SUJANKUMAR DHONTHULA
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Strong experience of 10+ years in SAP Basis/ NetWeaver Administration and excelled in all phases of SAP Implementation from design, installation, implementation, development, go live, cutovers, hyper care, Production support, upgrades, Disaster Recovery projects.
Expertise in various SAP component Installations, Upgrades, Configuration, Post Implementation tasks, Go-live & Post go-live production support and Performance Tuning activities.
Expertise in Production Support for handling SAP versions like SAP R/3 (4.6C, 4.7EE), XI 3.0, SAP SRM 2005, SAP ERP EHPs (601-607), SAP CRM 2005 (CRM 5.0), CRM 2007, Net Weaver 7.0(2004s),710, 711,720,730.731,740,BI7.0,701,7.3,7.4, PI/PO7.0,710,711,7.3,7.4,7.5 & EP 7.0,701.730,740,CE710.720,730, Solution Manager 7.1&7.2, BPC, BW, BOBJ,S4HANA,Fiori etc.
Performed Oracle Upgrades from 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.4, 10.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.2,11.2.0.3 to 12.1.0.2 and 9.2.0.8 to 10.2.0.4 on AIX/Linux/Solaris/windows platforms.
Expertise in Implementations on different platforms for all the SAP Components.
Thorough hands on expertise in Installations / System Builds, EHP Upgrades, OS/DB Migrations, System Copies / System Refreshes, Disaster Recover Setups & Tests and Unicode Conversions.
BPC 10.0&10.1 installed and configured on BW 7.31, BW 7.4 and S4Hana systems.
Performed ECC EHP upgrades, Solution manager 7.1 Upgrade& BW upgrades.
Homogeneous system copies for NetWeaver systems (ABAP+JAVA).
Expert in SAP Service Connections, Applying support packages, Add-on components, Kernel Upgrades and SPAM updates.
Strong knowledge on SQL server DB Administration, Oracle database administration.
Exposure on Cloud Environment SAP Customers.
Proficient in Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management activities
Experienced in Creation/Management of User and Authorization Profiles/Roles using Profile Generator.
Handling Problem Escalations from Front-line Engineers and Perform day to day BASIS admin responsibilities including troubleshooting, analyse load and monitor performance for SAP systems.
Homogenous & Heterogeneous System Copies
Hands-on experience in performing ABAP Patching via SNOTE, SAINT, JAVA Patches through Sapinst, SDM, JSPM, NWDS & ABAP+JAVA stack via SUM, Database Patch Upgrades and Database Reorganization
Hands-on expertise in Solution Manager Configuration (EWA, MOPZ, E2E & CHARM)
Configured SSO on SAP systems and integrating BI system with Enterprise Portal
Expertise on setup or integrate Logical Systems, Logical Ports, tRFC,qRFC,CIFS and etc
Performed proactive monitoring of SAP R/3 Database, Short Dumps, Update Errors, and Lock entries including file systems
Experienced in Scheduling Background Jobs, Spool Administration, Client Maintenance, System Copies, applying Support Packs, Kernel Patches, Add-on installations and advance corrections using SNOTE.
Transport Management System (TMS) - Complete setup of Change & Transport System through STMS.
Administered Operating Systems HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows 2003, 2008 performing full backups & restore and performing health checks.
Experienced on all aspects of Security & Authorizations - User management, Access Review, Groups Creation/Modification, creating roles (PFCG), generating profiles, assigning roles to profiles, Authorization Traces, Generating reports & troubleshooting, CUA, LDAP Support with SSO (Single Sign on)
Performed core SAP BI Net Weaver/Basis Configuration & Troubleshooting of ABAP and Java Connectivity, Source System connectivity, Data Loads, Process Chains, etc.
Expert in installations and configurations of (System Landscape Directory), CTS+ and CMS (Change Management Service) for JAVA transports.
Configuring and analyzing SAP EWA reports through Solution Manager.
