Srinivasa Nadimpalli

Cell: +1-832-***-****

Email: adjfn4@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

• A senior SAP Certified Basis professional with 15+ years of experience in SAP Implementation, Upgrade, Cloud & OS/DB migrations, Project Support, Operational Support and Disaster Recovery projects.

• Work independently and collaboratively with Techno-Functional teams and other IT staff to architect technical landscapes, create deployment plans, build template documents, prepare upgrade plans, migration strategies, operational guides, and maintenance run books etc.

• Huge amount of hands-on exposure to SAP Basis and DB administration in heterogeneous landscapes with wide range of products.

• Have a research-oriented attitude, good analytical skills and strong problem-solving approach. Possess effective interpersonal and team management skills and highly experienced in working with multi-cultural global organizations.

Skill Summary

• S/4 HANA, ERP, BI/BW, SCM APO, EWM, CRM, SRM, TM, EM, MDG, SLT, Gateway & Fiori, EP, PI/PO, MII, Sourcing, MDM, NWDI, Live Cache, LaMa, Solution Manager, SLD, Content Server, TREX, SAProuter, Webdispatcher, SABRIX and VERTEX etc.

• Oracle, MS SQL, MaxDB and HANA Database Administration including high availability and standby configurations.

• RHEL, OEL & SUSE Linux, HP-UX, AIX, and Windows platform experience including SAP high availability setup using HP Service Guard, RHEL Pacemaker, Microsoft Clustering and SIOS.

• SAP Greenfield Implementation, SAP & DB Release Upgrade, SP/EHP Upgrade, Unicode Conversion, AWS Cloud & OS/DB Migration and Disaster Recovery projects.

• Hardware Sizing, Installation, Post Installation, Client Copies, Transport Management, Integration Test Support, Go-Live Support and Hyper Care Support.

• SAP Administration including System Refresh, Patch Management, Transport Management, Workload Analysis, Performance Analysis, Memory Tuning, Load Balancing, Printing, Health Checks, Database Monitoring and Dump Analysis, etc.

• Technical configurations like SSL, SSO, SAML, SNC, LDAP, ADS, SLD, CTS and CUA etc.

• L2 / L3 Production Support, compliance with ITIL processes, Managing 24x7 on-call support with global teams.

• Working knowledge of SAP Security Administration and Authorization provisioning using SOX complaint GRC Access Controls, User Management and Profile Generator. SAP Certifications

• SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP HANA 2.0

• SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS/DB Migration for SAP Netweaver 7.52

• SAP Certified Associate – SAP S/4 HANA Implementation Scenarios for Architects

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

• Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology Management from AIMA, New Delhi, India

• BSc Electronics from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India Major Projects#

Restaurant Brands International (Burger King, Tim Hortons & Popeyes) Multiple projects

Sr. SAP Basis Consultant

Aug 2018 – Current

SAP – AWS Cloud & OS/DB Migration

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Cloud architects and IT team to design SAP Migration strategies.

• Create Basis migration plans for SAP landscape to move on to Amazon (AWS) Cloud

• Define Basis build and migration processes and create build documents

• Installation of Solution Manager, ERP, SCM APO, Biller Direct Portal, and SAP GRC Products on AWS Cloud

• Analyze large Tables and fine tune migration strategies for minimizing the downtime.

• SAP DB Instance Export / Import for the OS/DB Migration from Windows/Oracle to Linux Oracle

• Oracle DB Release upgrade as part of Migration

• Setup Oracle Data Guard physical standby Database for ERP system for Cloud Migration on Linux / Oracle

• Configure snapshot standby to able to perform mock cutover

• Basis Cutover task level planning for cloud migration

• Install and Configure saprouter on AWS cloud

• Basis Support for the Migration Project which includes various integrations

• Basis Support for the Test Cycles

• Schedule Go-live sessions and implement recommendations

• Post Go-Live Basis Hypercare and production support SAP Disaster Recovery Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Architect and Design SAP DR Landscape running in AWS West Region

• Collaborate with cloud engineers in building the infrastructure.

• Backup and Restore Database from Primary to DR systems

• Build Standby Databases at DR Site

• Configure Oracle Data Guard for Standby Replication.

• Setup MaxDB standby DB with customized scripts for log shipping and recovery

• Ensure the integration of various SAP and non-SAP solutions in the DR landscape.

• Provide support for the testing phase and ensure the smooth go-live

• Prepare Documentation for DR drill

• Post go-live support and ensure smooth transition to customer IT team. AMS & Project Support

Responsibilities:

• Provide Leadership and Technical Support for SAP Basis Project implementation, release upgrade, and production steady state support.

• Evaluate complex technical solutions for SAP applications and suggest architectural changes and deployment strategies.

• Design and deploy high availability landscape in a cluster environment for business critical production SAP applications using Oracle Dataguard for DB HA.

• Bring in best practices of SAP Implementation, release upgrade, migration, and production steady state support.

