Naren Turaka
Status: US Citizen, EXIN/ITIL Certified.
C: 850-***-**** abhwyh@r.postjobfree.com
SAP Basis Administrator
SAP BASIS ADMINISTRATOR, WITH AROUND 15 YEARS OF EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN IT
PARTICULARLY ON SAP IMPLEMENTATION, DESIGNING, TESTING AND SUPPORTING
CURRENT AND NEXT-GENERATION SAP SOLUTIONS ON ORACLE ENTERPRISE AND SQL
SERVER ENVIRONMENTS. PROFICIENT IN AN ASSORTMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES INCLUDING
UNIX ADMIN/SCRIPTING, DATABASE ADMINISTRATION OF ORACLE 8/9I/10G, DB2, MS
SQL SERVER, WINDOWS ADMIN AND LINUX ADMIN. OTHER SAP SKILLS INCLUDE:
Implementation, Upgrade, Migration and Homogeneous and Heterogeneous System
Production support of SAP ECC, PI, BW, copies(Unix to Windows)
CRM, Portal & Solution Manager Configuring and Administering Central
Oracle Database Administration & system monitoring using Solution
Normalization Manager CCMS
Performance Tuning & Capacity Managing Interfaces with third party
Monitoring tools like Postalsoft(Business
User Administration, CUA, SAP Objects), Telephony server
Security/ Data security. SQL Tuning of queries working along
Backup & Recovery with developers, OS for better SAP
Standby/Failover Administration performance.
Managing Transport Management
System(TMS)
Experience
SAP BASIS ADMIN FOR FLORIDA DEPT. OF REVENUE OCT'05 - TILL DATE
Florida Dept. of Revenue(FDOR) developed an innovative ERP approach, based
upon SAP which replaced the legacy Title IV-D system that was supporting
Florida's Child Support Enforcement Program and successfully interfaced
with multiple outside entities which were interfacing with the legacy
mainframe application.
Responsibilities:
. Widely accepted IT Infrastructure Library(ITIL) approach to satisfy
the key principles of IT Service Management and Service Level
Agreement( SLA).
. Completely involved in every phase of the project from Capacity
Analysis, Hardware Procurement, SAP application Administration,
Application OPS, Maintenance, Monitoring and Reports.
. DB Normalization, Table space Administration. Monitoring the objects
and extents.
. Responsible for System monitoring using work process monitor and EWA
reports using Solution Manager.
. Work Load analysis, load distribution, Performance Monitoring, Health
checks and fine tuning.
. Daily and periodic administrative tasks include monitoring system
logs, Work processes, locks, updates and patches/support packs(SM12,
SM13, SM21, SM66, SM50).
. CCMS Alert Monitoring RZ2, Background jobs(SM37), RFC(SM59), E-
notifications(SCOT).
. SITSPMON is used to display the status of the integrated ITS
functionality in the application server and execute ITS status monitor
to collect the memory consumption statistics.
. Dump analysis using (ST22) and documenting all configuration changes.
. Monitor Printers and Spool for high volume of printing Reports(SP01,
SPAD).
. Coordinating with the Backup/OS team for File Systems, backup,
Archiving issues if any. Provided DR site plan & implementation and
IRS Security Review Reports(IRS Audit).
. Attend Change Request(CR) meetings and Post Implementation
Reports(PIR) preparation.
. In addition to day-to-day Admin activities, involved in SAP life cycle
implementation, Upgrades, Migrations and created Standard Operation
Procedures(SOAPs) as per SLA.
. Performed Homogeneous and Heterogeneous System copies, configured
Transport Management system (STMS) and transported change request
across DEV, Quality and Production.
. Managed interfaces with third party tools, troubleshooting issues and
root cause analysis.
. Extensively used SAP (IPC) in SAP applications to configure products
through the Internet.
. Provided 24x7 on-call support on rotation basis and weekend
maintenance.
Environment: SAP ECC/BW/CRM/PI/Portal, Solution Manager, Oracle 10g/9i,
MS SQL server, HP-UNIX11.11/11.23/11.31 and Windows 2003/2008
Sr. UNIX/Storage Admin for AT&T, Hayward, CA Jan'03 -
Oct'05
Major Responsibilities:
. As a Senior UNIX/Storage Administrator, responsible for the analysis,
design, installation, migration, configuration, administration, tuning,
testing, patching, ignite, software upgrades and optimization of HP-UNIX,
Solaris,Windows servers and related components to achieve high
availability and performance of the various business applications
supported.
. Day-to-day maintenance tasks performed on EMC/HP-SAN like LUN creation
with distributed virtual Raid(VRAID) technology, zoning, binding, LUN
masking, snapshots, snapclones, disk configuration, data/disk management
after any disk failure(ungrouping, leveling & grouping the disk),
configuration of storage groups/LUNs using command view EVA, Navisphere
manager, navcli, symcli, power path and secure path management.
. Implemented hands-on-role in supporting HP storage works Enterprise
Virtual Array(EVA) solutions, storage management appliance(SMA) and ISEE
. Working knowledge in SOX (Sarbanes Oxley IT Audit), Networking,(Subnet
masks, default gateways, blades, labeling, LAN, DNS, NICs) and switched
network technologies(Brocade, SAN switches, Ports, Sendmail, McData, and
Cisco switch management). Disaster Recovery (DR) process with series of
procedures to rebuild systems
. As per business requirements, performed file systems creation/extension
with LVM and VxVM, disk striping/mirroring, NFS setup, data move, server
migration, ssh setup, printer setup, patch installs/updates, create-
extend swap space, user accounts and groups.
