SUMMARY:

• SAP HANA, BASIS, S/4 HANA, Hadoop or Enterprise Solution Architect and Lead with 18 years of exciting experience delivering exceptional results in high performance teams with cutting edge top trend technologies in creating operational efficiencies, improving controls, deriving analytics, mitigating risks and effectively driving change initiatives for enterprise projects.
• HANA Capacity: Three SAP HANA implementations and landscape migration projects, Suite on HANA, BW on HANA migrations with release upgrade, Unicode conversion, dual - stack split utilizing Post Copy Automation PCA and Near Zero Downtime NZD, S/4 HANA green field implementation and S/4 HANA conversion from HANA using SUM (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Cost and Profit Center Accounting, Fixed Assets, BO Reporting, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Procure to Pay and Architecture design of ERP components). HANA XS Extended Application, SLT and BODS server (installation, integration, replications and configurations). Performed user security in HANA, S/4 HANA, FIORI, BOBJ and conventional SAP (ECC, BW, CRM, SRM etc.) with GRC for user authentication and Governance with single sign using LDAP authentication into central federated portals like OKTA. Data Analytics and Reporting using BOBJ. Complete application level S/4 HANA FI support and for HANA Calculation Engine - HANA CE (rebate calculation).
• SAP Basis Capacity: Four lifecycle SAP implementations and four landscapes upgrades and heterogeneous OSDB migration projects for ECC, BW, EP, PI, SRM, CRM, GRC and Solution Manager. SAP installations, upgrades, portal federation, SSO single sign-on, post installation configuration and integrations, dual stack OS/DB heterogeneous migrations, performance tuning, SLD design & configuration, Solution Manager ChaRM, EEM, LVM, E2E RCA, BPM configuration, NetWeaver Gateway, transports, forecasting and trending of resource etc.
• SAP Architect Capacity: Design solution architecture including integration with backend SAP and non-SAP systems, provide integration approach and bring teams and stake holders to consensus. Perform capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, technical architecture specification, implementation plan, deployment strategy, various testing strategies and tools, trending of resources for forecast analysis, functional and technical team alignment, compatibility and performance analysis and security assessment including contingency plans. Provide project effort estimations and identify team skills needed for the project. Plan project and create task list for cutover and develop run books of the process.
• SAP HANA with HADOOP Integration Capacity: Integration of Big Data via Smart Data Access to Hadoop for Data Analytics in HANA and Hadoop as processing engine and loading data into HANA from Hadoop via SAP Data Services.
• Communication and lead Capacity: Clear and active communications between client and teams involved, properly set client’s expectations and manage them to meet project timelines with client satisfaction. Reporting on behalf of the teams to the executive management team and stakeholders. Champion issues to their conclusion and work with SAP specialized groups like HANA Ambassador Program and HANA Innovation Group.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Teaching: SAP HANA Migration using DMO at CenturyLink (Monroe, LA) SAP Basis Instructor at Coresoft Institute. SAP Basis Boot Camp classes at Pandesic (an SAP & Intel Company). SAP driven e - Commerce Technology at Intel and Digex.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hayward CA

Lead ERP Architect / Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Green field SAP S/4 HANA 1610 FPS02 implementation on on-premise supporting General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Cost and Profit Center Accounting, Fixed Assets, BO Reporting, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Procure to Pay and Architecture design of ERP components.
• Managing green field S/4 HANA implementation on the cloud.
• Architecture design of ERP components and disaster recovery.
• Setting up operations and administration standard operating procedures.
• Migration of legacy data into S/4 HANA 1610 on-premise using the migration cockpit tool.
• Setup FIORI application security access through OKTA and authentication against LDAP and configurationSingle Sign-On and Single Logout setup and help resolve challenges.
• Single point of contact, technical go to person for all ERP technical and architecture related challenges.
• SAP Solution Manager 7.2 upgrade, integration and configuration.
• SAP GRC for security process setup for user request, authentication, roles mapping, SOD and governance.

Confidential, San Diego CA

SAP HANA Architect

Responsibilities:

• SAP Suite on HANA migration - Performed Suite on HANA migrations 15TB database and developed run books.
• Pre-migration analysis of source ECC system for all cleanups required for possible data reduction and optimal sizing purposes.
• Defined all steps - pre, during and post HANA migration and create task list and integrated that into project plan and cutover plan.
• Installing SAP HANA Dynamic tiering as extended storage to SAP HANA database.
• Working with various teams including code remediation, application teams in finding solutions for functionality and performance issues after the migration resulted out of various testing’s.

