Amr Abdelazeez, Application Architect - SAP Basis

Amr Abdelazeez

Application Architect - SAP Basis

IBM

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems Major
Experience
17 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 6 Months

Application Architect - SAP Basis at IBM
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since October 2014

During my eight years of extensive experience in Information Systems and Technology field, I could say that I have confidence and strong knowledge with the following subjects:

- SAP Systems Landscape Design & Sizing (Hardware & Applications)
- SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
- SAP ERP
- SAP Solution Manager
- SAP HANA Platform
- SAP Suite on HANA SoH
- Amazon Web Services - AWS - Cloud
- Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP)
- Sybase DB Adaptive Server Enterprise ASE
- SAP Business Objects - EDGE
- SAP Business Planning & Consolidation BPC (Microsoft Version, Netweaver Version)
- Teradata DW
- IBM Database DB2 LUW
- Linux (SUSE & Red Hat)
- Training (Information Technology & Information Systems)
- Microsoft Solutions (SharePoint, Windows Server, SQL Server, Business Intelligence)
- Focus ERP

Projects:
1- Etihad Airlines
http://www.etihad.com
SAP Migration Project (Full Cycle)
Industry: Aviation
Scope
Migrating All following SAP System from SAP HEC to IBM Cloud

1. SAP ERP on HANA
2. SAP BW on HANA
3. SAP Solution Manager on Sybase
4. SAP Enterprise Portal
5. SAP Process Integration
6. SAP Web Dispatcher
7. SAP Gateway
8. SAP Business Intelligence
9. SAP Data Services
10. SAP Information Steward
11. SAP Router

Supporting IT team for posting migration activities, ensuring SAP Systems are compline with SAP support standards, apply pre and post go live SAP recommendation.
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

2- Wadi Degla Holding
http://www.wadidegla.com/
SAP Implementation (Blue Print, Realization)
Industry: Construction
Scope
- ERP 6 EHP 7 Netweaver 7.4, Solution Manager 7.1 SP 12, Business Warehouse BW, Business Objects, Sybase ASE on AIX 7.1
Location: Cairo, Egypt

3- Project: Standard Bank http://www.standardbank.com/
SAP Technical Audit - Customer 1st Solution
Industry: Banking
Scope
- Review and Audit the current SAP Landscape for Customer 1st Program which include SAP CRM, HCM, Middleware, IBM BPM, Data Power, IBM Tivoli.
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

4- Egyptian Refining Company - ERC
http://www.ercegypt.com/index.html
SAP Implementation Project (Full Cycle Implementation)
Industry: Oli and Gas
Project Description: This is first Project to run SAP on IBM Softlayer Cloud so my
responsibilities are:
- Manage and Administrate SAP Server and Systems on IBM Cloud.
- Solution Manager Configuration (Testing, Services Desk, MOPZ, Project
Administration, LMDB, SMSY, ADS)
- ERP 6 EHP 7 on Sybase on Redhat
- Employee Self Services ESS and Manager Self Services MSS
- SAP Portal Netweaver
- LOC Configuration - Letter of Credit - Technical Configuration
- Authorization and Security
- Training for IT Team at ERC
Location: Cairo, Egypt

These knowledge and expertise are gained through practical projects and assignments with all four companies that I worked with New Horizons, Gateworx, Certified IT Consultant - CIC and IBM.

SAP Netweaver Consultant at Certified IT Consultants (CIC)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2011 to September 2014

SAP Technical Consultant Certified IT Consultant CIC - Cairo - Egypt
Status: Full Time
Period: November 2011 - September 2014 (2 Years 11 Months)


Project (Client) Details
HAPCO
http://www.hapco.com.sa/
SAP Implementation (Full Cycle Implementation) Industry :Construction
Scope
- ERP 6 EHP 7 Netweaver 7.4, Solution Manager 7.1 SP 11, Document Management
Systems DMS
Location : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
RANCO
http://www.rancogroup.com
SAP Implementation (Full Cycle Implementation)
Industry :Construction
Scope
- ERP 6 EHP 6 on Version for HANA (SoH), Solution Manager on HANA, Business Objects
Edge
Location : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Al -Dawaa http://www.al-dawaa.com/
SAP Implementation Industry : Pharmaceutical Scope
- ERP 6 EHP 5 (DB2 LWU on Linux), CRM 7 EHP2, PI 7.1, BW, SAP HANA 1 SP 5, Business
Objects, SAP Retail Store
- Saudi Arabia Localization
- Flex Frame (Fujitsu Solution for Virtualization SAP Systems) Location : Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Abd Allah Al Sayed Group www.alsayedgroup.net
SAP Implementation (Full Cycle Implementation)
Industry : Engineering, Construction, and Operations - EC&O Scope
- ERP 6 EHP 5 (Microsoft SQL on Windows) Location : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


