SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced Tehno - functional professional with nearly 25 years of experience in the IT industry and 14 years of experience in SAP Basis administration.
• SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS/DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.4
• SAP Certified Associate - SAP S/4HANA Implementation Scenarios for Architects
• Pursuing Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect - awaited soon
• Multiple successful full life cycle implementations and upgrades.
• Experienced in leading a team of SAP Basis Consultants
• Committed to deliver functional and technical solutions on time and evaluate performance, progress and ensure to have it on schedule or as planned.
• Proactive, proven leadership, technical writing, documentation, interpersonal and excellent communication skills.
• Promoted knowledge sharing and team building by creating platforms for and knowledge transfer in the team and organizing other similar events.
• Excellent exposure to the processes and procedures required for catering to multiple clients in a 24/7/365 data center environment.
• Industries experienced in - Manufacturing, Telecommunication, Food and Beverages, Medical devices, Food products distribution
• Expert in Technical project management
• Expert in Design, Architecture and Delivery of SAP solutions involving various SAP components such as ECC, BW, CRM, SRM, EP, MDM, PI, Solution Manager, BPC, HANA etc.,.
• Recently upgraded PI 7.1 dual stack to PI 7.4 dual
• Expert in EHPi upgrades - ECC 6.0 to Ehp6, PI upgrade from / SRM upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 etc.
• Expert in Installation, Configuration and Administration of HANA SPS09
• Experienced in HANA DB migration and administration
• Expert in Performance optimization analysis and techniques
• Experienced in capacity planning and landscape architecture
• Expertise in install, admin and in the EPI-USE Data Sync Manager suite
• Experienced in TDMS with data encryption for system copies in ECC, BW and CRM
• Troubleshooting and maintenance of SLD
• Expert in Basis support activities such as Client copies, System refreshes, Kernel upgrades, Support packs, OSS Notes, etc.
• Knowledge on Data archiving
• Configured Central and Local Alert Monitoring using CCMS
• Experienced in using monitoring tools such Wily Introscope, Solution Manager Diagnostics (SMD), HP Oven View, etc.
• Experienced in Solution Manager 7.1 complete configuration, including CHARM and ITSM configs. Have experience in PI, BOBJ.
• Knowledgeable in OS-level tasks on UNIX and Windows environments, and coordination with various OS and DB Administrators during installation and upgrade, for day-to-day operations of SAP and resolve issues at a very high priority
• Experienced in Customizing SD, MM modules using best practices

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MI

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead the PI migration project with on-site and off-shore resources
• Designed the solution, prepared the project plan and executed the migration of PI 7.11 landscape from the client datacenter to their service provider’s cloud
• Configured the PI 7.11 application with SLD/Communication channels/Repository and Integration builder
• Worked on the proposal and technical feasibility study for upgrade from PI 7.11 to PI 7.4
• Upgraded the from PI 7.11 Dual stack to PI 7.4 Dual stack in the entire landscape
• Implemented and configured the Web Dispatcher for non-prod and prod environments

Confidential, FRISCO, TX

Technical Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team of Basis Consultants working on a data center migration
• Prepared project and resource allocation plans, crisis handling, escalation and problem management, project tracking and communications
• Provided direction, hands-on technical support and guidance to team when required
• Ensured all technical activities in a project are executed per the defined standards of the customer
• Performed Data Center migration of around 12 landscapes involving multiple SAP components
• SLT setup and configuration, Table filtering and structure modification using transaction LTRS.
• HANA system refresh and multi node to single node migration. HANA logs migration to flash devices.
• Configure table partition on HANA using Hash and Range Partitioning. Single level and multilevel. Table distribution of partitions.
• Review/POC of SUSE Framework for automatic failover scenarios in Scale Up configuration.
• Install and build SCM/BW/ECC on HANA SPS09.
• Collaborate with inter- and intra- departmental teams on various stages of the project
• Worked with the vendor EPI-USE in implementing their data sync manager tool across the entire SAP environment. Instrumental in every phase of the implementation i.e. product identification, solution architecture, installation, mocks, and deployment. This tool copies data from production to the new/existing non-prod environments with improved performance on-demand and scramble data for security

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Migrated the development EWM 9.0 from Netherlands to the cloud hosting in US
• AS/400 to RHEL 6 iSeries to Oracle 11g

