Ashok Kalakota

Senior Technical Consultant – Certified

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Summary:

Over 15 years experience in SAP Basis Administration as a senior basis admin and basis architect, experience includes SAP NetWeaver, ERP, CRM, SCM, SRM, BW, PI, Portal and Solution Manager. Experienced in design System Landscape & handling Multiple Application Servers, and sizing the SAP system using Quick Sizer, Implemented the SAP in Cluster (High Availability) environment, design the disaster recovery (DR) systems. Architect the SAP stress/load testing and capacity planning, design and developed the strategy for Performance Tuning and capacity planning. Involved in designed the SAP backup/recovery strategy developed the procedures for OS/DB migrations. Proven sound knowledge in tuning the memory of SAP application server/Oracle DB server (involved several performance tuning assignments). Sound knowledge in project management methodologies (PMP); include excellent verbal, written communications, presentations and team work skills. Worked as Basis Architect /Basis Team Leader (PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL) and SAP Certified Basis Consultant in SAP NetWeaver & OS/DB Migration Certified.

Certifications (Proven Skills):

SAP NETWEAVER CERTIFIED TECHNICAL CONSULTANT.

SAP NETWEAVER CERTIFIED OS DB MIGRATION TECHNICAL CONSULTANT.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL – PMP

HP SAP LOADRUNNER CERTIFIED PRODUCT CONSULTANT.

Technical Summary:

Skill Set Years of Exp

SAP Basis 15

Oracle DB administration 9i,10g,11g 10

SAP R/3, ECC & CRM 15

As SAP BASIS Admin

on Unix/windows platform

HP-UIXI, Solaris, IBM AIX 15

SAP Security 7

MS SQL Server 4

SAP Sol Man 3

Max DB, DB2 UDB, DB2 LUW 2

OPERATING SYSTEMS: HP-Unix, IBM-AIX, Sun-Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux 9.0, Windows 2003, 2008

DATABASES: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Max DB, DB2 LUW

UTILITIES: SAPDBA, BRTOOLS, Remedy, JAVA Wily Inter scope, LoadRunner

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: ABAP, C, C++

SAP: NetWeaver, ERP, CRM, SRM, MDM, BW, Portal and TREX

Summary of Key Strengths:

Installation & Upgrade Experience & Unicode Conversions: Performed installations, upgrades and patch applications to SAP software products, including ECC, R/3 4.7, 4.6, my SAP ERP 2004,ERP 2005 BW 7.x, EP 7.0 and Solution Manager 4.0, Worked on Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, HP, Solaris, Linux, Windows.

Build the SAP system in high availability for SAP and Databases, environment like regular physical machine servers and virtual machines VMware environment.

Performance Tuning Experience: Performance Tuning of ECC System, Oracle Database and UNIX operating system using the LoadRunner & Willy J2EE tools. Design Developed the Performance and Load Test strategy. Execute the load test and Monitor the server resources during the load test. Found the bottle necks and tune the system parameters.

Upgrade Experience: Developed the strategy for support packs (ABAP & JAVA), kernel updates

TMS Administration Experience: Configure and execute SAP change control functions including the transport management system (TMS), Setting up Transport Routes, Configure Transport Domain Controller and customize Workbench Organizer.

Client Administration: – Client Creation, Client copy, Client export, Remote Client Copy, Client Deletion, Securing Clients and Assigning Logical System to client.

Security Administration/GRC: Managing SAP servers, Create and Maintain user Roles and Authorization profiles (PFCG), maintaining users in central system by using Central User Administration (CUA), monitoring user logins, user sessions, restricting default login in instance parameter file, trouble shooting user level problems to properly access the servers.

Database Management: Setup Parameter files, Perform Backup, Restoration & recovery Of Database and log files using SAP tools, Table space and Table administration By SAPDBA and BRTOOLS And reorganizing the database

Spool Administration: Experienced with Spool Administration like configuring printers and trouble-shooting spool request, deleting old spool jobs and working with TemSe objects.

CCMS: Configured CCMS alerts integrating with Solution Manager and Maintained Central Monitoring system with automatic e-mail forwarding.

Background Jobs: Excellent in monitoring Batch/Background Jobs, Checking the status of Background Jobs and Scheduling Background Jobs.

SQL Trace: SQL level tracing of expensive transactions, analyzing SQL traces and identifying ABAP/4 programs causing high database fetch times.

System Copy/ OS DB Migrations: Performing system copy by using backup and Restore & R3Load method.

Quick Sizer: Performed System Sizing of R/3, ECC, BW systems using SAP’s Quick Sizer tool.

