SUMMARY

• 10 years’ experience as an SAP Basis Lead and Solution Architect with extensive years of IT experience focused on technical infrastructure architecture design and implementation, specializing in end - to-end solution delivery.
• Strong program, project and team management experience.
• Proven abilities to manage multiple teams, complex, large-scale, mission-critical systems, projects and responsibilities.
• Demonstrated track record of creative problem solving; willingness and ability to roll up sleeves and execute to get the job done; thinks big, starts small, grows fast. An immediate positive contributor.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP Applications: SAP ECC 6.0, XI 3.0, PI 7.1/7.4, BW 7.01/7.3/7.4, SRM 7.0/7.13 with SUS, HANA 1.0, SLT 2.0, Solution Manager 7.0/7.1, Federated portal / Enterprise Portal 7.0/7.4, Business Objects 3.2/4.x, Ariba integration.
• Non - SAP Products: SABRIX/OneSource Direct tax and reporting engine, BSI Tax Factory, Bizapps / PCARD solution, Ancille uPerform 4.4, Data Sync Manager / EPI-USE, IBM MQ 5.0/7.0, Redwood Cronacle.
• DBMS: SAP HANA DB and Limited experience in ORACLE and Max DB Administration
• Programming skills: Shell Script, Objective-C, J2ee and C++
• Operating System: Linux, Sun Solaris, HP/Unix, IBM AIX and Windows server 2003/2008
• Other: HP Service desk and Remedy for Incident management / Change management & Citrix.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Basis Lead / Sr. Consultant

Environment - ECC 6.0 EHP7, HANA Rev 82, 97, 112 SRM 7.13, PI 7.4, EP 7.4, BI 7.31/7,4, Ariba Integration, Solution Manager 7.1, MDM 7.1, SABRIX/OneSource Direct tax and reporting engine, BSI Tax Factory, Data Sync Manager / EPI-USE, Bizapps / PCARD solution, Ancille uPerform 4.4, IBM MQ 5.0/7.0

Responsibilities:

• SAP Basis Lead for this Greenfield SAP implementation project with various challenges posed by server hosting, network and application delivery to the user
• Planning, managing and delivering new project environments to support all aspects of project installs, updates and upgrades, which includes development, build, testing, training and cutover; adhering to and setting standards; inculcating best practices; and managing dependencies and risks.
• Develop and manage infrastructure budget for all SAP systems including accruals and invoice reviews to keep track of cost.
• Worked on planning, coordination, testing and executing HANA multiple to single node conversion and upgrade projects.
• Lead an upgrade project for 9 applications including ECC upgrade to EHP7 and contributed heavily to contingency planning for the technical upgrades.
• Implemented SAP Ariba cloud solution with Ariba Network / APC integration using ITK and Cloud Integrator.
• Worked with the client to come up with a solution from a Basis perspective for the legal separation of a company from their regulated company structure within tight timelines
• Lead and participated in workshops to identify the release strategy through the multiple test cycles
• Worked on planning and coordinated the Go-Live tasks for Operating system, Database and SAP support packages in a tight outage window and release of systems to business
• Planned for systems to be used for multiple test cycles - identify systems which can be re-used for multiple environments.
• Supported the hands-on Basis teams / Infrastructure / network support through the design, build, integration testing, regression testing, and Go-Live phases needed for the legal separation
• Contributed majorly for ECC, SRM, SUS and MDM integration using PI

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Team Leader

Environment - ECC 6.0, BI 7.0, Supply Chain Management (APO) (SCM 5.0), SRM 550, PI 7.1, EP 7.0, GTS, Solution Manager, Edge Dynamics (ED), Redwood Cronacle Batch Job Scheduling Tool

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Team Leader for a diverse 20 member team with the responsibilities such as planning for future activities, Coordination with onsite/offshore teams for critical updates and changes, provide inputs for BCP(Business continuity plan), structuring shift schedules, Maintaining project critical documents like SMTD and EPD, Planning for cross training activities and facilitating them.
• Preparing the weekly meeting presentation with the customer with the data for the previous week’s performance displaying team’s performance as compared to the 10 point SLA set for the project.
• Worked at the customer location as an onsite coordinator for offshore team and a single point of contact for the all of customer’s European affiliates and distribution sites, giving exposure to service management and greater customer interaction.
• Lead critical maintenance activities like Production or non-production maintenance which includes application/server outage maintenance, Kernel Upgrade, APO Livecache administration.
• Upgrade webSAP Console for the use of RF guns.

Team member / Project Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience on all aspects of SAP Basis Administration including Client Copy, System Copy, Support Packs / Add-ons Installation, Kernel Upgrades, Spool Administration, Background jobs, System Monitoring, Performance Tuning and applying SAP Notes, Enhancement Pack Installation, Printer Configuration and Administration and managing SLD.
• Preparing technical documents for routine tasks and re-use when necessary using Wipro tools
• Upgrading and using the service tools provided by SAP for all ABAP systems.
• Redwood Cronacle for Batch management and tool upgrade.
• Routine tasks like maintenance and troubleshooting for SAPConnect, printer and spool management, SLD configuration in PI, CCMS agents for ABAP and JAVA systems, File system maintenance, ITS, factory calendar.
• Configuration and administration of JAVA system using Visual Administrator and Config tool.
• Resolving performance issues caused by high dialog response and CPU utilization.
• Providing Technical feedback to ABAP and functional team.
• Basic UNIX commands used to perform the above activities.