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Summary

Response to Client’s Specific Requirements

  • If, after discussion, specific responses to the client requirement are needed, we can discuss and complete this section – Thanks, Daemeon

Technical Qualifications

  • 11+ years of SAP BASIS experience: ABAP 18+ years (R/3 3.1 through ECC 6) and Java (11 SAP, 18 years TopTier, 15+ years Business Objects). This experience includes BASIS installation, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting & support of landscape components, and most 3rd party components for SAP including SOA & SAAS based solutions.
  • 10+ years BASIS support for all components of SAP landscapes through version 7 (installation, configuration, migrations, upgrades, tuning, notes maintenance, support packs): CRM, SRM . APO, LiveCache, SCM, SC/EM, eSourcing/SSP/Auctions, EP, MDM, PI (dual, BPM/BPO), ESS/MSS, HCM (most components)
  • 15+ years experience in SAP landscape planning, configuration, virtualization, scalability (PVC, OnDemand, Netweaver ACC & LVM)15+ years experience in landscape planning, configuration, virtualization, scalability
  • 3+ years experience with private and vendor cloud computing (IBM SmartCloud, HP Cloud Compute, Bluelock/VMWare/vBlock, Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2) (especially in the SMB sector and as bridging solutions for final hardware sizing & delivery).
  • 15+ years experience supporting U*NIX, including all UN*X, all virtualization capabilities for many years: Sun, IBM, HP, and Dell frames. Kernel internals for Linux, Solaris/SunOS, HP-UX, AIX from device driver levels up to memory management.
  • Database experience include distributed/in-memory databases (Hadoop, BigTables, HANA), relational databases: Oracle (through 11.2 & RAC). Sybase Mobile (SUP), Sybase (10 through ASE 15), DB2 LUW (through 10), MaxDB, etc.

Soft Skills

  • Experience with project setup, planning, phasing, and full life cycle participation of over 10 full life cycle (ECC plus Netweaver & New Dimensions) implementations through/past critical care/golive.
  • Experience includes mature communications (written and verbal) at the C, D, and operational management levels. Working with traditional and extended project stakeholders in politically sensitive environments.
  • Enjoy working as part of a team, remember when I was learning something new (just last week in Aikido, and I am still sore ;{)
Experience/Project Work
Independent Consultant – Current
Various proposals and assessments (Solution Manager upgrade to 7.1.3, Cloud migration of midsize client SAP landscapes, etc.)(Confidential - 2012/2 Weeks

For a client’s SAP fully virtualized (including MDM) landscape, review EMC/VMWare’s Bluelock recommendation to move the infrastructure into a public cloud. Assess business continuation/DR, scalability, validate costing, recommend best practices for SAP in an HA virtualized environment, obtain SAP signoff for MDM virtualization on this platform, generally confirm the validity of EMC/VMWare’s recommendations.

Confidential

upgrading from SolMan 4.0/7.0 to 7.1.3, Wily Introscope upgrade, add BPM monitoring of BO and Adobe Document Server, integration to HP QC/Remedy/Openview. Applicable support pack maintenance for ECC, SRM, BW, BO, PI, etc.

Mainline Information Systems – Virtualization Solutions Architect - March/September 2012
SAP solution architect, providing assessments and system remediation to clients’ virtualized, private and public cloud infrastructures.
Confidential– Solution Architect
For an Americas cruise line, resorts, & timeshares company, deploying a ship based platform as service (Cisco vBlocks) wrote various proposals, solution architectures, reviewed and recommended changes to Linux based deployment. SAP (ECC 6, SRM, CRM, SAP Mobile CRM, eCATT). Key architecture point is that each cruise ship runs its own “replicated” subset of WebSphere and SAP CRM/SRM instances on a ship-board vBlock
Confidential – Solution Architect
For a global insurance company moving from organic to centralized data center model, work to clean up problem systems resulting from staff loss and lowest cost provider outsourcing (Basis, DBA, sysadmin). Performance and configuration repair of misconfigured SAP (ECC, BW, Bank Examiner), SunSystems, Charles River IMS, WebSphere, Ab Initio, Tibco, BMC Patrol, OS’s (Solaris, AIX), storage, swap, memory, vio, etc.
IT data center consolidation, responsible for performance assessment of existing & to be environments (about 1500 nodes/vm’s: IBM Power7, VMWare, EMC, Network Appliance.)

