TIKKANA S. AKURATI

Ph: 847-***-**** t i kkana@yahoo. com

Summary of Experience

** ***** ** ************** ** SAP Upgrades/Unicode Conversions and OS/DB migrations.(SAP OS/DB Migration Certified).

18 years of experience in design, architecture and implementation of ERP software. (SAP Basis certified). 21 years of IT experience in SAP R/3 Basis, Unix, Database and Networks Administrations In Manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, financial, chemical, educational, commercial and public sectors. White papers

The Inevitable Unicode Project

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/the-inevitable-unicode-project-12355 SAP SDN Blogs

Export from multiple source databases to speed up migration or Unicode Conversion http://scn.sap.com/community/erp/60-upgrade/blog/2015/10/12/export-from-two-source-databases-to-speed- up-migration

Combined Upgrade and Unicode Conversion (CU&UC) Cutover Project Plan Execution https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/13264 Daylight Saving Time and Slowing Down The Time

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/16918 What should you know about Unicode Conversion when you plan for SAP Upgrade Projects? http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/17222 Work Experience

Upgrade & OS/DB Migration Architect 3/12 – Present Astellas US Pharma LLC, Northbrook, IL

Upgrade and migrate from Solaris 10 / Oracle 10g to RHEL 5.9 / Oracle 11g: ECC 5.0 to ERP6.0EHP5SPS7, SRM 5.0 to SRM7.02 SPS10, Solution manager 7.0 / 7.1, BI 7.0 BI_CONT 703 to 706. Install Content server 640, NW Portal 6.0, NWDI 5.0 to 7.3, T-Rex 7.1, GRC(Virsa), Vertex 6.0 (also bring old systems tax rules and history),

Act as Client's Basis Manager to oversee, provide direction and manage SAP partner consultants to ensure quality delivery of upgrades and migrations within timelines . Fine tuned cutover plans, resolved technical issues, upgraded 3rd party tools & Addons (RWD,Veritas,MSAF,BI-CONT) and ensured coordination and precise technical requirements specifications. Worked with Astellas IT and QA departments, Upgrade Integration Partner and Astellas Hosting partner and develop the detailed steps involved for OS migration, Database upgrade and SAP Application suite upgrade . Identified Risks and created mitigation plans. Reduced 20 hr migration to 4hr duration. OS/DB Migration Specialist 8/1/11 – 2/12

Shire Pharmaceuticals, Wayne, PA

OS/DB Migration of 10 SAP landscapes (ERP, BW, SRM, SCM with liveCache, PI, Solution Manager with GRC, Content Server. SAP WebConsole) from AIX 5.3 /Oracle 9 and 10 /Windows 2000 to SuSe Linux SLES 9/ SLES 10/ Oracle /Windows 2008. Migrate from IBM Data Center to HCL datacenters at NewJersey and SunGard, Philadelphia. Used SAP tools like SAPinst, Migration monitor, Tablesplitter and package splitter for export and import. Designed and configured CTS to support landscapes in two different data centers during the migration activities. Prepared Pharmaceutical company's required IQ (Installation qualifications) documentation of migration steps. Helped datacenter architecture team to design new target data centers architecture to support SAP environments. Presented optimum methods and alignment/sequencing of migration cutover tasks to reduce Tikkana S Akurati 2 of 8

downtimes. Configured solution manager for license, support pack management, maintenance and monitoring of new migrated systems in the new data center.

OS/DB Migration Specialist (for IBM) 5/11 – 7/11

Warnaco, Inc, Milford, CT

Migration of SAP ERP60 on Sparc Solaris, Oracle (Single Code page, Non-Unicode) at HP Data Center, Austin, TX to IBM Power i5/OS/DB2 (Unicode) at Milford, CT. Production database size is about 1.5TB and development 150GB. Simplified the migration methodology and steps for the complete landscape (DEV/QA/PRD) using automated FTP with Migmon to export and import. Resolved issues with nametab inconsistencies in Dev for a successful Unicode conversion and migration.

