SUMMARY:

Experienced Senior SAP Basis Consultant/ Lead with more than 15 years of experience in delivering multiple greenfield, upgrade and migration projects. Skilled in Advanced troubleshooting applications (ABAP, JAVA and third party application integration), Project delivery in complex business environments, liaising with offshore and application teams and strong background in delivering applications based on db2, Oracle, HANA, Max DB and MS SQL in highly available hardware infrastructure in public and private cloud environments.

SKILLS SUMMARY:

SAP Products: ECC 6.0(ERP, ISU and ILM), SAP retail, CRM, EWM, PI/PO up to 7.5, BW, CE - BPM 7.3/7.4, Portal, BPC, APO Live cache/SCM, NFE Brazil, MDM 7.1,GRC, and Solution Manager 7.1/7.2 and BODS knowledge

Databases: SAP HANA, IBM DB2 (9.7 through 10.5 HADR), Oracle 9.2, 10.5, 11g, 12g (RAC, Data guard, ASM), MS SQL 2008/2012 (MSCS Clusters) and SAP MaxDB (APO Live cache)

Operating Environment, IT and Network Infrastructure: Virtualized and HA Systems -Aix 7.1, Red Hat and SUSE Linux, HP UX, Solaris and Windows 2008. Veritas Storage and Veritas Clusters, Technical infrastructure in cloud, Network Infrastructure, Security and Firewalls. AWS and Private Cloud Hands-on AWS associate with ability to plan build and migrate to AWS platform

Tools: Wily Introscope, TWS Maestro, Redwood, TSM Backup, RMAN Backup, Remedy, Solution Manager ChaRM, Service-Now, SharePoint, System Copy using Basis Technologies MDR, RevTrac Transport Express

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Technology Consultant - SAP Basis, Cloud

Responsibilities:

• Senior Basis Consultant helping Projects and BAU support in busy SAP landscape with HANA, Max DB, Oracle running multiple SAP applications.
• Key deliverables include - helping application teams with Basis configuration changes, upgrades, Planning and delivering Release Management (Transports deployment, Database Management), Application Server Build and Migrations, Planning, testing and deploying application and security parameter changes.
• BAU support activities include helping with Resolution of Performance issues, Integration related problems, Managing Failover/ DR testing activities.

Confidential

Sr. Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helped Cutover project during ECC migration to HANA. Technical troubleshooting for BW on HANA, APO, PI/PO, Portal cover during post migration of ECC - Liaising with application support, SAP Technical support, Hardware/Infrastructure teams and CoE Basis Team.
• Also, delivered BW on HANA, APO, ECC refresh as well as lead co-ordinator for BW on EHP upgrade.
• Project and BAU landscape delivery and support of HANA SPS11 with Suite(ECC) on HANA, PI, BW, CRM and other applications.
• Lead offshore team and advising customer with routine management, performance optimisation, build, Architect Solutions, problem resolution, planning - patching, upgrade of ECC, PI, Solution Manager systems.
• Design of AWS infrastructure, OS/DB platform build and migration of demo SAP instances - ECC, Solution Manager, BW systems, from internal hosted environment to AWS platform.

