Sap Basis Senior Consultant

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September 11, 2024

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Venkata Srinivasa Reddy Munagala (S/* HANA, OS/DB and SAP BASIS Certified)

SAP Basis Technical Lead

Venkata Munagala *****************@*****.***

New Jersey +1-732-***-****

PROFILE

• 17+ years of experience in SAP BASIS

• 3+ years of experience in SAP BTP

• 5+ years of experience in AWS and Azure Cloud Engineering/Support

• 2+ Years of experience in SAP RISE Implementations Professional Experience

Dates Organization Designation

July 2019 to Present Wipro Technologies Principal Consultant Oct 2018 to July 2019 Euclid Innovations Architect April 2018 to Aug 2018 Infosys Limited Senior Consultant Aug-2013 – April 2018 Tech Mahindra Limited Technical Team Lead Feb-2011 - July 2013 Cap Gemini India Ltd Senior Consultant Oct 2009 - Feb 2011 Infosys technologies Technology Analyst Nov 2008 – Oct 2009 Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Assistant Manager Aug 2005 – Oct 2008 GlobalERP Solutions Associate Consultant Certifications:

• SAP BTP Administrator certified

• SAP Certified Technology Associate – OS-DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.52

• SAP Certified Technology Specialist - SAP S/4HANA Conversion and SAP System Upgrade 2019

• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ900) certified.

• AWS Academy Cloud Architecting [294] by Wipro

• ITIL V3 foundation Certified

• Building Tomorrow’s ERP with SAP S/4 HANA by OpenSAP

• SAP S4 Hana integration with ERP by OpenSAP

• SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified by OpenSAP Trainings:

• AWS Cloud Endure Migration training by AWS

• Azure cloud Fundamentals by Microsoft

• AWS Academy Cloud Architecting [294] by Wipro

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Educational Qualifications:

- Completed B.E in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from ANNA University, Chennai, 2005 TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP Technical: SAP ECC6.0 EHP +, SAP BW 7.x, and SCM 7.0 EHPx, CRM 7.0,7.x, Solution Manager 7.0/7.1/7.2, 7.1 SR1, SAP BO 4.1 SP5, BODS 4.1,4,2 SAP PI 7.x and SAP EP 7.x .

• Operating System: AIX6.1, LINUX 4.1 and SUSE Linux, OEL and Widows Server 2003/2008/2008/12/16

• Databases: SAP HANA 1.0 Rev 82/92/102,Hana 2.0, Oracle 9i /10g/11g/12c/19c, MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2008/2012/2016 R2

• Environment: AWS EC2, Azure VMWare, Windows 2008, JBOSS, Tomcat Apache, Oracle, CLOUD WATCH, CLOUDFORMATION, Data Centre Migration AWS.

• Networking: Routing & switching

Key Skills

BASIS Administration

OS / DB Migrations and S/4 Hana Conversions

EHP Upgrades and DB upgrades

Oracle, HANA DB and MS-SQL Servers

AIX, SUSE and various other UNIX variants, Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016 Implementation, Go Live (including Ramp Up) and support (including upgrades) of: SAP NetWeaver 7 and 7.X/ ECC6 systems with EHP’s

BW/BI 7.x,

BPC 10.X,

CRM 7.x,

XI/PI 7.x,

EP 7.x

SRM 7.x

APO 7.x

E-Recruitment,

Web Dispatchers

SAP Security

GRC

Database Administration skills across

Oracle (from version 8.x to 19) for SAP systems

SQL Server for SAP systems

HANA DB for SAP systems

SAP-Technical skill

17+ Years of Experience in SAP Basis & NetWeaver Technology

Experienced in SAP Migrations, HANA Database upgrades, installations and implementations.

Experienced in On-Premise to AZURE and AWS cloud migrations in both ABAP and JAVA Systems.

Experienced in HA and DR setup both in On-premise and Cloud platforms.

Experience in Solution Manager 7.1 to 7.2 migration with CHARM configuration Public

Experience in 2 Combine upgrade & Unicode conversion projects (i.e.) CU&UC from R/3 4.6C & R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 with EhP4 in Linux/oracle and Sun Solaris / Oracle Platforms

DR Set up or Replication using HANA Cockpit and Studio

Experience with Installation, administration, configuration, troubleshooting in ABAP/JAVA engine, R/3 4.6c, R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, EP 6.0, EP 7.0, BW 3.5, BW 7.0,GRC 5.3,GRC 10,BPC 10.1, XI 3.0,

Implemented Enhancement packages for ERP, NW and Solution manager components, self- services 1.0 & 1.2 for ESS and MSS

Experienced and expertise with tools like migration monitor, R3SETUP, SAPINST, R3SZCHK, R3LOAD, Package Splitter for table splitting, parallel export/import during system copy to reduce the downtime for large database.

