RAHUL REDDY PALWAI
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Objective:
Experienced SAP BASIS/HANA/SOLMAN Consultant with a proven track record in leading successful SAP implementation projects seeks to leverage expertise in SAP BASIS and HANA environments to contribute to the seamless operation and optimization of ECC/S4-HANA systems.
Summary of Experience:
●10+ years of comprehensive experience in SAP BASIS, Solution Manager, and HANA administration.
●Strong coordination skills demonstrated through successful collaboration with functional and technical SAP teams.
●In-depth knowledge of SAP installation, upgrades, migrations, and system administration.
●Hands-on experience in S/4 HANA migration projects and cloud deployments, including AWS.
●Proven ability to manage multi-landscape environments and provide L3 production support.
SAP BASIS, Solution Manager & HANA Expertise:
●Installation, configuration, and administration of S/4 HANA, BW/4HANA, and HANA DB on AWS.
●Implementation of S/4 HANA migration projects using various approaches (Bluefield, Brownfield, Greenfield).
●Setup and configuration of HANA High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.
●Proficient in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 for system monitoring, CHARM administration, and landscape optimization.
●Extensive experience in SAP transport management, system refresh, and performance tuning.
●Expertise in SAP BTP services provisioning and administrative tasks for cloud connectivity.
●Hands-on experience with SAP BOBJ installation, administration, and user management.
●Familiarity with cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, and VS Cloud.
Project Experience:
Client: NBCUniversal
Duration: Aug 2021 – Present
Location: USA
Designation: SAP Basis Lead
●Lead S/4 HANA implementation project as part of BRIM setup.
●Conducted planning and execution of SAP BASIS activities including system installations and HANA DB upgrades.
●Installed and configured S/4 HANA, BOBJ, Solution Manager, and GRC on AWS cloud.
●Implemented HANA DB installation, setup DR, and performed revision upgrades.
●Configured Solution Manager 7.2 for managed system configurations and CHARM administration.
●Worked on Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
●Applying monthly and supplemental Taxware updates.
●Applying TUBs and RBs for BSI Tax Factory.
●Configured Active Control for Transport Management.
●Conducted landscape tuning based on best practices and recommendations.
●IQ ILM implementation for Archiving solution
●Executed SAP archiving using IQ ILM and implemented BRIM solution supporting S/4 HANA.
●Implemented encryption, certificated based connectivity for SAP Backbone and BTP ADS
●SAP LAMA implementation and configured system restart, HANA upgrades, Kernel updates and refresh.
●SAP Cloud Connector HA setup.
●Worked on OS/Database migration from Oracle to HANA for NetWeaver portal
Client: SAP ECS
Duration: May 2019 – July 2021
Designation: SAP Basis Lead
●Performed end to end Installation, Upgrades and Migrations of SAP Fiori, S4 HANA Simple Finance, BPC, BW, BW/4 HANA, BOBJ, SLT, WebDispatcher, Solution Manager, SAP Hybris, SAP PO & other required components as required by the end customer.
●Involved in installations and implementations of different SAP Products on AWS/Azure/GCP hosting platforms (Hyperscale’s).
●Performed HANA DB and Sybase DB installation. Installed HANA 2.0 with MDC scenario.
●Involved in setting up the DR and High Availability systems.
●Lead multiple SAP customers in resolving their issues on HANA, Sybase, Fiori, Web dispatcher, Netweaver 7.4, Process Orchestration 7.4 & Solution Manager.
●Involved in end to end OS-DB Migrations.
●Performed SAP software installation, upgrades, Kernel Upgrades, applying support packages, system copies/refreshes and installation of add-on software components.
●Performed the Best practices activation during the initial S/4 HANA implementation phase.
●Involved and helped customers in their GO-LIVE activities and resolved issues during the GO-Live
Client: Disney
Duration: May 2017 – Apr 2019
Designation: SAP Basis Consultant
●Upgrade S/4HANA 2020 to S/4HANA 2021 initial shipment, Launch Data Intelligence as a service in BTP for data replication on to Azure Data Lake, Install and configure SAP cloud connector.