Hands on experience on SAP sizing, System build & refresh, defining project plan and solution roadmap, defining and executing deliverables.
Conducted training, defining support procedures, prototyping, documenting repeatable procedures during cutover, managing technical project lifecycle etc.
Involved in multiple project life cycle from Project Preparation, all through Go-Live, Post-Production support, Upgrades in various industries like Manufacturing, Utilities and Pharmaceutical/Health Care.
Responsible for managing QA. UAT and Go-Live implementation for US KPI Basis Operations dashboards
SAP HANA & S4 HANA Skills:
HANA Installations, Upgrades / Updates
SAP HANA & S4 HANA Landscape and Architecture
SAP HANA & S4 HANA Migrations using DMO of SUM tool
Hands-on SAP HANA Tool like SAP HANA Studio, DBA, HDBSQL, HANA Cockpit etc.
SAP HANA Operations, Backup and Recovery, Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Maintaining Users and Authorizations
Data Provisioning Using SLT,
Software Lifecycle Management
SAP HANA security experience, HANA License Issues, HANA Alerts & Trace Monitoring
SAP HANA DR builds
SAP COMPONENT UPGRADE:
SAP ECC EHP upgrade from R/3 4.7 xx to ECC6 EHP5, ECC5.0 to ECC6 EHP5 & ECC6.0 to ECC6 EHP7
Upgrade of BW 7.0 to 7.3 EhP1.
CRM upgrade from CRM 4.0 to CRM 7.0 EHP1 & CRM 7.0 to CRM7.0 EHP2.
Solution Manager Upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 & 7.0 EHp1 to 7.1 and 7.1 to 7.2
Oracle, MSSQL, DB2, & MaxDB Skills:
Oracle installations, upgrades and bundle patch updates
Database administration, trouble shooting and Tablespaces administration for Oracle
Building and rebuilding indexes and monitoring index usage
MSSQL server upgrades, Patch updates, Transaction log, Server Client & Studio Issues
DB2 Installations, Upgrades, backup, restore & recovery setups for SAP systems
MSSQL Cluster/HA setups for SAP systems on windows, Backup & recovery / restore setups
Max DB Installations & Updates
Taking various types of backups such as COLD & HOT, Logical to perform the recovery
Data migration from different servers using the export and import utilities
DB Creation and DB reorganization
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Client : Protective life (Dai-ichi, LTD),Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Designation & Role : SAP Basis, HANA, S4HANA Lead
Duration : January 2017 to Present
Project : S4HANA 1610, Fiori, PO, BO, BPC & Solution manager 7.2 Implementations
Roles and Responsibilities as a Team Lead:
In this project, my role is to help in designing (blueprint) the Landscape Architecture, defining the strategy, planning the technical steps and timelines for team & actual hands on while building, installing and setting up the system in the landscape as a proof of concept. As SAP S4HANA Administrator Installing and configuring SAP HANA database, SAP applications and HANA studio. Review and advise system configuration, testing evaluations with possible tuning recommendations, cutover preparation, and operational readiness from system point of view, Go-live, and hyper-care.
Installed and Configured Planning for S4HANA 1610, Fiori, BPC, BO, Web dispatcher, NetWeaver Gateway, PO 7.5 Solution manager 7.2 landscapes
Participating Post installations for S4HANA 1610, Fiori, BO, PO landscape systems
Performed PO7.5 and S4HANA Integrations, Planning, Setup & execution for all the landscapes
Fiori configuration with S4HANA systems and Fiori my inbox configuration. Fiori troubleshooting issues while building the apps for S4HANA applications
Involved on SAML 2.0 setup for ADFS server
Working on interface planning and setup on PO7.5 systems Working on data loading from Vistas system to SFTP server and then to PO system using file adapter and then to S4HANA systems via Proxy setup.
