SUMMARY:

• Lead SAP Basis Consultant with 12 years of experience, responsible for Planning Technical Architecture, Implementations & Go live support, hands on experience on SAP S/4HANA, SAP R/3, PI, EP, Solution Manager, BW, BOBJ, SCM, SRM, CRM, MDM, NetWeaver products, Greenfield & Brownfield implementations, SAP upgrades & updates, OS/DB Migrations, systems refreshes and production support responsibilities on SAP HANA, DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Max - DB and MS-SQL server databases.
• SAP Landscape Architecture & Design incl. HANA
• Expertise in SAP Upgrades, Migrations, Installations, System Refresh/Copies,
• Expertise in DOO and Database Migration Option (DMO) of SUM for update and migration of SAP.
• Expertise in Cloud Technologies (GCP, AWS and Azure)
• Expertise on SAP to GCP BareMetal migration
• Expertise in S/4HANA Conversion.
• Expertise in S/4HANA Conversion.
• Expertise in Control-M, Redwood and CA unicenter jobs Monitoring tools
• Expertise in interfaces setup with SAP for MIF, IIB & Dell Boomi)
• Expertise in HA, HANA HSR, DR Builds & Tests
• Expertise in NetWeaver technologies like WAS 6.40/7.0/7.1/7.3 , BW/BI, XI/PI and Portal with special focus on BW support and administration of ECC 6.0, SCM/APO/SNC 7.x, CRM 7.x, Java systems, Solution Manager 7.0 / 7.1/ 7.2, GRC 5.3/10.0, MDG-8.0, HANA and S/4 HANA
• Performed lead role in E2E implementations covering latest features of SAP technology on various platforms and high end systems running on HANA /Suse / RHEL/GCP BareMetal.
• HANA enterprise cloud and Migrations to the cloud along with expertise in Public, Private and Hybrid cloud environments.
• Hands on experience in SAP migrations to Google GCP cloud environments including Baremetal.
• Experience in HANA DB installations, Support Packs and Revision upgrade, HANA mini checks, HANA Backups, Restore and Recovery, HA and DR setup along with DR drills.
• Excellent understanding of TMS / CTS, CCMS and system alerts, Partner Profiles, ALE, Output management, SAP Batch / Job scheduling/administration and SAP system profile maintenance, OS and DB level troubleshooting, Data Dictionary, SAP Database Administration and Tools (SAPDBA, BRCONNECT, BRTOOLS, BRSPACE, BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE), and Backup and Recovery using VERITAS solutions with SAP Integration
• Both Heterogeneous/Homogeneous System copies of various SAP systems (4.6x, SAP SRM, SAP BW, SAP ECC6, SAP NW2004s) using SAPinst Method and Database backup & Restore method.
• Performed System refresh of ECC systems using HP Business Copy and DB export/import procedures.
• Experience in SAP Basis includes -capacity planning, management reporting, data loads, security, scalability, configuration, performance and tuning, disaster recovery, and high availability. Comprehensive understanding of SAP Basis, UNIX, Oracle and proven experience in shell scripting.
• UNIX experience covers sap 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, CRM 5.0, NW EP, PI, BI 7.0 installations on AIX/DB2 & HP UX/Oracle Environments for various projects.
• Planned, coordinated and executed SAP technical installations, configurations and post-installations which includes SAP ECC 6.0 and EHP1,2,5&6, Solution manager 7.0 & 7.1 Netweaver 7.1, EP 7.0, SAP ERP 2005, XI 3.0/PI 7.0 & 7.1, BI 7.0, IS- Retail EHP 1 & EHP 2 and Enterprise versions.
• Experienced in interaction with business communities, mentoring team members, change management, problem management, incident management, and interaction with senior management.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr Engineer SAP Basis

