Professional Information
Since November 2000 I've been an independant SAP Technical Consultant implementing SAP solutions for large manufacturers, chemical companies, and public sector entities. Prior to that I spent 3 years as a Principal Basis Administrator at Rockwell Collins, Inc. I also used to be the Technical Team Lead for the Avionics & Communications Enterprise Email Team, where I was charged with coming up with good technical solutions in our Lotus Notes environment, and specifically integrating multiple Notes rollout projects from a technical perspective. We migrated 15,000 users from 12 different mail systems into Notes in our division alone, participating in a corporate wide implementation to over 65,000 users. At the time, it was one of the largest Notes implementations in the world.

In 1995 & 1996, I worked as a Porting Center Unix System Administrator at Synopsys. I was resposnible for over 100 systems comprised of 12 Unix platforms and supported the Release Engineering team, who ported all the Synopsys software to those platforms. During 1995 & 1996 I was also moonlighting as a part-time System Administration Consultant for DataPath Systems, Inc. where I was responsible for network physical and logical infrastructure, server configuration, software build & installation, printer installation & configuration, and generally anything else of a technical nature that came up.

In 1994, I graduated from the College of Engineering at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. I was also the Managing Editor of the Kansas State Engineer magazine. From 1992 to 1995, I worked in the Department of Nuclear Engineering as a System Administrator on an IBM RS/6000 320H and the department Xterms. While working for the NE Department, I also helped support the College of Engineering's network of Suns, HP9000's, Xterminals, and PC's.

Current Hobbies
Wood carving
Walleye fishing

Contact Information
Rich Holland
SAP Technical Consultant
Guidance Technologies, Inc.
Lenexa, KS 66219
(913) 645-1950

holland@guidancetech.com