SUMMARY:

• A total of 22 years of experience designing and managing end - to-end SAP Basis scenarios in heterogeneous environments (Unix, Linux, Microsoft, AS400)
• 15 years working as a consultant; SAP official trainer for Unix/oracle/sap basis administration training courses (see included document).
• Installation, upgrade, migration, design and configuration of all SAP products portfolio in small, medium and large companies within all platforms.
• Worked with/for many hardware vendors and SAP 3rd party software companies, most of them market leaders.
• Technical advisor, solution designer and disaster recovery architect for small to big environments, hardware selection and vendor selection.
• Worked outside the pure Basis area in complex business scenarios.
• Extensive international experience, in Europe, South America and USA.
• Implemented the first countrywide Oracle Real Application Cluster for major Utility Company (AEM) in Turin, Italy.
• Implemented the first countrywide SAP BW on Linux for major Automotive Company (Valeo) in Torino, Italy.
• Prepared Request For Proposal for ERP/BI/PI/APO landscapes and BW on HANA and managed the system until go live.
• I Have personally engineered a procedure to reduce BDLS process from 32 hours to 1,5 hours, the procedure is ready to be patented, sold or used to train consultants to perform the activity.
• Proper experience to manage different Teams in complex projects coordinating basis, infrastructure, network, functional and interface departments, keep track of associated costs and present progresses and criticalities to CxO executives.
• Extensive experience migrating to private/public cloud and in particular AWS, Azure and IBM.
• Pre-sales experience in consulting services and products meeting Customers, understanding their future needs and proposing solutions in collaboration with accounts.
• SAP Basis Solution Architect with competences to analyze customer s needs, design and implement the appropriated solution with proper scalability, reliability and appropriated to the budget; this includes all aspects from the hardware, network, storage, cloud provider, virtualization layer, backup, DR and related software (monitoring, transports, tools).
• Worked with several cloud provider like Azure and AWS.

KNOWN PLATFORMS:

Releases from 4 to 8

Installation

Tuning

HACMP clustering

Sizing

VIO’s sizing

Migrations

Upgrades

HP UX

Configuration

Tuning

Service Guard clustering

Migrations

Microsoft

Installation

Configuration

Sizing

Migrations

Cluster Service clustering

Linux (SUSE/Red Hat - expert)

Installation

Tuning

Clustering

Migration

Upgrades

Oracle (expert)

SQL Server

IBM UDB DB2

SAPdb

HANA (trained by SAP)

S/4 HANA

Unix Shell

Microsoft scripting

ABAP

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, WI

Responsibilities:

• Install, patch, upgrade and maintain various S/4 HANA instances; Install, patch, upgrade and maintain various FIORI instances.
• Governance of multiple customers in a public cloud environment

Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Selling competences and resources; presales of consulting services preparing Confidential ’s, project-plans, analyses of costs and propose products (SAP monitoring and Transport Management); engaging bigger organizations to apply to RFP’s and bids; directly managing 4 engineers in both C2C and W2.
• Deep expertise in migrations (any db to any db) and upgrades. migration of existing SAP infrastructure from AIX DB2 to Microsoft SQL server, about 120 instances; project lasted for 20 months.
• Provided entire project plan and Confidential
• Company spin off, recreate all systems and processes
• Solution Monitor installation and EWA configuration
• Target platforms are both traditional databases (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase) and HANA

Confidential

Senior migration consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Sap Basis Manager responsible for high-complexity Unicode migration, platform migration and upgrade of SAP landscapes for strategic Customers end-to-end; coordinating of application teams and infrastructure to follow the global plan.
• Pre-sales activity with existing and new customers, finding opportunities to extend existing businesses (discovering customer’s needs or opportunities) and to create new ones (technical advisory): both with competences and resources (consultants) and products to manage and monitor day by day SAP operations.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for innovation, consolidation and redesign of cross applications (portals), redesign of XI/PI and EDI subsystems.
• Sizing, design, RFP, purchase and deployment of BW on HANA platform; realizing and testing complex Oracle RAC environment for SAP, migrations and upgrades platform migration from AIX risc-based platform of a big 8 Terabytes Oracle Database to a fully virtualized Linux-based landscape (private cloud), upgrade of the SAP release to latest ECC6 EHP6 and split of the instance in two separate entities.
• The overall project is performed in only two go lives achieving the following benefits: huge saving deploying x86 based technology rather than RISC and using database data compression, improved performance, easier disaster recovery scenario, enabled rapid deployments using templates, decreased maintenance complexity. The project required extensive training provided to the Basis Team and Infrastructure Team.
• Managed data-center move from headquarter to colocation site (private cloud to hybrid cloud) minimizing the downtime and financial loss due to missing application support.

Confidential

SAP Basis Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of a Team of 8 engineers located worldwide, 20 complete landscapes (more than 150 servers) with new and old releases of almost all SAP products portfolio based on IBM AIX platform.
• Identify poor ABAP code, wrong queries and Indexes problems in custom and native code.
• Responsible and directly involved in maintenance, patching, upgrading, tuning, deploy and design of the new incoming infrastructure.
• Responsible of the Disaster Recovery Site (SAP instances)
• Advanced troubleshooting, migration from Microsoft to Linux and virtual platforms (VMware).
• Data volume managed more than 70 Terabytes, revenue 8.5 billion dollars.

Confidential

SAP Senior Architect

Responsibilities:

• primary accountability for different work streams like new implementations, upgrades, go lives and maintenance.
• Pre-sales activity with existing and new customers, finding opportunities to extend existing businesses and to create new ones.
• Design of the new Linux infrastructure for Netweaver SAP; upgrade of one of the biggest systems; training for foreign employees in English
• Official Trainer in Italian and in English for foreigners
• Assistance during XI implementation; maintenance of 24/7 systems;
• Consulted for general administration guidelines
• Assistance during XI go live
• Maintenance/governance
• Overall Tech advising, governance, disaster recovery implementation
• Overall Tech advising, governance, disaster recovery implementation
• Developed the custom Real Estate ALE interface
• Overall “insourcing” of all SAP landscapes
• Migration from Microsoft/SQL server to Linux/DB2
• Various implementation and migration from older SAN

Confidential

SAP Senior Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Pre-sales activity with existing and new customers, finding opportunities to extend existing businesses and to create new ones.
• Governance; upgrades, new installation;
• Overall maintenance, installation, tuning, upgrades
• Overall installation and guidelines delivery of the new Netweaver implementation
• Upgrade of the (at the time) biggest SAP implementation in Italy in collaboration con SAP
• Overall governance and tech advising
• Design of the first oracle RAC implementation on Linux; overall governance
• Proposal for a mobile SAP implementation in Africa
• Critical reorganization of outsourced client Heineken Oracle database
• Management of existing IBM AIX landscapes, XI/PI installation and tuning