SaaS and cloud programmer with more than three decades of industry experience in enterprise software design, integration, and consulting.   Has significant technical experience with ERP solutions from Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, and SAP and has worked with cloud computing platforms from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP HANA.  Specialties include SAP as well as its associated modules for hi-tech, manufacturing, oil and gas, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

Formal Education

  • MBA in Computer Science and Business, University of Karlsruhe

Career Highlights

  • Participated in hundreds of large-scale software implementation projects for mid-size and Fortune 500 companies globally
  • Managed teams of as many as two hundred developers in large scale SAP add-on development projects
  • While an employee of SAP, collaborated with the company’s founders on key software development and led strategic customers and products for Logistics and Finance User Groups
  • Developed and authored SAP ERP System courses for a private U.S. university and led various SAP enterprise training classes
  • Headed PMO for a merger and acquisition with standardization and consolidation of over twenty SAP systems for Sinopec
  • Silver Services Partner for Microsoft and SAP

Expert Qualifications

  • Expert witness for plaintiffs and defendants in litigation involving a number of major companies, including Bath Saver, Crestron, Samsung, SAP, TATA Consultancy Services, and U-Haul
  • Testifying expert for the defense of a major SAP services partner in a $100 million claim of failed software implementation brought by one of the largest law firms in the world, including testimony in a deposition and before an arbitration panel of three retired judges
  • On behalf of the plaintiff to an antitrust matter, analyzed the involved SAP systems for manipulations and irregular transactions, analyzed software and software services contracts, and consulted with attorneys
  • Expert for defendant SAP America in a claim of a failed software implementation, including providing SAP training to the attorneys