  • For a global IT data center consolidation, retained as 3rd party audit of challenged IBM Professional Services & IBM Migration Factory project (1200 Solaris to 1400 AIX: WebSphere, IBM MQ, SAP, etc.)
  • Assess and recommend changes to poorly performing AIX based WebSphere, Oracle database, and Sybase database based production landscapes (found databases and AIX were incorrectly configured, in many cases the source Solaris based WebSphere & Oracle systems were equally poorly configured.
  • Assess and recommend changes to WebSphere BPM project & implementation due to highly customized and non-upgradeable WebSphere WAS application structures, limited resources with WAS experience to correct, etc. Recommended that WAS environments in several cases NOT migrate to AIX.
  • IT data center consolidation, responsible for performance assessment of existing & to be environments (about 1500 nodes/vm’s: IBM Power7, VMWare, EMC, Network Appliance.)
  • Performing various quicksizer and phase 2 “detailed sizing”.
  • Assess & recommend corrections to complex landscape of SAP (IBM Migration Factory: Oracle/Solaris to Oracle/AIX, 32 instances, including BW & Bank Examiner), WebSphere, Oracle & Sybase databases: Identify major performance issues resulting from downsizing & off-shoring of relevant DBA and systems admins, removal of system access from DBA’s, no periodic health checks, ignoring BMC Patrol warnings, etc. Reduced to-be AIX (Power 7, 730/750/770) LPAR implementation by 25% resulting in significant over-purchased capacity, reduction by 15% in Oracle & Sybase licenses, 10% in WebSphere per-CPU licenses, etc.
  • Analyze and recommend configuration changes to a well designed (but with extensive growth) financial model cluster (Hadoop, RHEL, VMWare, EMC) to improve HDFS load, reduce MapReduce 3rd pass phase locality, bottleneck in first pass (hbase import), resulting from significant system growth (from 2.5 TB to over 30 TB of raw records).
  • Performance and configuration repair of misconfigured SAP (ECC, BW, Bank Examiner), SunSystems, Charles River IMS, WebSphere, Ab Initio, Tibco, BMC Patrol, OS’s (Solaris, AIX), storage, swap, memory, vio, etc.
  • Fixed 20+ Solaris production systems (4 WebSphere WAS 6/7, 10+ Oracle 11g, 5+ Sybase IQ12/ASE15/SUP 2.0), 12+ AIX systems (Oracle, WebSphere). Fix memory over & under configurations, excessive queue depth in VIO, etc. resulting from outsourcing of OS, dba, and BASIS to lowest cost offshore. Performance improvements in end user response time averaged 30-50% response time improvements, in one case a 1000% performance improvement in a large customer facing system, resolved massively misconfigured BMC Patrol servers, underutilized CCMS (allowing reduced Patrol Agent system loads).

Independent Consultant – 2009 to current
Confidential– Solution Architect/BASIS - May June 2012
Architect solution, sizing, configuration of an SAP BPM & BPO application to leverage existing web serve work processes. Migrating from Cold Fusion Orchestrator to SAP BPM/BPO. Processes involve global supply chain procurement event management, integrating to SAP SCM and ECC for delivery and project systems WBS-driven revenue recognition.

