PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Working as SAP Basis / SAP Netweaver Administrator for over 9+ years in various domains like Consumer, Healthcare, Media and Retail industries.
• Experience in SAP Basis/Netweaver and completed full life cycle SAP implementation projects.
• Involved in 3 complete end - to-end SAP Implementations, release upgrade and one Enhancement Pack upgrades and participated actively in production support role across multiple projects.
• Experience in interacting with different stakeholders of the projects in understating project life cycle in agile methodologies and working with System Administrators, Network and Storage teams in capacity planning and building efficient SAP Environments and coordinating and conducting knowledge transfers with offshore teams.
• Clear understanding of SLA (Service Level Agreements) with the business and project teams during implementation and production support.
• Experience in installing SAP Business Suite and Netweaver products on various flavors of UNIX, LINUX Virtualization and Windows based servers.
• Understanding of SAP ABAP, ABAP+JAVA & JAVA Architectures.
• Experience in troubleshooting day-day issues in ABAP and JAVA stacks running in virtual, clustered, HA & DR environments.
• Experience in performing administration of SAP environments running on ORCL, DB2 LUW & SQL SERVER database software's involving ORCL GRID ASM RAC and DB2 Partitioned DB's.
• Experience in performing Release, Enhancement Package upgrades in timely & efficient fashion with minimal downtime for business impact.
• Experience in understating and applying software logistics for SAP and upgrading SAP using SUM, Ehpup, JSPM & telnet tools.
• Experience in identifying KPI's for ABAP and JAVA based systems and using SolMan, Wily Interscope and Perceiver to monitor SAP systems.
• Experience in configuring Load Balancing using Hardware Switches and Web Dispatcher.
• Experience & understanding of SAP encryption using SSO, SSL and certificates.
• Experience of SAP Performance tuning in areas of BW Data Extraction and Loading process and PI message processing at Integration and Adapter engines.
• Understanding of Partner Profiles, Change Pointers, ALE Distribution Model & message flow in and out of PI System.
• Understanding of SAP PI Communication Channels, Adapters - Idoc, JMS, SOAP and File.
• Experience in reviewing EWA reports, SAP TIC, SAP Recommendations and Capacity reports.
• Experience in performing system refreshes and knowledge of TDMS.
• Understanding of HANA databases and performing administrative tasks of running SAP on HANA.
• Understanding of HANA SLT replication server.
• Experience in migration of SAP systems in heterogeneous and homogenous environments.
• Worked with helpdesk tools like Remedy, Peregrine and Solution Manager Support Desk.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr.SAP BASIS / NetWeaver Administrator

Confidential, Lakewood, CO

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering technical requirements for NW Business Warehouse upgrade.
• Involved in design of temp DEV and QA systems for upgrade release. i.e built DEV and QA from existing DEV and PRD as system copies to support the upgrade of production BW instance.
• Extensively used tools like Solution Browser to assess the new business functionalities of the BW upgrade.
• Review upgrade guides and collect prerequisites for a successful upgrade of BW landscape.
• Worked with SAPup tool to perform the upgrade of the BW landscape.
• Worked extensively with BW development team to identify the issues during the upgrade and resolve with SAP OSS msg's and implementing snotes across the landscape.
• Performed kernel upgrades and implemented support packs accordingly.
• Worked with SAP technical support to identify any product issues and apply fixes to the landscape.
• Installed BEx Analyzer tool on Sharepoint and resolved issues with reports designed in BEx.
• Fine tune BW system level parameters to enhance Info package’s and DTP's performance in data loading.
• Install additional application servers during maintenance window of Production System.
• Perform TMS administration and configured TMS routes.
• Involved in setting ORCL DB - Dataguard in high availability mode for production BW Database as a part of the DR.
• Performed Language installation.
• Worked on shell scripting to schedule ABAP Dump alerts, DDIC, Client changes notifications to SOX team.

Environment: SAP Business Suite 7, NW 3.5, 7.0 Ehp1, ORCL 9i/10G, AIX 6.1, SQL SERVER 2005

Sr. SAP BASIS / Netweaver Administrator

Confidential, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Propose and designed the to be landscape for NFE Systems and their integration with ECC and PI.
• Installation of SAP Netweaver 7.3 Ehp1 ABAP systems on Oracle 11g R2 GRID infrastructure to build Sandbox, Development, QA and Production Environments.
• Install SAP NW 7.3 Ehp1 on two/three node ORCL Clusterware.
• Setup SAP HA services on ORCL Clusterware using SAPCTL.
• Attend and Resolve day to issues/tasks related to performance, system connectivity, and change management. RFC connections, applying snotes and systems maintenance.
• Install certificates on NFE for digital signature and PI JAVA stack for authentication with Brazil SEFAZ systems.
• Performed upgrade of Support pack stacks and kernel to latest patch levels.
• Setup SAP systems in SolMan for Alerting and EWA notifications.
• Installed Portuguese language on ECC and NFE systems for Brazil Localization.
• Research, Recommend and Implement PI AE, BPE engine tuning parameters for optimal message processing.
• Setup SSO for NFE systems in Portal on NW 7.4 environment.
• Work with functional, ABAP, PI developers and Security teams to address day to day issues in SAP.
• Plan and co-ordinate knowledge transfer sessions with offshore team.
• Plan and setup Disaster Recovery Environment and test Production systems outage/fail-over scenarios.

