SUMMARY:

• A highly skilled Lead Basis Person and Basis Manager with over 22 years experience in information technology primarily in
• SAP environments and SAP NW products. Working with multiple industries utilizing multiple databases and operating systems allowed a broad range of experience.
• Engaging skills with CIOs, information technology and business units for project completion, upgrades, change management, problem solving and .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Lead Basis Consultant

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Worked on issues for client company.
• Managed the upgrade of Solution Manger from 7.1 to 7.2.
• Creating client and system copies.
• Tuning of systems for upgrades and after upgrades.
• Moved company from separate TDMS system to utilizing Solution Manager for moving data to systems.

Basis Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 16 personnel as direct reports. Consisted of three Lead personnel
• Managed the upgrade of SCM.
• Oversaw the changed of SAP* and adm passwords to comply with audits.

Senior Lead Basis Consultant

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Solved performance and system issues with client company to increase efficiencies of data loads into ECC.
• Working with clients in day to day support of ECC, BI and S4 Hana systesm.
• Worked with company to help in formulating the Change Control procedures.
• Working on call for current client when needed.
• Managed the upgrade of Solution Manger from 7.1 to 7.2.
• Creating client and system copies.
• Tuning of systems for upgrades and after upgrades.

Senior Basis Lead/Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of 8 off shore and 6 on shore personnel in support of UPS 24/7 system.
• Planned and lead resources to perform deployments of improvements and implementations of maintenance and service packs.
• Provided Level 3 support for systems.
• Worked with and trained Change control people about issues in SAP.
• Examined Transports prior to implementation.
• Planned implementation of HANA and EWM for UPS systems for upcoming year.
• Streamed lined support and monitoring by providing documentation to perform consistent monitoring.
• Provided documents to assist and helped two of the personnel pass HANA and Basis s.
• Acted as the liaison for the off shore team to UPS Client.
• Handled day to day support of systems such as monitoring, transports and issues.
• Taught and helped the Change Control Committee.
• Acted as trusted advisor to client in selecting products, implementation outcomes and preparing for future upgrades.

Senior Basis Managing Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performance monitoring to provide information for more efficient programs.
• Upgraded Solution Manager from 7.0 to 7.1 utilizing Maintenance Optimizer and SUM for company.
• Upgraded another company from Netweaver 7.2 to 7.4.
• Performed day to day support for project and live systems such as transports, monitoring and client copies.
• AIT/Grom Associates, Cleveland, OH - Solved performance issues through performance monitoring on a DB2 system. This involved going through the database, SAP and programs. Worked with functional and ABAP team to adjust programs. This resulted in many programs working 40% quicker and defining other programs that need to be redone or corrected.
• The Apple America Corporation, Cleveland, OH - Identified security issues for a client company. This resulted in assistant managers of stores to access information to better run the process and employees to access their rmation from handheld devices.
• Implemented and solved installation issues for a SAP Client. This entailed going through the install of both the Java and the ABAP stack of the Netweaver products.

Basis Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed SAP Web Dispatcher for Australia Human Resourses. This allowed them provide services to clients through the Web. Clients could access their entitlements, retirements and Welfare support.
• Provided to internal personnel. allowed client to provide and control their own system instead of having to outsource support and have better knowledge on how to manage the system.
• Managed 25 personnel from Junior Basis Consultant so Senior to assure on time roll outs and day to day coverage for clients.
• Performed and oversaw client copies and system copies of the SAP systems. This provided areas to keep projects up to date on their systems.
• Migrated a client from an Oracle DB to HANA.