Experienced in installing SAP Components in high availability and distributed environment and system copy using SAPinst and database specific methods for ABAP and JAVA Components

Worked with Operating systems like SUN Solaris, IBM AIX 5.3 / 6.1, RH Linux 5 and Windows server.

Experienced in administration, backup/restore, upgrade, applying SBP, service packs, performance tuning of database’s Oracle 9i/10g/11, MSSQL 2005, 2008,2012 and 2016.

Experienced in Administration, configuration & troubleshooting SSO, ADS, JCO, RFC,CUA, CTS+, BRTOOLS, ICM/ITS, LDAP, UME, SAP License administration, CMS, CBS, DTR and SLD

Monitoring, Performance tuning, Analysing log files & troubleshooting issues on NW AS Java, Administration with Visual Admin, Config tool, NWA

Deployed Software components with SDM and used JSPM for applying support packages, business packages for ESS/MSS and installing addition usage type

Have worked with User administration, Roles, Portal content like iviews, roles, pages, system administration, connection with backend systems, JCO Administration, Uploading / transporting portal content

Experience in configuring and troubleshooting BW activities like Source System connection with RSA1, BI Content installation & activation, Flat file creation, External DB Configuration

Thorough experience in installation, configuration of SLD and configuring SLD with ABAP and JAVA AS, importing CIM objects, Configuring Data supplier bridge

Configured basic settings in Solman like System connection, EWA, Mopz & System monitoring, Service desk, ChaRM in Solman 7.0,7.1 and 7.2

Thorough experience with Client administration, Configuring TMS, applying Support packages, Installing Add-on’s, applying notes with SNOTES, Kernel upgrade, Profile maintenance, user administration, authorizations, background job administration, SAP Connect administration for emails, Spool administration, Importing new languages

Analysing ABAP Dumps, SAP system messages, configuring CCMS alerts and triggering mail for alerts and Performance tuning / monitoring for AS ABAP Projects Details:

The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed below in chronological order- Project SAP S/4 HANA Implementation on RISE

Customer Embecta Inc.USA

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Period June 2022 to Present

Description Green Field Implementation

Role Technical Lead

Solution Environment SAP S/4 HANA 2021,GTS,SOLMAN, BTP,CC,GRC Key Responsibilities Managed large-scale SAP Implementation projects to the cloud using SAP RISE.

Led a team of 20+ Engineers to successfully implemented a large-scale SAP system to SAP RISE within a tight timelines.

Implemented SAP various public cloud applications within the projects.

Worked on design documents, Validation documents and project documentation to meet implement qualifiations

Worked on SOLDOC and ChARM Set up

Facilitated communication upward and across teams and served as a point of contact for other departments on project status and other project information.

I have a profound knowledge of End-to-End business and support functions. Highly capable of delivering accurate results on SAP

Implemented and maintained the multiple SAP instances that comprise the SAP environment (development, test, training, and production).

Designed and implemented an optimal SAP configuration to maximize system performance and availability.

Performed many technical changes into the environment using a structured approach that minimizes risk and achieved high reliability, availability, and performance of each SAP instances.

Participated in the planning and implementation of SAP system upgrades with the stakeholders and Sales team. Project SAP S/4 HANA Implementation on RISE

Customer Hanes inc, USA

Period April 2022 to June 2022

Description Implementation

Role Technical Lead

Solution Environment SAP Netweaver 7.5, ECC EHP2,SAP Netweaver 7.2 Key Responsibilities Designing the build document as per the business requirement

Verify and validate the New VM’s for cloud and on premise migrations.

Installation of Oracle 19c with bundle patches

Configuring the backups for commvault

Export and import of various SAP systems for migration activities

Pre and Post migration activities and support

Working on SPS Upgrades for different Landscapes on quarterly.

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Preparing and maintaining the various documentations for Migrations, upgrades and new installations.

Project Support and AMS Project

Customer Nike inc, USA

Period Dec 2020 to March 2022

Description Upgrade and migration of SAP systems

Role Principal Consultant

Solution Environment SAP Netweaver 7.5, ECC EHP2,SAP Netweaver 7.2 Key Responsibilities Designing the build document as per the business requirement

Verify and validate the New VM’s for cloud and on premise migrations.

Installation of Oracle 19c with bundle patches

Configuring the backups for commvault

Export and import of various SAP systems for migration activities

Pre and Post migration activities and support

Working on SPS Upgrades for different Landscapes on quarterly.