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Level 3 Support of resolving the cases for SAP S4HANA, Suite on HANA Solution Manager, Native HANA, SAP ECC on DB2 for z/OS, BW on HANA Systems.
• Handling all the ABAP/Java related performance troubleshooting and provide the fixes based on the ITIL procedures
• Working on Native HANA (nearly 30TB scale-out landscape) Upgrades, Performance tuning and all HANA Administration related activities.
• Heterogeneous and Homogeneous System Copies.
• HANA 2.0 DB Install/Upgrade, Cluster Setup, Replication Setup, XS Advanced Components installation/upgrades. Delivery Unit Import/Export.
• Worked on GRC Support pack upgrade SP08 and plugin installations on the satellite systems.
• Configuration and administration of HANA 2.0 Systems (SSO, SSL, Parameter Administration, Backup Configuration with Commvault as Backint, HANA Transports, Adapter configurations etc.)
• Designed and performed high availability setup in HANA database in a multi-node environment and Scale-up environments.
• Worked on all the Solman related activities which includes system preparation, infrastructure preparation, basic configuration, managed system configuration, activating technical monitoring, early watch alert configuration, CHARM setup, Focused Insights and OCC dashboards.
• Performed SAP SLT Upgrade to NetWeaver 7.52 and DMIS 2018 SP02.
• Worked on HANA XS, XSA. XSA components. Install, upgrade and configuration using XSA Cockpit, DP Agent Setup for SDI, SAML SSO Setup.
• HANA Cockpit 2.0 Installation, Configuration and Administration.
• Migrated Legacy 4.6c operating system from Windows 2008 to Windows 2016.
• Administration of RHEL for SAP Linux App Servers (File System extensions) & SUSE for HANA DB servers
• Worked closely with SAP Development and functional teams for any SAP Basis related configuration requests and issue analysis.
• Handled and resolved critical application issues by analyzing OS level system logs and dumps.
• Ensured optimum performance by identifying long running reports and closely worked with developers to optimize the code. Performed parameter analysis to find out if the system parameters adhere to SAP standard practice.
• Responsible for code deployment activities of SAP ABAP, Java and BO systems.
• Implemented SAP systems Early Watch Alert recommendations.
• Installed/Upgraded S4HANA 1809, FIORI, Solution Manager 7.2 SP6, SLT, CRM, CRM Java, TREX, SAP HANA 2.0 SPS2 (Data-In-Hub) Systems on Google Cloud SLES12 SP2.
• Performed HANA Revision upgrades and responsible for HANA administration activities
• Refresh activities (SAP ECC and SAP HR) to support Go Live’s and cut over dress rehearsals.
• Worked End to end on Solman Migration to Virtustream Cloud and ensured that all the configurations (Managed System Setup, BPMON, EWA, CHARM) configurations were restored appropriately.
• Worked End to end on Solman Migration to Virtustream Cloud.
• Performed Managed System configurations, activated business process monitoring for various business process use cases, CHARM Configuration, OCC Dashboards setup.
• Performed HANA Revision upgrades and responsible for HANA administration activities
• Involved in production support and regular maintenance activities.
• Worked on ECC, NetWeaver, APO, BW, BOBJ, DS and BPC administration and handled Service Now tickets for respective application from SAP Basis end.
• Refresh activities (SAP ECC and SAP BW) to support Go Live’s and cut over dress rehearsals.

Lead SAP Basis Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded GRC 10.0 shipment version to SP16 in Sandbox, Dev, Quality & production systems with dual landscape upgrade strategy and minimal disruption to the business.
• Performed upgrades for Sandbox, Development, QA, Production portal 7.0 to 7.4, performed two Simulation upgrades for go-live practice iterations. Prepared detailed cutover plan and streamlined processes for Production go-live for Portal 7.4.
• Supported Go-Live for EP & GRC systems, scalability challenges, high volume load performance tuning, ICM performance tuning, high availability systems implementation, BW system management and transport management on AIX and DB2 platform.
• Configured Solution Manger system to create new SAP Systems for generation of Stack XML for the upgrades o SAP EP and GRC systems
• Built lower landscape for portal upgrade project from the DB export from upper landscape systems on AIX-DB2 platform.
• Performed the standard, Basis & BW specific preparation steps for the HANA migration activities and
• Performed & managed Impact assessment for the GRC upgrade project considering equivalent support packs on various Satellite systems, third party IDM solutions, integrations between various Netweaver versions of GRC server and child systems.
• Performed systems refresh of Dev, & Quality systems before GRC upgrade and conducted mock cutovers.
• Presented in GRC upgrade kick-off meeting and discussed various methodologies & number of mock cutover plans.
• Performed hands-on upgrade of GRC to GRC 10.0 SP16, adjusted the SPDD and SPAU corrections for Basis changes/notes and adjusted the remaining functional changes based on the inputs from GRC functional team.
• Presented the upgrade methodology for minimum business disruption and contacted various regional basis teams to manage the Basis technical project plan and shared the same with stake holders during the upgrade
• Designed the strategy for dual maintenance and created necessary setup & TMS transport routes to maintain production & project landscapes in same state until go-live
• Identified various technical challenges as part of the upgrade project and documented the issues to fix them in the sub-sequent upgrades ASAP.
• Communicated the downtime phase requirements with the business team in advance to get various approvals.
• Performed & guided the change control management during the upgrade project for phase by phase freeze periods like soft freeze, hard freeze & Deep freeze.
• Created documentation for system refreshes, pre Upgrade activities, upgrade steps, & issues & fixes
• Performance and tuning on SAP BW, SAP PI, and SAP ECC systems including SQL / ABAP tracing and analysis followed by recommendations.
• Performed SAP Kernel Upgrades & Homogenous System copy activities on AIX and Db2 platforms

