Curriculum Vitae
Mukarram Vakharwala
SAP Certified Professional
Nationality : Indian
Email ID : ******@*****.***
Contact : +919*********
Residence : Pune India
Job Application Title - SAP BASIS Platform Lead
CAREER ROADMAP
A professional career of 14 years’ experience with skills of technical expertise in implementation, operations and support projects as Senior SAP BASIS Engineer SAP Certification in HANA Migration technological module Technical lead architect on large SAP implementations projects with ability to analyse technical requirements and build solutions in highly integrated environments with multiple SAP / non-SAP systems
Senior Analyst in SAP Security Hardening and Performance tuning of SAP Systems Architecture Leadership in planning SAP Upgrade and database migration projects Professional guidance in technical requirements and value proposition for S4/HANA deployments on Hyperscalers platforms (AWS), Azure, and (GCP) to support rapid application deployment Trusted advisor to customer with proven consulting background in providing both technical delivery and advisory services in a senior role
Technical expertise in diverse platform (Unix/Windows/Linux) & Database
(Oracle/MSSQL/MaxDB/Sybase) administration
Anticipate in Pre-sales support assignments to help in designing business and technological solutions for customers
Work Experience
May 2021 - Till Date RICH’S IT TECH
SAP BASIS Analyst
• SAP System refresh with Oracle DB on ASM
• Operational support in system configuration, monitoring and performance tuning
• Daily support with a resolution of escalated incidents and act as a liaison to business and technical leads
• Designing & Implementing Landscape and Infrastructure, Client Strategy, Capacity Planning (Sizing), High-Availability & Disaster Recovery setup, Backup & Recovery Strategy, Storage systems, SAP Upgrades, OS/DB Migration, and Basis Administration
• Implemented Data Archiving solution as a part of DVM for reducing the data footprint of business data
• Exposure to other facets of SAP Solutions – DMS, TREX, WWI and BOBJ Jan 2020 – May 2021 ITD Cementation
SAP BASIS Manager
• Support and Manage SAP Landscape environment ensuring optimization and integrity of systems
• Provide technical expertise in the understanding of major technical risks and challenges within projects and ensure task completion with minimum downtime
• Take part in release governance processes, audit and compliance
• Performed customer project evaluation and risk mitigation of implementation project
• Work on innovation and automation to reduce mundane work
• Technical hand-on Fiori Elements (SAPUI5, FIORI/UX, OData, and Launchpad configuration
• Performed SAP HANA scale-out deployment and administration with optimization experience and knowledge
Aug 2015 - Jan 2020 PwC India
Senior SAP BASIS Engineer
• Lead S/4HANA project with Technical Planning, Installations, Upgrades, OS/DB Migrations in High Availability landscape
• Lead from on-prem SAP Upgrades & S4 HANA Conversion to public Cloud
• Administered SAP HANA systems with HA setup and multi-tier replication
• Hands on experience in SAP HANA scale out deployments
• Prepare standard Monthly reports with interactive discussions and detailed analysis on important KPI / Exceptions
• Identified areas for data quality improvements and helped to resolve data quality problems through the appropriate choice of error detection and correction, process design strategies
• Solution Manager 7.1 & 7.2 – Installation & Upgrade, Guided Procedures for Configuration, EWA, Technical Monitoring, Incident Management
• Experience of hybrid operations (on-prem with cloud integrations)
• Customer facing role to lead and participate in architectural discussions and design workshops
• Provide technical expertise in scripting of Housekeeping programs Dec 2013 - Aug 2015 Adroit Infotech
SAP BASIS Administrator
• Planning, sizing, configuration and optimization of all SAP NetWeaver based and HANA systems in Greenfield and Brownfield projects Upgrade projects
• Technically lead & manage availability, scalability, performance and capacity from development through to production
• Generate alignment reports, investigates the gaps, understands the implications of the gaps and summarizes the findings concisely to relay to management May 2012 - Nov 2013 AAKIT Technologies
SAP BASIS Administrator
• Performed DB specific SAP homogeneous system copy, hardware migration, DR Drill
• Client Administration, System Monitoring, Error handling of issues with dump analysis and system logs
• Hands on new dimension products (SAP CRM, Business Objects, Enterprise Portal and SAP Best Practice methodology, SAP Fiori, SAP Personas) May 2010 - April 2012 STRIDEIT
SAP BASIS Consultant
• Introduced and implement an optimal SAP configuration to maximize system performance and availability
• Successful execution of SAP Upgrade projects with understanding of major technical risks and challenges within such projects and ensure task completion with minimum downtime
• Managing the day to day operations – BAU
• Design and build security authorizations based on SOD standards and business requirements
• Technical guidance in SAP Security Hardening and Performance tuning of SAP Systems
• Consort to business critical/emergency situations and seek to resolve promptly ensuring minimum disruption to the business
Jun 2007 - Nov 2008 Growel Softech
Associate SAP BASIS Consultant
• Perform SAP Kernel upgrade using RKS procedure ensuring business continuity
• Administer RFC, printers and SMTP settings. Manage spools and schedule background jobs
• Security Administration - Maintain user master records, Role maintenance and authorization check for users, System Audit, Connect SAP systems using LDAP and Single SignOn
• Maintain integrity of SAP environment using SAP (TMS) to ensure all configuration and development objects are promoted properly
• Indulge in SAP Basis activities with escalated technical operational issues & major incidents in 24X5 environment (Weekends on-call)
Jun 2007 - Nov 2008 TIFR
Internship
• Associate member in designing Community Portal Site project using Linux Programming platform
Academic Education
July 2006 University of Mumbai, Mumbai
Masters in Computer Application
(RDBMS)
May 2001 University of Mumbai, Mumbai
Bachelor of Science
(Physics)