PROFILE:

• Highly experienced and motivated Opengroup/SAP certified technical expert with more than 20+ years of IT experience which includes 15+ years plus of SAP Technical/Platform experience. In - depth knowledge of SAP cloud migration, Infrastructure, ERP Sizing, ERP/SAP landscape design, SAP Hana Sizing, design & configuration, BO integration, Hana SSO and ERP/S4Hana full lifecycle implementation.
• Strong technical and organizational skills, with an all-time focus on system availability and customer satisfaction.
• Experience in delivery of strategic planning, program management, middleware integration and enterprise architecture technologies.
• Good understanding of SAP Enterprise architecture and TOGAF(EA) concepts.
• Over 5+ years of SAP Hana, S/4 Hana, Hana SSO, Hana Transports, CTS+, SLT, Lumira and Cloud connector
• Over 3+ years of Cloud migrations including Azure and AWS. GCP certified Architect
• Over 18 years of SAP Basis/Netweaver experience (both ABAP & JAVA stacks)
• Full Cycle Greenfield/Implementation of Hana,ECC, BW, PI, SRM, IDM, GRC, Enterprise Portal, ACC, etc.,
• Upgrade experience of ECC, BW and Java stacks (JSPM) inlcuding Enhance Package Installer and kernel upgrades
• Includes DBA experience for SAP databases (Hana, ORACLE & MS-SQL Server)
• System competencies include Lead Architect, Administrator, Project Lead and DBA
• Installation of SAP Netweaver 7.x with usage types BI, PI, MDM & Enterprise portal, ECC 6.0, SRM, ACC, GRC
• Hana installation, Upgrades, configurations & migrations
• Hana ALM configuration, CTS+ configuration, Hana/BO Transports
• Solution Manager installation, configuration and upgrades including CHARMS & End-to-End Monitoring
• System/database performance tuning & SAP Hana and ORACLE database parameter tuning
• System copy/refresh, Client copies and backup/restore using BRTOOLS and database copy methods
• Applying OSS notes, OSS user creation,registering developers and SAP objects in SAP service market place.
• Implementation Single-sign on technolgoies like Kerberos and SAML
• Design & install VMware solutions for SAP
• Database upgrades including Hana, Oracle & SQL server upgrades
• SAP Upgrades & Archiving
• Configuration of TMS and CTS+ including Hana & BO Transport Mgmt
• Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of SAP Business objects (BOBJ)
• Failover Technolgies for SAP including MSCS
• SLT replication Strategy and Configuration
• Hana system Planning, installation, configuration administration & troubleshooting
• Design and implement DR, HA, Backup & Recovery strategy
• Design and implement Transport strategy, Output Mgmt strategy
• Design and implemetn Monitoring & Perfomance Management strategy
• Hana TDI strategy, SAP migration to Cloud, SLT Replication strategy

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6 C, 4.7, Netweaver 7.0 with EHP 1 (AS ABAP and AS Java -J2EE engine), Enterprise Portal 7.0, BW/BI 7.0, Solution Manager, CPS, SAP XI/PI 7.0, SAP SRM 5.0, SAP IDM, SAP PI 7.1,SAP ACC, GTS

Database: Oracle 10.2 & 11g, MS SQL Server, Max DB, HANA DB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Basis SME/architect

Responsibilities:

• Strategies for backup/recovery, Transport, SSO, N+1, S/4 1809 Upgrade and other technical areas.
• Sytem landscape includes S/4, Fiori, MDG, PO, Redwood,GTS,ATTP and Solution Manager.
• Performance tuning and sizing of Sap/Hana servers in the VMware environment.
• S/4 Hana greenfield implemenation of 1610
• Upgrade of S/4 Hana to 1809.
• MII/MDG system configurations including SOA replication for MDG
• Hana DB upgrade to 2.0/MDC and Hana DB performance improvments
• BW OS/DB Migration from Oracle to Hana
• SAP Hana Cloud connector sizing, install, configuration for Dolphin/Ext Credit agencies.
• SSO 3.0 implementation to support Dolphin UI5 SSO and GUI SSO for Sephora USA users. Worked on SSO that involves SAML 2.0 configuration of UI5 for Sephora users to approve their invoices.Sephora SSO solution involves Kerberos, Secure login client and SAML,SSL/HTTPS technlogies.
• Reviewed and recommended approach for Illumina Hana deploymnet. SSO solution includes password free access to Tableau, PowerBI and other reporting tools .Illumina SSO solution involves Kerberos, SAML,SSL/HTTPS technlogies.
• Quality check/Design review for the S4/Hana/Basis implementation & readiness to go live. Review includes complete study of the sizing, installation, Migration to S4, Backup/recovery, SSO, DR, Monitoring strategies. Conducted for Louisville Gas and electric, Kentucky and UTC Aerospace systems, Charlotte on behalf of SAP America
• Design review & assessment of the current Nucor’s Azure migration approach. Identification and remediation of the current approach and strategy for moving forward with the migration with different options including Azure site recovery as a corporate wide DR soltuion.
• Conducted S4/Hana Administration/ Basis/security technical workshops for IPG Basis and security team. Workshops include Hana concepts, advanced administration and hands-on activities real time on the Hana systems

