Fakeergouda B Senior SAP Basis Consultant /Lead

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Austin, Texas - 78758

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Certifications

SAP Netweaver Certified Technology Consultant on Oracle

SAP Certified OS/DB Migration Consultant.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

SAP Basis Consultant/Lead with over 8 years of IT experience including experience in all SAP Basis functions. Skilled in working across most of the Database/Operating systems which SAP supports including cluster environments (Windows and Unix/Linux).

Expertise in large-scale enterprise wide package implementation and SAP R/3 BASIS Subject Matter Expert (SME) capable of developing and implementing project plans either as team lead or individual contributor including performance optimization.

Proven ability to translate business needs into technology requirements that support the company's business objectives and to successfully manage all phases of IT projects from needs, analysis, implementation and training.

Excellent Leadership skills, client relationship and technical competencies. Particularly adept at complex global projects incorporating the SAP Suite of products (R/3, ECC, BO, CRM, SCM, EP, BI, PI, Solution Manager, BPC etc). Hands on technical experience from installation thru Go-Live and Production support of multiple SAP implementations.

Extensive hands on technical experience in handling SAP upgrades and SAP OS/DB migrations.

Adept at managing large or small scale projects with technical excellence, diplomacy and focus in achieving project objectives on time and within budget.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Held various positions for SAP implementations spanning the last 8 years. Positions ranged from BASIS Consultant to BASIS Technical Lead.

Has extensively worked as SAP Basis Administrator in various SAP Releases including SAP ECC 6.0, SAP HANA, NetWeaver 2004/2004s, SAP ERP2004/2005, XI3.0/PI 7.X, Solution Manager 7.X, EP, CRM, BI, SAP Business objects, SAP GRC, enterprise portal and Security.

Worked on complex SAP Upgrades for various clients on different components including ECC, Solution manager, BW and BO across various Database/Operating systems.

Worked as Basis Integration specialist for various clients to integrate newer landscape implementations with their existing ones.

Successfully handled a team of 10+ for completion of all SAP technical requirements. Schedule from Installation, upgrade, migration through Go-Live and Production support with global support centers. Also responsible for implementing change control, change management, decision making for the global SAP environment.

Successfully completed setting up demo landscape and providing onsite support for SAP TechEd 2010 conference at Bangalore.

Worked on planning and execution of solution manager upgrade and CHARM implementation for HBC customer.

Successfully Led SAP Basis team in planning and execution of OS-DB migration project for migrating all SAP systems from HP-UX to Linux operating system.

Installation of BI 7.31 system for SAP BPC implementation on SAP HANA DB.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer – Dyna Consulting Services, Inc.

Job Title – Senior SAP Basis Consultant – Onshore lead

Client – Capgemini North America

October 2015 – till date

Project size of ECC system: 14 TB and BI system: 6 TB.

Projects:

1.Design and implement disaster recovery for MDM, BI and BOBJ systems. Handled production system disaster recovery testing at client’s datacenter.

2. Plan, prepare and execution of applying latest support packs to BI, BOBJ and BWA systems across the landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

Managing ECC 6.0, BI 7.31, Solution Manager 7.10, business objects, BIA, GRC 10, MDM and other third party applications.

Responsible for defining the project plan, timelines, upgrade strategy, planning the resources for upgrade, and coordinate the upgrade activities with all the teams.

Incident handling, attending weekly meeting with customer and offshore team.

Working with account team on projects to provide effort and lead time for changes and new projects. Communicating progress and completion measures to the clients on timely basis.

Employer – IT TrailBlazers

Job Title – Senior SAP Basis Consultant – Onshore lead

Client – Capgemini North America

February 2015 – September 2015

Projects:

1. SAP business objects Information Steward Database migration from HP-UX superdome to more cost efficient Redhat Linux. The goal of this project was long term cost saving to the customer with respect to hardware, OS and oracle licensing.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for analyzing the Earlywatch alerts for the systems and conducting meetings with customer and associated parties.

