ASHOK PAGADALA

STATUS - US CITIZEN (ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE)

EMAIL:adxkhu@r.postjobfree.com

CELL – 630-***-****

BACKGROUND

Experienced in IT Industry for 20yrs, with profound knowledge on SAP Technical Infrastructure.

Worked for several years in different industry portfolios – Retail, Telecom, Public Sector, Pharma, Manufacturing, Chemical etc. with core critical SAP Landscapes footprints.

SAP Technical Lead/Management/Architect

7 yrs. of SAP Technical Infrastructure Management

Migrations –

HANA, Platform, Data Center

On-Prem – Cloud

SAP Core (ECC, BW, CRM, SRM etc.) & SAAS (Hybris Success Factor, Ariba, Field Glass) Applications

Cloud Management –

AWS, Azure, Dell/Virtustream, HEC, HCI, Hybrid

Technical Project Management –

Greenfield, Brownfield, Coordination, Strategy and Planning, Budget Management

Maintenance & Operations –

AMS, Onshore-Offshore Management, SAP Landscapes, Service Management, Risk, Change, Release Management. Optimization

and Performance Management. AMI (Alert & Monitoring Infrastructure), SOP(Standard Operating Procedures).

New Implementations, Migrations, Upgrades, Conversions, Integration with Cloud, Legacy and Non-Sap applications

Technical Hands-On Role

18 years of SAP Basis Technical Architecture Hands-on experience:

7 full life-cycle successful implementations of SAP deployments.

Infrastructure Projects Data Center/Platform/Storage Migrations.

Application Projects HYBRIS 6.1, ECC, SRM, CRM, SCM, BI/BO/BPC, MDG – Lumira/Fiori, PI/PO, EWM, HANA etc. From build env. To sustainment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TECHNOLOGY

Cloud Provider AWS, Azure, GCP, DELL/Virtustream, SAP Cloud

Infrastructure IBM P-Series, HP Appliance – CS 900,500, SUN, DELL

OS SUSE, RHEL, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows

Technology S/4 HANA (1709/1809), BW for HANA Business Suite on HANA 2.0, SCM, SRM, CRM, Portal, PO 7.5, MII, HYBRIS 6.2, Success Factor, Solman 7.2/HANA

Database HANA 2.0 SP02, Rev23, 1.0 SP12 Rev 122, Patch level 5, IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP MaxDB

Front End Fiori Apps 2.0, SAP GUI 7.50, NWBC 5.0, Lumira

Scripting Shell Scripts, Python, GIT etc.

SAP Modules S/4 HANA, BW, ECC, SRM, CRM, Portal, PO, SCM, Success Factor, Hybris, NetWeaver 7.5

SAP Tools SAP TDMS, LVM, BOBJ, BODS, SLT Solman 7.2, tools for data processing,

synchronization, refreshes, copies etc

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification

SAP Conversion & Migration Certification

SAP HANA Technology Associate

Cyber Security Plus Certification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RETAIL INDUSTRY JUL 2021 – PRESENT

Digital Transformation Program

Cloud Azure Cloud

HANA 2.0 SP04 REV53 HP (S896 – 2 Node 48TB) = MDC Installations.

Storage NetApp – ANF-A700 Storage

Applications S4/ HANA 1909, FIORI, BW, CAR, MDG, PO, SLT, Solman etc.

Integration Ariba, Concur, Fieldglass, .NET etc.

Role: SAP Technical Platform Lead

SAP Cloud BTP (Business Platform Technology)

SAP Cloud Platform Integration: Design, Configuration and connectivity with SaaS applications (Success Factors, Concur, Excise Tax etc.), On-Prem Applications integrating with Core Applications (S/4HANA, MDG, CAR etc.).

HANA Cloud as a Service for CPI/DS to load data from different Data Sources.

IBP Cloud on HANA CPI/DS on HANA Azure Data Lake/SYNAPSE Integration to load the Supply Chain Planning, Finance data.

