Table of Contents
curriculum vitae
Social Networks
Qualifications / CertifiCATES
Areas of expertise
EducationS
Languages
Project experiences
Expert Skills

curriculum vitae	
Name:	Holger Slomka	
Address:	Bavaria, Details on request
phone:	0172 / 83 10 204
email:	contact@slomka.biz 	
Date of birth:	1.12.1971	
Academic Studies:	October 1990 -	diploma, engineer for information technologies
October 1997		
Professional career:	01.1998 – 03.1999	GE Capital Services IT Solutions - CompuNet
systems consultant
04.1999 – 02.2002	Haitec AG
SAP Consultant, systems consultant
since 03. 2002	Technical IT Consultant, Freelancer	
Miscellaneous activities:	1997 – 2000	Owner of retail trade for PCs, networking solutions and telecommunications	

Social Networks	
LinkedIn	https://de.linkedin.com/in/hslomka	
XING	https://www.xing.com/profile/Holger_Slomka	
Blog	http://hslomka.de/techno/	
Web cv	https://www.slomka.biz 	
Azure Demo Project	https://dev.azure.com/slommi/pwshLogSwitch/ 	
GitHub	https://github.com/slommi71	

Qualifications / CertifiCATES
	•	Graduate Engineer Electrical Engineering / graduated in techniques of control, reverse control, and communication systems (Diplomingenieur)
•	Prince2® Foundation
•	Prince2® Practitioner 
•	SAP Certified Application Management Engineer - End to End Root Cause Analysis
•	SAP Certified Technical Consultant, Unix / Oracle
•	SAP Certified Technical Consultant for OS/DB Migrations
•	AIX Certified Specialist for Support
•	AIX Certified Specialist for Installation and System Recovery
•	AIX Certified Specialist for Communications
•	AIX Certified User
•	SGI Irix Administration 1
•	SGI Irix Administration 2
•	SGI Irix 6.5 Update certificate	

Areas of expertise
	•	Prince2® certified project manager
•	Solution architect: DevOps Continous Integration / Delivery, Application Integration and operation in heterogeneous networks (Unix / Windows)
•	IBM WebSphere Application Server (Administration), IBM HTTP Server Expert
•	DevOps (GITLab/Ansible/Jinja) Administration and Orchestration of applications 
•	Solution architect for SAP and middleware landscapes
•	Linux and Unix Administration, IBM AIX certified
•	Administration of relational databases (Oracle DB certified)
•	SAP NetWeaver administration
•	SAP Solution Manager expert: Change Request Management, IT Service Management, SAP project management, CCMS and MAI monitoring, systems administration with Solution Manager	

EducationS
2021	Information Security
Udemy: GitLab CI/CD Pipelines	
2020	DataCamp: WebScraping in Python
DataCamp: Intermediate Python
DataCamp: Python Data Science Toolbox (Part 2)
DataCamp: Python Data Science Toolbox (Part 1)
DataCamp: Intermediate Importing Data in Python
DataCamp: Introduction to Importing Data in Python
DataCamp: Introduction to Python
OpenHPI: Let’s Git – versions management and opensource
OpenHPI: programming with Ruby
Udemy: Javascript Basics (WebDevSeries)
OpenSAP: The Internet of Things with SAP
Udemy/youAccell: Setup a Virtual Web Server using Linode or Digital Ocean
OpenHPI: Introduction to Deep Learning for Computer Vision	
2019

