Sandra Long

Past

• SAP Security Administrator at Maxtor Corporation
• Staff Business Process Analyst at Maxtor Corporation
• Clerk III at Maxtor Corporation

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Education

• SAP Education-Configuration Courses
• Front Range Community College
• Front Range Community College

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Sandra Long’s Summary

Staff Business Process Analyst/Security Administrator with experience in designing and implementing successful business process solutions and maintaining ERP security world wide. Excellent interpersonal, organizational, analytical, problem-solving and communication skills with 10 years of experience in the Business Process Analyst role. Working knowledge with Business Objects query and reporting tools, Remedy for Application Change Management, Excel, Word, Visio, CSI security tool and SAP R/3 ERP.

Sandra Long’s Specialties:

Business Process Analyst role includes system conversions, subsequent system upgrades and acquisitions.
Security Administrator role includes responsibilities for internal and external audits of system security including testing the key controls in the process narratives, segregation of duties and restricted access for Sarbanes Oxley compliance.

Sandra Long’s Experience

• SAP Security Administrator

  Maxtor Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MXO; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 5 months)

  In addition, performed world-wide security administration in SAP 4.6C for Finance, Material Management, Sales and Distribution and Human Resource modules. This included creating and changing roles using the profile generator and transporting changes through the development, test and production environments. Creating world-wide user ID’s for new employees in test and production environments.
  Key Contributions:
  * Constructed, implemented and supported a more efficient system security design for the Sales and Distribution module. The redesign greatly increased the efficiency of maintaining requested changes to security roles, allowing managers to more easily verify user access for quarterly internal audit purposes, and to work in conjunction with the CSI audit tool to uncover and correct security issues and ensure Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
  * Worked with the internal and external auditors testing key controls in process narratives and SAP security access using the CSI audit tool.

• Staff Business Process Analyst

  Maxtor Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MXO; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1997 — February 2007 (10 years 2 months)

  Skills include gathering requirements, conducting analysis, developing designs, performing construction, testing, and implementation tasks, writing documentation (SOP/WI), training, creating reports, reporting results, supporting system upgrades, developing audit and standard business process controls. Conversion responsibilities included gathering business requirements and working with an integration partner to develop, design and implement order, delivery, pricing, service and credit management business processes. Provided continued support for sales order processing, order scheduling, pricing, credit management, logistics, billing, commissions, reporting and EDI processing, including process documentation for these areas to support system and process enhancements.
  Key Contribution:
  * Instrumental in the success of Maxtor’s transition from ASK to SAP, subsequent system upgrades and acquisitions.

• Clerk III

  Maxtor Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MXO; Accounting industry)

  May 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 8 months)

  Customer account administration, including sales order entry, shipment scheduling, document preparation and invoicing. Maintained capital additions and commitment updates. Designed and implemented a process to track Fixed Assets. Coordinate and conduct company wide fixed assets inventory.

Sandra Long’s Education

• SAP Education-Configuration Courses

  Sales, Delivery and Transportation 2007 — 2007

• Front Range Community College

  Computer Information Systems 2003 — 2003

• Front Range Community College

  Fundamentals of Accounting 1986 — 1986

Additional Information

Sandra Long’s Interests:

Boxer Rescue - www.hobocare.com Perform home checks for applicants inquiring about adopting a boxer, organized and currently run a volunteer walking group of 20 people, take pictures and add/update the profiles for each dog on our website, handle adoptions and provide ongoing support to the new forever homes of our dogs.

Sandra Long’s Groups:

ASUG (Americas SAP User Group)

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