Rodney Cole

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(214) 717-8773
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodney-cole-0954261/

SAP S4/HANA Data Migration Lead Consultant

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Mr. Cole is an accomplished SAP BODS S4/HANA, Data Migration Consultant. He is an SAP Data Migration Expert
with over 15 years’ experience in IT consulting, Data Migration Business Intelligence and Analytics strategies utilizing
SAP Best practices, Business Intelligence, Data Architecture, Master Data Management, Governances and Project
Management. He has provided SAP Data Migration and Management, BI roadmaps strategies to Fortune 500
Corporations with critical skills of project leadership.

Professional Experience/Project Work

10/2022 – Present
Mindtree/HPE Enterprise, (Independent Contractor), Houston, TX
Role: SAP S4/HANA Data Migration Lead
IT Group: Data & Analytics Data Management Practice
• Responsible for providing SAP Migration and Data Quality Strategy and Framework using SAP Best practices.
• Responsible for data migration of Legacy SAP ECC to S4/HANA data Loads using Migration Cockpit & BODS.
• Defined Data Quality Strategy utilizing SAP Information Steward, data profiling and data catalog analysis.
• Responsible for defining SAP MDM/MDG and road map for and data management Strategy.
• Conducted workshops with business and IT to gather requirements data quality assessment and standards.
• Responsible for Basic Configuration of SAP Material Management (MM)
• Responsible for sourcing processes like : subcon process ; drop shipment , Direct and In-Direct process.
• Responsible for Cross Functional WM/SD Configuration and process knowledge.
• Responsible for end-to-end implementation of SAP MM /WM
• Duties include Taxation in business & SAP Basic Configuration knowledge on SAP MM
• Responsible for capturing data quality business rules, defined quality thresholds, DQ reports & dashboards.
• Responsible for developing with business standards, rules, polices, procedures and IT systems.
• Developed current and future state DQ architectural diagram’s, DEV, TEST and PROD architectures.
• Documented existing Business, systems architecture, and technology portfolio to ensure accuracy.
• Collaborate with functional, architects and engineering teams to implement IDQ process improvement.

TOYOTA Corp NA ITX Data & Analytics GROUP – Plano, TX 10-2020 to 08/2022
Role: SAP S4/HANA Data Migration Lead
Project Description: SAP MDM/Data Warehouse/BI Analytics Consultant
• Responsible for providing the SAP S4/HANA MDM/MM Strategy and mapping source data.
• Provided Cloud Analytics Data Lakes Architecture recommendations and data visualization strategy.
• Responsible for data architecture framework, projects plan, resources, and timelines for data quality practice
and data management activities.
• Conducted workshops with business and IT to gather MDM/MDG requirements, data cataloging, metadata,
naming convention and standards.
• Responsible for Basic Configuration of SAP Material Management (MM)
• Responsible for sourcing processes like : subcon process ; drop shipment , Direct and In-Direct process.
• Responsible for Cross Functional WM/SD Configuration and process knowledge.
• Responsible for end-to-end implementation of SAP MM /WM

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Ste. 214 | 9801 Walnut set | Dallas | 75230 | USA
Tel: +1 214 717-8773 | Email: [email protected]
• Duties include Taxation in business & SAP Basic Configuration knowledge on SAP MM

• Responsible for develop/writing with business standards, rules, polices, procedures and IT systems.
• Developed strategies, roadmaps, standards, and architecture/implementation for Enterprise tools.
• Documented existing Business/systems architecture and technology portfolio to ensure accuracy.
• Responsible for evaluating and document system integrations, data flows, data models, data architectures.
• Worked with business users to understand how cross-functional, cross-studio and cross- teams.
• Responsible for providing Master Data technical consultation and support for SAP MDG workstream,
processes, resource team, and tool selection.
• Provides solution architecture to help create overall SAP MDM Strategy and Roadmap