	Datacamp: Tidy Data in Python Mini-Course
Microsoft Learn: Azure Principles of cloud computing
Microsoft Learn: Create an Azure account
Microsoft Learn: Intro to security in Azure
Microsoft Learn: Core Cloud Services – Welcome to Azure
Microsoft Learn: Core Cloud Services – Explore Azure infrastructure
Microsoft Learn: Cloud Core Services: Verwalten von Diensten mit dem Azure-Portal
Nagarro/Google: Get more out of SAP with Google Cloud, Workshop	
2018	openSAP/OpenHPI (Hasso Plattner Institute): Object-Oriented Programming in Java
openHPI (Hasso Plattner Institute): IPv6 in modern networks	
2017	SAP Solution Manager for SAP S/4HANA Implementation
openSAP (Hasso Plattner Institute): Machine Learning	
2015	Microsoft Virtual Academy: Modern IT - DevOps to ITIL, Creating a Complete Lifecycle for Service Management
Microsoft Virtual Academy: PowerShell: Azure-Automation
Microsoft Virtual Academy: C# 
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows PowerShell 3.0 for Beginners - Part 1
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows PowerShell 3.0 for Beginners - Part 2
Windows Server 2012: Technical details - networks
OpenSAP: SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA in a Nutshell
OpenSAP: SAP NetWeaver Upgrades in a Nutshell
Prince2® Compact - Prince2® Foundation and Prince2® Practitioner	
2013	SAP Hana CSA Know How Call – Performance in SAP Databases
SAP Expert Guided Implementation for System Monitoring and Reporting	
SAP Expert Guided Implementation for SAP HANA Database Administration and Operations
SAP Expert Guided Implementation Change Request Implementation 7.1 SP05
SAP Expert Guided Implementation Change Request Management II - Quality Gate Management
SAP Expert Guided Implementation Change Request Management III
SAP Expert Guided Implementation for Incident, Problem and Request Management
ASUG Training: SAP Security Tips and Tricks for  SAP Solution Manager 7.1
SAP Expert Guided Implementation for Authorization Concept & Roles in SAP Solution Manager 7.1
SAP Expert Guided Implementation Solution Documentation I: Basics, Initial Upload, Verification
SAP Expert Guided Implementation PI Montoring und Troubleshooting	
2012	SAP Expert Guided Implementation Solution Manager 7.1 Quality Gate Management
SAP Expert Guided Implementation - SAP Change Control Management Enhanced Transport Management CTS+ 7.1
SAP Expert Guided Implementation - SAP Change Request Management 7.1
SAP Expert Guided Session SAP Solution Manager Technical Upgrade 7.1
SAP Expert Guided Implementation - SAP Change Request Management Upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1
SAP Expert Guided Implementation - SAP Solution Manager Solution Documentation
SAP Expert Guided Implementation Service Level Reporting and IT Performance Reporting	
2011	SAP Oracle ACS Services: “Oracle 11G Features, Oracle Cost Based Optimizer Tuning“	
2009	SAP Guided Session Expert Training: “Enablement for Technical Sessions“	
2007	SAP course E-Learning Test Management with SAP Solution Manager
SAP course SMO150: SAP Solution Manager 4.0: Service Desk
SAP course SMI310: SAP Solution Manager: Implementation tools in Detail  
SAP course E2E100: SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics - E2E Root Cause Analysis	
2006	SAP course CRM100: CRM Customizing	
2004	IBM class MQ30EK: WebSphere MQ Administration AIX, Distributed Platforms,  Part II
IBM class MQ15AEDE: WebSphere MQ Administration AIX, Distributed Platforms, Part I
IBM class AU42: AIX Security – Extended 2
IBM class WF38D5DE: WebSphere Application Server	
2003	SAP ADM325 - Software Logistics - Change and Transport Management
SAGE KHK financial accounting – Beginner
SAGE KHK financial accounting - Extended	
2002	SAP BC315 - Workload Analysis / Performance Optimization	
2001	SAP TABC92: TC Enhanced SAP R/3 Operating System and Database Migration
Windows 2000 course MOC 1560 Active Directory Services
Windows 2000 course MOC 1561 Active Directory Services
Windows 2000 course MOC 1562 Active Directory Services
AIX Power Tips & Techniques VI: Working with SCSI and SSA
Oracle Databases Administration & Oracle Backup and Recovery	
2000	Oracle Databases Administration
IBM RS/6000 SP Administration
AIX HACMP Administration: Operation and Maintenance of HACMP Clusters	
1999	Technical Consultant Training DB/2 UDB auf Unix and NT Workstations (Tivoli Data Protection for SAP R/3 training class)
SAP R/3 Basis Administration and Installation
Informix Databases Administration
Tivoli Storage Manager Training	
1998	IRIX Administration 1
IRIX Administration 2
IRIX 6.5 Update Training
AIX Basics
AIX TCP/IP Troubleshooting
AIX Performance Tuning
AIX TCP/IP Connectivity
AIX Systems Administration
AIX Systems Administration for Experts
Venus for Administrators
Communication and Conflicts Training	

Languages

Native language	German	
Foreign language	English (fluent), Icelandic (basic skills, but learning), Hungarian	

