SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of strong professional consulting experience in SAP Basis technology with expertise in SAP HANA migrations, OS/DB migrations, SAP version upgrades, SAP enhancement package upgrades, and full lifecycle implementations.
• Experience in designing and architecting High - Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) landscapes.
• Experience in business function activations, support package upgrades, JVM upgrades and kernel upgrades.
• Experience in SAP and non-SAP system integration with ALE, RFC destinations, tRFC and qRFC queue configuration, Gateway, Internet Communication Manager (ICM), SOA Web Services, Proxies, Single Sign-On, JCO destinations, SSL Certificates, Reverse Proxy, Federated Portal Network, SAML 2.0, Kerberos SPNego, LDAP, JDBC and ODBC.
• Experience in system landscape design, hardware sizing, instance design, load balancing, workload analysis, performance tuning and end-to-end root cause analysis.
• Experience in system copy/refreshes, Post-Copy Automation (PCA), client administration - creating and copying clients.
• Experience in JAVA J2EE system administration using NetWeaver Administrator (NWA), Visual Administrator (VA), ConfigTool, Software Deployment Manager (SDM), JAVA Support Package Manager (JSPM) and JCMON.
• Experience in all administration activities including DB administration, OS (UNIX, Windows) administration, print and spool administration and SAP router configuration.
• Knowledge in SAP Security and Authorizations - security models, user management, profile generator (PFCG), CUA, global user administration, transport management, monitoring, user tracing, troubleshooting, audit and compliancy requirements.
• Experience in full lifecycle implementation and administration of R/3 - Enterprise 4.7, 4.6C, 3.1I

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0

Business Suite: CRM 7.0, CRM 6.0, CRM 5.0, SCM 7.0, SCM 5.0, SRM 5.0, SRM 4.0, MII 12.0, FSCM Biller Direct 6.0

NetWeaver: PI 7.3, PI 7.1, PI 7.0, EP 7.3, EP 7.0, BW 7.0, BW 3.5, NWDI 7.0, CPS Redwood 8.0, ADS 7.0, BI Accelerator 7.0, TREX 7.1, TREX 7.0, liveCache 7.0, Web Dispatcher 7.0

Business Objects: SBOP BI 4.0, SBOP Enterprise XI 3.1 xApps: GTS 7.0, xRPM 4.5, xRPM 4.0

Solution Manager: SOLMAN 7.1, SOLMAN 7.0, SOLMAN 4.0

GRC: VIRSA, GTS 7.0, NFE 1.0

Databases: SAP HANA, Oracle 11g, Oracle 10g, Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server 2008 R2, MS SQL Server 2005, MaxDB, DB2

Operating Systems: AIX 6.1, AIX 5.3, i5/OS, SUN Solaris 10.0, SUN Solaris 9.0, SUSE Linux 10, SUSE Linux 9.0, HP-UX 11i, HP-UX 10, Compaq Tru64, Windows 2008, Windows 2003