Sony Corporation of America, Park Ridge, NJ

OS/DB Migration of ECC, BI, EP, SM, NW E-Commerce, PI, TREX landscapes from HP PA-RISC, HP-UX & Linux/ Oracle 10g at Braircliff Data Center to IBM Hardware on AIX 6.1 & Redhat 5.5 Linux / Oracle 11g at data center in Culpeper,VA. Helped prepare project plan with resources, effort and downtime estimations, planned CTS during migration, give pros and cons for export dump files transfer methods, prepared build documents for file systems, users, user groups and permissions and NFS.

OS/DB Migration Specialist 2/ 11 – 8/11

Hospira, LakeForest, IL

OS/DB Migration of Orchid, India company's AIX / Oracle systems to Hospira, USA company's Solaris / Oracle running SAP ERP 600. Prepared cutover plan with resources, effort estimations and downtime window planning and coordination. Followed Software Quality Assurance (SQA) change control requirements to standup for FDA audit with proper forms, testing and execution. Supported the migrated systems with new user creations, setting up security controls and applying support packs. Configured new systems and landscapes into Solution manager. Applied Support pack stack upgrades for Solution Manager 7.01 SPS26 to SPS27. CUUC (Combined Upgrade & Unicode Conversion) Specialist 1/24/2011 - 5/6/11 Spansion, Sunnyvale, CA

Eliminated multiple downtimes and reduced downtimes of projects of CUUC for ERP 4.6C sp49 to ERP60EHP4SP6 on NW701(Windows 2003) and CRM 4.0 / SQL Server 2005 (Windows 2003) to CRM 7.0 / SQL Server 2008(Windows 2008). Lead the Mock runs proving the downtime requirements (Upgrade - 11 hrs Unicode conversion 12 hrs. Reduced from previous cycles with 72hrs). Trained Japanese language speaking personnel to perform Language/ Vocabulary work in SPUM4 and SUMG for MDMP. Designed and executed OS/DB migration tools, distribution monitor for Unicode conversion (export and import using 4 servers) to minimize downtime; Performed upgrade steps and troubleshoot issues and provide issue avoidance methods. Design cutover plan with all technical steps, resources and effort estimates to achieve minimal downtime. Oracle DBA and SAP Basis Specialist 10/4/2010 - 12/31/10 All State Insurance, Northbrook, IL

Trained Oracle DBAs in using SAP tools, transactions and methods of Oracle Database Administration in SAP environments. Helped establish standards in tablespace management, tables/ views creations/ modifications. Provided information for Oracle 11g upgrades requirements and test cycle environment setup. Troubleshot performance issues through SQL Analysis and SAP monitoring in credit card encryption programs and insurance balance reports. Resolved listener issues in Java instance installations in Oracle RAC environment. TUUC (Twin Upgrade and Unicode Conversion) Specialist 5/1/2010 - 11/27/10 Micron Technology, Inc, Boise, ID

Upgrade and Unicode covert into new hardware environment from SAP Enterprise 4.7x110 SP50 to ERP6.0EHP4 NW7.01 SPS6. The production system was of more than 5TB size. Upgraded in 8hrs and Unicode converted in 13hrs using two source database servers, four application servers using Distribution Monitor, Table Splitter, WHR splitter, Package Splitter, OrderBy technique and many performance optimizations on Oracle and Solaris 10. Completed the entire landscape (Dev, QA, three mock runs and Production) in under six months using TUUC (Twin Upgrade and Tikkana S Akurati 3 of 8

Unicode Conversion) methodology. Provided input (resource and effort estimates) for all the technical steps with proper sequence for designing and efficient cutover plan to achieve minimal downtime. OS/DB Migration and Unicode Conversion Specialist 2/1/2010 - 6/12/10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA OS/DB Migrations of SAP ERP6.0 EHP4 systems on Solaris/Oracle to Linux/Oracle along with Unicode Conversion. Reduced downtime to 8hrs for a Terabyte production system. Provided a sample and modified cut-over plan to reduce downtime. Employed Migration tools like Distribution Monitor, Package splitter, Table splitter using two Linux servers performing parallel export and import. The landscape was in tightly secured Kerboros environment. CUUC Unicode Conversion Specialist 6/26/09 – 9/30/09 Briggs & Stratton, Milwaukee, WI

