John Hellebusch has over 30 years of experience in supply chain management, business process design, and software development. He is currently a Principal Engineer at Aspen Technology, where he helped create their supply chain management software suite and has assisted customers in reducing inventory costs and improving on-time delivery. He has extensive experience implementing SAP systems and developing applications for supply chain planning, scheduling, and inventory management.

1. JOHN HELLEBUSCH
314-477-4260
jkhellebusch@gmail.com
1633 Long Leaf
St. Louis, MO 63146
PROFILE
Business and Systems Analyst in supply chain management processes, especially detailed scheduling, inventory
planning, supply chain planning, distribution planning, and demand management. Experience with multiple industry
segments including chemical and specialty chemical manufacturers, consumer packaged goods, beverage and juice
businesses and sheet/roll production. Extensive experience in business process design/modeling, IT application design,
and technical process development. Accomplished communications and presentations skills.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ASPEN TECHNOLOGY – Burlington, MA 2000 – Present
Aspen Technology is the leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturing.
Principal Engineer / Senior Consultant
Responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of a suite of supply chain management software products.
Subject matter expert providing business process improvement suggestions, designing system solutions, and building
application data models. Accountable for creating and delivering sales, marketing and product demonstrations,
providing customer sales and services support, developing training courses and composing product documentation.
Installed base of over 450 users. Typical ROI of 6-12 months.
Created supply chain management software suite from independent planning and scheduling tools with over
95% of current customers staying current with latest version. Defined initial versions of products,
researched/identified standard accepted industry processes, laid application foundations/architectures, designed
user interfaces, and built data models. Also established and enforced user interface/development standards
reducing product development cycles and costs. Expanded products through multiple versions. Produced
forward-looking enhancement path promoting customer buy-in of long-term maintenance contracts.
Adapted the scheduling application for the internet. Distributed graphical version of production schedules,
projected inventory profiles, scenario comparisons and demand pegging information to the enterprise’s intranet.
Gathered customer requirements, designed interfaces/data layers, and produced/executed development
tasks/schedules.
Created the production scheduling product which generated optimal production schedules that improved
on-time delivery performance by up to 5%, increased throughput by 1-5%, and decreased manufacturing
cycle times and reduced expediting costs. Defined functionality, modeling, and interface design for schedule
generation, sequence optimization, ERP schedule synchronization, daily roll forward techniques, scenario analysis,
and operations, bill of materials and routings specifications.
Formulated the inventory planning product reducing inventory up to 10% with fewer run outs. Productized
industry accepted scientific solutions determining safety stock, cycle stock and inventory threshold levels for the
enterprise. Included plan generation, analysis interfaces, and data modeling constructs for fill rates, bounds,
demand, lead times and uncertainty values. Allowed dynamic inventory targets re-optimization as business
changed.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - continued
Authored an extensively featured data viewer application affording users quick, convenient data access in
form desired, enabling intelligent and well-timed business decisions. Interface instantly configures preferred
display/update view of data residing in the data store. Included data aggregation technology, attribute mapping,
storing/reapplying management overrides, and saving/recalling favorite views.
Assisted delivering sales contracts and providing post sales consulting – select customer successes.
o Reduced inventory cost $15 million/year, material movement $8 million/year, 3rd party warehouse costs
$5 million/year, and product run outs 70% for a consumer foods packaging company.
o Reduced finished goods inventory 25% without sacrificing order fulfillment for a building materials
business.
o Reduced global inventory 10%, and generated accurate 18 month projection of product requirements for
a pharmaceutical company’s plasma business unit.
o Achieved 2X ROI in less than 6 months at a commodity chemicals manufacturer.
o Achieved 30% increase in on-time shipping performance for a specialty chemicals business.
o Increased forecast accuracy 10% while improving service levels for a tire manufacturer.
o Improved visibility and quality of information provided to schedulers allowing increased length of
scheduled production windows.
ANALYSTS INTERNATIONAL CORP.
SOLUTIA, INC. & MONSANTO COMPANY – St. Louis, MO 1983 – 2000
Staff Consultant
Responsible as SAP consultant, lead analyst and principal developer during construction and implementation of
supply chain management applications. Included business process definition, applications design, data modeling,
and leading projects.
Major contributor during implementation of SAP production planning system. Provided expertise for
planning and scheduling, order entry and materials management processes, helped with business process redesign,
and facilitated change management.
Created nine production planning and scheduling applications. Led requirements definition, application
design, system construction and implementation. Produced template model leveraging common functions
increasing development pace and decreasing subsequent maintenance efforts by 50 %. Improved plant
manufacturing efficiency by increasing production throughput and minimizing product changeovers.
Constructed data integration layer between SAP and best-of-breed decision support software. Built data
model, identified related SAP data constructs, and developed data transfer and parsing routines. Enabled
planning, scheduling applications to communicate with legacy system. Procedures were subsequently
incorporated by vendor into their product lines.
Designed and constructed a product quality information tracking system, plant capacity allocation system,
S&OP planning application, integration layer between an ERP and customer order entry systems.
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS CORP. – St. Louis, MO 1980 – 1983
Programmer
Performed development and maintenance for the business systems supporting military aircraft manufacturing.

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EDUCATION
TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY
BS Business Administration
Summa cum Laude
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
APICS – The Association for Operations Management
CPIM Certified
Member since 1988, Attended 11 National Conferences
Training Courses and Seminars:
Intermediate C# Programming
Data Access in C# Using ADO.NET
Introduction to SQL Programming
Intermediate SQL Programming
ORACLE Forms
PL/SQL
Presenting Data and Information Seminar – Edward Tufte, Professor Emeritus, Yale University
Supply Chain Leadership Seminar – Dr. Jack Muckstadt, Cornell University
Rational Unified Process - Specifications and Use Cases
Rational Unified Process - R&D Infrastructure
Structured Systems Analysis and Design
Structured Programming Techniques
COBOL
Aspen SCM Suite
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Databases
Oracle SQL, MS SQL Server, IMS, CICS, Aspen SCM
Languages
C#, ASP.NET, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms, ABAP, UNIX scripting, Windows scripting, COBOL,
JCL, Aspen Expert System
Software
SAP, AMAPS, Aspen SCM, MS, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Clear Quest, Perforce Code
Management, Crucible Code Reviewer, Microsoft Office, MS Visio, MS Visual Studio
Hardware and Operating Systems
Windows Vista, XP, NT, Digital UNIX, HP-UX, DEC VMS, IBM Mainframe