Manafea Holding http://manafeaholding.com.sa
SAP Implementation (Full Cycle Implementation) Industry : Investment Management
Scope
- ERP 6 EHP 5 (Sybase ASE on Windows)
- SAP Planning and Consolidation 10 for Microsoft (BPC 10 on MS)
- SAP Business Objects 4.0
Location : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abuljadayel http://www.ab.com.sa/
SAP Implementation (Full Cycle Implementation) Industry: Food and Beverage
Scope: ERP 6 EHP 5 (Sybase ASE on Linux) Location : Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Bagader Est. http://www.bagader.com/
SAP Implementation (Full Cycle Implementation) Industry : Trading
Scope
- ERP 6 EHP 5 (Oracle on Windows)
- Global Trade Services GTS 10
Location : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Metro Market www.metro-markets.com
Enterprise Portal Installation
Configure Against ABAP Stack
Adobe Document Services ADS Configuration
Cairo, Egypt
Kama Manufacturing
www.kamamanufacturing.com

BObj Installation & BObj Integration - 10 of Ramadan, Egypt
Gulf Medical
www.gulfmedical.com
ERP & CRM support - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Certified IT Consultant
www.cic.ae
• Setting up CIC Support Center - Solution Manager (VAR)
• SAP Basis Consultant - ERP, CRM, IDES, Demos, and SAP EP - Cairo, Egypt - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• SAP Services Marketplace & Manage My Partnership MMP Administration
• Participating in preparing a lot of demos (ERP, EP, BOBJ, SRM, CRM)
• Prepare for Training Courses

SAP ERP Basis Consultant at Gateworx
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • October 2009 to September 2011

• SAP Systems Installation:
Including preparing the technical requirements for installations (DVDs Ordering or Downloading from SAP SWDC, Sizing, Product Availability Matrix PAM, Notes, Generating Solution Manager Key TC: SMSY, Install JER & JDK, Master Guides, Installations Guides, Execute Prerequisite Checker, Benchmarks )
o SAP ERP 6.0, SAP ERP IDES EHP3, SAP ERP IDES EHP 5, SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP NetWeaver, SAP Solution Manager, SAP SRM 5.0, SAP GUI Front End (for Windows, Java, also Patching SAP GUI).
• Post Installations Activities
o Install a permanent license (TC: Slicense), Install the online documentation (TC: SR13), Install and configure SAProuter, Install a Dialog Instance, Perform ABAP configuration, Configure Profile Parameters (Start Profile, Instance Profile, Default Profile) (TCs: RZ10, RZ11), Configuration of printers (TC: SPAD), Set up Operation Modes (TCs: RZ04, SM63), Create production client (TC: SCC4), Client Copy (TC: SCCL), Perform a full backup of the whole installation.
• Perform SAP System Administration tasks
o User maintenance and administration (TCs: SM01, SM10, SM04 ), Application Servers Monitoring (TC: SM51), Manage work processes (TC: SM50), Gateway monitoring (TC: SMGW), Message Server monitoring (TC: SMMS), Internet Communication Manager ICM monitoring (TC: SMICM), Schedule & Monitor background jobs (TC: SM37), SAP lock monitoring (TC: SM12), Analysis of dump & System logs (TC: SM21), Manage update records (TC:SM13), Object & Developer Key registration
• Basic knowledge in the following SAP Applications & Components
o SAP Business By Design (On demand), SAP Business One, Applications for Governance, Risk and Compliance GRC, SAP Supply Chain Management SAP SCM, SAP Product Lifecycle Management SAP PLM, Duet for Microsoft Office and SAP
• Maintaining and monitoring of SAP release strategy
• Maintaining and monitoring of SAP maintenance strategy (Mainstream, Extended and Customer-specific maintenance)

ERP Technical Consultant at Gateworx - Project G4S Security Services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2009 to August 2009

• Installing Focus ERP System on server client architecture in head office on the top of the following platform Windows Server 2008 Enterprise with the roles of active directory domain service ACDS, domain name system DNS and file services. The database was SQL Server 2008 Enterprise.
• Perform administration tasks like grant users rights & permissions on the ERP system.
• Connect the regional office “workgroup” with the head office “domain” through Virtual Private Network VPN
• Connect the Alexandria office “workgroup” with the head office “domain” through Virtual Private Network VPN
• Perform administrations tasks for the hole enterprise
• Provide technical support for the IT department
• Give training to the IT department in how to install a client side installation in either domain or workgroup environment.
• Document all above tasks and reporting to the project manager.

