Rahul Sharma

SAP Basis/HANA/Solution Manager ` Mob No. 945-***-****

Summary:

SAP Professional BASIS/HANA/Solution Manager Consultant with 14+ years of experience in information technology industry experience in Implementation, Support, Upgrade, and Migration projects, responsible for Large and complex SAP landscape Deployments. As a SME with good exposure of system designing and implementation in greenfield. Knowledgeable to take a challenging and high performance managerial and technical oriented role in the field of SAP and implement the expertise to provide solution to complex project with efficiency and quality.

Worked across various industries during the span of my career, such as Manufacturing, Retail, Construction. Insurance etc.

Experience leading small & large teams.

Extensive experience in installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of SAP Netweaver 7.X, SAP Business Suite solution such as SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 7.x, Solution Manager 7.2.

Good Experience to understand and gather customer requirements and build the solution accordingly.

Experience in Technical Solution Design, Planning, and Execution, of SAP Basis, HANA & Solution Manager Projects, and rollout plan.

Experience in cross-team coordination, preparing a yearly plan to keep the SAP environment at the current level.

Experience in installation and Configuration of SAP HANA 2.0.

Experience in SAP HANA 2.0 Migration, HANA Platform Sizing, Scale Out & Scale up scenario.

Experience to using HANA tools like HANA Studio, HANA cockpit for maintaining system performance and for troubleshooting the issues.

Experience in SAP Sizing by using the SAP Quick sizer.

Experience in SAP data Archiving.

Experience in SAP HANA HA & DR Setup.

Experience in setup SLT Replication for HA & DR scenario.

Experience in HANA Administration, Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting.

Experience in SAP Basis/HANA production support.

In-depth knowledge of SAP solutions running on database technologies HANA/Oracle/MS SQL server & platforms windows /linux.

Experience in HANA Database Backup, Restore.

Experience in Implementing SAP HANA Table management techniques - data compression, table partition, compression techniques, and load/unload table into memory.

Experience in HANA version and revision upgrade.

Experience in Upgrade Projects as a Technical & Functional consultant, Coordinate with Client/ Business/Functional Team to identify critical business processes, understand the functionality of the custom developments. Use analysis tools SEA/BPCA to determine and get the impact analysis.

Experience in S4/HANA brownfield implementation/Conversion.

Experience in S4Hana Upgrade 2020 to 2022.

Analyze business needs to help ensure software meets the customers objectives by combining industry best practices, product knowledge, and business acumen.

Hands-on experience in Fiori Implementation and Administration, System Check and Configuration.

Fiori & ODATA service activation.

Strong hands-on experience in SAP BTP Administration (Managing subaccount, service subscriptions, User Management, Monitoring applications.

Experience of working on BTP (Business Technology Platform) Architecture Administration areas, knowledge in the various services offered by SAP in SAP BTP and implement in projects.

Experience in implementing cloud connector and performed integration with On-premises and cloud systems.

SAP Implementation in AWS platform, Azure platform.

Understanding in Azure designing and implementing SAP solutions within the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Understanding Azure services relevant to SAP workloads such as virtual machines, Azure Active Directory.

Monitor SAP workloads in Azure, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing for performance and cost savings tasks. Used Azure Monitor and other tools.

Knowledge in architect designs scalable and highly available SAP solutions on Azure, considering factors like redundancy, disaster recovery, and security. Optimize for performance and cost-effectiveness.

Migration and Deployment: Good Understanding in migrating on-premises SAP landscapes to Azure, including the use of tools like Azure Migrate.

Deploying SAP systems and applications in Azure.

Hands on Experience in setting up AWS Cloud resource including VPC, Route 53, IAM, EC2, S3, ELB.

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 installation and technical configuration. Configuration of ChaRM, ITSM, BP Mon, Tech Mon & CCLM, BPCA etc.

