Sr SAP certified Basis Hana consultant

Sadanand Depala Email: ********.******@*****.***

Sr SAP Basis HANA Consultant +1-512-***-****

Professional Summary:

SAP Certified Technology Consultant.

Over 16+ years of SAP Basis Administrator experience. Hands-on experience in installing, configuring SAP R/3, ECC, Enterprise Portal, HANA, Business Intelligence (BI), BOBJ, XI/PI, CRM, SCM, EWM, TDMS, IDM, GRC CPS Redwood, Trex search Engine and Solution Manager systems.

Performed upgrade of SAP S/4HANA from 1709 to 1809 release & SAP Fiori from 4.0 to 5.0 release.

Performed SAP HANA 2.0 database revision upgrade and HANA DB system refreshes.

Configured SAP HANA DB system replication from primary to HA and to Disaster recovery system

Experienced in SAP HANA DB administration, troubleshooting and performance analyses on SAP HEC, Azure & AWS cloud platforms.

Implementation, Administration, Configuration & Migration of SAP HANA systems with the tenant DB to Azure / SAP HEC / AWS cloud platforms.

Expertise in version Upgrades, Combine Upgrades & Unicode Conversion and migrations such as Single Code Pages and MDMP.

Profound knowledge and Expertise in SAP NW PI/XI and Portal 7.0, 7.1, 7.31, 7.40, 7.50 Administration.

Experience in an implementation and configuration of solution manager 7.1 such as LMDB, SLD, Early Watch Alerts, Data Volume Management, Business process monitor, Maintenance Optimizer, Root Cause Analysis (SMD, Diagnostic Agents and Wily Introscope)

Experience in merger and acquisition SAP projects like set-up new hardware, hardware sizing, migration, homogeneous/heterogeneous system copy/refreshes, reorganization and data cleansing.

Experience in ECC, BI, SCM, EWM, GRC, XMII, SLD, PI and Enterprise Portal upgrades using tools like SUM and SUMDMO.

Experience in SAP JAVA administration, trouble shooting, OOM dumps, high CPU usage and performance tuning using tools like NWA, Thread dump analyzer, Heap dump analysis, Jvmon profiler, Visual Admin, Configtool, JCMON, JSPM, Telnet, MMC and Wily Introscope.

Designed, Managed & tested Disaster Recovery for all production systems.

Experience in Hardware sizing for various SAP systems on windows and UNIX platforms.

Experience in automated system copy/refresh and operations using tools like SAP Netweaver LVM, PCA (post-copy automation).

Installed, Configured & Maintaining Test Data Migration Systems (TDMS) for ECC and BI systems for system copies.

Experience in security administration such as set-up of central user management, configuring the LDAP, creation of user, roles and authorization.

Designed & Managed High Availability productive systems.

Experience in Database Administration, system refresh, restore and recoveries, space management, reorganization, table space move, system performance and monitoring.

Performed several SAP OS/DB migrations.

Ability to handle multiple projects, efficient team player/Team Lead.

Onsite Experience:

Worked 4 years & 7 months at Coca-Cola Atlanta, USA

Worked 5 years at Danske Supermarked, Denmark

Worked 6 months at GazeDeFrance, France

Worked 3 years at Shell, UK.

Technical Skills:

Environment: SAP ECC6.0, PI 7.31, 7.40, BI/BW, HANA, EWM, EP, SCM 5.0, CRM, Solman 7.1, CPS

O/Systems: AIX, Linux, HP UNIX and Windows 2008

Database : DB2 9.5/9.7, Oracle 8/9/10g, HANA

Professional Work Experience:

Client: BNSF, Fort Worth, TX USA from Oct 2019 to till date

Role: Architect & Sr SAP Basis Lead. Employer: Infowave Systems INC USA

Responsibilities:

Performed SAP ERP6 EHP7 Support Package Technical Upgrade

Installed, configured SAP Cloud Connector and SAP Cloud Platform WEBIDE

Configured SAP Mobile Service at SAP Cloud Platform

Performed system copy using SAP LAMA

Performed SAP PI high availability setup

Performed SAP HANA 2.0 Administration using tools like SAP HANA Cockpit, HANA Studio c894625etc.