Environment: SAP Netweaver 7.3 Ehp1/7.1 Ehp1, ECC 6.0 Ehp 6, Oracle 11g R2, ASM, RAC, Solaris 11.

SAP Netweaver Administrator

Confidential, Universal City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for setting up of BW 7.1 Ehp1 and Nfe (Brazil Nota fiscal 7.0 Ehp2 and PI 7.1 Ehp1) Landscape for both project and RUN teams.
• Provide BASIS support for BW, Nfe, PI & BODS systems for all the phases of the Project like
• Performance Testing, Regression Testing, Go live Mock and Production release.
• Perform system refreshes to setup various test environments.
• Setup ASCS / SCS systems in HA environment for Production Environments.
• Review SAP TIC reports and implement recommendation across the landscape.
• Perform DB2 online/offline table reorganizations to enhance DB performance.
• Install Supports packs and Patches using SUM and SPAM.
• Perform kernel upgrades and patching.
• Participate and perform DR exercises on a yearly basis.
• Search, review and implement OSS notes to identify and rectify the product issues across ECC, BW and PI systems.
• Performed Installation of BODS 4.0 in windows 2008 R2 environment to build project and RUN environments.
• Involve in performance-tuning support during performance testing and production issues by analyzing ABAP and DB trace and recommend the changes to reduce operational SLA's.
• Successfully upgraded Data Services from 4.0 to 4.2
• Add application servers for scaling out the BW & ECC production systems to support additional regions during the go-live.
• Configure additional nodes in JAVA Cluster environments for scaling out the user/system load.
• Configured and assisted in setting up 400 SoCo printers during the project go-live.
• Day to day activities like troubleshooting system issues, system slowness, snotes implementation, review EWA recommendations, adjusting TMS routes & adding space to database etc.
• Performed housekeeping across PI landscape and releasing around 4TB space back to SAN.
• Recommended PI message prioritization and change / tune thread configurations for various adapters in PI system for optimal performance.
• Analyze Work Process (DIA & BTC) utilization across Application servers to determine the need to scale out the systems in terms of CPU, Memory and number of WP's configured.

Environment: SAP Business Suite 7, NW 7.0/7.1 Ehp1/7.3 Ehp1, BODS 4.0/4.2, DB2 9.7/10.1, SQL SERVER 2008/2012, Livecache 7.9, AIX 6.1/7.1 & Windows Server 2008/2012 R2.

SAP BASIS / Netweaver Administrator

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installing ECC 6.0 Ehp4, PI 7.1 Ehp1 and EP 7.2 software units.
• Build the ECC, PI - Five system landscapes & EP three system landscape.
• Configured TMS routes and CTS+ for the transport management across ABAP/JAVA systems.
• Perform kernel upgrades and support pack installations.
• Configure CCMS monitoring KPI's for production systems.
• Perform system refreshes at regular periodic intervals for various testing phases.
• Review and analyze Thread and Memory dumps analysis using TDA & MAT to identify and fix JAVA stack issues.
• Using SolMan instance to monitor performance of production systems.
• Work with ChaRM team to identify and resolve BASIS related issues for project/support correction changes.
• Setup Enqueue Replication Server for ASCS HA configurations in clustered environments.
• Using SDM, JSPM & telnet to apply/deploy JAVA patches.
• Perform kernel upgrades and patching.
• Configure SSO in EP systems.
• Extensively worked with BW Dev team in DSO cleanup activities to reduce DB space utilization.
• Administer and configure BPC .NET servers.
• Administer ORACLE Real Application Cluster databases by tuning DB parameters, providing recommendation in SAP DB disk layout and applying CPU patches.
• Analyzing DB top wait events and identifying the Batch Jobs causing high response times in production systems.
• Perform day-to-day operations in performing BASIS configurations i.e setting up different RFC connections, JCO connections, SLD configurations, PI - Fine-tune Integration Engine Configurations etc.
• Work with SAP support by opening oss msg's in resolving potential system issues and applying the patches provided by SAP as permanent fixes.

Environment: SAP BUSINESS Suite 7, ORACLE 9i/10G, AIX 6.1, HP-UX, Netweaver 7.0/7.1 Ehp1, NWDI, Control M, Managed File Transfer & Max DB, TSM.