Project experiences
	Siemens AG, München	
Current project
since 07.2021	Senior DevOps Systems Engineer
•	Design cd/cd deployments for SAP Netweaver and SAP Hana systems
•	Produkt Owner, Developer ansible Playbooks, Python, Employee trainings
•	RHEL, SLES, ansible, Gitlab EE, Python, Git, Bash, HP-OO, AWS	
	Finanz Informatik Technologie Services GmbH, Haar	
Current project
since 11.2017	DevOps expert IT for application server and application integration concepts
Position: Middleware Systemarchitekt, Product Owner
•	IT concept in agreement with application owners and technical implementation, documentation
•	Product owner - automation and provisioning framework for middleware products, based on ansible and Gitlab 
•	Documentation and user trainings
•	DevOps: automation of middleware deployments using GitLab, Ansible, Python, Go, Shell, Jinja2, CI/CD pipelines, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Terraform, docker, Kubernetes, Azure on Premise Solution, Google Cloud Platform
•	request for quotation support
•	IBM WebSphere Application Server, Tomcat, IBM HTTP Server, NGINX, Microsoft IIS Administration, redis, postgresql, oracle, RHEL7, RHEL8	
01.2016
–
09.2017
	Data centre migration
Position: DevOps systems engineer/ Middleware solution architect
•	Solution architect: data centre move (IBM WebSphere applications)
•	Design and Compilation Specification of services, operational concept and configuration standard of application environment, deployment standard
•	Migration IBM WebSphere Application servers and Middleware
•	Solution architect: implementation automated deployment via GitLab, ansible, docker
•	Design and implementation of automated WebSphere Deployments und JVM Server/Cluster configuration (IBM WebSphere PropertyBased approach, Jython, Ansible), AIX, RHEL7	
Current project
since 03.2013	SAP Solution Manager expert
•	SAP Netweaver systems architect, SAP Product Owner ChaRM
•	Solution Manager Upgrade 7.1 SPS10, 7.2
•	SAP Solution Manager Change Request Management Upgrade, Third Level Support
•	SSM 7.1 ChaRM authorization concept
•	SAP NetWeaver Administration, SAP Solution Manager ChaRM, Diagnostics
•	Design and implementation of Monitoring Alert Infrastructure (MAI)	
10.2012
–
11.2012	SAP NetWeaver Installations OS/DB Migration
Position: SAP systems architect
•	Performance analyses	
07.2012
–
08.2012	SAP NetWeaver installations onto Red Hat Enterprise virtualization server
Position: SAP systems architect
•	Proof of Concept: Migration of SAP Linux XEN based system to RHEV 3.0 platform	
01.2012
–
03.2012	SAP Solution Manager
•	Solution Manager Upgrade 7.0 to 7.1 SPS4
•	Administration: SAP Solution Manager Change Request Management	
02.2011
–
06.2011	SAP Solution Manager, CPS Job automation
•	Tendering: SAP CPS support, Proof of concept: CPS Integration in Solution Manager
Administration: SAP NetWeaver, SAP Solution Manager Change Request Management	
09.2010
–
01.2011	SAP Heterogeneous OS/DB Migration
•	Migration of SAP NetWeaver ECC (HR) systems from Windows Server 2003 to Linux XEN environment	
11.2009, 02.2010
–
10.2010	SAP Solution Manager Change Request Management Implementation
•	SAP Solution Manager Change Request Management, design and implementation
•	Solution Manager: ChaRM Enhancement/CRM Customizing
•	SAP NetWeaver CE 7.11 Upgrade, SAP performance analyses
•	Administration: SAP transport management system (CTS/TMS)
•	Installation Software RUBEN ©IKOR GmbH (IBM WebSphere application)
•	Oracle database installation and administration	
	Baader Bank AG, Unterschleißheim	
06.2020
–
07.2020	Solution Architect: Unix Applications and Senior DevOps Systems Engineer
•	Development and implementation of concepts for the safe operation of unix applications in banking area	
	Siemens Corporate IT, München	
03.2011
–
03.2015	SAP NetWeaver administration and systems analysis, SAP Monitoring  
•	Project manager: upgrades SAP ECC 7.0, NetWeaver 7.31, Solution Manager 7.1
•	Solution architect: SAP Solution Manager MAI monitoring, Change Request Management / CTS+, SAP Data Volume Management
Technical Expert: SAP Upgrades: R/3 46C  ECC 6.0, NW 7.0   NW 7.31
•	Database migration: Oracle 11.2  SAP Hana database
•	Implementation SAP Solution Manager Service Desk, Change Request Management, MAI monitoring, authorization concepts, documentation
•	Heterogeneous operating system migrations (Sun Solaris -> Linux)
•	Administration: SAP NetWeaver ECC, BI, CRM, SLD, SAP Solution Manager, PI 7.01, SAP SSO, SAP SNC, SAP performance analyses	
	Flughafen München GmbH	
12.2014
–
03.2015	SAP Solution Manager Consulting and Process Optimizations
•	SAP Solution Manager 7.1 configuration & best practice	
10.2013
–
03.2014	SAP Solution Manager and SAP NetWeaver administration
•	Administration: SAP NetWeaver, performance analyses, Oracle database	
	SCA IT, IT Services, Ismaning	
09.2011
–
12.2011	Solution Manager – Implementation Solution Library
•	Solution architect: Solution library, business blueprint documentation	
	Monier Group GmbH, Oberursel	
05.2011
–
10.2011	SAP Solution Manager Service Desk & Incident Management
•	Solution architect: ITSM, Customizing SAP Service Desk	
	Landeshauptstadt München, Industry: Administration	
05.2011
–
11.2011	SAP Solution Manager Monitoring - Workshop
•	Solution architect: SAP systems monitoring with SAP Solution Manager (CCMS)
•	Solution Manager customizing, Reporting concept (Central Performance History)	
	Bayrischer Rundfunk, München	
05.2011	Unix Administration
•	SAP Virtualization - IBM AIX 6.1, IBM AIX Administration	
	Proc-it GmbH, IT services	
05.2011
–
07.2011	SAP Solution Manager Upgrade, SAP Basis Administration
•	Technical Upgrade SAP Solution Manager 7.01
•	Solution Manager Administration	
01.2011
–
03.2011	Enterprise Portal Administration, SAP Basis Administration
•	Administration SAP Enterprise Portal, SSO Configuration, SAP Solution Manager	
