Experience

Consultant at Paramount Pictures/Viacom
October 2020 – Current
Project: Basis Lead Backfill
Position: Sr. SAP Basis Admin

Achievements:

• Managed Basis L2 and L3 teams to provide production support for Viacom and Paramount Pictures SAP landscapes. Landscape included ECC 6 EHP5, SRM 7 EHP1, Portal 7.3, PI 7.1, GRC 10.1, BW 7.5, and Solution Manager 7.2 running on RH Linux 7 and Oracle 12c/19c.
• Planned and executed rollout of Quarterly SAP Security OSS Notes.
• Activated FIPs 140-2 and SNC encryption between SAP systems and the SAP GUI.
• Rollout of SAP Kernel updates to entire SAP landscape.

Madiba, Inc
May 2020 – June 2020
Project: SAML/SSO Implementation
Position: Sr. SAP Basis Admin

Achievements:

• SAML/SSO implementation between Azure AD, SAP Analytics cloud, and AWS SAP instances (S/4, ECC SOH, and SolMan 7.2). Documented cookbook for rapid deployment of SSO via SAML.
• Solman 7.2 Monitoring education and documentation.
• Landscape includes an SAP Web Dispatcher used as a reverse proxy in the DMZ.

Consultant Allison Transmission, Inc.
Oct 2019 – June 2020
Project: HEC/Azure Migration
Position: Sr. SAP Basis Admin

Achievements:

• Migration of Solman 7.2 from on-prem Redhat/Oracle to SUSE/HANA in HEC/Azure cloud-based DC using SAP DMO and SWPM technologies.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
May 2019 – June 2020
Project: ROC (Relocation on Cloud)
Position: Sr. SAP Basis Architect

Achievements:

• One of 2 Basis technical leads on project to migrate entire NBCU SAP footprint to AWS cloud.
• Responsible for coordination and technical assistance between middleware, encryption, migration, and PMO teams.
• AWS technologies leveraged in the cloud included, but not limited to, switch from SAP Web Dispatchers to AWS ELB’s, AWS CloudEndure for disaster recover, High Availability using multiple AWS availability zones, AWS Lama for automation, and AWS workspaces to replace Citrix.
• Migration tools included classic DMO, SWPM, and proprietary SAP NZDT service.
• Worked with middleware teams to connect new cloud-based system to existing on-prem infrastructure (GIS, Informatica, TIBCO, euHReka, Taware, BSI, OrgPub, AQDB, MDR, EPI-USE, and others).
• Migrated OS based job scheduling from Control-M to Redwood.
• Working on activation of SAP UCON to manage and secure RFC communication.
• Helped with performance tests on new environment after SAP TPO enhancements were put in place.
• Worked closely with encryption team to secure new AWS cloud-based environment (SSL/SNC).
• Managed LiveCompare workflow runs to compare various data between on-prem and AWS systems.
• POC of HANA DB encryption options, including backup and restores of encrypted DB’s.
• POC and documentation on AWS CloudEndure product for disaster recovery.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
July 2018 – May 2019
Project: Finance BI Project
Position: Sr. SAP Basis and Security Admin

Achievements:

• Project focus: migrate BI Reporting from on-prem BI/Oracle to cloud BI/Hana environment.
• Worked with SAP SLT resources to enable real time reporting and data gathering between on-prem ECC environments and the cloud based BI system. Included defining table and filter criteria in the SLT.
• Architected SAP security roles (PFCG and AA based) for the new BI cloud system, including auto generated AA roles for company code security.
• Provided support/ training to report owners to migrate their BEx reports to Analysis for Office.
• KT to the prod support team with details on how to troubleshoot and maintain the deliverable.
• Configured on-prem Informatica instance as a new source system for the cloud BW on HANA landscape.
• Worked with SLT team to configure CDC (Cross Database Comparison). CDC was configured between the HANA DB and SolMan to find inconsistencies between ECC and BI reporting data.

Consultant Paramount Pictures/Viacom
February 2016 – June 2018
Project: Basis Manager Backfill and Datacenter Migration
Position: Sr. SAP Basis Admin

Achievements:

