SUMMARY:

• Over eighteen years of experience in Design, Implementation and Support for SAP, Cloud and IT infrastructure
• Managed hosting SAP projects including leading many full life cycle SAP implementations, multiple rollouts and support projects
• Experience in solution design, sizing and architecting SAP systems and processes, including greenfield implementations, upgrades and OS/DB migrations - on premise and on cloud
• Data center migrations and Disaster Recovery setups
• Hands on SAP Technical Archtect with adept project management skills and lead experience
• Worked on SAP & HANA on AWS & Azure cloud
• Experienced in SAP HANA implementation/migration. Setting up ETL tools like SAP SLT
• Rich experience in database management, performance tunning and optimization
• Expert knowledge about infrastructure layers of OS, VMWare & Storage
• Designed advanced monitoring and alerting, for KPI’s ctirical for business, that are not available using standard monitoring tools/products
• Keen focus on pro-active prevention and push to automation
• Experience in Architecting multi-platform and innovative solutions to optimize business goals
• Manage the day-to-day operations in accordance with requirements and SLAs
• Drive Operations teams to deliver continuous improvement and productivity/quality gains
• Dynamic leader with experience and passion for managing large and diverse teams across multiple sites in a fast paced environment, able to deal with rapid change and ambiguity
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Core Applications:: SAP ERP (R/3 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC), SAP CRM (2007, 7.0), SAP SCM (5.1, 7.0) SAP SRM

SAP HANA 1.0: Sizing, Migration (SOH, BI & Solution Manager), Install, Upgrade, setup Standby & DR

SAP NetWeaver Software:: Business Intelligence ( BI ), Enterprise Portal (EP), Process Integration (PI), Master Data Management (MDM), TREX, Web Dispatcher, Solution Manager

SAP Lifecycle Management, Provisioning, Automation: SAP LaMa, Confidential Autonomic platform

SAP Change Management: SAP CTS and CTS+, SAP TMS Workflow, SAP NWDI

Data management & ETL:: SAP Data Services, SAP TDMS

SAP Business Objects: SAP Business Objects Enterprise, SAP Business Objects Data Services

Database Software: Oracle RDBMS, MS SQL, IBM DB2, MaxDB, Sybase

OS Platforms: AIX, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows

Infrastructure: IBM Pureflex chassis. Storage arrays - XIV, V7000 and EMC. Servers - Power & Intel blades, Network, VMWare

SAP High Availability: SAP ERS on AIX s HACMP, SUSE cluster and MSCS

Database High Availability: SAP-Oracle on HACMP/PowerHA, SAP-DB2 on HADR

OS Virtualization:: SAP on AIX/LPAR s and VMware. SAP on cloud

SAP Disaster Recovery: SAN Replication, VMware SRM(Site Recovery Manager), Oracle Standby Database (Physical, Logical)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Architect

• Migrated systems across vendor data centers using variety of technologies - Installs, migrations, system refresh and VMware exports
• HANA migration from Virtustream to AWS
• Design infrastructure for SAP Implementation (Hardware selection/setup, VMware Design, Storage pools/Backup-TSM design, SAP Systems layout, SLD, Transport Strategy, System connectivity etc.
• Heterogeneous/VM copy Migration & Installation of SAP & Bolton systems to CONA DC (7 Landscapes comprising of 400+ systems in the span of 2 months)
• High availability and Disaster Recovery setup (RTO 120 min & RPO 15 min)
• Develop procedures for off-site DR for all products. Lead the teams in yearly DR failover exercise
• Load balancing and reverse proxy for SAP and non-SAP products using BIGIP F5 & SAP Webdispatcher
• SAP Release upgrade for complete SAP & Bolton Landscapes, met very tight business outage requirements using SAP’s n-ZDM
• Implementation of SAP LVM(LaMa), TDMS, Solution Manager Dashboards
• Storage migrations/LUN standardization, VMware Cluster design
• Lifecycle Management of Infrastructure & SAP (Patching cycle for all components)
• Lead team for 'penetration hardening' of all systems and products to comply with security safeguards
• Capacity, sizing and growth reviews for critical business applications
• Capacity planning for the infrastructure (compute, storage, VMware, Network, Backup)
• Design build templates and processes for deployment of new products and systems
• Setup SAP SLT replication between SAP ECC and HANA

Confidential

SAP Basis HANA Consultant

• Worked on ERP on HANA project.CMigrated ERP from SQL Server to HANA and worked on Sizing, Administering, Monitoring, and Backup setup.
• Used HANA studio for various admin tasks like licensing, troubleshooting, monitoring backup etc.
• Worked on setting up a DR solution for HANA.

