PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Work experience of 12+ years of hand - on technical experience with client site leadership skills
• Strong Architecture and hands-on experience on SAP HANA Installation (TDI/Appliances), Upgrades, Migrations, HA & DR Setup, System Replication, Scale Out and Production Support.
• Strong SAP experience includes SAP Netweaver Based Implementations, Installations, Upgrades, Migrations, Software Maintenance, Production Support, Support Pack Upgrades, Database Patch Upgrades, and System Refreshes etc.
• Expertise and vendor in 5 core technical areas i.e. SAP BASIS, SAP HANA, Converged Cloud Infrastructure (VCE BBLOCK), Operating System (Windows/UNIX) and Database Administration.
• Expertise in administration of SAP ERP (R/3, ECC 5.0, and ECC 6.0 EhP6)
• SAP HANA, MaxDB and Oracle Installation, Upgrade, Migration and Support hands on experience
• SAP CPS Redwood Installation, configuration and batch job migration from SAP
• SAP LVM 1.0 & 2.0 hands on installation & configuration for system startup, shutdown and system copies
• Excellent working knowledge on New Dimensional Products like Netweaver 7.3 BW, APO, Enterprise Portal, XI/PI (Netweaver 7.1/7.3 EHP 1 ), Netweaver CE 7.2/7.3, NWDI, SLT, CRM & BPC 10.0
• Excellent working knowledge in SAP Solution Manager 7.0/7.1
• Excellent expertise in administering ABAP, JAVA and Dual stack systems and also the systems with 7.1/7.3 architecture.
• Expertise in system sizing, performance tuning and optimization for SAP ECC, BW, SEM, APO and PI systems (DB and SAP)
• Excellent knowledge and experience of database backup, restore and recovery procedures
• Excellent knowledge of high availability, clustering and disaster recovery scenarios.
• 6+ Years of Team Lead / Architect experience to manage missing critical production systems in offshore-onsite model leading small teams of 5-12 Basis consultants. The experience covers both hands on work and team management and client engagement activities.
• Provide technical leadership on client engagement.
• Plan projects and set priorities for technical activities.
• Evaluate and propose technical alternatives for resolving business and technology issues and risks after identifying, weighing and evaluating the risks. Anticipate and resolve problems as they arise.
• Responsible for technical activities during project planning (requirement gathering), Business blue-print (Technical Design), Realization (configuration, development and testing), Post go-live support, and production support phases.
• Innovative with proven ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems to increase customer satisfaction and minimize downtimes risks.
• Excellent understanding of SOX compliance procedures and experience in facing / handlings SOX IT audits.
• Excellent client facing skills and multiple years of experience of working at client locations
• Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, adaptive, self-learner and excellent team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP HANA SPS 06-10, SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6, SAP SCM/APO 7.02, SAP XI/PI 7.3, SAP BW 7.3, Enterprise Portal 7.3, CRM 7.0, SAP Netweaver CE 7.11, NWDI, SAP Solution Manager 7.1, SAP BusinessObjects XI / 4.1, SAP CPS by Redwood, EC & SuPM, GRC 7.0, GTS 7.0, BPC

Database: Oracle 11G, MS SQL 2008, SAP MaxDB 7.9, DB2, SAP HANA

O/S: HP-UNIX, Sun Solaris, AIX, Windows, Linux (Suse & RHEL)

Languages: ABAP, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting, C++, Java, ASP.NET, Auto Lisp

Others: Crystal Reports XI, BIZRIGHTS, Crystal Enterprise, BAAN Tools, AutoCAD, Solidworks, Adobe Suite, ANSYS, CorelDraw

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Landscape: SAP BW, SAP BPC and SAP HANA SPS08-10

OS: SuSE 11 LinuxDB:SAP HANA Platform 1.0 SP06-09, Oracle 11G

SAP Basis/HANA Architect

Responsibilities:

• BW Archiving data trend analysis
• Enabled SSL for HANA Server and client connections.
• Troubleshooting on statistics server issues

