PROFILE:

Certified SAP Consultant & TOGAF certified with 10 years of experience in SAP Netweaver Technology, with extensive knowledge on OS/DB migrations and Upgrades, Unicode conversions. Experience in planning and implementation of Hosting services both on premise and cloud applications.

SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of experience in SAP Administration (Support, Implementations, Upgrades, Migrations, Unicode conversion) as SAP Basis Consultant.
• SAP Certified OSDB Migration Technology consultant.
• SAP Certified SAP HANA Administration Technology consultant.
• SAP Certified SAP Net - weaver Administration (Oracle DB) SAP NW 7.0 Technology consultant.
• SAP Certified Technology Specialist - SAP HANA Installation (E-HANAINS151).
• Expertise in migration of large scale SAP solutions across OS/DB platforms and datacenters with in depth knowledge of advanced tools and associated challenges. Migrated 40+ multi-terabyte production systems across various projects
• Performed HANA Migrations from Oracle, DB2 on ECC, BW, and SCM landscapes with DMO.
• Planning & Execution of OS-DB Migrations (Solaris>>Linux, HP-UNIX >> Linux, Solaris>>AIX).
• Performed Technical Upgrades and Unicode conversions from SAP R/3 4.6c, 4.7 EXT to SAP ERP EHP5/6/7, SCM and BW.
• Extensive knowledge in upgrades of EHPs and Support Packages, Add-on Installations, Kernel Upgrades and Oracle patches in all SAP landscapes.
• Implementation of HANA products(Dynamic Teiring, Multitenant Database Containers((MDC) Installations and Configurations, HANA SLT Configurations)
• Performed database upgrades from Oracle 9i, 10g to 11g and DB2 upgrades from DB2 V9.5, 9.7 to 10.g
• Had been part of Full Cycle Implementations including (Sizing, Installation, Configuration, Go-Live, Maintenance and Support) in ECC 6.0 EHP 5.0, EP 7.0, XI/PI 7.30, 7.1, BW 7.30, 6.0, APO/SCM 4.0, SRM 6.0, and Solution Manager 7.1/7.0/4.0 in Unix and Windows OS versions and Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, HANA DB and SYBASE versions.
• Worked with all major SAP Net weaver and Business Suite systems on a variety of OS/DB platforms with extensive project experience in managing complex SAP landscapes and administration tasks
• Proficient in database administration for DB2 LUW and Oracle environments with project experience in physical design, security, space management, troubleshooting, SQL scripting, high availability, upgrade, performance optimization and backup-recovery operations.
• Have hands on experience in new JAVA 7.30 tools and JAVA administration tools - Config tool, Visual Admin, SDM and JSPM, NWDI/NWDS setups and administration activities.
• Well experienced with most of the latest SAP solutions and worked with E2E full cycle implementations: - from landscape design and execution to support.
• Performed Installations for BI7.0/PI7.1/SCM5.1 (Live-Cache, Optimizer)/BO 3.1/MDM/IDM/EP/CE 7.1 and web dispatcher installations
• SAP Business Object Installation
• SAP TDMS Installation and Configuration
• Hands on experience in all SSO (single sign on) scenarios and SSL for portal and backend systems.
• Have excellent experience in system refreshes (handled multi TB databases) in all the SAP components in ABAP and JAVA systems using Backup restore and SAP Installation methods in Oracle, DB2 environments.
• Support activities like STMS, Client Administration, OSS operations, BRTOOLS operations, Background Job Administration, System Monitoring & Fault Management, SAP-Crypto-lib installation, Printer Installation & Troubleshooting, SLD Configurations, Agents installations, Backup configurations, Sap systems Integrations with diff interfaces, Language Installations and many more
• Followed and maintained ITIL Procedures and policies and provided the best delivery for Implementations, upgrades and support environments
• Have excellent demonstration, change management and documentation skills and maintained every change in the system for future references and audit purposes.
• Have ability to learn new technologies in SAP and Non SAP tools, which are required for business functionality and Flexible to adopt/jump in any new technologies/technical skills for any new software components based on client requirement, provide the complete support, and transfer KT to teams.
• Have excellent skills in Root cause analysis and involved in every Prod system unplanned system down scenarios.
• Completely flexible in working hours and can able to work long hours based on business requirements.
• Extensively worked as SAP Basis Consultant and provided support to more than 65 Customers at IBM
• Good communication, interpersonal, problem solving, organizational, analytical skills and quick learning skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Products: SAP R/3 4.6C,SAP R/3 4.7,SAP ECC,SAP BW,SAP SCM,SAPPI,SAPNWPORTAL,HANA, BOBJ,S/4HANA