Installation, Support, and Upgrade of ECC 6.0, Netweaver Enterprise Portal 7.x, Installation and support, SSO configuration, and integration with backend systems like ECC. Web Dispatcher configuration, ADS, Netweaver 7.4 and 7.3 ABAP, and Java Stacks.

High Availability clusters and DR configuration and DR drill as part of Business Continuity Plan, including full life cycle implementation project and providing production support on multiple platforms.

Experience with OS like SUSE Linux, Unix, Windows Server, AWS Services.

Experience with Databases like Hana, Oracle.

Professional Certification:

SAP Solution Manager Configuration for Operations Certified

AWS (Amazon Web Services) Solution Architect (IaaS) certified.

RCA (Root Cause Analysis) training from SAP.

Certification in Information Technology from NIIT.

Certification in “Computer Hardware & Networking”.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

RDBMS : HANA, Oracle

ERP : SAP Net weaver 7.x, ECC 6.0 EHP 7.x, EP 7.x, Solution Manager 7.2 SPx

OS : SUSE Linux, Unix, Windows Server.

SAP Tools : SAPINST, SWPM, SUM Tool, MOPZ, Hana Cockpit, HANA Studio

Implementation Projects

S4/HANA Brownfield Implementation/Conversion

Solution Manager 2.0 Implementation with ChaRM/Sysmon/BPMon/BPCA/CCLM

ECC 6.0 + Hana Implementation

Implementation BI/JAVA/CE 7.31 SP0 with Public Budget Formulation 8.0 & 8.1

Upgrade Projects

S4Hana Upgrade from 2020 to 2022

ECC EHP 7 to EHP 8 Upgrade

Solution Manager 2.0 SP0 to SP 4

OS/DB Migration

Oracle DB to HANA DB Migration (DMO Tool)

Experience Summary:

Client: RFNEXX (Internal Project)

Duration: Aug 2023 – Present

Environment: SAP ECC6, S4/Hana, HANA2.0

Role: SAP Basis/Hana Administrator

Responsible for Installation, Upgrade, and Configuration of SAP HANA 2.0

Responsible for analyzing SAP HANA Alerts, trace, logs dumps to troubleshoot SAP HANA DB issue.

Performed performance tuning activities as SAP HANA DB level and split big tables into partitions as recommended by SAP using Hash, Range and Round-Robin methodology.

SAP Hana database administration and support using studio and HANA cockpit 2.0.

Client: Sime Darby/Frucor/ Owens Illinois/JFC/LIC

Duration: Jan 2021 – July 23

Location: Oklahoma/TX

Environment: SAP ECC6, S4/Hana, HANA2.0, Solution Manager7.2

Role: SAP Basis/Hana/Solution manager Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Interacted with the Client for overall architecture, systems administration, and management of SAP technology (basis) team deliverables, designing roadmap, project’s budgeting, resource planning, and timeline scheduling for upgrades, installation and Refresh Activity for Dev, Quality and Prod Systems.

As being L3 support, my responsibility includes providing solutions for Basis related business scenarios when approached by L2 team.

Attending P1, P2 incidents and providing resolution.

Managing large and complex projects or multiple components of a large projects involving more than one company’s product/ services

Communicating with internal/external clients to determine specific requirements and expectations, managing client expectations as an indicator of quality.

Performed ECC EHP Upgrade.

Performed S4Hana Upgrade 2020 to 2022.

Coordinate for User Acceptance testing, Performance Testing and Integration testing and drive to resolve the issues that appear due to upgrade.

Creating and managing the estimates, project plan, project schedule.

Responsible for Installation, Upgrade, and Configuration of SAP HANA 2.0

SAP S4/HANA Implementation & Administration (Greenfield/Brownfield)

Worked on S/4 Hana Migration/conversation.

Extensive experience in the SAP Hana database administration and support using studio and cockpit 2.0.

Installed SAP HANA database in scale up and scale out environment for high availability.

Analyzed SAP HANA Alerts, trace, logs dumps to troubleshoot SAP HANA DB issue.