Installations, Setup and Configurations of CPI/DS Agents in On-Premise, Azure Public Cloud, Azure Private Cloud

SAP HANA Cloud Platform – HANA SDI(Smart Data Integration)/SDQ(Smart Data Quality)

Architect, Design, Install, Configure and deployed the components on HANA Cloud Service in Distributed Landscape:

SAP HANA(SDI) Components and all its patches Product Availability Matrix (PAM) for SAP HANA SDI 2.0

HANA DP Agent 2.6.2

HANA DP DU 2.6.0

HANA IM API DU 2.4.0

HANA Adapter 2.0 SP06

HANA Cloud on BTP as a Service – GL Acct/Sub-Acct/Instance

HANA Landscape – DEV/QA/STG/PRD environnements.

HANA Server configured for HTTPS – Installing HTTP Server certificate

DPS – Data Provisioning Server/DP Agent/Adapters (Version 2.6.2 SPS 06)

Configure DP Server

HA deployment for DP Server on HANA server.

Enable the DP Server for the HANA Service

Configure DP Server parameters.

Configure DP Agent

Load Balancing & Failover DP Agent deployment using Agent Grouping.

Configure DP Server and Agent connecting to HANA using JDBC.

Register DP Agent and Adapters and Connect to SAP HANA.

Assign roles & Privilèges (AGENT, ADAPTER & MESSAGING)

Configure HTTPS Proxy Authentication.

Manage Agent Groups for Load balancing, Failover, Remote sources etc.

Configure DP Smart Data Quality

Download and deploy SDQ directories.

Add and configure Script server in HANA tenant database.

Setup Monitoring alerts.

Configure Data Provisioning Adapters

Configure HANA adapter

Using the Adapter to extract data from different sources into HANA service.

SAP HANA XS – HANA_IM_DP DU(Monitoring, Admin, Proxy)

Configure & setup Monitoring & Proxy.

Monitoring & Administering Data Provisioning, Connected systems, Remote Source databases, Data Assurance Jobs etc.

SAP Migration/Upgrade 2020

Migration and Upgrade 2020 – Strategy, Planning, Approach, Design and Implementation.

Migration Approach HANA DB (HSR/Backup & Restore), Application (SWPM/RSync/Export & Import) to reduce the Cutover durations.

Upgrade 2020 POC, Strategy, Planning and Deployment for S/4HANA 1709 2020 FPS 02.

Simplification List generation and checks

SPDD & SPAU

Custom Code Analysis

Coordinate with Application/Integration/Performance/Non-SAP/Cloud Infrastructure/SAP teams for successfully upgrade.

SAP Core Applications

Sizing, Design for Application/HANA Technical Architecture for SAP Landscapes for extraordinarily complex Retail & Finance Transformation Project.

Sizing, Installation, Configuration, Tuning, Backup/Restore, HA/DR for HANA, SAP MaxDB(Data Services, Solman, SCM Live Cache etc.).

Coordinate with Azure Cloud/SAP architect teams for deploying the Best Practices for Application/DB/Platform migrations into the Cloud env.

S/4HANA, FIORI, BW, BOBJ, BPC, GRC, SLT, MDG, CAR, Solman 7.2, applications running on HANA 2.0 SP04, PL 53, MaxDB 7.9.09

Integrating with Ariba, Concur, Fieldglass, Vistex, Vertex and Bolt-on applications.

SAP VTO, TPO service exercises for all the Prod SAP applications, Third Party tools, Bolt-ons etc.

Hand-Held devices integrating with Fiori S/4HANA HANA. Major workload of 2M HTTP calls with load balancing using SAP Web Dispatcher.

Workload Management for Applications, HANA, Infrastructure, Network and Storage level components.

HA/DR Cascading Design, Planning and Deployment for critical applications and HANA env.

Storage, DB Snapshots for backups and restore.

Stability, Optimization, Capacity Planning, RunOps for SAP landscapes.

Planned and Unplanned Outages coverage for normal operations.