• Managed Basis L2 and L3 teams to provide production support for Viacom and Paramount Pictures SAP landscapes.  Landscape included ECC 6 EHP5, SRM 7 EHP1, Portal 7.3, PI 7.1, GRC 10.1, BW 7.5, and Solution Manager 7.1 running on RH Linux 5/6.7 and Oracle 11g/12c.
• Lead on BW migration and upgrade:  Migration from RH Linux 5 / Oracle 11g to RH Linux 6.7 / Oracle 12c.  Migration was followed up with an upgrade of BW 7.3 to 7.5.  Duties included coordination with the Network, UNIX, BW, and Database teams.
• Migration of the Viacom SAP Landscape: Worked as a Sr. Basis admin on a large project to migrate Viacom’s ECC, SRM, Portal, PI, and Solman landscapes from RH Linux 5 / Oracle 11g to RH Linux 6.7 / Oracle 12c.
• Helped architect and test local and remote DR strategy.
• SAP Vulnerability Remediation: 3^rd party group put together a list of potential vulnerabilities in our SAP Portal and Web Dispatcher instances.  Worked with various teams to implement the remediation’s.
• TWS Maestro integration with SAP for job scheduling.
• ShowMgr cloud platform integration with in-house SAP Instances.
• Implementation of Solution Manager SysRec for Security Note quarterly review and implementation of SAP Security Notes.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
December 2014 – December 2015
Project: SAP BI Uplift
Position: Sr. SAP Basis and Security Admin

Achievements:

• Coordinated with NBC Client Services and Citrix teams to deploy upgrades to BPC 10 and SAP GUI (from 720 to 740) onto both end user and Citrix workstations.
• Coordinated with global deployment teams to track and aid with frontend deployments and issues.
• Deployment upgrades onto over 9,000 workstations worldwide.
• Coordinated with Portal team to migrate BW web reports from NW Portal 7.02 to the new 7.40 environment.  Configuration included use of SAP’s multiple BI-Master system configuration in NW Portal.
• Upgraded BW Pre-calculation servers from version 720 to 740.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
April 2014 – December 2014
Project: Gen 3.5 Migration
Position: Sr. SAP Basis Admin

Achievements:

• Migration of the entire NBC SAP landscape to a new datacenter.  Migration included upgrade of Sun Solaris 5.10 to 5.11 (New Gen 3.5 hardware), implementation of Oracle RAC, and implementation of SUN cluster services using SAPCTL. 
• Included over 45 instances spanning across SAP BW, SCM, SRM, ECC, and SAP Web Dispatcher.
• Worked on implementation and testing of HA and DR strategy.
• Implementation of SAP SSFS technology for BR* Tools.
• Worked with infrastructure team to connect 3rd party middleware, EDI, and remote office locations, to the new landscape.
• Worked on migration process tuning to increase efficiency and reduce over migration time.
• Helped update in-house Basis monitoring and support procedures for new landscape.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
January 2014 – November 2014
Project: NW BPC 10 Labor Cost Forecasting
Position: SAP Basis and Security Admin

Achievements:

• Coordinated with offsite BPC functional team to implement the new BPC 10 Labor Cost Forecasting Environment in the BW instance.
• Coordinated with NBC Client Services team to create/deploy upgrade of the BPC 10 frontend client toolset on end user and Citrix workstations.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
September 2013 – April 2014
Project: NW BPC 10 Corp FP&A
Position: SAP Basis and Security Admin

Achievements:

• Implementation of the new BPC 10 Corp FP&A Environment in the BW instance.
• Coordinated with NBC Client Services team to create/deploy upgrade of the BPC 10 frontend client toolset on end user and Citrix workstations.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
April 2013 – September 2013
Project: ERP EHP 6
Position: SAP Lead Basis and Security Admin

Achievements:

• Upgraded 8 ERP instances from EHP4 SPS 8 to EHP 6 SPS 6 based on NW 7.0 EHP 3 using downtime-minimized strategy. Upgrade included Sun Solaris 5.10 patches and an upgrade of ORA from 10.2 to 11.2.
• Worked with dev and functional leads for SPDD/SPAU requirements and adjustments.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
August 2012 – March 2013
Project: HCM 5
Position: SAP Basis and Security Admin

Achievements:

• Helped architect a custom solution that would migrate HCM Contextual security from ERP to BW, for secured reporting. 
• Design included daily automated loads and automated generation and assignment of the BW roles.
• Contextual security provided a means to secure SSN’s, Payroll information, etc.
• Unique user authorizations were generated based User, Org Unit, and PD Profile data.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
April 2012 – September 2012
Project: BW 7.3 Upgrade and Analysis Authorization Migration
Position: SAP Lead Basis and Security Admin

Achievements:

• Upgrade BW from version NW 7.0 EHP 1 to NW 7.3 SPS 7 including upgrade of BIA TREX to 720 Rev 20.
• Migrated all BW data level security roles from Reporting Authorizations to Analysis Authorizations.
• Leveraged use of AA’s in PFCG roles for SAP CUA administration.
• Provided training and KT to production security team on new AA technology.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
July 2011 – December 2011
Project: BW HW Migration and Unicode Conversion
Position: SAP Basis Admin

Achievements:

• Joined project mid-stream and worked with basis team and SAP Migration Consultant to migrate the BW environment (7 Instances) to new hardware while converting to Unicode (CUUC).
• BW Instances migrated from AIX 5.3/ORA 10.2 to Sun Solaris 10/ORA 11.2. BW on NW 7.0 EHP1 SPS7.
• Worked with internal and external EDI partners to migrate connections to new environment.
• Upgrade of BW Accelerator from G1 to new G7 blades. 

