PROFILE SUMMARY:

11 years’ experience in SAP data archiving, ILM, DART, SAP Content Server, ABAP and third - party Open Text/ IXOS and FileNet solutions, including hands-on experience and user support. In addition to the technical implementation, worked with Business process owners and IT Departments for analysis, blueprint and implementation of Data Archiving Objects, archiving storage and retrieval. Additionally, experience includes 5 years programming/design and IT technical support

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP Archiving
• ILM
• DART
• SAP Content Server
• ABAP
• OpenText / IXOS
• FileNet
• Unix
• Java
• C++
• Oracle 9i/8i
• MS - SQL

WORK EXPERIENCE:

SAP ADK / ILM SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the SAP data archiving and SAP R/3 4.6c system decommissioning with SAP Information Life-cycle Management (ILM) to ensure success of client projects
• Design & architecture for SAP ILM retention Warehouse (RW)
• End to end data archiving and decommissioning for Confidential Legacy SAP Clients
• SAP ILM system enablement
• SAP Legacy system data analysis
• Data extraction for all required data with archiving, snapshots & context data extractor
• Audited area, policies & rules to set retention based on regulatory compliance requirements
• Validated extracted data
• Transferred, converted & stored of extracted data from source system
• Reported using audit package templates
• Legal hold
• Data destruction with compliance with (CRIM) global retention policy
• Analyzed the tables to identify archive objects for archiving and context data extractors
• Identified and Implemented required OSS notes
• Conducted meetings with clients to provide detail approach
• Conducted meetings with clients to get approvals for SAP ILM Decom, in different modules for data archiving and reporting
• Created Technical and functional documentation for configuration and Test Scripts for Testing purposes.
• Created Test case scenarios & scripts for ALM (HPQC)

SAP ILM Architect/ SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead SAP data archiving and SAP ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) global project to ensure success of the global projects for Japan, Canada and North America
• Design & architecture for SAP ILM retention management
• End to end implementation of print lists
• End to end implementation of DaRT
• End to end implementation of SAP ADK & ILM
• Creation of audit areas, policies and rules as per retention schedule
• Archive enablement of an archive object
• Legal case management
• E-Discovery with legal hold on data
• Data destruction
• HP - Quality Center - FUT, SIT, UAT, regression & performance testing

Data Archiving Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the SAP data archiving and SAP R/3 system decommissioning with SAP Information Life-cycle Management (ILM) to ensure success of client projects
• End to end data archiving and decommissioning for JnJ SAP Clients
• SAP ILM system enablement
• SAP system data analysis
• Data extraction for all required data with archiving, snapshots & context data extractor
• Audited area, policies & rules to set retention based on regulatory compliance requirements
• Validated extracted data
• Transferred, converted & stored of extracted data from source system
• Reported using audit package templates
• Legal hold
• Data destruction with compliance with global retention policy
• Documentation in compliance with the SDLC process
• Led the SAP ILM validation project to validate end-to-end ILM functionality, documentation and test cases
• Analyzed the tables to identify archive objects for archiving and context data extractors
• Implemented required OSS notes
• Conducted meetings with clients to provide detail approach
• Conducted meetings with clients to get approvals for SAP ILM Decom, in different modules for data archiving and reporting
• Supported team which supported the SAP H*J environments for the Confidential & Confidential archiving resource group

Data Archiving Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved from initial phase to full life cycle project proposals to go live
• Led the project which was related to archiving of SAP data bases on corporate document retention policy to improve the system performance and limit the database growth
• Analyzed the tables to identify best candidates for archiving
• Implemented required OSS notes
• Conducted meetings with clients to provide detailed data management approach
• Conducted meetings with clients to get approvals for data archiving, in different modules and different document types
• Had elaborate discussions with business users to decide the archive objects to be considered and to find out any special requirements
• Configured all required archiving objects
• Initiated the archiving process, and observing the job logs and statistics
• Configured archive info structure for reporting archived data
• Initiated the deletion process
• Verified deletion process, and cross checked with the tables
• Moved the configuration to production system
• Restricted system growth, and have decided to move some of the data onto a slower storage medium, which is also cheaper than the expensive, quickly accessible memory within your system
• Moved archived files to external storage system

Data Archiving Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted blueprint and implementation--Involved from initial phase to full life cycle Project proposals to go live
• Led the Project which was related to archiving of SAP data bases on corporate document retention policy to improve the system performance and limit the database growth
• Analyzed the tables to identify best candidates for archiving
• Implemented required OSS notes
• Conducted meetings with clients to provide detailed data management approach
• Conducted meetings with clients to get approvals for data archiving, in different modules and different document types
• Had elaborate discussions with business users to decide the archive objects to be considered and to find out any special requirements
• Created archiving objects for custom tables and configured with the custom reports to create archive file, delete database entries, read archived entries and reload the archive entries
• Ran archiving jobs for PA CALC, PA LDOC, PA TIME, PA TRAVEL, PA PDOC, and PA PIDX with care not to impact the payroll run
• Customized archiving helped reduce daily 20 hour running job into 7 hours
• Implemented programs to maintain the SAP office data
• Cross checked archiving objects are configured as per the statics of the database table
• Analyzed and did code corrections where ever required and implemented OSS notes for better performance of objects
• Analyzed and provided options to prevent SAP Script texts creation, delete unwanted entries in the system and archiving opportunities
• Demonstrated to users on how to retrieve the archived documents for viewing purposes in quality system
• Provided detailed steps (manuals) to the production support team to execute the jobs