. Expert in performance monitoring(with Glance, HP Openview and perfview),
finding bottlenecks, resource availability, kernel configurations, multi
tasking, prioritizing tasks based on severity, Audit/security on
production and other servers.
. Resolved complex system failure, authored scripts and received
appreciation from upper management on software, hardware, network
problems, servers data integrity, monitoring and addressing Service
Center Trouble Tickets as required.
UNIX/Storage Admin for Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA Aug'99 -
Dec'02
Major Responsibilities:
. Responsible for all administration tasks such a Managing user accounts,
adding user groups, responding to alerts, file system maintenance,
ensure stable performance for the Unix/RDBMS environment, crontabs,
troubleshooting issues, startup-shutdown scripts, backup/recovery
activities using Veritas Netbackup, system configuration, facilitating
changes to the system for many business applications on > 80 HP-UX/Linux
servers.
. Configured, managed, tuned kernel drivers, subsystems, disks, Clustering
with HP/MC ServiceGuard, printers and partitioned disks, building HFS,
JFS (VxFS), file systems using Logical Volume Manger and VxVM/Veritas
Volume Manager.
. Extensive experience in storage Administration using EMC(Symmetrix,
Clariion CX, Fibre Channel)and storage configuration(Life cycle), BIND,
Navisphere Manager, Volume/Access Logix, RAID, SAN(Monitoring, Zoning,
LUN Masking)disk subsystems
. Administered/Managed Superdome, Itanium, PA-RISC servers, for enterprise
and midrange applications. Involved in Upgrades(Ignite)HP-UX from 10.x
to11.0 and 11i
. Being a UNIX administrator achieved various milestones by
following/maintaining company standards(as per sarbanes-Oxley audit),
integrating different systems at enterprise/corporate level for the
better service.
. Extensively used SAM and restricted SAM while giving access to different
application groups and given confine permissions to the application teams
to kill/add/remove their end users and also on application
crontab/schedular.
. Actively involved in subnet migration and domain change from PAC Bell to
SBC (pacbell.com to sbc.com) and coordinated with relevant Database
Admins, application personnel for the database re-link during system
reboots and for application validation.
UNIX Administrator for Mutual of Omaha, Omaha, NE
Apr'98 - Jul'99
Major Responsibilities:
. Create and managed user profiles using Sam and Admin tool.
. Create and troubleshoot network printers using Sam and HP Jetadmin
software on all Unix systems in a Lan/Wan environment using 3Com network
cards and jet direct systems.
. Experience with Patches and software installation and worked closely with
system security, backup and system log verification.
. Workstation OS installation using general installation methods and using
Web Start.
. Working knowledge of FTP/Telnet, DNS, NFS, TCP/IP, NIS, NIS+ networking
utilities and technologies.
. Strong Unix Posix/Korn shell scripting using VI editor and HTML.
. Worked on HPUX logical volume manager and used Automount.
Programmer/Analyst for Deluxe Corporation, Shoreview,MN Jan'98
- Apr'98
Work Description:
Worked on Year 2000 rectification project at Deluxe Corporation.
Extensively involved in the Analysis & Renovation of JCL's for SORT-Y2K
compliance and validating the renovated code using different date mutation
techniques. The software and tools used in this are JCL's, COBOL II, DB2,
and FILE-AID in addition to an in-house developed validation-processing
tool.
Environment: IBM ES/9000, DB2, COBOL II, JCL, FILE-AID, X-peditor
Programmer/Analyst for Wausau Insurance, WI Sep'97 -
Jan'98
Project description:
Served as a Systems Analyst on a Compensation Agent Program. Responsible
for designing and gathering Business requirement components that will aid
in the implementation of the new program quarterly deliverables. Other
responsibilities include working with developers in designing an issues log
database in MS Access and Oracle.
Major Responsibilities:
. Role includes understanding business functions, identifying sources of
data, design of reports to suit various needs of End Users.
. Creation and Maintenance of PL/SQL Packages, Functions, Stored
Procedures, Shell Scripts for existing system as part of bug fixing and
enhancements.
. Coding of Load Module in PL/SQL, Database Package and writing Shell
Script to run the Interface as a part of nightly batch process, generate
log files.
. Used SQL*Loader for data loads.
. Involved in the creation of various types of Forms like master detail
. Forms with user friendly, for visual effects used visual attributes, Lovs
and alerts
Environment:Oracle7.x,Sql,PL/SQL,Developer2000,Forms4.5,Reports2.5/4.5,
Designer2000, Sql* Loader, Windows 95, OCI.
Education, Training & Certification
EDUCATION: BACHELOR'S IN ENGINEERING.
Training:
1998 "HP-UX system and network administration" by HP
Anaheim
(Orange County) education center, CA.
1997 "Fundamentals of UNIX" by HP Cupertino education
center, CA.
Certifications:
EXIN/ITIL(Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
Certified.
References:
will be provided upon request.