Candidate Cover Sheet - Microsoft Dynamic AX - Senior Technical Solutions Architect | Project Manager #201289

This candidate is a senior-level Solution Architect with a fifteen-year career specializing in Dynamics AX/D365 implementations that pre-dates the acquisition of the product by Microsoft. He has worked in several roles and has accomplished several business transformation initiatives of the manufacturing and cost control operations while increasing user adoption of the system. This candidate has experience and expertise with the product while functioning as a user environment also includes:

• Driving business data modeling efforts within the system with advanced query writing experience that spanned the entirety of the product's finance, T&L, Manufacturing, and WMS data models.
• Forensic costing transaction analysis
• Customization design and light X++ development responsibilities
• User training development and course design

Since entering the consulting industry, this candidate has broadened his scope of experience with AX/D365 in width and depth. The candidate has a diverse background in executive management, project management, technology development, field service management, and manufacturing management. This candidate maintains a history of long-term relationships with clients as a result of being relied upon as an advisory resource on matters of ERP and general business processes long after the end of an engagement.

This candidate designed and developed a discrete manufacturing solution with complex routing management requirements within AX for a multinational, multi-company vertical enterprise in a previous role. This candidate also created a complex product configuration modeling solution utilizing the constraint-based Product Configurator framework in AX for an extremely flexible and robust customer configuration environment that had customer available packaging options alone that exceeded six thousand possible outcomes. He designed a solution for automatically creating and completing manufacturing orders at the point of sales delivery to provide fully loaded packaged costing while also accommodating lean stocking requirements.

In a recent role, this candidate Served as solution architect for several partners for various D365 implementations as well as proof of concept system configurations for sales cycle support. Industries and applications include;

• Hydraulic mechanical component manufacturing(Discreet manufacturing)
• Industrial baking equipment manufacturing (Discreet/lean hybrid manufacturing)
• Environmental barrier manufacturing(Process manufacturing
• Commercial construction industry: this candidate Analyzed and optimized a standard costing configuration in an existing AX 2012 implementation for a large commercial ice machine manufacturer, to enable effective variance reporting for stakeholders.

This candidate has knowledge and technical skills in:

• Technologies: Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Server, Microsoft Office Suite, Insight’s Atlas data utility, SQL, MS Access VBA, TCP/IP, SQL management and data collection.
• Familiar ISVs: Sales Tax Office, Atlas for Dynamics, RF Smart, SK Global, To-increase Product Engineering
• AX Module Functional Expertise: Projects (PSA), Costing, Discreet manufacturing, Process manufacturing Product configurator, Finance, Trade and Logistics, Inventory control, TQM, PSA, FRX(Management Reporter, Reporting, Technical Development.
• Industry Expertise: Contracts Management, Field Service, Electronics Technology, Steel Forging, Process Manufacturing, Discreet Manufacturing, Textiles, Injection Molding, CNC Milling, Mining & Drilling, Construction, Oil and Gas Well Stimulation (Fracking).
• Specific AX/D365 expertise: Very advanced skillset within the following areas within Dynamics AX/D365;Product lifecycle, Advanced BOM and Route configurations, MRP, Warehouse management, User training (4 years of experience as power user in a manufacturing environment, Product configurator, Project hierarchy and forecasting, Inventory costing, Transactional forensics, Error tracing and diagnostics, ERP configuration analysis, Data model analysis.

This candidate has Certifications in:

• Microsoft Business Solutions Training
• Dynamics AX Finance I and II
• Dynamics AX Projects I, II, and III(PSA)
• Dynamics AX Trade and Logistics
• Dynamics AX Production series I and II
• Dynamics AX Master Planning
• Dynamics AX Warehouse Management
• Dynamics AX Basic
• Dynamics AX Shop Floor Control I II and III
• Dynamics AX Quality Management
• Dynamics AX Warehouse Management