Technical Project Management, Infrastructure coordination with Azure, SUSE, SAP, Intel architects,

Archiving S/4HANA, BW, CAR, MDG with SAP standard archiving objects and Technical tables following Cooperate Retention policies.

SSL/SSO and Cyber Security requirements, setup and deployment for all SAP Landscapes.

Research on new technologies PMEM, NSE, SNAPSHOTS, HA/DR etc.

Upgrades Applications, HANA, OS, Infrastructure, Third Party, Bolt-Ons etc.

Release, Change, Incident and Risk management.

Workload Mix, Component Testing cycles on Performance and Staging systems for Applications, DB, and Infrastructure.

SAPNS2 – US ARMY (LMP)/US NAVY DEC 2020 – JUL 2021

Cloud/HANA Migration project – US ARMY – LMP SAP landscapes initiated the process of migrating all their SAP Core applications from On-Prem Cloud (AWS).

SAP on AWS.

AWS – EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, NFS – AFS Conversion

AWS – CLI for HANA Backup/Restore with SAPINT

Kubernetes, GIT, Terraform for AWS (RHEL)

Upgrades (Application, DB, Infra – OS, Network, Storage)

Upgraded ECC (EHP4 – EHP8), BW (7.31 – 7.5 SP1), PO(7.3 – 7.5 SP), BOBJ(4.0 – 4.2), SRM (7.0 EHP2 SP04 – 7.04 EHP4 SP12), Portal(7.3 – 7.5), NetWeaver ABAP/JAVA Stack upgrades, SAP Kernel 7.53, Host agent, Solman(7.0 – 7.2), BODS(4.0 – 4.2 SP09)

HANA Upgrade 1.0 SP09 2.0 SP02

OS Upgrade RHEL 7.7 (2019-08-06 RHBA-2019:2351 3.10.0-1062) - RHEL 7.9 (2020-09-29 RHBA-2020:3849 3.10.0-1160)

AWS NFS 4.0 – 4.1, I02 – GP1, NFS – EFS, VMWare Upgrade

Migrations (On-Prem – AWS Cloud, Oracle – HANA, HP-UX – RHEL Linux)

Planning, Architect, Design the Migration methodology and approach in terms of Cloud/Infrastructure/Application/HANA readiness.

Generate the Build sheet, install and deploy the SAP Landscapes systems on AWS.

Design Technical Architecture for SAP Landscapes for very complex Migration project for DoD/US Army LMP initiative.

Deploy best practice methodology for provisioning and onboarding SAP Landscapes on AWS:

Computing – VM Sizing EC2

Network – Subnets, VPC, Load Balancing etc.

Storage – NFS, AFS, EBS, S3 etc.

Coordinate with AWS Cloud team for deploying for Application/DB/Platform migrations into the Cloud env.

Onboarding Build and Migration of the Applications and HANA database servers.

Migration approach for SAP Landscapes systems into AWS –

RSYNC for ABAP bases applications

SWPM Export/Import for JAVA based applications.

HSR replication for HANA based applications

ECC, SRM, BW, BOBJ, BPC, GRC, SLD, Solman 7.2, CRM applications running on HANA 2.0 SP03, PL 48

Non-SAP applications, Third Party tools, Bolt-ons etc. into AWS env.

DNS, AD, Print, Background Schedulers servers On-Prem.

DOD/US ARMY(IBM) – HERONDON, VA 07/2019 – DEC 2020

Cloud/HANA Migration project – US ARMY Global Financial Project one of the complicated SAP landscapes initiated the process of migrating all their SAP Core applications from On-Prem Cloud (AWS).

Role: SAP Technical Lead/Project Management – Team (10)

AWS Planning, Design, Architecture DoD - SAP Infrastructure to AWS.

AWS – EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, Snowball, Glacier, Aspera etc.

