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Summary
Accomplished Senior SAP Basis Administrator with more than 20 years of Basis R/3 and
NetWeaver technical experience; specializing in the design, planning, support and
deployment of global SAP implementations. Successfully held several leadership roles,
implementing SAP at multiple Fortune 100 & 500 companies. Highly experienced working in
roles of Contracting, Consulting, and Permanent employment opportunities.
Lectured at seminars worldwide for the SAP Professional Journal, interviewed by technical
publications, including Computerworld magazine.
Goals: A position as a Senior SAP Basis Administrator with a Contracting or Consulting
Services firm, or a Permanent career opportunity where my extensive SAP skills can be
effectively utilized.
• Author, Basis Administration for SAP, Prima Publishing, Rocklin, CA
• Technical Management: Manage large SAP technical teams consisting of US and offshore
Basis professionals; perform IT budgeting, cost analysis, software vendor selection and
project forecasting; conduct personnel reviews and provide the daily management of SAP
technical direct reports
• Industries: Biotech, Pharmaceuticals, Public Sector, Apparel, Aerospace, Manufacturing
• Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Access, DB2
• OS: WINDOWS, RedHat / Linux, UNIX, HP-UX, SUN SOLARIS, AIX
• Software: GRC, VMware , IXOS Archiving, Java, Perl, Visual Basic
• SAP NetWeaver Components: ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, J2EE, NetWeaver 2004s,
Portals, XI, SLD, APO, JAVA, SRM, SCM, CUA, 4.7 Enterprise, BW, FI/CO, MM, PP, SAPGUI, TMS,
BI 7.0, PI 7.0, EP 7.0, HR and HCM (ESS/MSS/e-Recruit), Adobe
• Third Party: Redwood, Autosys, Control M, UC4, Vertex
• Extensive experience performing installs, upgrades, and system copies of ABAP and dual
stack ABAP/Java instances.
• Expert knowledge in performance monitoring/tuning and daily Basis technical support
including troubleshooting of SAP, Oracle, UNIX and Windows based systems.

Experience

Remote Senior SAP Basis Consultant
Bayforce
April 2015 – Present (7 months)Greater Denver Area

• Provide remote Senior level SAP Basis and Security contracting support for my client
• Serve as primary support for BI, Security and production support for my client's entire
landscape consisting of BI, Security, MDM, and GRC for Portals
• Complete ECC enhancement pack 7 upgrade and upgrade of BW from 7.2 to 7.4
• Perform BI, BW, and ECC performance tuning
• Maintain and create new SAP Security roles, authorizations and profiles
• Evaluate SAP HANA for a large BW migration and implementations of future projects

Senior SAP Basis Administrator
DIRECTV
August 2014 – January 2015 (6 months)Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Provide guidance and leadership in the areas of issue troubleshooting and resolutions,
maintenance, SAP security technologies and system architecture / product roadmap design
• Participate in the Project planning and delivery, production support, monitoring, SAP
Software upgrades, support packs and performance tuning of SAP Environments, ensuring
the efficient and secure operation of the SAP systems
• Evaluate enterprise-wide SAP application systems and develop detailed analysis reports
and recommendations for business critical systems
• Research and implement solutions for Basis functionality in the areas of performance
monitoring, tuning, and systems configuration
• Implement best practices guidance on all SAP Basis and Administration related tasks
• Provide technical support for integrating SAP with various internal applications, including
HR

Principal SAP Basis Administrator
IHS
July 2011 – August 2014 (3 years 2 months)Denver, Colorado

• Provide mission critical Basis technical support of several ongoing SAP Global
Implementations
• Maintain multi-landscape environments through client copies, system refreshes, and
transports
• Implement, design and develop complex SAP technical solutions utilizing SAP Best
Practices
• Administrate Redwood batch scheduling for large volume background processing in ECC,
BW

Senior SAP Basis Contractor
ULA - United Launch Alliance - Lockheed Martin & Boeing
2010 – 2011 (1 year)Denver, Colorado