Cluster Softwares: IBM Tivoli System Automation Software, Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS), VMware vSphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Migrated SAP BW 7.3 on Oracle 11.2.0.4 to SAP BW 7.4 on SAP HANA SPS 10.
• Ran SAP quicksizer for SAP HANA sizing.
• Installed SAP HANA Database, Client and Studio.
• Executed SAP upgrade and Database migration using Database Migration Option (DMO) of the Software Update Manager (SUM).
• Setup SAP HANA system with one system database and multitenant database containers.
• Setup distributed SAP HANA system with multiple active and standby hosts for high availability.
• Installation and configuration of SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT).
• Registration of SAP HANA system in SLD and integration with SAP Solution Manager.
• Administration of SAP HANA system using SAP HANA Studio and SAP HANA Cockpit, SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management, SAP HANA HDBSQL.
• Scheduled regular backups and performed recovery of SAP HANA databases.
• Configured custom templates to enable Technical Monitoring for various SAP and non-SAP landscape.
• Configured thresholds and alerts for various metrics in Technical Monitoring.
• Configured ChaRM for transport management in various landscapes by creating ChaRM projects, maintenance cycles, workflows for various change documents.
• Implemented end-to-end Business Process Monitoring.
• Configured monitoring objects, alerts and notifications for Business Process and Interfaces Monitoring.
• Integrated Job Scheduling Management with Business Process Monitoring to document, schedule and monitor relevant background jobs.
• Installed HPQC Adapter add-on in Solution Manager and HP Enterprise Integration for SAP Applications in HPQC.
• Integrated HPQC (ALM) with Solution Manager for Test Management and Defect Management.
• Designed and executed SRM 5.0 to SRM 7.03 and SRM-MDM Catalog 2.0 to SRM-MDM Catalog 7.02 version upgrades.
• Designed and architected integration of EP, SRM, SRM-MDM Catalog and ECC systems.
• Designed and configured ALE integration between SRM and ECC systems.
• Deployed and configured SRM and SRM-MDM Catalog portal content in EP.
• Configured system object definition and SSO between EP and SRM and SRM-MDM Catalog systems.
• Deployed and configured SRM Business Process Repository (BPR) in SOLMAN for Business Blueprint and Solution Documentation.
• Evaluated ECC6 EHP7 update dependencies and compatibility with various SAP and non-SAP systems in the landscape.
• Performed a scope and effort analysis to provide effort estimation for adjusting development, custom code, modifications and testing activities.
• Developed and optimized the ECC6 EHP7 update process and the project plan for minimum downtime.
• Executed ECC6 EHP7 update using the near-Zero Downtime Maintenance (nZDM) capability in Software Update Manager (SUM).
• Designed and architected the integration of EP, NWDI, SOLMAN and ECC, CRM and GRC systems.
• Installed and configured EP 7.31.
• Configured SAML 2.0 based Identify Federation on Oracle Access Manager 7.1 for EP authentication.
• Configured EP to use SSL server certificates.
• Configured system object definition and SSO between EP and ECC, CRM and GRC systems.
• Configured EP landscape in SOLMAN CTS+.
• Installed and configured NWDI 7.31.
• Configured CM Services on NWDI.
• Integrated EP, NWDI CM Services and SOLMAN CTS+ for transporting iViews, Pages, Worksets, Roles and Java development objects in EP landscape.
• Installed and configured SAP Web Dispatchers for load balancing EP and NWDI landscapes.
• Evaluated ECC6 EHP6 update dependencies and compatibility with various SAP and non-SAP systems in the landscape.
• Developed and optimized the ECC6 EHP4 to ECC6 EHP6 update process and the project plan for minimum downtime.
• Executed ECC6 EHP6 update using Software Update Manager (SUM).

Confidential, Toledo, OH

SAP BASIS Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed PI 7.1 to PI 7.3 version upgrade and integration scenarios migration strategy.
• Developed and optimized PI 7.3 version upgrade process for minimum downtime.
• Executed PI 7.3 version upgrade using Software Update Manager (SUM).
• Executed post-upgrade steps automatically using Configuration Wizard.
• Performed post-upgrade activities on System Landscape Directory, Enterprise Services Repository, Integration Directory and Adapter Engine components.
• Designed a temporary landscape to handle production support and emergency corrections during the upgrade.
• Installed and configured a new non-central Advanced Adapter Engine (AAE) in the DMZ.
• Installed and configured Seeburger and Advantco third-party adapters.
• Designed and implemented System Landscape Directory (SLD) strategy for PI 7.3.
• Tuned Integration Engine, Adapter Engine, Gateway and ICM components for high volume message processing with high performance.
• Designed High-Availability (HA) cluster setup using IBM PowerHA solution.
• Configured resource groups for startup, shutdown and failover scripts and tested various failover scenarios.
• Developed and optimized Seeburger Adapters 2.1.5 version upgrade process for minimum downtime.
• Upgraded Seeburger Adapters from version 2.1.3 to version 2.1.5.
• Exchanged SSL certificates and encryption keys with various external partners running on different technologies, and established trusted SFTP, AS2 and PGP encrypted/decrypted communication for B2B and EDI business processes.
• Developed, optimized and executed EP 7.0 to EP 7.3 (AJAX Framework) version upgrade.
• Configured SAML 2.0 based authentication between MS ADFS and EP 7.3.
• Configured Federated Portal Network (FPN) between EP 7.3 and BW portal.
• Configured Content Management repositories and integrated TREX 7.1 with Knowledge Management and Collaboration (KMC).
• Designed new SBOP BI 4.0 landscape.
• Installed and configured SBOP BI 4.0.
• Configured SQL server ODBC data sources and Tomcat web server.
• Integrated SBOP BI 4.0 with backend BW system.
• Configured single sign-on between EP 7.3 and SBOP BI 4.0.
• Configured Central Management Servers (CMS), CMC and InfoView applications.
• Deployed and configured MobileBIService for Mobile Integration.
• Configured Adaptive processing servers and Web Intelligence processing servers.
• Configured Adaptive Job server to processes scheduled jobs.
• Installed SBOP BI 4.0 client tools.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