Worked closely with conversion team and middleware team during interface testing phase for PO
Fiori troubleshooting issues while building the Fiori apps for S4HANA applications
Setting up Printer, SMTP setups on S4HANA Systems
Experience on ADS setup for PO & S4HANA systems, SFTP server setup, Folder, User creations to connect the server with PO systems
Installation Solution manager 7.2 SPS 03, Manage systems configuration on solution manager 7.2 HANA systems HANA, ABAP and Java systems.
Strong Hands experience and configuring SOLMAN 7.2 technical monitoring.
Configuration, PI monitoring and LMDB, SLD configuration, Configuring Solution manager maintenance Optimizer, Configuring Early Watch Alert (EWA).
Experience on HP ALM (HP QC) for Test management.
Supporting to the teams and Providing On-call Support for the Production server issues.
Environment: SUSE Linux-SLES11 SP3, VMs, Windows, HANA 1.0 SP 11.2, S4HANA 1610, Fiori, BPC, PO7.5 & sFTP
Client : G4S (AMEG Technologies) Implementation USA & UK
Designation & Role : Senior SAP Basis Consultant,
Duration : Oct 2015 to January 2017
Project : ECC6.0 EHP7, BW 7.4, BPC 10.0, PI 7.4, EP 7.4, Ariba and CRM 7.4 MS sqlserver 2012
Roles and Responsibilities as Senior Basis consultant:
Installations& Post Installation activates of defining the strategy, planning the technical steps and timelines for team & actual hands on while building, installing and setting up the system in the landscape like SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 7, PI 7.4, CRM, BW 7.4 and EP 7.4
Cloud Datacentre Migration and SAP EHP upgrades performed on ECC to ECC EHP 7
Enterprises portal Administration (EP 7.4) Add-on Configuring ESS and MSS
Configured CTS+ in Solution manager 7.1
Post Installation and Go-live support
Configured BPC 10 .0 add on BW systems.
Strong Hands experience solution manager upgrades and configuring SOLMAN 7.1, Manage systems configuration on solution manager 7.1 both ABAP and Java systems. technical monitoring configuration, PI monitoring and LMDB, SLD configuration. Configuring maintenance Optimizer, Configuring Early Watch Alert (EWA).
Manage systems configuration on solution manager 7.1 both ABAP and Java systems.
Web Dispatcher Installation for Load balancing between application servers.
Responsible for Basic tasks includes scheduling and monitoring Batch jobs, Client copies procedures, daily monitoring of the system, Spool administration. Management of transport requests.
Applying ABAP and Java Support packages through SUM.
CUA configuration for all systems
MS SQL server upgrades 2005 to 2012, MS SQL database administration - Backup management, Space management.
Performed system copy DB refresh for ECC, BW and CRM systems on MS SQL server database.
Environment: SUSE Linux Windows NT 2012, MS sql 2012, ECC, BW,Cognos,Ariba,DMZ CRM, BPC, PO7.4 & sFTP
Client : MERCK Comet Implementation (New Jersey) United States
Designation & Role : SAP Basis, HANA,
Duration : January 2014 to Oct 2015
Project : ECC, BW 7.4, PI 7.31, EP7.31, E-sourcing, GRC, BOBJ 4.0 HANA1.0 & Oralce 11g Implementations
Roles and Responsibilities as Senior Basis consultant:
Upgrade & Migration of SAP BW on HANA Database using DMO Tool
Backup and Recovery of HANA DB using HANA Studio and Administration
Install stand-alone SLT Replication Server, Table load and Configure connection ECC to SLT to HANA system
Implementation of BOBJ BI 4.0 environment Performed post-installation activities for BOBJ BI4.0 BOBJ Administration using CMC Console
Performed SSO configuration between BI and BOBJ systems, Integration between BOBJ and BI System
Language Installation and SPS Upgrade for the entire landscape using SUM tool
Responsible for 24/7 supports of servers that includes various NetWeaver based systems like ECC, CRM, SRM, PI and BW and Oracle Database
Proficient in Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management activities
Worked on various activities like: -Kernel patching, ABAP/JAVA support packs agent installation
Monitoring SAP CCMS agent and CCMS ping agents.
