ROBERTO SCARAMUZZA

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ROBERTO SCARAMUZZA

PROJECT MANAGER | BUSINESS CONSULTANT

BUSINESS ANALYST | PRODUCT MANAGER

"IF YOU THINK HIRING A PROFESSIONAL IS EXPENSIVE, WAIT UNTIL YOU HIRE AN AMATEUR.

AMATEUR WORK HAS A PRICE. YOU PAY IT LATER, AT A RATE YOU DID NOT NEGOTIATE."

Red Adair

Red Adair charged accordingly. Nobody ever complained.

Capped blazing oil wells across four continents, made famous globally for extinguishing over 100 Kuwaiti oil fires set by Saddam Hussein's retreating forces in 1991.

Dangerous enough that Hollywood made a film about him. (Hellfighters, 1968, John Wayne).

Red Adair: Specialized in saving compromised projects.

SYSTEMS EXPERTISE - (CLICK/TAP TO EXPAND)

Brand agnostic. From AS-IS to GO-LIVE.

Specialized in saving troubled projects

Combines technical expertise with a strong business acumen and a focus on practical application.
Delivers innovative solutions that drive business value.
Drives operational excellence and business growth.

Former Employee of IFS APPLICATIONS

M. Sc. Eng - MASTER DEGREE IN ENGINEERING

CSIM (Computer Science Information Management)

INDUSTRIES:

Manufacturing Companies (Discrete, Process, Batch)
- Steel, Automotive, Ship Building, Oil&Gas, ICT / SDLC, FMCG, Food & Beverage
- Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
- Industrial Automation and Operation Technologies (OT)
Engineering Companies
- EPC / EPMCC / EPCIC
- ETO / ATO / MTO / ATS / MTS production flows
- PDM / PLM / ALM
Digital Transformation and ML LLMs Integration
Business Intelligence

DOMAINS OF EXPERTISE / ERP AREAS / MODULES:

Sales & Distribution (SD)
Manufacturing & Product Planning (PP)
Warehouse Management (WM)
Material Management (MM)
Project System (PS)
Advanced Planning Scheduling (APS)

SOFTWARE PROJECT MODELS:

AGILE
WATERFALL

PROFILE - (CLICK/TAP TO EXPAND)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Brings 30+ YEARS of hands-on IT / OT experience to ERP projects.
Works in ENGINEERING and MANUFACTURING companies.
Works on ANY ERP BRAND.
Delivers what the business needs, not what a vendor sells.

BRAND AGNOSTIC ERP - (CLICK/TAP TO EXPAND)

Any driver can drive any car.

Any analyst who knows the business can run any Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

SAME ROAD. DIFFERENT CAR.
ANY ERP BRAND. ONE BUSINESS PROCESS.
The brand changes. The business does not.
Learn the business. Not the menu and shortcuts.

Drive a car. Any brand.

AUTOMATIC or MANUAL. LEFT or RIGHT hand drive.

The principles are the same. The rules are the same.

Every ERP is the same. Every brand runs one journey:

from the SALES INQUIRY
to the DELIVERY BILL
and the INVOICE.

The brand is not the point.

The point is the BUSINESS PROCESS.

Not the menu calls. Not the internals.

30+ years on that road. Any brand. Any country.

HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE - (CLICK/TAP TO EXPAND)

ERP domains:

SD Sales and Distribution
PP Manufacturing and Product Planning
WM Warehouse Management
MM Material Management
PS Project System
APS Advanced Planning Scheduling

ERP SYSTEMS

CICS VMS
AS/400 (IBM ACG)
JD EDWARDS
IFS APPLICATIONS
INFOR
MS DYNAMICS AX / NAVISION
QAD
EPICOR
ORACLE
SAP
ODOO
FRAPPE'

THE ERP BRAND PROBLEM - (CLICK/TAP TO EXPAND)

Companies choose a BRAND first. Then they hire a BRAND EXPERT. In this way, the project speaks menu, NOT BUSINESS.

FIRST: BUSINESS PROCESS AND DOMAIN EXPERTISE!

LAST: the ERP brand and the marketing noise.

The process comes first. Bring it to the business.
Then the brand is just noise and marketing.

