SUMMARY:

• A strategic intellectual and hands - on IT leader with 17 years of IT experience, including 12 years of SAP experience with proven track record of delivering superior business values through an enterprise information road map, strategy, architecture design and implementation. Enable global enterprises to efficiently monitor business performance and facilitate decision-making process
• Work as SAP technology architect/Manger, SAP incident, service request management and problem manager. SAP technology professional with extensive background in design deploy and manage SAP application infrastructure. Worked and managed full application life cycle of multiple SAP implementations
• Roles comprise of sizing, requirement analysis, scoping, validation & verification, implementation, upgrade, migration, support and maintenance
• Extensive knowledge of SAP Technologies -SAP ERP6, SAP CRM, SAP BI, BO4.0, SAP TDMS, OpenText, Portal, Solution Manager7.1, SAP NetWeaver and Process Integration and Process Orchestration implementation
• Profound knowledge of heterogeneous/homogeneous SAP Migration project
• SAP ABAP and JAVA stack Administration and maintenance
• Hands-on experience of 3 ERP life cycle Implementation projects and 4 SAP NetWeaver End to End implementation projects, SAP/DB Performance Optimization, SAP Version and EHP upgrade.
• SAP ECC6.0 EHP5 and EHP6 upgrades for ECC6.0
• Recognized for applying architecture development method and successful delivery of small to large scale projects
• Expertise in SAP NetWeaver Installation and Upgrades i.e. SAP NetWeaver 7.3 and 7.4 upgrade
• Ability to work collaboratively across project teams in a matrix environment
• Architectural best practice guidance and direction to the Solution Delivery and Production Support teams.
• Experienced in performing technology assessments/evaluations on solutions and architecture/designs

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: ERP Implementation OS/DB Migration SAP Support Project (Global) SAP BI 7.3 and 7.4 Upgrade EHP5 / EHP6 Upgrade TDMS 4.0 (Time Slice Scenario) SAP BI Implementation SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Oracle 11g Upgrade Data Center Migration OpenText Archival Database Optimization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Migration of existing physical SAP environment to SDDC virtual Environment
• Migration involves moving SAP environment form HPUX to Red Hat Linux operating systems and Oracle 11g to 12c upgrade
• More than 150 SAP instances migration to SDDC (Private Cloud)
• Factory model approach to provide on time delivery with optimum resource utilization and zero defect migration
• Migrated 5 Landscape from Physical(HP-UX) to Linux on Virtual environment(SDDC)
• Maintaining migration related documents like IQOQ/Migration scripts/Installation and migration check list and Compliance (SOX/GxP)
• Manage and coordinate with onsite and offshore SAP BASIS Team
• Tracking and maintaining project task and related repots

Confidential NJ

SAP Application Architect / Problem, Service and Incident Manager

Responsibilities:

• Global Support - Onsite and offshore BASIS support for an enterprise SAP solution
• Handled expert level of critical L3 support for complex SAP landscape
• Support more than 600+ SAP instances spread across the globe
• Provide L3 coverage to Sev1 / Sev2 issues to ensure minimum business outages
• Workload Analysis, EWA Analysis and Performance Tuning of SAP Landscapes - Performance Optimization Oracle Database performance tuning, upgrades and patching
• Leverage automation to reduce the workload, reduce costs and improve reliability
• Tracking and performing yearly maintenance activities
• SSO Configuration, SSL management
• SAP CTS+ configuration and maintenance
• Create and analyze Incidents Metrics, Service and Reliability Metrics
• Periodic system refresh activities
• Application management support, including assigning members' responsibilities, work plan, and support shift coverage
• Coordination with offshore and Onsite resources for work handoff
• Problem and Reliability incident management

Confidential

Sr. Consultant SAP BASIS

Responsibilities:

• Design, sizing the SAP System landscapes and components
• System analysis and preparations for EHP upgrade
• Generate XML file for EHP6 upgrade component download
• Performed EHP6 upgrade using SUM tool
• Efficiently used SUM for optimum downtime during the upgrade
• Carry out EHP6 upgrade in phase wise manner, starting from pilot run to Production with multiple iteration
• Activation of business functions using switch frame technology
• Provide leadership and technical direction to team members and consultants
• Management and resolution of upgrade issue
• Performance tuning considering all the possible aspect including Application/HW/OS/Networking and Storage
• Plan, manage project with apposite communication with stake holders

Confidential

Manager - SAP BASIS

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance to SAP support structure and processes
• Plan and ensure coverage for SAP team's area of responsibility in the support structure
• Handled expert level of critical L3 support for complex SAP landscape
• Co-ordinate and organize SAP team to resolve issues/requests/tickets
• Manage and monitor issues to ensure that the SAP team meet the defined SLA
• Address all team issues (e.g. staffing, job alignment, etc.)
• Control-M for job scheduler
• Collaborates with team to determine strategy and plan for system implementations and upgrades
• SAP Upgrades and Installation (ERP, EHP, NetWeaver Products)
• SAP System Performance optimization
• Establish plan for enhancement requests, including effort, sizing and work planning
• Ensure Projects completion and delivery within definite timeline
• Design, sizing the SAP System landscapes and components
• Finalize the migration approach and finalize the migration methodology to minimized SAP system downtime with minimal business operation impact
• System analysis for OS migration for ECC6.0, ECC5.0, SAP BI Landscape
• System preparations, installation and apply relevant Oracle SBP
• Transportable database OSDB migration methodology
• Performance Integration and testing
• Critical components backup and restore if requires
• OS/DB migration activities and System validation
• SAP R3load tool used for SAP BW and CRM migration
• Migrate BW 7.0 systems on AIX platform
• Export /Import Preparation, migration and Post migration activities
• SSO and SSL configurations
• Web dispatcher configurations