  • Sizing assessment for SAP BPM (BPM 7.3.1.1, AEX/BPM 7.3.1.5, PI 7.3, PI 7.1, ECC 6, BW 7.3, Peoplesoft) for a large SOA orchestration project.
  • Support the development installation and configuration of PI/BPM AEX (7.3.1, CE 7.3), configuration of central ESR, federated portals, integration to MS AD, integration to Sybase SUP 2.0.
  • For an IBM hosted PAAS rearchitecture proposal of clients Web Sphere Edge 7 web services, worked with business and IT to identify and finalize architectural design.
  • Configure/post install configure usage types for SAP BPM (high availability scenario), SAP BPM 7.3.1.5 (separate instance scenario), SAP PI (7.3.0.4), BW 7.3 integration, SCM integration, SC/EM integration, Peoplesoft integration (approval hierarchies), etc.

Confidential– Solution Architect/BASIS – March - May 2012
For a specialty electric sports car manufacturer, provide BASIS support to repair/fix/upgrade unmaintained (5 years) ECC 5 (IS-Automotive) systems to obtain SAP support for various production problems.

  • SOA architecture and phase 1 integration of Sales Force (all outside sales), myTesla.com (WebSphere CRM), Enovia, Webmethods (Business Connector/SCM).
  • Service packs through SP24, repair TMS (fix transport paths, fix dozens of broken transports, recreate customizing client, etc.). Performance tuning of ECC (add app servers, restructure SQL Server, change configurations, etc. Fix broken SolMan (install 7.1 & integrate), fix broken SapRouter (reinstall). Extensive process and configuration documentation. Apply ECC 5 SP’s and test (through SP24).
  • Support integration to external systems: Apriso FlexNet (MOM), Enovia (Dassault Systems) PLM, Salesforce.Com, Sterling Gentran, Web Sphere (CRM), WebMethods (SCM). Support move of customer data scrub from VMWare VM’s to Heroku, Force.com
  • Migration from single and MCOD instances to a virtualized environment (VMWare, NetApp SAN)
  • Support analysis and architecture alternatives for complex (VA01/02) variant configurations, install additional app servers, etc.
  • Support installation of Vistex (replacing TaxWare)
  • Large scope of work in short time frame, typical 50-60 hour weeks.
  • Usual BASIS support work, root cause analysis (ABAP mostly), New Debugger (nice!), OSS notes, service packs, resolve stuck queue’s, batch job scheduling/problem analysis, client copies, instance refreshes, etc.

Confidential– 1 month (April)
Work with SAP Mexico & client to develop a proposed solution and deploy NetWeaver Portal POC environment on Amazon EC3 (RHEL). Develop project plans, phases, delivery milestones in conjunction with tasks to be performed by multinational project team (Mexico, US, Germany, Spain). Evaluate use of CRM (Customer Interaction Center, Internet Sales), recommend reduced-scope initial deployment. Develop architecture based on deploying interactive, lightweight CAD tools into portal for Customer Interaction Centre enabled product specification for this manufacturer of highly configurable windows for high light/heat applications around the world. 
Confidential– SAP Solution Architect/BASIS – January through March 2012
Support various SAP and SAP-integration client assessments
Stanley Security

  • For a Fortune 500 company’s European acquisition of 18 companies, retained to identify feasibility of integrating the majority of the acquisitions in 12 months, consolidating multiple SAP instances, and migrating to a standard platform (heterogeneous migrations).
  • SAP & Sales Force.Com integration architecture to enable opportunity, quote, order, for all inside & outside sales across 12 EU countries. For 5 countries (initially) also leverage Force.com integration for service & support, including leverage back for customer satisfaction/opportunity management
  • MasterMind integration alternatives (for custom built version of MasterMind), SAP Mobile for migration of business capabilities of existing systems (5 independent subsidiaries in France, a services-only organization in Germany, banking security systems in Norway, Sweden, and Finland, etc.). Identified significant gaps in SAP CRM (to SFDC) driven requirements, complex mix of supplier collaboration tools (Webmethods, Sterling, MS Dynamics), strange assumptions about ease of migration of existing data, monitoring center consolidation, optimistic timelines for full conversion of this $1.3B gross revenue family of acquisitions.
  • Recommended use of PAAS solutions (Freudenberg hosting) for portions of the SAP and custom SOA based software. Brought up MasterMind on both Freudenberg and Amazon EC2 for comparison of long term cloud solution alternatives
  • Architected and worked with (excited!) systems admins to implement sandbox MasterMind, SAP sandbox systems (ECC, EP, BOBJ/BW) on Amazon EC2 (RHEL).