SAP BASIS Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead for Basis team comprising of 20 Basis resources across multiple geographic locations.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for PI, CRM, EP, Java, ABAP and Oracle technologies.
• Developed architectural strategies and roadmaps for future application and infrastructure technology adoption.
• Provided people, time and cost estimates for various projects.
• Developed standards and guidelines for implementation and maintenance of SAP projects and systems.
• Managed issue escalation, resolution and root cause analysis.
• Led multiple teams and developed PI 7.0 to PI 7.1 version upgrade project plan and timeline and provided hardware, people, time and cost estimates.
• Developed and optimized PI 7.1 version upgrade process for minimum downtime.
• Executed PI 7.1 version upgrade and Configuration Wizard.
• Led the team in resolving all post-upgrade and go-live issues.
• Configured CTS+ for transporting ABAP and Integration Scenario Design Objects across DEV, QAS and PRD environments in PI 7.1 landscape.
• Configured archiving and deletion parameters in SXMB ADM for archiving and deleting XML messages.
• Scheduled and maintained various PI housekeeping jobs.
• Developed project plan for implementation of Seeburger Adapters 2.1.3 on PI 7.1 for B2B and EDI business processes.
• Installed and configured Seeburger Adapters 2.1.3 FTP, SFTP, OFTP, HostFTP, PGP, Generic EDI, BIC and P7 adapters.
• Integrated Seeburger Adapters 2.1.3 with P1 7.1.
• Developed standards and procedures for installing and configuring third party adapters on PI.
• Configured message tracking database for message tracking in Seeburger.
• Configured message tracking, encryption and monitoring features in Seeburger workbench.
• Defined Seeburger security model for PI, SAP Security and Basis teams.
• Developed strategy for migration of interfaces from old unsupported technologies to Seeburger Adapters.
• Developed project plan for CRM 7.0 implementation.
• Architected integration of External Facing Portal, CRM and ECC systems in the DMZ.
• Installed and configured CRM 7.0 with SAP in DMZ and Database in intranet.
• Configured B2B, Shop Admin, Web Catalog Admin, IPC and User Administration scenarios and JCo connections in CRM via XCM for Internet Sales Application.
• Activated and configured Virtual Machine Container (VMC) for IPC.
• Activated and configured CRM WebUI for access through web browser.
• Configured CRM Middleware and RFC destinations between CRM and ECC systems.
• Maintained CRMRFCPAR, CRMCONSUM and CRMPAROLTP table settings in ECC system.
• Maintained Replication and Re-alignment RFCs, Site IDs and Subscriptions in CRM using SMOEAC.
• Configured CRM Middleware Queues using SMQS and SMQR and maintained them using SMOHQUEUE.
• Scheduled and maintained various CRM Middleware housekeeping jobs and monitored CRM Middleware Cockpit using SMWP.
• Deployed and configured CRM business package and iViews on Enterprise Portal.
• Integrated EP with CRM by defining CRM system object in EP and configuring SSO.
• Designed CISCO ACE virtual IP load balancing, Apache reverse proxy and SSL solutions.
• Created and maintained NWDI tracks for CRM ISA change management and code promotion across landscape.
• Configured CRM Interaction Center WebClient.
• Involved in installation and configuration of CISCO Unified CRM Connector.
• Integrated CRM Interaction Center with CISCO UCCE by creating RFC destinations.
• Configured failover for CISCO UCCE.
• Integrated CRM Interaction Center with portal KM for storing CIC documents.
• Integrated CRM Interaction Center with TREX 7.0 for search functionality.
• Developed project plan for new implementation of SRM hosted solution provided by Hubwoo (a third party vendor).
• Evaluated various third party vendors and provided recommendations.
• Led infrastructure, application and Hubwoo teams and developed infrastructure and application interface designs for integration of Monsanto ECC 6.0 and PI 7.1 systems with Hubwoo SRM 5.0 system.
• Installed and configured SAP Spend Analytics Extractors in ECC 6.0.
• Extracted data for business teams to filter and re-format data and send it over to Hubwoo for data loading into Hubwoo SRM system.
• Installed and configured Hubwoo ProcessConnect adapter on PI 7.1 for integration with Hubwoo SRM 5.0 system.
• Developed standards and procedures for installing and configuring third party adapters on PI and integrating with third party vendor systems.
• Configured RFC destinations, partner profiles and ALE for application interfaces.
• Developed standards for ALE configuration.
• Led Basis, performance and application teams in load testing and performance tuning and load balancing sessions.
• Led the team in issue resolution and root cause analysis.
• Led multiple teams and developed R/3 4.6C to ECC 6.0 version upgrade and Unicode Migration combined projects plan and timeline.
• Developed R/3 4.6C to ECC 6.0 version upgrade process using downtime minimized strategy.
• Used PREPARE, UPGRADE ASSISTANT and UPGRADEMONITOR tools.
• Managed the upgrade progress by constantly monitoring various phases of the upgrade for errors and delays in processing.
• Coordinated with developers and analysts for SPAU and SPDD remediation.
• Worked with various teams to develop upgrade testing plan and coordinated post-upgrade testing.
• Led the team in resolving all post-upgrade and go-live issues.
• Developed Unicode Migration process for single page code ECC 6.0 system to enable Unicode printing across the world.
• Performed code page, pool tables, cluster tables and obsolete objects consistency check.
• Configured distribution monitor profile, table splits, package splits, sequence of table exports, parallel indices, parallel exports and imports for faster migration and minimized downtime.
• Led multiple teams and developed Oracle 10.2.0.2 to Oracle 11.2.0.2 version upgrade project plan and timeline to upgrade around 100 databases across all environments and all landscapes.
• Performed Oracle 10.2.0.2 to Oracle 11.2.0.2 version upgrade using Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA).
• Installed patches using MOPatch, installed critical patch update (CPU) patches and modified Oracle parameters for 11.2.0.2 release.
• Coordinated testing with various teams and led the team in resolving all issues during go-live.
• Designed new SAP CPS Redwood system landscape and integration with Solution Manager and various ABAP systems.
• Ran quicksizer tool to rightly size the landscape.
• Installed and configured CPS Redwood.
• Developed strategy to migrate batch job definitions from ABAP systems to CPS Redwood.

