Brian Vanderpool Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

AccessPoint is an on-premise web site to help SAP Basis administrators and implementation teams access to complex SAP landscapes. It eases the Basis administration overhead supporting these environments and helps provide a visual overview of the overall SAP environments.AccessPoint was developed using HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS3 and JSON technologies.See https://www.osmiumconsulting.com/accesspoint

Bentonville, Ar

Overall responsibility for the stability, administration, performance, configuration and upgrades of the SAP Portal infrastructure. Documentation of Portal configuration, procedures and change processes. Advisor to developers on portal content and strategy.Achievements:- Dramatic improvement in the stabilization and operational discipline of a large, complex SAP Portal landscape – 40+ SAP Portals (6 production portals).- Java Subject Matter Expert (SME) lead for two successful… Show more Overall responsibility for the stability, administration, performance, configuration and upgrades of the SAP Portal infrastructure. Documentation of Portal configuration, procedures and change processes. Advisor to developers on portal content and strategy.Achievements:- Dramatic improvement in the stabilization and operational discipline of a large, complex SAP Portal landscape – 40+ SAP Portals (6 production portals).- Java Subject Matter Expert (SME) lead for two successful major, multi-portal production upgrades including migration NW 7.5 to HANA.- Creation and maintenance of a build through validation Portal Configuration Guide and numerous (20+) portal operational procedures.- Implementation and configuration of CTS+ for change management.• Universal Worklist (UWL) performance optimization and usability improvements. Show less

Jackson, Mississippi

Responsible for architecture, development and configuration of Internet facing Portal to MAGIC Project solution. Responsibilities also include design and documentation of all content development to the Portal and SAP backend components - ECC, SRM, SUS, CRM, MDM and BI.

Fort Worth, Texas

As an Independent Consultant, I serve as a member of the BNSF Basis Team. Support is provided to the project teams for architecture and portal related developments. BNSF has three production SAP Portals supporting ESS/MSS, Learning Solutions, Biller Direct and custom applications.Acheivements:- Managed the upgrade of their internal and external SAP Web Dispatchers. - Resolved timeout and configuration issues with their Portal applications.- Presented to management a… Show more As an Independent Consultant, I serve as a member of the BNSF Basis Team. Support is provided to the project teams for architecture and portal related developments. BNSF has three production SAP Portals supporting ESS/MSS, Learning Solutions, Biller Direct and custom applications.Acheivements:- Managed the upgrade of their internal and external SAP Web Dispatchers. - Resolved timeout and configuration issues with their Portal applications.- Presented to management a SAP System Alias Name proposal Show less

Orlando, Florida Area

Independent Consultant specializing in SAP Enterprise Portal and technical system architecture. Provided SAP Best-Practice guidance on system administration issues, completed implementation of SAP SRM and e-Recruiting. Acheivements:- Established and documented overall framework for SRM and eRecruiting content development.- Configuration of Universal Worklist from multiple backend systems ­ ECC, SRM, and MDM.- Created and documented Portal content framework for all future… Show more Independent Consultant specializing in SAP Enterprise Portal and technical system architecture. Provided SAP Best-Practice guidance on system administration issues, completed implementation of SAP SRM and e-Recruiting. Acheivements:- Established and documented overall framework for SRM and eRecruiting content development.- Configuration of Universal Worklist from multiple backend systems ­ ECC, SRM, and MDM.- Created and documented Portal content framework for all future Portal development.- Established internal and external facing access to all Portal functionality Show less

Consulted in SAP southeast region specializing in the architecture and implementation of SAP NetWeaver and specifically Enterprise Portal architecture, administration and Best-Practice solutions.Client List:• Commonwealth of Kentucky – Frankfort, Kentucky • Orange County Public Schools – Orlando, Florida• Saskatchewan Power – Regina, Canada• Florida Department of Review – Tallahassee, Florida• State of North Carolina – Raleigh, North Carolina• Altria (Phillip… Show more Consulted in SAP southeast region specializing in the architecture and implementation of SAP NetWeaver and specifically Enterprise Portal architecture, administration and Best-Practice solutions.Client List:• Commonwealth of Kentucky – Frankfort, Kentucky • Orange County Public Schools – Orlando, Florida• Saskatchewan Power – Regina, Canada• Florida Department of Review – Tallahassee, Florida• State of North Carolina – Raleigh, North Carolina• Altria (Phillip Morris) – Richmond, Virginia• Northrop Grumman – Linthicum, Maryland• Northrop Grumman – Newport News, Virginia• United States Portal Service – Eagan, Minnesota• Sobeys – Stellarton, Nova Scotia, Canada• Johnson Diversey – Racine, Wisconsin• Home Depot – Atlanta, GeorgiaMy resume has the details of each assignment, role, responsibilities and deliverables. Show less

Vevey, Switzerland

• Client: Nestle – Vevey, SwitzerlandResponsibilities/Deliverables: Technical Team Lead of the Nestle Enterprise Portal Team. Enterprise Portal team was responsible for all user interfaces into the global solution. Directly responsible for architecture, configuration, sizing, support, monitoring, change management and methodology guidance. Global “green field” implementation. Successfully completed multiple SAP component implementations (Workplace, EP6, NW2004s, eRecruiting, eCommerce)… Show more • Client: Nestle – Vevey, SwitzerlandResponsibilities/Deliverables: Technical Team Lead of the Nestle Enterprise Portal Team. Enterprise Portal team was responsible for all user interfaces into the global solution. Directly responsible for architecture, configuration, sizing, support, monitoring, change management and methodology guidance. Global “green field” implementation. Successfully completed multiple SAP component implementations (Workplace, EP6, NW2004s, eRecruiting, eCommerce) including critical corporate Enterprise Portal implementation with phased rollout to 250,000+ employees. Additionally, desktop responsibility for global deployment of Sapgui, Sapgui patches/fixes and Saplogon to 100,000+ desktops.Successfully designed and implemented the SAP Enterprise Portals to be continuously available. The portals form a unique global portal service which are always available, even during outage, disaster recovery or maintenance periods.Additional responsibilities included program management presentations and project planning on areas of responsibility which consisted of Enterprise Portal Team initiatives, Sapgui, upgrade justification (NW2004s) and global portal solution (continuous availability).Achievements: - Successfully led technical project team through multiple implementations on SAP component (Enterprise Portals) considered critical to Project success.- Implementation required broad vision and creativity to solutions because of immense size of project.- Successfully implemented continuous availability approach for project Enterprise Portals -- Customer extremely satisfied and now dependent on architecture.- Technical Team Lead that completed “green field” global implementation across multiple regions, data centers, and support organizations.- Highly regarded as “SAP Trusted Advisor” by customer. Show less

Consulted in SAP southern district specializing in technical architecture and administration of large, complex SAP implementations. Clients:• Equilon – Houston, TX• Enron – Houston, TX (May 1998 to October 2000)My resume has the details of each assignment, role, responsibilities and deliveribles.

Technical Consultant on SAP’s Advanced Technical and Application Programming (ATAC) Team. Technical Consultant responsible for performance, tuning, stress test methodology at multiple customers using Mercury and manual methods. Performance and tuning analysis of SAP R/3.