THE PROOF:

CICS VMS, AS400, IFS, SAP, MS Dynamics, QAD, Infor, Epicor, JD Edwards, Oracle, Odoo: hands-on.
4000 USERS. 16 million EUR. One ERP rollout at a major steel producer.
THAILAND, INDIA, VIETNAM and other ASEAN and SEA-APAC countries.

THE CONCLUSIONS:

The business is learned in decades. The menu is learned in weeks.
Ask for business processes mastery. Do not ask for brand knowledge.
The road is the business. Every ERP brand has a steering wheel.

PROJECT MANAGER - (CLICK/TAP TO EXPAND)

From kickoff to rollout, across borders, whatever it takes.

DELIVER:

Built a reputation as problem solver in troubled projects: delivers - whatherer it takes - on time, budget and quality.
Manages new ERP/MES IMPLEMENTATIONS and ROLLOUTS.
Managed the rollout of 4000-USER, 16 MILLION EUR, MES / ERP program (16 projects, 24 months).
Leads CHANGE MANAGEMENT and engineering team activities on large, complex projects.
Develops strategies, plans and methodologies to reach project goals.
Supports project teams and Engineering departments through PROCESS TRANSFORMATION.

MULTINATIONAL:

Expert and accustomed with the 15 countries in the SEA-APAC region.
Enforced international standards, procedures and best practices.
Coordinated and trained local resources to rollout or revamp infrastructures.
Covered THAILAND, VIETNAM, INDIA, and other ASEAN and SEA-APAC.
DEPUTY MANAGER for rollout and maintenance of extended ERP in foreign offices.

METHODS:

Manages STAKEHOLDERS up to CxO and BOD level.
Works in WATERFALL and AGILE SDLC.
Integrates CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) and ALM (Application Lifecycle Management).

GOVERNANCE:

Governs MAJOR INCIDENT, PROBLEMS, CHANGES and SERVICE REQUEST, SERVICE LEVEL, KNOWLEDGE, CAPACITY, AVAILABILITY for CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT.
Leads service reviews, post-incident reviews and CHANGE ADVISORY BOARDS.
Drives ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS and permanent remediation.
Meets SLAs and manages operational risk.
Promotes SHIFT-LEFT practices and automation.
Supports ML-LLMs (Machine Learling Large Language Models) ("AI") enabled operations in MULTI-VENDOR environments.

BUSINESS CONSULTANT - (CLICK/TAP TO EXPAND)

Engineering change drives the whole system.

INTEGRATE:

Integrates PDM / PLM with the ERP and the engineering design process.
Builds an EXTENDED ERP driven by engineering activities.
Links ECOs (Engineering Change Orders) to an event-driven Information System.
Aligns EBOM (Engineering Bill Of Materials), MBOM (Manufacturing Bill Of Materials) and PBOM (Process Bill Of Materials).
Organizes ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS around the design process.

DELIVER:

Influences cross-functional teams even if without direct authority.
Targets faster response to change, lower costs, stronger Technical Offices, shorter time to market.
Leads DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION and ML-LLMs (Machine Learning Large Language Models) ("AI") integration.
Acts as INTERIM CIO and ICT PROJECT MANAGER on customer sites.
Expands ERP with new modules and functions, off the shelf or custom.

SUPPORT:

Keeps the ERP running after GO-LIVE.

EDUCATE AND ORDER:

Educates and mentors teams to share information INSIDE THE ERP.
Ends personal tools, shortcuts and side repositories.

BUSINESS ANALYST - (CLICK/TAP TO EXPAND)

Turns AS-IS reality into a clear ERP specification.

ANALYSIS:

Analyzes the AS-IS business and Information System conditions.
Runs FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS before the project starts.
Gathers REQUIREMENTS from every stakeholder.
Designs, maps and improves BUSINESS PROCESSES.
Covers SD, MM, WM, PP, PS and APS.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Writes TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS, SPECIFICATIONS.
Delivers FUNCTIONAL DESIGN and APPLICATION DESIGN for current and future needs.
Creates USER STORIES and CASES.
Supervises TEST CASES, FINAL ACCEPTANCE TESTS (FATs).
Supports NEW DEMANDS and NEW MODULES.

DATA MINING:

Turns RAW DATA into BUSINESS DECISIONS.
uses BUSINESS INTELLINGENCE and DATA ANALYTICS tools to Extract, Transform, Analyze, Interpreter and Visualize data