Confidential

Principle Consultant - SAP BASIS

Environment: Products /Solution: SAP ECC6.0 OS DB:AIX, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Design, sizing the SAP System landscapes and components
• System analysis for EHP6 upgrade and relevant components
• Upgrade Approach and planning for ECC6.0 Landscape
• SAP configuration or customization request analysis and define the change freeze during the upgrade
• Performed system preparations and prerequisites for EHP6 upgrade
• Generate XML file for EHP6 upgrade component download using SAP solution manager 7.1
• Perform EHP6 upgrade using SUM tool for the upgrade
• Performed SPAU and SPDD adjustment along with technical and functional team
• EHP upgradeand Post upgrade steps
• Perform SGEN and installation of OS dependent components
• Activation of business functions using switch frame technology -sfw5
• Assist in Test phase with impact analyzer

Confidential

Principle Consultant - SAP BASIS

Environment: Product /Solution: SAP NetWeaver 7.3

Responsibilities:

• SAP System sizing, design and upgrade planning for SAP NW 7.3 upgrade
• Performed SAP NW 7.3 upgrade planning along with relevant stake holders
• Performed System Preparation and prerequisites check for NW 7.3 upgrade
• Generate XML file for EHP6 upgrade component download using SAP solution manager 7.1
• Performed EHP6 upgrade using SUM tool for the upgrade Upgraded SAP NW7.0 landscape to NW7.3
• Performed post upgrade activities includes SGEN and upgrade verification
• Post upgrade support includes monitoring and data loading

Confidential

Associate Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project scope and plan for archival solution implementation
• Identified top growing and top sized tables to finalize the archival objects
• Communication and update to relevant stake holders to finalize the archival period and retention time for each object
• Create content repository and linked with archival system
• Identified the time slot to execute the archival job
• Design archival policy with concurrence with relevant stake holders and published
• TMDS installation and setting up target system
• Identify the time slice data to be copied to TDMS target system
• Project closing and handover

Confidential

Associate Manager - SAP BASIS

Environment: SUN Solaris, Oracle 10g

Responsibilities:

• SAP system sizing using SAP quick sizer
• Performed system installation OS pre requisites
• Installation of the ECC6.0 and post installation activities
• STMS configuration and design the landscape for transport management
• SAP Client creation and management
• User Management and authorization management
• Installation of Solution manager 7.0 and configuration of
• Manage Satellite systems
• SLD configuration
• MOPZ / EWA
• Technical Monitoring
• XI system installation and performed post installation activities
• Setting up RFC and integration with SAP ECC5 and ECC6.0 system
• Export and import of development to the production system
• Post installation support, monitoring and maintenance
• Continuous expert level SAP L3 support of the implemented system

Confidential

Associate Manager - SAP BASIS

Responsibilities:

• Data center migration planning and preparation
• Perform test migration, risk and mitigation planning
• Perform data validation test
• Perform homogeneous migration
• Downtime planning
• SAP systems monitoring and maintenance
• Performed Support pack upgrade for ABAP and JAVA stack based the requirement
• System performance monitoring and tuning
• SAP OSS implementation based on the SAP suggestion and
• SAP Dump analysis using ST22 transaction
• STMS configuration and Transport and user management
• Application server installation configuration
• SAP Kernel upgrade and BRtool upgrade

Confidential

Sr. Consultant SAP BASIS

Responsibilities:

• Installation of SAP ECC6.0 on distributed environment with HA (HP ServiceGuard)
• Solution Manager Installation and integration
• STMS configuration and transport management
• SAP Router installation and setting up in landscape for OSS support
• XI installation and Integration
• Define Backup policy

Confidential

Sr. Consultant - SAP BASIS

Responsibilities:

• Installation: End to End Implementation of ECC 6.0 in HP Cluster environment
• Setting up system landscape, post implementation and go live support
• Transport Management System: Configure Transport system (TMS)
• Client Administration: Creating client using Local client copy option. Client export and import
• User Administration and Security: Created and designed the Authorization matrix for more than 900 users belonging to various modules. Made security procedures on the Production System which includes the login procedures, using Load balancing feature
• Support Pack Application: Applied packages for all the systems using SPAM or SAP Patch Manager, and kernel patch upgrades
• SAP Performance Tuning
• Backup and Recovery configuration with HP Date protector

Confidential

Manager SAP Support

Responsibilities:

• SAP BASIS L2/L3 support
• System Monitoring and performance
• Support Ticket management
• Monitoring background jobs
• Spool management and EWA analysis
• Support Packages via SPAM
• Specific Plug-ins via SAINT
• SAP security management
• SAP Archival

Confidential

Manager SAP Support

Responsibilities:

• SAP BASIS L1/L2 support
• SAP ABAP and JAVA stake administration
• Configurations/activities using Visual Admin and Config Tool
• SAP support pack management and Kernel upgrade
• SAP system monitoring, log and dump analysis
• Perform incident management in defined SLA
• Transport management
• Performance analysis - EWA

Confidential

SAP BASIS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• SAP L1 support and System Monitoring
• STMS configuration and transports
• User and role management

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Head

Responsibilities:

• Management of IT Infrastructure Projects like - Centre Setup, Branches IT Setup, Remote Infrastructure Management, Monitoring and Support
• IT Cost Management - Annual Budget, Infrastructure Planning, and Infra upgrades