Basis Manager Consultant/Bid Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Negotiated with an SAP resource provider to fill in SAP talent for bids. Contract would assist Ajilon to fulfill requirements for SAP talent and provided a footprint for the partner in Perth. Contract was valued at $10million /year for the first 3 years.
• Wrote and implemented contract for major utility company for a SAP upgrade and new implementation for SAP. This brought a value of over $45million of business.
• Developed and wrote bids for two mining companies as clients with a value of over $45 million each for SAP implementation work.
• Implemented HANA for a mining company and migrated legacy SQLServer to HANA.
• Installed IS-U for SAP at a major water utility company. This allowed the company to use SAP for it’s specific industry and allowed SAP to iron out issues in real life situations.
• Linfox Supply Chain - Performed day to day support of systems performing client copies, system refreshes and solving performance issues.
• Performed tuning and optimization of the system utilizing Live Cache and SCM
• Linfox Supply Chain - Project Manager - Managed project for archiving a 2 TB system down to a 1TB system according to Standards. This involved stake holders and interfacing with the CIO. This provided better support to allow back-ups to be more manageable and less time and many programs efficiently was increased. Space was regained on the data base.

Lead Basis Managing Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on project team from the GAP Analysis to go live. This involved installing Portal, ECC, BI and customized Tax software within a shorten project plan.
• Managed internal personnel to assure coverage for clients for day to day support to meet SLAs and projects.
• Utilized CTM for Queensland for their customer based system of the tax system. This allowed a better optimization of the system for the tax payer interface and a large system.
• First to install EhP5 from Ramp-up. Also had to install EhP1 for BI and Portal concurrently. This provided the system needed for South Australia Tax office have a system needed for their industry. This was done within the project timeline and no delays.
• Installed all systems in Queensland Tax Office within shortened project plan timeline. The incident came about as the previous person left the company and had not performed the work.
• Supported day to day support for six companies due to shortage of personnel. While accomplishing this also trained the internal people so that the companies could understand their systems and how to maintain them.
• Performance tuning of client systems in both production states and project state. Provided detail information for better adjustment of programs and anticipation of issues.
• First to put a complete SAP system into a cloud environment. This allowed the client to design an efficient disaster recovery system, cut down on equipment expenses and perform maintenance more reliable and efficient.

Director of SAP

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the building of two data centers to support outsource of clients. This entailed working with groups in China and India. Data centers were built under budget by $200,000 and within 3 months of start date. Centers were capable of handling 15 clients utilizing cloud technology.
• Filled in as lead consultant for troublesome client. After discussing plans client was more agreeable and much more congenial. When project was finished client was happy with outcome and more than willing to continue with future work.
• Managed teams to build and set up two data centers in foreign countries. This was in anticipation and support of new clients.
• Managed budget of $30million to build and hire for new data centers.
• First to separate the JAVA from the BI as it was no needed for performance. This was a benefit to the company as It saved them on resources and space.
• Developed and implemented disaster plan for the SAP/DB2 system. This provided a way to recover the systems in case of a disaster. This was tested and had to be utilized when the Fires hit Melbourne and the data center had to be evacuated.

Basis Consultant/Project Manger/Director

Confidential, Midland, MI

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for Taylor Made, OC Tanner and GATX. Budgets ranged from $20million to $150million. All projects went to go live within budget constraints and on time with support contracts implemented after go live. Performed technical production audit/final checks for HP,
• Deloitte & Touche and IBM prior to production. This entailed checking authorizations, documentation, interfaces, performance, and database health, back-up procedures and disaster recovery procedures.
• Have performed upgrades and installs from 2.2x through ECC7.0 Enterprise for client companies such as SAP, HP, Intel, Apple and GATX. Assisted in the setup and modification of a new module for the financial area (TRTM ISIS) for GATX and SAP. Have written technical contract proposals and Service Level Agreements for several companies. Provided upgrades, support and Project management and technical advise for such companies as Honeywell, RJT, Toro, Siemens, Northrup Grumman, Pratt
• Whitney, Metabridge, DirectTV, SAP/SILCOX Publications, World Kitchen, U.S. Department of Interior, Cohart Refractories, LTV Steel, Monclova Steel(Mexico) Weyhauser Paper Co,, Monsanto, American Crystal Sugar, Symbol Technologies, Panasonic.