Dual Stack Upgrade and Unicode Conversion (CU&UC) project from ECC50 to ERP60SR3. Reduced 115hrs of Unicode conversion to less than 34hrs duration of 2TB system with some very large tables. Used distribution monitor, table splitter, package splitter and Oracle tuning to perform parallel export and import for Unicode conversion. Provided post GoLive production support . Presented the success story at WI ASUG chapter on 9/18/09. Upgrade & Unicode Conversion Specialist 10/ 16/08 – 8/1/09 Hospira, LakeForest, IL

Upgrade and Unicode conversions of Enterprise 4.7SR1 single code page landscape to ECC60SR3 Unicode using CU&UC

(Combined Upgrade and Unicode) process to meet go live window of 48hrs using SAP Unicode tools like Distribution Monitor (DistMon), Migration Monitor(Migmon), Table Splitter, Where_Splitter, Package_Splitter, OrderBy Technique and Oracle export/import tuning. Also upgraded Oracle 9 to 10g to allow for SAP upgrade. Unicode Conversion Specialist 9/2/08 – 12/19/08

Wyeth, Malvern, PA

Performed Unicode conversions of SRM5.5 based on NW70 SP11 single code page systems. Used SAP Unicode tools like DistMon, Migmon, Table Splitter, Where Splitter, Package Splitter and Orderby techniques. Installed Chinese languages (Traditional and Simplified Chinese). Troubleshot issues with duplicate records during Unicode import. Installed Java Stack and LAC (Live Auction Cockpit). Upgrade & Unicode Conversion (CU&UC) Specialist 1/28/08 – 5/16/08 Reichhold, Raleigh, NC

Combined Upgrade and Unicode converted 4.6C(Basis 52, HR 111), MDMP systems to ECC60SR2 based on NW70 (Basis 13, SAP_HR 24). Managed other teams to deliver UCCHECK, SPDD, SPAU, adopt new security roles and Vocabulary adjustments on a timely fashion. Created and tracked project plan and disk/ server resource requirements plan by dates. Designed parallel landscape schema to minimize impact on production support. Used SAP Unicode tools DistMon, Migmon, Table Splitter, Where Splitter, Package Splitter and Orderby techniques. Unicode Conversion Specialist 9/19/07 – 4/30/08

Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH

Completed both single code page systems and MDMP systems Unicode conversions using SAP Unicode tools like Migmon, Table Splitter, Where Splitter, Package Splitter and Orderby techniques. Converted source systems on releases 46C, 470, ECC50 to ECC60 Unicode. Optimized conversion times to lower downtimes. CUUC - Unicode Conversion Specialist 7/10/07– 11/12/07 Bristol Myer Squibb, Princeton, NJ

Completed Unicode conversion of ECC60 (NW70SR2 Basis SP12) Development system using DistMon, MigMon, MigTime, OrderBy on HP-UX/ Oracle using Linux on x86_64 app servers. Upgrade and Unicode conversion of copy of production system (6TB) using Combined Upgrade and Unicode method- from 4.6C to ECC60. Performed Unicode preparation steps, language scans, guide language team to perform vocabulary language assignment work, prepare Unicode conversion project plan and guided Basis team on involved tasks. Provided technical support to successfully upgrade from SCM 3.0A to SCM 5.0 SR2.

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Upgrade Specialist 2/18/07 – 8/10/07

Hospira, Lincolnshire, IL

Upgrade SCM 4.0 to SCM5.0SR2 and Oracle 9 to 10g. Upgrade Live Cache 7.4.3 to 7.6.01 based on MaxDB and Optimizer 4.1 to SCM 5.0 SR2 with NW2004s 7.00 kernel. Support parallel landscape for production support along with the upgrade project. Assist functional teams perform upgrade testing and validation. Created overall project plan and cut-over plan. Resolve post upgrade issues and merge production support and upgrade landscapes. Troubleshoot and track User Acceptance Test (UAT) scripts and related issues. Created and tracked project plan for overall project and cut-over plans.

