Principal Consultant - Sap Basis Resume
Fort Lauderdale, FL
SUMMARY:
- Over 16 years of IT Administration experience, of which over 8 years of experience in SAP Basis Administration as SAP Basis Admin and 9 years of experience in Systems - Network Architect.
- Experience in the field of SAP Basis Design, Architecture, Implementation, Upgrade, Rollout, and Production Support Projects in large SAP landscapes that are geographical spread.
- Extensive experience in SAP Business Suite, SAP Netweaver Components, SAP Solution Manager & SAP HANA.
- Experience in Mail server administration, Routers and PIX Firewall administration.
- Extensive experience in developing Enterprise level Networking.
EXPERTISE AREA:
- Strategy planning for SAP Solution Manager, developing enterprise-wide roadmap for acceptance of Solution Manager in the user environment.
- Coordinating with IT, business, & program management teams in deploying project specific solutions
- Designing the Solution Landscape for Solution Manager
- Solution Manager 7.0 Upgrades
- Business Blue Prints using Solution Manager & Solution Documentation.
- Business Processes Configuration, Solution Documentation (SoDocA) Configuration
- Incident Management & Problem Management (ITSM) configuration
- Change Request Management (ChaRM) & Quality Gate Management Configuration
- Setup of Business Process Monitoring (BPMon)
- Technical Monitoring Setup, Wily & Diagnostics agent setup
- Early Watch Alert(EWA) & Root Cause Analysis (RCA) configuration
- Exposure to SAP Solution Manager 7.2
- Installation & Configuration of HANA 1.0 with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11.2
- Installation of BW on HANA DB.
- SAP BW 7.0, ECC 6.0 Migration on HANA using DMO.
- Installation of S/4 HANA components.
- Installation of SAP Fiori
- SAP BOBJ 4.0 Installation on Windows, Configuration, Integration with crystal reports.
- Certified as SAP Basis, HANA and Solution Manager Consultant with 8 years of SAP Basis experience in SAP implementations, upgrades, migrations and support.
- Worked as project architect in hardware planning, hardware sizing, designing of SAP solutions for implementation from infrastructure end.
- Worked extensively in SAP ECC, EP, Solution Manager, Netweaver 7.0 and 7.1 platforms and well versed with RDBMS like Oracle 11i, 10g, MS SQL 2008R2, 2005, Maxdb, DB2 and SAP HANA 1.0 SP08.
- Worked on various SAP life cycle implementations and SAP installations such as ECC, BI, and Solution Manager on Oracle, MSSQL and HANA databases on various OS platforms such as HPUX, Windows, SOLARIS, AIX, Red Hat Linux and SUSE LINUX.
- Worked on SAP version upgrades such as 4.7 EE to ECC 6.0, BW 7.0 to 7.3, 7.4 and Solution Manager 7.0 to 7.1.
- Experience in High Availability installation.
- Worked on database migration from Oracle to SAP HANA.
- Worked on EHP upgrades, kernel and patch upgrades, Oracle installations and upgrades, Homogeneous system refreshes, performance tuning, Data archiving, Disaster Recovery procedures, cluster failover tests, and various SAP Basis and Security activities.
- Worked extensively on Production support on several environments such as Netweaver 7.0 - ECC 6.0, Portal, BI, PI, MDM 7.1, Solution Manger 7.0 EHP1 / 7.1, EP, SRM, CRM, BODS.
- End implementation of ChaRM, Technical operations on Solution Manager 7.1
- Worked on HANA standalone installation on HANA appliance.
- Experience in Heterogeneous and Homogeneous system copies.
- Excellent Customer facing skills, proven record of good customer relationships.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Experience in Basis & Netweaver: Architect level activities such as assessment, strategic planning, designing, hardware sizing & integration of SAP landscapes on various platforms, landscape discussion with client, solution elucidation to end users, network setup, interface determination and developing conceptual, logical, and technical architecture models, End to End Implementations, Supports, Upgrades & Migrations on various platforms including clustered & non-clustered environments.
