Summary
Response to Client’s Specific Requirements

• If, after discussion, specific responses to the client requirement are needed, we can discuss and complete this section – Thanks, Daemeon

Technical Qualifications

• 11+ years of SAP BASIS experience: ABAP 18+ years (R/3 3.1 through ECC 6) and Java (11 SAP, 18 years TopTier, 15+ years Business Objects). This experience includes BASIS installation, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting & support of landscape components, and most 3rd party components for SAP including SOA & SAAS based solutions.
• 10+ years BASIS support for all components of SAP landscapes through version 7 (installation, configuration, migrations, upgrades, tuning, notes maintenance, support packs): CRM, SRM . APO, LiveCache, SCM, SC/EM, eSourcing/SSP/Auctions, EP, MDM, PI (dual, BPM/BPO), ESS/MSS, HCM (most components)
• 15+ years experience in SAP landscape planning, configuration, virtualization, scalability (PVC, OnDemand, Netweaver ACC & LVM)15+ years experience in landscape planning, configuration, virtualization, scalability
• 3+ years experience with private and vendor cloud computing (IBM SmartCloud, HP Cloud Compute, Bluelock/VMWare/vBlock, Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2) (especially in the SMB sector and as bridging solutions for final hardware sizing & delivery).
• 15+ years experience supporting U*NIX, including all UN*X, all virtualization capabilities for many years: Sun, IBM, HP, and Dell frames. Kernel internals for Linux, Solaris/SunOS, HP-UX, AIX from device driver levels up to memory management.
• Database experience include distributed/in-memory databases (Hadoop, BigTables, HANA), relational databases: Oracle (through 11.2 & RAC). Sybase Mobile (SUP), Sybase (10 through ASE 15), DB2 LUW (through 10), MaxDB, etc.

Soft Skills

• Experience with project setup, planning, phasing, and full life cycle participation of over 10 full life cycle (ECC plus Netweaver & New Dimensions) implementations through/past critical care/golive.
• Experience includes mature communications (written and verbal) at the C, D, and operational management levels. Working with traditional and extended project stakeholders in politically sensitive environments.
• Enjoy working as part of a team, remember when I was learning something new (just last week in Aikido, and I am still sore ;{)

Experience/Project Work
Independent Consultant Confidential,
Various proposals and assessments (Solution Manager upgrade to 7.1.3, Cloud migration of midsize client SAP landscapes, etc.)

For a client’s SAP fully virtualized (including MDM) landscape, review EMC/VMWare’s Bluelock recommendation to move the infrastructure into a public cloud. Assess business continuation/DR, scalability, validate costing, recommend best practices for SAP in an HA virtualized environment, obtain SAP signoff for MDM virtualization on this platform, generally confirm the validity of EMC/VMWare’s recommendations.

upgrading from SolMan 4.0/7.0 to 7.1.3, Wily Introscope upgrade, add BPM monitoring of BO and Adobe Document Server, integration to HP QC/Remedy/Openview. Applicable support pack maintenance for ECC, SRM, BW, BO, PI, etc.
Confidential,Virtualization Solutions Architect - March/September 2012
SAP solution architect, providing assessments and system remediation to clients’ virtualized, private and public cloud infrastructures.
Confidential,Solution Architect
For an Americas cruise line, resorts, & timeshares company, deploying a ship based platform as service (Cisco vBlocks) wrote various proposals, solution architectures, reviewed and recommended changes to Linux based deployment. SAP (ECC 6, SRM, CRM, SAP Mobile CRM, eCATT). Key architecture point is that each cruise ship runs its own “replicated” subset of WebSphere and SAP CRM/SRM instances on a ship-board vBlock
Confidential,– Solution Architect
For a global insurance company moving from organic to centralized data center model, work to clean up problem systems resulting from staff loss and lowest cost provider outsourcing (Basis, DBA, sysadmin). Performance and configuration repair of misconfigured SAP (ECC, BW, Bank Examiner), SunSystems, Charles River IMS, WebSphere, Ab Initio, Tibco, BMC Patrol, OS’s (Solaris, AIX), storage, swap, memory, vio, etc.
IT data center consolidation, responsible for performance assessment of existing & to be environments (about 1500 nodes/vm’s: IBM Power7, VMWare, EMC, Network Appliance.)

