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Wella is a global beauty company focused on professional hair and nail products. During its ownership transition from Coty, the company required extensive integration and middleware support.

• Led comprehensive integration development during the company’s ownership transition from Coty, ensuring minimal disruption to global operations.
• Built and improved B2B/TPM integration frameworks using SAP Cloud Integration and iWay Service Manager.
• Designed and implemented forecasting integration flows connecting S/4HANA, Prometheus, Azure Data Lake, and legacy database systems.
• Developed, maintained, and documented high-volume API integrations for critical business systems.
• Collaborated closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to align architecture, mappings, and deployment plans.

Coty Inc. is a global beauty conglomerate managing brands such as Wella, OPI, and Max Factor. The role focused on major post-merger integration initiatives following Coty’s acquisition of P&G’s beauty division.

• Acted as Senior Integration Consultant on project “Green,” architecting and implementing ERP-to-WMS integrations using iWay Service Manager.
• Designed and deployed data flows for Goods Receipt, Stock Movements, and Material Master Replication between SAP ERP and warehouse systems.
• Built custom integrations for Coty’s largest European warehouse, ensuring compliance with German customs systems (MIC).
• Developed and maintained multiple SAP PO interfaces while supporting data consistency across global SAP landscapes.

Novarto provides consulting services for enterprise system implementations, specializing in SAP and Hybris integration.

• Led middleware integration for Nestlé Waters North America’s e-commerce platform (Hybris Commerce).
• Designed and implemented multi-layered integration between SAP PO and Hybris DataHub.
• Developed product, customer, pricing, and payment interfaces across SAP C4C, Hybris, and legacy systems.
• Created and optimized ETL processes for near-real-time data synchronization.
• Advised clients on best practices for scalability, exception handling, and performance tuning.

Delhaize is a major international food retailer with operations across Europe and the US.

• Managed a team of nine integration consultants, coordinating resource allocation, recruitment, and onboarding.
• Led a migration project from SAP PI 7.3 (dual-stack) to SAP PO 7.4 SP11 (single stack), covering more than 300 interfaces.
• Collaborated with SAP Belgium and India teams to resolve Mapping Engine backward compatibility issues.
• Performed performance tuning, monitoring, and documentation for all interfaces.
• Provided technical leadership and best-practice guidance to developers.

• Designed and implemented multiple EDI and accounting interfaces connecting SAP ECC with external providers like EDICOM and GXS.

• Automated vendor invoice creation using the VIM Module and ArchiveLink PDF uploads.

• Created payroll postings, GL entries, and processed telephone invoices through File-to-IDOC scenarios.

• Managed integrations between SAP and legacy retail systems such as WinSuite, ApproPlus, and StoreNet.

Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (CCHBC) is one of the world’s largest Coca-Cola bottlers, operating in 28 countries.

• Led the migration from SAP XI 3.0 to PI 7.1, designing and implementing new integration scenarios.

• Built integrations for Corporate Treasury (SWIFT, Bloomberg, MISYS), Manufacturing Execution Systems, and Automated Warehouse Systems.

• Developed interfaces for financial data, mobile systems, certified email delivery, and commodity hedging.

• Delivered successful go-lives in over 12 European markets, including Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Greece.

• Provided PI system administration, monitoring, and performance tuning across multi-country environments.

• Worked on the SAP J SDM (Software Deployment Manager) project, responsible for deployment tools in NetWeaver AS 04/04s.

• Designed new features and maintained Java-based deployment modules for SAP’s global customer base.

• Contributed to NetWeaver Developer Studio (NWDS) plugin enhancements.

• Provided technical support and stabilization for SAP customer environments worldwide.

ProSyst (later acquired by Bosch) specialized in OSGi-based middleware for IoT devices and industrial systems.

• Developed OSGi bundles and Java components for device communication and management.

• Created prototypes for the ProSyst mBServer running within the .NET runtime environment.

• Implemented SNMP support and LON network communication modules.

• Designed an administration servlet for managing OSGi components remotely.