Professional Summary:

FitchRatings, New York, NY

SAP Basis Senior Architect / Basis Lead Oct 2008 – Till Date

Environment: SAP ERP 5.0 EHP 3.0, NetWeaver 7.0, BI 7.0, CRM 7.0, PI 7.1, Red hat Linux 5.2, Oracle 10g and 11g databases.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Designed and develop the SAP ECC & BW infrastructure by SAP sizing.

• Installed and configured high availability system for ECC in QA & Production environments.

• Installed and configured the Disaster & Recovery systems.

• Design and document the SAP system copy procedures by R3load & backup/restore methods.

• Upgrade the SAP system to latest Support Packages, Kernel

• Involved in design and develop the transport management for ECC & BW landscapes.

• Configured the SAP custom print devices, implemented SAPSprint method.

• Involved in daily health check for Production systems using various t-codes and some other related codes and procedures if needed.

• Performed Batch & Background jobs time and event based jobs.

• Installed SAP Notes Assistant across all systems. Implemented the SAP Solution Manager instance to collect and analyze all system monitoring data for recommendations and problem analysis.

• Involved in Database administration, Setup Parameter files, Perform Backup, Restoration & recovery Of Database and log files using SAP tools, Table space and Table administration By BRTOOLS.

• Extensively performance tuned ABAP & SQL and trace expensive SQL statements

• Responsible to create and maintain user roles, profiles within system landscape against users and performed users termination on weekly basis based on terms reports.

• Troubleshooting system problems by analyzing system log update monitoring and lock entries and configured Alert Monitor for System monitoring.

• Client Administration, Client Creation, Client copy, client export, Performing remote client copy, Client deletion

• Configure the Solution Manager; create the satellite sys, configured Satellite system. Monitored the solutions of satellite systems. Configure the maintenance optimizer.

• Involved in Installation configuration PI 7.1 and Enterprise Portal.

• Local Client copy for training system in Campbell Soup Canada Landscape.

• Involved in SAP system profile administration.

• Setting up the system landscape. Configured client settings and system change options as per the definition of the client strategy document of the project.

Campbell Soup Company, Camden, NJ

Senior SAP Basis Architect April 2005 – Sept 2008

Environment: SAP ERP, CRM 2007/SCM, Live Cache, BW , ERP 2005, SRM,CRM Remedy System, EMC Storage, Solaris 10g, DB2 UDB / MS SQL Server and HP UNIX and Red hat Linux.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Responsible to load & apply Support Packages, Add-ons, Kernel Upgrades and Hot patches (SPAM/SAINT).

• Perform the OS DB migration from MS SQL server to DB2 UDB.

• Experienced with Spool Administration, configuring printers and trouble-shooting spool request, deleting old spool jobs and working with TemSe objects

• Performed daily health check for Production systems using various t-codes and some other related codes and procedures if needed.

• Performed Batch & Background jobs and responsible to trouble shoot various Job chains with in Freight liner system landscape.

• Involved in OS DB Migration with Unicode conversions

• Applied Support Packages like BASIS, ABA, APPL & HR on ECC systems and aligned the Dictionary and Repository Object.

• Client Administration, Client Creation, Client copy, client export, Performing remote client copy, Client deletion

• Solution Manager, Installing of solution manager, create the satellite sys, configured Satellite system. Monitored the solutions of satellite systems. Generated installation key for installing ERP systems

• Involved in Installation Enterprise Portal, XI(PI)

• Local Client copy for training system in Campbell Soup Canada Landscape.

• Configured the Transport Management System & transport routes.

• Provided and verified all system parameter for planning and conducting performance test.

• Developed the Load & Performance test strategy, Involved in performance tuning.

• Setting up the system landscape. Configured client settings and system change options as per the definition of the client strategy document of the project. Applied all support packs and performed Kernel upgrades.

• Database Management, Setup Parameter files, Perform Backup, Restoration & recovery Of Database and log files using SAP tools, Table space and Table administration By SAPDBA and BRTOOLS And reorganizing the database

• Extensively performance tuned ABAP & SQL and trace expensive SQL statements

• Responsible to create and maintain user roles, profiles with in system landscape against users and performed users termination on weekly basis based on terms reports.

• Spool Administration like configuring printers and trouble-shooting spool request, deleting old spool jobs and working with TemSe objects.

• Troubleshooting system problems by analyzing system log update monitoring and lock entries and configured Alert Monitor for System monitoring.

• Installed SAP Notes Assistant across all systems. Implemented the SAP Solution Manager instance to collect and analyze all system monitoring data for recommendations and problem analysis.

• 24 X 7 Production support.

