SUMMARY:

• 9 years of IT experience in Designing, Implementation, Administration, Upgradation and Support of SAP/Oracle Systems on Linux, Sun Solaris & Windows.
• Extensive experience in SAP R/3 BASIS Administration, Installation, configuration, EHP Upgrades, System Refresh, Kernel Upgrades, and Support Pack upgrades, SNC configuration, DB Refresh, Database Backup/Recovery, DR maintenance & Support.
• Implemented 2 Full Life Cycles and extensive experience in Upgradation of SAP Servers, OS/ DB Migration and Implementation of New Projects.
• A seasoned SAP Security and GRC consultant with proven expertise in SAP SECURITY & GRC (AC - EAM, ARA, BRM, ARM) & (SOX - SOD) in User Authorizations, Roles, Profiles and CUA also with SOX /SOD audit experience.
• Extensive experience in Administration, installation, configuration and troubleshooting HANA Database - SAP HANA studio, SAP S4 HANA, Solution Manager , SAP Enterprise Portal.
• Extensive experience in Linux/ Unix Shell Scripting - Automation of day to day activities. Good Knowledge in administering Oracle / HANA/ MS SQLDB Servers and SQL, PL/SQL Queries.
• ITIL Certified - Good at Business process consulting/ Incident Management, Problem Management, Project Management & Leading the projects.
• Ability to prioritize and deliver tasks against agreed timeline. Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision making, strong influencing, collaboration and relationship building skills.
• Strong assessment and decision-making skills, outstanding ability to influence and build relationships both within the organization and with external sources - Customer Focus.
• Building a vision for IT and continuously developed Plan & roadmap for activities to support systems. Extensive experience in Production and Application Support - Activities, Management & Leading. Handled and supported Mission Critical and Business Critical Production Systems.
• Supported a variety of SAP application environments by maintaining and supporting the entire SAP landscape (Sandbox, Dev, QA, Training & Production). Worked on server Vulnerabilities and remediated them .
• Experience in reviewing, analyzing, troubleshooting, documenting and following-up on issues. Performed (RCA) root cause analysis of issues and communicate appropriately to customers.
• Ability to learn and adopt new technologies on a fly and capable of setting Priorities and goals.
• Tech savvy with winning horse attitude - Ability to think broad & out of box and to work on several projects in parallel and meet target timelines. Flexible in working off hours and weekends.
• Managed projects involving complex SAP ERP and J2EE Web applications operating at high traffic levels in a clustered environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Primary Skills: SAP ECC, SCM, HANA, SRM/ CRM/ SAP BI/BODS/ BOBJ, SAP Portal - Enterprise Portal, MDM, Solman, PI, SAP Security & GRC 10.0(AC) APO, SAP Live Cache, GRC 5.3 & 5.2, IDM, SAP NetWeaver/BASIS Administration, WebLogic Server Administration and Production Support.

SAP: ECC 6.0, SRM 7.0, CRM 7.0, SAP GRC 10.0 & 10.1, ECC 6.0, EHP7, EHP6, SAP Solution Manager, Fiori, MDM, Business Intelligence 7.0, SRM 4.0, XI & PI 5.0, SCM 6.0, ECC 6.0.

Middleware: WebLogic & WebSphere Application Servers, MQ series & Oracle Fusion, TIBCO

Webservers: Oracle HTTP Server, IBM HTTP Server, IIS & Apache.

Utilities & Schedulers: CA Siteminder, Ticketing Tools (CMIS, RTS & IPM) - Cron, ESPX, SAP Scheduler & Autosys.

Programming Languages: Shell Scripting, Python, Knowledge in JAVA & .NET 3.5

Database: Oracle SQL/ PLSQL (Knowledge in DBA) & MS SQL Server, HANA, MySQL

Testing & Reporting: Manual Testing - BO/BI & OBIEE

Web Technologies & ETL: HTML & CSS - SAP BODS, ODI

Hardware & Networking: Hardware & Networking Installation & Troubleshooting

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Senior SAP Basis - Hana Administrator

Responsibilities :