Worked with F5 load balancer configuration, troubleshooting & testing for all backend SAP systems.

Performed SAP NW BW7.5, PI and Portal Technical Upgrade

Performed performance tuning and troubleshooting to resolve critical issues in all production systems.

Installed, configured the SLD system and updated SLD CR contents.

Performed Managed System Configuration, set up technical monitoring including host monitoring for SAP and non-SAP systems.

Performed SAP LAMA configuration for automated and repetitive System Refresh, STOP & START procedure for all Satellite Systems in the landscape.

Client: Coca-Cola, USA from Feb 2015 to Aug 2019

Role: Architect & Sr SAP Basis Lead. Employer: Infowave Systems INC USA

Responsibilities:

Performed PI & Portal Technical Upgrade from NW 7.31 to NW 7.40

Installed, configured ClamAV Antivirus Software in PI systems

Performed system copy using TDMS migration for ECC system with time-based reduction

Installed, configured NWDS & NWDI integration with PI systems

Worked with F5 load balancer configuration & testing for all backend SAP systems.

Performed SAP GRC 10.1 Technical Upgrade

Performed SAP ECC EHP7, CRM, XMII, Trex, SLD and SCM Technical Upgrade

Installed, configured the SLD system and updated SLD CR contents.

Performed system copy/refresh of XMI, ECC, PI, Portal and GRC systems of both ABAP and JAVA systems with SAP LVM as well.

Performed installation and configuration of SAP Fiori systems

Configured SAML2 SSO configuration between SAP portal and success factor, SAP cloud systems.

Installed, configured and updated Attunity Replication Server on the Azure cloud

Deployed, configured and upgraded ReadSoft applications in ECC & Portal systems including setting up SSO

Performed SAP BI integration with Portal systems.

Managed & Performed monthly production maintenance across all teams

Performed and validated yearly DR Test of all production system

Performed Installation, support pack stack upgrade and maintenance revision of SAP HANA on single and multi-host environments.

Installed, configured and administration of a single and multi-tenant SAP HANA databases.

Administrations, Configuration & Monitoring of SAP HANA servers such as set up initial parameters, create schemas, create & schedule regular backups.

Performed troubleshooting and performance tuning of the SAP HANA database.

Performed integration of HANA with GRC, ECC and portal.

Create and configured connection between SLT to HANA & ECC.

Install & Configuration of SLT Replication Server, Set up roles, users, jobs in SLT.

Implementation, Administration, Configuration & Migration of SAP HANA system.

Deployed and configured SAP XI 3rd Party adapters such as a Soap-Axis adapter and IBM MQ series JDBC adapter in SAP PI landscape

Performed installation, configuration and administration of SAP XMI systems.

Hands on experience in trouble shooting SAP JAVA production systems such as analyzing OOM dumps, thread dump analysis, high CPU usage and debugging.

Hands on experience in the troubleshooting of various PI interfaces using tools like XPI interface, wily Introscope, thread dump analyzer and other trace files.

Performance Tuning and root cause analysis has been done using SQL Trace, stad, st22, SLG1, /sdf/mon, st22, sm21 and fine-tuned the applications for better performance/quality.

Handling various Incidents & Change Requests using CONA Service IT.

Hands on experience in SAP Performance monitoring and tuning.

Performed system-monitoring activities such as system log, dump analysis, traces, update logs profile maintenance, Performance tuning, Data Backup, Load balancing etc.

Administration, Configuration, Maintenance and performance tuning of SAP PI and Portal systems.

Administration and maintenance of Bolton systems such as CAS, Hyland, Vertex etc.

Environment: ECC EHP6, PI 7.40, CRM, SCM, EWM, Portal, SOLMAN 7.1, IDM and GRC

Client: Danske Supermarked, Denmark (Feb 2010 to Sep 2011) & (Oct 2011 to Jan 2015)

Role: Senior Basis Lead, Employer: Sapentia Global Consulting & IBM

Responsibilities:

Planned system maintenance, health checks, automated health reports and pro-active monitoring to maximize SAP availability for customer business needs.

Performed Installation, Configuration and Administration of SAP IDM and GRC systems.

Experience in security administration such as set-up of central user management, configuring the LDAP, creation of user, roles and authorization.