Performed performance tuning activities as SAP HANA DB level and split big tables into partitions as recommended by SAP using Hash, Range and Round-Robin methodology.

Installed DR site and configured SAP HANA system replication in multi-tier environment.

Performed failover and disaster recover practice and bounced system for DR Testing.

Installed and configured SAP HANA Studio, SAP HANA cockpit 2.0, SAP Host Agent and SAP HANA client.

Add new host for scale-out and redistributed tables data between hosts.

Defining the roles and authorization matrix

Responsible for SAP systems availability, capacity, and performance

Deploy SAP systems and applications in Azure & AWS Cloud.

Setup AWS Cloud resource including VPC, Route 53, IAM, EC2, S3, ELB

Fiori System Check, Installation and Configuration.

Solution manager 7.2 Setup & configuration

Setup ChaRM, ITSM. Tech Mon., CCLM, BPMon, PI Monitoring, BPCA

Client: HPE, USA

Duration: Jan 2019 – Dec 2020

Role: SAP Basis/Hana/Solution manager/AWS Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC6, S4/Hana, HANA2.0

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Responsible for Sizing and Designing the SAP Landscape Primary and DR Site

Responsible for Installation, Upgrade, and Configuration of SAP HANA 2.0

Responsible for SAP S4Hana brownfield Implementation & Administration

Executed Simplification items check for S4 Version.

Responsible for ECC to S/4 Hana conversation using SUM 2.0

Generation of maintenance planner transaction for S4HANA 1809 to 1909 Versions.

Installed SAP HANA database in scale up and scale out environment for high availability and configured auto host failover.

Analyzed SAP HANA Alerts, trace, logs dumps to troubleshoot SAP HANA DB issue.

Performed performance tuning activities as SAP HANA DB level and split big tables into partitions as recommended by SAP using Hash, Range and Round-Robin methodology.

Installed DR site and configured SAP HANA system replication in multi-tier environment.

Performed failover and disaster recover practice and bounced system for DR Testing.

HANA SLT Configuration and troubleshooting

Installed and configured SAP HANA Studio, SAP HANA cockpit 2.0, SAP Host Agent and SAP HANA client.

Add new host for scale-out and redistributed tables data between hosts.

Defining the roles and authorization matrix

Responsible for SAP systems availability, capacity, and performance

Maintenance & configuration of systems (ECC 6, PI/EP 7.x, BW7.x, Solution manager 7.x).

Web dispatcher Installation & configuration

SAP Cloud connector installation

Install HANA on Azure, AWS environment.

Hands on Experience in setting up AWS Cloud resources including VPC, Route 53, IAM, EC2, S3, ELB, EBS.

Client: HPE, USA

Duration: Aug 2015 – Dec 2018

Environment: SAP ECC6, HANA2.0, Solution Manager7.2, Delphix Appliance

Role: SAP Basis/Hana/Delphix Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Basis Administration & Operation

HANA DB Administration and Operations.

HANA DB and client installation and patching

Worked on Scale Up and Scale Out Systems

HANA SLT Configuration and troubleshooting

HANA Upgrade

SLD & LMDB Configuration

System Refresh activity.

Configured HANA systems in Solman systems.

Technical Monitoring Setup

Build Delphix appliances.

Configuration of Delphix Environment

Integration between Basis, Oracle & Delphix

Build SAP environment for Delphix.

Handle all Delphix related issues.

Mentor of Delphix team.

Client: GSM, USA

Duration: Sep 2014 – July 2015

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager 7.1 SP08

Role: SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Maintenance & configuration of systems (ECC 6, PI/EP 7.x, BW7.x, Solution manager 7.x).

Solution manager Setup & configuration

Applied kernel upgrades.

SLD Configuration for solution manager with all system, LMDB connecting managed system.

Technical Monitoring Setup

Application server Installation

Performed system health checkups on daily & weekly basis.

Security maintenance.