Confidential

SAP Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Senior Consultant/lead to evaluate target Application, size, prepare upgrade, define and run test plan to Target hardware infrastructure on IBM private cloud following Enterprise Architecture principles by closely liaising with developers
• Project Managers to deliver upgrade and migration by Homogeneous system Copy and Migration of ERP, BW, SCM(APO), BPC, PI/PO, CE, MDM Aix/db2 environment with large database volume with DB2 -HA/DR, Oracle RAC and HANA databases with multiple application servers as well as strand alone systems with complex Hardware infrastructure integrated with internal and external applications.
• Responsible for RCA during operational test of application and Infrastructure, performance tuning and recommending changes and maintenance activities of Database- Tables, Index, patching, parameter tuning, Application- Application parameter tuning.
• Lead Consultant to Size, design, build, Stack and EHP upgrade, test application at each release phase, performance tuning and go-live activities of CE 7.4 with CE-BPM and PI/PO functionality.
• Project support involves helping development team with configurations of PI/PO, SSO, LDAP, Advanced Adapter engine, BPM, working with application test team, SAP, Project stake holders, Infrastructure teams through application testing, regression testing by monitoring wily reports, collecting heap dumps - analysing heap and memory dumps using memory analyser, application locks during tests, Solution Manager reports to make/agree recommendations related to Hardware/cluster, Java Nodes, memory parameters and application parameters and Supporting through go-live and post go live handover to BAU teams and transfer of knowledge.
• Solution Manager 7.1 Integration to America’s project landscape- Managed system configuration, LMDB, Maintenance optimizer, support pack and EHP downloads, SMD agents issue troubleshooting, Central DB2 DBACOCKPIT configuration, Alert configuration and Technical Monitoring.
• Architect and Size AWS/SAP target Environment in co-ordination with AWS partner, successfully completed Proof of concept project for building HANA and Oracle/ECC instances on aws EC2 and installation of ERP (Suite on HANA) instances.
• Successfully completed regression, refresh, DR testing, build of HANA instances, sizing and planning with appropriate selection of storage with optimal IOPS, integration testing by planning and incorporating aws security principles with appropriate permissions and working with Infrastructure resolve connectivity and firewall issues.

Confidential

Sr. SAP Technical/Security Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade and Migration of PI 7.3, ECC(ISU), BW, CE, EWM - Installation and configuration of ECC and NetWeaver Systems followed by OAT - working with Functional and application development teams, Regression testing of Oracle RAC and application servers, Verification testing and Go-live activities on Linux 2.6 Enterprise with Oracle 11.2 on RAC environment with ASM storage.
• Also, involved actively in regression testing of CRM, BW, ECC systems, Pre-go- live performance checks and tuning and cut-over from project delivery to go-live.
• Apart from resolution of day-to- day technical issues impacting business, Batch jobs, also involve in planning, testing and implementation of critical changes like transports deployment, database maintenance activities - index rebuild, table re-org/compression, during out of business hours with minimal impact.
• Strong technical and business analysis skills - implementation and troubleshooting applications by closely working with ABAP and functional consultants.
• Solution Manager 7.1 implementation project and go-live - Template configuration for PI 7.3, BW and ECC systems, parameters and alert tuning, Managed systems configuration, LMDB, Wily Introscope, Maintenance optimizer, Early watch alert configuration and integration to third-party service desk (Service now) and BMC patrol.
• CRM Greenfield implementation project spanning two years. SAP Basis Support for functional configuration, development teams for technical configurations, transports deployment, troubleshooting errors during deployment, helping with integration issues, regression testing followed by application and DB parameter tuning, Hardware sizing, release planning and cutover support activities.

Confidential

SAP Technology and Security Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Full Greenfield implementation of ERP, BW, PI and Solution Manager. EHP upgrade win Windows 2003/MS SQL Environment.
• SAP Implementation - Involved End- to -End Technical Infrastructure (Hardware, OS and SAP landscape design), Installation, Configuration and Testing of ERP (ECC 6.0) BI and PI systems and working closely with Functional (Implementation and support of HR and Payroll, PS, SD, MM and FI/CO) and technical consultants.
• Complete Implementation of Solman 7.0 - During this phase performed configuration of Service desk, MOPEZ, landscape systems connection, Early watch, CCMS ping and CCMS alerts with Solution Manager.
• Facilitated Pre-go-live go-live and Post go-live of all the Production systems in phases with desired performance standards stipulated.

Confidential

Associate SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assignment for this project is implementation of BW 3.5 system and ECC 5.0 and Basis Technical support specialist.
• I am involved in planning hardware layout design for best performance, Installation and configuration of BW 3.5, source system connections, analysing and correcting issues raised by BW consultants, implementing note corrections, go-live report analysis and transports.
• In addition to participation in BW implementation project, other routine Basis tasks maintenance tasks of Oracle database maintenance which includes, rebuild indexes, update missing indexes, update statistics table space maintenance, ECC system support tasks like analysing dumps, system logs, helping functional consultants, printer problems, support pack installations and transports.
• Attending production faults in and out of hours support and fixing problems within agreed SLA.