Lead SAP Basis Consultant

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

Responsibilities:

• Performed HANA sizing for Confidential ERP & CRM migration projects considering various variables like - HANA Standalone, BW on HANA & ECC on HANA.
• Performed the existing network scan, Storage fitment checks and Hardware performance calculations to consider the option of SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter integration (TDI).
• Designed the HANA Architecture as Scale-up base for non-prod servers and scale-out base for production architecture.
• Configured the HANA Appliance to be able to accommodate multiple databases with Multi-SID setup and created Sandbox and Dev databases for SAP CRM 7.03 & POC database for ECC 6.0 EHP 7.
• Configured HANA Lifecycle Manager (HLM) to implement the support packs and revision updates.
• Installed SAP CRM 7.03 on HANA and upgraded to latest support pack SP07 and latest kernel.
• Performed the standard post installation steps on CRM like - client copy,TMS,logical systems,std Jobs, Common Trans directory etc.
• Performed CRM specific Basis configuration steps like - Specifying Industry, defining CRM Middleware jobs, business function activation, generating CRM objects etc.
• Performed middleware setup and configured ECC tables and defined appropriate RFC and defined those RFCs in the ECC middleware tables.
• Performed SSO setup for CRM web client with Sap gui to eliminate the need of entering password eveytime user logs in.
• Performed various troubleshoots on CRM middleware tables to fix the issues with consumer configuration in R3AC3 & R3AS.
• Helped SAP CRM functional team with setup of transactional launcher and provided various SSO options to achieve, between ECC & CRM.

Lead SAP Basis Consultant

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Designed the SAP MII architecture for single plant at the initial phase and defined a strategy to move to multi plant distributed architecture as the number of plants grows considering existing ERP systems, Shop floor systems, and network & change management lifecycles of various individual plants.
• Defined a to-be structure of multiple SAP MII distributed architecture considering 3 years down the line based upon assured response times at various plans, parallel processing, to withstand ERP downtime, & various time zones
• Installed SAP MII 14.0 with SP04 & latest kernel on high available servers with SAP java SCS on Linux individual Linux server, two Linux application servers & DB2 on AIX with HADR.
• Created bidirectional connectors to access the data in shop floor/plant systems using the connectors ODBC/JDBC, OLEDB, OPC-DA & Vendor specific APIs from Grantek.
• Performed transactional integration of SAP MII 14.0 & SAP ECC 6.0 EHP6 using Java Connector (JCo) for highest performance instead of Java resource Adapter (JRA).
• Performed the SAP MII & BI integration to read the data from BI using OLAP Connector & to push the data to BI using Java Connector (JCo)
• Performed various Basis activities on SAP MII like - Creating MII Project with specific project structure, leveraging a common folder, importing & exporting project files in SAP MII workbench.
• Created various Data servers on SAP MII with appropriate connector type, target database details, security provisioning by assigning MII roles.