Preparing and maintaining the various documentations for Migrations, upgrades and new installations.

Working on Different Teams to understand and configure the interfaces for PO,E-nota and ECC systems.

Working on SAP WEBAPPS license maintenances and SSO certificate configurations

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Customer T-Mobiles, Netherlands

Period July 2020 to Dec 2020

Description AWS Migration

Role Lead Consultant

Solution Environment ECC,CRM,SOLMAN,BI,BO,PI and Sap router Key Responsibilities Designing and implementation of SAP Landscape’s on AWS Cloud.

Migrating SAP Applications from On-Premise Infrastructure to AWS Cloud.

Focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto scaling using AWS Cloud Formation and FSx file sharing for windows environment

Configured and managed various AWS Services including EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, Glacier, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, and Route 53 etc.

Configured various performance metrics using AWS Cloud watch & Cloud Trial

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Worked on configuring Cross-Account deployments

using AWS Code Pipeline, Code Build and Code Deploy by creating Cross-Account Policies & Roles on IAM.

Written various Lambda services for automating the functionality on the Cloud.

Used AWS Route 53 for configuring the High-Availability and Disaster recovery to make the environment up and running in case of any unexpected disaster.

Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud. Project

Customer Kellogg’s

Period Jun 2020 – July 2020

Description SAP MII Installation

Role Lead Consultant

Solution Environment ECC, MII

Key Responsibilities Installation of SAP MII for kutno

Installation of SAP Netweaver 7.5

Installation of SAP Netweaver ABAP

Post installation activities for SAP MII

SSL configuration for SAP MII

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Customer Pitney Bowes, USA

Period Jan 2020 to May 2020

Description Upgrade and AMS

Role Lead Consultant

Solution Environment ECC,SRM,SOLMAN,BI,NWBI,PI,SLT,BODS,HANA and HEC Key Responsibilities Designed Data migration from SAP ECC to HANA using SAP SLT and Data Services

Lead and Architected the SAP HANA 2.0 Implementation and Integration road map with BO and Reporting using BI.

Designed and configured SLT Replication (Real time and Batch) from SAP ECC sources using HANA Data provisioning

Managed and defined Application environment migration activities and deliverables, defining Hyper-care phase and Steady state. Migration activities included Server Validations with all dependencies, network changes, database setup, establishing links to other servers, co-ordinate with business teams for application validation pre and post migration, Integration testing and finally conducting UAT.

Manage technical resources in shared services delivery model and was responsible for all development and integration tasks Public

Lead Service Transition, designed support,

communication/Escalation and monitoring plans.

Lead knowledge transfer sessions between onsite and offshore application maintenance teams.

Responsible for all technical documentation related to the Project adhering to the SDLC and conducting successful knowledge transfer sessions.

Collaborated with Functional SME’s to generate requirements and data ETL procedures

Played a technical liaison role with functional and business users to generate data mapping and data Validation technical documents.

Leading the effort of optimizing the loading process of large financials (SAP AR, AP, GL and Recurring) data sets including both transparent and clustered tables from legacy ECC to S/4 HANA.

Designed and implemented Customer Master Data mapping and reference data implementations in SLT using ABAP include programs.

Designed and configured SLT Replication (Real time and Batch) from SAP ECC sources using HANA Data provisioning and BODS.

Expertise in CMC configuration and administration of SAP Data services repositories.

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Customer 50Hertz

Period July 2019 to Dec 2019

Description Solution Manager 7.1 to 7.2 upgrade with CHARM and TECHNICAL MONITORING

Role Lead Consultant

Solution Environment Solution Manager 7.1, 7.2, Ms-Sql, Windows Key Responsibilities Charm Migration from 7.1 to solman 7.2

Upgrade from 7.1 to solman 7.2

Technical monitoring from 7.1 to solman 7.2

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Customer Wellsfargo India pvt limited

Period Oct 2018 – July 2019

Description Tech Refresh and SPS Upgrade

Role Architect

Solution Environment ECC,BI,SRM,PPM,PORTAL,SOLUTION MANAGER AND THIRD PARTY TOOLS

Key Responsibilities Preparation and build of new systems

Validation of servers based on the requirement

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Tech Refresh of all the landscapes

Support and maintenance of SSO

Managing and configuring portal systems with Another middleware systems

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Customer AC Nielsen _USA

Period April 2018 – August 2018

Description Migrations, Upgrade with HANA on Azure cloud Role Senior Consultant

Solution Environment ECC, S4HANA, HANA,BI and SOLUTION MANAGER 7.2 Key Responsibilities SAP HANA/BASIS Support, management, troubleshooting, configuration, and migrations for Accenture NA customers.