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Landscape: SAP OER, SAP BW 7.3, SAP HANA SPS08-10, ECC 6 EHP6, PI 7.3Netweaver 7.0/7.02/7.3/7.4/ EHPOS:SuSE 11 Linux, IBM AIX 7.1

DB: SAP HANA Platform 1.0 SP06-10, Oracle 11G

SAP HANA Architect; SAP BASIS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP HANA Database and Infrastructure sizing (CPU, Memory, Storage, Network)
• System Architecture for SAP HANA High Availability and Disaster Recovery (System Replication)
• Setup SLT trigger based replication from SAP OER (Oracle) to SAP HANA
• Build a second SAP HANA instance purely for SAP OER Reporting purposes using 1-N SLT replication from the same source ABAP system
• Enabled SSL for HANA Server and client connections.
• HANA SPS08 to SPS10 Upgrade
• Performance tuning on HANA for real time API calls
• A10 load balancer configuration
• Other responsibilities
• Documentation of requirements, technical specifications, landscape sizing, layout and design.
• Detailed technical documentation which can be reused again and again for similar activities.
• Meetings and discussions with other IT teams, business teams, management, Key Business Users, Third Party vendors etc. to make sure that all the requirements are understood and all the risks are mitigated.
• Co-ordination with offshore teams in India
• Daily and Weekly status updates (Conference calls and Emails) to report the progress of project to IT teams and management.

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Landscape: SAP BW 7.3, SAP HANA SPS06-08, ECC 6 EHP6, PI 7.3, ADS, EPNetweaver 7.0/7.02/7.3/7.4/ EHPOS:MS Windows Server, SuSE 11 Linux, RHEL 6.5 Linux

DB: SAP HANA Platform 1.0

SAP HANA Architect; SAP BASIS Architect

Responsibilities:

• SAP HANA Database and Infrastructure sizing (CPU, Memory, Storage, Network)
• System Architecture for SAP HANA High Availability and Disaster Recovery (System Replication)
• SAP HANA Production / QA scale out configuration
• SAP HANA Backup and Recovery configuration using third party backint solution (NetBackup)
• SAP HANA Upgrade SPS06 to SPS 08 (Rev 84)
• SAP HANA upgrade SPS 08 (Rev 84) to SPS 09 (Rev 97.01)
• HANA TDI - Build 6 New HANA Systems Running on Cisco Bare-Metal Blades and RHEL 6.5 (Rev 84)
• HANA TDI - Migrate HANA Databases from IBM X5 Appliance (SUSE 11.3) to Cisco Bare-Metal blade servers (RHEL 6.5)
• SAP HANA Database System Copies (Refresh) from Multi Node to Single Node systems and also, from Single Node to Multi Node systems
• SAP HANA Database Host Migration and System Rename
• Setup of PRD-DR instance (4 Node Scale Out) with SAP System Replication
• Setup of QA 4-node scale out cluster on PRD-DR hardware
• S/4 HANA (Business Suite 4 on HANA) Not live yet - Demo / POC
• Installation of SAP HANA SPS09 (Rev 93) Database
• Installation and configuration of NW 7.4 application server with Fiori and ECC components.
• Installation and configuration of SAP BW 7.3, BPC 10 and SPM 3.0 on HANA systems
• Other responsibilities
• Performance Tuning of SAP BW, SAP SPM 3.0, BPC 10 and SAP HANA DB
• Change control support
• Documentation of requirements, technical specifications, landscape sizing, layout and design.
• Detailed technical documentation which can be reused again and again for similar activities.
• Meetings and discussions with other IT teams, business teams, management, Key Business Users, Third Party vendors etc. to make sure that all the requirements are understood and all the risks are mitigated.
• Co-ordination with offshore teams in India and Europe
• Daily and Weekly status updates (Conference calls and Emails) to report the progress of project to IT teams and management.
• Knowledge transition and to support team for handover after hyper care.