Client : Excel Crop, India

Duration: Jan 2014 – March 2014

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP5, Solution Manager 7.1 SP08, AIX

Role: Basis/Solution Manager

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Installation & configuration of Solution Manager 7.1 SP08.

Installation Diagnostic Agent.

Client creation, STMS Configuration

Kernel upgrade, Patch update

Configuration SLD/LMDB.

Configuration System Monitoring.

Client: Turner Construction, USA

Duration: April 2013 – June 2014

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP5, Netweaver CE 7.3, Window

Role: SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Daily all the system landscape monitoring.

Daily system monitoring and tickets solving which is generated by the users and closing them on SLA based timelines.

Supporting production systems and Create/Release Transports across the Landscape and Transport approved changes through the landscapes.

SAP Performance, Tuning and Monitors –AS ABAP/AS JAVA SAP Performance, Tuning Monitors –AS ABAP/AS JAVA

Global Buffers and Caches --> SAP MC, NWA: Open SQL Monitors.

Client: PBF (Public Budget Formulation)

Duration: March 2013 – Jan 2014

Env: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP5, Netweaver CE 7.3, Window

Role: SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Installation BI/JAVA/CE 7.31 SP0 with Public Budget Formulation 8.0 & 8.1

Upgrade BI/JAVA/CE 7.31 SP09

Client creation, STMS Configuration

Kernel upgrade, Patch update

SSO Connectivity between SLD/NWDI/Portal/VC, NWDI Configuration

Project Golive Support

Daily system monitoring.

SAP Performance, Tuning and Monitors –AS ABAP/AS JAVA

Installation BI/JAVA/CE 7.3 SP0

Upgrade BI EHP5/JAVA/CE 7.3 SP08

BO 4.1 Installation.

Client: DMART, India

Duration: Feb 2013 – June 2013

Env: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP5, EP 7.2, Window

Role: SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Installation & Upgrade

SLD/ ADS/ SSO configuration

Go-live Support

SAP Performance, Tuning and Monitors –AS ABAP/AS JAVA.

Client: NPC Inc

Duration: April 2012 – Dec 2012

Env: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP5, Solution Manager 7.1, EP/PI/BI 7.3

Role: SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Execute Failover & Failback scripts.

Preparation of BWA, TREX startup & shutdown scripts.

Trained new Resource in JAVA troubleshoot/Monitoring on client place.

Trained new Resource in Unix Environment on client place.

Client: Alliance Boots

Duration: Jan 2012 – March 2012

Env: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP1, HP-UX

Role: SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Execute Failover & Failback scripts.

Preparation of BWA, TREX startup & shutdown scripts.

Trained new Resource in JAVA troubleshoot/Monitoring on client place.

Trained new Resource in Unix Environment on client place.

Client: PMP AUTO, USA

Duration: July 2011 – Dec 2011

Env: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP1, Solution Manager 7.0, HP-UX.

Role: SAP Basis Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Implement landscape.

Installation of systems with EHP1 and upgradation.

Created and maintained user master records.

Creation of security roles.

Applied Support Packages & Applied kernel patches.

Performed Kernel upgrades.

Router configuration

SLD Configuration for solution manager with all system

Configuration EWA, RCA

Performed system health checkups on daily & weekly basis.

Responsible for all type of RFC connections creation & maintains

SAP Performance, Tuning and Monitors –AS ABAP/AS JAVA.

Client: BNSF USA

Duration: Aug 2010-June 2011

Env: SAP ECC 6.0, EP 7.0, 7.1, PI 7.0, 7.1, TREX 7.0.

Role: Basis/EP TLO (Technical Landscape Owner)

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Portal maintenance activities & troubleshooting

J2EE problem analysis

EPA, EAR deployments

SCA deployments using SDM

J2EE Upgrade using JSPM

SLD administration

Web-dispatcher Upgrade and Troubleshooting

Java connectors troubleshooting

ICM Administration, Thereauptic Maintenance

Java memory management

J2EE startup problems and troubleshooting

Use of Visual Administrator and Configtool

Unlocking objects

Application server Installation

UWL configuration

TREX problem analysis & troubleshooting

Creating Index in TREX, Creating index for KM.

