filing test.

·         Customize and Enhance GTS 7.2 for filing AES with ITAR filing logic.

·         Writing functional designs for developers per business user requirements.

 

·         SAP GTS Upgrade from Version 7.2 to 10.0 (June 2012 to October 2012)

Project Manager (15+ FTE’s on Project)

·         Oversaw internal BASIS efforts, IBM Server Hardware upgrade, Oracle upgrade, GTS plug-in upgrade for Feeder systems, and SAP GTS upgrade to version 10.0.

·         Responsible for business analysis, budgeting, post upgrade configuration, documentation, testing, and training of key users.

·         Upgrade included testing and customizing of:

·         ATLAS and AES  from AES 2.0 to AES 2.1

·         NAFTA Risk Module customizing and regression testing.

·         Compliance Testing for SPL and Legal Control for NA, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific Regions.

·         Asia Pacific Roll out of GTS (October 2012 to January 2013)

Project Manager (5 FTE’s on Project)

·         Rollout of SAP GTS to a new SAP R/3 feeder system.

·         Gather requirements from business for customization and setup of legal regulations for new country setup.

·         Responsible for connection and setup of 18 Legal Entities in CN, PH, MY, JP, KR, TW, HK, IN, ID, AU, NZ, VN, and TH.

·         Each Legal Entities was set up for:

·         Tariff codes

·         Legal Control

·         SPL Screening

·         Responsible for handover of maintenance activities to Accenture.

·         New Business Unit Rollout of SAP GTS (October 2012 to April 2013)

Project Manager (10+ FTE’s on Project)

·         Rollout of SAP GTS to a new SAP R/3 feeder system.

·         Implementation of GTS Compliance, Customs, and Risk Module for 2 EU Businesses.

·         Initial System connection, end to end testing, deployment, and go live support.

·         Existing system Roll out (February 2013 June 2013)

Project Manager (5 FTE’s on Project)

·         Rollout of GTS Preference management for KORUS on two business units.

·         Enhancement of GTS risk module to automatically email LTVDs to vendors from GTS.

·         Automation of emailing LTVDs for customer purposes from GTS to Customer.