Confidential, CHICAGO

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured the SAP Web Dispatcher with SSL for Dev and Production landscapes

Confidential, SD

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided guidance and support for a stabilizing the SAP environment
• Plan, Test and Upgrade the BPC EPM Add-in for MS Office from 10.0 to 10.20

Confidential, Houston, TX

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Capacity planning: Asses the current load and plan the capacity required for future releases that are added almost every month.
• Identify the potential scope for performance improvement including SQL/ABAP Programs/DB/configuration etc and work with concerned teams to fix it.
• Collaborate with the performance test team for the future releases and analyze the performance.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded the ECC 6.0 EHP 5 to EHP 6 across the landscape.
• Installed the language packs - Chinese Traditional and Mandarin
• Handled SAP Security tasks as well - creation and maintenance of users, composite, single roles, authorizations in a CUA environment etc.
• Performed Solution manager configuration - System preparation, Basis Configuration after upgrade to 7.1
• Configured ChaRM, TMS, Approval procedures

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Sr. SAP NetWeaver Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded the PI systems of development and quality landscape from
• Initiated, Prepared and Upgraded the SRM landscape from NW701/SP5 - SRM 700/SP5 to NW702/SP10 - SRM 701/SP7.
• Also experienced in rolling back this upgrade in few instances.
• Responsible for providing support for setting up TDMS landscape, Scenario setup, Documentation and performing KT sessions within the Basis team to provide continuation support. Used Time reduction and Data scrambling.
• Worked on the SRM System refresh, Oracle Upgrades etc.
• Coordinating the environment refresh efforts in an organized manner

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. SAP NetWeaver Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working with the large implementation team comprising a massive landscape of ECC, BI, PI, CRM, SRM, EP, HCM and Solution Manager.
• Providing direction and playing active role in the team to ensure the smooth implementation of the major milestone project.
• Performance test: The motto of the large implementation is to handle around 120,000 end-to-end transactions per hour across ECC, BI, PI and middleware.
• Played a key role in testing and tuning the ECC system to successfully handle the load from which was greatly appreciated by the top management.
• Designed and implemented solution to periodically refresh DEV/QA systems with up-to-date test data from Production systems using TDMS. Implementation of this solution will help reduce ongoing maintenance (storage) costs, increase development efficiency by reducing the administrative efforts and time required to manage development and test systems. Involved in ECC, CRM and BW.
• Responsible for providing support for setting up TDMS landscape, Scenario setup, Documentation and performing KT sessions within the Basis team to provide continuation support. Used Time reduction and Data scrambling
• Infrastructure Hardening: Provided support to implement the TSA across the distributed landscape
• Installation: Built the second quality landscape comprising components like ECC6, CRM, SRM on IBM AIX with DB2.
• System Refresh: Performed frequent refreshes of the Dev./QA/Pre-prod refreshes from production and provided support until complete functional checkout from the business.
• Support Packs: Performed scheduled SP upgrades across the landscape from Dev. to Prod.
• Support: Provided 24x7 support during critical issues.

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Sr. NetWeaver/Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed installation, Configuration, day-to-day maintenance, applying Support Packages of ERP 6.0 EhP3, SRM 4.0, NW BI 7.0, CRM 2007, PI 7.10, CE7.1, MDM7.1, EP6.0 Solution Manager EhP1, EP 7.0, CTS+ and TDMS.
• Upgraded ERP 6.0 to ERP 6.0 EhP3 and Ehp4 running on AIX and Oracle database
• Install and configured MDM5.5 and MDM71, This involves SLD registration and installing MDMTECH API’s to respective stack
• Reduced the downtime for EHP4 installation with 2TB database from more than 2 weeks to 24 hours. Target release was SAP ECC6.0 with EHP4 on the Oracle/AIX platform.
• Install SSL and LDAP configurations
• Tuned the ABAP/J2EE parameters for maximum performance and stability.
• Performed data archiving for EDI, IDOC and Purchase data objects in ECC and SRM environments.
• Configured TDMS with data encryption for system copies in ECC, CRM and HR
• Installed and configured Biller Direct for CRM.
• Configured Solution Manager Diagnostics (SMD) using Guided Procedure for ABAP and J2EE stacks for NW products like CRM 2007, ERP 6.0 EhP3, PI 7.10 and Early watch Alert (EWA) for Non-ABAP stack.