Shashikanth

Certified SAP Basis Consultant Edison NJ

Profile

Senior SAP Basis with business/technology acumen in Enterprise, Solution and Applications architecture.

Over 11 years of industry experience [Energy, Manufacturing, Petro Chemicals, Consumer Goods and Pharmaceuticals] including 4 SAP Go-Live Full Life cycle implementations and Support as Solution/Technical Architect providing Design, Sizing, installation, configuration, upgrade and realization of SAP systems

Certified SAP Technology Consultant SAP NetWeaver ‘04 Exchange Infrastructure and Integration 7.0

Proficient in Implementations, Upgrades, Migrations, and Support of SAP R/3 4.X,SAP NW04, NW7.0x, NW7.1x & NW7.31 Components like Portal, PI, BW/BI, ECC/ERP, SRM, CRM, Solution Manager 7.01/7.1, HANA,CRM,EP,SCM,BOBI,BODS,TDMS.

Cutover tasks for 4 major Role outs in Johnson & Johnson

Go-Live Analysis Session and provided hyper care support after go-live and Documentation of all technical activities performed as per client’s business processes.

Proficient in assortment of technologies - SAP NW Systems (ABAP, Java and dual Stacks), HANA, Oracle DB, MS SQL Server, Windows, AIX, Linux and HP-UX servers.

Eleven years specializing in SAP Netweaver systems on multiple databases on Various OS platforms and over four years as a Tech Lead in SAP projects onsite involving implementations and Support.

HANA Administration Experience of 1 year : Monitoring HANA Database, install and upgrade of HANA Database, SLT Replication and Backup/Recovery

Strong experience on SAP NW Java stack systems (Portal,PI,NWDI) – installation, configuration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, SSO authentication, SSL configuration and updating third party certificates

Strong 2 years experience in SLT Configuration and Administration and BODS Administration for DATALOADS

Over 3 years of experience on upgrade and migration (homogeneous and heterogeneous) of SAP ABAP and Java stack systems (Enterprise portals, ECC, CRM)

Technical Skills

Technologies: HANA SP8, SAP BW 7.4/7.3/7.0/3.x, SAP ECC 6.0 EPH 7, SAP EP 7.3/7.1/7.0, CRM 7.0, SRM 7.0, Solution Manager 7.1 SP8, PI 7.31,BODS, SAP SLT and

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, SAP HANA

OS Platforms: Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Red hat /SUSE Linux 11.2

Tools: HPALM,Solution Manager,

App/Web Servers: SAP WAS, Microsoft Share Point Portals

Others: Service Manager, Clarity, MS Project, MS Office, Visio, HPQC, Remedy, ITSM,

Leadership Skills

Worked as a Team Lead and SPOC (Single point of contact) in a various projects in India as well as at USA, working with client and project team.

Lead the team for major implantation projects and Responsible for end to end SAP Project deliverables like Planning, Building, Cutover,Hyper care tasks and Post Go live tasks

Worked as transition Lead for JNJ Project and took transition of several SAP landscapes.

Worked as a lead for Production support for EMEA region and provided robust 24/7 support.

Responsible for planning maintenance activities

Responsible for End to End implementation of any new requirements from the business like integration tasks, new project builds,cleint copies, system copy etc.

Worked as a cutover lead for major role outs

Responsible for creation of SAP Work Instructions and providing knowledge sharing sessions for all the team members

Knowledge in ITIL concepts such as incident management, problem management, changes management.

Worked with business owners and functional team to understand the business issues and collaborate with technical team to find a resolution at the earliest that satisfy the business and technology need.