Lead SAP Basis Consultant

Confidential, Turlock, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the process leads, functional team leads, and Solution Architect to gather and understand technical requirements for the landscape architecture build & design.
• Participated in the Blueprint workshops & prepared the Business Process models in the SAP Solution manager 7.1 based on the to-be business model.
• Sized & Built the SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7, SRM 7.03, SCM 7.03, BW 7.4, Portal 7.4, PI 7.4 on HANA 1.0 SPS06 and Syclo workflow server, BODS 4.1 & BO-BI Platform 4.1.
• Assist application and development teams in sizing efforts. Work with application development teams to help them understand areas of risk and potential mitigation ideas.
• Ability to understand and accomplish what is required for SAP standardization, development, rollouts, disaster recovery and moving the environments into an HA environment.
• Installed ECC 6.0 EHP7, SRM 7.03, SCM 7.03, PI 7.4, BW 7.4, BPC 10.0 and Portal 7.4 on SAP HANA database SPS06.
• Installed POASPC (BPC) Add-on on top of BW 7.4 system and EPM Add-in for Microsoft office 2013.
• Installed support packs related to BPC add-on to upgrade it to latest version.
• As part of BPC post installation - activated related services, generated authorization profiles & installed environment shell etc.
• Installed SAP CRM 7.0 with EHP2 on HANA 1.0 SPS06 and performed post steps for KMC, TREX, Java stack, XCM tool etc.
• Activated BI content in BW server after installation of BPC with proper object types
• Successfully performed the Split of the HANA database instance on the vendor provided HANA Appliance and customized the HDB (HANA database) parameters to suit to customer needs and BW needs.
• Successfully architected the migration from SMSY to LMDB on solution manager and performed a synchronized update setup between SLD on PI 7.4 and LMDB on Solution manager.
• Finalized the architecture and installed / configured the SAP MII 14.0 & integration with shop floor systems of wonderware and historian on Industrial SQL (InSQL) Database.
• Configured CTS+ using CTS plugin on solution manager 7.1 to manage the entire landscape transports for ECC, SRM, SCM, PI, MII, Portal, BW, BO-BI 4.1 etc.
• Helped Security Lead with the Business Process model pulled out from solution manager to design the role matrix of the customer specific business process steps.
• Mentoring In-house and offshore SAP Basis team in terms of plan, architecture, Roles & Responsibilities on HANA, Syclo Mobility, ChaRM, Incident Management, Security, Data Migration, and Blueprinting in solution Manager, Best practices for Food & Beverages etc.
• Installed and setup SAP SLT server and fixed various issues of Table status, missing tables, replication start & stop and mapping in the HANA studio.
• Installed and setup BO-BI 4.1 and successfully configured backend connection to SAP BW 7.4
• Designed the entire SAP landscape with SAP Business suite innovations 2013 based on NW 7.42 and prepared the architecture with optimum number of SLDs, LMDB structure on Solution Manager 7.1, number of databases on each HANA appliance etc.
• Planed and Configured CTS+ for entire SAP landscape and tuned the CTS+ to fit to transport the objects of HANA databases.
• Created the architecture for Legacy data flow in to HANA DB with SAP BODS 4.1 and SAP SLT.
• HANA Landscape design & hardware Sizing & SLT replication configuration
• HANA server, client installation & configuration & security administration
• BW system copy, upgrade, Unicode conversion and ABAP & JAVA stack split/drop
• Good knowledge of HANA in Memory computing, Massive parallel processing and data modeling improvements.
• Have good implementation experience, an understanding of how the technology can drive value, project Management skills and an ability to communicate technical issues in a non-technical manner.
• Implemented BW on HANA and Data Modeled, designed reporting & solutions in Warehouse environment.
• Experience in ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) knowledge of SAP and NON-SAP data by using tool and writing SQL scripts
• Hana implementation strategy and proof of concept road map.
• Installation and configuration of ECC 6.0 EPH7, EP 7.4, BI 7.4, PI 7.4, Solman 7.1 in central & distributed environment.