Raley’s

  • For a privately held $3B US retail chain’s US$25M SAP CRM implementation consisting of a world class, SAP mixed POS customer targeted, channel marketing and campaign solution (highly customized CRM’s IC & MCM), integrating to Dunhumby, NCR AMS, etc.
  • Review the project run by SAP Consulting. Identified abysmal code quality delivered by SAP (India) delivery center, consistent failure to follow even the basic ASAP methodologies, significant omissions from the functional & technical specs, 95% failure rate of web services (after 8 weeks of rework down to only 61% failure rates), apparent overcharging by SAP, etc.
  • Using the conjecture/hypothesis model, presenting with standard 4-up analysis and presentations, delivered and presented the findings to the board.
  • Client was already using Amazon Cloud for some systems, recommended and assisted in provisioning analytic (Business Objects), data cleanup and test data generation systems into EC2.

Confidential– Solution Architect - September to December 2011
BASIS oriented support for architecture recommendations, RFP’s, installation & troubleshooting of PI 7.3 (BPM, BPO), Solution Manager 7.1.5/6, eCATT migration from CATT (test coverage improvements), etc.

  • HANA Breakout
    • Retail – Bentonville – HANA POC – out of stock analytics for route/delivery optimization in supply chain. Business Objects, BODS.
    • Consumer Package Goods – Atlanta – SAP HANA POC for supply chain analytics in cooperation with SAP KiMetrics, BO, BODS, multiple BW & ERP, BO team.
    • Lead project to build out & implement POC facility (HANA 1.0SP2, onramp for HANA 1.5)
  • Bank – census, demographics, credit card in memory database project
    • Recommended alternative to limited data center facilities, Hadoop for the 4-8 tb of data, leveraging MapReduce Mapper developers available at the local college, Amazon EC2, 128 2 core/32gb processors
  • Petrochemical client (United Arab Emirates) (HP/ITC Joint Project)
    • Solution architect for $85M semi-greenfield project, leveraging major US Chemical company systems, analysis of systems for conversion to global template, MOM (3rd party & SAP xMII/PerfectPlant), Sybase SUP 2.1 for PLM events, LIMS, 43 subsidiary plants.
    • Architect and support sandbox landscape (SAP ECC, CRM, xMII, SCM, PLM, APO, MDM) into HP Cloud Compute
    • Leverage BO/HANA (BODS for BW) for analytics, ATP, APO, and near real time distillate scheduling. Able to change upstream product mix plans, alternate sourcing, etc. within 8 hours plus reset time.
  • US based oil and gas ($2.5M)
    • Propose and lead the effort to migrate from custom built solutions to SAP solutions (Cransoft to Business Objects Data Services) to facilitate consolidation of clients 8 acquisitions and plans for 5-7 additional acquisitions.
    • Proposal (won), lead project currently migrating 300+ data feeds from Cransoft to BODS. Develop and execute on hybrid (on-shore/off-shore model from fully offshore model)).
  • SCPM architect projects integrating to BW & ECC (Atlanta – Beverage CPG, Houston –Oil & Gas, Cincinnati – dairy CPG)
  • Major pharma (genomics) client with a very unstable SAP environment ($12M).
    • Develop project plans and roadmaps around infrastructure (Microsoft, Linux, EMC, and NetApp), re-platform (HP).
    • Work with level 1 data centers to develop plans to deploy level 2/3 foundations. SAP ECC 5 -> 6, GTS 4 to 7, NetWeaver 5/6 to NW 7.3, BI 3.5 to 7.3, APO to 7, NW SI, NetWeaver Identity Management. FDA Validated Environment.
    • Azur interim platform: Support & become familiar with Microsoft led migration of sandbox/blueprint environment to Azur
  • Major dairy products manufacturer
    • For a Oracle + Business Objects client contemplating requirements for SAP infrastructure as they move to SAP BO SCPM, BPC (MS -> Netweaver), and other products with mandatory SAP Netweaver components, assess current and planned IT solutions roadmaps, recommend strategy and mixed AMS model for deployments & compliance.
    • Recommended and assisted client in deploying sandbox environment (BO, BPC 10, BW 7.3) into EMC/Bluelock/VMWare pending hardware delivery & config (data center out of space)
  • Multinational Electronics CPG – consolidation of 12 North/South American subsidiaries and regions onto SAP
    • PI project, support Sales Force.Com’s SOA reconfiguration & rearchitecture (to support outside sales’ service and support), Force.Com migration from batch to SOA (SAP PI).
    • Migration of 23 legacy HR systems to SAP.
    • Architect and deploy solution of Business Objects (via Data Services) to provide a system of record of legacy data for statutory retention (HR, orders, relevant goods movements documents for Brazil, Mexico, etc.)
    • Architect and lead (offshore) team to develop SalesForce.Com outside sales integration for service and support. Work with SFDC Channel Partner (Germany) to deploy via Force.COM to SAP PI SOA.
  • Various assessments, reviews: SAP production readiness assessments: (large dairy cooperative, petroleum products distribution, medical equipment manufacturer
  • Migrate from India-hosted to Amazon EC2 cloud for SAP Business Objects 4.0 pilots and demos (Tomcat & SAP NetWeaver 7, RedHat Linux). Localized to both Ireland and US. Leverage AMI’s to rapidly deploy additional demo/pilot sites.