• Led the installation and upgrade of new dimensional SAP systems to meet expanding
business requirements including Installation of Dual stack/SID (ABAP/Java)
• Provided technical administration for SAP web application environment as it relates to
Biller Direct 6.0, Internet Sales 5.0, TDMS, and NWDI
• Maintenance of multi-landscape environments through client copies, system refreshes, and
transport management on RedHat / Linux , UNIX and Windows SAP environments
• Setup Federated portal network and perform Netweaver java, Portal administration
• Configured and maintained SLD, SOA, XI adapters, and CTS+ for systems based on dual
stack
• Setup Integration planning, Broadcaster with PreCalculation, BI Web, Xcelcius, BO-XI, and
BI Admin Cockpit
• Implemented single sign-on (SSO) solution for portal, backend (R/3 and BI) systems, and
Business Objects enterprise
• Interfaced to Third party technologies such as Vertex, Business Objects, Redwood CPS,
Wily Introscope; Administered batch scheduling using Autosys, Control M and UC4
• Researched and implemented solutions for Basis functionality in the areas of performance
monitoring, tuning, and systems configuration using SAP Best Practices
• Contributed technically to team objectives and managed the offshore Basis group
• Provided Basis technical support to ABAP developers, functional teams, DBA, Help desk
support personnel, and other support groups to resolve system issues
• Provided assistance in developing and implementing proper security measures in order to
provide data integrity and confidentiality of information
• Evaluated enterprise-wide SAP application systems and developed detailed analysis
reports and recommendations for business critical systems
• Participated in 24x7 SAP Basis on call rotation support

Technical Services Manager
VMware
July 2010 – November 2010 (5 months)Broomfield, Colorado

• Provided comprehensive support on all VMware products and Cloud Technology
• Trained extensively on ESX, ESXi, vCloud, VM’s, EMC, vShield, vSphere, Virtualization

SAP NetWeaver Basis Contractor
Zidea Labs
2010 – July 2010 (less than a year)Broomfield, Colorado

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Provided comprehensive Basis support on SAP Windows and SQL Server platform
Extracted critical customer data from SAP tables for use in mobile devices
Trained client’s technical staff on SAP maintenance of production environment
Performed system checks and monitoring tasks to maintain health of SAP system

SAP Technical Writer
SapTask
2009 – 2010 (1 year)Louisville, Colorado

• Authored revised addition to my book entitled Basis Administration for SAP
• Submitted technical writing and business proposals to prospective book publishers
• Researched information on SAP’s NetWeaver platform and new emerging technologies
http://www.saptask.com

Senior SAP NetWeaver Basis Administrator
Capgemini
2007 – 2008 (1 year)Dallas/Fort Worth Area

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Managed large SAP technical teams consisting of US and offshore Basis professionals
Conducted personnel reviews and provide the management of technical direct reports
Provided mission critical enterprise support on massive Global ERP Implementation
Supported enhancement pack application, system refreshes, performance tuning, TMS
Administered Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, RedHat / Linux , Windows, Autosys, UC4
Responsible for Solution Manager configuration, security and authorizations
Assessed impact of new SAP releases to current system landscape environments

Senior SAP Basis Consultant, Principal IS Analyst
Amgen
2006 – 2007 (1 year)Longmont, Colorado

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Senior member of Infrastructure Team comprised of Basis, Development and Contractors
Performed upgrades and 24X7production support of SAP Global Implementation
NetWeaver 2004, BW SCM, SRM, ECC5, EP6, EP7, XI 3.0/7.0, SLD and SAP Sol Man 3.2/4.0
HCM, HR (ESS/MSS/e-Recruit), Adobe Document Services (ADS), SAP Best Practices.
SAP Security; Administration of users including Profile Maintenance, Role-Based Security
Logon Groups and Authorizations, Advanced troubleshooting, GUI Management
Problem Resolution, Load balancing, client maintenance, client and SAP instance copies
Systems migration, Management of transport system, Printer Spool maintenance
Printing/output management, Batch Input monitoring and maintenance, Job Scheduling,
Administrated Autosys, Control M, UC4 batch schedulers

Senior Oracle DBA
Western Area Power Administration
2005 – 2006 (1 year)Sacramento, California Area

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Senior Oracle DBA for PPI and the (DOE) Western Area Power Administration
Collected performance data and availability metrics for mission critical Oracle services
Setup monitoring of production Oracle 9i databases, file systems, and application
Supported staging, development, production, and QA Oracle environments
Performed root-cause analysis of recurring issues; SQL, PLSQL and database tuning

Senior SAP Basis Consultant
AMD
2004 – 2005 (1 year)Sunnyvale, California

• Provided troubleshooting, security administration and SOX compliance measures
• Supported SAP 4.6C and 4.7 Enterprise during Global ERP Implementation

• Performed system refreshes, performance tuning and monitoring, TMS procedures
• Administered Microsoft SQL Server; trained offshore Basis teams on SAP R/3

SAP Basis Administrator
Sacramento Regional Transit
2003 – 2004 (1 year)Sacramento, California Area

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Supported large SAP technical teams consisting of US and offshore Basis professionals
Provided SAP technical leadership and direction for large global SAP implementations
Established policies and procedures for SAP system security and user management
Supported integration testing and performed issue resolution of critical issues

SAP Basis Consultant
Sacramento County
2003 – 2003 (less than a year)Sacramento, California Area

