RÉSUMÉ
Robert Adamowicz
Senior Consultant
CAREER PROFILE
Mr. Adamowicz is a seasoned extra and intra enterprise integration (B2B/EAI) consultant with over thirty years of IT project experience. He has applied his PMI based Project Management skills and techniques, founded on PMBOK, in numerous high-risk, budget and time-constrained, technical initiatives. He has more than ten years of specialized experience in SAP development and configuration using EDI middleware in conjunction with ASAP and other PLcM and SDLC development and deployment methodologies.
He has total comprehension of Application Software Development and Implementation activities with extensive ERP, in manufacturing & MRO sectors, exposure that includes EDI transactions, IDocs and interfacing EDI with SAP RFC, BAPI, etc. He has additional experience interacting with numerous 3rd Party Software vendors (ex. IntelliCorp LiveCompare templates for SAP Upgrade analysis, MS BizTalk, WebMethods, Sterling Commerce-Gentran, IBM Websphere, etc).
He was involved in evaluating, exchanging and preparing proposals/responses, for example, to replace traditional EDI translation engines with more flexible XML-compliant equivalents. His recent activities involved: end-to-end Hosted and Managed EDI facilities setup; the establishment of "EDI/RosettaNet Jumpstart" service offerings; SAP ECC 6.0 Technical Upgrade Assessment; SAP PI SPEC2000 XML Messaging with Aeroxchange; BizTalk 2009 Proof of Concept.
Mr. Adamowicz was previously employed for 9 years at a US-based consulting firm that provided onsite, (at various US locations) offsite (via telecommuting) and offshore (remote management, India) exposure in a global context. He recently undertook a personal initiative to enrol in a Continuing Education certificate program at McGill University to update and refresh his functional and technical skills.
Robert Adamowicz Senior Consultant
514-892-3200
Areas of Expertise : / Project Management (Earned Value Management), B2B/EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), Application Management Outsourcing, Data Analysis, Database Administration, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Gap Analysis, Project Coordination, Proposal Writing, Public Speaking, Scripting, Statement of Work, System Migration and Integration, Training & Development, Training Delivery
SKILLS
Tools : / Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint Services
ERP : / SAP R/3, SAP NetWeaver, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (XI, PI, BPM)
Software Packages : / Sterling Commerce, Gentran Server
IBM, WebSphere Data Interchange
Microsoft, BizTalk Server
EDUCATION
2006 / Cert. Systems Analysis & Design / McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
1974 / AEC - Intermediate Programmer / Dawson College, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2008 / SAP NW Exchange Infrastructure / SAP
2003 / Implementing CrossWorlds Boot camp (now IBM WebSphere) / CrossWorlds
2000 / XML Essentials / Sterling Commerce
1998 / Programmation Orientée Objet avec C++ / CDI
1996 / Introduction to ABAP/4 development Workbench / SAP
LANGUAGES
English, French and Polish.
PUBLICATIONS
2007 / BizTalk Server 2006 upgrade Case Study at KLA-Tencor / Intelligroup Industry Papers
2007 / B2B technical upgrade Case Study at Eastman Chemical / Intelligroup Industry Papers
2006 / EDI/RosettaNet Jumpstart – Rapid EDI/RosettaNet Integration with business partners / Intelligroup Industry Papers
2007 / B2B RosettaNet PIPs for Order Administration Project, PMO, Phase Gate reviews / McGill University,
Academic Reports & Presentations
2006 / RosettaNet - Impacts of IT standards on business collaborations / McGill University,
Academic Reports & Presentations
2006 / Managing Knowledge Management Systems / McGill University,
Academic Reports & Presentations
CERTIFICATIONS
PMP certification to be obtained – completed 39 hours of PM education at McGill University
AFFILIATIONS
PMI Montreal - Project Management Institute
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Eng
WORK EXPERIENCE
Aveos Fleet Performance Inc, St-Laurent, Qc
(CGI subcontractor)
SAP PI SPEC2000 XML Messaging with Aeroxchange + ACTS Aero TS&S Inc re-branding + Artos/WDI EDI SPEC2000 coordination / EDI Coordinator
July 2008 to present - 11 months
Assumed the role of single point of contact for all EDI SPEC2000[1] governance, risk management and compliance related issues.
SAP PI SPEC2000 XML Messaging via Aeroxchange
In the context of the Project to move (i.e. carve-out) from the legacy IBM managed Artos/WDI solution to the new SAP PI SPEC2000 compliant, XML based solution, Mr Adamowicz acted as EDI Coordinator for the integration development to support Aeroxchange Message Broker document interchange with SAP ECC via SAP PI web services. The intent was to replace WDI by SAP PI as the Aveos EDI/SPEC2000 Message Broker supported by the SAP SPEC2000 Extensions. Full SAP Core support for SPEC2000 messages and functions provides tightly-coupled ERP integration and controls. This 4 month project was suspended midway through development for business reasons.
