Summary - SAP Netweaver Expertise (9 Years)

• I have more than 12 years of IT experience and in which I have worked as SAP Basis Admin and SAP Netweaver administrator for 9 years, which includes Installations, upgrades, OS/DB Migrations, system support and security. I have a strong working experience across the full range of SAP technologies, including traditional SAP systems (R/3, ECC and BW ), mySAP Components (SCM and CRM), Netweaver 2004 (Portal), Netweaver 2004s (BI, Portal and Solution Manager) and SAP Netweaver EPH1 (Solman) also done 4 full-cycles design-to-go-live projects and 2 upgrade projects.
• I have around 9 years of experience in administering and installing systems based on SAP Java stack, including deployment of support pack stacks through JSPM and SDM. This also includes Java security aspects including Single Sing-On and responsible for client copies, refresh & exports. I also have expertise in Security Administration in SAP R/3, Portal and SAP Netweaver, mySAP components, including SOX compliance and SO
• mitigation. I also have expertise in designing and configuring SLD.
• In addition to my SAP Basis skills, I also have hands on experience with DB2 (8.2 and 9.5) Oracle DBA (8i, 9i & 10g) installation and configuration, creating and monitoring tablespaces, database tuning with DB parameters, configuring DB backups and testing restores, refresh the test and integration databases from backup tapes and also from Business copy volumes. I am having in depth experience with infrastructure and capacity management and planning, growth forecasting, team lead activities, crisis and disaster recovery planning, and high availability.
• I am also having SAN/Storage administration experience in a tightly controlled Production Data Center environment, including Installation, configuration, maintenance, and monitoring of Brocade/Cisco SAN switches Enabling Host security, zoning, storage planning and Several of EMC Symmetrix, HDS/HP XP arrays
• Hand-On Installation of OS, Configuring for filesystems for applications, providing network and fiber connections, allocating LUNs, configuring volumes with volume manager, DB installation, configuring and performing both FS backup and OnLine DB backup Providing OS support for HP-UX 11i systems and configuring storage provisioning for HP servers and RedHat Linux servers

Skills
SAP:SAP Netweaver EPH1
Enterprise Portal
BI 7.0
EDI
BI IP Security: R/3 4.6 C, 4.7 ext 200
Upgrade from R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0
DB migration from Informix to DB2
Unicode conversion for ECC 6.0
CCMS system monitoring
CEN Configuration
archiving for iXOS

SLD
Portal for BI: NWDI
Web dispatcher
SAP GUI Server
PFCG
SOD
SAP router
High Availability
Disaster Recovery
Printer management

Storage: HDS Hitachi (HP XP )
EMC clariion Symmetrix
Cisco MDS switches
NAS storage
Brocade switches

Operating System: SUN Solaris 8, 10,
SunFire, Enterprise, M5000, M3000, HP-UX Blade servers,
DNS, NIS administration,
Veritas clusters for High availability Disaster Recovery Planning and drill

Database: DB2 8.2, 9.5 Oracle 8, 10G
DB2 Oracle DB administration
Oracle RAC administration

Backup admin: Legato/EMC networker
Data protector DLT tapes
Tape SAN ADIC Quantum

Professional Experience:

SAP Netweaver Technical Architect, Confidential, Apr 2001 - Present

Confidential, North America provides dialysis services to more than 1,500 outpatient dialysis clinics in the U.S. The Products and Hospital Group is responsible for the manufacture and distribution of a variety of dialysis products and equipment, including dialysis machines, dialyzers and other dialysis-related supplies.

• Lead Role for Basis projects
• Worked with complex infrastructure with more than 24 SAP instances and Database size of 4 TB.
• Installation and configuration of ECC 6.0, SAP Netweaver EPH1, Enterprise Portal, SRM and Solman.
• Key team member for Installation of BI 7.0, SAP Solman 7.0 , Upgrade from R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0,
• DB migration from Informix to DB2
• Administrating Unix environment, which also includes configuring the Unix infrastructure for SAP
• Key team member in Unicode conversion for ECC 6.0 system.
• Lead role in SAP solution manager implementation and configuration of Early watch reports, SL reporting, CCMS system monitoring.
• Created workflows and projects for change management.
• Post Configuration such as, Roles and Profiles adjustment, Maintaining HTTP services, Activate the Service Data Control Center (SDCCN) and migration the solutions to the solution directory.
• CEN Configuration and administration ABAP + JAVA.
• Maintained SMSY data.
• Created system landscape in Solution Manager for productive and non productive systems.
• Configuring Solution Manager for Root Cause Analysis.
• Configured archiving for iXOS
• Worked with the functional team to determine which objects/tables to be archived.
• Created and maintained business systems in SLD
• Configured auto replication between SLD so that all SLD will be in sync with the Central SLD.
• Installed and configured SAP Enterprise Portal.
• Configured Portal to communicate with the backend system and even configured SSO (Single Sign-on) in portal to communicate with the backend system.
• Maintained and created new portal roles as per the client requirement.
• Worked effectively with different version of portal for BI.
• Installed and configured SAP Web Dispatcher, one for intranet user and one in the DMZ zone for internet user.
• Upgraded and configured SAP SRM 7.0 system and maintained live cache in the system.
• Designed and Configured NWDI and also integrated it with CHaRM.
• Effectively worked in performance tuning in both Abap and java to increase the response time for end users.
• Installed and supported SAP GUI 710 for the end users.
• Performed daily, weekly, by-weekly, monthly and quarterly monitoring for all the production systems.
• Performed kernel upgrades for both Abap and Java stack.
• Analysis SM21 system log for Abap error and trace log for Java stack errors.
• Analyzing the ST22 short dump daily and applied any OSS notes if necessary for fixing the dump.
• Analyzing SM13 for any updates records with error status.
• Responsible for maintaining roles with authorization objects, generating profiles and transporting them to test and production environments.
• Worked along with the functional teams to set and resolve the authorization objects level data and problem in various modules.
• Designed role based security, based on Segregation of duties (SOD) according to Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance.
• Getting requirements from external audit for identifying critical transaction and streamlining them.
• Troubleshooting authorization problems using su53, st05 and su01 transactions.
• Security upgrades using SU25 and Profile Generator (PFCG). Optimized security roles.
• Maintaining SAP OSS Logons and connection support.
• Configuring SAP router for sap OSS logon.
• Carrying out High Availability testing for production environments.
• Configured SCOT to send mail to external mail server and to send Fax messages.
• Maintained printers using transaction SPAD and also installed new printer to SAP.
• Transporting the request from dev to test and from test to prod servers using tp or STMS transaction and also verifying the transport.