Client Administration including client creation, client copy, Client opens.
User Management like User Creation, deletion of user, user locks, Role assignation to the newly created users.
Configured system to generate Early Watch alert report.
Monitoring Background jobs, scheduling and re-scheduling of jobs, cancelling long running jobs.
SAP bundle patch application on database (SBP patching)
Participating in all production server Maintenance windows and providing on-call Support for the Production server issues
Monitor daily back-up, creation of snapshots
Environment: SUSE Linux, HP-UNIX, HANA 1.0, E-sourcing, GRC, BOBJ 4.0 Oracle 11g, BPC, PO7.3 & SFTP
Client : Means industries (Michigan) United States
Designation & Role : SAP Basis consultant
Duration : March 2013 to January 2014
Project : ECC, BW 7.4, PI 7.31, EP, EDI and Oracle 11g support
Roles and Responsibilities as Senior Basis consultant:
Configured SSO and connecting to the backend systems and uploaded roles from backend systems to EP
Deployed business packages into EP, Involved in User Administration in EP Portal to create. Delete Locking, Unlocking users.
Configuring in ECC 6.0 ADS, SSO,
Disaster recovery server configuration testing and monitoring.
Setting up Solution Manager System Landscape and SMD, User Administration in the Java Environment using Configtool, Ume Console, Visual Administrator, Jcmon tool.
Change Request Management: Creating Change Request, Released Task and Change Request, Change the Owner of the Task and Change Request, Importing the Transport Request Using STMS, Manually Importing the Transport Request Using TP at OS level
Apply Support Package & Notes: Defined Prerequisites and Applied Support Packages, Download Support Packages and Notes from SAP market place.
Background Job management: Defined Background job, Monitoring the Background Job Status and restarting the terminated jobs, Scheduled jobs to delete Old Background Jobs
Providing developer access key, License Key, System License from SAP market place.
Client Administration: Client Creation, deletion and Client Copy.
Applying Support packages and implementing.
Performing SAP printer Configuration using various access methods
Performed system copy from Production to QAS (ABAP & JAVA)
Environment: SUSE Linux Windows NT 2013, MS Sql 2012, ECC, BW, IBM Cognos, Ariba,DMZ CRM, BPC, PO7.4 & SFTP
Clients : AMS Application management services
Designation & Role : Consultant / Team Member
Duration : Dec’2009 to March 2013
Clients: As a Sr Basis & Net Weaver Senior Consultant, I worked as a shared resource in AMS SAP Basis team. We have major clients (20 +) like Beam Suntory (Jim beam), FFIC, eBay Inc, Newell, PG, PFG, Fender, Eaton Vance, Intermec, Miller, NB, NCF, NCDOT, DHL Smart Global, Vitalmax, EPRI etc.
Roles and Responsibilities - Worked as a shared resource for the Customers:
Performed ECC, BI, CRM, EP Upgrades for Eaton Vance customer systems for entire landscapes
Involved database upgrades like Oracle 10g to 11g and MS SQL 2005 to 2008
Planned, Prepared, Installed and Post-Installed/3Systems. Performed post Installation Setup of SAP Components: Initial System Backup, Configure SAPs Transport Management System, Request / Set-up SAP Developer Keys, Setup SAPROUTER connection to SAP.
install support packages, Client Copy, Install OSS notes, Configure SAP Note Assistant, SAP DBA configuration, Tuning / Modification of SAP and instance parameter files, Configuration of the SAPLOGON entries for the newly installed system, and setup of printers.
Performed system refresh/system copies in different platforms for all the customers
Responsible for Basis tasks includes scheduling and monitoring Batch jobs, Database Backup issues procedures, daily monitoring of the system, Spool administration and aged tickets for all the customers.
