Sap Basis System

RamGopal

SAP BASIS Architect

E-mail: ***********@*****.***

(M) +1-972-***-****

SUMMARY:

SAP Certified BASIS consultant having over Eighteen years of experience in SAP BASIS and HANA administration, expertise in Implementation, Support, Upgrade and OS/DB Migration projects. Well versed in performing activities like SAP System Installations, integration's, Support Stack, EHP & Version upgrades, SAP system copies (Homogeneous and Heterogeneous), DB refreshes and DB upgrades. Having extensive knowledge, experience and excellent trouble shooting skills on various software technologies like Unix (AIX, Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX and Windows) and to the different databases (SAP HANA, DB2, Sybase ASE, Oracle, MSSQL and SAPDB).

focused individual, with strong professional integrity. Ability to establish and maintain high level customer trust and confidence, program management skills, business relationships & excellent communication with both technical and business audiences make him more productive. Organized, detail-oriented, customer.

EDUCATION:

Completed Bachelor of Technology from JNT University in 2002, Hyderabad, India.

CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS:

Certified in SAP S4HANA System Administration

Certified in SAP S4HANA Conversion and SAP System Upgrade

SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA 2.0

SAP Certified Technology Associate-System Administration (Oracle DB) with SAP Net Weaver 7.0

Certified in Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions

SAP EXPERIENCE:

Worked for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) from May 2021 to June 2024.

Worked for Infosys from Feb 2019 to May 2021

Worked for IBM India Pvt Ltd from March 2015 to Feb 2019.

Worked for NGA HR India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad from Dec 2012 to March 2015.

Worked for Mahindra Satyam, Hyderabad from July2007 to Dec2012

Worked for Siemens Information Systems Ltd, Bangalore from Dec 2005 to June 2007

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP 4.7EE, ECC6.0 EHP8, BI 7.5, Solution Manager 7.2, PI 7.3, EP 7.5, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP B/4 HANA

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 7.1, Windows 2012 R2 2016 servers, SUSE Linux 11/12/15, RHEL 6.5/7.1, Sun Solaris 5.0

Databases: DB2 9/10/11, HANA DB 2.0 SP5, Sybase 15.7, Oracle 10g/11g/12c,19c, MS SQL, SAP DB

Programming Languages: C, C++, and ABAP

Case Tools: MAXIMO, Remedy, SNOW, HP Service Center and XANDRIA Monitoring tool.

Cloud env: Azure Cloud, AWS Cloud.

SAP EXPERTISE:

Implementation of various SAP Products ECC 6.0, BI, PI, EP, SRM, CRM, SCM, Solution manager and SAP HANA, installations as well integrations.

Implementation of S/4HANA (Green field) and conversion from ECC to S/4 HANA (brownfield)

Implementation of Solution Manager 7.2

Implementation of Business Objects 4.3 on windows server and set up SSO.

Upgrade from SAP ECC6.0 EHP6 to ECC6.0 EHP8.

Upgrade from NetWeaver 7.0 and NetWeaver 7.5

Homogeneous and Heterogeneous migrations.

Migration of SAP on-premises Systems to Azure Cloud environment.

Expertise in S/4 HANA system administration.

Database Migration from Oracle to SAP HANA using DMO.

ECC EHP Upgrades ECC EHP4, EHP5, EHP6, EHP7 and EHP8

SAP Support pack (SPS) Upgrades S/4HANA, ECC, CRM, PI, and BW

S/4 HANA Upgrades from 2021 to 2022 using maintenance planner.

Database Upgrades – HANA, DB2, Sybase and Oracle

HANA Administration – DR set up, Replication, Backup, Restore, Security and SLT

SAP landscape implementations in Azure cloud environments.

Administration of Global Accounts, Directories, and Subaccounts in BTP environment.

Account Administration in the BTP Cockpit

Administration and Operations in the Cloud Foundry Environment and in the ABAP Environment

Integration of BTP platform using Cloud connector to connect on-premises Applications as well as cloud editions.

Ariba and concur integration using Cloud platform integration (CPI).

Projects Details:

Employer # 1 TCS (TATA Consultancy Services) May 2021 – June 2024

ABB (ASEA Brown Boveri) May 2021 – June 2024

It is a Heterogeneous Cloud migration project for ABB. As a Lead consultant I am responsible for sizing and successful migration of SAP landscape Systems to Azure Cloud.

Performing Heterogeneous migrations of on-premises systems to Azure Cloud.

Rigorous customer calls to understand and fulfill the migration requirements.

Implementing the SAP and Azure best practices for Sizing the cloud servers for better performance.

Preparation of the runbook for pre-cutover, cutover, Go live, post migration activities and hyper care support.

Co-ordination with various teams and making sure the runbook activities are performed accordingly for successful migration.