●Post installation configuration of S/4HANA 1909, Post configuration of DataServices 4.2. Post installation configuration of Convergent Charging (Hybris Billing) Post Installation configuration of MDG, BOBJ BI.
●Green field implementation of CFIN in AWS, Installation and configuration of S/4HANA 1909, MDG and SLT \ Prepare and plan for S/4 HANA Converion from ERP 6.0 EHP7 on MS SQL DB with SYSTEM Move option.
●Worked on Replicating the data from S/4HANA SLT Data Intelligence to AZURE Data Lake
●Worked with Maintenance Planner, SUM DMO with System Move to HEC, Simplification Item List, and Converted the Sandbox (Copy of Production) to S/4HANA 1909 FPS02 on HEC.
●System copy of S/4HANA system post Conversion
●SLT Replication from S/4 HANA to DB2 Z/OS, also the DB views from HANA to HANA.
●Leverage SAP BTP platform for FIORI Extensibility, Setup Cloud Connector, Setup Principal propagation using Cloud Connector.
●Manage Global account, Directories and Subaccounts to monitor the costs and usage.
●End to End Configuration of Embedded Fiori in S/4HANA system
●Conversion of ERP 6.0 to S/4HANA 1909 with SYSTEM move option from On-prem to HEC
●Installation and configuration of PO and daily activities like Performing the process monitoring using the Message monitoring tool from NWA. Queue monitoring for all the interfaces.
●Updating the relevant technical and functional documents for the configuration or mapping changes done.
●Performing the Unit testing, Integration testing and UAT.
●Responsible for code changes and releasing of code changes to Dev, Quality and PROD environments.
●Analyzing issues related to mappings, connectivity (TELNET), configuration changes etc.,
●Troubleshoot the issues related to the Inbound and Outbound Queues & clearing queues.
●Installation and configuration of BOBJ Bi 4.2 SP7 along with configurations of SAML, SSL etc
●End to End post installation configurations of BODS and Information Steward. 4.2
●Working on HEC Cloud Environment. AWS Cloud environment
●Configured SSL between Data Provisioning Agent and HANA Database, Configure SAML, SSH for SFTP, Troubleshoot SLT issues, setting up IAAS for Linux Boxes and Windows boxes and configure the same for all the tools required for the project.
●SLT configuration for E-HANA databases SLT Configuration for CFIN replication.
Client: Verizon
Duration: May 2014 – Mar 2017
Designation: SAP Basis Consultant
●Installations (ECC 6.0 EHP6, SAP Content Server 6.40 with MaxDB Database).
●Applying Database Patches for Oracle.
●Hands on Experience on System Refreshes
●Installed SMD Agents.
●SLD Configuration.
●Message Monitoring using SMQ1, SMQ2 and troubleshooting.
●Post Installation Activities on BI System like Source System Connection.
●Client administration: Client creation, Deletion, local client copy, remote client copy, client Export & Import.
●User administration.
●Creating, Deleting, Locking & maintaining User Accounts.
●Creating and maintaining Mass users and RFC destinations.
●Maintaining SAP Profiles.
●Scheduling and monitoring of background jobs.
●Daily monitoring/maintenance of SAP servers.
●Kernel patch upgradation.
●Applying SNOTE, support packs on R/3 system and Java Systems and Add-ons.
●Defining operation modes and assigning time intervals to modes.
●Perform Health check of SAP R/3 System.
●Workload and Buffer Monitoring.
Education:
●Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Information Technology, JNT University, 2007.
●Masters in Computer Science, Greenwich University UK, 2009.
Skills:
●SAP BASIS Administration
●SAP HANA Administration
●SAP Solution Manager
●Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure)
●SAP Transport Management
●Incident Management
●Communication Skills
●Project Management
●Redwood
●BTP
●Cloud Connector