SAP
Chris Liebenberg
SAP Technical Consultant
Clayville East,GP
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Dedicated IT professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
Experienced SAP Technical Consultant with over 40 years of experience in IT. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction.
Reliable employee seeking SAP Technical position. Offering excellent communication and good judgment.
Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction.
Assisting SAP customers with SAP S/4HANA migration preparation.
Overview
46
46
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior SAP Basis Consultant
Lemongrass
Clayville East, Gauteng
11.2022 - Current
- Reduced downtime with proactive maintenance of SAP systems, ensuring smooth operations.
- Enabled seamless integration between various SAP components through proper configuration and troubleshooting efforts.
- Implemented early watch alerts to proactively identify potential issues before they escalated into major problems, minimizing disruptions.
- Contributed to cost savings initiatives by identifying areas for process optimization within the organization''s IT infrastructure.
- Developed a solution for reduction in disk space for SAP Security Audit files.
- Assist customers with preparation for migration to SAP S/4HANA.
- Stayed abreast of industry trends and developments, applying best practices to continuously improve the company''s SAP infrastructure.
- Improved system performance by optimizing SAP solutions and monitoring system resources.
- Facilitated smooth migrations with careful planning, testing, and execution of system upgrades and enhancements.
- Mentored junior team members in the intricacies of SAP Basis administration, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Delivered SAP training, user support and knowledge transfer at end of project and followed up to verify successful implementation.
- Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions.
Technical Quality Manager
SAP Africa
Woodmead
04.2013 - 12.2021
- Currently technical resource for the SAP AGS MaxAttention team at Standard Bank
- Bank focusing on assisting Standard Bank with all technical problems and projects
- Performance analysis on SAP systems, recommendations and evaluation of problem scenarios
- Making sure SAP projects are aligned according to SAP guidelines and documentation.
- Assist Standard Bank technical and functional consultants in correctly create problem messages to be submitted to SAP Active Global Support
- Assist the AGS service team as technical recourse during service delivery.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts.
- Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.
- Prepared variety of different written communications, reports and documents.
- Actively listened to customers' requests, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns.
SAP Technical Quality Manager
SAP Africa
Woodmead
04.2012 - 03.2013
- Assisting in all issue in the De Beers upgrade project
- The project went live after a very successful upgrade project in which no major issues were experienced after going live
- Certified as Technical Quality Manager in June 2012, Rot Germany
- Worked at MCS (Mission Critical Support) in June 2012, Rot Germany
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
- Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
- Offered friendly and efficient service to customers, handled challenging situations with ease.
Senior SAP Technical Consultant
BCX
Midrand
03.2010 - 02.2012
- Solved functional and technical obstacles and worked closely with project team from different streams.
- Delivered SAP training, user support and knowledge transfer at end of project and followed up to verify successful implementation.
- Architected SAP solutions by prioritizing simplicity, appropriate scale, resiliency and maintainability.
- Multitasked and managed multiple deliverables and projects concurrently and facilitated use of SAP for enterprise resource planning.
- Senior Technical Advisor to Sasol for the Sasol SAP systems.
- Team lead for Sasol Migration project and Sasol Support
- Performance analysis on SAP systems, recommendations and evaluation of problem scenarios
- Mentoring and training of junior consultants in best business practices for SAP technology
- Making sure SAP projects are alligned according to SAP guidelines and documentation
- Support of functional consultants in making sure that they make use of the supported SAP procedures in the Transport Management System
- Assist customers and partners with SAP upgrade planning and auditing
- Assist Basis and functional consultants in correctly creating problem messages to be submitted to SAP Active global support
- Train consultants (Technical and functional) in using the SAP Service Marketplace
- Assist Basis consultants in resolving problems and correctly reporting it to SAP and show escalation procedures of SAP messages
- Assist in all technical proposals that are submitted to make sure they are technically correct
- Guiding customers in SAP Solution Manager projects and assisting in planning deployment projects
- Traveled to client locations to implement SAP solutions and offered post-installation support services.
- Designed deployment automation solutions to expedite implementation of SAP solutions.
- Applied widely accepted SAP best practices to [Product or Service] implementation, providing rapid onboarding.
- Analyzed existing systems and databases and recommended enhancements to solve business needs
SAP Platinum Basis Consultant
EPI-USE
Pretoria
09.2006 - 02.2010
- Responsible for major upgrade project in Spain (Barcelona) where a client at a time was upgraded
- Mentoring junior technical consultants in SAP basis and technology
- Assist in all technical proposals in making sure the correct project plans are submitted
- Attending SAP user groups for Netweaver and Solution Manager
- Basis team lead in SARS upgrade and implementation project, responsible for technical correctness and architectural planning
- Deploy SAP Solution Manager projects at Standard Bank and Implats
- Training junior consultants in SAP Basis technology
- Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service.
