SUMMARY:

• NetWeaver SAP Basis Architect with 11+ years of qualitative experience in SAP BASIS, SAP GRC and SAP Security.
• A strategic thinker with a flair for planning out strategies for SAP Landscape, procedures and contributing towards automating technical tasks to improve productivity with less number of resources using Solution Manager
• Overall eighteen years of experience in the fields of SAP and IT.
• Extensive Eleven+ years of SAP - BASIS, Security & SAP-GRC experience consists of fifteen E2E SAP implementation projects of various sizes & almost in all verticals in the areas of SAP S/4 HANA, ERP, CRM, Portal, BIW, PI, GRC, DMS, BOBJ & SAP Solution Manager 7.1, Six OS/DB Migrations including migration to SAP HANA, Seven SAP upgrades including GRC, BPC upgrade and SAP AMS Support for APJ region
• Handled standard configuration of ChaRM, ITSM, CSA, Technical Monitoring (SAP & non-SAP), Root Cause Analysis, Business Process Monitoring, Data Volume Management, BW Process Chain Monitoring, PI Message Monitoring in Solution Manager 7.1 SP5 and above
• Expertise in SAP BASIS & SAP GRC technical activities for achieving the objective of implementation and support projects
• Acquire excellent interpersonal, analytical troubleshooting skills with proven ability to identify, analyze, and resolve the problems within time to increase customer satisfaction and control costs. Solid analytical and dynamic troubleshooting skills are able to work individually as a team member.
• Performed Upgrade and Migration using one-step approach from SAP ERP 6.0 with MSSQL to SAP ERP 6.0 EHP7 with HANA using DMO tool of SUM
• Expertise in installation, configuration & integration of SAP S/4 HANA, SAP ERP, PI, BW, xRPM, GRC, SRM, CRM, BPC BOBJ & Solution Manager 7.1/7.2
• Extensive experience in SAP BASIS Administration along with HANA latest version
• Involved in HANA migration in one step from SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5 with Oracle 10.2.0.4 to SAP ERP 6.0 EHP7 with HANA using DMO tool of SUM
• Extensive work on HANA-Live and HANA Lifecycle Management
• Migrated SAP R/3 4.7 Oracle 9i 32Bit on Windows to SAP R/3 4.7 Oracle 11g 64Bit on HP-UX (from Singapore data center to Geneva data center)
• Extensive knowledge of ChaRM, Service Desk, CSA, Technical Monitoring (SAP & non-SAP), Root Cause Analysis, Business Process Monitoring for technical scenarios, Data Volume Management, BW Process Chain Monitoring, PI Message Monitoring in Solution Manager 7.1 SP5 and above
• Experience includes configuration of SLD, alerts, JDBC drivers for different data sources (Oracle, MS SQL & DB2) in XI 3.0 & PI 7.0
• Experience in creating BDC using SECATT for Mass user creation, mass role assignments and various other things to minimize the manual and repetitive task.
• Configuring SNC and third party SSL certificate like VeriSign, Entrust etc in ABAP instance and for Web Dispatcher
• Extensive knowledge of MSCS cluster, Oracle Fail Safe
• Monitoring the SAP servers using NAGIOS (Open Source Linux based tool) with integration to Solution Manager
• Installing Platform for SAP GRC and deploying SAP GRC Business packages
• Extensive technical experience in working with all versions of SAP GRC versions and components like Risk Terminator, Super User Privilege Management, Risk Analysis and Remediation, Compliant User Provisioning and Enterprise Role Management.
• Extensive knowledge of installing Process control and integration with Backend system.
• Currently trying to gain technical knowledge of Process control and integration with BIW system
• Extensive experience in authorizations including profile generator (PFCG), PD profiles, Employee Self Service (ESS), SAP User Administration & Integration with LDAP for user synchronization.
• Thorough usage of HR switches PLOG, P ORGIN, P ORGINCON, P PERNR, and various other HR authorization objects and extensive knowledge on HR security table. Strong experience on backend HR structural authorizations, Authorization groups for tables and programs.
• Extensive knowledge of authorization objects. Experience in security aspects such as implementing Single Sign on with SAP ERP, BW, user mapping and integrating Microsoft Active Directory Server with EP or any JAVA stack.
• Check Audit Information System periodically
• Experienced in setting up the security audit logs and audit information system (AIS) to facilitate internal and external auditors
• Extensive experience on SAP Security upgrade to compare the old data with the new SAP defaults after an SAP upgrade

SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS Windows, AIX, HP-UX, LINUX

SAP Products: SAP S/4 HANA 1610, SAP ERP, SAP Fiori, SAP MII, SAP EC, SAP BOBJ, SAP BIW, Screen Personas, uPerform, SAP CRM, SAP EP, SAP SRM, SAP PI, SAP TREX, SAP GRC AC, Solution Manager 7.1

Databases: HANA 1.0, HANA 2.0, MS SQL 2000, 2005, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, Oracle 11g RAC, DB2 9.1 LUW, Sybase & MaxDB

Other Tools: Symantec Backup Exec Server, Integration of SAP &LINUX based NAGIOS tool for Central Real-time SAP Application Monitoring

PROFESSIONAL SAP EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Basis Architect

Responsibilities:

• HANA Server sizing with scale-up model
• Validating server hardware and infrastructure as per recommendations
• End to end Implementation of above mentioned products independently on SLES 12 SP1 with HANA RDBMS.
• Configure Automatic Failover between HANA servers using pacemaker for High Availability
• Applying support packages, performing kernel upgrades, applying OSS notes and add-on as per the requirement.
• Configuring HANA backup using backint for Symantec Backup solution.
• Maintain and Monitor operation modes (RZ03, RZ04, and SM63).
• Maintain and monitor logon groups (SMLG, ST07, and AL08).
• Maintain and monitor RFC connections (SM59).
• Configured output devices using SPAD, Spool management activities, authorizations of spool services, and troubleshooting.
• Configured the transport management system in a three system landscape with common transport directory
• Extensive technical work on FIORI Transactional, Analytical apps, HANA Live
• Configuring load balancing for FIORI using Web Dispatcher and implementing third party SSL root certificate on Web Dispatcher and backend ERP system.
• Honored with the Pinnacle award for showing excellence in this project

Confidential

SAP Basis Architect

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the Source & Target system for OS/DB Migration in HA environment
• Perform Unicode Conversion using Prerequisites like SPUMG, UCCHECK with SAP standard system copy method
• Performed Upgrade and Migration in one-step from SAP ERP 6.0 with Oracle 10.2.0.4 to SAP ERP 6.0 EHP7 with HANA using SUM of DMO

Confidential

SAP Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the Source & Target system for OS/DB Migration in HA environment
• Performed Upgrade and Migration in one-step from SAP ERP 6.0 with MSSQL 2005 to SAP ERP 6.0 EHP7 with HANA using SUM of DMO for Customer AVOD-Muscat

Confidential

SAP Basis Architect

Responsibilities:

• HANA Server sizing with scale-up model
• Validating server hardware and infrastructure as per recommendations
• End to end Implementation of above mentioned products independently on SLES 12 SP1 with HANA RDBMS.
• Configure Manual Failover as per defined scope for HANA servers using pacemaker for High Availability
• Perform Stress Testing using HP Load Runner 12.5 for 1000 active users prior to Go-Live
• Applying support packages, performing kernel upgrades, applying OSS notes and add-on as per the requirement.
• Configuring HANA backup using backint for Commvault Backup solution.
• Maintain and Monitor operation modes (RZ03, RZ04, and SM63).
• Maintain and monitor logon groups (SMLG, ST07, and AL08).
• Maintain and monitor RFC connections (SM59).
• Configured output devices using SPAD, Spool management activities, authorizations of spool services, and troubleshooting.
• Configured the transport management system in a three system landscape with common transport directory
• Extensive technical work on FIORI Transactional, Analytical apps, HANA Live
• Configuring load balancing for FIORI using Web Dispatcher.
• Honored with the Pinnacle award for showing excellence in this project