Unicode Conversion Specialist 2/15/07 – 6/22/07

Air Products, Allentown, PA

Converted HR systems from ECC50 SP18, SQL server 2000 on 32-bit Windows Server 2003 to Unicode 64-bit SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2003. Provide post go-live support. Unicode Conversion Expert 11/27/06 – 2/1/07

Nortel, Raleigh, NC

Worked for SAP AGS (Active Global Support) to de-escalate Unicode conversion downtime issues. Performance tuned Upgrade and Unicode conversions. Reduced the Unicode export/ import downtime to 12 hrs from the original 60 hrs. Provided and executed Unicode conversions as subject matter expert. Fine tuned Unicode conversion procedures for reduced durations for export and import using distribution monitor, Table Splitter, Package Splitter, OrderBy tools and language scans. Re-layout different tasks to happen in parallel for best utilization and reduced overall down time. System information: 4.6C upgrade to ECC50 upgrade (Basis SP15 MDMP with 4 active code pages) convert to Unicode on HP-UX B.11, Oracle 9.2.x – 1 TB DB space.

Unicode Conversion Expert 11/20/06 – 12/15/06

Auto Desk, Inc, San Rafael, CA

Worked for SAP Consulting to provide Unicode Conversion expertise for QA, staging and production systems. Used distribution monitor, Table Splitter, Package Splitter, OrderBy tools to minimize downtime for export and import. System information: ECC50 SR1 Basis SP 13, MDMP with 6 code pages, Solaris, Oracle 9.2.x- 1.5 TB used DB space. Upgrade Specialist 8/06 – 12/06

Komatsu America Corp, Rolling Meadows, IL

Upgraded 4.7x200 DB2 AIX to ECC60. Made SPDD adjustments for the customer during the upgrade. Provided direction to customer ABAP team on how to handle SPAU. Provided Hardware requirements and install Solution Manager 4.0. Helped install SAPRouter.

Unicode Conversion Expert 6/06 – 12/1/06

Celanese Chemicals, Dallas, TX

Worked for SAP Consulting to OS/DB Migrate and Unicode convert BW350 SAP_Basis SAPKB64014 Single code page to Unicode.(HP PARISC -> IA64 Platform) Converted Enterprise 4.7x110 SAP_BASIS SAPKB62050 MDMP (Development- 200GB and QA-2TB) to Unicode. Exported the source non-Unicode instances from HP-UX PARISC to target IA64 servers during Unicode conversion, thus saving additional efforts of hardware migration. Used the latest tools DistMon, MigMon, MigTime, Table-Splitter and Java-Splitter obtained from SAP Germany Assisted customer Unicode team in mapping vocabulary to correct codepage/ language in SPUMG (pre-conversion) and SUMG (post-conversion) steps. Resolved issues with interfaces between Unicode and other non-unicode systems. Provided cut-over project plan for Production Unicode conversion. Tracked UAT issues and followed up on solutions. Upgrade and Unicode Lead 5/31/05 – 5/26/06

Hospira, Lincolnshire, IL

Successfully completed upgrades of complete R/3 landscape from 4.6C to mySAP ERP 2004 (ECC50). Performed Unicode conversions (from ECC50-SAP_BASIS SAPKB64013) using parallel export/ import method, MigMon, MigTime, Java-Splitter and Order-By to reduce downtime. Project involved 8 cycles spanning all systems in the landscape. The go-lives of upgrade and Unicode conversion were 1 week apart. Completed the combined project (both Upgrade and Unicode conversion) in record 8 months time. The landscape is on Oracle 9.2.0.6 and Solaris 9 with interconnections to BW, APO and many 3rd party interfaces like IRM, BSI, Vertex, Topcall, Delphi, Mercator etc.,. Prepared documentation Tikkana S Akurati 5 of 8

