As a Solution Specialist, you will work as a consultant with our North American-based customers to implement and deploy our ActiveControl product on SAP ERP platforms. Responsible for the blueprinting, implementation, customizations, end-user training, and deployment of the solution. Work locally and remotely in multi-disciplinary teams (technical, functional, business) for successful deployment.

Current break for professional improvement to gain knowledge and insight into new technologies.

A vital resource that will be part of the Supply Chain and Real Estate Organization specifically the team that handles all SAP/ERP support for 3PL, wireless, and wireline support.

SAP Basis resource, with fluency in implementing and supporting SAP environments. Basis Administrator needs to be experienced with supporting SAP Java and ABAP related instances for dual stacks and single stacks. Candidate should be experienced in a majority of the following environments and products: SAP on SUSE Linux and Oracle with some HANA databases running products ECC, BW, PI, MII, SRM, CRM, Portals, BOBJ, CPS, GTS, CUA, Solman, Web Dispatcher, and Wily Introscope. Competence with Oracle DBA tasks such as maintenance and performance analysis/tuning are required in addition to experience with Oracle TDE and index/data compression. Resource will be expected to work independently with minimal or no supervision, deliver on day-to-day tasks and projects and produce a very high quality SAP service. Resource will be expected to be available for on-call support and to execute projects or tasks during off-hours, weekends and holidays

SAP Manage Consultant - Sikorsky Aircraft

Provides technical support and leadership as an SAP Basis Administrator SME (Subject Matter Expert) including establishing standards and requirements, evaluating, directing enhancements, and implementing solutions for performance monitoring and systems configuration, design, and implementation.

Performed the day-to-day duties of a Senior Platform Support UNIX Administrator required to support the IT department initiatives. Primary duties are supporting Regatta P670 and two SP frames populated with MCA High and PCI Wide nodes. Support all applications and Oracle databases running on AIX servers. Support the Tivoli Backup environment and transition the Legato environment over to TSM.Troubleshoot complex client/server integration issues between various non-UNIX platforms.Troubleshoot complex network integration issues related to the AIX SP & Regatta UNIX environment. Perform performance analysis and provide tuning recommendations. Develop shell scripts to automate the server environment. Evaluate & recommend system-related software, and provide problem determination & resolution services for the server environment. Support the existing Connect Direct environment and assist in the installation of IBM MQSeries 5.2 on a Regatta LPAR server complex. Support all SAP initiatives regarding the interface with Hosted SAP Atlanta implementation including the installation of SAP Gateways. Perform SAP Basis duties in problem-solving day-to-day tasks supporting SAP modules CRM & BW and support any go-live task that may arise. Support MacData SANS environment connects to an IBM SHARK 800 storage server. Support two IBM P-series Regatta 670 servers using LPAR partitioning. Support AutoSys scheduling software environment running on the IBM Regatta servers running AIX 5.1. Support all duties and problem tickets issued to the UNIX department. Provide training assistance to staff members and related support groups. Create appropriate documentation for Computer Operations use. Assist project application programmers with program development issues and solutions. Install & maintain systems software for RS/6000 AIX SP environment. Perform upgrades, installation, and maintenance required to support SAP architecture.

Primary AIX/SAP Basis system administrator for an SAP R/3 4.6B application running on IBM RS/6000 S80 hardware connected to one SP frame populated with SP-wide nodes used for testing, development, quality-assurance SAP R/3 instances using Informix as the database, and EMC symmetric and SSA drives are used for storage devices with3590 tape drives are used for the backup the SAP R/3 databases.Troubleshoot complex client/server integration issues between various non-Unix/SAP platforms including complex network integration issues related to the AIX/SAP environment. Provide training assistance to staff members and related support groups that include the creation and review processes for establishing and improving existing AIX SP server infrastructure. Install & support various AIX server-based products including investigate, engineer, & create projects required to support various team initiatives. Attend meetings and represent the AIX team in project discussions and participate in various project phases including reporting the findings back to the manager of AIX.Install & maintain systems software for RS/6000 AIX SP environment that includes performing upgrades, installation, and maintenance required to support SAP architecture. Perform all necessary SAP Basis functions to support and maintain SAP R/3 instances.

Primary system administrator for AIX, HP, and SUN servers. Maintained two IBM RS6000 AIX SP server complexes populated with SP Wide Nodes running AIX 4.3.3 and PSSP levels 2.4, 3.1, and 3.2.Use standard and advanced AIX/UNIX tools to measure and analyze subsystem performance for CPU, memory, I/O, and networking. Responsible for the day-to-day administration, monitoring, maintenance, installation, configuration, changes, enhancement, upgrading, patches, problem-solving, filesystem maintenance, system error corrections, load balancing, and tuning the operating system, network connections, backup systems, and system space capacity for such servers. Responsible for two-year lease contract turn-over requiring a lease change-out procedure to be created and executed. Assisted the Oracle DBA staff to improve, upgrade, and install new versions of Oracle 7,8, and 9 versions databases installed on the Development and Production SP Nodes. Worked closely with the Tivoli ADSM ESS administrator to install, upgrade, and troubleshoot Tivoli ADSM and ESS SHARK storage system-related problems that may occur day-to-day. Primary system administrator for the Network staff for installing and configuring, system patch upgrades, and troubleshooting various network software packages installed on SUN servers such as QIP (DHCP/DNS), NetView, Cisco Works, Checkpoint Firewall, and ACE authentication software (SecureID). Installed and configure Veritas (Volume Manager) to manage the filesystems on SUN servers. Work with the SAP team to decide the output management solution and data transfer configuration using IBM MQSeries. Perform cost analysis on additional equipment for upgrades for replacement of existing systems. Assist in the creation of Standard Level Agreements (SLA), Standard Operation Procedures (SOP), and Standard Level Operation (SLO) and negotiated various maintenance contracts. Administered a medium-sized EMC symmetric storage system for Y2K testing during the year 1999.

Recruited and relocated to join the SAP Basis team to assist and provided leadership in the planning, visioning, and implementation of a nationally geographically the dispersed Year 2000 compliant client/server SAP R/3 integrated financial system for the Citizens Utilities Company corporate sector. Implemented a three-phase SAP installation to bring online the Communication, Corporate and Public Sectors of the Company. Assisted in the planning, selection, and installation of a state-of-the-art IBM RS6000 SP frame client/server large-scale computer system using IBM S70 Ravens as the database servers to run an SAP R/3 application capable of running 1500 concurrent users. Evaluated several applications and was a key technical factor in the decision-making process. Assisted in the planning, selection, and installation of all third-party software products used to perform system monitoring (BMC Patrol), batch job scheduling (Tivoli Maestro), and file transfer automation software (NDM Sterling Commerce). Attend all necessary schools, classes, and seminars to insure proper installation and operation of IBM RS6000 SP Client / Server System. Responsible for the day- to day operations to maintain a corporate system running a mission-critical 24 by 7-hour financial system. Assist in the installation, changes, enhancement, upgrading, patching, and problem-solving to support an integrated financial SAP R/3 system. Performed installs, filesystem maintenance, correct system errors, network connections, system backups (Tivoli ADSM), and system space capacity planning for the servers. Provided maintenance and administration for the training, development, and quality assurance SAP R/3 instances use to develop test, and train users on the SAP R/3 application. Anticipated system and software failures and build a support plan to insure stable operation with no downtime

Perform Novell Network CNE duties for maintaining and troubleshooting support for IBM Server 80 Servers.