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and architected integration of external facing portal and EBPP and ECC systems in the DMZ.
• Installed and configured EP 7.0.
• Configured Knowledge Management on portal for storing and managing documents and integrated with TREX 7.1 for document search.
• Installed and configured EBPP 4.0 on NW2004s.
• Configured customized scenarios in EBPP system via XCM.
• Configured JCo destinations from EBPP to ECC 6.0 back-end.
• Configured custom webdynpro EBPP iViews on the portal.
• Configured EBPP system object definition and SSO between portal and EBPP systems.
• Configured Kerberos with SPNego and Microsoft Active Directory and security policy on portal and EBPP systems for user authentication.
• Designed CISCO ACE virtual IP load balancing, Apache reverse proxy and SSL solutions.
• Designed and architected change management and transport process for Java and Webdynpro code in portal and EBPP systems using NWDI.
• Installed and configured NWDI on NW2004s.
• Created and maintained tracks and configured runtime systems for portal and EBPP systems.
• Developed strategy for separating new development and production maintenance by creating a NWDI track design involving Development, Maintenance and Production.
• Evaluated cluster software for high availability of SAP systems by eliminating single points of failure (enqueue service, message service and database).
• Separated ABAP and JAVA SCS instances from central instance server.
• Installed and configured standalone enqueue server.
• Installed and configured replicated enqueue server.
• Developed scripts to facilitate failover of SAP services.
• SAP Basis Technical Lead in setting up disaster recovery process for SAP.
• Developed procedure to setup Oracle hot standby database.
• Developed process to ship archive logs to disaster recover location and apply them to standby database.
• Developed standards and procedures to activate SAP and Oracle standby database in the event of a disaster.
• Led Basis team in disaster recovery exercises.