HPE Enterprise – Business Sales Operations – Houston, TX 10- 2019 to -9-2020

Role: SAP S4/HANA Data Migration Lead
Project Description: Data Warehouse/BI Analytics Consultant
• Responsible for providing the SAP BI and Data Virtualization Strategy and Framework and data insight.
• Provided Cloud Analytics Data Lakes Architecture recommendations and data visualization Dishoards.
• Responsible for data architecture framework and plan for data quality practice and data management.
• Conducted workshops with business and IT to gather requirements naming convention and system standards.
• Responsible for develop/writing with business standards, rules, polices, procedures and IT systems.
• Developed current and future state architectural diagram’s, roadmaps, standards, reference architecture.
• Developed strategies, roadmaps, standards, and reference architecture/implementation for Enterprise tools.
• Documented existing Business/systems architecture and technology portfolio to ensure accuracy.
• Responsible for Basic Configuration of SAP Material Management (MM)
• Responsible for sourcing processes like : subcon process ; drop shipment , Direct and In-Direct process.
• Responsible for Cross Functional WM/SD Configuration and process knowledge.
• Responsible for end-to-end implementation of SAP MM /WM
• Duties include Taxation in business & SAP Basic Configuration knowledge on SAP MM
• Worked with business users to understand cross-functional, and cross- teams reequipments.

Flowserve – Global Oil & Gas Operations - Irving TX

Role: SAP S4/HANA Data Migration Lead Consultant
03- 2019 to Present
Project Description: SAP Data Steward Consultant.
• Responsible for the SAP Data migration to S/HANA for Customer, Supplier and Material and Data Analytics.
• Defined SAP data migration frameworks for sources data conversions, data integration with Oracle.
• Performed data and analytics integration, application architecture unstructured and structured data.
• Conducted meeting and collaborating with IT and Business users to develop reference architecture and.
• Responsible for creating and conducting technical training and onboarding of new staff and users.
• Responsible for managing data collecting, cleaning, transforms, and source data profiling analysis.
• Created analytic solutions by explored techniques for data analysis and modeling.
• Build predictive and prescriptive models for Sales, customer and business scenarios, statistical tests t models.
• Responsible for communicating analyses and insights to leaders by summarizing conclusions and solutions.
• Responsible for continuously Developing and sharing analytic methodology and techniques.
• Developed dashboard, reports that measure Sales, customers and financial metrics insights.
• Designed Enterprise data governance strategies principles policies, processes and standards.
• Conducted assessments and define enterprise roadmaps for enabling a data-driven Analytics organization.

Sabre Airlines Solutions – Global Sales Operations - Southlake, TX

Role: SAP Data Migration Lead

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12- 2018 to 4-2020
Project Description: MDM/MDG & Data Analytics

• Responsible for Airlines Solution Analytics, Dashboards implementation, and migration to (AWS) cloud.
• Data Virtualization
• Responsible for providing the SAP BI and Data Virtualization Strategy and Framework and data insight.
• Design enterprise data governance strategies principles policies, processes, and standards.
• Responsible for data management, governance, data architecture and data migration implementations.
• Manage Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and MDM, MDG strategy and data standards, polices.
• Define data migration strategy ETL tools, data profiling sources analysis and sources to target mapping.
• Conducted sessions to build consensus for Master Data Governance strategic vision and roadmap.
• Responsible for identifying and prioritizing strategies master data governance policies and processes.
• Managed and developed of data models flow, business process, defined Data Governance framework.
• Recommended of the organizational future state Data Governance structure, roles and responsibilities.
• Designed strategies data governance principles of the organization policies, processes and standards.
• Created and implement Master Data Management and Governance goals and metrics on a global level.

