SUMMARY

• Overall 20 years IT experience wif 10+ years of SAP BASIS administrator experience.
• I am a result driven SAP BASIS engineer wif the technical lead expertise to identify problems, analyze possible solutions and determine best course of action to meet objectives for successful IT project direction.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

SAP COE Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed technical specifications and followed strategic direction of the CIO to work wif hosting service providers to establish a technical team to build scalable solutions to accommodate the continued growth of the organization.
• Coordinated the build of VMs to be used for the installation of BW HANA, SLT, OneSource Tax, Blackline financial close solution, and the PAS for the Paymetric credit card solution.
• Lead the setup of the Legacy & CORE ECC system SLT replication wif the BW HANA system for releases 1 - 3 reporting, lead BW 7.5 SP5, BW Hana Revision 122.03 upgrade, and BPC 10.1 activation. DB2 fix pack upgrade.
• Contributed to creating a streamlined process for onboarding and offboarding of contractors.
• Ensured audit compliance by activating tracking of applicable system modifications and locking down non user account passwords and enhancing password complexity across the SAP landscape.
• Managed a medium sized team providing level 3 support for complex business problems across several business lines. Lead SAP GUI, BPC EPM Add-in, printserver configuration troubleshooting, Disaster Recovery testing, and enhanced the business users understanding of background scheduling.
• Managed the business migration from Legacy SAP 4.6c system to ECC 6.0 from a Basis perspective.
• Lead build of VMs and installed NW 750 Gateway on Windows 2012, SQL Server for Odata services publishing and consumption
• Installed GRC systems and add-on backend components in ECC systems.
• Release 3.0 Basis leader ensuring 24/7 support for our EU developer team.
• Installed PL-VAT (Polish SAF-T regulatory) add-on.
• Installed Language packs PL, TR, and RU.
• Supported Transport Management using 3rd party tools
• Lead reduction of One Source Tax software non-production landscape saving 50,000/ yr.
• Migrated SAP Print server from hosting provider to internal Matthews infrastructure.
• Performed Mobile ITS build and migration from SAP Console for scanners.

Confidential .Pittsburgh, PA

SAP (Basis) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP BASIS manager/ contractor overseeing system project builds and production support for Matthews International. Liaison between the Virtustream host and client CORE project ensuring system availability and optimal performance. Also advised on Legacy SAP system issues and proposed when to engage IBM AMS support or Symmetry for production opportunities.
• The CORE hosted environment consisted of Red Hat Linux 6.6, DB2 rel. 10, SAP gui 7.40, SAP NetWeaver 7.02, ERP 6 EHP5, SAP Gateway 2.0, PO, Solution Manager 7.1, SLT, SAP BW HANA DB 1.0, BW 7.5, and BOBj BI 4 sp7.
• The Legacy in-house system was on an IBM AS/400 iSeries 3 tier landscape and consisted of ECC 5, XI/PI,
• Reached out to business users for tickets related to system login issues, short dumps, long running processes, printer issues, and user authorization requests
• Coordinated the configuration of CTS+ for BOBJ and Control Panel Transport manager for the ABAP systems.
• Established quarterly refreshes of the Testing and Staging environments.
• Gatheird SAP system information to be analyzed by Ernst & Young for audit.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP (Basis) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked in mixed environment consisting of ECC 5, ECC 6.0, BW, Solman 7.1, Windows 2008, Red hat Linux, MS SQL Server 2008/20012 and Oracle 11i.
• Built test system to document the System copy/ refresh process and provide POC for Qlik software.
• Applied Support Packs in ECC 6 env.
• Prepared list of OS service user and DB user account expiration status for audit.
• Generated list of all background jobs in 15 systems to confirm jobs not running under former employee accounts.
• Performed analysis for DB backups running on HP data protector and repaired failing backups running directly via SAP planning calendar.
• Created S-user, SAP client 000 accts, developer keys for team members, and requested maintenance certs for systems.
• Updated screen info wif server patching schedule.
• On-call rotational support

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP Technical Architect Consultant (Basis)

Responsibilities:

• SAP Basis lead for multiple clients which I was the liaison between the IT team and internal business customer.
• Coordinated the integration of SAP wif external vendors.
• Participated in Technical Architecture tests: Performance Testing, Operational Testing, HA, and DR.
• Performed SAP technical installations, installed support packs, OSS notes, and when requested performed system copies, client copies and daily performance analysis.
• Experience wif ECC, CRM, BI/ BW, BPC, PI, OpenText archiving, NetWeaver Gateway/ SAP Fiori.
• Coordinated server inventory and audit for SAP systems. (user accounts and settings)
• Analyzed and configured Documentum Archiving solution for SAP BW.
• Installed PRGX tool on a Windows virtual machine.
• Provided physical Infrastructure requirements to clients
• Managed complex multiple release landscapes (n, n+1)
• Installed and configured MQ client for integration wif SAP
• Installed SPLUNK Universal Forwarder on SFT server
• Integrated Informatica wif SAP R/3 and BW systems.
• Installed and supported various systems on MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and Unix/AIX.
• Worked wif client resources to configure JDA space planner for integration wif SAP