Built SAP, HANA, ORACLE and other SYSTEMs in Azure cloud

Supported the overall Azure Infrastructure.

Worked in Windows and Linux server environments.

Worked as a Team Lead to provide the optimal solution for both business needs and project standards.

Estimating effort and resources required for projects and working with project managers to structure projects.

Provided excellent customer service to clients

Built strong formal and informal relationships.

Worked in ambiguous situations/environments

Demonstrated the ability to break down problems into constituent parts

Developed and drove plans for resolution.

Set up HCI-DS Agent on premise.

Success Factors Adapter configuration in SAP HANA Cloud Integration HCI

Documentation of developing detailed how to guides.

Mentored junior staff members.

Monitored all systems (work processes, users, system logs, short dumps, locks, developer traces, system traces, disk space)

Installed / Configured SLT server and initiated data load from ECC to HANA.

Performed SAP client administration, including creating clients, copying clients, deleting clients, and exporting and importing clients

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Customer Cambridge University Press (CUP) - UK

Period April 2017 – April 2018

Description AWS Migration and Installations

Role Technical Lead

Solution Environment ECC 6.0 with EHP6,EHP7,CRM,BW,BPC,BOBJ,BODS,PI,PO on Hana/Oracle on AWS

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Key Responsibilities Involved in designing and deploying a multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high- availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.

Migrating the current Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used auto scaling feature.

Install and configure chef server / workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AWS nodes.

Increasing EBS backed volume storage capacity when the root volume is full using AWS EBS Volume feature.

Managing day to day SAP Basis issues for AWS hosted customers

I ntegrating on premise SAP systems with HANA Cloud Portal.

Hana Cloud Portal integration with ECC (Configuring Cloud connector and Gateway).

High availability and DR integration.

Created S3 backups using versioning enable and moved objects to Amazon Glacier for archiving purpose.

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Customer Liberty Life Insurance – Johannesburg, South Africa Period March 2016 – April 2017

Description Implementation and Support

Role Technical Lead

Solution Environment BPC 10.1 with HANA and ORACLE databases on NW 7.4,GRC 10.1,ECC,BW Key Responsibilities Installation of SAP BW 7.4 Servers

Installation of SAP BPC 10.1 Servers

Post installation

Managing SAP HANA License, Managing SAP HANA users and monitoring system.

Installing Server Prerequisites

Installing the EPM Add in for Microsoft office

Installing the Software patches for BW and BPC servers

Administration of SAP Systems HANA, ECC, SOLMAN, BW, on Sun solaris and Oracle 11g

Experienced in administration and troubleshooting of SAP HANA database using SAP HANA studio and DBA Cockpit, Starting / Stopping of SAP HANA, Backup & Recovery

Troubleshooting in SAP HANA including SAP HANA tracing.

Security Model design of BPC 10.1

Configure SM19, SM20 Security Audits and handle Audit reports

CUA Configuration for Non-Production Systems

Handling Offshore Security Practice, CAB Approvals and Time sheet approvals

Handling OSS User ID’s and maintain OSS ID’s for connection openings

HANA stack upgrade and administration

Backup/Recovery and security of HANA

Installation of HANA client and HANA studio and performing post installation steps

Monitoring SAP HANA system landscape

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Worked closely with lead SAP team Members to sets strategy on infrastructure products and new technology for all levels of management and technical staff to assure architecture is integrated with the application road maps and strategies.

Managed project planning and execution for major activities such as software upgrades, software configuration changes and hardware upgrade or replacement.

Performed SAP software installation, upgrades, applying support packages, system copies/refreshes and installation add-on software components.

Responding to and resolving infrastructure related incidents & problems

Worked with OS & DB Administrators for optimal SAP Performance

Provided Support and Guidance to the other Project and Development teams during the build, test and productive operation of project implementation.

Provided oversight & support for Disaster Recovery test as required.

Provided all aspects of technical support for SAP Basis Administration in a proactive and reactive mode to ensure that the systems perform within the terms of their respective service level agreements.

Performed Early Watch analysis and apply recommendations.

Participated in multi-landscape design solutions, architecture recommendations, and strategies for continuous

improvement.

Maintained multi-landscape environments through remote copies, system refreshes, and transport management monitoring.