Accenture LLP
TESORO Petroleum Corp - SAP Information Group – San Antonio, TX
Role: Sr. SAP (BODS) Data Migration Architect
03 -2016 to 12-2018
Project Description: SAP Data Migration to S4HANA & EDU Analytics Project
SAP Data Management, Migration and Data Governance Duties:
• Responsible for data management, data governance, data architecture and data Migration implementations.
• Conduct detailed ERP/S4HANA landscape study, and design solutions to achieve operational efficiencies.
• Develop Proposal Solution, Estimation, Staffing plan, business case and ROI models.
• Followed SAP best practices ACTIVATE methodology and Business transformation approaches.
• Provide leadership and participation in client workshops in area of IT transformation.
• Defined Data Migration strategy for SAP RDM S/4HANA Best practices methodology and framework.
• Developed framework Master Data Governance, Data Quality using BODS Information Steward 4.2.
• Managed data quality assessment strategy, data modeling analytics projects collaborated functional teams.
• Responsible for the implementation of SAP Master data management and Data Governance (MDG 9)
• Defined SAP Data Services, Information Steward S/4 HANA and BW/HANA EDU Architecture.
• Defined Data Architects strategy to ensure data synchronized with metadata logical and physical data models.
• Developed data migration project plan, deliverables, resources, timelines and Go-Live schedule.
• Conducted Data workshops with Data Stewards and SME to gather business rules and policies.
• Preformed data discovery profiling sources Data from ECC for data quality issues for cleansing.
• Preformed source transformation mapping from SAP Master Data Customer, Vendor and Material to S4HANA.

Accenture LLP
Dart Container Inc. IT SAP Information Group – Lansing, MI
Role: SAP . SAP S4/HANA Data Migration Lead
02-2015 to 02-2016
Project Description: SAP Data Migration Master Data Management and Data Governance Project
• Responsible for defining Master Data Governance, Data Quality Architecture for BODS Information Steward.
• Defined data migration of Success Factors Employee Central Cloud Strategy.
• Gathered business requirements from the business prior to configuration of Success Factors HCM.
• Developed Data migration project plan, deliverables, resources, timelines and Go-Live schedule.
• Conducted Data workshops with Data Stewards and HR SME to gather business rules and policies.
• Preformed Data Discovery Cleansing and transformation of data to the target SAP data format.

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Ste. 214 | 9801 Walnut set | Dallas | 75230 | USA
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 Conducted data analysis SAP ECC data profiling and data cleaning data.
• Responsible for reconciliation of the loaded data against source and target SSF Employee Central
• Developed reports Employees and Payroll information and Material master. and
• Responsible for Implement of Success Factors Employee Central SAP RDS best practices.
• Developed Data Conversion discovery of the HCM Master Data profiling and data cleaning.
• Conducted Data workshops with Data Stewards and SME to gather business rules and governance policies.
• Conducted data cleansing and match review training sessions with SME, Data Stewards and MDM team.
• Involved in Master Data discovery, assessment, gap analysis and Architecture definition activities.
• Defined Data migration DQ strategy for loading Address Data utilizing DQM for address validation.
• Responsible for HR Data Quality created reports for monitoring of all SSF data migration activities
• Responsible for Implement of Success Factors Employee Central SAP RDS best practices.

Accenture LLP
Huntsman Corp -Information Systems Group– Woodlands, TX
Role SAP Data Steward Consultant Steward. SME
09-2014 to 02-20145
Project Description: HIMS SAP Business Objects 4.1 and SAP HANA Security Strategy.
• Responsible for designing SAP Business Objects 4.1 Data Visualization Blueprinting and Security Strategy.
• Conducted requirements workshops with the functional teams to design SAP Lumira Data sources.
• Responsible for defining upgrade project planning, resources allocation, timeline and deliverables.
• Gathered, managing requirements, and advice team on new functionally Business Objects 4.1.
• Created FIT/GAP documentation, specifications, testing strategy, and architecture diagrams BI & HAANA.
• Defined the QA testing to validate business user security and roles for SAP Lumira Data Visualization tools.
• Conducted Demo’s to user’s capabilities SAP Lumira and Explorer Data Visualization tools.
• Responsible for SAP designing HANA Analytical Views for consumption SAP Lumira, Explorer Visualization.
• Defined the SAP Business Objects 4.1, tools architecture assessment and BI strategy roadmap.
• Preformed BI Applications Assessment and Realization for define the BI Roadmap and strategy Plan.
• Responsible for developing security project plan to implement SAP HANA, BW and BO SSO using Windows AD.
• Responsible for BI application security, assessment to define the Plan to implement BO SSO and Windows AD.
• Responsible for designing BO security users access folders, reports Webi, Explorer, Lumina, Design Studio...
• Responsible for defining user types, user group and roles for Experts, Analytical and End user roles.
• Responsible for QA validation of user roles for SAP HANA, BW BI Lunch Pad BO components Webi, Explorers.

