SUMMARY

• Over 11 Years of IT experience as SAP Basis and 4 years as SAP HANA Consultant with core strength in all aspects of SAP systems including full life cycle Implementations, Upgrades, Maintenance and Production Support Projects.
• Extensive experience in Installations, Upgrades, Migrations, Configuration, Administration, Troubleshooting and Production Support of various SAP Applications portfolio including mySAP ERP, S/4HANA, SCM, CRM, SRM, Solution Manager, NetWeaver, EP, BI, PI/PO, SAP HANA, BW, GRC, SBOP BI, DS, DQM, APO, MDM, TREX, TPM, MDG, EWM, BPC, SAP ITS on various platform’s.
• Research and provide SAP architecture and implementationstrategy insync with SAP release roadmaps that delivers an efficient and effective platform consistent with SAP best practices and scalable to growing business demands.
• Provide support to multiple SAP landscapes to include ABAP, Java and dual stack systems utilizingstandardizedoperating practices to perform system refreshes, client copies, performance monitoring tuning, OSS note application, backup and restoreof SAP database systems, application proof of concept, capacity planning and capacity management.
• Monitor, analyze, identify and respond to trends in system performance and resource utilization with SAP technology stack, work with the required teams to identify database hardware and network failure scenarios, determine root cause and assist in resolution of issues discovered.
• Prepared Stable solution for SAP HANA Backup Recovery, implemented System Replication and Storage Replication and worked on SAP HANA Tenant DB, Scale Out and High Availability Scenarios.
• SME in E2E Solution Manager Diagnostics (SMD), System Monitoring, System Administration, LMDB, Maintenance Planner, and Change Request Management Configuration’s using SAP Solution Manager.
• Ability to work on activities involved in Plan areas (Sizing, Scoping, Client/Landscape Strategy, HANA High Availability/HANA Disaster Recovery Strategy etc.) of Implementation projects.
• Collaborate across IT groups including with DBA, datacenter, systemadministration, network, functional, development and security teams to assist in driving solutions in Support of all SAP technical operation strategy.
• Define, create, review, update and maintain standard operational procedure documentation relating to SAP application support processes.
• Participate in change control meetings, monthly maintenance meetings and rotational on call support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP TECHNOLOGY: SAP R/3, ERP, S/4HANA, CRM, SCM, SRM, MDM, EWM, BPC, MDG, BW/BI, EP, XI/PI, BOBJ, SBOP DQM, SBOP DS, SBOP IS, GRC, Solution Manager, WAS, Enhancement Packages.

DATABASES: Oracle, HANA, MS SQL Server, MaxDB, DB2 UDB, DB6.

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: BOBJ, IPS, Data Services, Information Steward, Central Configuration Manager, Management Console, Server Manager, Repository Manager, Life Cycle Management, Address Directories.

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Solaris, RHEL, SLES, HP - UX, AIX, Linux, Windows.

PROGRAMMING: C, C++, COBOL, JAVA, VB.

HIGH AVAILABILITY: HANA System Replication, PRIMECLUSTER, MS CLUSTER, Oracle Data Guard.

OS/DB MIGRATION: HP-UX, SUN, AIX, SLES, Windows, Linux, Oracle, MS SQL.

WEB APPLICATIONS: WebDynpro, Tomcat, Web Application Servers, Web Intelligence, JBoss, NetWeaver Application Server, WebSphere, WebLogic.

TOOLS: SUM, SWPM, Quick Sizer, HDBLCM, HWCCT, DMO, HANA Studio, DLM, HANA Cockpit, DATA Guard Broker, Data Federation, WDeploy, CCM, CMS, Upgrade Management, Report Conversion, MIGMON, DISTMON, MIGCHECK, Visual Composer, JSPM, Visual Administrator, ConfigTool, ARIS, BMC APPSight, Wily Introscope, HP QC, Redwood Cronacle, and BR*Tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving, TX

SAP Basis HANA Consultant

Environment: ECC, PI, Solution Manager, Oracle, SUSE, Solaris, Windows, MS SQL, Vertex, eVision.

