Srihari Balan

+91-991-***-****

ac8emd@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/srihari-balan-66635733/

Bangalore, 560017

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Professional Summary

•11+ Years of Experience in Information Technology Sector

•10+ Years of Experience in SAP Technology

SAP HANA certified professional with 10+ years of experience in SAP BASIS/Security areas, capable with an ability to identify and then deal with a client’s needs by translating them into appropriate technical solutions

WORK EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Resource Planning Senior Specialist Apr 2014 - Present

NTT Data Services Bangalore

Facility: NTT DATA/SeaWorld, USA 2017 till date

Position/Title: SAP Basis Consultant

Primary Responsibilities:

• Upgrade of SAP enterprise portal systems from 7.0 to 7.5

• SAP MDM installation, upgrade and administration

• Support pack patching, kernel upgrade, Oracle Bundle patching, EHP upgrade.

• Database sizing and tablespace maintenance.

• Configuration of CUA and user management through CUA.

• Working on SAP Security and Authorization

• Daily Basis regular tasks on administrating SAP products like ECC, BW, PI, Solman.

Facility: NTT DATA/ Owens&Minors, UK 2017 till date

Position/Title: SAP Basis Consultant

Primary Responsibilities:

•OS administration like FileSystem Extension, SuSe Linux Patching, Physical and Logical Volume extension

•Providing L3 level support for SAP systems running on OS, SuSE Linux and DB, Oracle

•Migration of SAP systems between datacenters.

•Support pack patching, kernel upgrade, Oracle Bundle patching, EHP upgrade.

•Configuring BI systems, JAVA stack patching, Maintaining UD connection

Facility: NTT DATA / Sivantos (Formerly Siemens Audiology), Germany 2014 till 2018

Position/Title: SAP Basis Consultant

Primary Responsibilities:

•Maintaining SAP systems on Windows environment.

•Working on SAP Security activities on Customized tools

•System Refresh using RMAN duplication method

•Stack split of ABAP and JAVA on dual stack system

•Performing Oracle DB upgrade, Oracle Bundle Patching

•Configuration of FAX, mails in SAP using SMTP protocol.

•Applying OS patches in Windows Servers

•Support pack upgrade

•Working on Change management, Incident and requests

Facility: Dell International Services / United Drug, Ireland 2014-2015

Position/Title: SAP Basis Consultant

Primary Responsibilities:

•System refresh activity on DB2 database.

•ADS configuration on Java stack systems

•BI Java stack installation.

•Daily system health check monitoring

•HANA installation and administration

Software Engineer Oct 2012 - Apr 2014

TechMahindra • Bangalore

Facility: TechMahindra/ Nestle, Switzerland 2012 – 2014

Position/Title: SAP Basis Consultant

Primary Responsibilities:

•EHP upgrade, SP upgrade, HRSP, CLC patching, Client copy, system copy activities

•Maintenance of SAP jobs, Printer administration.

•Supporting and resolving user issues in SAP.

•Supporting SAP systems around the globe through 24/7 support.

•Applying OSS notes

•Performing weekly outages in Java stack systems

•Creating customized UNIX scripts for administrative purpose.

•Performing regular health checks.

•Performing system decommissioning activities

•Preparing and planning system maintenance schedule

Technology Analyst Aug 2007 - Sep 2012

Infosys Limited • Bangalore

Facility: Infosys / Firmenich, Switzerland 2010 – 2012

Position/Title: SAP Basis & Security Administrator

Primary Responsibilities:

•Handling transport and release management, printer management and job management·

•Setting RFC connections within SAP to SAP and SAP to non-SAP systems

•Database administration involving backup definition, restore and maintaining tablespaces on Oracle DB

•OS administration on HP-UX and RHEL platforms

•Java engine administration using visual admin and config tool on standalone java system and dual stack systems

•Involved in system refresh and client copy activities

•Configuration activities like configuring and implementing Central User Administration, DBACOCKPIT in Solman system for remote database administration, CCMS configuration for various monitoring purposes and knowledge of TMS configuration.

•Involved in migration from JDK1.4 to SAPJVM in Java stack systems

•Upgrade activities including kernel upgrade, support pack upgrade and implementing snotes

•Setting OSS connection

•Performing regular system performance checks

•User administration in CUA and enterprise portal

•Role creation/modification activities, maintaining authorization objects, fields, objects classes, checking SOD conflicts.

•Working in Virsa(GRC 5.2) tools like Compliance Calibrator(Risk Analysis and Redemption) and Firefighter(Superuser Privilege Management)

•Internal audits with regular weekly and monthly security checks to ensure the relevant security and compliance standards are maintained

Facility: Infosys/ Syngenta AG, Switzerland 2008 – 2010

Position/Title: SAP Basis & Security Administrator

Primary Responsibilities:

•Handling transport management and printer management.

•Scheduling and maintaining batch jobs using redwood job scheduler.

•Client copy activities.

•User administration activities

•Role maintenance in ECC and BW environment.

•Monitoring the system performance and regular security checks

•Working on Virsa tools like Compliance calibrator and Firefighter

•Preparing and presenting reports on system performance, SLA and SOD to customers

Facility: Infosys/ Syngenta AG, Switzerland2007 – 2008

Position/Title: L1 SAP XI and Seebeyond system admin

Primary Responsibilities:

•Resolving the auto generated tickets due to error in data transfer in interfaces

•Coordinates with external vendors and performs downtime activities for both production and non-production servers which include running scripts, stopping and starting interfaces and ensuring the system is running fine once the downtime is over

•Monitoring the data transfer between the servers, regular system checks, running batch scripts to find out the errors.

•Generating weekly and monthly SLA reports, productivity of the team

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Information Technology May 2008 - Aug 2010

Anna University • Coimbatore

Bachelor of Science, Physics Jun 2004 - May 2007

Bharathiar University • Coimbatore

Awarded Bachelor degree with Distinction.

SKILLS

•SAP Basis

•SAP Security and Authorization

•SAP HANA

•Unix/Linux OS

•Oracle Database

•ITIL

•DB2

•Windows Server

•SAP XI

PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

•HP UX System and Network Administration

•IBM Certification

•Information technology infrastructure library (ITIL) Certification

•SUSE Certified Linux Administrator 12

•Systems, Applications and Products (SAP) Certified

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Best Team Member 2011

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