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Landscape: SAP ECC 6 EHP6, PI 7.3, BW 7.4, ADS, EPNetweaver 7.0/7.02/7.3/7.4/ EHP, SAP Global Templates

OS and DB: RHEL, Oracle, SAP MaxDB, MS Windows Server, MS SQL Server (Clustered)

Sr. SAP Basis Upgrade/Migration Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consolidation and Migration of Primary Application Servers / Central Instance of SAP ADS, SAP PI and SAP Enterprise Portal systems to new hosts.
• Building N+1 landscape (for upgrade) using Homogeneous system copy method in a Microsoft Clustered Server environment (ECC, BW, PI, ADS, CRM, EP)
• SAP Upgrade Technical Lead
• SAP ECC 6.0 EHP5 to SAP ECC 6.0 EHP6 Upgrade
• SAP CRM 7.02 SPS10 to SPS14 upgrade
• SAP PI 7.3 to SAP PI 7.31 EHP Upgrade
• SAP BW 7.3 to SAP BW 7.4 Upgrade
• SAP ADS Netweaver 7.31 to SAP ADS Netweaver 7.4 Upgrade
• SAP Portal 7.3 to SAP Portal 7.4 Upgrade
• Mock Upgrades (before production cutover)
• Preparation of Cutover Plan and detailed activity plan for Production Upgrade
• Co-coordinating the work between US, Europe and India Basis Teams for 24X7 execution of activities
• Final Upgrade and Go-Live
• Post Go-Live Hypercare Support
• Migration of DEV/QA systems to Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud
• SAP HANA Implementation Initial sizing and feasibility check

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Landscape: mySAP Business Suite/Netweaver 7.3/EHP

OS and DB: AIX 7.1, Windows Server, Oracle, MSSQL, MAXDB, SAP HANA

SAP HANA/Basis Architect, SAP Basis Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• SAP HANA Implementation (In collaboration with IBM team)
• SAP HANA SLT Installation and configuration
• Provide SAP Basis administration support, performance monitoring & tuning, problem analysis & resolution, and other activities required to maintain system integrity and maximize uptime.
• Maintained/Supported 50+ installations of SAP Netweaver 7.0/7.1/7.3 based components (ECC, BW, CRM, PI, EP, SCM) ABAP, JAVA/J2EE and ABAP+JAVA, SLT, BOBJ, HANA, GRC
• Sizing for various SAP Netweaver 7.0, 7.1 and 7.3 based systems using SAP Quick Sizer.
• SAP BW 7.0 to SAP BW 7.3 Upgrade with Dual Stack instance split
• SAP SCM 5.0 (SAP NW 7.3) to SAP SCM 7.02 (SAP NW 7.3) Upgrade
• SAP ECC 6.0 EHP3 (NW 7.0) to SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6 Upgrade (SAP NW 7.3)
• SAP PI 7.1 to SAP PI 7.3 Upgrade
• SAP LVM 2.0 hands on installation & configuration for system startup, shutdown and system copies (POC)
• SAP BPC 10 Implementation, Technical config and Installations
• SAP APO MaxDB / LiveCache installation, upgrade and patching.
• SAP Solution Manager 7.0 to SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Upgrade
• Performance tuning and optimization for SAP ECC, BW and PI
• SAP Redwood Installation, configuration and batch job migration from SAP and POC system setup.
• Installation, configuration, support and maintenance of SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ) 3.0 and 4.0. This includes performance tuning, connectivity to data sources, User administration, SOX reporting etc. The landscape had three BOBJ 3.0 systems for Brazil running on AIX/Oracle and three BOBJ 4.0 systems for US region with application on Windows and backend Oracle 11G DB on AIX.
• Setup, configuration and maintenance of SAP Router
• DB CI Instance Split
• New Landscape builds
• Setup of Change and Transport System (including CTS+) and perform transports
• Scheduling of Jobs in SAP (SM36)
• Perform Kernel upgrade (Standard and Revolving)
• Apply support packs in both ABAP & Java stacks (using both resource minimized and downtime minimized modes)
• Excellent experience working with NWA, Visual Administrator and Config tool for administration of AS Java systems
• Perform Client Copies (Remote and Local)
• Heterogeneous and Homogeneous System Copy / Refresh (ABAP Refresh and Java refresh)
• SCM SNP Optimizer sizing and implementation
• Profile Parameter changes and Standardization across the landscape
• Configuration of Printers
• Configure CUA environment
• User Administration
• Solution Manager Configuration
• CCMS Monitoring Setup using SAP Solution Manager
• System Monitoring and System Administration (Using Solution Manager)
• Troubleshoot and maintain all Net weaver components
• Production support activities right from initial set-up till day to day maintenance.
• Provide technical leadership on client engagement.
• Plan projects and set priorities for technical activities.
• Responsible for technical activities during project planning (requirement gathering), Business blue-print (Technical Design), Realization (configuration, development and testing), Post go-live support, and production support phases.
• Troubleshoot / Resolve Basis support issues
• Maintain technical documentation.
• Install the Oracle Database Software
• Database Patch Upgrade from Oracle 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.4
• Tablespace maintenance, Index Rebuild and Reorganization
• Statistics collection
• Database performance tuning, identifying and fixing expensive SQL queries.
• Download and Install Patches
• Expertise is working with SQL Plus, Toad, BRTOOLS