• Participated in Business Requirements and Hardware requirements finalization.
• Involved in Plan areas (Sizing, Scoping, Client/Landscape Strategy, High Availability/Disaster Recovery Strategy etc.) of Implementation projects.
• Installed SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 on Linux OS and performed Pre - Post Validation steps in Sand Box/ DEV/ QA & PROD by working with Linux and DBA teams.
• Installed and configured ECC/ SRM/ CRM/ Portal. Also, Installed NWBC, Unicode, NetWeaver, NetWeaver components, Solution Manager, BI/SBOP BI Platform Server.
• Supported JAVA Stack and ABAP Stack and Dual stack (JAVA + ABAP) Stack.
• SAP Basis Support for Various systems of the Landscape like ECC, APO, SRM, CRM, BI, BO, and PI.
• SAP BASIS Support included SAP system health checks and working on tickets raised by CMIS tool, OSS Administration, SAP Marketplace, Transports, printer Administration, File system clean ups, tablespace extension.
• Performed new system build Activities, System refreshes - ECC/BW/CRM/HANA.
• Installed Oracle software using binary.
• Applied Oracle PSU patches.
• Performed Password reset for expired user accounts.
• Added table spaces and administered them.
• Time based and event based Scheduling of background jobs and monitoring them.
• Client Administration including client copy / export / import.
• Support RAC database and worked on database patch upgrade, monitoring and creating GRID backups for the RAC systems.
• Performed Kernel upgrades and Support pack upgrades.
• Implementing Oracle PSU patches in RAC & Non RAC environment.
• Implementing AMR alert monitoring for newly built systems.
• Transport setup and management.
• Download and applying Support Patches and SAP Notes.
• Monitoring the performance of data loads for BI/APO/BODs systems.
• Applying logs in DR.
• Generated stack from Solution Manager for Upgradations.
• Upgraded EHP to latest versions (EHP 6 to EHP 7).
• Used SUM & SWPM for System Upgrades.
• Configured SAP Backup and administered Spool.
• Worked on Solution Manager Configuration and configured Early Watch Alert.
• SAP SCM Live cache administration like backup/Restore using Database Manager GUI, monitoring.
• Recycling of ABAP /JAVA servers (STOP - START) during weekly maintenance and whenever required.
• Performed releasing/Importing of transports between DEV, QA and PROD systems and Troubleshooting of System performance or Potential system installation issues.
• ABAP Java Integration activities and Java Administration for Portal SIDs.
• Administered Live Cache - Stop/Start.
• Installed SAP HANA DB.
• Monitoring of SAP HANA DB using HANA studio and Sql commands.
• Upgraded SRM from 7.3 to 7.4 version and to EHP 3.
• Configured SRM and connected with Enterprise Portal EP.
• Installed Enterprise Portal (EP) - Configuration and troubleshooting.
• Performed Portal transports and performed log analysis for trouble shooting.
• Stop - Started the servers when required (Recycle during Maintenance).
• Integrated with ECC with NetWeaver systems.
• Monitored the data loads in BI and APO whenever required.
• Configured and monitored Trfc & qRFC queues and monitored those including CIF jobs.
• Created RFC’s for connection establishment.
• Installed, Upgraded, Configured Solution Manager 7.1 to Solution Manager 7.2
• Knowledge in - SAP Solution Manager including Change Request Management (ChaRM) and Service Desk Management global implementations and Early watch integration.
• Implemented DR system for each PROD system in Landscape and Always maintained DR system with PROD configuration and use to implement whatever change performed in PROD.
• Synced logs between PROD and DR.
• Recovered PROD servers by pulling the logs from DR when any issues arise.
• Performed Disaster Recovery (DR Activity) every year.
• Prepared an execution plan for DR activity and documentation for the same.
• Tested DR by stopping PROD and completed the task by routing the load to DR servers.
• Integrated ECC with PI and transferred data to SAFE server and to staging external server.
• Participated in calls - Related to New project proposals, Enhancements, Migrations and Weekly Maintenance supports. Worked on server Vulnerabilities and remediated them.
• Monitor and manage the Application Servers, Background jobs, Performance of the system.
• Configured SAP GUI at client/end user computers.
• Should have through understanding of IP address configurations and pinging concept.
• He must able to troubleshoot any client or server problems.
• Install and Configure TSM Client across all platforms (Windows, UNIX).
• Install and Configure LAN free Backup.
• Implementing the Industry best standards for Backup & Recovery.
• Configured and monitored TREX Service in SRM and ECC.
• Maintained Vertex server - Stop/Start services.
• Used to updated and deploy TAXWARE update monthly.
• Experience in Business Intelligence with SAP BODS.
• Having SAP BO infrastructure setup experience which includes setup a new BO environment, upgrading the existing system and maintaining the existing environments.
• Experience in Installation/Administration of BO application, Scaling the BO Architecture,
• Involved in User Administration and SSO Implementation / SNC across the landscape. Expertise in BO system Administration including Software deployment, Installation,
• Support and troubleshoot production systems as required, optimizing performance, and resolving production problems
• Experience with setting up with BODS repositories, Job servers, and BODS Admin activities
• Hands on experience in using SAP BODS (Business Objects Data Services) to extract structured/unstructured data from different source systems (Oracle, MS SQL Server, SAP ECC, Flat Files etc into HANA.
• Scheduling BO Reports, handling issues.
• Mapped SAP HANA System in SAP HANA Studio and performed Stopping, Starting and restarting SAP HANA Services.
• Monitoring of SAP HANA DB using HANA studio and Sal commands.
• SAP HANA Database Backup, Restore. Resolved performance issues by changing parameters.
• Alert monitoring, Configuration and parameter changes using HANA Studio.
• Supported pre and post GO LIVE.
• Managed SAP HANA License, Managing SAP HANA users and monitoring system.
• SAP HANA Security including User Management, Roles, and Privileges.
• Integrated Hana with BI and Solution Manager. Performed tuning of SAP Hana Applications & DB.
• Experience with troubleshooting the technical and performance issues during and after go-live.
• Duly Applied Patches & upgrade to support application/reporting and performance requirements.
• Installed and supported third party tools.
• SAP technical expert - handled customers, given technical training & KT to new team members.