Responsible for implementing standards and practices for documentation and procedures for a seamless integration into the global SAP environment and flawless Production Support practices.

Employer – Hewlett-Packard

Job Title – SAP Basis Technical Lead / Expert Consultant

December 2010 – July 2014

Customer: Hillshire Brands and Saralee

Project size of ECC system: 10 TB and BI system: 14TB.

Projects:

1.SAP migration from HP-UX superdome to more cost efficient SUSE Linux .The goal of this project was long term cost saving to the customer with respect to both hardware and OS.

2.Upgrade Solution manager from 7.0 EHP1 to 7.1 and CHARM implementation resulting in using latest solution manager functionalities like ALM for better project management.

3.Upgrade BW systems to NW 7.30 EHP1 and BPC implementation for accelerated data loading and next level of performance for BWA.

4.Upgraded ECC to EHP7 to deliver addition business functionality to the end-user community resulting in improved business processing and end-user satisfaction.

5.Installations and basis configuration of PI 7.10 on Linux & Oracle Database.

6.BW 7.31 installation on SAP HANA and BPC implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

Managed ECC 6.0, BI 7.0, EP 7.X, SCM 5.0, PI 7.X, Solution Manager 7.X, CRM 7.X, BWA and other third party applications.

Transports management via CHARM, create new Project implementations through solution manager and assign the CHARM workflow.

Perform backup, restore, recovery of the databases and handle system refreshes.

Make sure systems are available to the business as per SLA.

Perform root cause analysis of system problems and performance tuning.

Planning and execution of monthly production maintenance, provide implementation and Go-live Support for the new projects.

Part of internal audit team to assist account security team with audit issues.

Perform system refresh, kernel upgrades, database upgrades on customer systems.

Responsible for evaluating system performance, database performance, system health checks and implementation of tuning improvements for ABAP and Java stacks.

Responsible for defining the project plan, timelines, upgrade strategy, sizing the hardware, planning the resources for upgrade, and coordinate the upgrade activities with all the teams.

Client deletion, database reorg using brtools.

Configuration & maintenance STMS workflow as per various landscape configuration.

Responsible for maintain the Java stacks using Configuration tool, Visual Administrator, NWA. Deploying JAVA Support Packages and patches using JSPM/SDM.

Employer – Bristlecone India Private Ltd.

Job Title – SAP Basis Consultant

Client – SAP AG

June 2007 – December 2010

Projects: Product Support Systems (PSS–TDC), Technical Validation and SRM Release Engineering.

Expert consulting support for the development landscapes consisting of 3500+ systems. Topics include performance optimization, complex configurations, installations/ upgrades and optimized system copies.

Design installation and upgrade paths for mass systems delivery based on unreleased tools and packages. Driven discussions with upgrade tools development team for improving the tool.

Setup demo landscape and provide onsite support during SAP TechEd.

Installation of Business Object Products (BOE, Data Services, Explorer, Integration with SAP, Client Components)

Installation, configuration and patching of ECC, NetWeaver, Portal, CE and BW systems.

Homogenous & Heterogeneous system copies of j2ee

Responsible for implementing standards and practices for documentation and procedures for a seamless integration into the global SAP environment and flawless Production Support practices.

Java transport management using NWDI

Installation of ABAP systems and post-installation activities. Applying ABAP support packages and Add-Ons.

Maintain the Java stacks using Configuration tool, Visual Administrator, Log viewer, NWA, and Wily Introscope, deploy JAVA support packages and patches using JSPM/SDM.

Homogenous & Heterogeneous System Copies

Handling local and remote client copies

Configuration of CCMS, CMS Agents, CCMSPING GRMG monitoring, SLD configuration.

EDUCATION

Visvesvaraya Technological University September 2003 – June 2007

Bachelor of engineering degree in Electronics and Communication.

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