Confidential

Sr. SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide SAP Basis administration support, performance monitoring & tuning, problem analysis & resolution, and other activities required to maintain system integrity and maximize uptime.
• Maintained and Support 60+ installations of SAP Netweaver 7.0/7.1/7.3 based components (ECC, BW, CRM, PI, EP, SCM) ABAP, JAVA/J2EE and ABAP+JAVA
• Installation, Configuration and Setup of SAP CPS by Redwood job scheduler
• SAP Solution Manager 7.0 to SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Upgrade
• Oracle Database Upgrade 10G to 11G for various SAP Components along with instant client upgrade.
• Migration of Application Servers from Solaris SPARC to Linux
• Performance tuning and optimization for SAP ECC, BW and PI
• Setup, configuration and maintenance of SAP Router
• DB CI Instance Split
• New Landscape builds
• Setup of Change and Transport System (including CTS+) and perform transports
• Scheduling of Jobs in SAP (SM36) and CPS (Redwood)
• SAP Redwood Installation, configuration, system copy and batch job migration from SAP
• Perform Kernel upgrade (Standard and Revolving)
• Apply support packs in both ABAP & Java stacks (using both resource minimized and downtime minimized modes)
• Excellent experience working with NWA, Visual Administrator and Config tool for administration of AS Java systems
• Perform Client Copies (Remote and Local)
• Perform System Refresh (DB Refresh, ABAP Refresh and Java refresh)
• Profile Parameter changes and Standardization across the landscape
• Configuration of Printers
• Configure CUA environment
• User Administration
• Solution Manager Configuration
• CCMS Monitoring Setup using SAP Solution Manager
• System Monitoring and System Administration (Using Solution Manager)
• Production support activities right from initial set-up till day to day maintenance.
• Troubleshoot / Resolve Basis support issues
• Maintain technical documentation.
• Install the Oracle Database Software
• Oracle Database Upgrade 10G to 11G for ECC, GTS, SCM and PI
• Database Patch Upgrade from Oracle 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.4
• MAXDB Database Installation, upgrade and patching
• Define and setup RMAN backups, restore and recovery strategy
• Tablespace maintenance, Index Rebuild and Reorganization
• Statistics collection
• Back Up the Database as per backup strategy
• Point in time recovery (for system copy and to recover from critical failures)
• Database performance tuning, identifying and fixing expensive SQL queries.
• Database cloning for SAP System refresh
• Maintain Oracle Users, Groups, Profiles and security policy rules
• Download and Install Patches
• Expertise is working with SQL Plus, Toad, BRTOOLS