Implementing SAP optimization techniques in SIZING and to reduce the migration downtime for customer systems.

Documentation of migrations performed for customer reference and for future usage.

Migrated various SAP Systems (ECC, BI, BO, EP, GTS, GCM, SRM and CRM) from AIX/DB2 On-Premises to Linux/DB2 on Azure cloud.

Support for ABB US landscape systems.

Performed DB refresh and post activities.

Performed SPS stack upgrades.

Supported SAP Open Text archiving project.

Optimization and fine tuning of performance issues.

Troubleshooted and documented RCA for P1/P2 issues.

Employer # 2 Infosys Ltd Feb 2019 – May 2021

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy June 2019 – May2021

It was a fresh End to End Implementation project for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. As a Technical consultant I was responsible for sizing and implementation of S/4 HANA and implementation of SAP best practices in the SAP Landscape.

Performed end to end implementation to build new SAP landscapes of having various SAP Products S/4 HANA, B/4 HANA and Solution manager 7.2 installations and integrations.

Performed pre, post activities and landscape integrations.

Well-versed in HANA architecture, tools, and applications.

Performed SAP HANA Sizing, Installation, Post installation, landscape integration, Configuration and Data Provisioning activities.

Planning and performing HANA Hardware migrations using export and import of schemas.

Performed HANA DB installations (1.0 SPS 12 and 2.0) for scale up and scale out environments.

Performed HANA database revision upgrades using hdbcm, hdmlcmgui and HLM.

Performed SAP HANA database upgrade from 1.0 SPS12 to 2.0 SP 1.

System copy/DB Refreshes on HANA Databases using SWPM and HANA Studio.

Performed the Upgrade, Unicode conversion and migration on to HANA using the DMO.

Good understanding of Migration tools like R3LOAD, JLOAD, JSIZECHECK, R3SETUP, R3LDCTL, R3SZCHK, RS_BW_POST_MIGRATION and SMIGR_CREATE_DDL

SAP NetWeaver 7.5 Installation on HANA database and performed post steps.

Extensively worked on HANA administration using HANA Studio and HANA cockpit

Monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting of SAP HANA systems.

System registration and transport route definition using HALM Process HANA transport requests across landscape and involved in resolving Transport issues.

Performed System Replication between Primary HANA and secondary HANA server for High Available environment.

Setting up multitier System Replication for HANA database.

High Availability testing with Host auto fail over in scale out environment.

Involved in High availability DR Testing for Production HANA database.

Performed HANA Backups (File, Backint) using HANA studio and periodic validation of Backups.

Experience on DB BOOST Configuration (Backint) tool for Atomized back up of HANA database servers.

SLT Replication from ECC (Oracle DB) to HANA database and MSSQL (Non SAP) to HANA.

Smart Data Access (SDA) configuration for Remote Data source systems.

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

Installing AFL plugin (Including PAL), APL on HANA database.

Conversion of existing HANA DB into Multi-Tenant HANA database (MDC).

Implementing SAP HANA Security mechanism, user id’s creation and roles assignment.

SAP Fiori and integration of backend S/4 Hana systems.

SAP web dispatcher installation and integration with the Application servers.

Rolls Royce Power Systems Feb 2019 – May2019

It was a documentation project for Rolls Royce Power Systems. As a Technical consultant I was responsible for documenting all SAP best practices which needs to be used for successful execution of the support project.

Identified and considered who will be using the SOPs to determine the level of detail needed.

Designed documentation templates which can help focus on content without worrying about formatting.

Used flowcharts for visual representations of the steps, decisions, and actions in the SOP, and used symbols to indicate the type and function of each element.

Gathered information from customer and included relevant information to ensure to cover every step in detail.

Maintained the documentation by regularly reviewing the SOPs to ensure the information is accurate and relevant to the current workflow. Removed outdated steps, updated information, and incorporated latest changes.

Employer # 3 IBM India Pvt Ltd March 2015 – Feb 2019

ABB (ASEA Brown Boveri) March 2015–Feb 2019

It was a fresh End to End Implementation project for Norway Region. As a Technical consultant I was responsible for sizing and implementation of complete Landscape.

Performed end to end implementation to build new SAP landscapes of having various SAP Products ECC 6.0, BI, PI, EP, BO 4.0, Trex7.1 and Solution manager 7.1 installations and integrations.