Confidential, New York

SAP HANA Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP BW on HANA migration from planning, sizing, cloud determination to post migration support along with upgrade, Unicode conversion with Post Copy Automation PCA. Performing HANA cluster configuration for cluster and node setting for scale out environments.
• SAP Suite on HANA migration - Performed Suite on HANA migrations up to 16TB database.
• Data Volume Management - identified for truncate or archive objects and run cleanup jobs, determining data retentions and residencies. Extensive cleanup of data to achieve lean database prior to performing sizing for HANA migrations to achieve optimal runtime and cost-effective infrastructure.
• HANA S/4 - Performed installation, support, security and tuning.
• SAP TDMS - Prepared systems for TDMS and Configured SAP TDMS landscape for large database Production system to create non-production environment for timings and high-speed data extraction.
• SLT - Installations on distributed Linux environment with Sybase database. Data replication setup from ECC to HANA and monitoring loads and troubleshoot issues with logging tables, lag time and triggers.
• HANA Cloud - Installation, migration and integration of HANA on Cloud.
• HANA Hadoop Integration - HANA with Hadoop integration via SAP Data Services and Smart Data Access to HANA. Brought data from Hadoop into SAP HANA with objective to avoid storing data in HANA directly getting data out of Hadoop for analytics.

Confidential, San Francisco CA

SAP Lead HANA Architect

Responsibilities:

• BW on HANA migration with release upgrade, Unicode conversion, stack split and with 11 nodes clustering along with its Disaster Recovery replicated site.
• Migrations of SAP HANA Statistics server into Embedded Statistics Server (ESS).
• COPA HANA SLT replication, logging table and optimization on the SLT and ECC side.
• SYBASE IQ NLS installation, integration, administration and performance monitoring.
• SAP Heterogeneous OS/DB migrations from AIX to Linux environments.
• Provided HANA support, security, tuning and troubleshooting.

Confidential, Hollywood CA

SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP SRM, ECC HA installation, Oracle RAC on ASM conversion from non-RAC oracle.
• SAP Solution Manager Upgrade 7.0 to 7.1, BW upgrade from 7.0 to 7.3 SP4.

Confidential, Burbank CA

SAP Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP Administration, support, maintenance, migration on SAP ECC, BW, and Solution Manager with DB2 database upgrade to 7.1 from 7.0.
• Solution Manager - End User Experience Monitoring (EEM) implementation.
• Change manager - responsible for approving all changes promoted to SAP.
• SAP datacenter migration project, planning, sizing and resources determination
• Routine deep analysis of SAP Production systems in performance degradation areas on various levels and take proactive measures by tuning to get most out of existing resources before adding more hardware.
• Architecture Design of SAP landscape and its integrations at virtual and physical level as-is and to-be after migration, including OCC architecture web client, application server, BAPI’s and SAP data level.

Confidential, California

SAP OS/DB Migration Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP heterogeneous, dual stack OS/DB migrations on Oracle and DB2. Several runs of complete end to end migrations for ECC, EP, BW, PI, TREX and Solution Manager.
• Migration assessments in terms of migration timeline across all environments, their dependencies, resources, transport freeze and go-live.
• Resolving migration related issues including data corruptions and BLOB objects.
• Target system validations after migration that the migration did not lose data.

Confidential, Foster City CA

SAP Global Practice Director

Responsibilities:

• Responding to RFP’s, pre-proposal meetings, creating relationships for SAP projects.
• Architecture design of the SAP landscape with optimized used of resources.
• Offer various level support structure to the clients.
• Issue resolutions, resource allocations, relationship management with customer satisfaction.
• Aggressive goals in number of RFP response and successful acceptance and signed contracts.

Confidential, Richmond VA

SAP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Integration of BI 7.0 with EP 7.0 and Single Sign-on SSO setup. SLD design and centralization.
• ECC 6.0, SRM, BI, EP planning, installation, post installation configuration and integration to other components.
• Solution Manager setup and configuring EWA reports and Solutions Monitoring CEN.
• Architecture Design with respect to Federation on BI level or Portal level.

Confidential, Huntsville AL

SAP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed SAP Roadmap for Confidential .
• Federation of Confidential ’s SAP Portal with non-SAP portals.
• SAP SLD centralization.
• Solution Manager ChaRM Implementation.
• Technical Architectural designs NetWeaver servers, stateless enque, splitting Central instance services across.
• SAP Upgrade from 46C to ECC 6.0 with Unicode Conversion.
• ECC 5.0, XI, VIRSA-GRC 5.2, Solution Manager, MDM, SAP ChaRM, EP 6.0, BI 7.0 and integrating BI with XI. Single sign-on with SAML, standalone Gateways.