SUMMARY

• Overall 20+ years of SAP Technical experience from Cosmetics, Canadian Federal Government, Consulting, Industrial Goods, Consumer care, Utilities, Retails, Automotive industries and Pharmaceutical sector experience in SAP Technical (Security, Basis) areas.
• Experienced in 7+ Full - cycle SAP implementations and 12+ SAP upgrades both from SAP Security & Authorizations and Basis Technical Support tasks.
• Architected and Implemented SAP GRC 10.1, GRC 12.0, BI, BOBJ, Fiori, Portal, HANA, ECC, SCM, SRM & Solution Manager Security Solutions on Global SAP Implementations
• Hands on experience in user creation/update, role creation/update, CUA built, and other SAP Security tasks in almost all SAP Modules
• Implemented SSO via SAML in BW on HANA for Tableau Reporting Project within ELC & Setup SAP SNC connections in several SAP ECC & BI Systems.
• As part of basis activities, setup global ACL files in SAP systems to manage secure Gateway communications on several SAP systems for various clients at Confidential Inc
• Collaborated and coordinated with functional leads and business representatives from AP/PP/MM/QM/PM/HR/FI-CO/SD/SAP BW/SEM and CRM to ensure that functional configurations are implemented to accommodate business requirements, while ensuring SAP Audit requirements and best practices are followed.
• Lead SIEMENS Internal Auditors to audit (Network, OS, Application & Database connectivity segments) of SIPAC Project. Lead Auditor in J&J Corporate Internal Audit program to audit Asia Pacific Regional Information Management Centre of J&J for internal controls Review and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Extensively worked with Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance - Strategy management related to SAP business processes, transactions, and control infrastructure. Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404, Remediation of Segregation of Duties (SOD) within SAP implementation.
• Excellent hands on knowledge on Microsoft Office (Visio, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook & Ms Project) and Cognos Data warehousing products
• Experience in following SAP products: SAP R/3 4.0B, SAP Enterprise 4.7, SAP ECC 5.0, SAP ECC6, SAP eWM, SAP BW3.0. SAP BW 3.1, SAP BI 7 Security, SAP XI, SAP PI, SAP HR, SAP EP5, SAP EP6, Solution Manager, SAP GRC 5.3, GRC 10.0 and installed SAP Support packages, and performed system refreshes as well.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. SAP GRC Security Management Consultant & Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to analyze and recommend feasible options including architect/design, build, test and Hands-on implementation of enterprise SAP security solutions in several projects; eg: Global Implementation of Group Rollouts, KPI, New acquisitions, Internal Audits, Data Centre migrations, On-premise to Cloud transitions, HANA SSO Setup, Tableau Connectivity, Travel Retail projects, SAP Security in Ariba Implementation, GRC 10.1 & GRC 12.0 SP03
• Responsible for implementing SAP Security GRC solutions on new group (G5, G6, G7 & G8) implementations of rolling out SAP to new countries using products listed below:
• SAP BW (7.5 SP05), BPC 10.1 on HANA, mySAP Business Suite Solutions, BI on HANA, BOBJ 4.0, 4.1 & 4.2 security with Groups and Folders, ECC (5.0, 6.0, 7.40 - FI, FM,MM & PM), Solution Manager 7.1, BW 731 with Business Content 737-SP7, SAP NW Portal 7.31 and SAP Fiori.
• Created BOBJ Access Levels, and Implemented Folder & Universe Level Security in both BOBJ 4.1 & 4.2 systems
• Architected and integrated non-SAP application with SAP systems to effectively manage SAP licensing.
• Providing production and Project support to 12,000+ end users in ECC, BI on HANA, BOBJ, Portal and other tools using HP Quality Centre & Service NOW Change Management tools.
• On a daily basis, analyzing operational SAP BI and BW security issues in order to recommend immediate and long term resolutions with the most effective approach to their implementation
• Responsible for managing Service Level Agreements interfacing with multiple internal/external Managed Services Teams and support organizations responsible for system configuration, implementation and ongoing maintenance.
• Assist Off-shore User Provisioning Team of SAP Technical analysts, who is responsible for User Management activities in SAP and provide first level troubleshooting activities, with escalations
• Created and maintains Standard Operating Procedures for SAP Security activities
• Participates in annual Disaster Recovery activities and test SAP Security operational readiness tasks to ensure IT solution life cycle sustainability