Confidential Solution Architect/BASIS – March to September 2011
Member of the SAP Migration Team, performing heterogeneous system migrations and migration upgrades for clients moving to vendor’s technologies. Physical to virtual and private virtual cloud re-architecture, Disaster to Application level recovery, private cloud (worldwide sites), etc. Supporting various clients migrating from Itanium, Solaris, to AIX, on Oracle & SAPDB (MaxDB), Sybase ASE/SUP.

  • Extensive JAVA & ABAP Migrations, SNOTE/SAINT maintenance, Java stacks, 3rd party & specialty migrations (e.g. set up & support TDMS 3 for data migration team)
  • Support Tivoli team (TSM, Scheduler) and SAM (Server Availability Manager) for SAP/Oracle in high availability (both SAP HA and Tivoli HA) environments. Some Oracle 11g RAC, some standard 11g. SAP components include Business Objects (3.1 & 4.0), ECC (6 & 7), LiveCache (7.6 & 7.7), BI (4.0, 7.0, 7.3), NetWeaver (7.0 & 7.3), XI (7.x thru 7.3), BPC (7.0/.5/10), EPM (7 & 10), SCM (5 & 7)
  • BO 4.0 upgrades (3.0 & 3.5): configure BO new 4.0 serves (job, access), use import wizard to migrate client reports, universes, groups. Set up ALE, tRFC connections (AS to ECC), helped BO developers by updating iDoc metadata (release refresh), iDoc message targets, importing upgraded landscape (ECC, CRM, SRM) iDoc formats, etc.
  • Multinational glass and ceramics manufacturer: heterogeneous migrations (Solaris to AIX), Extensive migmon (migration monitor), multi-terabyte database migration, split optimizations, customized Oracle layouts, large object optimization. BW/BI Accelerator, ECC, Business Objects, Live Cache (Oracle + MaxDB/SAPDB), Business Connector/Webmethods, support TDMS 3 instances (time based, onramp for TDMS 4). RFID (SCM/EWM), xMII. Solution Manager (including bolt on migrating of SAP BPM (ARIS), HP QC, Wily Introscope), Redwood CPS, NetWeaver Portal (federated), Redwood CPS migration & upgrade. Multi-production & DR landscapes and multi-ECC 6 landscape migration. Data Migration Tool (Migmon), etc.
  • Multinational Beverage CPG – Global migration, virtualization, and consolidation. Global, multi-landscape migration into 2 data centers (physical to virtual/private cloud). ECC, EP, BO, SAP BPM (ARIS), BW, BI Accelerator, SCM, WM/EWM, BPC, PI, APO, LiveCache, CPS, extensive Heterogeneous migrations (Migmon, multi-terabyte systems).
  • Major US Bank – heterogeneous database migration (IS-Banking). Multi-terabyte BW instances, Solaris to AIX. NetWeaver (migration from 4.0 to 7.0 & BPC 7.3, BW 7.3 installation, existing BW 7.0 PI maintenance), PI, integration of IBM HANA appliance.