Johnson Control Inc. (JCI) - Enterprise Data Architecture /IT Group– Milwaukee, WI
Role: SAP Data Architect Consultant.
04-2014 to 09-2014
Project Description: SAP Master Data and Data Modeling Project
• Responsible for developing master data migration strategy and Methodology, project plan and deliverables.
• Developed project plan, deliverables, resources utilization, timelines and issues that may impact the schedule.
• Responsible for designing the Enterprise Data Models and Data warehouse Models using Erwin (DM).
• Managed Business Process analysis workshops developed BPM process models using ARIS.
• Responsible for designing Enterprise Data and Master Data Model using Erwin Data Modeler 9.5.
• Responsible for defining the MDM Hub Strategy and designing data migration framework.
• Responsible for SAP data analysis and profiling of the Production systems and Data Quality assessments.
• Responsible for gathering, documenting and modeling the Master Data Management requirements in Erwin.
• Responsible for managing requirements BRD, FDD for the KPI Dashboards and reporting.
• Responsible for defining KPI and metrics for Business Objects 4.0 Dashboards and source data requirements.
• Responsible for defining Data Services, Information Steward Hardware sizing and Architecture.
Nexeo Solutions – Information Systems group– Woodlands, TX
Role: SAP Business Objects Data Migration EIM Architect

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Ste. 214 | 9801 Walnut set | Dallas | 75230 | USA
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04-2013 to 04-2014
Project Description: SAP Master Data Governance (MDG), MDM & Data Steward
• Responsible for developing the data migration strategy and to migration from Oracle to SAP ECC using
Business Objects 4.1, Data Services 4.1 and Information Steward 4.1 RDS.
• Responsible for defining SAP Information Steward Strategy for the MDG project using BI 4.1 Data Services,
Information Steward and Data Quality Management DQM.
• Responsible for developing the project plans, resources allocation, timeline, and deliverables.
• Conducted group data workshops to identify Data Quality issues with Data Stewards and SME’s.
• Responsible for sources data assessments, data profiling, data Quality and data mapping.
• Responsible for defining the MDM/MDG development approach and deployment Strategy for data profiling,
data cleaning packages using Information Steward.
• Responsible for developing MDG/MDM Information Steward reports for Customer, Vendor and Material.
• Responsible for developing Information Steward Data profiling exception Reports for the MDG Project.
• Responsible for scheduling profiling analysis, data cleansing reports and DQ dashboards to Stewards and Uses.
• Responsible for master data profiling, data quality assessment using Data Services, Information Steward/DQM.
• Responsible for conducting data cleansing and match review training sessions with SME, Data Stewards.
• Responsible for defining Data migration strategy and framework for loading Customer, Material and vendor
master utilizing DQM for customer address validation.
• Conducted training of users to show Information Steward, data profiling, data cleansing functionally.
• Responsible implementing RDS Solutions Best Practices SAP MDG and Information Steward RDS’s.