Performed post activities and landscape integrations

SAP license installation

STMS configuration

Adjusting Profile parameters

Support stack implementation

Productive Client setup and client copies

Log-on load balancing configuration

Operation modes set up

SSL configuration

SAP router setup

BI to ECC integration

BI to BO integration

PI (SLD server) to ECC, BI and EP integration

EP to ECC integration

SSO configuration from portal to ECC

Additional Application server’s installation

Additional server nodes in EP

ADS configuration for backend systems

Managed system configurations in Solution Manager

EWA set up for managed systems in Solution Manager

MOPZ set up in Solution Manager

ABB (ASEA Brown Boveri) – Switzerland March 2015 – Feb 2019

Implementation of S/4HANA for Simple Finance

Upgraded S/4 HANA SP6 to SP12 using SUM.

HANA 1.0 revision upgrade from 97 to 102

HANA Administration – Backups, restores, Revision Upgrades and Security Administration

Currently working on S/4HANA upgrade from 1503 to 1511 using SUM and Maintenance Planner

Employer # 4 NGA HR India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, INDIA Dec 2012 – March 2015

Dupont Datacenter Migrations Dec 2012 - Oct 2013

It was a Datacenter Migration Project from Convergys Datacenter to NGA Datacenter in US. Part of this migration moved all the servers from Solaris to Linux using sap standard tools

Performed PI and Portal Migrations from Solaris to Linux using sap standard tools

Performed Dual Stack Split and also Moved Central Systems to Distributed Environment(Solaris (CI+DB)) to DB on Solaris and CI to Linux

Performed Oracle Upgrades from Oracle 10g to 11g

Performed oracle 11.02 to 11.04 upgrades

FiftThird Business Objects Implementation Nov 2013- Jan 2014

It was a Business Objects Implementation Project for Fifth Third bank, as part of this project implemented BOXI 3.1 and configured SSO between Eureka Systems.

Sizing and Landscape planning for BO systems

Installed BO 3.1 with tomcat and Oracle as audit database on Linux

Upgraded BO 3.1 SP3 to SP5 FP4

Upgraded Integration Kit from SP3 to SP5 FP4

Adopted Web.xml files to suit sap authentication

Deployed components in tomcat and java server

Configured SSO between BO, BW, Portal, ECC and EWS

Agilent ECC5.0 to ERP6.0 EHP4 Upgrade Jan 2014- June 2014

It was an Upgrade Project; from basis I was responsible for planning and implementation of complete upgrade of Agilent Landscape.

3New parallel landscape (Dev and QA) build for upgrade project using Sapinst export and import method

On-boarding of ABAP and Java systems in to solution manager for MOPZ standpoint

Upgraded ECC5.0 (dual stack) to ECC 6.0 EHP4 using SAPup and SAPJup

Updated NW7.4 (dual stack) to SP4(Sp2 to Sp4) using SUM

Performed several java/ABAP stack upgrades as part of annual maintenance

Oracle Upgrade for Complete Ladscapes July 2014- Dec2014

Performed Oracle Upgrades from 10 to 11 g and applied latest SAP Bundle Patches for all most 50 systems in US Landscape

Performed Oracle Upgrades from 11g to 12c and applied Latest SAP Bundle Patches for All Euhreka EMEA Systems

Euhreka Upgrades Jan 2015- March 2015

It was a POC Project for new Success Factors Implementation, as part of this project was responsible for building new system with required Add-Ins.

Installation ERP6.0 EHP7 system on Linux with Oracle 12c

Upgraded HRRENEWAL2.0(EA-HR and SAP-HR 608) using SUM tool

Configured required services for SSFS integration.

Solution Manager Installation and post Configurations – EWA and Technical Monitoring

Employer # 5 Mahindra Satyam July 2007 - Dec 2012

Agilent Technologies, USA July 2007 - Sept 2009

It was a EHP and Version Upgrade Project, from basis responsible for complete planning, delta sizing and upgrading of ECC, PI and CRM systems.

Upgraded all Net weaver systems to EHP1 using EHP installer(BW, PI, Portal and NWDI)

Upgraded ECC system to EHP3 and EHP4 using SAINT\SPAM(32bit systems)

Performed oracle upgrades from 9i to 10g environment.

Installation of solution manager system on IBM Aix

Configured MOPZ, EWA and Service Desk.

Upgraded all CRM systems from CRM 5.0 to CRM 7.0 SR1 using SapUp and SapJup

Upgraded Solution manager to EHP1 using SAIN\SPAM\JSPM.

Upgraded ECC system to EHP4 using sap installer.

Upgraded Net weaver systems (XI, BW, Portal) systems to EHP1 using sap installer.

Upgraded DB2 instances (DB2 5.0 to 7.0 FP5)

Applied DB2 fix patches.

TRW automotive, USA Oct 2009 – May 2010

It was new Implementation Project, as part of this project I was responsible for PI and Solution Manager Implementation

Installed new PI7.3 Development EHP1(dual stack) system and upgraded SPS5 both ABAP and Java using SUM tools.

Installed new PI7.3 EHP1 Quality system and upgraded SPS5.