Lead SAP Basis Consultant

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded SAP ECC 6.0 to EHP 6, Upgraded BW, Upgraded the SAP PI to latest i.e. SAP PI 7.1 SP11, built SAP PPM 5.0, SAP PCM 10.0, SAP NW Portal 7.3, SAP BI 7.3, SAP PLM 7.02, TREX 7.31, BODS 4.1 & Solution Manager 7.1.
• Upgraded/migrated BO XI R2 Sp4 to BO - BI Platform 4.0 with full one shot upgrade to have better integration with already upgraded SAP BW 7.3.
• Managed the BO XI migration project with new owner rights for existing and new products.
• As part of BO XI upgrade performed all prerequisite steps like fixing the failed jobs, detecting unused jobs, removing old unused instances and fixing repository instances.
• EHP upgrade on ECC 6 from EHP 4 to EHP 6 to facilitate the PLM 7.02 add-on.
• Installation of PLM Add-on 7.00 on SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6 and upgrade to 7.02 as part of EHP6 upgrade. Activated all the required PLM business functions carefully following the SAP Note on the switch framework SFW5.
• Prepared the Pre-delivery SAP Basis requirements and checklist document for specific to PLM servers and provided the 100% working servers in time.
• EHP upgrade on ECC 6 from EHP 4 to EHP 6 to facilitate the PLM 7.02 add-on
• Installation of PLM Add-on 7.00 on SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6 and upgrade to 7.02 as part of EHP6 upgrade. Activated all the required PLM business functions carefully following the SAP Note on the switch framework SFW5.
• Activated all the relevant services required for the PLM solution on ECC 6 EHP 6 server.
• Successfully configured ECC/PLM server to able to accept connections from SAP NWBC 4.0 /3.5
• Installed and configured IPS 4.0 and BODS 4.1 on Business Objects BOE platform.
• Created repositories, configured and setup job server for real-time operations, setup multiple data stores and monitored job servers in BODS 4.1.
• Activated all the relevant services required for the PLM solution on ECC 6 EHP 6 server.
• Successfully configured ECC/PLM server to able to accept connections from SAP NWBC 4.0
• After the GO-Live all the administrative preparations are documented and transferred the knowledge to In-house Basis team.
• Successfully configured /generated proper roles for the PLM Functional & Technical team for the ongoing implementation, including NWBC roles.
• Extensively worked with functional consultants to help configure the initial WWI reporting and compliance check results and reports.
• Successfully supported the go-live activities with all the transports, configurations and providing the post -Go live support and recommending minor improvements.
• Installed the TREX 7.1 on NW 7.31 and configured the TCP/IP RFC for the embedded search functionality of PLM 7.02.
• Installation of SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6 with multiple application servers and High availability has been configured at DB instance with additional ASCS with Enquire Replication Server.
• Configured all the post installation steps on SAP systems and prepared the Basis Cutover plans.
• Performance and tuning on SAP ECC, SAP PI, SAP BW 7.3 with specific checks for Garbage collector jobs and expensive SQL statements.
• Configured central system monitoring from solution manager
• Configured Solution Manger system to create new SAP Systems for generation of Stack XML for the installation of SAP ECC and BW systems.
• Perform proactive performance / tuning measures to improve SAP databases. This includes SAP tuning tools like STAD, ST02, ST03, ST04, ST05, ST12, SE30, DB05, etc.
• Monitoring of data loads into PCM system from PPM system, Space Management, SAP recommended parameters, SAP Buffers, SQL Buffers, PCM Patches, SAP Kernel Patches, PPM and ECC Support Packs.
• Configured automatic space alerts, unbalanced indexes, statistics missing, etc. in Solution manager for production support and Supported on-call for SAP systems.
• Supported SAP ECC system landscape for development, and Production activities including transports, database backups, system copies, kernel upgrades, and support packs.

SAP Upgrade Consultant

Confidential, Islandia, NY

Responsibilities:

• SAP Upgrade of ECC 5.0, SRM 4.0 to Business suite 2007 & NW 7.3
• Organized the whole upgrade process and multiple upgrades of ECC, SRM to finalize the timelines of total upgrade process to estimate the cutover timelines and go-live durations.
• Prepared the whole upgrade template of ECC, SRM, EP, PI, BI which also includes the crucial phases like stack creation, and downloading the correct upgrade media.
• Conducted crucial Prechecks phase to make the As-Is system Upgrade Ready.
• Properly configured the As-Is system in the solution manager and then the system is checked with landscape verification tool to make sure that the Stack XML file is the right one for the upgrade tool.
• Defined the Upgrade strategy and sequence of upgrade of Dev, Quality & production systems to retain the modification of SAP Objects.
• Upgraded the solution manager from 7.0 to 7.0 EHP1 to make it compatible for generation of stack files for the upgrade tool and installed Landscape verification tool as add-on.
• Performed the java decommission of the dual stack ECC 5.0 system and defined the strategy for the movement of existing ESS and MSS processes on the java stack
• Defined Database backups at appropriate stages of upgrade process and performed log archiving disable.
• Checked the prerequisites to meet the minimum requirements of OS patches, DB patches and hot fixes & SAP Kernel version & SPs & Add-ons.
• Defined the strategy for modification adjustments and coordinated with development team to capture the modifications information in to transport request and used the transport request later in Quality and production upgrades.
• Analyzed Central Upgrade note, Application note, and Database specific note and documented the steps accordingly during the Pretasks phase.
• Carefully created the template of tasks for all the upgrades based upon sandbox upgrades and made changes to the templates as and when required as per the issues and fixes.
• Co-ordinate with ABAP team to make the SPAU changes and capturing them in transport request and further import of it to make carried on changes.
• Successfully finished the upgrade with options like downtime minimized, inclusion of SP stacks in the upgrade to minimize the time lines, applying the crucial & prerequisite support packs before upgrade.
• Created NWDI tracks for the Portal development in CE 7.1 server for the new software component development in SRM portal.
• Prepared a list of Pretasks/Rechecks which are to be performed before each upgrade.
• Carefully captured the timelines to help business estimate exact timelines.
• Mainly assigned to ECC & SRM upgrades but always discussed and solved issues of other team members who are carrying EP, PI & GTS upgrades.