confirming to the pharmaceutical industry requirements. Prepared and tracked Upgrade / Unicode project plans. Closely worked with development and functional teams in SPDD/ SPAU adjustments and Upgrade/Unicode testing. Provided post upgrade and Unicode conversion go-live support. Helped Hospira transition into the new ECC50 release in terms of new functionality, new architecture, changes in security and new transactions. Performed upgrade of HR system from 4.7x110 (SAP_BASIS SAPKB62057) to ECC50 (SAP_BASIS SAPKB64016) and Unicode conversion using parallel export/import method, MigMon, Java-Splitter and Order-By to reduce downtime. Installed Solution manager 3.2 and Reverse Business Engineer (RBE) 2.0 for the upgrade project. Installed Solution Manager 4.0 based on Oracle 10.2.0.2.0, NW2004s SR1 Kernel 7.00 Unicode. Installed J2EE, Solution Manager 40 in Distributed System environment. Configured SLD version 7.0006 using UME (User Management Engine) and J2EE visual admin.

Provided production support of ECC50 (Unicode), BW 3.5(Unicode), APO-SCM4.0, HR on 4.7x110, Portals and ESS/MSS systems.

Sr. Basis & Technology Lead 1/01 – 4/05

SAP Practice, UNiSYS Corporation

Subject matter expert and senior technology and SAP Basis lead for the ERP Practice. Technology expert in design and deployment of SAP products. Enterprise hardware sizing of servers, storage and networks for SAP environments. SAP Basis Technical Lead for full life cycle SAP implementation projects and production outsourcing contracts. Major clients with full life cycle SAP implementations are: SSHE (State System of Higher Education), Harrisburg, PA, NJSEA (New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority), New Jersey GSA (General Services Administration), Reston, VA

Responsibilities and accomplishments:

Technical lead for a multi phase project that brought 14 schools in the Pennsylvania state under SAP R/3 systems running 4.6C with HR-PS, IS-PS add-ons, ITS 6.2, BSI 6.0 running on SUN Solaris 8.0 – 64 bit operating systems with Oracle 9.x databases.

Responsible for architecture design, sizing, implementation and deployment. Setup the architecture from ground up in a new project location.

Deployed Veritas cluster 3.5 High Availability solutions in Solaris8, Oracle 8.1.7 and SAP environment Provided SAP Basis Technical Support to large project teams in development, quality assurance, production and training environments.

Designed and deployed multi landscapes for ongoing project and production support. Designed SAP network architectures.

Did performance tuning and supported the entire SAP landscape post Go-live and ensured response times below the contractual goals.

Designed and installed parallel landscapes for supporting multi-phases of the project. Designed and installed training environments on SUN V880 servers providing a training path for over 1100 end users at multiple locations.

Performed system and stress tests and fine-tuned systems for sub second response times. Established procedures for day-to-day project technical support like SAP note fixes, transports, hotpacks, system copies etc.,

Prepared SAP system landscape design laying out client and transport strategies. Coached functional teams on the strategies for mutual understanding of the policies and procedures for smooth operation of the project. Configured Advanced STMS for better control over transport and client strategy procedures. Designed a 4 tier SAP security/authorization scheme. Conducted several “knowledge transfer” sessions to customer IT personnel coaching them for day-to-day activities as appropriate.

Drafted customer maintenance procedures (operator run books, help desk procedures etc Provided direction to the customer IT staff with regards to the help desk management, systems monitoring, trouble ticket management and routine systems health checks. Capacity planning and installations of Enterprise R/3 and BW 3.1. Upgraded SAP R/3 4.6C environment to SAP Enterprise 4.7. Tikkana S Akurati 6 of 8

Developed a Unisys upgrade package consisting of a model upgrade project plan, upgrade assessment questionnaires and test upgrade procedures.

Designed and deployed enterprise storage resources with EMC and SAN. Implemented Microsoft high availability solution for NT and SQL Server. Stress tests lead for load and performance testing of complete SAP ERP environment with BW,CRM, R/3, Portals and Cfolders.