Database: SAP HANA, Oracle,DB2,MSSQL,SYBASE

Operating System: UNIX/LINUX, Windows

Tools: Siebel, remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP Basis Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planning and Performing Installations
• Implementation of various products
• Version & EHP upgrades(4.6c, 4.7, ECC5.0, ECC 6.0,BW,SCM,PI)
• Combined Upgrade and Unicode Conversions(CUUC)
• OS/DB migrations
• HANA Migration using DMO tool
• Providing expert consulting
• Bid management.
• RDS Implementation.
• Performance Tuning.
• Providing HA200, TADM70 73 and NetWeaver Administration Training
• HANA Installation, Migration, Backup, Restore and Recovery and HANA Security.

Confidential, St. Louis, Missouri

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Planning and coordinating with customer for the upgrade and migration.
• Verified Customer Landscape using Confidential tool for migration as customer was using SAP HANA TDI.
• Performed CUUC conversion of ERP, BW, SCM landscapes from Oracle DB to HANA with DMO.
• Used various optimization techniques to bring downtime within the acceptable limit of the customer.
• Used HANA Benchmark Tool for optimization.
• Cutover and Go live Support.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Planning and coordinating with customer for the upgrade.
• Execution of Upgrade and migration from ECC 6.0 to ECC EHP7 on S4HANA.
• Smart Business ActivationSAP Fiori Technical Installation and Configuration
• HANA Live installations
• Dry Run, Cutover Support

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Expert Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Planning and coordination with customer for the Migration.
• Expert consultancy support for the BW- HANA migration.
• Used BW PCA in a BW on HANA migration context
• Developed customized scripts/checklists and deployed advanced SAP/IBM tools and techniques including parallel export-import, R3ta, WHR/STR splitter.
• Cutover Support

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning and Preparation
• Execution of BW Upgrade and OS/DB Migration from BW 7.30 system/Oracle to BW7.3/ HANA
• Planning of Backup Strategy, Homogenous System copy training
• Hana Admin Training to the core team of Confidential .
• Go-live Support

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning and Preparation
• Preparation of Detailed cutover plan
• Execution of OS/DB Migration and Unicode conversion of BW 7.30 system/Oracle to BW 7.30 on HANA.
• Go-live Support

Confidential

Technical Lead and Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed the Upgrade and Unicode Conversion from ERP 6.0 EHP 6 to EHP7, and migration from DB2/AIX 9.7 to DB2/Linux 10.5.
• Database of size 13 TB.
• Developed customized scripts/checklists and deployed advanced SAP/IBM tools and techniques including R3load, parallel export-import, R3ta, WHR/STR splitter, Migration Monitor /Distributed Monitor, Migtime, DB2 Row Compression, DB2 LOAD API and DB2 Sampling to meet stringent accuracy, data compression, performance and downtime requirements

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Planning and coordinating with customer for the upgrade.
• Execution of Upgrade from ECC 6.0 to ECC EHP7
• Execution of BW Upgrade from NW 7.0 to 7.3
• Migration from Oracle to SYBASE ASE
• Dry Run, Cutover & Go live Support

Confidential

Technical Lead and Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed end-to-end migration of several systems as Migration Lead.
• Prepared detailed cutover plans, conducted cutover walk-through sessions, coordinated execution of cutover tasks and facilitated post go-live transition to support teams.
• Hardware migration of ERP/BW/SRM/SCM/PI system landscapes from HP-UNIX/Oracle10g to Linux/Oracle11g on VM ware
• Built and configured SAP solution manager for maintenance optimizer (MOPZ), early-watch (EWA) reporting, technical alert monitoring, workload analysis and SAP go-live support services to support delivery of Migration project

Confidential

Technical Lead & Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning Preparation
• Executed OS/DB Migration SAP ECC EHP6, BW 7.30, SAP SCM 7.1 system/Oracle Go-live support

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed the Upgrade and Unicode Conversion of SCM Landscape from SCM 4.0 to SCM 7.0 EHP1, which includes SCM optimizer installation and configuration.
• Upgrade and Unicode Conversion from SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 EHP6
• Go-live support

Confidential

Technical Consultant - HANA Admin

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge on HANA appliance, sizing, system installation setup.
• In depth Knowledge of architecture and in memory computing.
• Monitoring (Performance, Resource utilization - CPU, Memory, Network, Space, Services, Alerts)
• Execute System upgrade and patching activities
• Configure and optimize the performance of SAP HANA environments
• Database / Log Backups, Database restore / recovery
• Root Cause Analysis
• Database / Infrastructure / Server Software update