ACTS Aero TS&S re-branding
In the context of the Project to re-brand (i.e. rename) ACTS Technical Support & Services Inc. to Aveos Fleet Performance Inc., Mr Adamowicz acted as EDI Coordinator for the EDI portion of IT related tasks and activities to address SCM Business requirements with respect to their 120 distinct, EDI capable, suppliers. This 6 week project was constrained by precise legal deadlines (i.e. September 23, 2008) to establish strict vendor compliance.
Artos/WDI EDI SPEC2000 coordination
In the context of legacy EDI Messaging interchange Production environment support requirements, Mr Adamowicz acted as EDI Coordinator for day-to-day operations in support of Aeroxchange as well as SITA/ARINC Message Broker channels (pipes) for document interchange with Artos (legacy maintenance and engineering system).
Managed EDI translation services are provided by IBM via WDI over VPN/Websphere MQ to Aeroxchange and via traditional services to SITA/ARINC. Standard EDI transactions are supported for SPEC2000 communications. This form of Type-B protected format traffic and data interchange is covered by SPEC2000, Chapter 10. “SPEC 2000/ASC X12 Implementation Guide”. For SCM application services, SPEC2000 Chapter 3. “Order Administration” and Chapter 4. “Customer Invoicing” standards and transactions have been implemented throughout the EDI-capable supplier community.
Provided remote (i.e. WebEx) knowledge transfer to near-shore resource to succeed my position.
Proof of Concept – BizTalk 2009
In the context of BizTalk 2009 evaluation, validation, confirmation and potential fit determination to support current and future Aveos requirements, Mr Adamowicz acted as a key resource who proposed the candidate integration scenarios. The POC would compare current EDI/SPEC2000 transformations with BizTalk capabilities as well as develop and test newer XML equivalents to support SPEC2200 (iSpec 2200). This could lead into a potential business case to convert the current WDI deployment to a more cost-effective, open and services oriented approach under BizTalk’s total ESB supported framework solution. This would be in anticipation of future Air Canada (as well as other) customer requirements including other potential internal EAI applications.
Mr. Adamowicz acted as Aveos functional/technical contact. Based on a proposed testing approach, he developed detailed mapping specs and provided extensive test data and scenarios with desired results. He attended canned product demos relating to BAM and SCOM (Service Center Operations Monitor) capabilities. His insights and observations were conveyed to the Enterprise Architecture team, SCM team and the CIO.
EDI Messaging – Tasks, activities and initiatives
Managing Aeroxchange AeroBuy, FTP servers & Aveos customer portals
· Controlling usage and access (User profiles, security) ex: AeroChain/FlyEmbraer
· Assuring connectivity (VPN/MQ, FTP, TCP/IP)
· Break/fix troubleshooting
· Investigating issues, questions, concerns
· Monitoring end-to-end processes
Coordinating Vendor/Broker profile changes
· Switching vendors from SITA/ARINC to Aeroxchange
(approx. 20 vendors need to be converted)
· Implementing profile/activation change requests
Coordinating Artos (ASI) and WDI map changes
· Implementing application and map change requests
o Analyzing change requests (from vendors and business)
o Coding and unit testing (Artos)
o Coordinating Vendor testing
o Monitoring in production
Monitoring day-to-day operations
· Reviewing error logs, audits and controls
· Monitoring system performance, connectivity
· Monitoring IBM, Aeroxchange SLAs
· Scheduling maintenance
eBusiness representative
· ATA SPEC2000 committee participation
· Aeroxchange User group participation
Other candidate initiatives
· Repair orders (Air Canada and other Customer requirements)
· AOG
· Price catalogue (Aeroxchange Data Delivery)
· Migrate to SPEC2000 XML
Standard Support disciplines were used to Manage Integration, Scope, Schedule, Budget, Quality, Resource, Communication and Procurement activities.
EDI Coordinator liaised with Aveos Business, IT, Architecture and Infrastructure Stakeholders, 3rd party Service Providers and external vendors.
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP PI 7.10 – Microsoft/Office Vista
Legacy environment: Artos system/network, IBM WDI (Websphere Data Interchange), Websphere MQ
BizTalk environment: Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2, SQL Server 2005 SP2 Developer Edition,
BizTalk 2009: Business Activity Monitoring, BizTalk Server 2009 Adapters for Host Systems 2.0 Developer Edition, POP3 adapter, SMTP adapter, MQ Series Adapter, File System Adapter, WCF Adapters, Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
Bell Technical Solutions Inc., Boucherville, QC
SAP ECC 6.0 Technical Upgrade Assessment / Project Manager
April 2008 to May 2008 - 1 month
Technical SAP Assessment
The Objectives of the SAP R/3 4.6c to ECC 6.0 Upgrade Assessment were to provide: An effort estimate to perform a Bell Technical Solutions SAP ECC 6.0 Technical Upgrade; Detailed Hardware sizing requirements; A High Level Roadmap for the ECC 6.0 Technical Upgrade. A 3rd Party tools-assisted, automated assessment would leverage generated reports from IntelliCorp’s LiveCompare Assessment templates. In the context of the Project, Mr. Adamowicz acted as Project Manager.