Performance Tuning and root cause analysis has been done using SQL Trace, SLG1 and ST22 and fine-tuned the applications for better performance/quality.

Performed SAP system monitoring, health checking and load balancing including SAP HANA.

Handling and raising various Incidents & Change Requests by using the Remedy, My-service portal.

Handled administrative tasks like Performance monitoring and tuning.

Monitoring, troubleshooting and performance tuning for BI 7.30, BWA 720.

Performed system-monitoring activities such as system log, dump analysis, traces, update logs profile maintenance, Performance tuning, Data Backup, Load balancing etc.

Administration, Configuration and Maintenance of SAP PI systems.

Performed ECC, BW, SCM, EWM, PI and Solution Manager Technical upgrade for both ABAP and JAVA stacks.

Performed OS & DB migration from oracle to DB2 for all systems (ECC, BW, SCM, EWM, PI and Solman systems) in the landscape.

Performed SAP system migrations from old to newer hardware.

Installed & Managed Test Data Migration Systems (TDMS) for ECC and BW systems.

Performed system refresh of ECC & BI using TDMS with time based from the production system.

Background job administration using CPS redwood.

Administration & configured a Business process monitor in solution manager system.

Performed Java Administration using tool NWA, Visual Admin, JSPM, SDM, Eclipse analyzer for heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis and wily Introscope.

Administration of Transport Management System and importing the transports.

Client Administration like deletion and creation/refresh of client local & remote.

Environment: ECC EHP4, BI 7.4, PI 7.31, SCM, HANA, EWM, Portal, SOLMAN 7.1, IDM and GRC

Client: Royal Mail, UK April 2009 to Jan 2010

Role: Basis Team Lead Employer: CSC

Responsibilities:

Production Support and 24/7 on-call rotations commitment.

Responsible for Backup, Restore, and Recovery strategies.

Adjusting Operation modes and WPs depending on the load and job type to be scheduled and executed, profile maintenance.

Database administration, worked with Oracle & DB2 Databases.

Basis & DBA Background jobs scheduling for new System (landscape) and monitoring, monitoring routine system checks for any errors system errors, update errors etc.

Responsible for Daily, Weekly and Monthly activities to keep system’s health proactive.

Worked with TMS, transport directories, transport routes, domain controller.

Involved in setting up Transportation Management system (STMS) and transported change requests across Dev, QA and Production systems.

Database, System, and Network performance analysis and tuning (ST01, ST02, ST03, ST04, ST05, ST22), RFC and ALE configuration. (SM59, SALE).

Monitored and Administered daily lock entries and update records. (SM12, SM13, SM14).

Deployed SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0, Netweaver 04 and configured it with the R/3 & BW systems.

Installed Plug-ins & Patches on the satellite system for configured the satellite system with the solution manager.

Configured the CCMS agents at the satellite system for monitoring.

Configured Mail (SMTP) (SCOT) for sending emails to the responsible person/teams

Created, Maintained, and Architected custom defined method to send emails triggered in MTE attributes.

Configured the Solution Manager system for central auto reaction methods.

Responsible for setting up the SAP R/3 (ERP) landscape (DEV, QA, PROD) setting up the STMS

Environment: ECC, BI 7.1, PI 7.01, CRM, Portal, SOLMAN 7.1

Employer: SAP India May 2007 to March 2009

Role: Senior Basis Lead

Clients:

1.BATELCO PROJECT, Bahréin - Migration & Technical Upgrade from SAP 4.7EE to ECC 6.0, BW3.1 to BI 7.0, EP 6.0 to EP 7.0

2.EMPRESA ELECTRICA DE GUATEMALA - Performed Technical Upgrade from SAP 4.6 C to ECC 6.0

3.Forest Plantation, Australia – Performed Technical Upgrade from SAP 4.6 C to ECC 6.0

4.Telecom Namibia, South Africa – Performed Technical Upgrade from SAP 4.6 C to ECC 6.0 & JAVA ADD-IN

5.GazDeFrance, SAP France – Performed Technical Combined Upgrade & Unicode Conversion from SAP 4.6 C to ECC 6.0

6.Janssen Cilag, Canada – Performed Technical Upgrade from EP6.0 to EP7.0

7.Cirque du soleil, Canada – Performed Technical Combined Upgrade & Unicode Conversion from SAP 4.7EE to ECC 6.0

8.ABB Pvt Ltd, Bangalore - SAP Implementation project

Responsibilities:

Installation, post-installation and configuration of ECC 6.0, PI 7.0, BW 7.0, CRM 5.0, SLD, GRC and EP 7.0 with High Availability on the AIX platform.