• System Replication (DR) HSR
• Complete Administration of Databases.
• Installation, Upgrades, Applying Patches, MigrationRollback. Automatic Storage setup.
• Backup and recovery. Configure database for archival logging.
• HANA installation, HSR setup and multi-node setup.
• Offline and online reorg recovery from a database failure.
• Diagnosing and trouble-shooting concepts.
• Performance Tuning.
• HANA SLT Configurations
• Multitenant Database Containers Installations and Configurations (MDC)

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detailed cutover plans, conducted cutover walk-through sessions, coordinated execution of cutover tasks and facilitated post go-live transition to support teams.
• Performed EHP upgrade of SAP CRM 7.0 to SAP CRM 7.0 EHP 2
• Performed PI upgrade from PI 7.0 to PI 7.31.
• Performed PI upgrade from ERP 6.0 to ERP 6.0 EHP5

Confidential

Technical Lead & Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, Installation and configuration of ERP, BW, BOBJ, PI landscapes and production support.
• Perform Sizing for the entire SAP Landscape
• Preparing, Planning and Designing the Landscape Strategy
• Customer Meetings to understand the requirements
• Define the structure of the project, Naming conventions, and Project requirements.
• Implementing and configuring all the systems in the landscape (ERP, EP, BI, PI, GRC, SSO, and Solution Manager).
• Preform EHP upgrades and SAP Upgrades wherever required for all the components in entire landscape.
• SAP Business Object Installation and configuration
• Customer meetings and knowledge transfer activities
• Train Employees at customer place on Basis/Solution Manager
• High level Documentation
• Setting up of Technical Monitoring.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed end-to-end migration of several systems as Migration Lead.
• Prepared detailed cutover plans, conducted cutover walk-through sessions, coordinated execution of cutover tasks and facilitated post go-live transition to support teams.
• OS&DB migration of SAP R3 4.7,ECC5.0,ECC6.0, NW 640,NW700 BW(ABAP+JAVA)/SCM/PI/Solution manager system landscapes from HP-UNIX/DB2 to Linux/DB2. Some landscapes were using maxdb databases.
• Built and configured SAP solution manager for maintenance optimizer (MOPZ), early-watch (EWA) reporting, technical alert monitoring, workload analysis and SAP go-live support services to support delivery of Migration project

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparing, Planning and Designing the Landscape Strategy
• Define the structure of the project, Naming conventions, and Project requirements.
• Implementing and configuring all the systems in the landscape (ERP, EP, BI, PI, GRC, SSO, and Solution Manager).
• Perform EHP upgrades and SAP Upgrades wherever required for all the components in entire landscape.
• Customer meetings and knowledge transfer activities, Train Employees at customer place on Basis, High level Documentation preparation.

Senior System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed DB2 9.7 fix pack Installations.
• Performed DB2 Migrations.
• Installation of EP, CRM systems
• Planning & Executing System copies with SAPINST, BRDB6BRT.
• Planning & Executing Support Packs & EHP support packs.
• Planning & executing Kernel Upgrades.
• Language Installations
• Working on performance tuning
• Performing Database administrative activities, Online and Offline backups of DB.
• Working on SAP security like User Creation, Assigning Roles.
• Hands on Experience on tools like Siebel, Remedy and Security Tool VIRSA.
• Having knowledge of GRC concepts.
• PI Administration:
• SXMS QREG to manage queues (register, de-register queues), SMQ1 & SMQ2 queue administration
• Integration Engine Configuration & tuning “RUNTIME” parameters.
• Readiness Checks for PI 7.1 systems Runtime Workbench Administration & Monitoring, SXMB MONI monitoring for XML Messages
• Performance Monitoring of PI systems using pipeline concept.
• Exchange Profile administration & updating latest ESR Content from Service Marketplace
• Software Logistics for moving Design & Configuration Objects of ESR and Integration Builder using Export/Import and using Filesystem
• Standard SAP PI jobs for Archiving & Deletion of messages using Table switch concept.
• Expert in performance tuning of ABAP and JAVA systems, configured the batch jobs as per the project requirement.
• Email and Fax configuration in SOST and troubleshooting if any error in status.
• Applied BSI10 cyclic patches, bulletins and locators.
• Performed System Refreshes ABAP & JAVA (Dual stacks)