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Workied as the senior basis resource in Global implementation in AMR, EMEA and ASPAC regions for IBS. Involved in server, storage and design architecture for the business objects.
• Worked on implementing technicnal solutions for BI with HANA Implementation. Solution involves sizing, SLT, Hana install/configuration, BI install/configure, SSO and authentication solutions required for this project. Includes strategy design for Hana upgrade, Hana transports, Hana HA, SLT Strategy, MDC strategy, Lumira, SSO strategy,etc.,
• Migration of Hana data using SUM/DMO as well new installation of New BW system on Hana. Current BW systems are installed on SQL server. Worked on Row store/ columns store tables and optimization of memory.
• Provided solution and implemented Hana & BW transport management for this global audit company which includes complex transport scenario consits of global and regional transports in different domains. This includes the analysis of different Hana transport methods and recommendation of best fit methodology for the project.
• The BI implementation involves the getting real time data from ECC/CRM system. Installed/configured 1:N SLT configurations
• Lead the effort in anlayzing the performance issues in the France SAP systems. Activities include trace analysis, SAN storage performance, SQL server Query tuning, SQL server index analysis and SAP workload analysis.
• Provided solution and implemented complex SSO involving Hana, business objects and SAP BW systems. Solution includes Kerbeos, SAML and BO jobs for SSO
• Involved in creating the technical project plan for the ASPAC region 1.5 uplift environment. The system landscape includes ECC, CRM, BW, PI and BO systems.
• Scoping of the solution manager for the IBS systems including the areas of the technical monitoring, E2E analysis and central administration. Also involved in the effort to consolidate the existing 16 solution managers to 3 Systems. Effort includes the analysis of the CUA, transport domain and creating the technical project plan for the consolidation
• Design of the strategy documents including the areas of Technical architecture, Standard opertation procedures, backup & recovery, Output Mgmt, Batch job Mgmt, Performance Mgmt and monitoring strategy
• Architecture and Migration design approach for the Non production of the SAP systems (100+ Systems) to the Azure Cloud systems. My responsiblities includes migration strategy, hardware recommendation, DB startegy, Basis strategy and consolidation opportinuities of the systems.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP Technical Architect/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing the team of Basis, Database and Security resources. Also working on the performance tunning and load balancing of the servers for optimal performance.
• Consists of 60+ servers and running on Unix\AIX and Windows environment. Also architecting the future roadmap for the SAP technical environment like virtualization, upgrades and new technologies. Some of the s include:
• This involves the upgrade/migration of the BOBJ XI 3.1.
• Activities includes sizing, installation and configuration of the BOBJ 4.0SP4FP3 server landscape. Migration of objects from the XI3.1 to XI4.0 and performance tuning.
• Also includes the High availability & Load balancing of the BOBJ servers and Web Application server using the BOBJ CMC clusters. Integration of the BOBJ with BW servers.
• Includes the Sizing, installation & migration of the jobs from the old version to the new version of the entire landscape including production and non-production CPS servers. Scheduling of the ECC, BW job chains, Performance tuning of the CPS servers, Archive/delete startegy of the jobs. Time windows and scheduling startergy
• Tuning of the SAP buffers, Heap memory parameters, Additional app servers configuration, Storage solutions recommendations and proper load balancing of the servers. Plan and assist in the oracle upgrade of 11.2 to 11.2.0.3 of the complete landscape. Also includes the oracle client upgrade to 11.2
• Currently planning on upgrade of the BW 7.01 to the 7.3 version. This includes the splitting the dual stacks and upgrade of the abap and java stacks
• Based on the SAP recommendation of having one single version of the kernel release across the landscape all the systems upgraded to release 7.2 to enable rolling switch upgrade.
• TDMS configuration to create the reduced set data from the production servers. Activities includes the installation of the TDMS components, configuration, applying necessary notes etc..

Confidential, Boston

Technical Architect/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• SAP support pack upgrades using SPAM and JSPM
• Oracle Upgrades
• Upgrade of BI 3.5 to BI 7.0, Installation
• Federated portal configuration from BI to EP
• Configuration of several Netweaver systems including portal, NWDI, ACC etc.,
• SAP GRC installation & configuration
• Single sign-on with Kerberos and Active directory integration
• System landscape design and sizing for the new systems
• Identity management install & configuration
• SAP CPS install for central batch scheduling
• NWDI install and configuration
• SAP Enterprise Portal user management and configuration

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Basis Admin/DBA

Responsibilities:

• Installation & Configuration ABAP & JAVA stack of Netweaver ERP 2004, BW 3.5, XI 3.0, Solution Manager 3.2 and Portal 6.0.
• Installation & configuration of Solution Manager 4.0 in 64 Bit environment on SQL 2005 including SMD, Central Monitoring systgem,EWA and MOPZ
• Installation & confguration includes SQL server in MSCS clustered environments and SAP fail over scenarios
• Installation of SAP SystemUpgrades ( ABAP & JAVA), Kernel Patches and OSS Notes
• Installation/configuration/upgrade & unicode conversions in SQL Servers
• Configurtion of System Landscape Design & Transport Mgmt System
• Backup & Recovery procedures for SAP & SQL servers
• Installation & configuration of Virsa Compliance Calibrator
• Configuration & connectivity of Opentext Livelink software to SAP
• Configured SAP connectivity with Microsoft AD for single Sign on options.