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
April 2011 – September 2011
Project: ERP EHP4 Upgrade
Position: SAP Lead Basis Admin

Achievements:

• Upgraded ERP landscape (8 instances) to EHP 4 using the Downtime-Minimized strategy.
• Instances were running on Sun Solaris 5.10 servers with Oracle 10.2.
• Coordinated with infrastructure and Oracle teams for required OS and DB patches.
• Worked with development and functional leads for SPDD/SPAU requirements and adjustments.

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
March 2011 – August 2012
Project: HCM 3 (4 phase project)
Position: SAP Basis and Security Admin

Achievements:

• Architected new roles for use with NGA’s euHReka Recruitment module.
• Architected new roles for HR Org management reporting, Learning Solution (training tool), Personnel Area (PA module), Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Performance Management, and Succession Planning.
• Tested and performance tuned system after implementation of security roles, authorization relevant BW objects, and new data loads.
• Installed SAP Content Server onto Sun Solaris servers using Apache web server and MaxDB.
• Provided training and KT to the production security team.

Consultant Madiba, Inc.
January 2011 – March 2011
Project: SAP AWS Implementation
Position: SAP Basis Admin

Achievements:

• Installed a new landscape onto Amazon EC2 cloud-based server. 
• Servers were configured with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005.
• Installed instances included:
  • ECC 6.0 With EHP4 SPS 7 (ABAP and Java Instances)
  • BI 7.0 EHP2 (ABAP and Java Instances)
  • BPC 7.5 for NetWeaver             
  • SRM 7.0 EHP1 (ABAP and Java Instances)
  • Best Practices US v 604V5

Consultant NBC Universal/Comcast
August 2010 – March 2011
Project: HCM 2
Position: SAP Lead BI Security Admin

Achievements:

• Configured BW 7.0 HCM reporting system to migrate structural authorizations from the R/3 HCM landscape.  The setup in R/3 consisted of a custom evaluation path, which was configured for HR power users.
• Architected Security roles for the BEx and BO frontend reporting tools.
• Was involved with planning and creating BI reporting InfoObjects.
• Was involved with planning and implementing security for the HCM project.

Consultant RPG, Inc.
March 2010 – April 2010
Project: Test and Dev Landscape Implementation
Position: SAP Basis Admin

RPG needed a local SAP landscape for the purpose of BOBJ development and testing.

Achievements:

• Installed the ECC 6.0 and Solution Manager 7.1 systems on Win 2003/MaxDB platform.
• Configured network domain and SSO between the Portal, ECC, and SharePoint servers.

Consultant Disney
September 2008 – June 2010
Project: Production Support for DISCO
Position: SAP Lead Basis and Security Admin

Achievements:

• Responsible for post go-live prod support for home entertainment landscape which included ECC 6.0, Enterprise Portal 7.0, Solman 7.0, and Web Dispatchers running on Windows 2003 Server/AIX 5.2 with DB2 9.5 on IBM P5 and P6 Hardware.
• Performance tuning, system refreshes, SPS and EHP upgrades, and DB reorgs.
• Rebuilt the development instance onto new hardware 6 months after go-live.  Used a combination of data from the old development server and the current production client.
• Documented and tested the Disaster Recovery Scenario monthly.
• SAP Archiving of FI, OTC, Workflow, EDI, and PTP data.
• SAP SP15, EHP4 upgrade of entire ECC 6.0 landscape from EHP1 SP13 to EHP4 SP15.
• Compliance Calibrator upgrade from 5.2 to 5.3. Technical configuration of CC for SOX compliance testing/reporting Setup included memory troubleshooting for the Analysis Daemon.
• Fire Fighter configuration and user/role creation.
• Architected install and configuration of new iView’s for the Enterprise Portal.
• Primary contact point for all SAP Portal related tasks and troubleshooting.
• NetWeaver Development Studio Installation and support for our development team. 
• Supported Informatica/ODS team with communication issues with SAP’s gateway and TRFC tables.
• Maintenance of CCMS/Solution Manager monitoring of instances as well as Web Dispatchers.
• Solution Manager 7.0 Development instance installation and configuration.
• Attended Change Control meetings with functional leads on a weekly basis.
• Maintenance of production cluster environment, using AIX HACMP and DB2 HADR technology.
• DB2 tablespace, index, and table level reorganization completed monthly, post archiving.

