Summary of experience:

A self-motivated engineering graduate with 12+ years of core IT expertise into SAP BASIS which includes 7+ years of consulting experience, 5+ years working in highly-critical worldwide production environment and experience across various industries. Achieved OS/DB Migration, SAP NetWeaver 7.0, Oracle Certified Professional and ITIL v3 Foundation certifications.

Beyond my Technical expertise -- I believe my greatest strengths are my positive attitude and ability to translate and relate complex technology into business opportunities, cost savings and efficiency. Strong technical and organizational skills, leading SAP teams / projects, resource management, troubleshooting, documentation, inter-personal skills and all-time focus on customer satisfaction.

Overall experience is summarized below:

Vast leadership experience includes handling onshore / offshore Service Delivery Management, SAP Basis Manager and SAP Team Lead.

Expertise in planning, executing and leading various SAP projects which includes implementations and upgrades, Datacenter Migrations, OS/DB Migrations, Disaster Recovery (DR) setup, SAP architecture, Pre-sales, RFP’s, Pre-study’s, RFM, Continuous/Systematic Improvement Plans (CIP/SIP), Resource utilization, and Project Management/Execution.

Strong on managing complex SAP implementations, upgrades, Homogeneous and Heterogeneous system copy, Database upgrades, Single Sign On configuration, administration, troubleshooting and production support of SAP ECC 6.0, BW 7.3, HR, EP 7.3, Solution Manager 7.1, APO/Livecache administration, SRM/MDM 7.1, SCM, BOE/BOBJ 4.1, NWDI, SLD, SAP Redwood, SAP BW/BWA administration, TREX, SAP EEM, VERTEX, GRC 10 and NW 7.3 systems based on Windows 2005/2008/2008 R2, Linux, AIX, Sun Solaris environments with Oracle / Oracle RAC, DB2 9.5 and MS SQL Server 2012 databases.

Experience in SAP HANA DB migration, sizing, administrations and troubleshooting activities, experience in monitoring and maintaining standard and customer batch jobs in SAP HANA, installation and configuration of Real time trigger based data replication via SAP Landscape transformation, SAP HANA Database and Landscape Administration with SAP DB Control Center

Extensive experience in Support Pack Stack upgrades (SPS), Enhancement Package (EHP) upgrade, client copy, kernel upgrades, Transport Management System (TMS), performance tuning, SAP Audit and 24x7 On-Call support.

Hands on experience in maintaining job scheduling tool such as SAP Redwood and third party batch monitoring tool Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS).

Good understanding of handling engagements with multiple vendors.

Work experience:

Univar USA Inc. Dec 2013 – Nov 2015

Location : Redmond, WA

Duration : Dec 2013 – To present

Role : Senior SAP Basis Consultant / SAP Basis Architect

Environment : SAP BW, SRM, SCM, EP, PI, ECC, GRC, Vertex, AIX, Solution Manager,

Windows 2008 R2, Oracle.

Brief : A leading global distributor of industrial and specialty chemicals.

Responsibility:

Leading and architecting the Datacenter Migration and Disaster Recovery (DR) projects onto IBM based cloud network for Global SAP systems spread accross USA and Europe. Designing the to-be landscape being a SPOC and Technical architect, lialising with hardware vendor, 3rd part vendors etc.

Provide technical architechture recommendations from SAP Basis front for SAP and Non-SAP systems spread across geographies, participate in solution reviews with the Enterprise Architecture group and particitpate in the PMO and project review committee for proposed solutions.

Handling SAP landscape in a multi-vendor partner environment for AMS (Application Managed Services) and AoD (Application on Demand - Infrastucture) with an end user count of 8000+ user community globally. This includes, managing relationships with key vendor IBM, Rimini Street, 3E and Implementation partners and consulting providers.

Leading various internal implementation and supprt projects including desining the Global SAP Archival solution, Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S), BSI/RSI Tax engine, VERTEX support / updates.

Involved in various ITIL framework methedologies.

Configuring third party vendor interfaces including sending / receiving files in SAP PI via sftp in SAP CPS by Redwood

Techwave Consulting Inc. May 2013 – Dec 2013

Customer : Westcon Group

Location : Redmond, WA

Duration : Aug 2013 – Sept 2013.

Role : Senior SAP Basis Consultant.

Environment : Solution Manager 7.1 SP8, HPQC 10.0, 11.0, 11.5, Redhat

Linux, Windows 2003, MS SQL Server 2005.

