Candidates About

David Kearns 

Summary

SAP Basis Consultant with strong technical and leadership experience on SAP system implementations, upgrades, administration and post implementation support. Excellent organizational, problem solving, decision making and critical thinking skills; can interface effectively with partners, vendors, customers, and developers, in a diverse matrix environment. Great communication skills, works collaboratively in a team setting; excellent ability to mentor and educate other team members. Great skills in analyzing, developing and implementing solutions in a post implementation support and maintenance environment.  Demonstrated capacity to learn and document new methods quickly.  Able to manage resources remotely or onsite.

Professional Experience        

Capgemini 11/2014 -

Senior SAP Basis Consultant

• ECC 6.07 Installation with READYUpstream Template
• AWS Hosting
• MS-SQL 2012 Database Administration
• Solution Manager 7.1.1 SP12
• SAP Cloud Computing
• SAP HANA Architecture, Installation, Implementation and Support
• OS/DB Migrations
• DMO from SAPDB to HANA

Ingram Micro 10/2013 – 11/2014

Senior SAP Basis Administrator

• Basis Administration of 90TBs of Databases, 450 Servers, 80+ SAP SIDs
• Open Text, Sabrix, Delago, JDA Bolton Support
• CTS+ Integration to Business Objects
• SAP SNC Configuration
• ECC, PI, EP, BI, SRM, CRM, GTS, SCM, IPC and Solution Manager Administration
• Complete Re-architecture of Ingram Micro’s SAP Landscape
• SAP High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• SAP Landscape Transformation(SLT)
• Oracle Database Administration

Cognizant 8/2012 – 10/2013

Senior SAP Basis Consultant

• Installed NetWeaver CE 7.1.1
• Installed and configured Contract Lifecycle Management 7 on NetWeaver CE
• Sized new SAP PI System
• Built SAP PI 7.31 System
• LDAP Integration into new systems
• SAP Architecture of Integration between ECC 6 and CLM 7
• Upgrade planning to CLM 9
• Managed 10 Resources, both onshore and offshore
• Basis Project Management
• Oracle Database Administration

CSC 2/2010-8/2012

SAP Basis Team Lead

• SAP Basis Team Technical Leader
• Unicode Conversion
• Supervised 10 onshore resources
• Primary contact for Basis
• Level 2 and Level 3 Basis Support
• On call 24x7 for all Basis related issues
• Data Center Migration
• Planning, Implementing and Maintaining SAP ERP/NetWeaver System Infrastructure
• Deployment of SAP support packages as a process of SAP release strategy
• Modification Adjustment in R/3 System Upgrades 
• SAP Kernel, ADD on installations along with SPAM and JSPM updates
• JSPM administration
• SAP licensing Audit, maintenance of SAP Hardware keys and maintenance keys for SLD
• SAP Buffer, memory management, performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Administration of RFC connections to SAP OSS and SLD
• SLD administration
• User Administration / System Authorization
• Database Administration (UDB)
• SAP GUI deployment and patching
• R/3 Profile Maintenance
• Definition of the R/3 Operation Mode
• Definition of Logon Groups
• CCMS Monitoring and Alerting
• Spool and Printer Administration
• Configuring the Transport System
• SAP Sizing

·         Maintaining and upgrading SAP Instances and UDB Databases.

·         Implementing Solution Manager

·         Maintaining SAP Java Development Infrastructure/NetWeaver Development Infrastructure.

·         Analyzing and tuning performance issues in system landscapes.

·         System maintenance and upgrades through SAP OSS notes, SAP support packs and kernel upgrades.

Farmers Insurance Group/Zurich Financial Services, Los Angeles 6/1997-2/2010

SAP Basis Team Lead

·     Implementation, configuration, administration and support of SAP Systems ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 4.7

·     Administration of SAP NetWeaver dual stack, ABAP and Java.

·     Installation and configuration of Solution Manager 7.01 EarlyWatch alerts for satellite systems, Central System Administration and Monitoring, Diagnostics and Root Cause Analysis.

·     Administration of SAP Java Development Infrastructure (NWDI) - NetWeaver Developer Studio, Implementing system layout and configuring development tracks

·     SAP Client Maintenance, including copy/export/import.

·     System maintenance and upgrades through SAP OSS Notes, support packs, and kernel upgrades.

·     Designed, implemented and provided administration for RFC Connectivity, SAP Printers and Spool subsystem, System Landscape Directory (SLD)

·     Maintained and validated SAP System parameters and profiles.

·     Provided daily system monitoring and troubleshooting through analyzing and resolving performance issues. 

·     Installation and configuration of centralized solution for delivering SAPGUI front end to remote workstations.

·     Document operating procedures and deliver knowledge transfer to other team members.

·     Provided internal customer relationship management through excellent communication and people interaction, with great ability for consensus and team building. 

·     AIX Operating System level monitoring, administration and shell scripting.

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