QuRated VC

EIS\SEIS Venture Fund - Backing high potential new business start ups in events\experiences\ticketing\tours tech sector. QuRated.vc

General Partner

ScandyPay

New Scan, Order and Pay - Ecommerce Travel Brand.  
ScandyPay.com will be rebranded ScandiPay.com pending legal dispute resolution.

Investor

QuRated Tourism 

Business Development of a "QuRated (Niche) Travel" portal with supporting software for B2B and B2C usage for LGBTQ tourism sector. The LGBTQ tourism sector as 16% of global travel spend and $195 billion annually so an important unrepresented sector for travel industry growth. 
https://www.ifema.es/en/fitur/fitur-lgbt

Business development of new unique OTA (Online Travel Agency) from strategy planning, business design, implementation, go live and management to DISRUPT the travel industry. 

QuRated Tourism is a personalized travel and tourism platform for people who love unique travel experiences but hate spending hours looking for them.

For customers:
QuRated Travel is an innovative platform that uses matching algorithms to provide travellers with QuRated (Quality Rated) accredited complete travel experiences which corresponds to the customer's niche tourism profile as well for each chosen destination. All experiences are are hand-selected for being the best in each category and style. They are all unique in their type because of their concept, design, ethics, localisation, service and values.

Reshaping the tourism for a more sustainable travel and tourism sector !

Co Founder & CTO

Birlasoft

Project: 
Roll out of JDE 9.2 for European Wave 1 & 2 for 21 companies with July 2021 and July 2022 ‘Go live’ dates
Duties:
•	Project management of discovery of current business process to create road map of new wave 1 & 2 companies’ implementation
•	Attendance of remote and on-site discovery meetings\session
•	Management of creation of distribution and financial specs for all customizations needed.
•	Creation of project plans for configuration validation, customization testing, iCRP and UAT phases.
•	Implementation of blackline reporting tool for finance team data integrity.
•	Management of defects logged during configuration, testing phases and retesting.
•	Creation of strategy and plan for each testing phase documents
•	Management of 3rd party logistics partner process testing for procurement and sales xml interface to JDE 9.2 testing
•	Management of consulting resources per work stream
•	Follow up on any system defect logged during each testing phase
•	Management of scenario creation for each testing phase
•	Attending testing phase triage and update calls
•	Creation of weekly reports for PMO on status of configuration and testing phases
•	Weekly Birlasoft consultants team update meeting
•	On site go live support and follow up on issues

EU ERP JDE Implementation Project Manager

Merck

J D Edward’s Finance/Distribution/e-Procurement/ERP Expert Consultant/Project Manager.

Project: IT finance business process transformation prior to move to SAP from JDE in EMEAC (Europe, Middle East, Africa & Canada)
Duties:
ERP SME (Subject Matter Expert) Lead Finance & Distribution.
Project manager lead for business process transformation to implement shared services
Implementation on time, and resolution of an issues or risks within workstreams with multi-stakeholders and steering committee management. 
Creation for all transformation process changes activities by county\region to agree with regional management time lines.
Work on planning & migration of Sharing Plough legal entities from the earlier version of SAP
Ensure best practices implementation, change management with entities of current  'as is' processes 
Resolve & resolve integrity issues in finance and distribution modules prior to share service switch
Lead data clean-up of data migration for all ERP modules
Validation & mapping of business processes for new 'Finance Operating Model' to SAP modules 
Implementation and support for implementation of JDE/SAP ERPs for new legal entities.
New legal entity planning & implementation of JDE Address book, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General ledger, Fastr, Purchasing and Worldwriter modules for new companies 
Implementation of PC874 tax reporting in Israel
Advance pricing and SOP re-engineering in JDE for Morocco
Implementation of SEPA payments for SAP and JDE systems
Cairo Hub to process StS & AtR implementation for Middle East (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia & UAE)
HFM consolidation global reporting of all entities for multiple ERP for monthly global consolidation.
Implementation of JDE & Ariba for Animal Health business in Poland and 2-way JDE data interfaces to move from Navision. 
JDE security office training in CEE, MEA and Israel
End user training and support of JDE for all 40+ countries with EMEAC region