Confidential – BASIS – January 2011 to April 2011

  • Support the sandbox installation and configuration of SAP ECC HR/HCM, ESS/MSS, Solution Manager components (HP QC, CA Wily/Introscope), ESS components (ADP GlobalView (TaxWare). SalesForce.Com (Brazil), Web Sphere portal integration (internet sales & support), etc.

Confidential – Architect – January – February 2011

  • For a client structuring their IT organization for migration to an ADMO, leveraging cloud based services for parts of the SAP landscape, assess and recommend strategies for successful ADMO. SAP ECC 6, MediaWatch, Yahoo APT, SAP IS-Media (Print & Digital), MSD, Call Center, BW.
  • Recommend and demo BPC 7.3 (Microsoft) based financial planning tools to support multiple legal entity consolidated planning, plan vs. actual during management & financial close.
  • Recommend SAP and 3rd party solutions in support of client restructure, migrating from an internal service organization to a captive spinoff selling Media back office services to many Media companies. Leverage successes in mobile/smartphone, iPad and related paperless media solutions. Recommended migration of systems to IBM SmartCloud (client deployed on AIX & Red Hat which was due for upgrade), leveraging xCat and SAP ACC/VMM.

Confidential– November 2010 to January 2011

  • BASIS/3rd party integration performance and tuning of SAP Portal integrated GIS solution. UNIX & Windows Oracle 11g Spatial, SAN configuration changes, etc. to improve performance (mostly around under configured JAVA VM’s, statistics not updated on Oracle tables, composite indices not used due to query changes, etc.
  • SAP Java stack sizing for virtualization – worked with several projects (SAP NetWeaver, MDM, Web Sphere, others) to debug & recommend when and how to configure VMware and AIX servers for JAVA based applications allowing multiple projects to move from dedicated hardware to VM’s (RHEL Linux) and LPAR’s.

Confidential – Solution Architect – November 2009 to September 2010

  • Sabrix server (SAP and Oracle integration) instance configuration and tuning – Sabrix instance for integration to SAP & Oracle. Web server, app server (Java stack), federated cluster installation, configuration, patch maintenance, etc. SAP, Oracle, Virtual Trader.
  • Performance and tuning of various (HP) virtual machine issues around Sabrix and Apache, JAVA engine memory issues traces (Wily Introscope), reconfigure Oracle 11g database, update statistics, add keys, traces, etc.
  • SalesForce.Com – solution architect supporting the sales team in pilot program to leverage SFDC for UMI Telepresence: both BestBuy and remote diagnostics outside sales partners. (Oracle Fusion integration to SFDC). Goal to leverage SFDC to capture high touch customer ‘s requirements via iPad and other mobile platforms.