Post Installation: Integration, Client Copies, STMS, CTS+, Printers, Spool, Kernel Upgrades, Support Packs, IDocs, SAP Notes, SSO, Workload Analysis, CCMS, DB backup & administration, ITS, SAP Router, Web dispatcher, NWBC, SAP GUI.
SAP Security: Role & Authorization Designing, User Management.
SAP Portal: ESS/MSS Configuration, Portal Roles, iView page designing & configuration, SSO, CE, NWDI & NWDS.
SAP BI: Configuration, Security, Data Load Monitor, BI-Java, XCelsius, Bex Analyzer.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Principal Consultant - SAP Basis
Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Environment: SAP ECC, SRM, BW, BO, GRC, Solman 7.1
Responsibilities:
- Daily health Checks on SAP ECC, SRM, BW & GRC Systems.
- SAP R/3 production 24 X 7 support using ticketing tools
- Monitoring and Alerting using CCMS infrastructure
- User and Role Administration
- Background Job Monitoring
- Database performance monitoring
- System refreshes and client copy
- Homogenous and heterogeneous migrations
- SAP Transport System Configuration and Administration
- Support Packages upgrade and Kernel Upgrades
- Oracle upgrades
- Database Maintenance Activities
- Monitoring of Lock entries and update failures
- Table space administration using BR* Tools.
- Administrated security in ECC, SRM, BW and R/3 systems
- Worked on 4-tier landscape Development, Testing, QA and Production in all SAP
- Controlled the access of end users in the all system by assigning them appropriate authorization profiles.
- Worked on SAP TDMS Installation.
- Worked on SmartExporter Audicon Implementation.
- Worked on SAP Fiori Implementation.
- Implemented Solution Manager 7.1 under High Availability infrastructure
- OS level Clustering using Microsoft HA agents
- Cluster configurations and installations of SAP on Windows servers
Confidential, New York, NY
SAP Solution Manager Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC6.0, Solman 7.1
Responsibilities:
- Provide clear and consistent directions and instructions to team members
- Ensure accountability and establish goals and metrics - Ensure clear assignment of work and accountability and define goals and metrics
- Enable performance and provide support - Equip team with necessary skills required to perform their task and provide support when required
- Disciplined tracking and follow through - enforce delivery and monitoring of timeline
- Ensure visibility and integrity in reporting - advocate and encourage transparency of progress, issues and require fact based reporting for effective management
- Gather the data related to the progress of the activities in the project using the templates provided and present the progress during the weekly team leads meetings, tracking to ensure the identified corrective actions are implemented on-time.
- Consolidate the team level issues and present the issues and resolution during the weekly Team Lead Meeting
Confidential
SAP Basis & Solution Manager Architect
Environment: SAP ECC- EHP6, BI, BODS, OpenText, Solution Manger 7.1, HANA 1.0
Responsibilities:
- SME (Subject Matter Expert) Role.
- Agree with customer and hardware on Sizing details regards SAP ECC- EHP6, BI 7.4, BODS 4.0, OpenText 10.0, HANA 1.0 and Solution Manger 7.1
- Installation of SAP systems and assignment of resources as designed & agreed with the client.
- Setting up Backup/Restore strategy.
- Handover of Document to the relevant point of contact from Client.
- Hardware Sizing
- Co-ordinated with HP for HA configuration for the Production Environment
- Designed Backup solution on HP Unix/Oracle landscape
- Client liaison for requirement gathering and coordinating with functional and technical teams for technical delivery schedule.
- Project coordination off-shore/onsite delivery.
- SAP Basis task allocation distribution owner.
- Direct reporting to PMO’s and project stake holders.
- Designing of SAP Solution for Implementation from Infrastructure End.
- Setup of Solution Manager 7.1 and configuration of Solman, LMDB, connecting Managed Systems.
- Setup EWA, SLD & ITSM on Solution Manager 7.1
- ChaRM Configuration involved, Creating Projects, Maintain ORG Structure, Activating ChaRM, Configure Request for Change, Normal Change, Urgent Change, Change Document, Maintenance Cycle creation & maintenance, Email Notifications, Custom Workflows.