Sr. SAP Security Consultant/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architect, design and implementing SAP Security solution on following SAP Products: SAP BW, BOBJ 4.0 & 4.1 security with Folders & Groups, BW 731 with Business Content 747, ECC 7.31(ESS/MSS, AA, FI, FM,MM & PM), Solution Manager 7.1 (ITSM & Charm), SAP PO, BPM, BRM, SAP NW Portal 7.31, SAP GRC 10, NWDI and SAP IDM 7.2.
• Implemented Security solutions on non-SAP products like uPerform & HPQC as well.
• Participated in Business Scenario Design (Solution Design) sessions and developed HRSDC Business Service Scenarios based on Target Service Model for SAP
• Organized Technical Requirements gathering sessions with various stakeholders, gathered information and presented proposals for Designed BI Security Solutions with timelines and budgets.
• Effectively worked with various technical, functional and business teams on various activities from information gathering, providing technical solutions, Developing troubleshooting documents, incident management, providing post go-live stabilization support and other new service engagements.
• Successfully went live with 20,000+ end users

SAP Security Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for evaluating business requirements and architect a solution to manage SAP Security efficiently with SAP RE-Fx, FI/CO, PS, BI, BOBJ 4.0 & Solution Manager products.
• Ensured IMFS Government standards and requirements are adhered to security design for the SAP Security on above mentioned SAP modules
• Followed RunSAP methodology for Assess, Plan, Develop, Implement & Go live steps to implement the SAP Security solutions within the domain.

Sr. SAP Technical lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands on and project base SAP Basis and Security&Authorizations solutions for various customers within SAP versions from 4.6C, ECC6, EP, eWM, XI/PI, BI, BOBJ 4.0 SEM and many other modules.
• Troubleshooting all SAP Security related issues, providing architectural solutions in SAP Security & Authorization to new projects.
• Identifying new opportunities to improve service qualities with each customers’ technical requirements
• Analyze, configure and monitor the SAP ERP technical environments and operations including user administration, interfaces, OSS contacts, transports, pre-prod and production instances; Support change management and production promotions for various client systems
• Assisting with customer specific internal and external audits
• Training the operational team members with handling daily user maintenance and authorization assignment activities in Abap, Portal and Java environments.
• Managing Siemens Security & Authorizations team and assisting them with any project based activities.
• Act as SAP Technical Team Lead advising various customers on SAP Technical solution requirements for projects.
• Setup and activated SAP Security Optimization Self Service in Solution Manager 7.1 monitoring reports to automatically monitor SAP Security related checks
• Coordinate and execute SAP Steady State Security and Basis support of 12 different customers via both on-shore and off-shore SAP Operational teams
• Created a test team from key business users to test SAP Security in each of their respective business processes after each implementation.
• Implemented SAP IDM at 3 different client sites; setup both Identity Centers and Virtual Directory Servers as part of the SAP IDM implementations.
• Implemented SAP IDM at a client to integrate SAP Abap and Portal systems to utilize LDAP connectivity.
• Responsible for performing system refreshes and SSO via SNC enablement of SAP Systems.
• Implemented SAP GRC Suite products such as Access Controls, Process Control, Risk Analysis Report (RAR), Firefighter in versions 5.2 & 5.3, Centralized Emergency Access Management in SAP GRC 10
• Integrated SAP Portal Groups to Abap Roles and assigned users to the Portal Roles.

Sr. SAP Technical lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and execute SAP Steady State Security and Basis support of 12 different customers via both on-shore and off-shore SAP Operational teams
• Work with various teams to implement and improve SAP Technical Processes.
• SAP Technical Team Lead advising various customers on SAP Technical solution requirements related to business requests.
• Training L1 & L2 Basis Administrators on SAP Basis Administration tasks such as system refreshes, client copies, printer management, and transports
• Migrated several AIX based SAP instances to Linux Based SAP Instances
• Troubleshooting all SAP Security & Basis technical issues, providing architectural solutions to new projects, Identifying new opportunities to improve service qualities with every customer and assisting with customer specific internal and external audits are some of the daily activities performed in this position.
• Implemented SAP Portal roles to integrate SAP ABAP authorization to Portal. Assigned Portal Roles to users in SAP Portal via UME.
• Responsible to migrate 14 SAP instances from Computer Sciences Corporation to a Global Operations Data centre with in Siemens.
• Implemented SAP IDM at 3 different client sites; setup both Identity Centers and Virtual Directory Servers as part of the SAP IDM implementations.
• Implemented GRC suite Access Control, Process Control & Risk management solutions to enable the SAP system SOD compliance.
• Implemented SAP GRC 5.3 Risk Analysis RAR tool to manage and trigger Risks and GRC Firefighter to manage emergency user access.