Sr. SAP Technology Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of entire technical project cut-over plan for Dev, QA, Training and Production systems
• Involved in 24X7 Production Support.
• Also worked in monthly Call Rotation Support (Twice a month).
• Provide Daily response times reports for all production servers
• Performing Daily monitoring health check task on PROD systems.
• Worked on the Installation of SRM 7.0, GTS 8.0 and MDM on Applied SPs in MDM System (DEV-QA-PRD).
• Monitor Daily BW Loads and fix any errors if there are problems (RSMO).
• Check and create source system connections if needed (RSA1).
• Supported SAP Landscapes in US, Canada and France.
• Installation and Configuration of DIA/BGD Application Servers in Windows and UNIX Platforms.
• Live Cache Administration (performance tuning and monitoring live cache, Backup and recovery strategy, analyzing the Live Cache errors messages).Also Installation of SCM and Live Cache.
• Live Cache Administration (Tcode-LC10, DBMGui, DBMCLI and WebDBM) changing the live cache parameters, adding spaces and monitoring.
• Worked exclusively on daily SEV1, 2 and 3 tickets (HP OVSD Tool).
• Applied Support packs through JSPM, SPAM and Kernel upgrade.
• Installation and configuration of SAP PLM 7.0 on ECC 6.0 and post installation steps.
• Applied EHPs on Netweaver and ECC. (ECC- EHP3 and Netweaver EHP1)
• Configured SLD to use with Solution Manager to Fetch data for Solution manager 7.0
• Configured setting up Solution Monitoring and Central System Administration for all Landscapes.
• Generating EWR weekly and creating reports to submit to the client.
• Setup CCMS Alert Monitoring using sapccm4x agents.
• Configured Central System Administration to use as production system Basis Daily Check List
• Configured and maintained Transports, including Non ABAP objects for EP and PI, between Development/Quality System and Production systems.
• Transportation of roles/profiles from Development Server to Quality Server and then to Production Server.
• Also involved with High availability and Disaster Recovery Test Project with HP Metro Cluster Installed and configured SAP and R/3 and BW environments including DIA App Servers to mimic real production. Tested Purchase Orders and invoices with success.
• Involved with many System Refreshes including R/3 on Windows 2003 and MS SQL Server Platform and BW Refreshes involving AIX and Oracle 9.2.
• Performed multiple system refreshes involving MS SQL database and ECC 5 on windows 2003 Server - involved systems - Production to QA and Production to DEV. Also performed multiple refreshes involving Oracle 9.2 database and BW 3.5. Creating and maintaining source system connections.
• Monitored 3 layer SAP architecture with Development, Quality and Production servers.
• Knowledge of security administration of SAP R/3 System like Creation of users, managing users, creation of roles, creation of profiles and troubleshooting end user logon problems.
• Monitored and Configured Operation Modes, Managing Instance Profile, managed Logon Groups for load balancing.
• Analyzed System errors, Check system & backup logs daily, ABAP Dumps, Lock and update entries.
• Participated in Client Administration like Creating Clients, Client copy (Local and Remote), deleting clients, Assigning logical systems to clients.
• Performed SAP system, database, operating system, and transaction tuning to ensure the best possible response times for the end-users of the SAP system.
• Configured and Monitoring SAP systems using CCMS (setting threshold values, creating distribution list, allocating methods, email alerts).
• Maintained Spool Administration like configuring printers and troubleshooting spool request, deleting old spool jobs.
• Performed analyzing / troubleshooting and managed the escalation of basis related issues with SAP support.
• Managed SAP server's security like creating users, deleting users, creating profiles using profile generator (PFCG). Creating and maintaining authorization roles and profiles. Monitoring user logins, user sessions, and restricting default logins in instance profile
• Involved in Performance Tuning of SAP servers by using some t-codes like SM50, SM12, DB01, ST03, ST22, SM21, DB02 and other related codes or procedures if needed.
• Working with Database team, windows team and UNIX team 24/7.