Responsibility:

Installation of HPQC 11.0 and integration with Solution Manager 7.1.

CHARM configuration

Customer : Fujitsu America.

Location : Redmond, WA

Duration : May 2013 – July 2013.

Role : Senior SAP Basis Consultant.

Environment : SAP BW 7.31, BPC 10.0, Windows 2008 R2, MS SQL Server 2012.

Responsibility:

Setting up parallel landscape for implementing SAP BW 7.31 with SAP BPC 10.0 from scratch.

Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd March 2012 – May 2013

Customer : Univar USA Inc.

Location : Redmond, WA

Duration : March 2013 – May 2013

Role : Senior SAP Basis Consultant.

Environment : SAP BW, SRM, EP, PI, SCM, ECC, GRC, AIX, Oracle.

Brief : A leading global distributor of industrial and specialty chemicals.

Responsibility:

End to End implementation for various phases of roll-outs.

Build project landscape, performing system refreshes, defect resolution through HPQC, support during the Cutovers and Integration Testing Cyles, transport management

Planning the Performance, load and regression testing across project landscape with the help of HP Loadrunner.

Customer : Liberty International Underwriters (LIU)

Location : Portsmouth, NH

Duration : December 2012 – February 2013.

Role : Senior SAP Basis Consultant.

Environment : SAP BW 7.0, Solution Manager 7.1, ECC 6.0, Windows 2003,

Windows 2008 R2, MS SQL Server 2005, MS SQL Server 2012.

Brief : A global specialty lines business with an emphasis on niche insurance products distributed through the independent broker network.

Responsibility:

Setting up parallel landscape for upgrading SAP BW 7.0 to BW 7.3 EHP1 with SAP BPC implementation, Solution Manager and ECC Support pack upgrade.

End-End configuration of Change Request Management (CHARM), EWA, MOPZ, System monitoring

Customer : Astellas Pharma

Location : Philadelphia, PA

Duration : March 2012 – August 2012.

Role : Senior SAP Basis Consultant.

Environment : SAP EP Portal / NWDI / SLD 7.3, BI Portal 7.0, SRM Portal 7.02,

Solution Manager 7.1, 7.3SAP ECC 6.0 EHP5, CS 6.4, GRC 10, SRM

7.01, BW 7.0, Linux 5.7, Oracle 11g.

Brief : Japan’s second largest pharmaceutical company maintaining a global category leader position in urology, transplantation, and immunology

Responsibility:

Performing End-to-End Implementation of the EP, SLD and NWDI on NW 7.3 SPS07 and BI, SRM, Solution Manager, ECC system landscape on Red Hat Linux 5.3 Oracle 11g.

Awarded for his significant contribution within the area of responsibility, with quality and without major defects.

Also, was responsible for the upgrade of SRM system from SRM 5.0 to SRM 7.0 EHP1. It was a homogeneous system copy from RH 5.2 to RH 5.7 and Oracle upgrade from Oracle 10 to Oracle 11 on a 3 system parallel landscape strategy.

Capgemini Consulting India Pvt Ltd October 2006 – February 2012

Customer : Nordea Bank AB, Sweden.

Duration : December 2006 – February 2012.

Role : SAP Basis Manager / SAP Team Lead

Team Size : 30 at peak

Environment : SAP Netweaver 7.0, ECC 6.0 EHP4, Solution Manager 7.0

EHP1, Portal 7.0 EHP1, Unix (AIX 5.3), database DB2.

Brief: Leading financial services group in the Nordic and Baltic Sea region.

Responsibility :

As a SAP Team Lead, Project Manager, Quality lead, was responsible for the entire SAP Project delivery:

Preparing the Plan for each Month End On-Calls.

Provide Technical / Non-Technical support and guidance to team members during their regular deliveries and during escalations.

Time Tracking and Invoicing.

Keep a check on the SLA’s related to ITSM tickets and RFS’s so that there are no Breaches.

Motivating the team to enhance their Technical skills through trainings, Certifications and Quality process.

Systems health check & performance monitor.

Idoc monitoring.

Monitoring IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) job scheduling tool.

Handle Transport requests.

eESM/ITSM tickets

Data Archiving

Applying OSS notes

Create and maintain roles, user administration in non-production systems, add web reports, BW reports and workbooks in roles based on request

Projects Lead:

1.SAP R3 Upgrade from 4.7 to ECC 6.0.