AWS – CLI for HANA Backup/Restore with SAPINT

Kubernetes, GIT, Terraform for AWS (RHEL)

Upgrades (Application, DB, Infra – OS, Network, Storage)

Upgraded ECC (EHP4 – EHP8), BW (7.31 – 7.5 SP1), PO(7.3 – 7.5 SP), BOBJ(4.0 – 4.2), SRM (7.0 EHP2 SP04 – 7.04 EHP4 SP12), Portal(7.3 – 7.5), NetWeaver ABAP/JAVA Stack upgrades, SAP Kernel 7.53, Hostagent, Solman(7.0 – 7.2), BODS(4.0 – 4.2 SP09)

HANA Upgrade 1.0 SP09 2.0 SP02

OS Upgrade RHEL 7.7 (2019-08-06 RHBA-2019:2351 3.10.0-1062) - RHEL 7.9 (2020-09-29 RHBA-2020:3849 3.10.0-1160)

AWS NFS 4.0 – 4.1, I02 – GP1, NFS – EFS, VMWare Upgrade

Migrations (On-Prem – AWS Cloud, Oracle – HANA, HP-UX – RHEL Linux)

Design Technical Architecture for SAP Landscapes for very complex Migration project for DoD/US Army Global Financial system.

Coordinate with AWS Cloud/SAP HANA architect teams for deploying the Best Practices for Application/DB/Platform migrations into the Cloud env.

Onboarding Build and Migration of the Applications and HANA database servers.

Coordinate with AWS architects in Design, Planning and Architecture of SAP on AWS Migration project.

DMO/SWPM approach for Migrating the systems into AWS – Export/Import methods for ABAP/JAVA based applications.

Migration of SAP systems into AWS Gov Cloud environment.

ECC, SRM, BW, BOBJ, BPC, GRC, SLD, Solman 7.2, CRM applications running on HANA 2.0 SP03, PL 48

Non-SAP applications, Third Party tools, Bolt-ons etc. into AWS env.

DNS, AD, Print, Background Schedulers servers On-Prem.

HA/DR Requirements, Design, Planning and Deployment for critical applications, HANA etc.

Testing, Dry Run, Cutover, Optimization etc for Migration process into AWS.

Technical Project Management, Infrastructure coordination with AWS architects, Integrating with Application teams, third party/Bolt-on support teams.

Installations and administration of ECC, PO, Solution Manager, BOBJ-BI, Business Objects Data Services (BODS), GRC, BPA, WPB and ADS.

Solution Manager 7.2 on HANA

Experience in Solution Manager tools like E2E Analysis, MOPZ and CHARM

Experience is setting up Solution Manager for EWA and Maintenance Optimizer

SAP Solution Manager 7.1 & 7.2

Configuring CTS+ for ABAP/JAVA stack applications. Configure TMS routes for N, N+1, N+2 landscapes.

SAP Application Life Cycle Management, Solution Manager, and development tools and methodologies, including business and process modeling tools

Responsible and Accountable for the new project planning and setup in the relevant tools within Solution Manager (QGM, ChaRM) within a multi-rail landscape

Experience with Tooling required to support SAP programs, Performance test approach and tuning and Business process and technical monitoring (e.g., Solution Manager, automated test suite, Splunk, etc.)

Manage SAP Solution Manager, including system monitoring, and expansion of services Installation and setup of all SAP software and/or upgrades

Solution Manager and the tools included in Application Lifecycle Management, CHARM, Monitoring.

Technical knowledge around all the Solution Manager applications – ChaRM, Monitoring, business Process Management, Project management, License Management, Testing, integration with tools such as HP Quality Center and other testing software.

Customizing SOLMAN monitoring template for different SAP systems. Able to configure email alerting and integration with Service Now.

Troubleshooting from the alert and adjust threshold accordingly especially knowing where to locate logs and trace files.

Customizing alert so the email subject has the SAP system id, not a generic alert subject.

Expertise with solution Manager 7.2 (Mandatory requirement), SAP Solution Manager 7.1. Upgrade experience from 7.0, 7.1 to Solution manager 7.2

Install and configure Solution manager 7.2 with ChaRM, Technical Monitoring, system monitoring with alert configurations.