Responsible for end to end delivery aligning with development team

Responsible for SDDC VM server build for SAP systems

Performed Disaster Recovery (DR) Process for the SAP including planning for Quarterly DR Drill

Handled SAP SOX Audits

Responsible to coordinate with Quality Team-Change management, Root cause analysis,HPQC,CHARM CR Process

Provided Proactive Performance improvements to All landscapes

Lead the onsite team and responsible for co coordinating the onsite/offshore team for the project deliverables

Created several technical docs and SOPs for BASIS activities

Key SAP BASIS Skills

Expertise in performing technical assessment and execution for several EHP7 upgrades

Installation of 7.0(CRM,BW,ECC,CRM,PI,SCM),7.3(BW,CRM,ECC,EP,SCM,PI) and 7.31 (ECC,SLT,BW on HANA,EP,CRM,SCM,EP,SOLMAN,BODS,BOBI) as part of implementation on VM servers

Involved in System Landscape design for B2B Projects

Work experience with Solution Manager, HANA and Fiori

Created SDDC Templates for Building servers on VM.

Manage the SAP router configuration for SAP support.

Expertise in area of FS Design on VM servers and worked as SPOC for server provisioning for the ENTIRE project

Implementation and Configuration of SLT (SAP Landscape Transformation) to perform real-time data replication into SAP HANA from Various SAP and Non- SAP Sources

BODS Administration and configuration for the DATA Loads for ECC,MDG .

TDMS Client copies/Deletion

Implementation expertise with integration with Informatica,WEBMETHODS

Cluster Configuration and worked on Cluster Failover Tests

Experienced in Database Management system (Oracle & SQL) – Regular maintenance/troubleshoot activities, Backups/Restoration, Table space administration, managing data dictionary objects, log archiving and checking the log file for trouble shooting

Performed Numerous Support Packs, S-Notes, Kernel Upgrades, System rebuilds, SAP-Refresh (Database specific and non-Database specific), System Copies (Homogenous and Heterogeneous) involving both ABAP+JAVA and for R/3, BW, CRM, XI with all activities.

Migration of SAP systems from HP-UNIX PI RISC to Itanium Servers

using backup/restore, export import, methods.

Performed DR build,synch /split.

Perfumed oracle upgrade from 10g to 11

Configured EWA for ABAP,JAVA Systems including BOBI

Installation of ECC 6.0 on cluster OS-Sun Solaris.

Expertise in DR environment.

EPH7 installations

Involved in Developing UNIX shell scripts required for monitoring alerts and process automation.

Configure and execute SAP change control functions including the transport management system (TMS)

Extensive experience in administering LDAP, configuring Single-Sign-On (SSO) on portal Systems.

SAP BASIS Administration functions such as Transports, OSS notes, system monitoring etc.

Worked as an onsite-offshore coordinator/team lead and able to work independently and as well as in a team environment with multiple projects/tasks.

Extensive experience in interacting with business/process team for data and information gathering, integration and UAT process and sign off process

Performed upgrade from R/3 4.7C to ECC 6.0 and BW 3.5 to BI 7.0 on HPUX, Windows with oracle database

Performed SAP System Refresh (ABAP + JAVA) using on-line backup from PRD to QAS.

Installation of SAP R/3, SAP NW04s BI 7.0, PI 7.0, ECC 6.0 on various OS & DB combinations

Performed System copy to convert from 32 bit to 64 bit system which included JAVA EXPORT & IMPORT.

Excellent communication, problem solving, analytical, leadership and inter-personal skills.

Experience in Performance Tuning, Sizing, Capacity Planning and Workload Analysis..

Involved in Cutover Activities and worked in multiple GO Lives

Professional Experience/Project Details:

Project 1: Johnson & Johnson Back to Basics Project

Period: JAN 2013 - till date

Location: Raritan, NJ

Description

Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational medical device, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500. Johnson & Johnson is headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey with the consumer division being located in Skillman, New Jersey. The corporation includes some 250 subsidiary companies with operations in over 57 countries and products sold in over 175 countries. Johnson & Johnson had worldwide sales of $65 billion for the calendar year of 2011.