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Customer SPX INDUSTRIES

Period March 2014 – March 2016

Description Support and maintenance

Role Technical Lead

Solution Environment Different SAP products / versions (4.6c to ECC6 EHP4, EHP5, and EHP6), N/W 7.0 to 7.3 systems, HANA administration, NWDI systems, Portal systems, Data Archiving, VERTEX & Live cache and Solution manger systems.. Public

Key Responsibilities Managed Basis administrators on the performance, reliability and availability of the SAP systems in alignment with industry standards.

Lead a team of Basis administrators on daily administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning of all SAP ECC 6.0, NW 7.0 to 7.3 with EHP’s, and Solution Manager environments

Administration of SAP Systems HANA, ECC, CRM, PI, SOLMAN, BW, EP, BOBJ on HP-UX 11.x, SUSE Linux and Oracle 11g

HANA stack upgrade and administration

Backup/Recovery and security of HANA

Installation of HANA client and HANA studio and performing post installation steps

Monitoring SAP HANA system landscape

Starting and stopping of SAP HANA systems

Experience and expertise in planning, development, configuration and implementation of data management and archiving strategies in the Finance, Cost Control, Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Quality Management, Project Management and Human Resource business processes involving by DART

Provided resource management, performing feedback on performance evaluations, and support Basis team members in their growth & training.

Performed monthly & annual resource estimates for approved book of work to manage headcount

Managed project planning and execution for major activities such as software upgrades, software configuration changes and hardware upgrade or replacement.

Performed SAP software installation, upgrades, applying support packages, system copies/refreshes and installation add-on software components.

Responding to and resolving infrastructure related incidents & problems

Worked with OS & DB Administrators for optimal SAP Performance

Provided Support and Guidance to the other Project and Development teams during the build, test and productive operation of project implementation.

Provided oversight & support for Disaster Recovery test as required.

Customer Nation Media Group, NAIROBI, KENYA

Period October 2013 – January 2014

Description Implementation project

Role Technical Lead

Solution Environment ECC 6.0 and Solution manager on windows and Oracle platform Public

Key Responsibilities Successfully delivering a global SAP implementation project ahead of schedule, a ramp-up project with a software version new to the customer

Managing the design, build, enhancement and support of SAP systems for the Finance and HR functions

Manage complete Implementation Project SAP ECC 6.0 with Oracle.

Installed and Configured Solution Manager 7.0

Define and implement the technical and infrastructure part of the project which included the design, build, test and deployment of a new SAP environment. Also organized and conducted a project to optimize planned downtimes by performing landscape evolutions with little maintenances as possible. Highly visible project with ever-changing deadlines. Provided support and expertise on best practices and problem- solving solutions to the customer.

Setting up TMS, Including systems to domains, importing transports from development to production, Quality, DEV and to some other systems as per requirement of user.

Involved in install GRC-10 Access Controls (Proof of Concepts)

Configure CUA for Non-Production Systems with SCUA and maintain User Distribution (SCUM)

Configure and maintain Audits with SM19, SM20 for Production Systems

Handle Role build for Master \ Derived roles as per the client norms in PRD

Build derived roles as per the client specific role naming conventions with PFCG

Handle derived roles at the Authorization Object and Organization levels

Handling OSS User ID’s, Developer and Object keys through SAP Service Market Place

Troubleshoot authorization errors encountered during the resolve the issues with SU24

Set up User Groups to differentiate super, application management and end user’s

Responsible for working with SAP Functional Team/Key Business Users in designing Authorization Matrix and Validate role’s status and regenerate

Worked extensively on Kernel Upgrade, installing Add-ons, update Support Packs and Patches, importing plug-ins

(SPAM/SAINT) Performance Analysis and Memory

Management

Project Worked in shared services model, where our team supported multiple customers

Customers Performance Fibers

ACS industries

Synthetic Industries

Transunion

Basic energy systems

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Altra

Evergreen

Nordson

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ECS

Philynews

Dairy Farmers of America

Bowebellhowell

Period Feb 2011 – July 2013

Description Our team gave support to 21 customers having different SAP products

/ versions (4.6c to ECC6 EHP4, EHP5, and EHP6), N/W 7.0 to 7.3 systems, SAP BPC 10.0, DI systems, Portal systems, VERTEX & Live cache and Solution manger systems.

Role Senior Consultant

Solution Environment NW2004s, Solution manager, ECC6 with EHP4 & EHP5, Portals on windows, Linux, AIX and MS-SQL and Oracle platform Key Responsibilities Managed Basis administrators on the performance, reliability and availability of the SAP systems in alignment with industry standards.

Lead a team of Basis administrators on daily administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning of all SAP ECC 6.0, NW 7.0 to 7.3 with EHP’s, Installation of BPC and Solution Manager environments