Data Archiving Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project was related to archiving of SAP data bases on corporate document retention policy to improve the system performance and limit the database growth
• Analyzed the tables to identify what to archive
• Had elaborate discussions with business users to decide the archive objects to be considered and to find out any special requirements
• Info structures developed for storing the archived data for reporting purposes. Based on business requirements
• Identified OSS notes and implement in the system
• DART extracts are done for different company codes for the different periods
• Configured archiving objects (FI DOCUMNT, MM ACCTIT, BC SBAL, IDOC, WORKITEM, MM MATBEL, COPA2 TN01 etc.)
• Actual archived / stored of files on IXOS platters and deleted jobs ran successfully
• Demonstrated to users the archiving process, and showed the entries in data base before archiving, deleting entries with delete program of archiving object in the quality system
• Demonstrated to users on how to retrieve the archived documents for viewing purposes in quality system
• Provided detailed steps to the production support team to execute the jobs

Data Archiving Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Proposed the archiving strategy and after discussion with the client, came up with the appropriate residence time based on various document types and the business requirement
• Archived enabled custom reports for purchase orders and requisitions, and configured, customized the storage solution on the file system level
• Developed functional and technical specification documents, unit runs followed by mass runs in the development environment. Created transport requests as per internal company procedure using solution manager system with (CHARM-Change request management concept). Moved transports to the quality systems, and coordinated with the testing, and the business team, who participated in Integration, regression and UAT testing
• Developed test cases based on the various areas needed to test. Created dynamic variants for these objects and executed the simulation runs in quality system using their internal job scheduler SAPORSYP tool. Moved the transports to PRD environment
• Successfully archived purchase orders and requisitions and recovered a very large amount of space across the landscape, which showed tangible improvement in overall system performance

Data Archiving Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project was related to archiving of SAP data bases on corporate document retention policy to improve the system performance and limit the database growth
• Analyzed the tables to identify best candidates for archiving
• Implemented required OSS notes
• Conducted meetings with clients to provide detailed data management approach
• Conducted meetings with clients to get approvals for data archiving, in different modules and different document types
• Held discussions with business users to decide the archive objects to be considered and to find out any special requirements
• Configured archiving objects (MM ACCTIT, MM HDEL, MM MATBEL, FI DOCUMNT, etc.)
• Initiated the archiving process and observing the job logs and statistics
• Configured Archive info structure for reporting archived data
• Initiated the deletion process
• Verified deletion process, and cross checked with the tables
• Moved the configuration to production system
• Restricted system growth, and moved data onto a slower storage medium
• Moved archived files to external storage system

Data Archiving Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved from initial phase to full life cycle Project proposals to go live
• Project was related to archiving of SAP data bases on corporate document retention policy to improve the system performance and limit the database growth
• Analyzed the tables to identify best candidates for archiving
• Implemented required OSS notes
• Conducted meetings with clients to provide detailed data management approach
• Conducted meetings with clients to get approvals for Data Archiving, in different modules and different document types
• Had elaborate discussions with business users to decide the archive objects to be considered and to find out any special requirements
• Customized archiving objects created for custom tables and configured with the custom reports to create archive file, delete database entries, read archived entries and reload the archive entries
• HR customized settings were made for the archiving objects PA CALC, PA LDOC, PA TIME
• Ran archiving jobs for PA CALC, PA LDOC, PA TIME, PA TRAVEL, PA PDOC, and PA PIDX with care not to impact the payroll runs
• Customized archiving helped reduce daily 20 hour running job into 7 hours
• Implemented programs to maintain the SAP office data
• Cross checked archiving objects (FI DOCUMNT, SD VBAK, SD VBRK, RV LIKP, MM MATNR, MM MATBEL etc) are configured as per the statics of the database table
• Analyzed and did code corrections where ever required and implemented OSS notes for better performance of objects
• Analyzed and provided options to prevent SAP Script texts creation, delete unwanted entries in the system and archiving opportunities
• Demonstrated to users on how to retrieve the archived documents for viewing purposes in quality system
• Provided detailed steps (manuals) to the production support team to execute the jobs

Data Archiving/ OpenText Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project was related to archiving of SAP data bases on corporate document retention policy to improve the system performance and limit the database growth
• Analyzed the tables to identify what to archive
• Had elaborate discussions with business users to decide the archive objects to be considered and to find out any special requirements
• Info structures are developed for storing the archived data for reporting purposes. Based on business requirements
• Worked with internal auditors to get their approval for the extracts so that it meets IRS requirements
• Identified OSS notes and implement in the system
• DART extracts are done for different company codes for the different periods
• Configured and archived info cubes and ODS objects to improve the load and query execution performance by decreasing the volume of data
• Created archiving groups with respect to HR for payroll data archiving
• Ran successfully archiving for actual archiving / storing of files on IXOS platters and deleted jobs ran successfully
• Demonstrated to users the archiving process, and showed the entries in data base before archiving, deleting entries with Delete program of archiving object in the quality system
• Demonstrated to users on how to retrieve the archived documents for viewing purposes in quality system
• On user acceptance the configuration is moved to production system
• Provided detailed steps to the production support team to execute the jobs

Data Archiving / OpenText Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed database for tables’ growth and identify the respective archiving objects
• Extracted data through DART for IRS purpose
• Created DART views according to the requirements
• Archived of DART Extracts
• Met with the functional consultants and end user to develop residence and retention policies
• Searched for OSS notes that would enhance the archiving process and implement them
• Configured of archiving objects directories and paths
• Customized of technical settings for the archiving objects
• Initiated the archiving process and observing the job logs and statistics
• Configured archive info structure for reporting archived data
• Initiated the deletion process
• Verified of deletion process, and cross check with the tables
• Tested in quality system, on approvals moved the configuration to production system
• Restricted system growth, and have decided to move data onto a slower storage medium, which is also cheaper than the expensive, quickly accessible memory within your system
• Moved archived files to external storage system