Confidential, Iselin, NJ

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed BW 3.5 to BI 7.0 version upgrade process using downtime minimized strategy.
• Reviewed Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA) architecture and functionality and evaluated the product.
• Installed BWA software Rev 52 on blades by running install tool.
• Integrated BWA with BW system by creating RFC connections.
• Scheduled batch jobs for reorganization of BW indices in BWA.
• Configured data sources between BW (OLAP) and OLTP systems for data loads.
• Configured UD connect on BW/BW portal system for loading data from MS SQL databases to info cubes on BW database.
• Configured SSO between BW portal and BW ABAP systems.

Confidential, Iselin, NJ

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured SM 7.0 for providing a centralized, robust application management and administration solution.
• Created Solutions in Solution Manager for combining Systems and Business Processes.
• Configured Business Process Monitor (BPMon) and integrated with various satellite systems.
• Performed configuration of Maintenance Optimizer (MOPZ) for downloading Support Packs, set up Change Request Management (CHARM) for ABAP & ABAP + JAVA systems and set up of Satellite system landscapes (SMSY).
• Configured CTS+ on standalone Java systems and Java stacks on ABAP + JAVA systems using solution manager as communication system and performed integration of CTS+ with CHARM.
• Integrated CTS + (OTO) with NWDI by migrating three system tracks to single system tracks.
• Configured Early-Watch Alert Reports through SDCCN in satellite systems and monitored performance reports using DSWP in solution manager system.
• Installed and configured E2E Root Cause Analysis & Solution Manager Diagnostics for reactive monitoring of the satellite systems from solution manager system.
• Configured Central CCMS on solution manager for proactive alert handling from satellite systems.
• Performed installation of Wily Enterprise Manager 8.0 and configured integration of Wily to solution manager.

Confidential

Graduate Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Underwent in-house training in SAP Basis Administration.
• Handled daily transports in the landscape using STMS and tp commands.
• Applied OSS notes manually as well as using Note Assistant (SNOTE) .
• Daily administrative tasks include monitoring systems logs, work processes, and locks, updates.
• Performed system log analysis using transaction code SM21 and dump analysis using ST22 .
• Performed system-monitoring activities using transaction codes SM04, AL08, ST02, ST03, ST06 etc.
• Profile maintenance using RZ10 / RZ11 .
• Fine tuning SAP memory using RZ10, ST02, ST06 and ST04 .
• Configuration and administration of print services and spool.
• User Administration using SU01 .
• Enhancement of existing security policies using PFCG .
• Setting up trace options for analysis using SU53, ST22, ST01 .
• Support users in determination and resolving authorization related issues by using SU53, ST01 and profile generator.
• Performed database administration, t ablespace administration, adding data file etc.
• Checking Oracle trace file and log file for troubleshooting.
• SAPGUI installation and troubleshooting SAPGUI related issues.