Installed New Solution manager 7.1 system and upgrade all diagnostic agents in PI systems.

Completed system preparation, basis configuration and managed system configurations.

Installed Willy Introscope Manager

Upgraded all diagnostic agents and connected all the systems to solution manager.

Completed managed system configuration for PI systems.

Arcelor Mittal, Luxemburg Datacenter Migration June 2010 - Dec 2011

It was Datacenter Migration Project – OS Migration; from basis I was responsible for Migrating SAP systems across the regions.

Performed several migration dry runs to tune/optimize downtimes using Migmon (externally)

Performed package splitting using sapinst

Adopted Migmon properties file according to the project requirement (unsorted and no of R3load files etc…)

Moved All T-line systems to new datacenter using migration monitor

Tools used - Migmon,R3TA,Migtime and migcheck

Done the migration of large databases having size of 3 TB by using MIGMON parallel export/import and

table splitting of larger tables by sapinst.

Analyzed migration logs by using various scripts (observing various import/export state property files for successful export and import)

Monitoring the monitor/console log for the status of the migration.

Analyzed migration time log for export and import runtimes and combined export and import migration time log for better visibility of export and import runtimes

Installation of license

Borouge Plastics, UAE - Migration and Upgrade Project Jan 2012 - March 2012

It was a combined Upgrade and Migration Project, From Basis I was responsible for Planning, Delta sizing and implementation of complete Project.

Installation of 4.7Ext2 SR1 system on Unix with oracle 11g

Performing heterogeneous system copy(migration) of old Sandbox to new Sandbox

Upgraded ECC DEV system from R/3 4.7 EnterpriseX200 to ECC6.0 EHP5

Migration and upgrade of ECC QA system to ECC6.0 EHP5

Upgrade of ECC TST system from 4.7EnterpriseX200 to ECC6.0 EHP5

Configured Java and ABAP system in SMSY and LMDB using configuration wizards

Configured EWA in new Solution Manager system 7.1

Migration of BW system from Aix to Solaris

Upgrade of BW Sandbox system from BW3.5 to NW7.3

Upgrade of BW Quality system from BW3.5 to NW7.3

Solutionmanager7.1, performed basic configuration and managed system configuration

Installed wily Introscope manager and byte code agents in the part of managed system configuration and troubleshooting issues

Configured system using SMSY and LMDB

Configured EWA as part of managed system configurations

Microsoft, Redmond, USA – Implementation and Support Project April 2012 - Dec 2012

It was a both Implementation and Support Project, From Basis I was responsible for Planning, sizing and implementation of complete Project.

Sizing of all systems to be implemented in the client side.

Prepare technical architecture of complete landscape.

High Availability cluster design, configuration, and validation

Design and implementation of backup strategy and client strategy for all landscapes

Performed SQL upgrade from MSSQL 2008 R2 to 2012

DB refreshes activities from Production to QA systems sometimes to new build systems.

Performed Support pack and kernel upgradations.

Microsoft cluster trouble shooting

HADR setup for production environments

Employer # 6 Siemens Information Systems Ltd, Bangalore. Dec 2005 – June 2007

DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Dec 2005 - June 2007

It was Implementation and Support Project, from basis responsible for Planning, sizing and Installation of complete Landscape.

Project Planning

SAP Installation

Tape Library Configuration

Backups restore.

Sap router configuration

Installation of ECC 6.0, Solution Manager 4.0, IDES ECC 6.0 in Aix Environment

Installed Production server in Cluster Environment (IBM-HACMP)

Downloaded Support packages, patches and OSS notes from SAP Marketplace.

Applying SPAM Update, patches, SAP Net R/3 note fixes to programs.

Interacting end users and business key users to study and map requirements.

Ensuring effective configuration/customization, training, and support for sap implementation in sites such as Area offices, Stockyards.

Providing Basis Support to the client on day to day wise.

Creating OSS messages to SAP in Service Marketplace.

Remote & Local Client Copy.

Implementing SAP Note using SNOTE.

Monitored standard background jobs, update failures, ABAP dumps, System Logs, transaction locks

Working with Daily System health checks and generating reports.

Installation of IDES server with oracle database on IBM AIX

Installation of Dev and Quality servers on IMB AIX with oracle database

Installation of Production server on IBM Aix with cluster node(HACMP)

Creating users, roles as per the requirement of the Functional People and assigning required privileges to the users.

Ensuring effective configuration/customization, training and support for sap implementation in sites such as Area offices, Stockyards.

Providing offshore Basis Support to the client on day to day wise.

Applying Oss Notes.

TMS Administration, Management of Transport Requests

Performed routine weekly/monthly activities of Application of support packages, Kernel Patches etc

Client Administration.

Analyze the ABAP dumps and System Log entries.

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