SUMMARY

• Accomplished Senior SAP Basis NetWeaver Administrator with 24 years of SAP Basis and NetWeaver technical experience; specializing in the design, planning, support and deployment of global SAP implementations.
• Successfully held several leadership roles implementing SAP at multiple Fortune 100 & 500 companies.
• Highly experienced in SAP Basis, NetWeaver, HANA and Cloud Hosted system technologies. Managed offshore and US SAP Basis professionals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HANA: HANA, S/4HANA system and security admin., Cloud Hosting, HA/DR, DB Studio

SAP NetWeaver: HANA, S/4HANA, ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, Workflow, NWDI, Java, J2EE, Portals, Mobile, ABAP, BADI, BAPI, ALE, IDOC, RFC, CCMS, ITS, XML, BDC

SAP Basis/Modules: BW, BI, BEx Analyzer, XI, PI, SLD, APO, Live Cache, SRM, CRM, SCM, FICO, MM, PP, SAPGUI, BOBJ, TMS, EP, CUA, HCM, HR, ESS/MSS

Solution Manager: SolMan 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 configuration, upgrades, ChaRM, agents

SAP Security: GRC, SOX, Firefighter, SSO, SUIM, PFCG, roles, profiles, authorizations

SAP Implementations: 5 full lifecycle, 7 partial lifecycle

SAP Tools: SUM, JSPM, SWPM, SAINT, SPAM, SPDD, SPAU, SNOTE, STMS, Visual Admin, Config Tool, MDM, WM, CTS Monitors, CATT, SAPScript, DBA Cockpit

SAP Upgrades: Release, Enhancement pack, support pack, kernel upgrades, migrations

SAP Archiving: SARA, IXOS, ADK, DART, Archive Link, Data Retention, Archiving Obj.

Third Party Vendors: Tivoli, Wiley, Vertex, Veritas, RealTech, Open Text Documentum

Cloud: AWS, IBM, SAP, VMware, Oracle

Backups: DB Backup, BRTOOLS, BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRESTORE, EMC

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, MaxDB, Access, Cloning

OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 & 2016, Redhat Linux, UNIX, HP - UX, AIX, SUN

Industries: Professional Services, Hi-Tech, Public Sector, Aerospace, Utilities, Telecommunications, Retail, Apparel, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Engineering

Management: US and Offshore Basis teams, developers, account, third party vendors

Publications: Published author of the book Basis Administration for SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Remote Senior SAP Basis NetWeaver Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reduce IT support costs over 50% by delivering expert Senior level SAP Basis System Administration support and eliminating the need for expensive outside consulting firms
• Streamline release management, enhancement, support pack, and kernel upgrade projects by maximizing system availability and uptime by over 40%
• Generate and implement valuable technical procedures in the areas of performance monitoring, tuning, and systems configuration increasing system stability by 50%

Remote Senior SAP Basis NetWeaver Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reduced $325K in consulting expenses by streamlining the configuration and management of Solution Manager 7.2 Architecture
• Improved primary support during System Integration and SAP production support for customer’s entire HANA landscape, and implemented proof of concept for S/4HANA
• Implemented cutting-edge SAP Security roles, authorizations and profiles utilizing GRC
• Optimized system refreshes, client copies, troubleshooting and performance monitoring
• Streamlined SAP release, enhancement pack, support pack, kernel upgrades by 40%

Remote Senior SAP Basis NetWeaver Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maximized BI, BW, and ECC performance tuning, conducted user requirement gathering workshops achieving a 98% user approval rating
• Effectively managed, supported and directed teams of offshore Basis Administrators and Developers for the entire project helping to reduce IT budget costs by over 30%
• Implemented Database/Host monitoring for Windows/Oracle and AIX/Linux environment
• Improved system refreshes, client copies, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, daily health checks, and upgrades by 30%, streamlined config. of SolMan 7.1 by two months
• Maximized the system administration and security of SAP HANA during a large BW migration, reducing costs by 25%

Senior SAP Basis Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined enterprise-wide SAP application systems and expanded detailed analysis reports and recommendations for business critical systems cutting expenses by 45%
• Improved technical project planning and lead the delivery, production support, monitoring, upgrades, support packs and performance tuning of SAP reducing costs by $200K
• Generated sophisticated SAP Security roles, authorizations and profiles utilizing GRC
• Managed and supported teams of US and offshore Basis Administrators and Developers
• Achieved successful Go-live for 5,000+ concurrent users

Principal SAP Basis Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reduced budgetary expenses 30% by managing the relationship between teams of offshore and US Basis Administrators, developers and third party hosting partners
• Delivered mission critical Senior Basis support of a large SAP Global Implementation
• Maximized SAP release management, enhancement, support pack, and kernel upgrades
• Proposed program to further improve customer satisfaction by training more than 100 employees to effectively resolve customer conflicts
• Achieved successful Go-live for 2500+ concurrent users

Senior SAP Basis Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined the installation and upgrade of new dimensional SAP systems to meet expanding business requirements, shortening implementation time by 3 months
• Lead the installation and upgrade of new dimensional SAP systems to meet expanding business requirements, reducing third party consulting costs by 40%
• Developed cost effective SAP archiving, backup, disaster recovery and high availability procedures, reducing the IT budget overall by 25%
• Managed and supported teams of US and offshore Basis Administrators and Developers
• Achieved successful Go-live for 2500+ concurrent users