Installation & configuration of Web dispatcher, Content Server and Trex.

Installed Dialogue instances for ECC 6.0, CRM 5.0, BI 7.0 and EP 7.0 Systems.

Build hot standby Systems for all Production Systems.

SAP administration and support during the merger of 2 different business units such as set up new hardware, hardware sizing, migration, homogeneous & heterogeneous system copy/refreshes

Kernel upgrades, Support package implementations for ABAP and JAVA.

Handled all critical activities in all production and Non-Production Systems.

Implemented SAP Go-Live checks and the Early Watch Alert Report recommendations.

Performed Integration of BW, CRM, EP with ECC systems

SLD configuration and content updates

Monitor table-space growth, table-space/table fragmentation, corrupt or missing indexes, log files etc.

Configure the Transport Management System & transport routes.

Logon Load Balancing, Web dispatcher, Server Groups, HTTP, HTTPS Load distribution

Go-Live support and performance tuning.

Monitor the system logs and ABAP dumps and fixed the issues.

Analyze Early Watch Recommendations and implement necessary changes.

Responsible for monitoring of the print queue, configuring output devices and troubleshooting of spool errors.

Contribute to the documentation for the various tasks that we perform for Daily monitoring and support

SAP Performance Tuning R/3 System level, Database level and OS-level.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7EE, EP 7.0, CRM, Solman

Client: SHELL Sep 2003 to April 2007

Role: Basis Consultant Employer: Wipro Technologies

Responsibilities:

Providing SAP infrastructure service availability to Global Customer in Shell Mega Centre. Mega Centre is a project that standardized SAP services from infrastructure to SAP application.

Well exposure on Database Management, Correction & Transport System.

Performed weekly database refresh or database copy to numerous Shell customers of SAP R/3, BW, SRM & CRM systems using online/offline/hot standby copy from production and development systems.

Performed yearly SAP Disaster Recovery Exercises.

Performed Scheduled Support Packages and Plug-in installation of various components such as Basis, ABAP, HR and Plug-in etc.

Strong in the areas of Kernel Upgrade, General Checking of SAP Systems

Performance Tuning – Performance Tuning of R/3 System, Database and Operating systems

Performed J2EE upgrade from the 6.20 to 6.40 version on SRM systems

Client Administration – Performed local Client copy, Client import, Client export, Remote Client Copy, Client Deletion on a number of SAP Systems.

Spool Administration – Performed the creation and migration of the printers

Correction & Transport System – Configured the Complete setup of Correction & Transport System through STMS

Batch/Background Jobs - Checking the status of Background Jobs, Scheduling Background Jobs such housekeeping and customer jobs

Very good understanding of the full lifecycle of the implementation and E-enabling of SAP modules, right from the conception stage to go-live and support activity.

Performed Turkey, Russian, Spanish, Chinese and Ukrainian Language Installations

Performed the manual corrections and as well as applied the OSS Notes using SNOTE.

Performed the monthly maintenance and early watch recommendations to the production and other systems

Performed the number exports and imports of change requests at SAP and OS level using tp command.

Performed Rebuild, drop and creation of indexes

Performed Installation of SAP Central instance and application servers.

Configured the Logon groups, configured the Operation modes and assigned the times for the day and night operations modes

Database Management – Very good exposure on oracle database administration

Performed offline/online restore and hot standby copy for the DB refreshes

Backup, troubleshooting of failed online/offline backups and restores

Performed Reorganization on database tables using sapdba/brtools

Performed hot standby rebuilding and sync with the production systems

Performed parameter changes at database configuration files and adding data files to the table spaces

Performed exports and imports of tables at oracle DB level

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7 EE, EP, BW, SOLMAN and SRM systems.

Education: Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.

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