• Plan & implement SAP system SP and Enhancement Pack upgrades across the landscape

• Oracle 19c DB Release upgrade

• Migrate SAP HA solution from SIOS to RHEL Pacemaker

• Liaise with SAP Support and Functional teams in resolving production support incidents, project defects and provide go-live support.

• Responsible for maintaining overall health, performance, and high availability of SAP Landscape.

• Prepare quarterly maintenance plans, run books, and manage regular system outages.

• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of Severity 1 issues.

• Solution Manager 7.2 with HANA 2.0 new implementation and managed system configurations for entire landscape.

IBM @ MillerCoors

SAP Greenfield Implementation

Project Lead – SAP BASIS

Jun 2015 – Jul 2018

Responsibilities:

• Lead Basis team working under Build Support, Project Support and Production Support verticals

• Collaborate with Architects, Techno-Functional team members and Customer IT teams to meet project objectives

• Estimate and plan the effort relating to SAP Basis Project implementation, Steady State and on- going project support

• Create and Deploy Basis implementation project plans for Project with 20 different SAP products

• Create documentation / templates for installation, upgrade and configuration adjustments, provide this documentation to the build team

• Reviewing Quarterly maintenance plan run books and manage regular patching activities for Production Steady State

• Bring in the best practices of SAP Implementation and upgrade projects

• Installation and configuration of HANA databases in Scale-up and scale-out environments

• Installation and configuration of BW 7.4 on HANA environments

• Installation and configuration of SAP System Landscape Transformation as separate SLT on NetWeaver systems

• Upgrade BW on HANA environment to 7.5 SP02 from 7.4 SP10

• Upgrade SAP HANA SPS using HLM from previous versions to SPS12 Rev 06

• Plan & Lead SAP system SP and Enhancement Pack upgrades across the landscape for various SAP products like SAP ERP, MDG, CRM, SRM, APO, SAP EM, SAP EWM, SAP TM etc.

• Troubleshooting and resolving issues related to server nodes

• Administration of SAP HANA Data Provisioning using SLT configurations

• Manage SAP system Release and Enhancement Pack upgrades across the landscape

• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of Severity 1 and 2 issues

• Liaise with SAP Support and Functional teams in resolving project defects and go-live support

• Implement SAP LVM Post Copy Automation tool for SAP system Refresh in the landscape Burger King Corp

Multiple projects

Jan 2006 – Feb 2007, Nov 2007 – Jun 2009 & Jun 2013 – Jun 2015 SAP Implementation and Migration

Consultant – SAP BASIS

Responsibilities/ Deliverables

• Sizing of new SAP landscape for the Merger organization

• Create Basis implementation project plans for new landscape consisting various SAP products, some of which were mentioned above.

• Deploy SAP Business Suite and Netweaver Products as mentioned above.

• Basis Support for the Merger Project which includes various integrations.

• Basis support for the Decommission of unwanted SAP products.

• Preparing Basis checklist for the Data Center Migration projects.

• Perform SAP Installations and System Migrations

• Setup a sandbox copy of the production using system refresh method

• Transport Management for the project release

• Schedule Go-live sessions and implement recommendations

• Post Go-Live Basis support

SAP Basis Project and Production Support

Consultant – SAP BASIS

Responsibilities/ Deliverables

• Oracle Release upgrade (10g to 11g) for the landscape

• Migration of the SAP landscape from HP PA-RISC to Itanium Platform

• Apply support packs and kernel upgrades on a quarterly review for all the Netweaver ABAP and Java Systems in the landscape.

• Apply Add-ons as and when business required

• QA System Refresh on a quarterly basis and/or as and when business required

• System Monitor and Workload analysis

• Performance Analysis and Tuning as needed

• Daily Checkup of System Logs

• Apply Oracle database interim patches

• Database monitoring and Extend Tablespaces

• Analyze and Resolve ABAP Dumps/Runtime

• Work on Incident, Change & problem tickets

• Maintain Saprouter and Service connections

• SAP BW 3.5 system Implementation

• SAP Release upgrade for ECC (4.6c to ECC 5.0) in 5 system landscape

• Document the Landscape and Client strategy

• Configure and Manage Change and Transport System, QMS approval

• Creation of SAP Security roles and generate profiles

• Installation and Configuration of SAP GRC Compliance Tools

• Setup SSO and Information broadcasting between BW and EP

• Document guidelines for System Monitoring, health check and System refresh

• Query performance and Workload analysis

• Schedule Go-live sessions and implement recommendations WASL (Dubai Real Estate Corp), UAE

Multiple projects

July 2009 - Sept 2010 & Nov 2011 - May 2013

SAP Data Volume Management and Archiving

Principal Consultant – SAP Netweaver Basis

Responsibilities:

• Detailed Table level growth analysis for basis and application tables in ECC and CRM

• Design SAP Content and Data Management strategy

• Setup New Content Repositories and Content Categories for the Document Storage and Data Archiving

• Relocate the existing Documents from SAP Database to External Content Server

• Setup the Data Archiving process for the applicable tables. SAP Release / EHP Upgrade

Principal Consultant – SAP Netweaver Basis

Responsibilities:

• Technical upgrade Assessment for ECC 6.0 EHP3 – EHP6 & NW EP 7.0 EHP1 to NW EP 7.4

• Architect and Design SAP Parallel Landscape for minimum impact on the ongoing projects

• Liaise with Development Teams to define the code freeze strategy and upgrade methodologies

• Collaborate with Hardware vendors (HP) and finalize hardware specs and OS preparations.