- Improved operations through consistent hard work and dedication.
- Actively listened to customers' requests, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns.
SAP Platinum Basis Consultant
SAP Africa
Woodmead
05.1995 - 08.2006
- Achieved the level of K5 consultant in less than 2 years.
- Became an expert in SAP training, Basis, ABAP and Security
- Restored various production data bases from and almost desperate situation.
- Achieved a total of 16 SAP certifications.
- Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
- Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service.
- Improved operations through consistent hard work and dedication.
- Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.
Senior Technical Specialist
Systems Programming Limited (SPL)
Sandton
09.1988 - 04.1995
- Were employed for his Expert knowledge in CICS
- Trained in multiple products of German company Software AG.
- Researched and adopted new technologies to add value to existing offerings.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to transform client requirements into turnkey solutions.
- Improved systems with addition of new features and infrastructure.
- Recommended technology upgrades to improve client security.
- Organized system operating procedures to strengthen controls.
- Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
Senior Systems Software Engineer
IBM/ISM South Africa
Johannesburg
08.1981 - 08.1988
- Achieved the distinction of representing IBM South Africa on an international assignment to IBM UK (Eastleigh) as part of the CICS change team.
- He became the CICS expert in South Africa as well as the problem solver expert in the field.
- He attended various training courses in Mainz , Germany as well as in Milan , Italy. The courses were for MVS, CICS and VTAM training.
- He also achieved IBM 100% Club at the end of 1986.
- Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
- Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service.
- Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
- Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
- Improved operations through consistent hard work and dedication.
Junior Systems Programmer
Department of National Education
Pretoria
07.1979 - 07.1981
- Did an initial 3 months as a junior operator in machine room. Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Did Cobol training in order to do maintenance of existing programs. efficiently.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
- Build 2 new systems using PL/1 language.
- Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
- Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.
Education
Qualification Obtained SAP Certification 3.x (NT/ADABAS - SAP Technical Certification
SAP Training
Woodmead, South Africa 04.1997 - 08.1997
Qualification Obtained SAP certification 4.x (Unix/Oracle - SAP Technical Certification
SAP Training
Woodmead, South Africa 05.2000 - 08.2000
SAP Certification Service Consultant - Technical Service Consultant
SAP Training
Rot, Germany 06.2002 - 07.2002
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Programming
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa 01.1975 - 12.1977
Skills
Solution Manager/Basis/SAPundefined
Additional Information
- CHRIS LIEBENBERG , PAGE 7 OF 7 JANUARY 2021
Accomplishments
- Resolved product issue by restoring Portnet's SAP production DB2 database in less than 7 hours after a whole team of more than 20 people could not recover it in more than 3 days.
- Restored Kentron's SAP production Oracle database in 8 hours after a whole team of experts could not recover it in 3 days.
- Achieved SAP Technical Consultant K5 level in less than 2 years.
Software
Oracle
DB2
ABAP
Linux
Google Cloud
Photography
I started with photography in 1975. It has been a hobby ever since. In the film days I developed my own film and printed it in my own darkroom.
Today I use digital cameras and do all editing and printing from my computer.
Timeline
Senior SAP Basis Consultant
Lemongrass
11.2022 - Current
Technical Quality Manager
SAP Africa
04.2013 - 12.2021
SAP Technical Quality Manager
SAP Africa
04.2012 - 03.2013
Senior SAP Technical Consultant
BCX
03.2010 - 02.2012
SAP Platinum Basis Consultant
EPI-USE
09.2006 - 02.2010
SAP Certification Service Consultant - Technical Service Consultant
SAP Training
06.2002 - 07.2002
Qualification Obtained SAP certification 4.x (Unix/Oracle - SAP Technical Certification
SAP Training
05.2000 - 08.2000
Qualification Obtained SAP Certification 3.x (NT/ADABAS - SAP Technical Certification
SAP Training
04.1997 - 08.1997
SAP Platinum Basis Consultant
SAP Africa
05.1995 - 08.2006
Senior Technical Specialist
Systems Programming Limited (SPL)
09.1988 - 04.1995
Senior Systems Software Engineer
IBM/ISM South Africa
08.1981 - 08.1988
Junior Systems Programmer
Department of National Education
07.1979 - 07.1981
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Programming
University of Pretoria
01.1975 - 12.1977
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