SAP Technical lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to train 2nd level Basis team with all customer specific details
• Performed SAP system refreshes and client copies
• Implemented SSO between EP5 & EP6 using LDAP authentication
• Implemented TDMS for Siemens Industry sector
• Troubleshoot any Basis issues and advise solutions accordingly
• Resolve any transport issues, setup automated scheduled transports between clients
• Troubleshooting any Basis issues, providing architectural solutions to new projects, Identifying new opportunities to improve service qualities with every customer and assisting with customer specific internal and external audits are some of the daily activities performed in this position.
• Managed Siemens Security & Authorizations team and assisting them with any project based activities are also part of daily activities of this position.
• Daily activities include approval of e-changes, ensuring all supporting documents are in place for every change that are scheduled to take place and coordinate testing activities for every change.
• Responsible for providing SAP Security & Authorizations solutions in SAP 4.6C/4.7/ECC6/EP5.0/EP6/BW3.5/BI/SAP HR for 8 different Siemens customers
• Creating SAP Roles, Users, assigning appropriate roles to users, documenting business processes & assisting Project Managers with their customer questions

Security & Authrorizations Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing SAP Security & Authorizations solutions in SAP 4.6C/4.7/ECC6/EP5.0/EP6/BW3.5/BI/SAP HR for 8 different Siemens customers
• Daily activities include creating Roles, Creating Users, assigning appropriate roles to users, documenting business processes & assisting Project Managers with their customer questions
• Use GRC 5.3 Access Control to manage SOD verification of each users

SAP Data migration, Security & Authorizations Sr. Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing SAP Security for a Global SAP 4.7 Implementation involving Brazil, Canada & USA.
• Trained key users from various part of American continent to develop test cases for business scenarios from their respective module, with appropriate master/transactional data.
• Once the test cases are developed, coordinated the execution of the developed test cases to verify if the functional configuration meets the business requirement.
• Repeated the testing again to validate the SAP Security access for each individual SAP users.
• Assisted Data Migration team with data loads from legacy system into SAP client
• Worked with Interface team to ensure appropriate communication is established between legacy systems to SAP System
• Helping key users to complete necessary tests to ensure success go-live on
• Educating Corporate Internal Auditor about SAP programs and helping them to establish a guideline to ensure SOD Violations are minimized.
• Responsible for creating Roles, Creating Users and assigning appropriate roles to users
• Used REMEDY application as part of post go-live support team
• Installed and used CUA for User Administration
• R/3 Modules involved: SD, MM, PP, QM, FI, CO, HR

Lead, SAP Security & Authorizations

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Has overall ownership for SAP security, performs self-audits of the system and monitors the activity of the System Users.
• Security & Authorizations Lead for all SAP projects from SD/FI/CO/PS/MM/WM/PM/QM/BW /SEM modules at the Business Solutions Centre of Excellence
• Coordinated test case creation for each business scenarios using eCATT and executed them to validate both functional configuration and SAP Authorizations.
• Administers SAP/R3 security for all J&J family of Canadian Companies, and responsible for defining and editing user creations, role creation, Role modification, approving role allocation changes made by all Security Coordinators in SecurInfo, and fixing authorization check table related issues.
• Coaches first level SAP Support Team, consists of 2 contract employees and a co-op student, with analysis of SAP Security & Authorization issues.
• Systems Administrator of Internet Purchase Order Release (IPO) application which allows management staff to release Purchase Orders via Internet
• Administers SAP/BW security for all J&J family of Canadian Companies. Responsible for defining and editing BW users, role creation, Role modification, and fixing authorization check table related issues.
• Performs SAP Systems Audit to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
• Creates test scripts to test SAP Roles in QA environment, prior to moving the changes to Production Environment

Security Lead for SAP Upgrade

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead for Security & Authorization during SAP upgrade from 4.0B to 4.7
• Revamp and successfully implemented Security & Authorizations for SAP 4.7 for four Confidential & Confidential family of Canadian Companies
• Rolled out a third-party tool to allow the concept of “Information Ownership” with the business partners.
• Lead 12 Users from the business in analysis, design, development and implementation of SAP Security enhancement using SecurInfo, a third-party Security & Authorization tool.
• Trained over 15 Power Users from the business to become Security Coordinators and allowed them to perform role allocation from their own Information Areas

Lead Data Warehouse Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extracted SAP Sales date using Cognos Accelerator
• Applied business logics and requirements to the data using SQL programming
• Created data cubes using Cognos Transformer and Cognos Powerplay.
• Facilitate the implementation of SAP BW 3.0B & 3.1 applications at the company location
• Responsible for BW Security & Authorization

IM Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the implementation of JRF/PRI research applications at the company location.
• Liaise with JRF/PRI development teams, manage the local implementation of global research initiatives
• Provide 2nd level technical support for Clinical Research Information Management Systems

Technical Support Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide first level and second level support on both software and computer hardware problems.
• Using Enterprise Administrator and NetWare Administrator, maintain existing and new users, and the computers in the Novell and NT network.
• Password resets, locking/unlocking SAP 4.0B userIDs are some of the activities performed as a technical specialist.