Conduct Weekly and monthly demos to client Management on progress and milestones of the project.

Obtain Signoffs from Business Leads for each landscape on Performance Optimization with Implemented Monitoring and alerting capabilities.

ENERGY & UTILITY(DENVER, CO) 02/2019 – 07/2019

Role: SAP Technical Architect/Lead/Project Management

Greenfield Project for OIL Industry. Implementation of new business processes activation sets for S/4HANA, HEC and Front-end is Fiori apps development.

SAP S4/HANA/HEC/FIORI (Greenfield Implementation Project)

Infrastructure GCP

Computing SAP Applications -- (n2-highmem-32, Intel Cascade Lake)

SAP HANA -- (m1-ultramem-160, Skylake)

Storage Cloud Storage -- (Standard, Coldline & Archive, File Store)

Network VPC Network -- (Public, Private Shared VPC, Firewall)

Clusters Kubernetes Engine -- (High Availability with Multizone and Regions)

Tools Python, Kubernetes, Shell Scripts (KSH, CSH, BASH), Terraform for RHEL.

SAP Basis/HANA lead architect for greenfield implementation Fiori (2.0), S/4(1809 FPS 01), HANA 2.0, PO, BODS, SLT, BW, BOBJ, NetWeaver 7.5 (ABAP & JAVA)

Installed, Configured in SAP HEC (HANA Enterprise Cloud) environment.

Fiori HUB deployment with S/4. Setup and Configuration of Fiori Apps for Finance, SD, FSCM, MM modules from SAP Apps repository.

Coordinating with SAP HEC group from SAP America.

Business Functions set activation for various modules.

PO Integration with Cloud applications HCI (HANA Cloud Integration).

BODS - Sizing, Installation, Configuration on SAP MaxDB, for Legacy and SAP ECC loads into S/4HANA.

BW/4HANA implementation for Enterprise Data Warehouse. Reporting using BOBJ. Dashboarding using SAP Lumira.

Solution Manager 7.2 on HANA

Solman 7.2 Roadmap for implementation of:

Technical Monitoring of Applications

BPM – Business Process Monitoring

ChaRM/Release management.

Configure CTS+ for ABAP/JAVA stacks.

HANA Cockpit Installation/Configuration on Solman/HANA 7.2 to monitor HEC env.

DOD/US ARMY(FORT BELVOIR, VA) 07/2017 – 02/2019

Role: SAP Technical Lead/Architect/Project Management

US Army AESIP (Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program). Army’s Business Consolidation Business Analytics Project has multiple SAP Programs involving different business processes (Logistics, Finance, Global Combat Support etc.) into single source of ERP enterprise HUB services, centralized master data management and business intelligence analytics.

SAP Convergence/Consolidated Project

AESIP Project – Convergence of GCSS, GFEBS & LMP data for real time Business Analytics.

Complex SAP environment to Consolidate/Migrate the data.

Plan, Build and Deploy Reporting structure using BOBJ, Lumira for Dash Boarding.

Install, Configure, and deploy multiple SAP ECC, BW, BOBJ PO landscapes on HANA on a Multinode/MDC architecture.

Data consolidation/Convergence from different sources using SAP SLT and Data Services

High Data volume (15TB) to Migrate using DMO (Database Migration Option) of SUM (Software Update Manager) and SWPM (Software Provisioning Manager).

HANA Deployment Team (Developers, Modelers, Admins)

HANA Multimode Architecture - Technical design and Architecture for HANA Enterprise to optimize SAP Landscapes to meet application requirements.

HANA MDC - Multi-tenant configuration for the applications

HANA System Replication Setup and configuration of HANA replication for prod DB systems.

Best Practice recommendations for HANA, DMO and SWPM to upgrade, migrate etc.

SAP best practice recommendations for HANA – NUMA nodes, E7 Broadwell intel processor

SUSE best practice settings for HANA

Monitoring HANA DB Cockpit, HANA Studio for Monitoring, troubleshooting. Administration etc.