TREX upgrade

ADS configuration & troubleshooting

NWDI Track configuration & transport

Object moving through NWDI.

CTS+ configuration and troubleshooting

ECC 6.0 to EHP1 Upgrade

System Copy using Export import procedure.

Integration Repository, Integration Directory

PI transports and cache refresh

Client: Berger Paints, Dhaka

Duration: April 2010- June 2010

Environment:SAP ECC 6.0 SR2, EP 7.0, Solaris, Oracle

Role: SAP Basis/EP Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables

EP7.0 monitoring and troubleshooting

J2EE problem analysis

Setting up EWA for Java stack, SMD setup.

J2EE startup problems and troubleshooting

Visual Administrator and Config tool

Imparted trainings

Client: AT&T USA

Duration: July 2009- Feb 2010

Env: SAP R3, EP 7.0, PI 7.0, Oracle DB, Linux/Unix

Role: EP Administrator Responsibilities/Deliverables

EP7.0 monitoring and troubleshooting

J2EE problem analysis

EPA, EAR deployments

SCA deployments using SDM

J2EE Upgrade using JSPM

SLD administration

Visual Composer and Upgrade

Web-dispatcher configuration and Troubleshooting

Java connectors troubleshooting

IGS troubleshooting

ICM Administration

J2EE notes implementation

Java memory management

User Management Engine

J2EE startup problems and troubleshooting

Visual Administrator and Configtool.

Webdynpro deployments

SSL Certificate Renewal for web-dispatcher

HTTP cache

Unlocking objects

Federated Portal Configuration and Troubleshooting

Application server Installation

SNC configuration for RFC's between systems

Integration Repository, Integration Directory

PI transports and cache refresh

Runtime work bench

Integration Engine and its pipeline.

Client: South African Post Office Project, (South Africa)

Duration: March 2009–June 2009

Env: SAP EP 7.0, Oracle DB, Linux

Role: SAP EP Administrator

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Troubleshoot portal issues.

Optimize Network Traffic in SAP Enterprise Portal EP 7.0

Fine tune Performance of Portal Platform.

System Landscape Directory (SLD) update.

Update systems in central System Landscape Directory (SLD).

Deployed and Undeployed patches using SDM on WEBAS 640.

Applied support packages & Enhancement Packages using JSPM for NW7.0.

Imported Enterprise Portal Archive files (EPA business packages).

Worked with all tools like Config Tool, visual Admin Tool, SDM Tool, JSPM Tool, and Template Config Tool.

Client: ADC USA

Duration: Nov 2008 - Feb 2009

Role: SAP EP Administrator

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Portal maintenance activities & troubleshooting

EPA, EAR deployments

SCA deployments using SDM

J2EE Upgrade using JSPM

Creating Index in TREX, Creating index for KM.

TREX upgrade

ADS configuration & troubleshooting

NWDI Track configuration & transport

Object moving through NWDI

System Copy using Export import procedure

Performed post installation activities.

Configured System Landscape Directory (SLD)

ESS/MSS Configuration

Configured SSO on R/3, BW and CRM.

Deployed and Undeployed patches using SDM on WEBAS 640.

Applied patches using JSPM for NW7.0.

Imported EPA files (business packages) and assigned roles to the end users.

Creation of JcoRFC connections to Portal, BW, CRM.

Client: EP Project Member

Duration: June 2007 – Oct 2008

Role: Software Engineer

Responsibilities/Deliverables

Installed and configured EP7.0.

Performed post installation activities.

Created Roles using the predefined Actions (UME Roles).

Created different types of iviews, and link to role.

Creation of security roles.

Performed system health checkups on daily & weekly basis.

Day2Day Trouble shooting.

Performed Kernel upgrades.

Academics:

Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) from Guru Ghansi Das University.

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