2.SAP HR Technical Upgrade from ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0 along with Unicode Conversion and SAP EP Upgrade from EP 6.0 to EP 7.0

3.SAP HR Enhancement Package upgrade from ECC 6.0 to EHP4.

SAP EP Upgrade from EP 7.0 to EHP1.

SAP Solution Manager Upgrade from 4.0 to EHP1.

4.Support Pack Stack Upgrade of SAP R3 and BW to SPS16.

As a SAP Basis Manager / Basis Lead was solely responsible for preparation of the RFP for the above Technical Upgrades. This includes the Project Plan preparation, resourcing, Go-live cutover activities, Go-live and Post Go-live support. I was also the On-Site Co-ordinator for the Application Management team at Offshore which included the controlled support to the Daily Flows in R3 to BW.

Customer : EDB, Sweden.

Duration : November 2006

Role : SAP Basis Consultant

Environment : SAP R3, SCM, CRM on Windows, Sun and AIX, Oracle and MS SQL.

Brief : Supporting the Production landscapes of EDB Customers.

Responsibility :

As a SAP Basis Consultant, involved in providing support to SAP systems of customer Molnlycke Healthcare (MHC).

Customer : Molnlycke Health Care, Sweden.

Duration : October 2006

Role : SAP Basis Consultant, Offshore Support

Environment : SAP R3, SCM, CRM on AIX, Oracle.

Responsibility:

Providing SAP Basis support to the SAP landscape of Molnlycke Health Care Customer which involves SAP ECC, SCM and CRM on AIX with Oracle.

Larsen & Toubro InfoTech Limited August 2005 – October 2006

Customer : UltraTech Cement Limited

Duration : April 2006 to October 2006

Role : SAP Basis Consultant

Environment : SAP R/3 Enterprise, ORACLE 9i, HP-UX, Sun OS

Brief : A leading producer of Cement across India

Customer : BMW Group Data Centre, Malaysia

Onsite Duration : January 2006 – March 2006

Role : SAP Basis Consultant, Onsite Support

Environment : SAP R/3 4.6C, ORACLE 9i, HP-UX 11.11

Brief : A leading manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles worldwide

Customer : Gillette, Germany

Duration : August 2005 to November 2005

Role : SAP Basis Consultant for performing the Technical Upgrade of R/3

Systems from 4.6B to mySAP ERP 2004 (ECC 5.0 SR1),

Offshore Support

Environment : SAP R/3, ORACLE 9i, SUN SOLARIS 5.9, AIX 5.1/5.3

Brief : An iinternational consumer products firm.

United Phosphorous Limited Aug 2004 – Jul 2005

Company : United Phosphorous Limited

Duration : August 2004 – July 2005

Role : SAP Basis Consultant, Offshore Support

Environment : SAP R3 Enterprise, BW, Oracle 9i, HP-UX.

Brief : A leading player in Pesticides and Agro Products industry in India.

Aarti Industries Limited Apr 2003 – Aug 2004

Company : Aarti Industries Limited.

Duration : April 2003 – August 2004.

Role : SAP Basis Consultant & IT Support, Offshore Support.

Environment : Windows 2000 Server, MS SQL Server 2000, SAP R/3 4.6C

Brief : Largest manufacturers of chemicals across India.

Certifications

SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS/DB Migration NW 7.30

SAP Basis Certified Consultant – NW AS 700

ITIL Version 3, Foundation Examination – Information Technology Infrastructure Library

OCP - Oracle Certified Professional

Awards

Felicitated with the ‘TechWiz’ award by Capgemini Consulting for the contribution in bringing business and assignments within Nordea engagement with a lot of positive feedback and appreciation.

Received the ‘Project star’ award given by Capgemini Consulting.

Received a ‘Spot Award’ by Deloitte Consulting for the best contribution while on Astellas engagement.

Professional Qualification

Holding a Bachelors in Computer Science from Mumbai University in 2002.

Diploma in Computer Technology from Mumbai University in 1999.

Trainings

Project Management Professional (PMP)

SAP HANA 1.0.

OS/DB Migration based on NW 7.3.

SAP PI Basis administration.

Oracle Certified Professional.

ITIL Version 3, Foundation.

HP-UX

PQL – Project Quality Lead.

Various internal technical trainings, webinars, training CR batches, involved in writing blogs on SCN etc. Written various Point of Views (POV’s).

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