Amar Kalkeri
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Synopsis
A Senior Manager graduated from Mumbai University & having overall 11+ years of core professional experience in Information Technology Sector.
6+ yrs of experienced and good knowledge in SAP HANA, R/3/ SAP Netweaver environment, System Integration, System Administration, and Technical Support on UNIX and Linux platforms
Possessing working exposure in SAP Basis-Security, GRC Consultant with extensive skills in SAP R/3, SAP GRC AC 5.3 (RAR, CUP & ERM) & database like Oracle 11g/10g, MS-SQL 2008 & DB2.
Skills
People manager with experience in building winning IT teams, recruitment, selection, mentoring, training, development.
Effective verbal, written, interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability in successfully interacting with individuals at all levels.
Expertise in SAP Hana Troubleshooting, Installation & Upgrade
Expertise in system Installation, upgrade, refresh, Client copy activities.
Expertise in applying support packs, kernel patch and SAP notes when necessary.
Expertise in operating systems like HP-UX, AIX, Linux, and Windows and also good at handling Oracle /Microsoft SQL 2005-2008.
Security administration – creating users, roles, assign authorization.
Highly motivated to facilitate the maximum level of reliability, availability and efficient functionality of systems with uptime requirement of 24*7.
Technology
SAP Suite: Netweaver 7.0 EHP4/EHP1, SAP Solution Manager 7.0 & 7.1, SAP R/3 ECC6, Netweaver 2004 SR1-Portal 6.0 (Service Desk, SAP Router and Maintenance Optimizer), GRC AC 5.3, NW 7.3, 7.4 & 7.5
Database: HANA, Oracle 11g and MS SQL2005/2008, DB2
Operating Systems: HP-Unix, AS400, IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux, Windows
Certifications / Technical Courses
Sun Solaris Certified.
Pursued Training on SAP HANA Installation & Operations (HA200)
Pursued Training in SAP ERP (ADM 100/200).
Pursued Training in HP UNIX Systems & Network Administration Customized.
Pursued Training in RHEL
Pursued Training in Networking, VMware and Advanced Teamwork.
Pursued Training in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10.
Pursued Training in SA Training on Amazon Cloud Offerings.
Professional Experience
Key Profile:
Managerial:
Leading technical implementation of highly complex & tightly integrated analytics program for Reliance JIO with aggressive timelines.
Responsible for implementation & operational excellence of SAP BW on HANA application
People Management activities like Goal Setting, Appraisal, Weekly Meetings, Conflict resolution, Leave management
Responsible for conducting Quality Audits inside team to ensure standards and procedures are strictly followed without exceptions.
Effective verbal, written, interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability in successfully interacting with individuals at all levels
Communicate with business and vendors in order to solve technical issues, minimize the response and resolution times for having optimal SLA’s.
Coordination with the Dev and Functional team for the maintenance.
HANA Administration:
Managing SAP Hana system on SAP HANA Studio 7 & Cockpit.
Performed SAP HANA Installation, Post-Installation & Upgrade.
Performing User Management, Backup & Recovery of SAP HANA
Performing Monitoring, Troubleshooting & configuration of SAP HANA.
Knowledge on SAP HANA Data Provisioning
Solman Administration:
Installation of SOLMAN 7.1.
Update from SP04 to SP14 using SUM
Post installation activities
Using Solman for stack generation using Maintenance Optimizer
Configuring Manage systems & EWA under Solman 7.1
Summarizing EWA reports for each system and implementing SAP and oracle database recommendations in (BW, CRM & R/3) Landscapes.
SAP Basis Consultant:
Performed installation & configuration of SAP ECC.
Performed Kernel Up gradation, Support packs and Plug-ins installation, Notes Application.
System Copies, System Refresh, Client copy for MS-SQL systems & AS-400.
ECC 6.0 system Export-Import Homogenous copy hardware migration.
Good with cutover activities and closing SLA driven tickets within time.
Upgrade JAVA support packs using JSPM, SDM & SUM
PI 7.1 EhP1 system Export-Import Homogenous copy hardware migration.
Client copies through Third Party EPI-USE tool in ECC.
Configuring STMS and Performing Transports and resolving the issues with Transports)
Performed DB2 table compression.