Installed new dimension products - BW3.5 and EP 6.0 and Web AS 6.40. Instructed ADM102 training content (SAP Web AS Administration II) to customers. Senior SAP BASIS Technical Consultant

New York Life Insurance, NY 4/1999 – 12/2000

Basis team lead for the database group in implementing SAP R/3. Configured automated CCMS Alerts and automatic email notifications for production systems. Configured different threshold values, severity and generation frequency values for MTE (Monitoring Tree Elements). Prepared “Run book” for R/3 monitoring for operators. Did installations, upgrades, hot -pack fixes, br tools & kernel upgrades of Sandbox, DEV, QA, PROD, BW2.0A, IDES and B2B systems starting from R/3 4.0A to 4.6B in Solaris 2.6, EMC, Veritas 3.3.2 and NT environments with R/3 add-ons Mercury, Tivoli and BugsEye. Installed and interfaced R/3 with 3rd party software Taxware 3.12 & Remit, setup R/3 backup/disaster recovery using Maestro. Handled Basis related tasks – client copies, client strategies, CTS/TMS, SAP printers architecture design and setups.

SAP Basis Technical Consultant

SAP America, Parsippany, NJ 5/ 1997 – 9/ 1998

Chanel, Piscataway, NJ (Through SAP America, Parsippany, NJ) SAP Basis consultant - lead customer through SAP implementation. Hewlett Packard, Wilmington, DE (Through SAP America Inc.) Supported complete implementation cycle as the Basis consultant from SAP America. Dealt with Performance & Tuning, Stress test, Go-live tasks, Hot-packs, CTS and Insite, ALE & Background job scheduling, front-end distribution planning, client copies, high availability setup, setup CCMS (op-modes, profiles, alerts) and transports of large Production client using R3chop. Worked closely with Early-watch, Go live and OSS teams throughout implementation. Royal China Porcelain, Moorestown, NJ(Through SAP America Inc.) Performance and tuning, DB copies, DB reorganizations, Backup procedures and disaster recovery procedures, DB access to use 3rd party reporting tools.

Installed R/3 on new system (RS6000- F50, AIX) by Informix DB copy method, Hot-packages, upgraded to 3.1H Kernel, configured CTS, operation modes, and disaster recovery procedures. Defined authorization profiles, R/3, UNIX & Database security, configured SAProuter. Special Assignments:

Brother Industries Ltd, NJ 1999

Upgrade planning and disaster recovery testing:

Helped on site Basis team provide production support. Examined disaster recovery procedures. Provided project plan for upgrade from R/3 3.0E to R/3 4.0B. Examined system architecture to reduce database server load. Troubleshoot CTS problems.

Honey Baked Ham, Atlanta, GA 1998

Build Production: Performed stress tests, supported go-live tasks, resolved CTS issues. Built production instance. Compared clients between across systems. Applied several notes, advanced corrections, hotpacks and kernel patches. Lladro, Moonachie,NJ 1998

Build new landscape: Build USA local systems through R/3 homogeneous system copy of DEV in Spain using tape backup. Changed SID names and setup CTS for the new landscape. Created secure authorization profiles for implementation team with proper restrictions in CTS. Tikkana S Akurati 7 of 8

Elf Lubricants, Linden, NJ (SAP America, Parsippany, NJ) 1998 Upgrade project: Upgraded Development system from SAP R/3.0D to 3.1I on Digital Unix 3.2G & Oracle 7.2.3. Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer), Princeton, NJ (SAP America, Parsippany, NJ) 1998 Build QA and PRD systems: Built Consolidation and delivery systems based on HP-UX/Oracle, developed scripts to automate backups, install SAProuter, R/3 license, RFC between systems, IMG & word. Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ (SAP America, Parsippany, NJ) 1997 Install ITS: Installed Internet Transaction Server (ITS); HP-UX, R/3 and Oracle tuning issues. SAP Basis Instructor (SAP America, Parsippany, NJ) (different dates during 1998) Instructed Basis courses in SAP training centers at Philadelphia, St. Louis, Atlanta, Dallas and Foster City. Courses - PABC91 (Installation & Upgrades), BC361 (Technical Core competence), BC305 (Advanced R/3 system Administration), BC040 (R/3 system management), SAP040 and SAP050 (Technical Architecture). Senior UNIX systems Administrator (Consultant) 4/1994 - 5/1997 TELCOM, Inc