Role: Technical Lead

Responsibilities

Technical/Team Lead for the support Project, managing onshore and offshore team

Worked as SPOC for Server Provisioning tasks including FS design tasks for VM servers

Worked for Post Go live and hyper care tasks

Installation of 7.31 Systems (BW HANA,BOBI,BODS,SLT,ECC,CRM,SCM,EP) on VM servers

Worked for Upgrade project ECC 6.0 EHP 6 to EHP7 in BACK TO BASICS

Involved in Design and implementation of HANA appliance in Scale Out landscape, HANA DB /log backup/recovery strategy

HANA Administration: Start/Stop HANA System

•Performing Backup monitoring, HANA health Status monitoring

•Configuring alerts in HANA Studio for getting notifications of all major events

•Configuring various traces in HANA Database to check performance issues

•Starting /stopping SLT replication

•Performing daily monitoring tasks for HIGH, Critical alerts on HANA

Implementation and Configuration of SLT (SAP Landscape Transformation) to perform real-time data replication into SAP HANA from Various SAP and Non- SAP Sources

SSO configuration of Portal with BW HANA, SLT, ECC, CRM, SCM.

Involved in Sandbox, Dev, QAS and Pre-Prod and Prod SAP systems installation and applying add-on

Discuss and Setup Strategy(Parallel/In Place Upgrade) to perform Upgrade

Preparing checklist for prerequisites for Upgrade at OS, Database & SAP level and coordinate the same with technology consultants

Prepare project plan with micro level activities and fine tuning the same after each system upgrade

Configure maintenance optimizer in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 to generate stack file for systems to be upgraded

Oracle upgrades from 10g to 11 G

Expertise in HPQC tools

BODS Admin tasks

TDMS Client Copy and Deletion

Performed client refreshes on regular basis for maintenance purposes using TDMS

EWA Configuration on ABAP and JAVA Systems including BOBI

Production Support

Table reorganization and Index rebuild.

Configured TDMS with ECC.

Installation of SAP Web Dispatchers

Server node addition on Java stacks systems.

Tuning the SAP / Oracle profile parameters (static and dynamic) for system’s better performance.

Installation of systems on HA

OS Cluster Configuration

Cluster testing

Project 2: Johnson & Johnson – Managed Services

Period: Sept 2011 – DEC 2012

Location: BANGALORE INDIA

SAP BASIS Lead

Description

Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational medical device, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500. Johnson & Johnson is headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey with the consumer division being located in Skillman, New Jersey. The corporation includes some 250 subsidiary companies with operations in over 57 countries and products sold in over 175 countries. Johnson & Johnson had worldwide sales of $65 billion for the calendar year of 2011.

Role: EMEA Lead

Responsibilities

Responsible for Stabilization of the process by creation of documentation and checklist

Migration of SAP systems from Hp-UNIX PI RISC to Itanium Servers

Migration using backup/restore, export import, methods.

Performed DR build, synch /split.

Perfumed oracle upgrade from 10g to 11

Installation of ECC 6.0 on cluster OS-Sun Solaris.

DR Exercises

EPH4 installations

Production support

Planned maintenance

BACKUP and Restore Tasks

System refreshes on ECC 6.0, BW, Net Weaver 7.0 EP EP systems.

Configuring STMS and performed the transport at R/3 level as well as from Operating system level.

Client administration involves copy (local and remote), export, and import and post tasks.

Analyzing Early Watch report implement solutions monthly change basis accordingly.

OSS support like license request, connection opening, Data maintenance of servers, software download, object and developers key registration, raising errors to SAP service market place.

System monitoring includes file system, tablespace, spool management, system availability, inbound/outbound queues, system log, short dumps, update process, transports etc.

Scheduling, Monitoring and troubleshooting Housekeeping background jobs.

Source system creation for BW systems.

Logon group administration includes logon file creation to enable load balancing of the R/3 system.

Tuning the SAP / Oracle profile parameters (static and dynamic) for system’s better performance.

Operation Modes for adequate allocation of the work processes during day and night.

Creating, troubleshooting, resolving and testing RFC issues on XI system and R/3 systems.

Sap notes implementation for software corrections.