Confidential – SAP Landscape Readiness Assessments –BASIS Lead – February-November 2009
As the BASIS resource, support 15+ SAP virtualization assessments (SAP app servers, adaptive computing controller, BW, BO, BPC, Adobe, Crystal). Analyze client systems virtualization and recommend best practices for SAP landscapes leveraging virtualization, hierarchical storage, application SLA monitoring, etc. Working with client sysadmin and BASIS teams to install, configure, and scale virtualization landscapes in SAP (ECC, BW, BO, Enterprise Portal). ECC 6, NW 7, New Dimension Products as indicated.

  • Major Defense Contractor – lead 12 person team providing assessment & review of client’s planned ECC 6, CRM 7, SRM 7, NetWeaver 7 (SolMan, MDM, PI, BMM), Oracle 11g, IBM DB2, BI 7.3 & BI Accelerator, Business Objects XI, BPC upgrade/implementation across 40 production systems, 300 servers. Asses for savings by tiered storage, virtualization, SSD accelerators, etc. and improved SLA response as part of new Business Objects XI, BPC/OutlookSoft, and time based TDMS implementations, planning projects for multiple government agencies. Full TCO, identified several million US$ in savings across 12 data centers. VMware ESX 4, EMC v-Max, SSD, Solaris, Linux, Oracle.
  • Large consumer goods manufacturer – Consolidation of 8+ data centers and 15 SAP instances (organizational growth) to two data centers. Reviewed data conversion and migration sizing (ECC, SCM, BW, PI, SC/EM, MII). Data quality review indicated significant increase in cleanup storage & CPU.
  • Large Pharma client(s) – production & ILM/FDA assessment - SLA monitoring, tiered storage, SAP app server utilization (ECC 6, CRM 7, BI 7 & BI Accelerator, SoMan (federated), MDM 7, PI 7), Oracle 11g clustering in virtual environments, FDA data retention and Information Life Cycle assessment
  • US Bank – SAP Banking Solution implementation readiness (infrastructure, data migration, SOX, BASIL II) – focus on tiered storage, virtualization, and related to support migrations. BW sizing (ACCS, 24+ app servers) for SAP Bank Analyzer, sizing of additional ECC app servers for extractors, etc.

Confidential– BASIS Architect – February-June 2009
In support of Interior’s accelerated-by-the-stimulus package effort to deploy a scalable SAP infrastructure for their continuing onboarding of additional bureaus, architect and deploy upgrade of existing SAP environment (technical and DR refresh) to system and storage virtualized environments across 3 data centers for the Interior Department (Herndon, Va., Sterling, Va., Denver, Co.)

