Jonathon Thorpe

I love my sports, all sports. My passion is football and I follow Huddersfield Town and Melbourne Heart. I'm also a keen Rugby fan and follow the Huddersfield Giants and Melbourne Storm in Rugby Leave and in Union I'm a Melbourne Rebels fan in the Super 14 competition. I play 'A' grade in the Melbourne Pool League and used to play a lot of Snooker. On a Sunday morning I can usually be found hacking around my local golf course. Despite living in Australia, I support England in all the national team sports.

I my professional life I am the SAP/ERP Manager for DuluxGroup (Australia) Pty Ltd, based in Melbourne, Australia. In this role I am responsible for the entire ERP solution, including system landscape, architecture, and all operational aspects of the ERP system.

My role is responsible for all of the deployed modules of SAP (ECC6, CRM, BW, BO, HCM/Payroll, Portal, GRC, etc.), the Basis environment which supports SAP and other miscellaneous applications/databases residing on the IBM Power7 / UNIX platform, and Sterling Integrator (used for EDI/B2B and secure file transfers).

I can often be found at many SAP events and also go to most of the SAP Australia User Group (SAUG) meetings and plenaries.