Confidential

SAP Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation of SAP ERP 6.0 EHP7, SAP MII 14.0, SAP Environment Compliance 3.0, SAP BOBJ, SAP FIORI and SAP Personas along with proper planning
• Performed Upgrade and Migration in one step from SAP ERP 6.0 with Oracle 11.2.0.3 to SAP ERP 6.0 EHP7 with HANA using DMO tool of SUM
• Prepare the Source & Target system for OS/DB Migration in HA environment
• OS/DB Migration from SAP ERP 6.0 with HP-UX 11iv2-Oracle 10.2.0.1 to HP-UX-Oracle 11.2.0.3 migration within minimum downtime
• Configure Oracle DR using Data Guard and MaxDB DR with custom automated log shipping scripts since SAP does not support automated log shipping for MaxDB without any backup solution for Business Continuity Planning
• Perform system refresh using DB2 redirected restore method
• Handle BASIS mentor responsibility

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handling AMS BASIS activities and internal project of each customer
• Prepare the source & target system to upgrade from SAP ERP 6.0 to SAP ERP 6.0 EHP6
• SAP BASIS support for entire landscape of multiple customers from Australia, Japan& Malaysia
• Extensive work on Solution Manager 7.1 Configured Technical Monitoring, BI Monitoring, PI Message Monitoring, Workflow Monitoring using BPMON, ChaRM, Maintenance Optimizer, EWA, Root Cause Analysis, Automatic Distribution of Maintenance Certificates, Downtime Management, DVM as a continuous improvement for customer
• Configuration of ChaRM, ITSM and integrate Technical Monitoring with ITSM for auto incident creation in Solution Manager 7.1 SPS8
• Successfully finished entire upgrade cycle from SAP ERP 6.0 to SAP ERP 6.0 EHP6 from offshore

Confidential

SAP Technical Project Resource

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the source & target system for Migration
• Install SRM 5.0 with post-installation activities & Configure offline approval
• Install GTS 8.0 with post-installation activities & Configure Feeder system for GTS
• Migration of SAP R/3 4.7 with Windows-Oracle 9.2.0.4 32Bit to HP-UNIX / Oracle 11.2.0.2 with migration monitor to minimize the downtime
• Migration of SAP ERP 6.0 with HP-UX/Oracle 10.2.0.4 to LINUX/Oracle 11.2.0.2
• Implemented Downtime Management in Solution Manager
• Worked on SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5 with Oracle 11g RAC
• Migrated SAP R/3 4.7 Oracle 9i 32Bit to SAP R/3 4.7 Oracle 11g 64Bit
• Successfully configured Downtime Management, Business Process Monitoring (Technical), Root Cause Analysis and other things as per project/customer requirement
• Successfully achieved 100% of the assigned targets with documentation
• Successfully upgraded SAP Netweaver 7.0 EHP1 Oracle 10g to SAP Netweaver 7.3 Oracle 11g
• Configured SRM Offline Approval