Backup & Recovery Backup and Recovery of HANA DB’s for cloning, refresh and copy procedures.

Co-ordinate with HP-COE, SAP Max. Attention, HANA DB Cockpit, HANA Studio for Monitoring, troubleshooting. Administration etc.

Install, Configure and Integrate HANA XSA engine for HANA development, Modelling and Administration.

HANA Studio, Cockpit configuration for multiple systems.

Plan, Architect and deploy – HANA Dynamic Tearing on dedicated host.

SAP INFRASTRUCTURE

Hardware - SAP Application and HANA Appliances (CS-900, CS-500) multi-node architecture (3, 4, 6 and 8 nodes).

Network - Network configuration – SAP Enclaves setup for Internal, External, Storage, Management virtual IP address.

Storage - HP 3-PAR Storage configuration – XFS Shared File system layout, RAID 1+0, Multiple VG, LV etc.

Memory – 2TB on each node configured memory parameters optimally for HANA Tenant DB’s with allocation limits.

DELL/EMC/VIRTUSTREAM(CHICAGO, IL) 06/2016 – 06/2017

Role: SAP Technical Manager/Project Management

DELL/Virtustream for CMS/AMS (Cloud and Application managed services for SAP Customers. Coordinated with Onsite/Offshore model to support multiple customers/projects.

State Of Illinois (59 Agencies, 60K Users – Both for ERP and Legacy Applications)

The scope and the responsibilities include:

Greenfield. Brownfield and AMS implementations for SAP customers.

Cloud/HANA migrations and support for SAP customers

HANA TDI, HEC and Appliance architecture for SAP landscapes.

Virtustream Cloud, VMWare, RHEL/SUSE setup, configuration and builds for all the SAP landscapes.

Coordinated with SAP NS2(National Security Services) FED Ramp certified data center to host public sector

clients

Tuning, Monitoring, Change/Release management for all the landscapes.

Architecture, Onboarding and AMS support to State of IL, USDA, Lockheed Martin, Doterra

Doterra – (2 Mil Users, 250K orders per hour)

Retail Industry – Hybris 6.1/HEC (HANA Enterprise Cloud) Greenfield Implementation

Installation, configuration, tuning, integration, HA/DR for all the SAP Landscapes.

Integration with S/4HANA (1709) through PO.

HYBRIS Integration Cloud applications C4C, Salesforce, Workday.

VERITRA INC (SCHAUMBURG, IL) 12/2012 – 08/2016

Role: SAP Basis Practice Lead/Tech. Project Manager

Worked for multiple consulting engagements for several sap clients/customers.

The project scope and deliverables include:

Johnson Controls

Plan, Architect, Design, and Deploy Business Suite on HANA for Johnson Controls using SAP HANA TDI

Architecture.

Technical Architect Design and Deployment of $120M Mission Critical application MII (Manufacturing

Intelligence Integration) coordinating with SAP America MII team.

Collaborative effort of SAP America (Max Attention), CAP Gemini (Application – Functional, Technical) and

Infosys (Infrastructure).

Fluor Corp

Build, developed SAP Landscapes in a unique scenario for Construction company building Highways &

Bridges.

Multiple clients in Prod env. Related to different business projects.

SAP SRM implementation for Complicated Procurement process integrated with SAP ECC, PI, Portal

landscapes.

Bidding process for external vendors.

BOBJ upgrade from 4.1 – 4.2.

AbbVie

Support Abbott – AbbVie split SAP landscapes.

Technical Upgrades and Migrations of all the SAP landscapes.

Components for SRM Upgrade EBP SUS Live Auction Requisite Catalog CCM MDM Catalog IPC PI Enterprise Portal BW (SRM Analytics) ITS CRM Middleware.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN(DALLAS, BALTIMORE) 02/2009 – 07/2012

SAP Enterprise Technical Architect worked on multiple projects related to Infrastructure and Application. Very complex SAP landscapes supporting Northrop Financial, Logistics, Supply Chain, GTS for different divisions – Air Force, Army and Navy.

