Andy Niemann – About me: Who I am and what makes me tick!
Every project and every cooperation are not only dependent on professional knowledge, the human component must also be right!
Being born in 1977, I was lucky enough to get my first contact with personal computers already in secondary school. Since then, computers and information technology have always fascinated me.
Via the detour of a manual apprenticeship and the German Federal Armed Forces, I retrained as an IT specialist (system integration) from 2002 to 2004. This was the beginning of my professional IT career. I was then able to gain experience as a system and network administrator at two large, medium-sized companies, until I was assigned as an SAP Basis Administrator in 2008 as a result of an SAP implementation. Since then, I have been involved in various SAP projects and I am still learning every day.
Stages of my curriculum vitae:
- 05/2002 – 07/2004 retraining as IT specialist (system integration)
- 08/2008 – 07/2010 Technical high school diploma (extra-occupational evening school Duisburg)
- 08/2008 Assignment and setup as internal SAP Basis Administrator (Bonita GmbH & Co. KG)
- 04/2014 – 11/2016 Team leader of the SAP Basis and IBM i team (Nagel Group)
- 10/2014 – 12/2018 extra-occupational studies: Business Informatics / Business Process Management, FHDW Bielefeld
- Bachelor Thesis: “Conceptual design and development of a secure SAP ABAP system”.
- 12/2016 – today self-employed and certified SAP technology consultant
As already mentioned, the professional qualities are one thing, the soft skills are important other qualities. As a person, I am open to new things, honest and direct. I always offer a solution-oriented approach and have strong communication and organizational skills.
My SAP certifications
C_TADM55_74 – SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration
P_ADMSYS_731 – SAP Certified Technology Professional – System Maintenance
C_AUDSEC_731 – SAP Certified Technology Associate – Authorization and Auditing
P_ADMSEC_731 – SAP Certified Technology Professional – System Security
C_TADM70_74 – SAP Certified Technology Associate – OS/DB Migration for SAP
LPIC-1 – Linux System Administration
Previous projects and tasks
Here you can see an insight of my larger tasks and projects, which were accomplished by me. Client and system copies as well as the installation of patches and support packages were deliberately not listed, as these are almost routine activities.
Inhouse projects as employee:
- SAP: Technical project management (incl. installation and administration) for the implementation of an intranet, based on SAP Netweaver AS Java 7.3
- SAP: Replacement of Netweaver Process Integration (PI) 7.11 (dual stack) to Netweaver Process Orchestation (PO) 7.3 (AS Java)
- IBM i: Upgrade of IBM i systems from V6R1 to V7R1
- SAP: Upgrade of the central ERP system from ERP 6.0 EhP 3 to ERP 6.0 EhP 7 of a 2 TB database
- SAP: Installation of a SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) 10.0 system
- SAP: Technical project management (incl. installation and administration) for the implementation of a SAP Business Warehouse (BW) on HANA system incl. Business Objects 4.2
- SAP: Project management for reorganization of SAP ABAP authorizations
Customer projects
- SAP: Upgrade of the central ERP system from ERP 6.0 EhP 7 to ERP 6.0 EhP 8 of a 22 TB database
- SAP: Setup and implementation of a SAP EWM system on HANA
- Linux: Storage migration using Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- SAP: setup and implementation of a SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 system
- SAP: Installation and configuration of SAP Single Sign-On 1.1 (license free)
- SAP: Front End Installation and Configuration
- SLT Migration: On-Premise –> SAP BTP
- S/4HANA Migrations
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