2323
Bering Dr. # 6
Houston,
Texas 77057
spiroz@hotmail.com
http://zitech.50megs.com
Objective
A challenging SAP
Basis and Senior Systems Support Analyst position, to assist, propose,
recommend, design, implement and support the implementation of SAP
R/3 client-server corporate systems and networking solutions, utilising
systems running UNIX, Windows NT, SAP, ABAP/4 and Shell
programming.
Employment
History
Sep/1999
- Present (SUN Microsystems - SAP Professional Services)
Currently,
I am working for SUN Microsystems as SAP Architect Engineer and I a part
of their Professional Services, USA division
Sr. SAP Architect
and Basis Consultant — Nortel Networks, Santa Clara, CA.
Assisted with Nortel's
mgration project from Legacy systems to E10000 SUN high end
servers and A5000
storage arrays. Detailed and load balanced a 300GB database for enhancing
I/O performance and response time.Provided Dtatabse Growth strategies and
best-fit procedures for expansion.
Sr. SAP Architect
and Basis Consultant — Halliburton (Origin Technology),
Dallas, TX.
Lead a project for
creating a reporting instance, a daily replica from production to alleviate
load and enhance
performance and response time on main production instance. 2500 online
users and 800GB
Oracle database. Designed and implemented all scripts, ABAPs and
procedures and wrote
an operational basis manual for their staff to follow and execute on a
daily basis. Hardware
SUN E10000, E6500, E4500 and EMC storage arrays with a Gigabit
VLAN.
Senior SAP Architect
Engineer — Ultramar Diamond Shamrock,
San Antonio,
TX.
Assisted the client
and provided a recommendation on how to split CI and DB in a Sun
Cluster 2.2 implementation
on E4500 and E6500 servers. Evaluated and recommended a performance strategy
to the overall landscape setup. In the middle of planning a migration and
upgrade from 3.1H to 4.6B. Sun Cluster 2.1 to 2.2 upgrade planning is included.
Senior SAP Architect
Engineer — Tellabs, Inc , Chicago, IL.
Assisted the client
and provided a plan and design on how to split CI and DB in a Veritas
Cluster with SAP,
Informix and NFS Agents. Implementation on E6500 servers. Evaluated
and recommended
a performance strategy to the overall landscape setup. In the middle of
planning a migration
and upgrade from 3.0E to 3.0F and finally to 4.6B.
Dec/1997
- Aug/1999 (SPEARHEAD SYSTEM CONSULTANTS (US) -
New
York - USA
Sr.
SAP BASIS CONSULTANT
Worked for a consulting
firm in New York, Spearhead System Consultants (US) Ltd.,
a leading innovator
in the implementation of management systems. Spearhead is a SAP
National implementation
Partner of SAP America and is focused on delivering cost-effective implementation
of the SAP product.
-
Senior SAP Basis
Consultant —TSI, Inc , Florida,
Upgraded SAP from
3.1H to 3.1I on Compaq Proliant 7000 with WinNT/Informix 7.0
and upgraded Industry
Solution AFS from SAP V1.0C to V1.0D. Installed Fixpack#1,
#2 and #3 and all
post released notes for V1.0D. Installed and setup production
systems including
3 application servers. Installed and maintained logon load balancing
and user groups
by branch. Setup of "daily" and "nightly" operation modes per server
and grouping processes
for achieving a satisfactory performance.
-
Senior SAP Basis
Consultant — Honey Baked Ham Company, Atlanta, GA.
Installed and engineered
SAP installations on Windows NT 4.0 on Compaq servers,
SAP 3.1H and MSSQL-6.5
Server Database. I am acting as the only SAP Basis
Consultant from
Spearhead, supporting all teams in FI/CO, HR and MM. Implemented
all Basis ASAP strategies,
Policies and Procedures for IT's technical department.