  • Develop fully virtualized, cross data center, private cloud architecture leveraging SAP Adaptive Computing Controller to provide cross-agency, demand driven scalability (250+ virtual machines) then deploy across 2 new, 1 existing, and 2 decommissioned data centers.
  • Process & functionality refresh – validate sizing and volume information, then architect, develop roadmap, and lead implementation of SolMan CHARM, CTS+, OSS Integration to SolMan, enhanced functionality for EP CE, Adaptive Computer Controller (ACC), Rational ClearQuest/SolMan 7.1 case management, ControlM integration for BI, ArchiveLink, OpenText/Ixos (ERP, SRM, BI) including DMS archival (architect solutions per US Government retention requirements for contracts, HR, etc.).OSS notes searches & patch apply’s for all components. Support application teams in problem analysis (Public Sector Accounting, migration of open contracts, etc.). Restructuring of Oracle 11g databases for virtualization, high availability, and application level failover. Solutions include appropriate safeguarding of personal data across all landscapes, active (HCM/BI) and historic (OpenText) repositories.
  • As part of consolidation, migrate several IBM managed IBM DB2 databases to Oracle 11g (SAP OS/DB DMWB) (AIX to Solaris) for US Coast Guard, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and HR/HCM (SAP Life Cycle Management/heterogeneous database migration tool)
  • Work with technical and functional staff supporting other applications to determine integration and migration issues, data issues, identify existing problems and work to get fix (from Apache performance through XI adapter issues, network performance problems, excessive backup times, misconfigured Sun and networks resulting in excessively long running batch jobs.
  • BASIS lead (hands on) responsibility for identifying, resolving, and transporting any fixes required in the new environment (e.g. SolMan, ACC). SolMan support for integration and use of HP QC, Rational ALM. Also responsible for all reconfiguration of trust relationships, RFC destinations, etc. across ECC, BI, XI, MDM, and SRM, Central Process Scheduling, BMC Control-M. Worked with the respective EP, BI, ECC BASIS leads to identify and apply various patches required for ACC, SAP and Oracle 11g clustering, etc.
  • Architect & lead the technology refresh from NW 2004s+ECC 6 to SAP NW “7.1” (Enhancement Pack 1) environments, SiteMinder integration - Architect, obtain buy-in across functional, technical, and BASIS teams for the migration. architect, document (operations, architecture, DR, migration, etc. documents) identify and implement virtualized, containerized environment for SAP EP (Federated Core, Usage types EP CI, BI, SRM, XI). Upgrade to “7.1” environments (Enhancement Packs for EP usage types, SolMan, XI). ACC, BMC/Patrol, Sun xVM/Containers, IBM z/OS, SAP RWD Infopak (TM Publisher)

Confidential– BASIS - 2009 – 2 month
Install CCS (Utilities - Customer Care & Service) on HP-UX/Oracle, install SAP BPM (ARIS), configure trust relationships to ECC 6, BI 7.1, JAVA (Portal) Stacks, apply patches to Oracle 11g, apply maintenance to Sandbox and upgrade systems in preparation for implementation by Integrator. Test runs of EMIGAL, Project on hold due to integrator bankruptcy.
EDUCATION & Certification:

SAP Classes Taught (SAP Certified Trainer)

September 2010 - SAP Africa & Middle East – GRC (CUP, SPM, ERM), Business Objects GRC
June 2005 - SAP Caribbean (SAP Andine y del Caribe) – NetWeaver TBIT44 (XI Workshop) 
March 2005 - Computer Sciences Corporation – SEM240 (SEM/BCS), SEM210 (SEM/BPS)
February 2005 - Computer Sciences Corporation – SAPTEC – NetWeaver Fundamentals 
February 2005 – IDT – BW205 (BW Reporting)
June 2004 – NEC SAP Education – SEM200 (BW for SEM), SEM210 (SEM/BPS), SEM220 (SEM/CPM) 
November 2004 - Computer Sciences Corporation – SAPEP – Enterprise Portal fundamentals; NetWeaver Studio
September 2003 – SAP Canada – BW D32BW/D35BW

Education & Training

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 
United States Department of Defense security clearance (inactive, can be reactivated)
DSDM Project Management Training/Certification 
Consultative Selling Data modeling (ERWin, Rational Rose, Oracle Designer)
Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) Holden Method
HP Hardware Support Certification – PA-RISC based platforms through Superdome Sun Systems Engineer Certification: E10000, UE15000
IBM HA-CMP, HP ClusterGuard IBM Systems Engineer Certification – IBM AIX platforms
Joint Application Development (JAD) facilitator training Network Appliance Filer (IP, SAN), Brocade, Filer
Advanced tuning, NetCache, Content Director, Content Reporter Ixos installation and configuration (OpenText)
Object/Model/View Design for J2EE applications Oracle Architecture and Internals training, 8i, 9i RAC
Oracle 8 & 9, RAC DBA training QBS training
SAP training: ASAP, BASIS (3.x & 4.x), ABAP, BW, SEM, 
Enterprise Portal, SEM, XI, SAP BPM (ARIS) Structured development methodologies (SDM/70, SADT, ADLC, SDLC) 
Structured Object Oriented Design and Analysis Xtreme Programming

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