Confidential

SAP HANA SME; Sr. SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP HANA SME to support the sales team in various proposals during projects bids on various client requirements.
• Multiple Proof of Concepts and Demo installations for SAP HANA SPS03 to SPS06
• Migrations from Oracle to SAP HANA for various SAP products (ECC, BW, Solution Manager)
• SAP HANA Backup and Recovery
• Provide consultation to other project team / delivery teams on SAP HANA Sizing, Storage requirements, Network requirements etc.
• Perform installation of SAP Netweaver 7.0/7.01/7.1 based components (ECC, BW, CRM, PI, EP, SCM) ABAP, JAVA/J2EE and ABAP+JAVA
• Perform installation of SAP MDM 7.1
• SAP HANA POC and Demos
• SAP LVM 1.0 hands on installation & configuration for system startup, shutdown and system copies (POC) and presentations of solution to management
• Installation, Configuration and Setup of SAP CPS job scheduler
• Setup of Change and Transport System and perform transports
• Scheduling of Jobs in SAP (SM36)
• Perform Kernel upgrade
• Apply support packs in both ABAP & Java using SPAM / JSPM
• Experienced in using Visual Administrator and Config tool for Java systems
• Installation, configuration, support and maintenance of SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ 3.0. This includes performing POC and demos to customers. Also, worked on the area of load balancing, sizing, performance tuning, and connectivity to data sources, user admin, SSO setup. This environment was Windows / Oracle and Linux / Oracle.
• Perform Client Copies
• Perform System Refresh (DB Refresh, ABAP Refresh and Java refresh)
• Profile Parameter changes and Standardization across the landscape
• Configure and maintenance of CCMS.
• Configuration of Printers
• Configure CUA environment
• User Administration
• Solution Manager Basic Configuration
• CCMS Monitoring Setup using SAP Solution Manager
• System Monitoring and System Administration (Using Solution Manager)
• Troubleshoot and maintain all Net weaver components
• Understanding of MCOD methodology
• Production support activities right from initial set-up till day to day maintenance.
• Troubleshoot / Resolve Basis support issues (Net weaver components)
• Maintain technical documentation.
• Database Administrator activities:
• Evaluate the Database Server Hardware
• Install the Oracle Database Software
• Define backup, restore and recovery
• Database monitoring
• Tablespace maintenance
• Index Rebuild and Reorganization
• Statistics collection
• Back Up the Database

Confidential

Onsite Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Coordination (OSC) and Managing Onsite/Offshore Team
• Application Upgrades and Server Migrations
• SOX Audit Lead - E&Y External + HP IT Internal(Application - 404 Controls)
• Requirement Analysis
• High Level Design of the solution.
• Handling hot production issues and escalations
• Application Change Management (Go-Live, MTPs)
• Unit Testing, UAT
• System Administration
• Implementation of BusinessObject Shared Services XI R2
• Migration of Crystal Reports to BusinessObjects
• 24X7 support of BusinessObjects enterprise application
• Production Support (Crystal/Optio/GetSupply)

Confidential

Software: Oracle Apps 11i, C, C++, ASP.NET, Java, HTML, MS SQL Server, Solidworks, ANSYS, CorelDraw, Auto Lisp, Visual Basic 6

OS and DB:Windows, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Responsibilities:

• Coding and design of Product interface software for Sales and Engineering teams
• Building product websites and remote monitoring interfaces
• Requirements and feasibility analysis: Understanding the required technical specifications of the product and conducting the feasibility analysis.
• Interacting with the sales, manufacturing, costing, purchase and planning teams on various forums to discuss the specifications, clarify any queries regarding the functionality, max. Cost and development time, limitations of tools etc.
• Making full schedule for the project.
• Design of all sub components and modules
• Making all the drawings, solid models, assembly, analysis report, self-inspection reports, testing specifications, technical instruction sheet, and user manual.
• Design as per relevant ISO, Company and customer standards.
• Making Engineering Bill of Materials in Oracle Apps 11i
• Testing as per standards for safety and functionality of the product.
• Product release from R&D to Engineering with full documentation and BOM.
• Technical inputs to sales and servicing team.