Loaded Pre-configured
Client from Sapnet and installed Accelerated Financials,
Accelerated Human
Resources and BSI 5.0 Tax Factory for HR. Preparing for a cutover
from Development
to Production in preparation for a role out at the end of September
1998.
-
Senior SAP Basis
Consultant — B&G manufacturing, Philadelphia, PA
Installed and engineered
SAP 3.1H on IBM RS6000, AIX4.2 with ORACLE 7.3.3.5.
Created 4 clients,
applied 17 Hot packages and upgraded SAP patch Manager.
Loaded a pre-configured
client PCC from Sapnet. Installed my own Backup scripts
interface to brbackup/brarchive.Preparing
for a cutover from Development to
Production in preparation
for a role out at the end of August 1998.
-
Senior SAP Basis
Consultant — Computer Horizons Corporation (CHC) in New Jersey.
Assisting in the
initiation of SAP installations on Windows NT 4.0 on Compaq servers,
SAP 3.1H and Oracle
7.3.3.5. Engineering the SAP environment layout and applying
ASAP approach as
an efficient and fast SAP implementation. Defining external
interfaces and best
methodologies for integrating clients legacy systems with SAP.
Conducted training
for Spearhead clients and SAP America training centers in the
Basis area. SAP20,
SAP50 (Basis Technologies), BC625 (SAPOffice ) and BC425 (SAP Modifications
and Enhancements).
1995
(Aug 20) - 1997 (Dec 10) (QATAR LIQUEFIED GAS CO. Ltd.)
Doha
- State of QATAR - the Gulf region
SAP
Basis Team Leader - Senior Systems Support Analyst
Worked with QATARGAS
for the past 2 and 1/2 years. I was appointed from the start to
acquire the appropriate
hardware to run SAP. SUN/SOLARIS was the choice and ORACLE
was the database.
We started production on 2.2E supporting 400 users on a central instance
with 3 application
servers. This was deployed on July 2, 1996. Installed and administered
the
SUN servers to host
the 2.2E development server and later the production servers. We have
acquired a separate
server for the new development effort to 3.0F and upgraded a
dB-exported
image of production and successfully completed this in January, 1997.
Production was upgraded
to 3.0F with a 3.1G kernel on May, 1997 with Logon Load
Balancing implemented.
I lead the
SAP Basis Team in QATARGAS. I administerd the platform hardware/software
layout under (UNIX/Solaris)
and its resources from installations to upgrades. Installation for
SAP and upgrading
up to 3.0F. Supported all SAP Teams and solved their problems/dumps. Installed
and administered OSS connectivity for the company.
Traced and Applied
fixes/patches to ABAP/4 programs and other SAP resources.
Executed and maintained
Backups for all systems UNIX and SAP. I attended all SAP training courses
for BASIS and completed them successfully. Corrections and Transports and
application servers
logon load balancing. Database Exports/Imports between systems.
Clients Export/Import
and local copying. Database administration and re-organisation of Tablespaces
and critical Tables under ORACLE. SAPGUI on Win95 and Win31 for
workgroups installations
and upgrades.
