SAP Skills

Senior BASIS Lead/Manager ECC, BW, BPC, MDM, APO

• Business/IT Experience: IT Director, PMO, Project Manager, Senior Manager, SAP Global Rollout implementations, System Architect
• Software/Languages: IBM Mainframes, HP-3000 and 9000, AS/400, Novell, DB2/SQL, Focus, Access, All Base, Image, Informix, Cobol, Visual Basic, TSO/ISPF, JCL, CICS, Windows, GUI, VSAM, Lotus, Excel, ABAP SAP R/3 , Dun Bradstreet M D/MSA , SAP R/3 , Walker Interactive, ASK, Computer Associates, JD Edwards, TimeLine, Yourdon De Marcos Structured Analysis, IEF, Erwin, Foundation, AIX, HP/UX, DOS, OS/MVS, MVS/XA, IBM SP/2, OS/390, MS/SQL

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

• Twenty-one 21 years of comprehensive IT experience.
• Fifteen 15 years of broad SAP BASIS/NetWeaver experience in diverse environments.
• Performed routine SAP system administration duties including installations, security, patches and upgrades for multiple test, training and development systems.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE CONTINUED:

• Manager and global manager of BASIS administration with emphasis on design and architecture of global SAP BASIS and technical standards.
• Manager of security administration including project management responsibilities.
• Experienced in system architecture review, system builds, preparing and validating build documents, performing post installation activities, systems validation, configuration, go-live and post go-live support.
• Reviewed hardware and software sizing documents.
• Resolved technical configuration issues with vendors.
• Met with management, explained status and adopted strategy to resolve issues to meet critical project deliverables.
• Managed team of ten 10 BASIS members and provided guidance in installation and configuration activities.
• Identified client, transport and backup strategy for SAP systems with development teams and clients.
• Configured CUA and CUP with security team resolving issues with trusted systems.
• Configured and tested IBM Tivoli TIM and TAM security configuration tool.
• Prepared and reviewed documentation on system build and post installation activities.
• Experienced in installation, configuration and testing of third party tools.
• Performed SAP license auditing for all SAP systems and submitted audit data to SAP.
• Resolved performance issues with ECC and Portal systems.
• Reviewed EWA reports each month and shared the critical issues with management.
• Planned and executed proactive maintenance based on EWA recommendations.
• Attended weekly status meetings and provided status updates to management.
• Disaster Recovery systems configuration and testing.
• Performed upgrades across the ECC landscape for each roll out.
• Resolved technical issues with production support team and provided guidance on best practices for production support and change management procedures.
• Implemented, administered and supported SAP technical landscapes with goal of providing excellent system reliability, performance, availability and overall systems optimization and best customer satisfaction.
• Weekly status calls with customer and provided status information on work in progress and pending service requests.
• Planned, scheduled and executed system changes successfully as per change management procedures.
• Wrote SOP standard operating procedures for standard maintenance activities such as system copies, client copies, kernel patching, DB upgrades, SAP system tuning, applying JAVA patches and resetting PEM alerts.
• Planned, scheduled and executed full life cycle SAP Application and Database upgrades with coordination from OS and DBA teams.
• Reviewed and updated monthly system status reports EWA reports and IBM standard monthly reports with recommendations such as tuning profile parameters to improve performance, applying latest kernel patches and support packs.
• Shared updated monthly reports with customer and scheduled/executed proactive maintenance activities upon receiving approval.
• Led continual efforts to monitor and improve SAP system performance, availability and end-user experience.
• Monitored monthly system alerts reports, identified most common/recurring alert and took preventive measures to avoid it occurring again.
• Configured maintenance optimizer, EWA in SOLMAN system and generated service level reports.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE CONTINUED:

• Participated in transport management system redesign project designed to merge development environments with all dealer environments by creating domain links, redefining transport layers and development classes.
• Analyzed ECC and BW system performance, prepared performance metrics and shared with management.
• Analyzed long running BW data extraction jobs and identified/created missing secondary indexes with BW Admins.
• Trained BW BASIS teams to enhance skills, improve BW system performance and troubleshoot BW load failures.
• Prepared documentation on standard operating procedures for BW/BI.
• Managed BW performance improvement project to improve loading and query performance for all BW environments.
• Turned on query caching to improve query read performance and turned on parallel activation for ODS.
• Provided SAP BASIS services to BW process chains redesign project team.
• Performed BW system architecture and implementation studies using ASAP methodologies.
• Planned and performed BW application upgrades from 3.5b to 7.0.