· coordinating internal and external (onsite/offsite, 3rd Party) activities of delivery resources;
· coordinating Hardware/Software acquisition, installation and setup through Software vendor (IntelliCorp);
· participating in PCO governance (QA) reviews
Assessment Process
As Project Manager he participated in the Assessment Initiation and Preparation phases which included Project team building and resource (including materials) scheduling. Created and commissioned Project Charter and MS-Project Plans for both the Assessment and eventual Migration projects.
Technical Assessment Schedule:
Landscape Analysis
· Unicode Analysis
· Migration landscape analysis
· Sizing hardware requirement
Technical analysis
· Inventory of Z programs
· Inventory of interfaces
· Inventory of security profiles
Functional assessment
· Inventory of Standard T-Codes
· Assessment of functional changes between versions
· First draft of migration landscape, Upgrade approach & hardware cost
Documentation & recommendations
· Complete all output documents
DeliverablesAs Project Manager he participated in and supervised the delivery of project and product artefacts in a controlled MS SharePoint Services documentation portal.
Technical upgrade recommendation:
· High Level WBS (project plan)
· High Level upgrade approach & strategy
· Key project milestones
· Landscape recommendations
· Estimates of effort & resource breakdown for both CGI & Bell Technical Solutions
· Estimates of hardware cost for migration project
· Architecture and Design Documentation
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c (source system), IntelliCorp LiveCompare Upgrade Assessor Templates Pro, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with pre-configured SAP ECC 6.0 (target system)
INTELLIGROUP (November 1998 – September 2007)
KLA-Tencor, San Jose, CA
Samsung RosettaNet B2B + BizTalk Upgrade / Project Manager
November 2006 to September 2007 - 10 months
BizTalk B2B Management
In the context of the Project to upgrade BizTalk Server 2002 to BizTalk Server 2006 system Software and migrate existing integrations, Mr. Adamowicz acted as Project Manager for the KLA hosted BizTalk 2006 RosettaNet B2B Subsystem.
· scoping/designing/developing/deploying custom Manual PO Posting requirements;
· guiding, administrating and supporting the B2B environment;
· coordinating internal and external (onsite/offsite, offshore) activities via a mixed offsite/offshore delivery model;
· participating in Project Lifecycle Management processes under PMO (Program Management Office) Governance;
· supervising software upgrade (BTS 2002 to BTS 2006), migrating existing interfaces and new interface development and deployment;
· managing BizTalk and general B2B knowledge transfer activities (offsite/onsite) to internal staff.
Design and Development
As Project Manager he participated in the Design and supervised the Development of identified BizTalk interfaces to support each identified Trading Partner RosettaNet PIP (Partner Interface Process) based on the BizTalk server 2006 using the Visual Studio 2005 platform.
· following KLA project methodology for application development, which will include a Discover phase during which the requirements shall be reviewed in detail, and a working Requirements Specification document shall be created for use during the project;
· coordinating offsite application development services using the tools and technologies mentioned below;
· creating technical documentation for the purpose of design and development.
Deployment Support
As Project Manager he supervised Deployment Support.
· supervising the creation of technical documentation for the purpose of deployment;
· supervising the deployment of the BizTalk interfaces in QA and Production environment;
· assuring support during User Acceptance Testing and Go-Live.
Deliverables
As Project Manager he participated in and supervised the delivery of project and product artefacts.
· source code for identified BizTalk interfaces and corresponding custom development;
· BizTalk server 2006 deployment package for deploying the interfaces;
· documentation related to deployment including a Bill of Materials and Release Notes (with deployment instructions);
· Architecture and Design Documentation;
· documentation related to the PLcM methodology under PMO.
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6, Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 (Development Environment), Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005 (Development Environment), C# or VB.NET (Programming Language), SQL Server 2005 (Database), Microsoft RosettaNet Accelerator for BizTalk, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Configuration Management and Version Control), BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet, Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
Eastman Chemical, Kingsport, TN
webMethods Upgrade / Project Manager
October 2006 to January 2007 - 4 months
webMethods B2B Management
In the context of the Project to upgrade (webMethods 4.6 to 6.5) system Software, Mr. Adamowicz acted as Project Manager for the Eastman Chemical hosted webMethods 6.5 RosettaNet B2B Subsystem.
· supervising software upgrade (webMethods 4.6 to 6.5) and existing interface migration;
· managing webMethods and general B2B knowledge transfer activities (offsite/onsite to internal staff).
Design and Development
As Project Manager he supervised the conversion of identified webMethods interfaces to support each RosettaNet PIP (Partner Interface Process) for each identified Trading Partner based on the webMethods 6.5 Server.