09.2010
–
12.2010	Enterprise Portal Installation, Single Sign On Configuration
•	Design and implementation: SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Portals 
•	Installation and Administration SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Portals, MaxDB, ESS and MSS business packages, Single Sign On Configuration	
12.2009
–
03.2010	SAP Administration, SAP Systems Design and Implementation, Backup design
•	Upgrade to ECC 6.0, backup concept
•	Administration: SAP 4.7, SAP NetWeaver ECC 6.0, MaxDB, performance analyses	
05.2009
–
06.2009	Consulting SAP ECC Administration
•	SAP ECC systems analysis, SAP NetWeaver administration
•	Upgrade of SAP ERP 6.0 / ECC 6.0 to SAP ECC EHP3 SP4	
05.2008	SAP Solution Manager, SAP administration
•	Administration: SAP Solution Manager 7.0, SAP SLD, SAP NetWeaver ECC 6.0	
	Landeshauptstadt München, Industry: Administration	
01.2011	Enterprise Portal Administration 
•	Administration SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal, SAP NetWeaver	
	Klinikum Großhadern München, Industry: Health care services	
11.2010
–
12.2010	Solution Manager Diagnostics error analysis
•	Customizing Root Cause Analysis Module in SAP Solution Manager, administration	
	Lodestone Management Consultants, Zürich Switzerland	
11.2010
–
12.2010	Solution Manager –Incident Management and Change Request Management
•	Customizing Incident Management and Change Request Management
•	Customizing Service Desk Escalation Management (KPI Monitoring)	
	SCA IT, IT Services, Ismaning	
11.2010
–
12.2010	Solution Manager – Implementation Solution Library
•	Workshop: SAP solution library / business process documentation
•	Customizing SAP Solution Manager, Solution documentation setup	
	MARS Deutschland - Mars Services GmbH, Industry: Food ,Unterhaching	
03.2011
–
10.2011	SAP Solution Manager Change Request Management
•	Workshop: SAP Change Request Management and user training SAP ChaRM	
11.2009
–
12.2010	SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure, SAP Monitoring concept & implementation
•	NetWeaver CE 7.1, NetWeaver Development infrastructure, SAP CTS+
•	Support SAP data center move
•	SAP NetWeaver CE, ECC, BI, CRM, Enterprise Portal, performance analyses
•	SAP Solution Manager Change Request Management Customizing, CCMS, SAP SLD, user training	
	Sanacorp, Industry: Wholesale pharmaceutical	
06.2008
–
07.2008	SAP Solution Manager
•	Solution Architect: SAP Solution Manager landscape architecture
•	SAP Solution Manager customizing and administration	
	Wm Wrigley Jr. Co., Industry: Food	
07.2005
–
10.2009	SAP NetWeaver Administration, SAP Solution Manager customizing
•	SAP Solution Manager: Unicode Conversion, EHP1 Upgrade, SAP Change Request Management customizing, SAP Service Desk
•	SAP Euro conversion: Slovakia, Slovenia
•	Oracle databases, Oracle 10g Upgrade
•	SAP Solution Manager 7.0 Enterprise Edition, WILY Introscope EM, SAP Web Dispatcher, SAP Internet Sales, SAP TREX Server 6.0, SAP NetWeaver ECC, SAP NetWeaver CRM 4.0, BI, SAP NetWeaver CE 7.1, SLD, performance analyses, SAP IPC, SAP Content Server
•	SAP systems platform Migration (PA-Risc -> IA64)
Position: SAP project manager
•	Solution Manager Version 4.0 Upgrade
 Position: SAP solution architect
•	SAP eCommerce Solution (ITS, CRM 4.0, Apache)
•	NetWeaver Transport Landscape, CTS+ concept
•	Change Request Management, System Landscape Directory, Evaluation CPS (Redwood Cronacle for SAP 8.0), SAP TDMS 3.0
•	Redesign Monitoring Landscape, IT Performance Reporting configuration, Root Cause Analysis, HP Openview integration into SAP Solution Manager
•	Trainer: Solution Manager Knowledge Transfer	
09.2002	TMS Workflow concept
•	concept TMS Workflow and implementation, incl. authorization concept	
	WVV GmbH, Industry: energy supplier	
07.2007	Trainer: Workshop – Systems Administration with SAP Solution Manager	
	Mitsubishi Polyester Film GmbH, Industry: Chemical industry	
08.2006
–
08.2006	SAP Monitoring with SAP Solution Manager
•	Consulting, Monitoring based on SAP Solution Manager 3.2 and SAP CCMS	
	Industry: Automotive	
10.2005	SAP Basis Administration
•	SAP backup strategy, implementation	
	Industry: Logistics	
07.2005
–
08.2005	High availability Cluster for Tivoli Storage Manager
•	HACMP Cluster for Tivoli Storage Manager	
	Informatik Zentrum GmbH, Industry: IT Service Provider	
06.2008
–
07.2008	SAP Solution Manager, Change Request Management and Diagnostics
•	Technical expert: SAP Solution Manager Change Request Management, E2E Root Cause Analysis Consulting, Solution Manager Diagnostics
•	Trainer: SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics	
01.2001
–
06.2005	Implementation and migration of financial applications, SAP administration
•	Administration, Unix/SAP Server consolidation:  IBM HTTP server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, MQ, OBS, SAP R/3, SAP Solution Manager, performance analyses, SAP Backup (Tivoli Data Protection), AIX, IBM HACMP, DEC Unix, Solaris, Linux, Oracle 9i
•	Development automated deployments, host interface (Universal Command UC4)
•	User training and documentation
Solution architect and developer: BAFin §24c interface, BASEL II
•	implementation of application BAFin - KWG §24c , security concept
•	operating and security concept: Hosting of a rating application – BASEL II)
•	Middleware Solution Architect (WebSphere Server, MQ Series for AIX, DB2, AIX)	
	Haitec GmbH, IT Service Provider, Übersee	
1999
–
2002	•	Tivoli Storage Management Server, Tivoli Data Protection, SAP backup concept
•	SAP heterogenous OS/DB migrations, SAP server consolidation
•	Administration: SAP R/3, SAP Upgrade 46C, Oracle database
•	IBM AIX Upgrade, Development of a monitoring application (Korn Shell)	
	CompuNet GmbH, IT Service Provider, München	
1998
–
1999	•	IBM AIX and SGI Irix administration,  Oracle database administration	