Confidential, VA

SAP Basis Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Team lead and technical point of contact for SAP Basis team providing SAP Basis administration and integration services for the United States Army-Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Enterprise Systems, and Services division (PD-ALTESS).
• I was responsible for planning and documentation of SAP installation, configuration, integration, upgrade, and maintenance performed for the AESIP PLM+, and GCSS-Army projects.
• Achieved on-time successful installation/configuration of the SAP NetWeaver 7.0, Enterprise Portal 6.0, ECC 6.0, XI, BW 3.5, MDM, CRM, and Solution manager 7.0 systems on Oracle 10.2.0.4, Sun Solaris 10, AIX 5.3 and Windows 2003 Servers.
• I coordinated and performed successful Disaster Recovery testing using NetBackup, Rman, and BRtools.
• Reviewed Service Level Agreements to ensure dat we as engineers/ administrators were meeting the expectations of our clients and the pricing of our services were adequate.
• Participated in the successful ACA audit accreditation for system connectivity to the .mil environment until 2012.
• Set up archiving for auditing and reduction of system resources usage resulting in saving of $20k per quarter.
• Configured Central User Administration to incorporate the support of over 100,000 new users globally.
• Set up the CCMS so dat the team of administrators and halp desk personnel can prevent system outages by proactively fixing issues before reaching set thresholds.
• I performed successful system copies/refreshes. Client copies, User export. Kernel patches and SPs.
• Set up internal server for download of SAP GUI and also installation on customer workstations.
• Installed ABAP, Java Support Packages, and Enhancement Packages upon release and customer availability.
• I achieved successful Portal SSO configuration and testing.
• Performed successful patching of the Oracle databases and Windows servers to eliminate security vulnerabilities.

Confidential . Dover, NJ

SAP Basis Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed SAP Basis administrative duties for the United States Army- Department of Defense (eNOVA) in Picatinny, NJ.
• Provided installation, configuration, integration, upgrade, and maintenance for multiple projects.
• SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0, Upgrade SAP R/3 4.7. to ECC 6.0. CRM upgrade. Oracle databases 9i-10g, Sun Solaris 10.
• Managed system copies/refreshes. Client copies, User export. Kernel patches and SPs. Set up server for download of gui and also installed SAP GUI 710 patch 6 on user’s machines.
• Configured transport systems, configured printer queues and HP printers in the SAP environment. Configured Adobe Document Services
• Setup OSS connections/ SAP Access to systems.
• Performed user maintenance using CUA and portal. Created and modified roles in AS ABAP and groups in the AS JAVA. Set up OSS accounts for administrators and analysts. Responsible for monitoring users count and preparing annual measurements resulting in removal of over 1000 users and saving $5000.
• Upgraded Oracle Databases 9.2.0.6-10.2.0.2, Installed patch sets, Bug fixes and CPU’s.
• Performed systems backups and db maintenance using brtools and DBA COCKPIT.
• Upgraded 4.6c to ECC 6.0
• Installed ABAP and Java Support Packages up to SP14.
• Set up Systems in Oracle Grid Control for monitoring.
• Configured SSO to portal. Update certificates. Installed MaxDB 7.6 Content Server and configured ITS.
• Installed and configured Web dispatchers for logon load balancing. Configured Juniper Redline clusters for web dispatcher.
• Provided technical direction and documentation to US Army -ARDEC personnel.

Confidential, NC

Systems Management Integration Professional

Responsibilities:

• Performed SAP R/3 Basis administrative duties remotely over secure connections on external customer accounts using SAP R/3 Enterprise, Oracle/DB2 databases, AIX, EMC, AS/400, and ESS Shark unit.
• Migrated systems to new storage media..
• Lead and Managed Heterogeneous system copies and internal client copies using sapdba and brtools.
• Configured transport systems, configured AIX printer queues and HP/ Dazel printers in the SAP environment.
• Upgraded multi-systems landscape in R/3 versions 3.1 to R/3 4.7.
• Converted systems to Unicode and also installed and configured Solution Mgr 4.0/7.0.
• Setup SAP router to OSS .
• Upgrade Oracle Databases 7-10, Installed patch sets and Bug fixes.
• Performed systems backups using sapdba and brtools.
• Completed disaster recovery testing