Environment : ECC, Solman, AP0, SRM, BI/BOBJ, BODS, CRM, BW, EP Enterprise Portal, Linux, Oracle, Live Cache, HANA, PI/XI, GRC 10.0.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Senior SAP Basis Administrator

Responsibilities :

• Involved in all stages of Migration from setting up new environment to application Go-live.
• Installation of SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 with oracle 10g on windows 2003, (32 and 64 bit environment).
• SAP System landscape setup - 3 system landscape (Development, Quality and Production) Using homogeneous system copy and Client Copy.
• Regular Kernel patch up gradation and SPAM updates.
• Application of OSS notes to resolve the issues
• Applying license and maintenance certificates.
• Applying Add-on & Plug-ins using SAINT, support packages using SPAM in the entire 3 system landscape.
• Configure TMS between Development, Quality and Production systems of R/3 using STMS.
• Profile maintenance - Start, Instance and Default Profile.
• Client Administration - Client copy, export & imports, Deletion.
• User Administration - User creation, Deletion, User copy, Password Activation, Authorization and Profile maintenance.
• Creating Roles (Parent and Child Roles) and Authorization, assigning roles to users.
• Configuration of SAP Router and RFC connectivity for OSS and remote access.
• VERITAS backup configuration for SAP system in windows server.
• Printers Set-up and reconfigure for the Sap R/3 system through SPAD.
• Monitoring Spool status.
• Moved data and configuration between SAP systems utilizing Test Data Migration Server (TDMS) or client copies.
• Monitored the data loads in BI and APO whenever required.
• Perform system copies and dual stack split.
• Used SUM & SWPM for System Upgrades.
• Configured and monitored Trfc & qRFC queues and monitored those including CIF jobs.
• Created RFC’s for connection establishment.
• Maintained J2EE software stacks - monitoring, debugging and troubleshooting issues related to the Java stack.
• Maintain SAP portal environment. Configuring backend services called by the portal, know how to create, change, and update SSL certificate
• Planning for SAP Installations, system sizing (capacity planning), and disk/storage/server layout and system installation plans.
• Monitor database growth and activity. Monitor database performance and adjust database resources as required. Monitor database storage and add storage space as required.
• Table and index maintenance. Reorganize database tables and rebuild database indexes as required.
• SAP integration to other SAP and non-SAP systems.
• Backup and Restore Management using BRBACKUP/BRRESTORE.
• Regular Transport Management in 3 System Landscape.
• Performance Monitoring of SAP R/3, Database, Operating system.
• Scheduling background jobs and monitoring.
• Analysis of System Logs, Short Dump, Update Error & Deadlocks.
• Raising OSS messages and seeing through the resolution and apply SAP support OSS notes.
• Use SAP online OSS support to research and report problems, schedule and provide solutions.
• Installation and configuration of Business Objects, Data Services and Information Steward
• Implemented DR system for each PROD system in Landscape.
• Always maintained DR system with PROD configuration and maintained is configurations similar to PROD.
• Synced logs between PROD and DR.
• Recovered PROD servers by pulling the logs from DR when any issues arise.
• Performed Disaster Recovery (DR Activity) every year.
• Prepared an execution plan for DR activity and documentation for the same.
• Tested DR by stopping PROD and completed the task by routing the load to DR servers.
• Configured CCMS, Alert configuration and monitoring.
• Installed Enterprise Portal (EP) - Configuration and troubleshooting.
• Performed Portal transports, log analysis for trouble shooting.
• Stop - Started the servers when required (Recycle during Maintenance).
• Integrated with ECC/SRM systems.
• Installed, Upgraded, Configured Solution Manager.
• Configured all aspects of Solman preparation, Managed Systems Config, Basis Config.
• Solution maintenance SOLAR01, SOLAR02 roadmaps
• Configured Charm and Service Desk integration.
• Configured BI Monitoring, PI Monitoring, iDocs Monitoring
• Configured and integration of Business Process Monitoring and analytics BPMon
• Configured Root Cause Analysis RCA.