DR builds on UNIX/LINUX/Solaris and Oracle and MS SQL environment (Using S99 scripts and Oracle Data Guard) DR tests
Installed on wily Introscope, Host Agent Setups and SMD upgrades for R/3, PI, Solman and BI landscapes.
Expertise on Solution Manager administration/configuration tasks EWA setup configurations for both single stack and Dual stacks systems in central solution manger systems, Mopz configurations and CCMS alert configuration and Monitoring on Solman manager systems
Installed SMD Agent 7.2 and Host Agent on Solaris/Windows systems.
Upgraded Kernel and application support patches like ABAP & JAVA
Daily Monitoring activities like Analyzing ABAP Dumps, Update Monitoring, Operation Modes, and Lock Entries.
Worked on Third party tools like Monthly Vertex and Taxware Updates.
Environment: SUSE Linux, Windows NT, AIX,Sun solaris, MS sql 2008,DB2,Oracle ECC,BW,SRM, CRM, BPC, PO, live chase
Client : Fidility (Efunds)
Designation & Role : Consultant / Team Member
Duration : Oct 2008 to Dec 2009
Project : ECC, PI 7.30 and Oracle 11g,Sun solarise, Vertex
Roles and Responsibilities:
Responsible for smooth run of production servers by performing system health checks through Central System Administration. Providing oncall Support for the Production server issues.
Performance analysis and tuning activities in the Production System like suggestions to create index on tables, OSS notes and modification in the Customized Program.
Transports of all flavors - Preliminary single transports, Mass transports, transport adhering to a QA approval procedure & STMS Configuration.
Performed stress test for performance and workload analysis for cutover & go live activates.
Performed SAP Data Archiving objects using SARA, IXOS
Adding the certificates in R/3 with STRUST and STRUSTSS02 transactions.
Providing change control of SAP objects from development to Test and Production Systems
Configured Operational Modes, logon groups for load balancing of application servers. Ensuring Daily log checks and Updates, Batch Job & Spool maintenance.
Done Homogenous System copy, system build and system refresh to production support servers.
Performing the table space Administration tasks like adding data files, reorganizing the tables & rebuilding indexes using brtools.
Client : Motorola
Designation & Role : Consultant / Team Member
Duration : Nov 2007 to Sep 2008
Project : ECC, BW 7.4, PI 7.31, EP, EDI and Oracle 11g support
Roles and Responsibilities:
Handling P1, P2, P3 and P4 Incidents whichever occurs during the support. Preparing RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for P1/P2 tickets and ON-CALL support for production support
Installation of printers on both sap servers and OS environment troubleshoot the printer issues
Performing the table space Administration tasks like adding data files, reorganizing the tables & rebuilding indexes using brtools.
Daily system Monitoring, Performance Monitoring/Tuning, RFC connectivity, OSS Notes, support packages (SPAM), Kernel patches, and Client copies, Pro-active Maintenance, Printer Management and Spool Administration.
Regular Monitoring of systems and prepare the check list and Monthly DB reports.
Experience on SAP ADD-ON installation and activation on ABAP & Java systems
Configured TMS, Logon load balancing, Operation modes.
Creating Single, Derived Roles, Composite Roles, Maintaining Existing Roles and Transporting Assigning the Firefighters, downloading.
Using SUIM generating the reports like Locked, Unlocked Users, Role, User Comparison
Maintain Daily Health checks and preparing Monthly DB growth reports on production systems
Adding Data files, resizing, reorganization by using BRTOOLS.
ACADEMIC PROFILE:
Master of Computer Application (MCA) from Bharathidasan University TN India
TRAININGS:
Open SAP Trained on solution manager 7.1 in HCL
Open SAP Trained on cloud solution in HCL
TOOLS:
Remedy, Vertex, Taxware, service desk, Maxima, FIT, Tivoli,
CMDB, Maintenance Planner, HP Open View
AWARDS:
Best Performer award for solution manager Implementation project in HCL