Installation of SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6, FSCM System

Installation of additional application servers for various SAP systems in back to basics project Landscape

Installation of Web dispatcher

Performing SSL, SSO, SNC configurations in SAP systems

Troubleshooting ABAP dumps, performance issues

Raising OSS notes and open connection for SAP to troubleshoot the issue

Perform IQOQ for installation and upgrade of systems

Upgrade project ECC 6.0 EHP 6

Upgrade SAP BW 7.0 to 7.31

Perform Upgrade of BW ABAP and Java Stacks

Installation of additional Application servers for BW Java System

Coordinate and Perform CHARMS configuration for all systems in back to basics project

Project 3: AMS ITO (Application Managed Services) – NCDOT,EBAY, JIMBEAM, MEANS, NEWEL RUBBER MAID, H&E – ACS XEROX Company

Period : April 2010 to Sept 2011

Location: BANGALORE INDIA

Role: Senior SAP Basis Consultant

Description

AMS is hosting SAP customers providing support for SAP, OS & DB Also provides datacenter support for the customers like NCDOT,EBAY

Responsibilities:NCDOT,EBAY,H&E,Means

Manage and Support SAP Technical Infrastructure components that run on ABAP and/or JAVA stacks

Weekly and monthly maintenance tasks

Installing and monitoring oracle standby systems (log shipping method, oracle data guard

Monitoring SAP DR and troubleshooting for any delay in shipping

Expertise in Backup-Recovery/Configuration/ upgrade/ monitoring of DB2 databases in an SAP environment.

R/3 Kernel Upgrades, Applying support packs for both ABAP and JAVA, EHPi, Spool Administrations

Executing daily monitoring tasks / Health Checks

Perform Client Copies/System Refreshes

SAP System migration (from one datacenter to another datacenter)

SAP System restoration (using export/import method and file restoration method)

RFC Destination set up and configuration

Managing the ABAP/4 dump entries.

Configuring Transport Management System

Performing online transports SAP Systems

Monitoring system logs and database activity

Background Job creation and management

Oracle database administration using BRTOOL

Oracle database installation, upgrade, OPatches, applying bundle patches using MOpatch.

Maintaining Solaris cluster systems.

R/3 Kernel Upgrades, Applying support packs for both ABAP and JAVA.

User Administration

Performing online & offline transports SAP Systems.

Spool Administrations

Executing daily monitoring tasks / Health Checks

System Refresh (Production to Mirror Systems)

Client Copy – Local and Remote, Client export / import activities

RFC Destination set up and configuration

Deleting the lock entries and managing the ABAP/4 dump entries.

Monitoring system logs and database activity

Background Job creation and management

Oracle database upgrade, OPatches.

Project 4: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany-SAP Managed Services (SAP LABS)-INUP & SPTP

Period: June 2006 – April 2010

Location: BANGALORE INDIA

Role: SAP Basis Consultant

Description

SAP AG- INUP, one of the services in the 4R Hosting project. It is responsible to install and upgrade the SAP system of customer, Internel, Externel, TDC Systems.

Responsibilities

Installation of SAP R/3, SAP NW2004s BI 7.0, CRM 2007,PI 7.0, EP 6.0.

SAP Upgrades for different SAP versions on various OS & DB versions.(NW2004s,

ECC 6.0, BI 7.0, CRM 2007, EP 6.0)

Installation of SAP systems for SAP AG Development Environment, SAP AG Training & Demo systems.

R/3 Kernel Upgrades, Applying support packs for both ABAP and JAVA Systems

Applying OSS notes using SNOTE and manual corrections

Configuring Transport Management System

Performing online & offline transports for SAP Internal Systems.

Patching of Web Dispatcher, TREX & IGS (Standalone).

Installation of languages and supplementation of languages

Configuring Op-Modes for different work loads

Executing daily monitoring tasks

Client Copy – Local and Remote, Client export / import activities and monitoring.

RFC Destination set up and configuration

Deleting the lock entries and managing the ABAP/4 dump entries.

Monitoring system logs and database activity

Background Job creation and management

Administering Tablespaces and adding/resizing data files

Oracle database administration using SAPDBA and BRTOOL

Achievements:

1.Star Performer of the Month for Johnson & Johnson

2.Team member for Best Team Award (Project: BACK TO BASICS Johnson & Johnson)

3.Awarded Best performing candidate for FY: 2014-2015 in Johnson & Johnson

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from S T J Institute of Technology, Ranebennur (Visveswariah Technological University) with 70 %.

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