Environment: ECC, GRC, Oracle, RHEL, BO/BI, AP0, SRM, BODS, BOBJ, MDM, SBOP, GTS, CRM, Portal, PI, GRC, SolMan, NWDI, SLD, Linux/Windows.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all stages of Migration from setting up new environment to application Go-live.
• Installation of SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 with oracle 10g on windows 2003, (32 and 64 bit environment).
• SAP System landscape setup - 3 system landscape (Development, Quality and Production) Using homogeneous systems copying and Client Copying
• Regular Kernel patch up gradation and SPAM updates.
• Application of OSS notes to resolve the issues
• Applying license and maintenance certificates.
• Applying Add-on & Plug-ins using SAINT, support packages using SPAM in the entire 3 system landscape.
• Configure TMS between Development, Quality and Production systems of R/3 using STMS.
• Profile maintenance - Start, Instance and Default Profile.
• Client Administration - Client copy, export & imports, Deletion.
• User Administration - User creation, Deletion, User copy, Password Activation, Authorization and Profile maintenance.
• Creating Roles (Parent and Child Roles) and Authorization, assigning roles to users.
• Configuration of SAP Router and RFC connectivity for OSS and remote access.
• VERITAS backup configuration for SAP system in windows server.
• Printers Set-up and reconfigure for the Sap R/3 system through SPAD.
• Managing print and spooling functions. Configure and maintained approximately 340 remote printers.
• Backup and Restore Management using BRBACKUP/BRRESTORE.
• Regular Transport Management in 3 System Landscape.
• Performance Monitoring of SAP R/3, Database, Operating system.
• Scheduling background jobs and monitoring.
• Analysis of System Logs, Short Dump, Update Error & Deadlocks.
• Maintained MDM services.

Environment: ECC 6.0, BI, APO, MDM, Oracle Linux, GRC 10.0, ECC 6.0, BI, FI & Oracle DB.

Confidential, Temple Terrace, Florida

SAP Security & GRC Consultant

Responsibilities :

• Participated in Business Requirements and Hardware requirements finalization.
• User Administration using SU01 and SU10 and their Roles
• Added and Modified the Role to the End User as per Management Guideline.
• Responsible for day-to-day user administration tasks.
• Created Authorizations and Profiles based on the Job Profiles.
• Good Working Knowledge of AGR* and USR* Tables.
• Resolved many missing authorization issues by analyzing the SU53 screen shots.
• Effectively analyzed trace files and tracked missed authorizations for user's access problems and inserted missing authorizations manually.
• Execute appropriate Reports or Programs to check user access to SAP Systems as per given criteria at the time of Audits (SA38).
• Create roles using different methods like transactions, direct objects, missing authorizations, restrictions etc.
• Performed SAP License Audit.
• Defined Back ground Jobs like PFCG TIME DEPENDENCY using SM36.
• Restricting Table Access using Authorization Objects S TABU DIS for maintaining Table Security.
• Setup and administration of User IDs via Central User Administration (CUA).
• Monitoring the critical T-Codes and ensure that they are not assigned to the concerned users.
• Create FF ID’s, FF Owners, FF Controllers, and FF Administrators for FF ID’s and map them to FFID’s.
• Assign EAM roles.
• Adding FF ID’s to Fire Fighter using EAM.
• Mitigation and Remediation of users using User Analysis in ARA.
• Having experience in SAP security for various environments like ECC, HR, FI, BI & (GRC).
• Experienced in the areas of User administration, Role management, development, and troubleshooting, Testing and reports generation in Security environment.
• Very good knowledge at SAP Authorization Concept.
• User Administration - Includes user creation, deletion, changing user access for different systems and environments, Mass user administration.
• Managed and created new users, groups for easy administration.
• Role maintenance as creating, modifying roles and assigning additional roles to the existing users based on user change requests form.
• Massively user comparison by running job in back ground.
• Experienced extensively in using PFCG - profile generator in creating and modifying Single, Composite and Derived roles.
• Working on role changes as per the business requirement.
• Maintenance of Derived roles based on the Organizational Values differentiation.
• Maintenance of authorization objects for transactions.
• Effectively analyzed trace files and tracked missing authorizations for user’s access problems.
• Proficient knowledge on USR* & AGR* tables.
• Creation of authorization groups as per the business requirement
• Having Good knowledge in SOD and SOX.
• Create roles using different methods like transactions, direct objects, missing authorizations, restrictions etc.
• Mass user maintenance through SU10 and handling user issues through SU53, SU56 and System Trace ST01.
• Extensively used SUIM transaction code for security analysis
• Central User Administration (CUA) experience to create users, assign roles, and maintenance.
• Emergency Access Management (EAM) - Access Risk Analysis (ARA) - Business Role Management.

Environment : GRC, ECC, Oracle Linux, Oracle DB.