Confidential

Sr. Basis Technical Lead

• New SAP implementation using Confidential ’s energy sector template
• Migrated/on boarded systems using heterogeneous migrations
• Design, sizing and build of systems
• Worked on Sybase DB setting up monitoring, administering, resolving issues.
• Lead team for support and maintenance
• Setup DR site for the SAP systems using Sybase replication server

Confidential

Sr. Basis Technical Lead

• On boarded client in our datacenter.
• Migrated old systems, installed new systems and setup infrastructure including backups/monitoring/network
• Completed heterogeneous migration of ECC/Solman/BW/PI Dev systems from Linux to AIX
• Setup/installed ECC/PI/BI/SCM prods on IBM-HACMP cluster
• Disaster Recovery setup (RTO 180 min & RPO 15 min)
• Develop procedures for off-site DR for all products. Lead the teams in yearly DR failover exercise
• Maintain roadmap and maintenance schedule for landscape
• Written Unix scripts for various monitoring (DR system monitoring/health check monitoring)
• Completed upgrades(BI 7.0 to 7.3,Oralce 10 to 11g)
• Setup and supporting latest Bobj-BI/DS releases.
• Created project plans for upgrades and go-live/routine support.
• Designed Landscape(SLD/Transport strategy/integrations)
• Setup Monitoring using Nagios/CCMS/UNIX scripts
• Installed and managing non-sap products like HPQC, Opentext, and RWD.

Confidential

Confidential

SAP Advisory Consultant

• Architect and implement new SAP systems as required. Integrate them in the landscape to complete the Business Process scenario’s
• Manage & support the SAP landscape
• Disaster Recovery setup (RTO 180 min & RPO 30 min)
• Develop procedures for off-site DR for all products. Lead the teams in yearly DR failover exercise
• Manage system backups, using TSM. Perform controlled DRP testing and ensure DRP site availability
• Coordinate resources and activities between the onsite and offshore teams, to provide a seamless 24x7 support for the client
• Prepare project proposals, work statements, time-effort determination and staffing plans for global delivery model
• Establish project-level procedures in accordance to IBM’s service & quality management standards
• Track change & support tickets and ensure SLA compliance
• Ensure compliance with the client’s ISO & CMMI commitments
• Represent the support team in Change Management and Infrastructure meetings

Confidential

SAP Consultant

• Manage and support SAP systems in 3-system landscape
• Daily system monitoring for availability, performance, data updates and batch jobs
• Monitor backups of the SAP systems and escalate to level 2 teams for action
• Recommend issue-fixes and manage change control for implementing the software changes in production systems
• Define ‘Statement of Work’, generate effort reports and variances with the client
• Manage Quality & Defect tracking compliance to IBM’s Quality Management System. Ensure compliance with the pharmaceutical client’s FDA commitments

Confidential

Assistant Manager

• Responsible for technology evaluation and proof-of-concept projects
• Prepare ‘Planning and Budgeting Cash-flow’ for IT projects
• Establish quality procedures for the SAP team for ISO 9000:2001 audit. Provide reporting on quality metrics
• Plan & execute software logistic maintenance for the SAP landscape
• Maintain offline Disaster Recovery Server and regularly test the disaster recovery plan

Confidential

Systems Engineer

• Connect 150 company locations with lease-lines and/or VSAT links. Lead the effort from testing to commissioning and go-live of these links
• Implement enterprise-wide email and anti-virus solutions across geographic locations with local servers and clients
• Build and OS hardening systems in preparation for application installs like SAP, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Oracle ERP, etc