Projects

ECC 6.0 upgrade and Unicode conversion
Database upgrade, Performed all end-to-end activities such as preparing development server, saving the object changes as a single transport, SPDD and SPAU activities, performing ECC Upgrade pre-req tasks such as identifying the customized tablespaces and tables and modifying them, Adjusting STMS from 3 system to single system, upgrading ASU, SPAM upgrade, RTCCTOOL recommended changes, Unicode conversion activities such as SPUMG, PREPARE, adjusting tablespace sizes and creating new tablespaces, performing upgrade tasks, then following with SPUMG consistency check.Target Server Installation for Unicode import which involves allocating storage and create tablespaces, Configuring Distribution Monitor, performing UNICODE Export/Import, and finally configuring Backup. I performed all post Unicode reports and running SGEN. Also reconfiguring STMS and configuring interfaces such as EDI Vertex, then all checking RFC connection and ending with releasing the system to the users. This upgrade involves supporting the modification of roles (SU25) and checking the authorization objects to support the ECC environment.

SAP Netweaver BI Analysis Authorization for Integrated Planning

Creating and maintaining complex business access segregation rules by manually assign and revoke SAP netweaver Business Intelligence roles using variable substitution from Data Store Object table. This project involves changing the existing BW authorization for analysis authorization. Access to InfoProviders restricted using analysis authorization at hierarchy node level. Variable of type customer exit is used for value and hierarchy authorization. Authorization is determined during runtime using custom ABAP code. Authorization dimensions (characteristic or infoobject) may contain values, intervals, etc. Mapping of user to these values will be done in DSO. This project involves in creating new IP reporting roles, planning roles and portal roles. Central management of all authorization objects using RSECADMIN tool, updating the hierarchy using import/export to DSO, troubleshooting user access issues with ST01 trace and SU53 and managing user assignment also performed.

SAP Epedigree (EDI) Implementation

A pedigree is a certified record that contains information about each distribution of a prescription drug. The integration system provider to be used by Confidential, NA to connect to the ePedigree vendor, SupplyScape. The system vendor is Seeburger AG, Bretten, Germany. SAP generated files will be sent to HP-UX server configured with Oracle RAC where Seeburger application picks up and sends it to SupplyScape for epedigree information. The data to be sent will be prepared by internal systems which will be transferred via AS2 application infrastructure in the DMZ to the vendor.

DB2 upgrade from v8.2 to 9.5 and Informix-DB2 migration

I am DB2 certified DBA. My DBA duties includes DB2 installation and configuration, creating and monitoring tablespaces, database tuning with DB2 parameters, configuring DB2 backups and testing restores, refresh the test and integration databases from backup tapes and also from Business copy volumes.

I have played the primary role for DB2 upgrade from v8.2 to 9.5. I have done the activities such as installing the binaries, Installing FixPaks, Migrating the DB2 instance, migrating the DB2 database and performing post-migration activities. Which followed by rebinding the DB2 Packages Installing the DB2 License ,Granting Necessary Rights to use CCMS and finally running the db2_update_db Script. From 9.5 we need to convert Tablespaces to Data Type ”Large” and concluding with running REORG all SAP tables.

The migration project involves migration of the Informix database in SAP environment to DB2 v8.2. This includes Server/OS installation and configuration, Installing the binaries, Installing FixPaks, configuring tablespaces, creating database, bufferpools and tempspaces, performing the export to storage area and then performing import.

Consultant, Confidential, April 2000- March 2001

Client: Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
I was the person responsible for the E3500 Sun Enterprise servers Installation and maintenance, Storage and Sun System Backups.

UNIX System admin,Confidential, Singapore Jan 98- April 2000

2 years working experience as a SUN Network administrator in a Value Added Reseller of 3Com products and major RAS system integrator for the three major ISP’s of Singapore I perform research, design, and architect for new and upgraded remote access technologies.

Education:

• Obtained ERP Graduate Certificate
• MS in Computer science and Engineering
• BS in Electronics and communications Engineering
• DB2 DB administration – Certified DBA
• Oracle DB administration trained
• Certified SUN Solaris Administrator
• CISCO MDS SAN switches trained