• Design system copy and upgrade strategies for setting up parallel landscape.

• Ensure the integration of various SAP solutions in the Parallel landscape.

• Perform technical upgrades across the landscape and ensure smooth go-live

• Post go-live support and ensure smooth transition to customer IT team. SAP Disaster Recovery Implementation

Principal Consultant – SAP Netweaver BASIS

Responsibilities:

• Architect and Design SAP DR Landscape running on HP-UX / Oracle

• Collaborate with Hardware vendors (HP) and finalize hardware specs and OS preparations.

• Installation of SAP Systems at DR Site

• Backup and Restore Database from Primary to DR systems

• Configure Oracle Data Guard for Standby Replication.

• Setup MaxDB standby DB with customized scripts for log shipping and recovery

• Ensure the integration of various SAP and non-SAP solutions in the DR landscape.

• Setup Web Dispatcher with SSL termination for the external access.

• Provide support for the testing phase and ensure the smooth go-live

• Post go-live support and ensure smooth transition to customer IT team. SAP Greenfield Implementation

Senior Consultant – SAP BASIS

Responsibilities:

• Architect and Design IT Landscape consists SAP technologies, ECC 6.0 EHP3, CRM7.0 EHP1, BI 7.0 EHP1, EP 7.0, TREX, Content Server and Solution Manager 7.0.

• Design high available SAP solution considering Oracle RAC for 10g.

• Collaborate with Hardware vendors (HP) and finalize hardware specs and Service guard OS clustering Solutions

• Manage the deployment of SAP software in a 3-system landscape for all the solutions

• SAP Installations and post installation Tasks

• Define and Configure Transport Management System

• Provide support for the development and testing phases and ensure the smooth go-live

• Post go-live support and ensure smooth transition to customer IT team. Diagonal Consulting Ltd. UK

SAP Steady State Support

Lead Consultant - SAP Basis

Oct 2010 – Oct 2011

Responsibilities:

• Support over a dozen clients of Diagonal Consulting Ltd, part of 2E2, UK based IT Service provider which has outsourced SAP Basis Support functions for customers including WCC, COFELY GDF Suez (construction), EMI Music among them.

• After the smooth successful Knowledge Transition at onsite at UK, Steady State support provided from offshore as per strict SLA norms.

• Managing SAP BASIS related deliverables for customers under shared services offshore delivery model.

• Supporting different System Landscape including SAP R/3, ECC, BI, APO, CRM and EP on releases varying from versions 3.1 to 7.x

• L2 and L3 support is covered for Application and DB layers

• Provide on-call support for P1 tickets.

• Manage and execute Work orders for SAP Upgrade, DB upgrade, and Unicode Migration projects ICICI Prudential, India

SAP Implementation

Senior Consultant - SAP BASIS / Netweaver Technology March 2007 – Oct 2007

Responsibilities/ Deliverables

• Participate in the planning sizing of SAP system landscape comprising CRM 5.0, BI 7.0 and EP 7.0

• Document the entire landscape, client and transport strategy

• Install, configure and maintain SAP Apps and Database instances

• Configure Oracle 10g RAC in production environment for SAP systems

• Setup necessary clients and user master for development team

• Setup authorizations for development team

• Managing the SAP Correction and Transport System to ensure all configuration and development objects are promoted properly

• Research and apply SAP software corrections including SAP OSS notes, Kernel and SAP support packages

• Integrate CRM system with Lotus Domino using Groupware Connector

• Setup SAP Router and Web Dispatcher

• Work with IT team to design the backup / recovery policies

• Work with Network team to design the SAP network security

• Schedule Go-live sessions and implement recommendations Natural Textiles, India

SAP Implementation

Associate Consultant - SAP BASIS / Netweaver Technology May 2005 – DEC 2005

Responsibilities/ Deliverables:

• Document Landscape strategy

• Solution Manager 3.2 Installation

• SAP ECC 5.0 AFS 5.0 system Installations and post installations

• Support Package, Add-on Installation & Kernel Upgrades.

• Schedule Housekeeping jobs

• Configure Change and Transport System, QMS approval

• Setup Saprouter using SNC encryption

• Research and apply SAP software corrections including SAP OSS notes, Kernel and SAP support packages

• Creation of SAP Security roles and generate profiles

• Design Backup / Recovery strategy

• Formulated guidelines for System Monitoring, health check and System refresh

• Schedule Go-live sessions and implement recommendations Personal Details

• Full Name: Srinivasa Raju Nadimpalli

• Phone: +1-832-***-****

• Email: adjfn4@r.postjobfree.com

• Location: Dallas, TX

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