Candidates About

Over 12 Years IT management experience guiding and mentoring technical professionals.

Over 14 years’ experience as an SAP Basis/Netweaver Administrator in SAP ECC, BW, XI, Solution Manager, Enterprise Portal, MII, GRP, HCM, and Business Objects. 

25 years’ experience in Information Technology including software development and project management.  Strong problem analysis and trouble shooting skills.  Excellent organizational and communication skills coupled with strong technical leadership abilities.  UNIX scripting experience.  Very self-motivated in researching and learning new technologies.

SAP Operations Manager                                                                                          June 2015 – Present

Precision Castparts Corporation / Titanium Metals Corporation

Exton, PA

·         Provided leadership and supervision to application technical team consisting of SAP Basis, Database, Security and Infrastructure Administrators.

·         Responsible for oversight of technical strategies relative to implementation, expansion, maintenance and best-practice support of SAP environments.

·         Presided over planning and administration of SAP Netweaver platform for improved systems functionality.

·         Highly effective in bringing to bare deep knowledge of SAP administration to guide folks through new areas and expand their knowledge and expertise.

·         Mentored and developed technical team members for continued growth in their respective areas or cross functions.

·         Coordinated project lifecycle by setting deadlines, assigning tasks, and monitoring progress, including budgets, performance reports, and user feedback.

·         Demonstrated effective self and personnel leadership including motivating, encouraging, enforcing accountability, directing activities and leading by example.

·         Exceptional at remaining objective under stressful situations.

SAP Basis Administrator / Technical Lead                                                               February 2009 – June 2015

Titanium Metals Corporation

Exton, PA

§  Application Technical Services (ATS) team lead on SAP ECC 6.0 EHP5, SAP BW 7.3 EHP1 and SAP Business Objects 3.1 Upgrades.

o    8 month project deployment involving 19 HPUX and LINUX servers.

o    Coordinated 4 teams consisting of Database, SAP and Infrastructure administrators, SAP Functional Analysts. 

§  Installed, configured several SAP systems including GRP and Business Objects 3.1.

§  ATS lead for development and redesign of SAP GUI frontend application. 

o    The new design streamlined the multiple copies deployed across the Timet user landscape.

§  ATS team lead for SAP Basis, Oracle Database and Security administration teams for the 2014 Data Center move from Dallas, TX to Las Vegas, NV.

o    Two week deployment in Austin, TX disaster recovery facility during server transport from Dallas to Vegas.

o    Point person for all SAP development, quality and production application shutdown/startup during the move.

§  Performed installation and configuration of application servers for SAP ERP landscape. 

o    After ‘go-live’, overall system performance improved by over 20% for both users and nightly batch cycles.

§  Configured alert monitoring and SAP Early Watch reports for production systems.

§  ATS lead for coordinating the synchronous refresh of transactional and configuration data on sandbox, development and quality SAP systems.

§  Provide project planning, implementation and support to entire SAP Landscape data refreshes, support stack and system upgrades as they relate to SAP Basis administration.

§  Project manager for SAP Operations.  Involved monitoring entire SAP landscape operations and providing statuses during weekly project ‘Look Ahead’ meetings.

§  Lead initiative on improving system performance for ERP and HCP systems through review and assignment of various technical performance metrics.

§  Architect/Technical lead for SAP ERP database standby project.

§  Project manager for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c upgrade.

Senior SAP NetWeaver Administrator                                                                      August 2004 – February 2009

Smithfield Foods, Inc.

Smithfield, VA

§  Installed, configured SAP R/3 4.7 servers including the entire production environment on Oracle/UNIX AIX.  Configured and monitored all production/development/QA SAP printers.

§  Technical lead on ECC 6.0 Upgrade/Unicode conversion no R/3 4.7 sandbox, development and QA systems.  Successfully shaved 6 hours off downtime of upgrade.

§  Installed and configured production internet transaction servers (ITS) including Security SNC.  Configured/tuned various ITS server parameters which greatly improved performance for our remote brokers.

§  Installed, configured production Solution Manager Netweaver 7.0 dual stack system (ABAP/Java) in an Oracle/AIX UNIX and Windows/MSSQL environments.  Set up Early Watch reporting for production servers along with email alerts for various system failures.  Configured CCMS alerts from the production SAP R/3 system into Solution Manager for centralized alert monitoring.

§  Successfully implemented SAP Support Packs, Kernel upgrades, plugins for entire SAP ERP/XI landscapes.

§  Responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, tuning and administering the SAP ERP and XI systems.  Experience in IDOC, BAPI, ALE, EDI, RFC interfacing.  Configured and maintained TMS including transport domains/routes.

§  Created and maintained technical operations and maintenance documentation.

§  Performed client copies/system copies between DEV/QA environments.

§  Completed over 10 professional SAP training courses and attended several SAP TECH ED and System Administration conferences.

§  Lead on SAP R/3 Disaster Recovery testing.

Senior Software Developer/Analyst                                                                                                   October 1996 – August 2004  Smithfield Foods, Inc.

Smithfield, VA

§  Managed, developed and maintained Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) application systems including: Order Entry and Invoicing, Outside Freezer Storage Inventory, Vendor Managed Product Inventory and Accounts Receivable Lockbox processing.

§  Lead developer for EDI conversion to client server product: Gentran Server.

§  Maintained legacy Order Management, G/L, A/P, Payroll and Outside Freezer Storage application systems.

§  Developed Product Transportation dispatch system for Smithfield Packing Companies.

§  Developed software to convert legacy G/L financial data, A/P and Payroll data to Oracle G/L System.  Converted existing legacy G/L reports to Oracle Reports.

§  Won employee of the quarter, October 1998.

Product Manager – ULTRACare-Med                                                                     June 1986 – October 1996

Monette Information Systems

Smithfield, VA

§  Scheduled and prioritized development, modification and release of medical/financial management software for private medical practices and federally funded community health centers. 

§  Supervised medical software development, software installation process and technical support of medical clients.

B.A. Computer Science – State University College of Arts and Sciences, Potsdam, NY

A.A. Mathematics/Computer Science – Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY