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Sap Security 4 Hana

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Dallas, TX
Posted:
April 29, 2025

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MATTHEW K. OTWELL

**** ******** **. ******, *****, 75033

Cellular 214-***-****

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

A Senior SAP Security and GRC consultant specializing in the architecture and implementation of regulatory-compliant security and authorization concepts, concentrating on SAP security architecture and performance, and SAP functional support. Current experience includes ten complete global S/4 HANA/ECC implementations and nine GRC implementations with an in-depth practical understanding of SD, MM, FI/CO, and PM modules.

Experience implementing and supporting technical and functional aspects of SAP security and authorizations for all components, including SAP S/4 HANA, ECC, Fiori, SuccessFactors, GRC 12/10x, SRM, SCM, BI, and BPC.

Education

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas – Bachelor of Business Administration – Management Information Systems

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS OVERVIEW

Years of Experience

26 Years SAP Experience

26 Years of SAP Security Experience

10 Full Cycle SAP Implementations

9 Full Cycle GRC 10/10.1 Implementations

22 Years of Project Team Experience

6 Years of Management and Leadership Link Enabling (ALE)

SAP Module Solutions

Business Intelligence (BI)

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Finance and Controlling (FI/CO)

Human Capital Management (HCM)

Materials Management (MM)

Warehouse Management (WM)

Plant Maintenance (PM)

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Production Planning (PP)

Quality Management (QM)

Sales and Distribution (SD)

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

SAP - Enterprise Portal

EP 6.0, 7.0

Strategy, Design, and Implementation

User Admin: UME, Groups, Roles, Security

Content: iViews, Pages, Content Management

System: Transports, Monitoring

SAP Systems

CPGRC (Control Panel GRC)

S/4 HANA Enterprise Cloud

Ariba Buying & Invoicing/ Commerce Automation/ Contracts

Ariba Commerce Automation

Datasphere Cloud Platform

ECC 6.0, 5.0

SuccessFactors

Fiori

BW 3.5, BI 7.0 & BPC 10.1

CRM / SRM 7.0, 6.0 (SUS and LAC)

SCM 7.0

Solution Manager 7.0, 4.5

Security Solutions

SAP GRC Access Controls 12

SAP Identity Management (IDM)

Central User Administration

Security Weaver

SAP GRC (Virsa) Access Controls

GRC 12, 10.1, 10.0, 5.3

12/10.x Solutions: ARA, ARM, EAM, BRM

5.3 Solutions: RAR, CUP, SPM, ERM

Regulatory and Compliance Expertise

Sarbanes Oxley – Audit/Mitigation/Controls

Technical Expertise

Scalable Security Architecture

SOX Compliant Security Design

Workflow Design & Configuration

Security & Access Automation

GRC Rule Set Customization / Configuration

Recruiting

Super Recruiter Award as Ernst & Young Campus Recruiter

OTHER KEY CLIENTS

Tyson Foods – Springdale, Arkansas

Pilgrim's Pride – Pittsburg, Texas

Phillips Petroleum Company (Phillips 66) – Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Texas Instruments (TI) – Dallas, Texas

Fossil Group Inc. – Richardson, Texas

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. – Houston Texas

Exxon/Mobil – Irving, Texas

Celanese – Irving, Texas

Lennox International Inc. – Richardson Texas

Forest City Enterprises – Cleveland, Ohio

Top Golf USA Inc. – Dallas, Texas

Peets Coffee & Tea – Madison, Wisconsin

Reliance Steel & Aluminum – Scottsdale, Arizona

Macy's Inc. – New York, NY

Commercial Metals Company (CMC) – Irving, Texas

Driscoll’s Inc. – Watsonville, California

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) – Plano, Texas

Unilever USA – Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Panasonic – Newark, New Jersey

Roche Diagnostics USA – Indianapolis, Indiana

RELATED PROJECT HISTORY DURING EMPLOYMENT

ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas 5/31/2024 – 2/28/2025

UTRM LEAD nxtGEN ERP (User to Role Mapping for USA)

SAP ECC Global upgrade to S/4 HANA 2024

Initial Mapping for USA workstreams

Identify users and their core access required to perform daily job responsibilities

Managed workstream leads through user-to-role mapping for 7,000 users

Ran SOD Checks and Mitigation

Traveled to BU locations for in-person assistance for SIT 1, MOCK 2, SIT 2, MOCK 3, UAT, CUTOVER, HYPERCARE, & GO-LIVE

Create and load the BU-specific SAP & GEP Roles for USA into the Security Dashboard

SSM Health, St Louis, Missouri 12/26/2021 – 05/2024

SAP Security Lead

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), GRC12, S/4 HANA 2022 Upgrade & Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance

Coordinated with the SAP America Team to gain Capital Project Approval for SAP S4 Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC). Our team was approved and awarded the project in January 2024.

SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle & Performance Integration

SAP SAC & FIORI Security Support & Provisioning

Liaison between Deloitte IT Audit and SSM Security Team

Control Testing and Design

Developer Support Role Design and Analysis

FIORI Catalog, Group, & Role Creation

DAWN FOODS, Jackson, Michigan 4/1/2019 – 10/31/21

SAP Security Lead

GRC 10.1 – 12.0 GRC Program Design Partner

Founded GRC Governance Team

Founded GRC Steering Committee

Advised Executive Sponsors

Compliance with IT General Controls (ITGC)

Ruleset Maintenance and Change Management Processes and Impact Analysis

Facilitation of violation review procedures and annual review of rulesets with Ruleset Owners

User-provisioning oversight and change management.

Role maintenance and change management.

Compliance with role maintenance controls and guiding principles

Compliance with access management controls (role ownership) and security standards

Regulatory Timely completion and accuracy of access review procedures

Configuration and workflow maintenance

Monitor, track, and report GRC tool maintenance.

Avantor/ NuSil 8/1/2021 – 12/31/2022

SAP Security Lead

NS2 National Security Services ITAR Environment/ SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and in S/4 HANA/Governance, Risk and Compliance Access Control 12.0

GRC AC 12.0 - S/4HANA

S/4 FIORI Architecture Alignment

GRC AC Architecture Alignment

SAP Security Architecture & Naming Convention Document

Security Requirements for workstreams.

GRC workflow design requirements

Business Partner requirements

MICROSOFT April 2019 to May 2020

SAP Security Team

GRC 12.0 Upgrade/Fiori/ S4 HANA/Portal

Configure SAP GRC Access Control 12.0 Upgrade

Architecture Assessment

Infrastructure Assessment

Security and Compliance Assessment

Requirements

Blueprint- GRC/IDM/Sec Design

Blueprint - SoD Monitoring (Prev and Detective)

Test (System/Int/UAT)- GRC/Sec Design

SOD Monitoring and Prevention

Training and Readiness

BOEING, Bellevue, Washington June 2018 to April 2019

SAP Security Team

GRC 12.0 Implementation

Project Management

Realization Design for Business Role and Job Mapping

Process Design

Role Builds for ECC, BW, S4 Hana

Regression Testing

Mock 1,2,3 & UAT Testing

Knowledge Transfer Sessions

GRC RAR 12.0 SOD Testing and Pre-Go Live Controls Prep

HR/PII – Information & GRC Triggers

GRC/SPM Configuration

CHARM & SAP Portal

DAWN FOODS, Jackson, Michigan July 2016 to December 2017

SAP Security Lead

GRC 10.1 Implementation/Fiori/ S4 HANA/Portal

HANA/ BI Security – Configured

oStandard

oTechnical

oRestricted Users

oSystem, Object, Analytic, and Package Privileges

oCatalog (Run Time) and Repository Roles (Design Time)

oActivating Audit Policy (License Check)

oHana Admin Tasks

oDesign of roles & authorizations

oImplemented a security framework and role matrix for the SAP/ HANA Enterprise platform.

oSAP Hana Studio

Configure SAP GRC Access Control 10.1

Emergency Access Management (EAM) Pre-Implementation

oDefault Parameter Configuration

oSetting up Emergency Access Roles

oMaintaining Time Zones

oMaintaining Owners

ARTHREX, Fort Myers, Florida January 2016 to June 2016

SAP Security Team

Security Redesign

GRC 10.1

Establish reporting metrics.

Review/approve changes to the SOD framework.

Review/approve changes to the Security Design.

Establish business-sensitive criteria.

Establish and review existing policies and procedures for adequacy.

Review mitigating controls for appropriateness and controls test effectiveness

Establish quantification guidelines for SOX-relevant entities.

GRC - This new capability build project was to implement the Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) tool from the SAP suite of products to perform the below services.

Control Point

Governance - A defined governance structure for security design/GRC support was outlined and created.

INTEL/ MCAFEE, Plano, Texas January 2015 to December 2015

SAP Security Team

Restricting Federal Entity - Integration activities, a new legal entity will be created within SAP systems for the Federal government.

Scoping the affected data will allow the business and IT support teams to reduce effort in analyzing the landscape for retrofit development and process changes.

oLogical access controls only.

oLogical access controls in conjunction with data obfuscation

oParallel processing

Nationality

Points of Access

Process Changes

SAP Conversion Services

Incident Management

oProblem Management

oChange Management

oRequest Fulfillment

oEvent Monitoring

oServices and Application

TREEHOUSE FOODS Chicago, Illinois September 2014 to December 2014

SAP Security Team

Documenting process streams in Swim Lanes

Security requirements for PLM and Solution Manager

Testing security roles for their respective areas

Coordinate the integration testing of security roles

Coordinate with key business stakeholders on end-user IDs and role assignments in preparation for Go Live

AVAYA, Coppell, Texas October 2013 to August 2014

SAP Security Process Lead

SOX IT Process Control Lead

Accountable for maintaining an effective control environment for their respective processes

Develop and maintain process documentation

Implement documented remediation plans.

Document our control structure.

Record test results

Record Issues & Action Items

SAP Portfolio Management & Cross Application Time Sheets Security Design

Authorization analysis

Job Roles design & development

Testing

Deployment

TXUE, Irving, Texas June 2013 to October 2013

SAP Security Lead

IT Risk, Process Control Design, Security, & Compliance

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) about SAP/ECC & GRC10

SAP Security IT General Computing Controls framework

SAP Security & GRC 10 objectives, goals, policies, standards, guidelines

SAP Security Compliance Program external compliance requirements

Company-wide security awareness and education programs

Supported Internal Audit activities and remediation requirements.

UNILEVER, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey February 2013 to June 2013

SAP Security Team

SOD Resolution for SOX VP

Conducted Security Assessment

GRC 5.3 Process Evaluation

GRC 10 Upgrade

MCAFEE, Plano, Texas July 2012 to January 2013

SAP Security Team

FI/SD 46C upgrade to ECC 6.0

CRM 4.0 upgrade to CRM 7.0

Process Control Design

Approved One Process Changes

Verification of landscape to ensure SOX compliance.

Resolution for UAT Defects

Review of business roles for new objects

SU25 Syncs

USOBT_C comparison with PRD/CMP

Transaction to Role Assignments FIQ/MHQ to PRD/CMP

Object/Values to Role Assignments FIQ/MHQ to PRD/CMP

Designed and Implemented Security Risk Assessment for COE

DELEK US HOLDINGS, Nashville, Tennessee June 2012 to December 2012

SAP Security Lead

GRC 5.3 SOD Resolution to SOX VP

Review Ernst & Young to conduct an assessment related to SAP Security

SOD Resolution through Security Reengineering & Process Control Design

Project Management to US-based and Off-Shore teams

Role Builds for ECC6.0

GRC 5.3 Analysis & Rulesets

PEPSICO, Plano, Texas April 2010 to June 2012

SAP Security Lead

Management

Realization Design for Business Role and Job Mapping

Process Design

Role Builds for ECC 6.0, CE, BI, & SEM

Regression Testing

Mock 1,2,3 & UAT Testing

Knowledge Transfer Sessions

GRC RAR 5.3 SOD Testing and Pre-Go Live Controls Prep

HR/PII – Information & GRC Triggers

GRC/SPM Configuration 5.3

CHARM & SAP Portal

CAP GEMINI/ USIS/Altegrity, Falls Church, Virginia July 2009 to January 2010

SAP Security Lead

HCM Security & Process Control Design

Personnel Administration

Organization Management

Travel Management

ESS/ MSS

Benefits

Payroll

Time Management

GRC 5.3 Configuration

SMITH & NEPHEW, Memphis, Tennessee September 2007 to December 2008

SAP Security Lead

GRC upgrade from VIRSA 4.0 to SAP Access Controls 5.2

SAP Re-Architecture

HR Process Control Design for MSS/ESS

BW 7.0 Architecture Design and rollout

Project Scoping & Planning

Blueprint

Building and Unit Testing

Integration Testing

Live and Support

GRC upgrade from VIRSA 4.0 to SAP Access Controls 5.2

Access Enforcer 5.2

Compliance Calibrator 5.2

Fire Fighter 5.2

Role Expert 5.2

ECC 6.0 Security Re-Architecture

VERIZON, Richardson, Texas August 2007 to December 2007

Interim Global Security Administrator

Gather role requirements for ECC 6.0, XI 7.0, SRM 5.0, & Portal 7.0 Implementation.

Designed ECC6.0 Global Security Architecture

BW 3.0 upgrade to BI 7.0 & migration

BW 7.0 Naming Convention and Architecture Design

Approva SOD analysis and resolution

SILICON LABORATORIES, INC, Austin, Texas February 2007 to September 2007

Interim Global Security Administrator and Audit Manager

Security Team lead interfacing with/ External Auditors

Performed Forensic Audits around the security team to ensure they are performing best practice processes and following company policy.

Installed Virsa Compliance Calibrator & Firefighter Version 5.2

Assisting with Segregation of Duties Analysis, development, and implementation to remove the conflicting access within SAP R/3 & Interfaces using Virsa Compliance Calibrator

Audit Remediation tasks

Developed Global Policies & Procedures

Defined Security Key Controls and process Design

AMS - Incident Management

oProblem Management

oChange Management

oRequest Fulfillment

oEvent Monitoring

oServices and Application

MCAFEE, Plano, Texas April 2006 to February 2007

Interim Global Security Administrator

HCM (Human Capital Management) – Developed the security roles associated with MSS (Manager Self Service) and ESS (Employee Self Service) in the areas of Open Enrollment, Time Reporting, Personnel Requisition Forms (PRFs), and Personnel Action Forms (PAFs)

Developed the security roles associated with HTCM (High Tech Channel Management)

Developed additional security roles for extended R/3 functionality in the FI, CO, MM, and SD modules. Established the test User IDs and supported complete testing and remediation of all associated security roles. Performed portal security administration related to the ESS/MSS portal. Coordinated work effort with project team members in the US, the UK, and India

Approved implementation and rule book design in coordination with the business and Approva leadership

EDS – ERNST & YOUNG, Plano, Texas October 2005 to April 2006

Senior Manager

Assisting with Segregation of Duties Analysis, development, and implementation to remove the conflicting access within SAP R/3 & Interfaces using Virsa Compliance Calibrator

Assisting with testing change control and other custom processes

Performing Forensic Audits around the security team to ensure they perform best practice processes and follow company policy.

ERICSSON, Plano, Texas June 2005 to October 2005

SAP Global Security Remediation PM

SAP Security Implementation

Process Control Design

Role Definition

Mapped User to Roles

Transactions and End-Users

SOD Resolution

Organization and Field-Level Value Selection

Non-Organization and Field Level Value Selection

Address Critical High-Risk Transactions

Cutover & Support

Rewriting Policies, Procedures, and monitoring Documents for Global Security

Assisted in the Segregation of Duties Analysis, Development, and Implementation to remove the conflicting access within the SAP R/3 4.0B environment.

Worked with Basis Administration, Tech Development, and Security Teams in facilitation of meetings to reach deadlines and new approaches to remove the Audit Findings of PWC

Performed Security Support

CENTER POINT ENERGY, Houston, Texas April 2005 to May 2005

SAP/R3 Business Warehouse Model PM

Define SAP security requirements and goals.

Extract and categorize existing roles and authorizations from the SAP R/3 transactional system.

Document the existing transactional security structure in matrix form

Extract and categorize current roles and authorizations in the BW data warehouse system.

Document the existing BW security structure in matrix form

Analysis and Development

Identification of potential Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) segregation of duties issues

Document an alternative transactional security model for SOX compliance

Acquire client/auditor approval of future transactional security model.

Match the transactional security model to the business warehouse security structure.

Document future state business warehouse security structure

Assess cultural impact on the future security structure.

Deployment Planning

Work with CNP to develop a cultural approach to deploying the new structure.

Develop and document a plan to deploy the new security structure.

Assess and document resource requirements for deployment.

MCAFEE, Plano, Texas July 2004 to April 2005

SAP Global Security Remediation PM

Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)

Key Responsibilities

SAP Security Admin Policies & Procedures

Detective and Design initiatives using the SAP RBE Tool

Only Authorized users were able to schedule, delete, execute, and manage Batch Jobs & BDC Sessions

Install and test Application Security around Composite Roles and Simple Profiles

Manage Problem & Incidents

Restriction of Access to Security Authorization Objects and Security Transactions

Monitoring of RSAPARAM

Unauthorized users at the Database Level

Super User Group Access

Fire-Call

Four significant categories were defined for compliance with the PCAOB within these different areas.

Program Development

Change Control

Computer Operations

Logical Access

DUPONT, Wilmington, Delaware

SAP Security Team July 2001 to July 2004

Security Redesign, External Audit Findings

Security Implementation: Role Definition, User Mapping, Analysis of Users to Roles & with Transactions and End-users, SOD Identification & Resolution, Organization and Field Level Value Selection, Non-Organization and Field Level Value Selection, Address Critical, TMA & High-Risk Transactions, Build, Test, & Cutover & Support

Rewriting Policies, Procedures, and monitoring Documents for Global Security

Assisted in the Segregation of Duties Analysis, Development, and Implementation to remove the conflicting access within the SAP R/3 4.0B environment.

Worked with Basis Administration, Tech Development, and Security Teams in facilitation of meetings to reach deadlines and new approaches to remove the Audit Findings of PWC

Production Support

Performed system trace to architect proper security for Dialogue and Non-Dialogue users.

Provided APO Security analysis, maintenance, and support for the 4.0 upgrade.

Developed customized reports in MS Access to document security roles.



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