HR & Payroll Functional Consultant at Gateworx - Project G4S Security Services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2009 to August 2009

• Gathering the requirement about business process in hr & payroll system and all desired reports and KPI.
• Importing the master data to the ERP system and integrate it with the financial and sales modules
• Adjust and configure the system to calculate the taxes for all employees as it is in the Egyptian Law “Income Tax 91 for year 2005”.
• Adjust and configure the system to calculate social insurance for all employees as it is in the Egyptian Law “Social Insurance 79 for year 1975”.
• Implementing and test the system through user acceptance test.
• Give training for the end user in how to use the system.
• Document all above implementation life cycle and reporting to the Project manager PM.

CRM Consultant at Gateworx
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • December 2008 to February 2009

Responsibilities:
• Perform sizing exercise to implement web based application CRM.
• Making interviews with sales manager and technical manager to gather the requirement about implementing three modules Marketing, Sales and Support.
• Arrange meetings with Sales stuff & sales manager to collect the master data:
o Accounts, Contacts, Products
• Find the duplicate and make some cleaning tasks using Business Intelligence BI techniques.
• Installing CRM application on the following platform Windows Server 2003 Standard, Apache web server & My SQL database “the database & web server are in one package called XAMPP”.
• Importing the master data to the CRM application.
• Configure and customize the CRM to be adjusted with the customer requirement
• Creating users for the end user and manage permissions, groups, roles, profiles and security as mention in the interviews with the sales and technical manager.
• Configure the outgoing mail server SMTP & Incoming mail server to make the CRM interactive and send to users automatic emails about activities or tasks related to his/her user.
• Integrate the CRM with Microsoft outlook.
• Give the marketing, sales and technical stuff several training sessions.
• Perform an administration tasks e.g. monitor schedule backup.
• Train assistant to be first line support in case of any daily troubleshooting and help stuff
• Document all above implementation and training sessions materials

ERP Technical Consultant at Gateworx - Project Protecta
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2008 to December 2008

• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for the ERP System - Windows based application.
• Migrate ERP System and database from the host operating system Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and in work group environment to virtual machine VMware with the following platform Windows Server 2003, Active Directory Domain Services AD DS & Domain Name System DNS and SQL Server 2005 Enterprise.
• Reconfigure the client side to access the ERP system after migration and implementing AD DC
• Administration tasks in ERP system using remote access through Log me in or Team Viewer
• Handling the communication with the outsourcing IT Company and reporting to the customer.

Instructor at Information Technology Institute (ITI) – Alexandria Branch
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • October 2008 to November 2008

Teaching Information Technology (IT)

Instructor at New Horizons
  • Egypt
  • June 2006 to July 2008

o Responsibilities: Taught:
 Intro to IT-Windows XP-Word 2003-Power Point® 2003-Excel
 Project using Word 2003 and Power Point® 2003 application
 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Word 2003
 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Power Point® 2003
 Visual Basic for Application (VBA)
 Expression Web

Webmaster at Alexandria University - Faculty of Commerce - Information Systems & Computers
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • June 2007 to July 2008

Responsible for maintaining a website (www.alex-commerce.edu.eg/isc). The duties of mini include ensuring that the web server and software are operating accurately, designing the website, generating and revising web pages, replying to user comment and configure web servers such as Apache and serve as the server administrator.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems Major
  • at Alexandria University
  • June 2008

Cumulative Grade: Good Graduation Project: (Grade Excellent) Loyalty Management System (LMS) is a proposed MIS. The project was a one-semester, team-work project needed to fulfill the graduation requirements of my BA degree in MIS major. • The project involved: o Data gathering and Analysis o Process Modeling using DFD o Conceptual Database modeling using ERD o Relational Database modeling o Database Normalization o Developing a prototype of the system using Microsoft Access 2007 • Supervised by Dr. Ahmad Elragal Relevant Courses • Management Information System (MIS) • System Analysis and Design. • Database Management System (DBMS) • Java as a Programming Language. • Data Warehouse, Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP), Data Mining • Business Data Networks and Telecommunication. • E-Commerce

Specialties & Skills

SAP Netweaver
SAP ERP
HTML, CSS, XHTML, SQL, XML
Microsoft Office Specialist - Office Package
Java SE
Data Warehousing DW, Enterprise Resource Planning ERP, Data Mining DM, Business Intelligence BI
Oracle Datebase 10g
CRM - Vtiger
E-Commerce, W3C / Understanding of the importance of web usability, accessibility & standards.
Apache Web Server
Teradata Certified Professional V2R5
Human Resources
Networks
Active Directory Domain Services
SAP ERP ECC 6
SAP Basis
SAP Netweaver AS
Windows Server 2008
SAP Solution Manager
Windows Server Core 2008 R2

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

DB2 LUW Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP
Date Attended:
May 2012
Data Warehousing DW (Training)
Training Institute:
Teradata
Date Attended:
August 2009
SAP HANA - TZHANA, TZBWHA (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP
Date Attended:
June 2012
Demo & Build Your Business ALL-IN-ONE Solution (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP
Date Attended:
July 2010