Expert Skills
DevOps / Agile

Middleware	•	GitLab, CI/CD Pipelines, GitLab / ansible runner
•	Microsoft Azure, Linode, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud Platform
•	Docker, kubernetes, podman
•	VirtualBox, Vagrant, Terraform
•	KanBan, SCRUM
•	Microservies / REST API
•	Ansible, Puppet, Hiera

•	IBM WebSphere Application Server (Base, Network Deployment)
•	IBM HTTP Server
•	Tomcat, nginx, apache HTTP	
Betriebssystem	•	IBM AIX (incl. HACMP, NIM), IBM AIX certified
•	Linux (SLES, RHEL)	
SAP	•	SAP NetWeaver administration, performance analyses, SAP upgrades, SAP enhancement packages implementations
•	SAP Solution Manager (Monitoring and alerting infrastructure, Change Request Management, ITSM / Service Desk)
•	SAP Unicode migration, SAP homogenous and heterogenous OS/DB migrations
•	SAP certified application management engineer – Root Cause Analysis	
Datenbanken	•	Oracle databases, PostGreSQL, MaxDB, SAP Hana, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, Microsoft Access
•	SQL	
Programmiersprachen	•	Python (pandas, numpy, keras, tensorflow, flask), Jython
•	JACL, Go, Ruby
•	ansible, Jinja2, YAML
•	UNIX-Shell Scripting, bash, ksh, awk, sed, regular expressions
•	Microsoft PowerShell
•	.Net C#, .Net VB, Visual Basic for Applications
•	Java, Android programming
•	HTML, CSS, XML