SUMMARY

SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

KEVIN VIRA

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6+ years of experience as an SAP BASIS Consultant along with Database Administration skills. Ability to Install, Administer, and Upgrade SAP Business Suite applications running on diverse Databases. Proficient in SAP Project planning, right from hardware sizing to implementation and go-live support. Ethical IT professional and a team player who never hesitates to learn new skills in order to achieve an organization's goal in the best possible way. SAP BASIS Administration

SAP Implementation

24*7 Production Support

SAP Upgrade and Migration

Database Administration

Root Cause Analysis

SAP Project Planning

Disaster Recovery and HA Setup

11/2015 - Current

SAP BASIS Consultant

Colgate Palmolive Company - Mumbai, India

Implementation and Integration of SAP Business Suite Applications. Lead BASIS Consultant in planning and Upgrading SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 8 in order to improve the company's retail business.

SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4 HANA 1709 migration and consolidation to S/4 HANA using SAP Data Services 4.2.

Install and Administer SAP HANA 2.0 on Linux server, hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Improve SAP Application performance by migrating it to SAP HANA 2.0 from IBM DB2 10.5 using DMO

- Software Update Manager Tool.

Save licensing cost of the company by separating SAP Application server and IBM DB2 10.5 database running on a single IBM AIX 7.1 host.

Driving and preparing Architecture design of SAP Data Services 4.2 with Cluster setup on GCP. Implemented end to end SAP Netweaver 7.5 Java HR portal on SAP ASE 16.0 Database. Lead BASIS Consultant in planning and implementation of SAP SCM 7.0, SAP CRM 7.0, and SAP PI 7.4 upgrades.

Collaborate with Functional Teams and Architecture Team to determine best practices for existing and future SAP Applications.

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TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATION

EDUCATION

Proven knowledge on SAP HANA 1.0 and 2.0 Installation, Administration, and Upgrade. Reduced company's storage space (20 TB+) by Implementing SAP HANA Backup and Restore using third party tool IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.6.

Setup SAP HANA 1.0 / 2.0 and IBM DB2 10.5 / 11.1 Disaster Recovery along with High Availability. Migrate SAP HANA system to new Hardware thus assisting on timely release of leased Hardware and Migrate Microsoft SQL DB server 2016 to Google Cloud Platform from on-prem Data Center. Demonstrated 24*7 production support for various SAP Application and Databases. Experienced to work with databases - Oracle 10g /11g, SAP ASE 16.0, IBM DB2 10.5 / 11.1, SAP MaxDB 7.7 / 7.9, and SAP HANA 1.0 / 2.0.

Proactive performance improvement of SAP Application by configuring and applying changes mentioned in EWA report.

Integration and exposure to work on non SAP Application like Sphera, Prodigi, Splunk Monitoring, and many more.

Self learning by initiating and implementing Proof of Concept (POC) on new technologies. Perform SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Administration - STMS, CTS+, SLD, LMDB, CHARM, and Managed System Configuration.

10/2013 - 11/2015

SAP BASIS Consultant

ITSource Technologies Limited - Mumbai, India

SAP System copies and Refreshes.

Performance Monitoring and daily System Health check reports to Client. Upgrade SAP Application using SPAM and SUM Tool.

Install additional components using SAINT.

Ensuring SAP Applications are SOX compliant.

User management and Authorization Management to ensure access control. Improvise background jobs and spool generation to save overall run time of the business processes. SAP Kernel upgrade, EWA configuration, SAP Router, and SNOTE implementation. Part of the Disaster Recovery Drill, planning and implementation.

● Databases - SAP HANA 1.0 / 2.0, SAP MaxDB 7.7 / 7.9, Oracle DB 10g / 11g, SAP ASE 16.0, MS SQL DB 2012 / 2016 and IBM DB2 10.5 / 11.1.

● Operating Systems - IBM AIX 7.1, SUSE Linux SLES 12(x86 and IBM POWER), and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 / 2012 / 2016.

● SAP Applications - SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4 HANA 1709, SAP SolMan 7.2, SAP CRM 7.0, SAP SCM 7.0, SAP PI 7.4, SAP BW 7.5, SAP Netweaver 7.4 / 7.5, SAP MDG 9.1, SAP Enterprise Portal 7.5, SAP Data Services 4.2, SAP FES 4.0, SAP Business Objects 4.2 and SAP Netweaver 7.5 Java / ABAP Stack. Bachelor of Computer Engineering

University of Mumbai

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