ERP SME Finance/Distribution Consultant/Program Manager

The Government of Bermuda

Project Management/Implementation/Support of JDE Finance, Distribution, HR, Job Costing and Pay Roll modules

Duties:
•	Implementation of Job Costing Modules
•	Implementation of Purchasing and Inventory Modules
•	Implementation of Accounts payment payments process using EDI file upload for 2 local banks
•	Blackline finance module implementation for all P&L and balance sheet reconciliation for all EMEA countries.
•	Implementation of EFT payments and via Bank of New York for ACH/Wire for all foreign currency payments
•	Re-configuration and Business Process Re-engineering of Accounts Payable
•	Module Restructuring of Government chart of accounts
•	Restructuring of Government Pay Roll process
•	Resolution of all JDE module integrity issues from past 10 years.
•	Support and staff training in Distribution, Finance, Human Resources, Job cost and Pay Roll modules.
•	Purging Address Book, AP, AR, General Ledger, Inventory, Purchasing and work order management modules
•	Upgrading from JDE World 7.3 => Enterprise One

JDE Distribution/Finance /Human Resources/Job Costing & Payroll Consultant/Project Manager  

Norgine

Implementation of JDE 8.10 Finance/Distribution/Manufacturing
Project: Implementation of 8.10 Finance/Distribution/Manufacturing across business
Duties:
•	Project management of an 8.10 JDE Oneworld implementation where the current project management team have allowed project to get behind and therefore helping with planning and deliverables to bring project back on track as a result of functional JDE application knowledge missing from current project management team’s experience.

J D Edward’s  8.10 oneworld XE Distribution, Finance & Manufacturing Consultant/Delivery/Project Man

JDE Finance/Distribution/ Ariba E-procurement Implementation in EMEA
Project: Finance/Distribution/E-procurement Implementation in EMEA
Duties:
•	System set up, configuration and testing for Ariba Buyer Purchasing/e- Procurement Software, Cognos Reporting module, JDE Finance, Inventory, Purchasing, Sales Order Processing & Warehousing modules and MP&C application
•	Implementation of above applications in Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Hungary, Israel, Ireland Russia\Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Turkey & United Kingdom
•	Control and advice on the implementation of all above modules
•	Preparation staff training documentation and user guides
•	Co-ordinating and planning of system testing
•	Connection of Blackline reconciliation for finance modules
•	Issue log management
•	Project team steering committee member
•	Support of JDE for all 32 countries with EMEA region

J D Edward’s Finance/Distribution/e-Procurement  Consultant

Altro

JDE XE Distribution/Finance/Manufacturing implementation.
Project: Distribution/Finance/Manufacturing implementation.
Duties:
•	Project management and support for one world XE implementation.
•	System set up, configuration and testing for Address Book, Advance Pricing, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Agreement Management, Budgeting, Contract Management, Contract Billing, Electronic Commerce, Fixed Assets, General Accounting, Multi-Currency, Inventory Management, Procurement, Property Management, Sales Order Processing, Time Entry/Time Accounting and Work Order Management.
•	Control and advice on the implementation of all modules
•	Assisting with the preparation of staff training documents
•	Co-ordinating and planning of system testing & issue log management
•	Project team steering committee member

J D Edward’s Distribution/Finance/Manufacturing  Consultant/Project Manager (One world XE)

Merck Inc

Project: Finance/Distribution Support for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Duties: Finance & Distribution support, implementation and project management of the following modules. 
Finance 
Address Book, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Budgeting, Fastr, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Multi-Currency Processing and Worldwriter.
Distribution                  
Advance Pricing, Inventory Management, Manufacturing, Procurement, Sales Order Management and Work Order Management.
Staff training in all Finance Modules for English, Turkish, Viennese and East European staff.
Support of JDE for all 32 countries with EMEA region

J D Edward’s Finance/Distribution/Manufacturing Consultant (World 7.3 Cum 9)

👉 Building the primary QuRated travel business. I am passionate about creating travel which provides niche travellers with products and services to travel without any form of discrimination.
👉 Connecting B2B companies to niche communities. Looking to connect with exclusively niche businesses to use communities to engage away from mainstream mass tourism.
👉 DMC’s | Hotels | Tours & Trip companies |Tour Guides. Reach out to me to discuss how to engage and sell your products and services to the LGBTQ and other niche communities.

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