Responsibilities:

• Assessing the current environment including all the integrations, and participating in discussions with all the stake holders to plan for a successful migration.
• Responsible for FMO Platform design, and designing Architecture for the migration of SAP systems.
• Designed a SAP application migration approach, and fallback strategy for all the DEV, QA and PRD systems.
• Used Solution Manager for E2E monitoring -interfaces, applications, housekeeping tasks, and Guided Administration to avoid manual errors.
• Proactively supporting all the SAP Applications, and Troubleshooting and resolution of the issues meeting the SLA s.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

SAP Basis HANA Consultant

Environment: SAP HANA 1.0 SPS12, DT, DLM, BW/BPC 7.31, ERP 6.0 EhP5, SLT, SUSE 11.

Responsibilities:

• Planned and executed the HANA upgrade to 1.0 SPS12, and implementation of SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering on BW-BPC Landscape with SLT replication from ERP.
• Carried out HANA DT same host deployments for nonproduction systems, and dedicated host deployment for production.
• Implemented the best practices covering sizing, configuration, performance, and troubleshooting aspects of SAP HANA system with dynamic tiering.
• Installed and configured DLM (Data Lifecycle Manager) tool to automate the process by modeling the aging rules on tables to displace aged data to dynamic tiering, and scheduling DLM profiles for continuous displacement of aged data.
• Configured HANA Cockpit for all HANA Operations and administration, and Solution Manager for monitoring and alerting.
• Successfully resolved the issues (DLM relocation errors, Restore failures with DT, eslogs disk space full events, Notnull data relocation) during the process. Our continuous troubleshooting helped SAP Development team to update their Knowledge Base for SAP customer’s reference.

Confidential, Southlake, TX

SAP HANA Enterprise Consultant

Environment: SAP HANA 1.0-2.0 SPS02, BI, SDA, SDI, DLM, DP, XSA, SLT, Dynamic Tiering, Hadoop, AZURE, Fiori, AWS, RHEL 7.X

Responsibilities:

• Delivered Architecture design of the Landscape including the sizing, and hosting all the systems on AWS cloud.
• Responsible for Performance tuning, stabilizing and supporting the ongoing Development to expedite the development and facilitate an enhanced environment to work with.
• Installed Test and Production instances with Production being configured as DR using HANA System Replication across AWS availability zones to facilitate the smooth recoverability in case of Disaster.
• Implemented Dynamic Tiering to facilitate offloading the HOT data to WARM using extended storage with DLM.
• Configured SLT to facilitate the migration of data from source systems to HANA, Performance tuning and optimizing the replication settings and resolving the issues during replication process.
• Performed the conversion Single Tenant to MDC while upgrading the HANA Database from 1.0 SPS12 to 2.0 SPS01.
• Installed the HANA components SDA, WEBIDE, XSA Runtime components and configured the webide to facilitate the Fiori Apps Development and implemented the Repository HANA Roles to ease the migration to upstream systems.
• Developed and deployed Best practices for Upgrades and Updates, Backups and Recoveries, Failover and Fallback, Zero-Downtime for planned maintenance, monitoring and Documentation.
• Installed, Configured, and supported XS Advanced Applications including WebIDE for developing APPS to consume Confidential Airbilling financial reports using Fiori.
• Implemented SSO from BI to HANA and XSA Applications and monitoring with Solarwinds.
• Performed the needed changes in Solution Manager to include the New Systems for all the features like Administration, Monitoring, Alerting, QGM and Change Management.
• Involved in cut-over activities and planning for Go-live.

Confidential, Irving, TX

SAP Basis HANA Administrator

Environment: SAP ERP 6.0 EhP8, SAP ERP 6.0 on HANA, SAP BW 7.5 on HANA, DLM, Dynamic Tiering, SCM 7.x, CRM 7.x, PI 7.1, BW 7.5, DS 4.2, EWM 9.3, Solution manager 7.2, EP, Fiori, Personas, Wily Introscope, Vertex, eVision, Solaris, SLES, Windows Server, Oracle 11g/10g, SQL Server 2010/2012.

