María Silvia Domeniconi - SAP Consultant

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• María Silvia Domeniconi
• SAP Consultant

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María Silvia Domeniconi

• Our freelancer of the week is María Silvia
  Domeniconi. The SAP Consultant grew up and lives
  in Argentina and has been a freelancer for three
  years now. There has not been one client who has
  not offered me to stay in the company as a
  permanent employee, she tells us in the
  interview. But she prefers to keep freelancing.
  And it goes without saying She does it with
  passion and success!

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María Silvia Domeniconi

• 1) First off, can you tell us a bit about
  yourself?
• My name is María Silvia Domeniconi. I am an SAP
  Consultant with expertise in full cycle
  implementation projects. In my beginnings, I
  certificated in FI and CO modules and continued
  developing my skills within this area. I am from
  Argentina (San Luis) and I have worked most of my
  career life in Buenos Aires, but recently I moved
  to my hometown San Luis.
• I have been freelancing since 2012. As of this
  new phase of my career as a freelancer I have
  worked for the International Development Bank
  (Washington DC), Mercadolibre (Buenos Aires) and
  also for the New Enterprises from Ys"og
  Entrepreneurs from San Luiss Government
  Programved to my home town San Luis. I have been
  freelancing since I and CO modulesoung
  Entrepreneurs" Government Program in San Luis.

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• 2) If you would search for your profile on
  Google, which are the three keywords you would
  type in the search bar?
•  SAP FICO Consultant.

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• 3) What was your inspiration and when did you
  actually decide to become a freelancer?
•  I started to think about becoming a freelancer
  after working as an internal consultant in
  ExxonMobil Corporation (I was the Supervisor of
  the SAP Support Team in the Tax and Reporting
  Analysis Center) as I was looking for more
  challenging opportunities.
•  I started freelancing part time while I was
  working for a company (Grupo Slots) as a
  permanent ERP analyst. But as of 2014 I freelance
  full time.

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• 4) What kind of services have your clients asked
  you to provide?
•  I am an experienced Consultant with over 7 years
  of experience in SAP Configuration,
  Implementation, Training, Documentation, Test
  Management as well as in site or remote Support
  of SAP FI, encompassing various projects, some of
  which are full implementation cycles from Blue
  Printing to Realization and Go-Live.
• I have also skills in controlling, planning and
  tracking the tasks planned in each phase of a
  project and I have proved to have initiative,
  multi-tasking skills, commitment, leadership and
  a result-oriented approach with strong customer
  focus together with the ability to deal with
  complex and challenging situations.
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• 4) What kind of services have your clients asked
  you to provide? (Cond) 
• For example, my last client Mercadolibre required
  my services for activities such as defining the
  scope of several improvement projects and also
  its managing, finding problems solutions for none
  standards programs, customizing, developing
  functional specifications, developing user
  manuals, etc.

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• 5) Do you use other freelancers or companies to
  provide skills that you dont possess?
•  I am frequently in contact with other SAP and
  non SAP professionals experienced in other areas
  I havent worked on. They are a valuable source
  for me. I commonly contact colleagues I have
  worked with and represent a proven quality type
  of professional in terms of professionalism,
  responsibility, strong customer orientation,
  technical and business knowledge among other
  things.

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• 6) Now tell us, how do you find new clients that
  are interested in your services?
•  I find my clients through many different ways.
  For example, I have applied for searches in
  business networks, I permanently receive job
  offers by mail, some colleagues also contact me
  when they need a FICO resource and I also took
  the initiative and contacted people from the
  Government of San Luis (by telephone).

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• 7) What about freelancermap.com? Can you tell us
  a little bit about your experience with our
  IT-network?
• I check freelancermap frequently. I think it is
  an excellent site for finding job opportunities.
  Nevertheless, in my case I havent found the type
  of contract for those jobs that matches my skills
  since at this moment I am looking for part time
  remote work and, as I have experienced, I believe
  the IT market is not prepared yet to relay on all
  the tools or applications that are available
  nowadays for developing this type of work
  relationship (such as skype, gmail hangout tool,
  others). Fortunately, the times I worked remotely
  for a client, they called me for further work
  assignments, as they were very satisfied with my
  work.

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• 8) How do you set yourself apart from your
  competitors? What makes you special?
• There are a lot of SAP Consultants in the market
  but there are very few who have had the
  opportunity of participating in so many full
  cycle projects as I have. The experience you
  obtain in that kind of projects is wide and you
  grow a grate deal in every aspect.
• But knowledge is not everything. You need to be
  compromised, assume clients goals as your own,
  understand the psychological factors in the team
  you are working with and always attempt to
  deliver a high quality work. There has not been
  one client who has not offered me to stay in the
  company as a permanent employee.

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• 9) What are the top three books, blogs or
  magazines you read to stay up to date in the
  IT-market?
•  Linkedin newsletters, Twitter, www.mundosap.com

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• 10) Freestyle! Is there anything you would like
  to tell our readers?
•  I am new in freelancing, and there are a lot of
  blogs and forums sharing tips for freelancers. I
  find them very useful and I am glad to find I am
  already fulfilling the most important aspects. I
  have worked in several projects among different
  industries and that is one of my strengths.
  Clearly, this step in my career comes with new
  challenges and that is very motivating for me.
• Nowadays in Argentina, the monetary type of
  exchange makes us very competitive in terms of
  rates among the world. I am offering part time
  remote services at a competitive and fair rate
  considering my expertise and experience. Those
  interested can contact me via email.

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