Confidential

BASIS Consultant, Security & GRC Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Validating server hardware and infrastructure as per recommendations
• End to end Implementation of above mentioned products independently on Microsoft Windows with Oracle RDBMS.
• Installing business packages for ESS, Applying support packages, performing kernel upgrades, applying OSS notes and add-on as per the requirement.
• Worked with Visual Administrator, Configtool, SDM and JSPM
• Configuring backup for TSM server using util file and SAP agent.
• Involved in the 12x5 Production Support.
• Responsible for daily security checks, monitoring backup, monitoring unsuccessful logons, monitoring inactive users and locking inactive users in production system.
• Maintain and Monitor operation modes (RZ03, RZ04, and SM63).
• Maintain and monitor logon groups (SMLG, ST07, and AL08).
• Maintain and monitor RFC connections (SM59).
• Client maintenance including client creation, local client copy, remote client copy and client export/import.
• Maintenance of R/3 profiles parameters. Extensively worked on Solution Manager 4.0 for the maintenance optimizer, change management
• Configured output devices using SPAD, Spool management activities, authorizations of spool services, and troubleshooting.
• Configured the transport management system in a three system landscape with common transport directory
• Installed and performed BASIS activities on PI system as a middleware between ERP and legacy systems.
• Extensive work on configuring ESS, MSS & SSO for SAP-HRMS
• Extensive work on Solution Manager 7.0 with EHP1. Configured CHARM, Maintenance Optimizer, EWA, Root Cause Analysis, Automatic Distribution of Maintenance Certificate etc.
• Defining position based (Indirect Assignment) standard roles and PD profiles with parent and child methodology. Minimizing number of master & derived roles by using report PFCG ORGFIELD CREATE
• Integration of LDAP with SAP AS-ABAP and AS-JAVA instance
• Activating security audit logs and performing actions as per reports from AIS (SECR)
• Investigating and restricting access to tables & programs by creating authorization groups.
• Developed own SAP application monitoring system independently using Linux based tool “NAGIOS”
• Monitoring and analyzing performance problems using NAGIOS.
• Securing the reporting user down to the Info Object Level (RSECADMIN) & securing portal by using additional permission at portal content level. Used auth objects S RS ICUBE, S RS COMP, S RS COMP1, S RS IOBJ, S RS ISET and S RS FOLD. Linking BW to Enterprise Portal (EP)
• Mapped LDAP fields with SAP user fields for user synchronization with SU01 & automatic maintenance of IT105 & automatic assignment of common employee roles.
• Preparing e-catts for user account creation or modification
• Extensive work on enabling Single Sign On between all the SAP systems
• Configured essential components for C-Projects and involved in designing authorizations at project level
• Configuring load balancing for portal using Web Dispatcher and implementing third party “ENTRUST” SSL certificate on web dispatcher and backend ERP system.
• Honored with the WOW award for showing excellence in each project

Confidential

SAP GRC Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the source & target system for SAP GRC Access Control Suite 5.3
• Maintain JCo Destinations for backend system.
• Adopt methodology Keep clean - Stay clean for GRC
• Initial technical configuration & integration of Risk Analysis and Remediation (RAR), & Super User Privilege Management (SPM)
• Integration of Risk Analysis and Remediation and Risk Terminator
• Involved in creating user exit for Firefighter-id’s
• Import existing mitigating controls, rule library & merge with rule library delivered by SAP.
• Creation of roles using UME for SAP GRC Access
• Assigning authorizations to GRC users using UME
• Extensive experience on SAP Security upgrade to compare the old data with the new SAP defaults after an SAP upgrade and convey the list of affected roles due to upgrade
• Accepted the challenge to Import existing VIRSA 4.0 mitigating controls & standard, custom rules from VIRSA 4.0 & merge with the recent rule library delivered for SAP GRC 5.3.
• Successfully achieved 100% of the assigned targets with documentation.
• Honored with the WOW award for showing excellence in performance

Confidential

SAP GRC Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the implementation plan, freeze the SAP landscape and requirements
• Prepare the source & target system for SAP GRC Access Control Suite 5.3
• Installation of SAP NW 07 AS-JAVA& deployed business packages RAR, CUP & ERM by using JSPM tool. Applying the latest support packs for AS-JAVA & GRC using JSPM tool
• Installation of RTA 5.3 VIRSANH& VIRSAHR on backend R/3 / BW AS-ABAP system using SAINT & activating BC sets
• Configure and Maintain JCo Destinations for backend systems.
• Adopted methodology “Keep clean - Stay clean” for SAP GRC
• Initial technical configuration & integration of Risk Analysis and Remediation (RAR), Compliant User Provisioning (CUP), Enterprise Role Management (ERM) & Super User Privilege Management (SUPM)
• Integration of Risk Analysis and Remediation and Risk Terminator
• Creation of mitigating controls, identify & create risks for custom development
• Involved in creating user exit for Firefighter-id
• Involved in creating workflows for auto-provisioning
• Prepared new roles by parent and child methodology based on the Segregation of Duties (SoD) principle
• Removed SoD violations at user level by defining mitigating control or removing access from the user
• Creation of mitigating controls, identify & create risks for custom development
• Assigning authorizations to GRC users using UME
• SAP GRC & LDAP integration for central user administration
• Honored with the WOW award for showing excellence in performance