Specialties

Project Manager, Senior BASIS Manager, SAP Global Rollout implementations and System Architect.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead SAP BASIS Manager

• Security upgrade from 4.6c to ECC 6.0.
• Responsible for BW/BI upgrade from 3.5 to BI 7.0.
• Security implementation and global roll-out including ECC, BW/BI, SCM, CRM, SCM, BPC, PI, GRC, GTS, VIRSA, CUP and Solution Manager.
• Responsible for twelve 12 resources onsite and remote.
• Development of policy and procedures for NEA Security team.
• Implementation, support of BPC application for security.
• BASIS Senior Manager for client, co-lead with Accenture for MS1 and MS2 Mile Stone 1 and 2 roll-outs, ECC, BW, BPC, APO, CRM, SCM, SRM, PI, GTS and Solution Manager.

Confidential

Senior Manager/Project Manager/PMO

Sales

• Supported sales effort on new business development pursuits, responsible for proposal and sales presentations for GRC, VIRSA and Security Tools.
• Delivered BASIS and security projects on time, on budget, with quality and high satisfaction.

BASIS Manager, Security GRC Manager.

• System performance assessments and tuning in BW/BI, ECC, CRM, Solution Manager and APO.
• Installed and implemented VIRSA and GRC for compliance calibrator, access enforcer, firefighter and role expert for various clients.

Confidential

SAP Security Consultant

• Lead for R/3 to ECC6.0 and HCM upgrade and consulting for BW, ECC60, R/3 - 4.6c and HCM modules.
• Installed and implemented VIRSA release 5.2 for compliance calibrator, access enforcer, firefighter and role expert.
• CUA Administration.
• Performed SOX and auditing compliance for GRC.
• Documented security policies and procedures.
• BASIS lead for BW/BI and ECC upgrade.

Confidential

BASIS Administrator

• Supported SAP ECC5.0 R/3 landscape, sandboxes, development, quality assurance and production.
• Installed and supported BRTools for backups and recoveries.
• Supported SAP Autosys daily, weekly or monthly jobs in production.
• Supported SAP APO, HR, SRM and BW, landscapes, Wyeth.Com portal solution manager as well as all associated SAP related UNIX files and servers.
• Supported Oracle 9.2.07 and 10.2 associated SAP databases.
• Reorganized databases.
• Installed daylight savings time patch across all 100 SAP SID's.
• Developed work instructions for transports STMS and troubleshot BR-backups and archive jobs.
• Supported pack upgrades, FDA and SOX compliance.
• Installed Virsa and firefighter for security.
• Hardware HP-UX and Titanium Servers.
• Environments supported: ECC5.0, NW2004, SP14, BW7.0/SEM 3.5, NW2004s, 7.00 SP09, SCM APO 4.0, 620/SP48, SRM B2B , 5.5 7.00/SP09, HR, R/3 Ent 4.7-200, 6.20 SP60, WebAS 6.40/SP14, Workplace 2.11, 4.6D, WMS, R/3 Ent 4.7-200, 6.20/SP58, Solution Manager 4.0, NW2004s, 7.00/SP09, TREX HR Search, Enterprise Portal 7.00/SP07 CI, SDM, Wyeth.Com Portals: Enterprise Portals 6.40/SP16 CI, SDM, J2EE Systems: WAS J2EE 6.40/SP14, Solution Manager J2EE 7.00/SP09.

Confidential

Global Security Consultant

• SAP R/3 BASIS and BW BASIS Administration SAP R/3 system performance tuning in R/3 4.6C and Enterprise Portal.
• Project Lead on SAP BW 3.0, 3.2 and 3.5, with SRM, and Solution Manager 4.0.
• IBM AIX/DB2 and Windows NT/SQL Server. SAPDB, ITS, GTS 3.1.
• Implementation of Business Warehouse BW Security and current 4.0 to 4.6c migration project with security.
• Installed support packs.
• ABAP and Crystal development with APO and BW for customized reporting.