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M A R K J A M E S W R I G H T

Personal InformationNationality: British

Date of Birth: 28th February 1967

Place of Birth: Mansfield

Marital status: Single

Summary of qualifications1980 – 1985: Sherwood Hall School, Mansfield (9 ‘O’ levels, 3 CSE Grade 1, 1 ‘A’ level)

1986 -1988: Surveying Apprenticeship (British Coal) – OND Mining (West Nottinghamshire College), HND Minerals Surveying (Doncaster Metropolitan Institute)

1989 – 1990: Leeds University (BEng Hons Minerals Surveying)

1996 - 1997: Sheffield Hallam University (MSc Computer Studies)

Employment history1986 - 1996: British Coal – Apprentice Colliery Surveyor & Estates Management Surveyor.

1997 – 1999: Abacus Lighting Limited, Mansfield – Systems Administrator. Employed for duration of 18-month SAP implementation.

2000 – Present: Hillarys Blinds Limited, Nottingham – Senior Systems Administrator – responsible (as part of a small team) for all aspects of the Hillarys SAP landscape, specifically Netweaver/Windows based systems. Other wider non-SAP administrative responsibilities. See breakdown below.

Skills OverviewSAP: Basis Administrator - all day-to-day maintenance tasks plus specialist areas as required (e.g. Authorisations/Security, Single Sign-on, STMS configuration). Experience of ABAP, Dual-stack and Java-only systems.

Recent involvement with project to upgrade Hillarys bespoke ‘SAMSON’ application (commencing 2011), involving exposure to new technologies such as SUP and Afaria, to integrate into our existing backend PI and ECC landscape. Project still ongoing.

Responsibilities for installing/upgrading all of Hillarys current windows-based SAP applications, including system copies using both backup/restore and MigMon.

Specific areas - all Windows/Oracle platform unless specified:

SAP ERP - ECC5 (Unix/Oracle), previously 3.1I and 4.6C.Netweaver -CRM 7 - incl. Middleware configuration, previous involvement with CRM 3 and CRM 5.XI 3.0/PI 7.3 – primarily for Hillarys bespoke ‘SAMSON’ application on Android devices and e-commerce websites. BI 7 / 7.3Enterprise Portal Composition EnvironmentSolution ManagerOther - Business ObjectsBusiness Connector – e-commerce connectivitySybase SUP/Relay Server. Afaria.

Project Lifecycles (since 2006) -Upgrade from R3 3.1i to ECC5 (2006-7) Installation of XI 3.0 landscape (2008) Installation of BI 7 landscape (2008-9) Installation of CRM 7 landscape to replace CRM5 (2009-10) – Project Lead for internal Basis team.Installation of PI 7.3 landscape to replace XI 3.0 (2011 - 2012) – Project Lead for internal Basis team.Full Homogenous System Copy for new ECC5 hardware (2012).

Upgrade part of SAP landscape from Oracle 10.2 to 11.2 (2011 - 2012). Installation of SUP 2.1.3 across 3-tier landscape, load-balanced Relay Servers (2012-13). Upgrade to 2.2.4 (Early 2014)Re-install CRM landscape onto new hardware and OS(W2K8), system copy existing database and upgrade using SUM (complete July 2013).Upgrade SUP 2.1.3 landscape to 2.2.4 (July 2013).Migrate BW onto new hardware. Split dual-stack version based on NW7, upgrade to NW7.3 using stack splitter tool. (March14 – August14)Upgrade SUP/SMP to version 3 including tier splitting (February 2015 - )

Upgrade/Migrate CRM, BW and ECC system landscapes from Windows/HP-UX to Linux and Oracle to HANA. Full project lifecycle (completed February 2016)

Minor Projects -Installation of Enterprise Portal 7.1 test system (2010)Installation of Business Objects v3 landscape (2010), v4 (2012) v41 (2014)Installation of Composition Environment 7.2 test system (2010)

Courses Attended (SAP) -Java (2 separate – ADM200/800), CRM Middleware, Oracle Tuning, ABAP Administration, SUP620 (Sybase), ASE, HANA.

Non-SAP:

Windows Network Administration

Microsoft (server platforms up to and including 2008R2, all client OS) -Active Directory, ISA server, IIS server, Microsoft Clustering, MS Exchange (2000 – 2010), recently implemented Exchange 2010 across business, along with Office 2010.

Other - HP-UX 11 Administration, including Serviceguard. Linux (Red Hat) Administration.Data Protector Backup environment (6.1).Database Administration - Oracle (10.2/11.2) and SQL (2000/2005/2008).Disaster Recovery – of key Hillarys SAP servers.VMWare – notably, implementation of SAP installations in a virtual environment.Citrix Metaframe, Teamspirit, Goldmine, IP/Internet/DNS , EMC Storage Arrays, SharePoint, E-commerce.

Courses Attended - Microsoft - Exchange 2000, 2007, 2010 (3 separate courses), SQL 2005, Server 2003.HPUX – Administration I/II (2 separate courses), Serviceguard, LVM.Other - VMWare ESX4, Citrix Administration, SUSE Linux - Administration.

Interests and activitiesReading, Football (playing, organising and watching), Music (listening / attending live events), Socialising, Wildlife, Travel.

Additional informationFull UK driving license.