St. Paul Re, New York, NY

HP-UX System administration tasks for development and production teams on K and T series servers hosting Sybase/Power Builder client-server products in USA & Singapore. Dow Jones/Telerate, Jersey City, NJ

Provided UNIX systems and Network administration to Systems Integration and Testing Groups Maintained testing and integration environments, designed TCP/IP networks and sub-networks consisting of 55 HP servers, SUN Sparc servers, Bay Networks routers, Xyplex PPP terminal servers. Installed and configured HP OpenView and Bay Networks Optivity, HP performance products - GlancePlus, PerfView; Handled HP to SUN interoperability issues. SIAC(Securities Industry Automation Corporation), Brooklyn, NY Designed TCP/ IP networks, configured and maintained HP-UX servers for production and development teams utilizing stock exchange and communications applications feeding stock market data. Installed HP OpenView,Net Manager, and XOPS touch screen software for stock trading applications. Technology Leader/ Senior Unix Systems Administrator 2/1993 - 4/1994 LK Global International, Voorhees, NJ

Implement ERP software solutions for manufacturing clients on UNIX Systems (HP, SUN, AIX, SCO, and Unisys) using TCP/IP and NOVELL networks. Provide ERP administration support to customers and in-house project teams. Clientele included companies like Agrifab, Alumax, Coates, CpClare, Keystone, PennVent, Rheem, Yamaha and Okidata.

Setup and designed INTRANET on an HP-UX server.

UNIX Systems Administrator (Full time) 6/1991 - 2/1993 Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Penn, Philadelphia, PA SUN Solaris Unix systems administrator- Hardware sizing, installations of OS, manage e-mail servers, Internet access, large-scale databases and statistical work for various projects. Lead software projects supporting statistical clinical studies. Programmer (Consultant) 9/ 1990 – 6/ 1991

TIPPS, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Developed a Hospital Management Information System for patient registration, appointment scheduling, treatment, monthly & quarterly reports, graphs & statistical analysis using FoxPro, FoxGraph, SQL and SAS. Best Info Company, King of Prussia, PA

Developed a resource enhancer in C language to help translate applications from English to other languages. Tikkana S Akurati 8 of 8

Philadelphia Cultural Council, PA

Computerized cultural council activities. Developed membership management software using dBase and FoxPro, providing membership maintenance, billing and easy mailing capabilities through label printing and complex selection criteria of its members and non-members.

Lead Computerization Architect (Full time) 9/1987 - 1/1990 Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, India

Primarily involved in the identification, feasibility, design, and operability phases of computerization projects. Developed Material Information and Invoice System (MIIS). Computer Expertise

Operating Systems Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, SCO, LINUX, Unisys, BSD and MSWindows. Hardware SUN and HP servers, routers, Port/Terminal servers Programming ABAP, Shell programming -- Bourne, C, Korn, PERL; C++, C, Pascal, SQL, FoxPro, VisualBasic, PowerBuilder, SAS, HTML, ASP.

Databases Oracle, MS SQL Server.

SAP R/3 from 3.0E to ECC60

Networks & Other TCP/IP, FTP, NFS, Citrix, PuTTY, eXceed, Topcall, VsiFAX, CYGWIN Certifications

OS/DB Migration Certification

SAP R/3 Basis Administration

Solaris 8 Unix Systems Administration

Certified Project Manager (6 week program by Unisys) Education

Master of Science, Computer & Information Sciences Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 01/1990 - 12/1991 Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering College of Engineering, Osmania University, India 08/1983 - 08/1987 Professional Training Courses

SAP R/3 BASIS Certification (Unix/Oracle) 3 Months Solaris 8 System Admin Certification 2 Weeks

BW360 Performance and Administration 1 Week

Veritas Cluster 3.5 for Solaris 1 Week

SAP 4.x Installation, upgrade & administration 2 Weeks ASAP Methodology 1 Week

R/3 ALE/IDOC class 3 days

Router Configuration and Management 2 Weeks

Oracle DBA 3 Weeks

Oracle 8 backup & recovery 1 week

Informix Database Administration 1 week

Project Management (PMP certification) 6 weeks

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