Sr. SAP Technology Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of entire technical project cut-over plan for Dev, QA and Production systems.
• Performed the sizing based on percentage of ccBPM, Adopter types, Average and peak volume frequencies.
• Configured the setup of dedicated maser SLD and Additional SLDs on crucial Application servers.
• Using the auto-sync feature to avoid having manually maintained SLD data in two locations.
• Using Netweaver’s change management System (CTS+) for transport of java objects and Abap Objects are transported same as of ECC.
• Using Alert framework to handle errors and SMTP to inform errors as Emails.
• Configured all post installation steps like- SLD configuration, Exchange profile maintenance, RFC connections between ABAP & JAVA stacks, activating ICF services, Integration server configuration, Applying latest ABAP & JAVA support packs etc.

SAP Basis Consultant

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Responsibilities:

• Installation of SAP MDM 5.5 SP04 and required frontend tools.
• Installation of MDM ABAP API on ECC & CRM systems for Master data extraction from source systems.
• Prepared the system ready for Consolidation and Harmonization scenarios.
• Installed SAP standard Repositories- Business partner repository and customer repository for master data import.
• Performed the technical configuration MDM-XI-ECC for data extraction and loading.
• Installed MDM ABAP API on WAS ABAP 700 system.
• Installed MDM business content on EP and configured IVIEWs to monitor administrate MDM repositories.
• Provided daily support needed during all the project phases.

SAP Basis Consultant

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Created AIX file systems and logical volumes and deciding its size based upon SAP Application to be installed.
• Troubleshooting operating system problems, Monitoring System logs & file systems, and working with operating system / hardware vendor (IBM) to resolve the OS & Hardware issues.
• Perform database extensions, checking free spaces daily, monitor table extension parameters, performing database imports/exports.
• Installed SAP ECC 6.0, CRM 5.0, EP 7.0, XI 7.0, BI 7.0 and configured central SLD on XI. A backup SLD has been configured on solution manager.
• Performed System copy, client refresh, configured Online and Off-line Backups.
• Creating initial project specific clients, installing licenses, Schedule, lock and monitor SAP standard SAP batch Jobs.
• Maintained Operation modes and performed day to day basis administration activities for the implementation.
• Understood the defined overall security plan and profile requirements. Configuring the newly installed servers in to CUA.
• Configured Backup and recovery strategies for DB2 and daily monitoring of storage utilization.
• Configured SMSY and DSWP settings for creating new systems and solutions in solution manager.
• Configured Maintenance optimizer and resolved issues with it.
• Helped Security team with the configuration and user data pulling from child systems in to central CUA system.
• Configured full fledge early watch Alerts and monitoring for remote servers like ECC, CRM, BI etc.
• GRMG monitoring has been configured for XI and EP java stacks.
• Auto Reaction of Alerts has been configured with Emails, and SMTP is monitored weekly basis to monitor the message traffic.
• Installed various JAVA business packages and user interfaces on Portal for e-Recruiting.
• A Special DMZ server has been configured keeping in view security norms as it is available on open web for job Applicants.
• Configured and daily monitoring of RZ70 (SLD data suppliers) of remote systems with central SLD.
• Configured connectivity of BI with ECC and CRM in TA RSA1 to pull master data in to infocubes and resolved issues with it during data extraction.
• Installed and configured business package of BI Admin cockpit on java stack of BI for daily monitoring of Data staging Frequency, Query performance etc.
• Installed Virsa ABAP and JAVA components on Solution manager as a part of POC and POT to demonstrate Security team.
• Worked with various consultants during the configuration of various Bolton’s like DELEGO, VISTEX, Rwd Uperform, Foglight, Service Power, Trintech etc.
• Configured x-Apps - XRPM on EP sandbox servers as a part of POC and POT to demonstrate project management team which is an alternative of MS Project plan.