Confidential

BASIS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Validating server hardware and infrastructure as per recommendations
• End to end Implementation of CRM 5.0 & TREX on Windows with Oracle RDBMS.
• Applying support packages, performing kernel upgrades, applying OSS notes and add-on as per the requirement
• Worked with Visual Administrator, Configtool, SDM and JSPM
• Connecting backend system to CRM & defining authorizations based upon the segregation of duties principle with parent and child methodology
• Activating security audit logs and performing actions as per reports from AIS (SECR)
• Investigating and restricting access to critical authorizations.

Confidential

BASIS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Validating server hardware and infrastructure
• Implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 central system with IBM DB2 RDBMS on AIX 5.2
• Applying support packages and add-ons
• Performing kernel upgrades and applying OSS notes recommended by SAP for DB/2 database
• Administration and proactive monitoring of three system landscape in SAP ERP
• Configure the transport management system in a three system landscape with common transport directory
• Transporting the requests& investigating any failure in transport
• Configuring clients and perform local client copy as per requirement
• Involved in creating test cases using e-catts for automatic functional and authorization testing
• Configuring parameter settings in the instance profiles, scheduling standard background jobs
• Mass user master maintenance using SECATT
• Activate SAP security audit logs using SM19
• Change passwords of all default admin users
• Define master, derived roles and assign authorizations based on inputs received from customer
• Restrict access of critical authorizations to end users
• Checking updates and Lock management
• Monitoring RDBMS from SAP system
• Monitoring and taking backups & restoring data.
• Setup & test output devices
• Training to BASIS administrators and provide documentation as a deliverables
• Honored with the You Dunnit award for showing excellence in this project

Confidential

SAP BASIS & SAP GRC Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Validating server hardware and infrastructure
• Implementation of SAP NW 7.0 AS-JAVA with Oracle RDBMS on AIX 5.3
• Prepared the source & target system for SAP GRC Access Control Suite
• Installation of Business packages Compliance Calibrator 5.2, Access Enforcer & Role Expert by using SDM tool.
• Applying the latest support packs for AS-JAVA using JSPM tool
• Installation of RTA 5.2 VIRSANH on backend ERP AS-ABAP system using SAINT & activating BC Sets
• Maintained JAVA connectors for backend system.
• Initial technical configuration & integration of Compliance Calibrator (CC), Access Enforcer (AE), Role Expert (RE), FireFighter (FF)
• Integration of Compliance Calibrator and Risk Terminator
• Involved in creating user exit for Firefighter-id dialog user
• Preparation of e-catts for mass user creation & role assignment
• Creation of roles using UME for SAP GRC Access
• Assigning authorizations to GRC users using UME
• Integration of SAP GRC & LDAP for user administration
• Involved in creating different request types & workflows for auto-provisioning
• Creation of mitigating controls, identify & create risks for custom development
• Prepared roles by parent and child methodology based on segregation of duties principle
• Removed SoD violations by defining mitigating controls or removing access
• Creation of mitigating controls, identify & create risks for custom development

Confidential

BASIS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluations of enhancements with respect to the old version of SAP R/3 (4.7) in comparison with SAP ECC 6.0 (before upgrade)
• Study and planning of changes in the client’s SAP environment
• Upgrade preparation, carry out technical upgrade by using downtime minimized methodology & testing of transactions after upgrade, printing and information system, resolution of problems and issues during testing
• Prepared test system for test upgrade phase
• Identify inconsistencies in database before database upgrade
• Database upgrade using DBUA & application upgrade
• Provide documentation as a deliverables