Database backup & restoration test. SQL database monitoring using SQL studio.
System start/stop on Microsoft & Linux Cluster Administration.
Client Administration including client copy / export / import / delete
Configuring printers, troubleshooting printer spool issues. Background jobs issues.
SCM : Live cache, Background jobs administration, troubleshooting
Configure and Manage RFC Connections between systems
Configuration of incoming and outgoing mail in sap system using SMTP
Performing the backups using BRTOOLS.
SAP-BASIS support to the high available environment with multiple Application servers.
Resolving the incidents & Service request raise within the SLA.
Work with the other team and vendors to improve system performance tuning.
Scheduling, monitoring, analyzing, checking the status & deleting old background jobs.
Checking & Monitoring the SAP systems availability of all application servers, alerts & systems logs, background jobs, Systems locks, update failures & ABAP dump analyses.
Created the SAP GUI 7.30 package for Business use incorporating the products required by the client.
Interacting with SAP by raising OSS message & co-coordinating with them via phone, screen sharing session & uploading the requested files for resolution if any issues with the systems.
SAP Security Consultant:
User administration involving creating, modifying, copying & deleting users, assigning roles & profiles using SU01
Modified Single roles, Composite roles and Derived roles using automatic profile generator to meet business requirements by making sure users do not get more authorizations than needed to perform their tasks.
Performing the user administration like creating, maintaining and assigning groups to users in Portal System.
Maintaining Audit Parameters & working on Weekly activities
Manage Mass User creation & maintenances with the help of SU10
Proficient in use of standard security administration tools such as Profile Generator for Authorization Profiles/Roles administration (design, development & implementation).
Monitoring the list of users with critical T-codes and critical profiles like SAP_ALL & SAP_NEW
Effectively analyzed trace files and tracked missed authorizations by using SU53 and ST01 for user’s access problems and inserted missing authorizations manually
Systems Administration:
Creating & managing the instances, migrating the codes and software’s on the cloud instances.
Handling Staging, Development and Production servers. Monitoring of around 125 servers, up-gradation of patches, software installations.
Creating VAPT reports using MBSA Tool and closing the vulnerabilities, Migration. Primary decision making role of checking and upgrading server configuration whenever required.
Installing, Configuring, & Administrating of Windows 2000/2003 Servers.
To provide superior technical support & to minimize system downtime and ensure a rapid restoration of service.
Projects
Reliance Jio Infocomm Pvt. Ltd
Sr.Manager SAP Basis (Support/Upgrade) (Since Mar 2016)
Client: JIO
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd
Sr. SAP Basis (Support/Upgrade) (Oct 2015 – Mar 2016)
Client: Bayer
Computer Sciences Corporation India Pvt. Ltd
SAP Basis & Security (Support/Upgrade) (28 Months)
Client: Shared resource
Igate (Formely known asPatni Computer Systems Limited) Mumbai
SAP Basis & Security (Support/Upgrade) (42 months)
Client: GE GAMS (GE Energy Services)
Managing Production Server Group (11 months)
Client: Cormis (In-house project)
End User Services (21 months)
Client: ITIMD (IT & Infrastructure Management Dep’t) Internal Support
Reliance Communications Ltd. Navi Mumbai
End User Services (3 months)
Client: Support Function
Softcell Technologies Ltd. Mumbai
End User Services (10 months)
Client: Support Function
IT Source India Tech Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai
End User Services (10 months)
Client: Tata Infotech ltd.
Achievements
Individually driven migration of PI systems to new hardware.
Received Achievers of the Quarter Award for sincere & dedicated Support
Received Excellence Award for sincere & dedicated Support
Received Valuable Contribution Award (VCA) for sincere & dedicated Support.
Successfully set up the ODC’s for the projects.
Successful migration of the application on the cloud environment.
Academics
B.E (Computers), Mumbai University, Mumbai (2004)
Personality Traits
Leadership quality and problem solving skills.
Excellent communication, presentation skills and Customer Oriented attitude.
Good team player, Strong team orientation & leadership qualities.
Proficient in problem analysis and implementing appropriate quick resolution
Personal Particulars
Date of Birth: 19th August 1982
Languages known: English, Hindi, Marathi & Kannada
Indian National, Passport # L5745607
Amar Kalkeri