SAP R/3 Basis and
systems support analyst with experience in any of the following areas:
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SAP R/3 Basis and systems
support analyst with experience in all of the following areas:
R/3 system installations/upgrades
– Releases 2.2E, 2.2F, 2.2G, 3.0C, 3.0D, 3.0E ,3.0F,
3.1H, 3.1I and 4.5a
and applying SAP patches
-
ORACLE database administration
backup, recovery, and security
-
Cross Applications and
Communications interfaces (OSS set-up, CPI-C, FRC, IDOC
and EDI)
-
Data Dictionary
-
CCMS
-
ABAP/4 Basis system
programming and reporting
-
UNIX SOLARIS 2.4 and
2.5 on SUN Servers (1000E and 3000E)
-
Corrections and Transports
-
Data Conversion and
Batch-Inputs
-
ASAP certified
1994 (NOV
1) - 1995 (AUG 1) PARANET, Inc. (Houston, Texas,
USA)
Senior
Network Systems Administrator
Joined PARANET as
a Senior Network Systems Administrator, providing consulting,
assistance and advises
to a broad and diversified number of computer clients base. Provided
assistance to CHEVRON GAS/OIL, built-up and implemented a Central Standard
Utility Tools environment throughout their network. Acquired and built
X applications and administrative
tools from the Internet
and made it available on 7 different UNIX architectures namely,
SUN 4.1.3,
Solaris 2.4, AIX 3.2, SGI IRIX-4D, HPUX 9.0.1, DEC Ultrix-4.2 and
Solaris-I86. Packages such as Perl, Tcl, Xgrab, Flex, Xntp/ntp, Xmh/mh,
Xrn/rn, X3270, Traceroute,
Sysinfo, Ofiles,
Xv, Elm, Tcp_wrappers and Kerberos Unix Security Systems, RCS,
Gopher/Xgopher,
Xmosaic, Netscape, ncftp, ircII, Inn network news, GNU tools and many
others.
Worked with OWEN
HEALTHCARE and implemented an overall UNIX SECURITY SYSTEM
on their HP9000/G60.
Built and implemented COPS, TRIPWIRE, CRACK, NPASSWD,
SUDO and EXPECT
packages in order to audit and report system vulnerabilities as these
take place.
1994
(JAN 1) - 1994 (OCT 30)
INFLUENCE
INTERNATIONAL ,Inc. (Houston, Texas, USA)
Manager,
Network Systems
Continue designing/coding
the GUI Client/Server Call Management Centre in OOD/OOP
with C++, to achieve
national/global access to host services and applications. Installed
Ethernet with DNS/NIS
and provided Micros and UNIX Servers company wide access over
TCP/IP and NFS.
Lan segments managed and monitored with SNMP and Lan Analysers.
Installed
SLIP/PPP Server access to the Internet. Installed and administered HP 835s,
SUN
Sparcs 5 and 10
workstations with Solaris 2.3. Installed NFS TCP/IP Software from Beam
& Whiteside BW-NFS 3.3 on all PCs to integrate them and provide
access to UNIX Servers and Printers.
1991
- 1994 (JAN 30) U. S. VIDEOTEL (Houston, Texas, USA)
Manager,
Network Engineering/Development
Performed as a working
development manager and system administrator in the area of
network engineering,
lead the network development programmers, system analysts and
network operations
group. Designed and implemented a GUI Call Control Protocol over an Event-Driven
Client/Server Model, utilising OOD & OOP with C++/C, GUI development
APIs
and Borland Interbase
RDBMS. Installed INTERNET and administered LAN segments with
SNMP. Installed
and maintained a SLIP/PPP Server access to the Internet.
1988
- 1991 U. S. VIDEOTEL (Houston, Texas, USA)
Supervisor,
Network Engineering Development
Lead the R&D
Network Group as a Project Supervisor. Provided proposals, conceptual
functional and physical
designs for network systems and applications. Upgraded equipment
and Built applications
with UNIX/C to expand the network gateway functionality for national
and international
access. Installed and maintained Ethernet with TCP/IP and Novell NetWare
LANs to connect
Local and Remote Systems via Terminal-Servers, Bridges, Routers and
Gateway LAN-WAN
equipment.
1987
- 1988 U. S. VIDEOTEL (Houston, Texas, USA)
Network
System/Analyst,
Designed and implemented
Call Management Centre Transport and Session layers over
X.25 Protocol, to
provide gateway services in a public data network. Assisted in the design
and implementation
of the Presentation and Application layers achieving by that a full
implementation of the Network Call Management Centre (CMC) model.
1986
- 1987 ENCODE BUSINESS SYSTEMS (Houston, Texas, USA)
Programmer/Analyst,
Designed and developed
generic API database interfaces and generic purpose libraries
utilising CTREE
and INFORMIX SQL on PCs and Miniframes. Ported the interfaces and
the libraries from PC to Altos (XENIX) and Hewlett Packard platforms.