CHEP America – Information Systems group– Orlando, FL

Role: SAP Business Objects Data Services Architect /Project Manager
6-2012 to 4-2013
Project Description: SAP Business Objects 4.0 KPI Sales Operations Dashboards projects
• Responsible for defining Business Intelligence 4.0 strategy using Data Services 4.0 and Information Steward.
• Responsible BODS architecture, sizing, installation, configurations of Server components in DEV, QA and PROD.
• Responsible implementing Business Objects and DS 4.0 security, integration with Window AD, Single-sign-on.
• Responsible for defining and implementing Business Objects and DS 4.0 security strategy, Folders, Groups,
Roles, users access rights for DEV, QA and PROD.
• Responsible for defining data quality Strategy, sources systems data analysis and assessment.
• Responsible for defining BI strategy, data migration, Integration and data assessments, profiling, Data Quality
data modeling of Oracle ERP, Seibel CRM, PeopleSoft HRMS to SAP ECC.
• Responsible for defining Data warehouse ETL data extractions from data warehouse design, data modeling.
• Responsible for manager requirements Business Objects 4.0 Dashboards, Web Intelligence and Data Services.
• Responsible for defining KPI and metrics for Business Objects 4.0 Dashboards and source data requirements.

First Group America – Information Systems group– Cinn, Ohio

Role: SAP Business Objects EIM/ Steward Consultant.
11-2011 to 6-2012
Project Description: SAP Business Objects 4.0 KPI Sales Dashboards project
• Responsible for defining the Business Intelligences and EIM Architecture Strategy
• Defined BI 4.0 architecture and development methodology for KPI dashboards and enterprise reporting.
• Defined BODSIS 4.0 architecture and development methodology for data assessment of data quality.
• Responsible for defining ETL strategy Data migration, Integration and data movement data analysis,
assessments, profiling, data movements, Data Quality data modeling from lacey Oracle ERP JD Edwards.
• Responsible for defining ETL data extractions data integration for move Essbase cubes into

L3 Communications – Shared Service – Rockwall, Texas

Role: SAP Data Steward Consultant Steward.
05 -2011 to 11-2011

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Ste. 214 | 9801 Walnut set | Dallas | 75230 | USA
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Project Description: SAP Business Objects and Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Architect
• Responsible for defining L3’s EDW, Business Objects and Data Architecture’s for Business Objects XI 3.1 and
Upgrade from Data Services 3.2 to 4.0 release.
• Responsible for defining L3’s SLCD framework, methodology, Data architecture to meet EDW reporting
requirements.

Project History by Request 1994 to 2010

Education: BS, Geophysics, Pacific Western University -1984

Attended Executive MBA Program, Southern Methodist University -1995
Business Objects Certified Professional (BOCP)
Business Objects Accredited Specialist (BOAS) EPM and EIM
SAP Data Services Migration Services 1.32, 2.32, and 1.40.
SAP Master Data Management

Technical: Business Intelligence and EIM Tools

Business Objects XI R1, R2, R3.0, R3.1, BI 4.0 Webi, Designer, Xcelisus 2008, Dashboards,
Reports XI 2008. Data Services XI 3.1, SAP Business Objects EIM, Rapid Deployment Solutions,
Data Migration Services Data Quality Management, Information Steward, Data Insight,
Matapedia, Data Builder, SAP Best Practices (RDS) Migration Data and Master Data
Governance 6. 71. 9.0

Data Warehouse Modeling Tools.

CA ALLFUSION 4.1, ERWin Data Modeler 7.3, 8 and 9.0 release.
SAP Power Designer, Embarcadero ER/Studio Data Architect 9.0
IBM Rational Software

Databases and ERP Technology

SAP ERP ECC 6.0, SAP S4/HANA, Oracle ERP 8i/9i, 10g, Sybase10/11, SQL Server 6/7, 2003,
IIS6,7, SharePoint, IBM DB2/UDB2 6.0/7.1 Teradata, SAP/ERP ECC 5, 6, Oracle/EPR 10, 11i
Appls, PeopleSoft/ERP HRMS, Financials, EPM, Portal SQL, PL/SQL, J2EE, Java,

To discuss this CV further please contact Rodney Cole

Ste. 214 | 9801 Walnut set | Dallas | 75230 | USA
Tel: +1 214 717-8773 | Email: [email protected]