Consultant Tri-State Hospital Supply
July 2008 – September 2008
Project: ECC Implementation Hypercare
Position: SAP Basis Admin

Joined the project 1 month before go-live in a backfill role.  Responsible for ECC 6.0 landscape for Go-Live scheduled for Sept 2008.  ECC 6.0 system on Windows 2003 server with SQL Server 2005 on VMWare servers.

Achievements:

• Building SAP security roles, performance tuning, implementing Go-Live check recommendations, and training of current in-house Basis administrators.
• Setup Credit Card Encryption 
• Performance Tuning of ECC 6.0
• Architect Disaster Recovery Plan for MS SQL 2005 server
• Web Dispatcher setup in DMZ to allow external access to SAP web GUI

Consultant Paramount Pictures
February 2008 – May 2008
Project: Prime
Position: SAP Basis Admin

Achievements:

• Responsible for planning, sizing, and installation of new NetWeaver 7.0 BI landscape for project PRIME. 
• Installed SAP NetWeaver 2004s with BI 7.0 onto a Redhat Server with Oracle 10.2.0 RAC.  This is a rare configuration and we worked closely with Oracle RAC developers to certify the installation.
• ECC 6.0 Installation onto Red Hat Linux with Oracle RAC.
• Implemented BI Information Broadcasting with precalculation service
• I was also asked to join the PMO group to help document and update the Build/Realization phase and matrix.

Warnaco, Inc
July 2006 – February 2008
Position: SAP Basis Admin

Responsible for the administration of SAP WAS 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6C with AFS 3.0, CRM, SolMan, and Business Warehouse (BW 3.5).  Duties included Basis and Security day to day tasks as well as upgrades and migrations.
During my time at Warnaco, I was put in a lead position and had 5 operators reporting to me.  I was responsible for training and managing this team.

Achievements:

• Upgrade SAP R/3 4.6 C to ECC 6.0 on sandbox to plan for upgrade onto our new hardware.
• Performed hardware migration from SUN Solaris 9 to AS/400 and DB2. 
• Implementation of SAP Virsa GRC 5.1 software with RTA agents and Virsa FF.
• Upgrade of Virsa CC 5.1 to 5.2 with RTA agents and Virsa Firefighter.
• Implemented SAP Central User Administration
• Responsible for gathering daily, monthly, and quarterly reports for D&T and Internal Audit.
• Enabled security logging and table change logging for auditing.
• CCMS administration for system health checks

Spectrolab, A Boeing Company
October 1998 – July 2006
Position: SAP Basis and Security Admin

Responsible for the administration of SAP R/3 4.6C, Business Warehouse (BW 3.0B and 3.5), and Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP2 systems.  Responsible for all server software/hardware upgrades, troubleshooting, and implementation.  Responsible for the server maintenance in the on-site datacenter which included racking new servers, connecting servers to the network switches, and switching out bad hardware.  Duties included Oracle 8.1.7 and 9.2.0 administration, CCMS administration, SAP security administration. Prior responsibilities included the role of web master for the company intranet, internet, and e-commerce web sites.  Initially hired in as a help desk technician where duties included troubleshooting desktop hardware and software. 

Achievements:

• Presenting a session at the 2006 ASUG convention in FL.  Session titled “BW Big Win for a Small Company”.  This session focused on our BW upgrade from 3.0B to 3.5.2 NetWeaver.
• Associate of the Month, December 2000.
• Aided in internal project which earned us Team of the Quarter, and later Team of the Year for 2003.
• Implemented EP 5.0 and EP 6.0 systems using MSCS and Java server cluster technology.
• Implemented Manager Self Service and Employee Self Service iView’s.
• BW Upgrade from version 3.0B to 3.5.2 NetWeaver.
• Implementation of BW 3.0B in 4 system landscape, integrated with R/3 4.6C.
• BSI Tax Server software maintenance/upgrade from 6.0.F, to 6.0.G, to 7.0.D.
• Implemented first intranet website which served as an information and documentation repository.
• Implemented first e-Commerce shop on company website.
• Migrated Oracle from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 to 9.2.0.
• Implemented CCMS for proactive monitoring.
• Implemented an HP EVA 5000 SAN for R/3 4.6C system cluster.
• Implemented MSCS on R/3 Production instance upgrading from a hot recovery server model.
• Implementation of CATS Web Timecard via Enterprise Portal.
• Implemented R/3 and BW single sign-on, integrated with MS Active Directory.
• Arcserve 2000/9.01/11.1 setup and administration.
• BSI tax software (integrated with R/3) upgrades and maintenance.