Heavy use of UNIX/C.
Higher Education
M.S. in Computer Sciences May 1986
University Of Houston
Central Park Avenue
M.S. in Control Engineering and Industrial Automations, EE
June 1980
Polytechnical University
Of Bucharest, Romania
Networking Management, Control and Maintenance
May 1989
OST Education Systems
Software Project Management Tools and Techniques
June 1988
Integrated Computer Systems
Languages
| ARABIC |
Native Language |
| ENGLISH |
2nd Language |
| FRENCH |
Arbitur (High School) |
| ROUMANIAN |
3rd Language |
Computer
Skills
HARDWARE
SUN E10K, E6500,
E4500, E3000 and SS1000E enterprise Servers, SUN and EMC storage
arrays, HP
9000/800s,
Convergent Technologies, OST, Altos, Fault Tolerant, Netrix X.25 Switches,
Cisco Bridges &
Routers, Xylogics
Terminal Servers, NCD X-terminals and Print Servers, multiprocessing systems
like Pyramids, Compaq, DEC433, Micron, Ambra and PC ATs with
ISA, EISA, PCI and MCA bus architectures. Third party network/serial adapters/controllers
and LAN/WAN equipment, installed and maintained.
SOFTWARE
Solaris 2.4, 2.5,
2.5.1,2.6 and 2.7 (SYSV/4.2), SUN Cluster 2.3 and High Availability for
SAP/ORACLE and NFS,
HP-UX 10.0, IBM AIX 4.2,SCO UNIX ODT 3.0, MS-DOS 6.2, MS windows95/NT,
Window-Based X Client, NCD X-Terminals, Servers/Clients, C-ISAM, Faircom
Ctree, ORACLE 7.1.4, 7.1.6 and 7.2.3, 7.3.3.6 and 8.0.6, BORLAND
RDBMS and SAP/R3 up to 4.6B.
LANGUAGES
C/C++, OOD &
OOP in SCO C++ 3.1, HP-UX C++, Object-Centre V2.0, SAP/R3 ABAP/4, PASCAL,
PL/1, FORTRAN, BASIC and ASSEMBLY.
NETWORK
PROTOCOLS
OSI CCITT X.25, UNIX
DCE Applications with RPCs and TCP/UDP protocols, SNMP network management
protocol, Berkley Sockets and SYS V4.2 Streams, IPCs, AMD/NFS, SLIP/PPP
Internet access & Domain Name Server DNS/NIS Set-up, Gopher, World-Wide-Web
WWW, WAIS, ARCHIE and USENET.
Interests
and Activities
Soccer
Swimming
Reading
Singing
References
John Carrroll
IS Manager - Pennfield Precision, Inc., Sellersville, PA 18960
(W) (215) 257-5191, (H) (215) 362-7402
E-mail: johnacarroll@hotmail.com
Andrew Nixon
Sr. SAP Consultant - Metamor, Inc
(M) (610) 716-0422
E-mail: andrewnixon@hotmail.com
Brian Boatright
SAP Basis Administrator - Honey Baked Ham, Inc
(W) (770) 936-7149, (M) (770) 653-8711
E-mail: brianboatright@mindspring.com
Kenneth Kwok
SAP Consultant - Siemens
(H)626-574-7484.
(W)800-225-1484, x 4475
E-mail: Kenneth.Kwok@sbs.siemens.com
Athanasios Kitselis
Sr. SAP Basis Consultant - Spearhead System Consultants - Greece
(H) +30 (93) 243-8327
E-mail: sulis@iname.com
Tarek Hashisho
Sr. SAP BASIS Team Leader - QATAR GAS - State of QATAR
(W) 0974 736693, (H) 0974 868386, (M) 0974 5500561
E-mail: thashish@qatar.net.qa
Status
US Citizen
Willing to Travel
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