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of SAP systems - including Application Logs, interfaces, spool devices, transport and change management, performance analysis and tuning, Roles and Authorizations, kernel updates and support pack/enhancement pack updates, backups and restores, disk space management, failover and disaster recovery.
• Performed the E2E migration of SAP BW 7.3 (Solaris, Oracle 11.3) to SAP BW 7.5 on HANA (SUSE 11, HANA) using SUM DMO option, starting from sizing, after go-live support and product life cycle management in scale-out environment for PRD with 3 worker and 1 standby nodes along with DR setup using system replication.
• Carried out E2E migration of SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6 (Solaris, Oracle 11.3) to SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6 on HANA (SUSE 11, HANA) using SUM DMO option in scale-up environment for PRD with 3 nodes (Primary, Secondary and DR) using system replication with sync in mem and log shipping.
• Implemented best practices for Monitoring, Patching, Upgrades, Backup and Recovery, HA and DR with Near Zero Downtimes for all planned and unplanned downtimes throughout the HANA product life cycle.
• Performed the Installation, Migration and Upgrade of the existing SAP systems to facilitate the Brazil migration by building NFE Landscape on NetWeaver 7.0EhP2, configuring Solution Manager 7.1, Updating PI 7.1 to SP16 and integrating NFE Core application, PI and ERP systems for Inbound and Outbound communications.
• Configured the Fiori Scenarios for Transactional apps, Analytical apps and Fact sheets.
• Solution Manager release upgrade to 7.2 and Configured system for EarlyWatch Alert, CTS+, QGM, SMD, Technical Monitoring, Business Process Monitoring, Service Availability and Job Management.
• Prepared a migration project plan, scaled and proposed the Landscape per the Target hardware and performed the migration of an existing SAP Landscape on Windows/ SQL Server 2008 to a virtualized Solaris 10/ Oracle 10.2 environment as part of Brazil BO migration to NAM.
• Planned and executed the Enhancement package installations for SAP ERP 6.0 SR3 to SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6, CRM 7.0 to CRM 7.0 EhP2, and SCM 7.0 to SCM 7.0 EhP3 with neroZero downtimes.
• Performed Oracle Database 11g Release 2 software installations and Upgraded the Oracle Database 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.3.
• Migrated the DEV eVision 5.3 Database running on 10.2.0.4 to QAS and installed the new spEDI map server standards to facilitate the business needs.
• Upgraded the Vertex QSUT 3.3 to 4.0 and updating the tool with Monthly Updates.
• Implemented DR systems in Irving Center for all primary Production systems running in Great Lakes Datacenter using Oracle Data Guard and, successfully conducted application check drills.
• Implemented centralized system monitoring and integrated to SiteScope for P2 ticket generations on all High priority alerts to the concerned Team.
• Interface and maintain Third party technologies such as Vertex, eVision, OpenFT, Business Objects, Redwood CPS, Wily Introscope.
• Carrying all aspects of technical support for all the SAP and Non-SAP systems in the Landscape including Life cycle management, real-time services, Web services, adapter instances, server groups, central and profiler repositories.
• On-call support during system outages and crisis, with focus on immediate resolution and root-cause analysis (RCA).
• Responsible for the technical organization of projects, task planning, resource management and manage the operational projects without impact on business.

Confidential

SAP HANA Administrator

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP NetWeaver 7.5, SCM 7.0, EWM 9.5, Solution manager 7.2, Fiori, SUSE SLES 12, S/4HANA, MS SQL, Windows.

Responsibilities:

• Performed the installation of S/4HANA OP 1511 and carried out post install activities including initial setup, Client Setup, Fiori Setup and responsible for managing and maintaining them to run optimally, and carried out the Upgrade to 1610.
• Performed the migration of SAP SCM EhP3 (Windows, MS SQL) to SAP SCM EhP3 on HANA (SLES 12, HDB 1.0) using SUM DMO option in scale-up environment for PRD with 2 nodes (Primary and Secondary) using system replication and one node shared for NON-PRD systems.
• Carried out S/4HANA upgrade from .
• Responsible for all Basis activities.

Confidential

Senior SAP Basis HANA Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, CRM 7.0, SCM 7.0, BI 7.0, EP, Solution manager 7.2, SUSE SLES 12, S/4HANA, ASE.