• For a global IT data center consolidation, retained as 3rd party audit of challenged IBM Professional Services & IBM Migration Factory project (1200 Solaris to 1400 AIX: WebSphere, IBM MQ, SAP, etc.)
• Assess and recommend changes to poorly performing AIX based WebSphere, Oracle database, and Sybase database based production landscapes (found databases and AIX were incorrectly configured, in many cases the source Solaris based WebSphere & Oracle systems were equally poorly configured.
• Assess and recommend changes to WebSphere BPM project & implementation due to highly customized and non-upgradeable WebSphere WAS application structures, limited resources with WAS experience to correct, etc. Recommended that WAS environments in several cases NOT migrate to AIX.
• IT data center consolidation, responsible for performance assessment of existing & to be environments (about 1500 nodes/vm’s: IBM Power7, VMWare, EMC, Network Appliance.)
• Performing various quicksizer and phase 2 “detailed sizing”.
• Assess & recommend corrections to complex landscape of SAP (IBM Migration Factory: Oracle/Solaris to Oracle/AIX, 32 instances, including BW & Bank Examiner), WebSphere, Oracle & Sybase databases: Identify major performance issues resulting from downsizing & off-shoring of relevant DBA and systems admins, removal of system access from DBA’s, no periodic health checks, ignoring BMC Patrol warnings, etc. Reduced to-be AIX (Power 7, 730/750/770) LPAR implementation by 25% resulting in significant over-purchased capacity, reduction by 15% in Oracle & Sybase licenses, 10% in WebSphere per-CPU licenses, etc.
• Analyze and recommend configuration changes to a well designed (but with extensive growth) financial model cluster (Hadoop, RHEL, VMWare, EMC) to improve HDFS load, reduce MapReduce 3rd pass phase locality, bottleneck in first pass (hbase import), resulting from significant system growth (from 2.5 TB to over 30 TB of raw records).
• Performance and configuration repair of misconfigured SAP (ECC, BW, Bank Examiner), SunSystems, Charles River IMS, WebSphere, Ab Initio, Tibco, BMC Patrol, OS’s (Solaris, AIX), storage, swap, memory, vio, etc.
• Fixed 20+ Solaris production systems (4 WebSphere WAS 6/7, 10+ Oracle 11g, 5+ Sybase IQ12/ASE15/SUP 2.0), 12+ AIX systems (Oracle, WebSphere). Fix memory over & under configurations, excessive queue depth in VIO, etc. resulting from outsourcing of OS, dba, and BASIS to lowest cost offshore. Performance improvements in end user response time averaged 30-50% response time improvements, in one case a 1000% performance improvement in a large customer facing system, resolved massively misconfigured BMC Patrol servers, underutilized CCMS (allowing reduced Patrol Agent system loads).

Independent Consultant – 2009 to current
Confidential,Solution Architect/BASIS - May June 2012
Architect solution, sizing, configuration of an SAP BPM & BPO application to leverage existing web serve work processes. Migrating from Cold Fusion Orchestrator to SAP BPM/BPO. Processes involve global supply chain procurement event management, integrating to SAP SCM and ECC for delivery and project systems WBS-driven revenue recognition.

• Sizing assessment for SAP BPM (BPM 7.3.1.1, AEX/BPM 7.3.1.5, PI 7.3, PI 7.1, ECC 6, BW 7.3, Peoplesoft) for a large SOA orchestration project.
• Support the development installation and configuration of PI/BPM AEX (7.3.1, CE 7.3), configuration of central ESR, federated portals, integration to MS AD, integration to Sybase SUP 2.0.
• For an IBM hosted PAAS rearchitecture proposal of clients Web Sphere Edge 7 web services, worked with business and IT to identify and finalize architectural design.
• Configure/post install configure usage types for SAP BPM (high availability scenario), SAP BPM 7.3.1.5 (separate instance scenario), SAP PI (7.3.0.4), BW 7.3 integration, SCM integration, SC/EM integration, Peoplesoft integration (approval hierarchies), etc.

Confidential,Solution Architect/BASIS – March - May 2012
For a specialty electric sports car manufacturer, provide BASIS support to repair/fix/upgrade unmaintained (5 years) ECC 5 (IS-Automotive) systems to obtain SAP support for various production problems.

• SOA architecture and phase 1 integration of Sales Force (all outside sales), myTesla.com (WebSphere CRM), Enovia, Webmethods (Business Connector/SCM).
• Service packs through SP24, repair TMS (fix transport paths, fix dozens of broken transports, recreate customizing client, etc.). Performance tuning of ECC (add app servers, restructure SQL Server, change configurations, etc. Fix broken SolMan (install 7.1 & integrate), fix broken SapRouter (reinstall). Extensive process and configuration documentation. Apply ECC 5 SP’s and test (through SP24).
• Support integration to external systems: Apriso FlexNet (MOM), Enovia (Dassault Systems) PLM, Salesforce.Com, Sterling Gentran, Web Sphere (CRM), WebMethods (SCM). Support move of customer data scrub from VMWare VM’s to Heroku, Force.com
• Migration from single and MCOD instances to a virtualized environment (VMWare, NetApp SAN)
• Support analysis and architecture alternatives for complex (VA01/02) variant configurations, install additional app servers, etc.
• Support installation of Vistex (replacing TaxWare)
• Large scope of work in short time frame, typical 50-60 hour weeks.
• Usual BASIS support work, root cause analysis (ABAP mostly), New Debugger (nice!), OSS notes, service packs, resolve stuck queue’s, batch job scheduling/problem analysis, client copies, instance refreshes, etc.

Confidential,1 month (April)
Work with SAP Mexico & client to develop a proposed solution and deploy NetWeaver Portal POC environment on Amazon EC3 (RHEL). Develop project plans, phases, delivery milestones in conjunction with tasks to be performed by multinational project team (Mexico, US, Germany, Spain). Evaluate use of CRM (Customer Interaction Center, Internet Sales), recommend reduced-scope initial deployment. Develop architecture based on deploying interactive, lightweight CAD tools into portal for Customer Interaction Centre enabled product specification for this manufacturer of highly configurable windows for high light/heat applications around the world.