Dr. Sera Im
Academic Director
Sets curriculum quality bars, signs off on lab realism, and keeps assessment rubrics aligned with employer feedback.
About the academy
Blueprint Vertex Academy began as a small instructor collective tired of certification mills that left learners unable to narrate a single fit-gap decision. We anchor every cohort in instructor-led SAP ERP implementation training with explicit limitation callouts, because pretending software is simpler than it is wastes client trust. Today we serve enterprise IT teams, consulting career switchers, and university continuing education partners who want calm, defensible rehearsal—not motivational speeches.
Principles
- Traceable decisions beat memorized transaction codes.
- Hybrid facilitation must sound as good remotely as in the Seoul classroom.
- Admissions should discourage the wrong cohort kindly, not chase volume quietly.
- Corporate enablement deserves the same rigor as consulting-track studios.
Milestones
- 2019 — First Seoul classroom cohort: Piloted FI/CO studio weeks with twelve practitioners from manufacturing and distribution.
- 2022 — Hybrid Activate track: Launched blended methodology labs after client partners asked for remote-friendly rehearsal formats.
- 2025 — Corporate enablement intensive: Formalized the four-week internal IT sprint alongside continuing education alliances.
What peers say about specific studios
“The FI/CO Configuration Studio capstone memo forced me to tie every posting to a business rule we had argued about in discovery. I still reuse that structure when finance pushes back on margin slices.”
Mentions: FI/CO Configuration Studio
“Instructors slowed the Activate for Hybrid Delivery board until remote contractors could speak without being talked over. That pacing alone changed how we run steering.”
Mentions: Activate for Hybrid Delivery
“MM and SD Integrated Cycles finally made ATP disagreements something we could diagram instead of shout through.”
Mentions: MM and SD Integrated Cycles
“Corporate Enablement Intensive gave our IT managers vocabulary that did not sound like borrowed consultant slides.”
Mentions: Corporate Enablement Intensive
“Integration Monitoring Primer stopped us from opening tickets with screenshots only. The triage tree is blunt, which is what midnight cutovers need.”
Mentions: Integration Monitoring Primer
Team
Jonas Pike
SAP FI/CO Instructor
Leads configuration studios with an insistence on narrative rationale beside every posting decision.
Aya Okonkwo
SAP MM/SD Instructor
Designs logistics scenarios that respect how analysts actually encounter dirty master data.
Leo Hart
Implementation Lab Lead
Keeps hybrid delivery rituals honest and coaches capstone reviews under time pressure.
Mireille Duarte
Corporate Training Manager
Structures employer cohorts, sponsorship paperwork, and continuing education partnerships.
Ren Kasai
Learner Success Advisor
Tracks progress signals early and connects learners to office hours without surveillance theatrics.
Noah Iliev
Admissions Coordinator
Runs candid fit conversations so participants land in the right studio tier the first time.