Responsibilities:

• Performed the upgrade of the EWM landscape to 9.3 along with SCM and NetWeaver components.
• Carried out planning and performed the migration of Business suites systems from ASE 16 to HANA.
• Performed the Solution Manager upgrade to 7.2 and migrated the required configurations to facilitate Central Monitoring and Diagnostics.
• Successfully analyzed and resolved technical problems during Cut-over and after Go-Live and attained customer success.
• Better tuned the systems to attain the performance to make the SAP system run more reliably and efficiently.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

SAP Basis Administrator

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C / 4.7 EE, NetWeaver 7.0, SAP ECC 6.0, CRM 5.0, EP 7.0, BI 7.0, Solution manager EhP1, Wily Introscope, Linux RH 4.7 R4, Windows Server, Oracle.

Responsibilities:

• Built the Solution Manager 7.0 Ehp1 for the Global Implementation and performed all the Initial, Basic and Managerial Expert Guided Configuration within Solution Manager for its Functionalities (EWA, Solution Monitoring, System Administration, Diagnostics and Change Management).
• Provided tangible details for road mapping the implementation of Solution Manager Functionality including time estimates, tasks involved, and resource requirements.
• Implemented the central SLD on Solution Manager and integrated all systems in the landscape to central SLD to ease the product life cycle management.
• Technical core activities including SAP software installation, Upgrades, applying Support Packages, and Installation of add-on software components.
• Performed Kernel upgrades and Support pack stack upgrade for SAP ERP 6.0, EP 7.0 and BI 7.0.
• Developed and Tested Backup Strategy involving daily and weekly backups for recovery and to Minimize System Downtime.
• Migrated the production Jobs from Maestro to SAP Central Process Scheduling 8.0 by Redwood and patching the CPS.
• Mapped Solution Manager Functionality and tactically align it with the company landscape and the program lifecycle.
• Implemented Solution Manager Diagnostics for all the Production and Non-Production Instances.
• Implemented the Central system administration for all the satellite systems with customizations involving system specific transactions to ease the Daily monitoring for administrators with automatic Daily report generation.
• SAP Basis Administration in a proactive and reactive mode to ensure that the systems perform within the terms of their respective service level agreements. Collaborate and coordinate with IT Infrastructure & Operations Team to provide seamless system and network support of SAP solution.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

SAP Basis Administrator

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C / 4.7 EE, NetWeaver 7.0, SAP ECC 6.0, CRM 5.0, SCM 5.0, EP 7.0/6.0, PI 7.0, BI 7.0, Solution manager EhP1/7.0, SAP Web Application Server 6.40, ITS 6.x, Wily Introscope, GRC, HP-UX, AIX, Windows Server, Oracle, DB2.

Responsibilities:

• Carried out the necessary Project Administration, Business Blueprint and Implementation tasks for BT Global Implementation in Solution Manager.
• Responsible for managing the functional aspects of the SAP Solution Manager toolset, including ARIS, HP Quality Center, to support the global implementation of BT.
• Assist during the developing and setup of the Scenarios and Business Process structure in Business Blueprint also configured the BPM.
• Responsible for setting up the SolMan for the Implementation project as a document repository for configuration related deliverables (including documentation templates).
• Implement & Test Procedures for various maintenance activities like Upgrades, Database copy /refresh, Support pack stacks, Add-ons installations and interfaces
• Configured the E2E Root Cause Analysis and Service Desk within Solution Manager for BT (SAP ECC, NetWeaver 2004s, XI, BI, and EP).
• Provided in detail an implementation strategy for Service Desk and Change Request Management (ChaRM) and configured the approval workflow for change for the BT landscape.
• Used ChaRM to manage changes for an implementation project from the planning phases to the physical deployment of those changes within the BT landscape.
• Monitoring of SAP ABAP and JAVA instances using various monitoring tools CCMS Alert Monitoring, Wily Introscope, NWA, and Visual Administrator.
• Configured Output Devices, Spool Management activities, Authorizations of spool services and troubleshooting.
• Identify, generate material, conduct training sessions and drive communications to user community.
• Review of Security Policy and procedures of the Implementation and ensure that security policies and guidelines are followed on toolset as well as controls and approvals in order to comply with internal audit Sarbanes-Oxley reporting requirements.