SUMMARY

• An experienced technology professional with 17 years of experience with multiple SAP Business suites, NetWeaver and bolt - on components on various platforms including UNIX, Linux and Windows with various databases like SAP HANA, Oracle and MS SQL Server. Have Extensive experience as a Basis administrator on varieties of projects with expertise in Version upgrades, Support pack stacks upgrades, EHP upgrades, SAP HANA implementation with admin activities, SAP System sizing, SAP projects planning and execution through go-live and post go live support, HANA High availability, backup & recovery
• Expert in designing systems, performing upgrades, installation, configuration, administration and performance tuning of SAP applications and SAP HANA implementation
• Extensively worked with SAP Functional and SAP COE teams on projects, issues and enhancements. Interface with cross-functional teams ( infrastructure and database teams) and with SMEs while providing leadership and guidance for SAP platform with regard to patching, monitoring and capacity planning through weekly and monthly reports
• Strong experience in SAP project planning- SOR, HLDD, cut over plan, prepare high level technical plan with the activities to be planned for system technical maintenance & upgrades by each phase of the projects from requirements till hyper-care
• Senior Level SAP Professional and Basis Lead with multimillion dollar global business transformation projects experience with proven track record of applying SAP technologies that meets business goals and within budgets
• Proven achiever who is committed to align technology and business to generate the cost effective solutions based on today’s high value growth areas of cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communicator who can deliver effective presentations, consulting on various SAP technologies and maintain trusted collaborative relationships
• Skilled strategist, outstanding project manager and an exceptional problem-solver with keen ability to resolve technology issues, analyze, design, architect and implement technical enhancements to improve business processes

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Technology Infrastructure Solutions
• Business/Technology Analysis
• Technical feasibility and risk analysis
• Defining Architecture, Governance & Policies
• Relationship Management: Client, Vendor & Partner
• Actualizing and Supporting Technology solutions
• Continuous Process Improvement/Best Practices
• Project and Program Management
• Budget and Cost Control, P&L
• Strategic and Organizational planning

AREA OF EXPERTISE

• SAP Business Suite-ERP, CRM, SRM, SCM
• SAP NetWeaver AS, Portal, LMS
• SAP NetWeaver BW
• SAP PI/PO
• SAP Solution Manager
• SAP Mobility-Fiori
• SAP on Cloud (AWS)
• SAP on HANA
• HANA migration using DMO
• SAP SLT
• SAP BODS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Towson, MD

TEMPPrincipal SAP Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Helping customers to succeed on their journey through the Digital transformation enabled by SAP’s solutions and technology innovation powered by SAP HANA and cloud computing. Building cloud migration strategy around enterprise workloads
• Responsible for scoping, sizing, architecting and designing highly available, scalable and real-time reporting solutions for SAP workloads leveraging SAP HANA and AWS
• Providing advisory and technical consulting to the customers around SAP HANA (greenfield/ brownfield) implementations in different scenarios: Native HANA, HANA Accelerators, Operational/ Agile data marts scenarios
• BW Migration on SAP HANA project for a Manufacturing company: Led technical delivery of SAP BW migration project from BW 7.4 SPS 12 system to BW 7.5 SPS 05 on SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 12 using SUM-DMO
• Designed Highly Available system for Production instance using RHEL 7.2 cluster components: CMAN and Pacemaker
• Implemented DR solutions for BW on HANA system using asynchronous system replication with preload based on 4 hrs. of RTO
• BW Migration on SAP HANA leveraging AWS public cloud for an Energy company: Designed the migration and deployment strategy for BW systems to AWS cloud
• Implemented BW on HANA system in multiple AZ (Availability zone) and leveraged HSR (HANA System Replication) with preload option with Zero RPO and minimize the recovery time (RTO) in case of AZ failure
• Leveraged AWS services EC2- x1.16xlarge instances, S3 storage for backups, snapshots and media files, EBS volumes for Data and Logs, Cloud Watch-Auto Recovery, VPC, NAT Gateway and secure the environment using Network ACL and Security Groups
• Designed the DR solution (Out of Region) for the BW on HANA system leveraging S3 cross-region replication
• Performed POC's of SAP S/4 HANA 1605 (Simple Finance add-on) and SAP S/4 Finance 1610 for a Manufacturing company: Performed POC’s for the customer for technical evaluation and to assess compatibility of the solution with industry specific and ERP specific add-ons.