Ernst & Young, LLC, New York, New York

Senior Architect Lead/ SAP Basis Consultant Jan 2004 – Feb 2005

Environment: 4.7(Enterprise Edition), my SAP 2004, CRM 5.0 – CRM IPC, WAS, Business Packages, EMC Storage, Solaris/ Linux, Oracle 9i.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Involved in helping created the Infrastructure/Basis project plans using SAP’s ASAP methodology for different phases of the project.

• Installations, Upgrades and Configuration SAP R/3 4.6C/4.7(Enterprise), my SAP ERP 2004;

• Configure and execute SAP change control functions including the Transport Management System (TMS), setting up Transport Routes, Configure Transport Domain Controller and customize Workbench Organizer.

• Client Administration like creating Clients, Client copy (Local and Remote), deleting clients and assigning logical systems to clients.

• Responsible to load & apply Support Packages, Add-ons, Kernel Upgrades and Hot patches (SPAM/SAINT).

• Managing SAP servers, Create and Maintain user Roles and Authorization profiles (PFCG), Monitoring user logins, user sessions, restricting default logins in instance parameter file, trouble shooting user level problems to properly access the servers and maintaining security throughout the SAP landscapes.

• Database Backup / recovery, Monitoring, trouble shooting the Backup problems by investigating the cause like due to media failure or due to system failure or some other reasons.

• Applying OSS Notes to the systems downloading from OSS as per instruction or where ever applicable.

• Monitoring the initialization parameters that determine the behavior of the Oracle Database Server.

• Monitoring the alert log file to see the major changes, events and errors that occur during the running of the Oracle Instance.

• Managing Archive Logs. Monitoring Systems for its database growth, memory utilization, doing SAP health checks daily for its better performance.

• Spool Administration like configuring printers and trouble shooting spool request, deleting old spool jobs if >25000 jobs, working with TemSe objects.

• Configuring Operation Modes, Managing Instance Profile, managing Logon Groups for load balancing.

• Performed extensively tasks such as Reorganization of table spaces, creating indexes, maintaining data dictionary objects to suit various requirements of users in different environments

• Configured CCMS alerts integrating with Slution Manager and Maintained Central Monitoring system with automatic e-mail forwarding.

• Performance Tuning of SAP servers by using some tcodes like SM50, SM12, ST03, ST22, SM21, DB02 and some other related codes and procedures if needed.

Lucent Technologies, Warren, NJ

SAP Basis Admin Feb. 1996 – Dec 2003

Environment: SAP R/3(4.5B/4.6C), Oracle 9i, UNIX, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and Vertex.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Installed and Upgraded SAP R/3 (4.5B/4.6C), SAP BW 2.0/3.1 on UNIX.

• Security Administration like Creating profiles and Roles, Assigning profiles and user login trouble shootings.

• Keeping track of Custom Authorization Objects and Adding custom reports to user profiles

• Designed the system landscape and Transport Management System and Performed sizing requirments using SAP’s Quick Sizer tool.

• Co-ordinate with SAP to complete the Go-Live Analysis session and implemented the pre and post Go-Live Analysis steps.

• For Background Processing, assigning background jobs class to prioritize jobs. Defined, monitored and scheduled background jobs using IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler.

• Performed extensively tasks such as Reorganization of table spaces, creating indexes, maintaining data dictionary objects to suit various requirements of users in different environments

• Defined and maintained the instance definition for OP Modes/Servers, Switching, Scheduling, and Work Process distribution.

• Maintained the Profiles, fine-tuned Instance profiles parameters for performance improvement and Logon load balancing (SMLG).

• Responsible Homogeneous System Copy, Add-on & Support Package Applications Plug-Ins and Kernel Upgrades.

• Spool Administration like configuring printers and trouble-shooting spool request, deleting old spool jobs and working with TemSe objects.

• Troubleshooting system problems by analyzing system log update monitoring and lock entries and configured Alert Monitor for System monitoring.

• Created the procedures for system daily health checks, Weekly production support statues and Monthly system performance metrics

• Established Storage Management and Backup / Recovery procedures, Monitored the software for performance, system failures, failed updates, and runtime errors.

• Identified custom objects that were obsolete in the system. Documented all programs and configuration in the technology area of the software. Improved system performance by modifying custom code.

• Configured new clients and client copies as per business requirements.

• For printers, define output devices for local, remote and front-end printing. Define a logical spool server and use it on an output device. Manage spool and output requests, analyze and solve simple printing errors.

• 24x7 Production Support.

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering - Nagarguna University, AP Sate - INDIA.

Masters in structural engineering – University of Mysore, KA Sate - INDIA.

Legal Status: US Citizen.

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