MichaelRayMardis
Professional
(Skip this part. The Personal section is much more interesting!)I'm an SAP R/3 Executive Consultant
with a large global ERP SAP Infrastructure Practice, where I serve as both
implementation Program Manager and SAP R/3 Architect. Before joining this firm
I wore two hats at a broadband communications company; I was the SAP R/3
Technical Program Manager, as well as their Internet Manager. Prior to that I
served as the Unix Administrator and Network Manager for a large school
district in
I took my masters degree at Boston University where I majored in Computer Information Systems and my bachelors in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. I really loved those academic years and look back on them with fondness.
Personal
(Go back to the Professional section. It is much more relevant for Net Readers!)As you can see from our family home page, I'm the father of four wonderful kids and husband to the neatest woman in the world. I'm devilishly handsome and only wear this goofy expression so the ladies will leave me alone at the mall. I'm sorry you can't all be in my shoes, but then again, you've probably got a few things to brag about in your own lives. I have three younger sisters who have turned into rather interesting people in their own rights, and who have healthy, happy families. My mom lives nearby. My dad passed on in 1994.
I've experienced a number of interests
in my life and hope to reunite myself with each and every one of them at some
time in the future. I learned to fly in Texas (lots of flat land for emergency
landings) and was a Flight Instructor for a few years in Mississippi (not a
speck of flat land). I spent a summer scuba diving in the Gulf of Mexico (yes,
barracuda really do look ferocious). I made eight skydiving jumps in Nebraska
(how stupid can a person be?). I took Karate and competed (albeit less that
successfully) in a tournament. I spent my high school years rappelling down
cliffs in Illinois (yes, there are a few cliffs in the middle of all that corn)
and took a number of trips canoeing down whitewater streams in Missouri (canoes
can indeed sink). I went to high school with "Designing Women's"
Judith Ivey (no, she never had the honor of dating me). I spent many a dark
hour spelunking in caves (bat guano everywhere). I climbed Mount Whitney at the
age of 12 (those boy scout leaders can be real pushy
when they want you to complete something). I even did some water skiing on
In short, I'm a normal American male with an eclectic appetite for anything new. If you made it this far in my abbreviated autobiography you either deserve an award for your perseverance or are a hopeless insomniac searching for anything weird on the net. In either case I've enjoyed the few minutes we've spent together and hope you'll create a home page of your own and give us all a glimpse into your life.
Mike