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Supported large SAP technical teams consisting of US and offshore Basis professionals
Developed security metrics; applied hot package, OSS notes and database patches
Supported SAP 4.0B to 4.6C upgrade on TRU64 UNIX platform during implementation
Maintained Government Security Clearance with the FBI and local law enforcement

Senior SAP Basis Consultant
Nike
2002 – 2003 (1 year)Beaverton, Oregon

• Supported SAP 4.6C to 4.7 upgrade on HP-UX UNIX platform during implementation
• Administered Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database, resolved critical issues
• Performed SAP Business Connector support, IXOS archiving, correction and transport

Senior SAP Basis Consultant
Hewlett Packard
1999 – 2002 (3 years)Roseville, California

• Supported SAP 4.5B to 4.6C upgrade on HP-UX platform with Informix database
• Performed BW and APO installation and configuration; security administration
• Developed SAP archiving, backup, disaster recovery and high availability procedures

Senior SAP Basis Consultant
Intel
1999 – 1999 (less than a year)Folsom, California

Basis Administration, security authorization, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database
administration, Unix administration, ABAP development, Microsoft Windows administration,
client migration strategy from a development Unix to a live Microsoft Windows production
environment, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server backup and recovery planning, correction and
transport consulting, troubleshooting.

Senior SAP Basis Consultant
Hewlett Packard
1996 – 1998 (2 years)Roseville, California

Basis Administration, ABAP troubleshooting, security authorization, R/3 and HP-UX system
administration, Informix DBA, Microsoft Windows administration, backup and recovery
planning, correction and transport consulting, and pre-production preparation. Upgraded HP
from release 3.1H to 4.0B, and 4.0B to 4.5B

SAP Basis Consultant
SAP America
1994 – 1996 (2 years)Foster City, California

Provided comprehensive technical consulting for the Basis and ABAP component of R/3
including system administration; security authorizations; correction and transport;
performance tuning and monitoring; installation and upgrade; resource planning; preproduction preparation; and Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database administration
installation, and tuning.

Database Technical Lead/Consultant
Oracle
1992 – 1994 (2 years)Redwood Shores, California

Built and leveraged Oracle and SAP expertise to Public Sector end users as well as to
development, consulting and technical support organizations. Utilized skills pertaining to
parallel server, database modeling, distributed systems, and decision support
methodologies to help Government agencies migrate from legacy to Oracle platforms.

Volunteer Experience & Causes
Project Manager
Habitat for Humanity
Poverty Alleviation

Opportunities Robert is looking for:
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Joining a nonprofit board
Skills-based volunteering (pro bono consulting)

Publications
Basis Administration for SAP(Link)
Prima Press Publishing, Rocklin, CA
June 2000
Written by Robert Parkinson, a proven Fortune 100 Basis consultant, Basis Administration for
SAP covers SAP Basis topics such as strategies for managing logon IDs, performance
monitoring, backup management, and other hub activities. This book is indispensable for all
system administrators, managers, and consultants working with SAP Basis.

Skills
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SAP R/3
SAP Netweaver

SAP
SAPScript
SAP BW
SAP HR
SAP Portal
SAP XI
SAP2000
SAP WM
Oracle
Windows
Unix
Linux
VMware

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Education
Columbia University
MA; BS, Management Information Systems; Computer Science
1982 – 1988

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Omega

Interests
Music
Yoga
Habitat for Humanity
Community Volunteer

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ASUG
Honors & Awards
Additional Honors & Awards
Author, Basis Administration for SAP, Prima Publishing, Rocklin, CA

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Skills
SAP R/3
SAP Netweaver
SAP
SAPScript
SAP BW
SAP HR
SAP Portal
SAP XI
SAP2000
SAP WM
Oracle
Windows
Unix
Linux
VMware
ERP
Project Implementation
Software Project...
Technical Management
Consultancy
Portals
Java
SQL Server
Security
Team Leadership

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Leadership Development
ABAP
System Architecture
Performance Tuning
Troubleshooting
Technology...
Software Implementation
Apple
Web Services
Global Delivery
Budgeting
Forecasting
Performance Appraisal
Department Management
Team Management
People Management
Public Sector
Cloud Computing
Business Intelligence
System Administration
IT Service Management
Business Management
IT Management
Enterprise Architecture
SAP HANA
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• Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Access, DB2
• OS: WINDOWS, RedHat / Linux, UNIX, HP-UX, SUN SOLARIS, AIX
• Software: GRC, VMware , IXOS Archiving, Java, Perl, Visual Basic
• SAP NetWeaver Components: ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, J2EE, NetWeaver 2004s, Portals,
XI, SLD, APO, JAVA, SRM, SCM, CUA, 4.7 Enterprise, BW, FI/CO, MM, PP, SAPGUI, TMS, BI 7.0, PI
7.0, EP 7.0, HR and HCM (ESS/MSS/e-Recruit), Adobe

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