SAP BASIS Engineer

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Gathered pre-requisites, review OSS notes, document and actively involved in performing the upgrade of ECC 4.7 to 6.0 Ehp4.
• Build project track environment of ECC to test and implement the upgrade of ECC system.
• Installation/configuration of SAP NetWeaver, SAP BI, SAP XI/PI7.0, and Solution Manager 4.0 systems.
• Install new language packs on existing systems. i.e support for Spanish & Portuguese.
• Involved in R/3 4.7 ( kernel) to ECC 6.0 EHP4 ( kernel) CU & UC.
• Performed Support pack and kernel upgrades.
• Perform system refreshes as per the testing schedule of the projects.
• Configured tracks on NWDI and transported portal objects using NWDI
• Replaced Hardware load balancer with web Dispatcher and configured SSO for portal based systems.
• Review SAP profile parameters and increase EM, Heap memories for optimal performance.
• Configuration and Integration of SAP live cache into APO system with SCM 4.0.

Environment: SAP ECC 4.7, 6.0 Ehp4, SCM Netweaver 7.0/7.0 Ehp1, AIX, ORCL 9i/10g & SQL SERVER 2005.

SAP Basis Administrator

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Served as Basis Consultant for ECC 5.0, BW 3.5 (with 3.5.2 Content and BW-SEM 4.0), Solution Manager
• 3.2 And WAS 6.40 SP 14.
• Perform SAP sizing for various applications.
• Handling and coordinating between onsite Operations lead and offshore team members
• Upgrading the kernel patches.
• Applying Support pack stacks.
• Configuring online Help for SAP servers.
• Communicated with SAP for analysis session, Pre & Post go-live session and implemented suggested improvements.
• Handled EP 6.0 with the R/3 and BW systems for Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAP Log Ticket Method.
• Worked on BR*Tools/SAPDBA program for BRARCHIVE, BRBACKUP, BRCONNECT, BRRECOVER, BRRESTORE, BRSPACE.
• Performed Kernel patch Management.
• Managed central monitoring systems(CEN) using CCMS agents SAPCCMSR
• Performance monitoring, workload analysis, performance tuning and database tuning using CCMS
• SAP BW Production Support activities for a global BW landscapes. This includes extensive work on new deployment, project implementation, upgrade work and performance tuning of the extractors, data loads and queries.
• Performed System Copy in Homogeneous environments.
• General Housekeeping jobs, schedule background jobs, maintain printer, schedule background jobs, and analyze alerts. SM37, SP01, SPAD, SM21, SM13.
• Database Backups using BRBACKUP, Archiving using BRARCHIVE from SAP BRTOOLS.
• 24x7 off-hours Production support via cyclic on-call schedule.

Environment: Oracle9.2.0.8/10g and Remedy for Ticketing.

SAP BASIS Administrator / ORACLE DBA

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building the databases supporting Confidential .COM application.
• Configured and Installed ORACLE 11g R2 10g R2 on various Sun Solaris, AIX, Linux servers.
• Configured databases in High Availability (HA) infrastructure.
• Installed and configured oracle Wallets for ATG search application.
• Performed various RMAN backup and recoveries scenarios.
• Extensively used RMAN Duplication to build various performance environments.
• Worked with tools like OEM and analyzed the database workload and actively involved in database design for effective performance.
• Performed widows to Solaris cross platform migration using RMAN-Duplicate and Transportable tablespaces.
• Setup oracle backups with RMAN-TDP infrastructure.
• Configured RMAN backup and recoveries with Tivoli instances.
• Used tools like Datapump, Exp/imp and Transportable tablespaces for moving data among different environments.
• Revisited logical database design on reactive performance tuning of production database with Developers.
• Designed various scripts for efficient data migration and with less significant downtime of production environment.
• Worked extensively on various table and index partitioning.
• Involved in capacity planning, storage estimations and DB infrastructure for the application.
• Involved in production support for various pharmacy and retails warehouse databases.
• Configured RMAN backups scripts and deigned the backup and recovery strategy for Confidential .COM.
• Performed CPU patching and applied various patch set upgrades on oracle binaries.
• Identified potential bottlenecks in the database and performed corrective action to prevent them.
• Performed SQL Tuning and suggested application design for the best database response times.
• Patched and upgraded various oracle homes.
• Extensively used tools like tkprof, oem, AWR, ASH, ADDM and Statspack in identifying the bottlenecks and resolving the performance issues.
• Involved in various FTC, SOX audit compliance reporting.
• Used materialized views for replication and performance enhancements.

Environment: Oracle 10g/9i, ATG, Sun clusters, Sun Solaris 5.10, IBM-AIX, Linux, Tivoli, oracle wallets.