Confidential, Elkridge, MD

Sr. Manager/Basis Lead, Business Systems

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw the management and execution of business critical SAP ERP systems for the organization. Maintained operational efficiency by guaranteeing the reliability and availability of the mission critical business systems and infrastructure across all the office locations
• Responsible for managing all the basis related activities such monitoring performance and availability, patching, upgrades, configuration and security
• Worked with different business units (FI, HR, Sales and Customer Success) to understand the future requirements and provide them with the technical insight/solutions around business systems
• Implemented HANA Live on an existing BW on HANA system for operational reporting: This upgrade project was part of “Customer First” strategic initiative to enhance the real time operational reporting capabilities out of SAP ERP using HANA Live. Implemented RDS (Rapid Deployment Solution) HANA Live 1.0 (HANA Analytics for ERP 1.0) with a sidecar approach and leveraged standard delivered Virtual Data Model, Pre-built calculation views and Lumira reports respectively. Used SLT (SAP Landscape transformation server) for real-time data replication from SAP ECC 6.0 system. Implemented SAP HANA security including User Mgmt., Roles and Privileges
• Implemented cloud based DR solution for Business Systems: Identified the acceptable RTO /RPO to the business and implemented effective business continuity plan/solution that TEMPhas resulted in reduction in recovery time objective (RTO) from 2 days to 6 hours by replacing the conventional backup system with cloud DR solution (SaaS) for SAP ERP and HANA system
• System upgrade/migration of SAP ERP/Portal system: Upgraded SAP ERP system from SAP ECC 6.0 EHP3 to EHP7 and NW 7.0 EHP1 SP07 to NW Portal 7.40 SP15. Performed OS/DB upgrade and migrated the systems from the aged hardware. Managed the cross functional teams to execute the project. Also, enhanced user experience and added mobile capabilities by deploying Fiori apps for ESS/MSS
• SAP Solution Manager- Service Desk system to support global customers: Implemented SAP Solution Manager - Service Desk system to support ANCILE’s 4000 global customers with (12K+ users). Led all the efforts from installations, Upgrades, Run and Maintain. Integrated the Service Desk system with SAP’s backbone for incident escalation to level2 and level 3 support teams
• ERP implementation project: Led the multimillion dollar global SAP ERP implementation and rolled out to employees in NA, EMEA and APJ. Implemented SAP ECC 6.0 EHP3, NetWeaver Portal EHP1 SP07, SAP Solution Manager 7.0 in conjunction
• Salesforce, ADP and Tax software. Responsible for planning, designing and technical configuration of the SAP system landscape. Worked with infrastructure team to design and implemented High Availability system using MS failover cluster for all SAP production systems
• System and data migration project after the divestiture of RWD’s products group: Led the project and execution teams (FTEs, contractors, implementation partners) responsible for migrating (35+) systems and business critical data from the RWD’s business/development systems: SAP ERP, BW, CRM, SAP Solution Manager and SharePoint. Curved out the Customer, Sales, Accounting, Asset and Employees related data from the SAP ERP and CRM systems
• Worked with the system owners and stake holders to identify the acceptable RTO/RPO and presented different disaster recovery scenarios and solutions to the leadership team. Worked with the GRC team to perform risk analysis based on the different recovery scenario. Worked with the technical team to build the project plan, created the budget (CAPEX and OPEX) and presented it to the Leadership team, and created the SOPs that can be followed in the event of disaster
• SAP LMS implementation and hosting services: Worked on a new service offering around SAP Learning Management System (part of SAP HCM) and offered hosting services to the prospective customers
• Managed and serviced 30+ SAP LMS customers (total of 150K+ end users) hosted in 2 Datacenters. Responsible for system installation SAP ECC 6.0, NW Portal 6.40/7.0, SAP LSO, conducting testing and deployment of the systems. Integrated the SAP LSO solutions with different Directory services for user authentication and integrated with different middleware TIBCO, MS Biztalk and SAP Exchange Infrastructure to bring the learning content from customer’s legacy systems
• Led System Administrators/Offshore support teams charged with system analysis, design and implementation of SAP learning solution (SAP ECC, NW Portal, Solution Manager-ServiceDesk), monitoring and maintaining during rapid growth phase
• Partnered with stakeholders, SMEs and SI to develop specifications and requirements. Facilitated the communication between the implementation team and the customer’s SME. Served as primary liaison for issues and obstacles resolution
• Developed R & D capabilities to develop RWD’s products: Build test environment (50+ systems) from ground up with different flavors of ERP systems ( SAP ERP, Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) for R & D and Pre-Sales
• SAP LMS implementation for a Leading pharmaceutical company: Successfully implemented and managed one of the most complex SAP learning management systems for a leading pharmaceutical company. System was used by trainers/authors to create the courses/training modules/SOPs around regulation, compliance certification and best practices and accessed globally by 40K users resulting in multi-year contract extension

Confidential, Newark, DE

SAP Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Depending on the project requirement, worked as Technical Lead, Infrastructure Architect, SAP Subject Matter Expert
• Worked on multiple multimillion dollar SAP global transformation projects covering from Finance, Human Resources and Sales Distribution for different industries
• Extensively worked with Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) implementation teams and 3rd party auditing firms in implementing SOX compliance processes and best-practices
• Led and worked in all phases of SAP implementation lifecycle services ranging from Installation, upgrades, run & maintain, security and migrations
• Provided customer facing support including the initiation and management of technical discussions and presentation with respect to SAP. Managed timely delivery of project deliverable keeping the integrity and scope intact
• Partner reporting solution for a check printing company: Part of the technical implementation team responsible forintegrating SAP ERP and BW system with the legacy application running on the mainframe using TIBCO.
• Understands the various components of EA( TOGAF ) their overlaps and differences compliance involved.
• All the financial data was loaded on the BW system and used crystal enterprise to generate reports for the partner like BOA, Citi bank etc.
• Certificate of completion: Information systems/Infrastructure qualification- 21 CFR part 11, 21 CFR 820