- SAP Solman Security, Technical & Business Role creation and assignment.
- Reports for Incident Management & ChaRM.
- Preparation of SAP systems for GO-Live checks and conducts monthly/weekly analysis of Early watch report.
- SLD configuration and maintaining systems in the landscape
- Installation & Configuration of HANA 1.0 SPS08 with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11.2
- Installation of BW 7.3 on HANA systems.
- Configured SAP Suite on HANA Migration using DMO
- SAP BW 7.0, ECC 6.0 Migration on HANA using DMO
- Configured HANA systems with Solution Manager systems
Confidential, Philadelphia, PA
SAP Basis & Solution Manager Architect
Environment: SAP ECC6.0, PI 7.0
Responsibilities:
- Installation of SAP ECC 6.0, PI for Development and Production Servers
- Post Configuration steps for ECC 6.0 and PI
- Migration of Rental Landscape to Actual Landscape using export import
- Configuring Transport Management System between the landscapes
- Transporting the request from development to Quality and then to Production
- Creating and checking the RFC connections between the systems
- Key role as a Team member in Implementation Project right from the Blue print to Go-live.
- Client Maintenance & Administration. Performing Client Copies, Client Export and Import.
- Applying patches through SPAM transaction.
- Applying support packages through JSPM and SDM for Java Systems
- Working with Config tool and Visual Admin tool
- Upgraded Kernel to Highest patch level
- Applied SAP notes on different systems depending upon requirement
- Created logical systems, RFC connections, and TCP/IP connections to other systems
- IDOC Integration for PI System
Confidential, Saint Louis, MO
Solution Manager Architect
Environment: SAP ECC- EHP4, Portal 7.0, Solution Manger 7.1
Responsibilities:
- Installation of ABAP and Java systems(ECC, Portal, BI, SCM,BW)
- Trouble shoot and performance tuning for ECC, SCM,and BW systems
- Registration of MDM,ECC,SCM,PI,PORTAL and other systems in the System landscape directory
- Client Administration includes creation, copy, deletion, export and import.
- TMS configuration in cluster environments across the landscape
- Importing of ABAP, Java and Business Objects transports
- Implementing of Support packs (ABAP,JAVA) and kernel upgrades
- PI Administration- Cache refresh/Monitoring/Integration engine configuration
- Adding of systems in the landscape, creating the solution and generating Early watch reports.
- Maintenance optimizer configuration.
- Central system monitoring setup and auto email alert notification
- SCOT configuration
- BW administration and trouble shooting
- Creating new databases and users at the database level.
- Background job administration includes creating, deleting, monitoring and trouble shooting.
- Implementing sap notes and troubleshooting ABAP dumps
- Creation of project and Business blue print generation
- Generation of RFC for the satellite systems
- Maintain profile parameters for both abap, Java stacks.
- Working with Config tool, Visual admin and SDM
- Portal transports across the landscape.
- Live Cache installation, Re initialization and trouble shooting.
- Check and analyze failed iDocs in the GTS system
- Backup administration on MS-SQL
- Creating portal users and roles
- Creating users and roles and assign them to the users.
- Configuring the Adapter engine, business systems
- Sizing of the systems across landscape.
Confidential
Associate SAP Basis Consultant
Environment: ECC 6, Solution Manger 7.0
Responsibilities:
- Change request transport, Transport management
- Monitoring Background jobs, re-scheduling, canceling long running jobs
- File system monitoring
- Providing Missing Authorizations to the users
- Spool & print management
- Checking Failed update record & system logs
- Short dump analysis, managing lock entries, lock/unlock transaction codes, displaying and monitoring of Database and Application servers, managing user sessions
- Handling Transports from one System to another System. (DEV, QA & PRD)
- Maintaining of Operation Modes and Profile parameters
- Contribute to the documentation for the various tasks that we perform for daily monitoring
- Trouble shooting and monitoring with printers and system hardware
- Early Watch Analysis for All the production systems for Key customers
- Reporting problems like Startup, Background jobs, updates, System status, work processes, System logs, ABAP dumps, Memory issues.