The scope and the responsibilities include:

Design, architect, deploy new SAP implementations, upgrades, migrations, conversions, Virtualization, Cloud computing etc.

Datacenter Migration from Texas to VA [All Production ERP systems SAP, PeopleSoft, Lawson, Edwards] and IL [All Non-production systems] which includes Optimization SAP on Cloud Infrastructure[Working sessions with SAP, VMware, EMC].

Leveraging the EMC Storage Technology VMAX series, Tools Networker, RM (Replication Manager), Intelligent Cloning for Dual Stack and Single Stack SAP Systems, EDL for Backup and Recovery.

IBM Tivoli Tools – ITM and TSM - Plan, Configure and Deploy AMI (Alerts & Monitoring Infrastructure) & Storage Backup/Recovery.

Implement and Deploy projects and production support for various complex SAP Landscapes for ECC, BI, CRM, SRM, Portal, PI, MDM, GTS, SCM and many Third-party tools and Bolt-on’s.

Hardware consolidation and OS/DB Migration from IBM/DB2 to Linux/Aix/Oracle.

Upgraded ERP 2004 to ECC 6.0 EHP5 using Downtime minimized method. Includes all Bolt-no’s, Third Party Interfaces Vertex, Tidal, Redwood, IXOS, IBUY, Solumina etc.

Multiple implementations/releases for PI7.1. Technical Configuration of Integration Engine [BPE, Integration Server Engine, Adapter Engine]. Troubleshoot, EWR implementation for PI Landscape in terms of performance related to Queues, Adapter Framework etc. Upgrade of PI 7.1 to 7.1EHP1.

Support for all the Landscapes ECC, CRM, SRM, BI [BO, BIA], EP, PI etc.

Work on Issues, Planned Outages [Infrastructure related], Unplanned Outages. HA and DR setup.

Time Keeping Projects, BO-BIA setup for BI Landscape, PI Interfaces to ECC, and CRM from non-sap using ABAP Proxy runtime, SOAP, File, IDOC adapters.

Performance & Tuning following Early Watch Reports from SAP.

Prepare, Plan, Installed Enhancement Pack 4 using Enhancement Pack Installer in ECC Landscape for FSCM.

Data Center Consolidation, Hardware Migration from HP to IBM [AIX 6.0 LPAR’s] on IBM P595 series.

High Availability, Disaster Recovery setup for all Production systems.

Solman 7.1 Configure Technical Monitoring, ChaRM, Transports – TMS, CTS+, BPM (Business Process Management).

LTD COMMODITIES (CHICAGO, IL) 02/2007 – 02/2009

Role: SAP Basis Manager – SAP new implementation for Retail Industry

Involved in the Hardware platform Selection and Sizing process for all the modules based on the Functional feedback using SAP Quick Sizer.

Lead six-member Basis team working with DBA, Unix/NT, Network, Backup, Helpdesk teams.

Implementing the SAP Best Practices for System Landscapes and deploying or incorporating the standards and procedures into the Landscape Definition and setup.

Installing different types of Installations: Standalone, Distributed, High-Availability, Export & Import for SAP Landscapes: ECC, CRM, SCM, BI, PI, Portals, MDM technologies.

Planning, Configuring, Implementing Landscape, Client, Transport, CUA, Backup & Recovery, High Availability & DR, Standard Operating Procedures etc. for all those SAP System Architecture Landscapes.

SAP implementation, installation, and upgrade experience R/3 4.6c – ECC 6.0, BW 3.5 – BI 7.0, EP 5.0 – EP 7.0, APO 4.0 – SCM 5.0, CRM 4.0 – CRM 5.0, Basis 4.6D – Net weaver 7.0.

ECC 6.0[FI/CO, SD, MM, PP, WM, HR], CRM 5.0, BI 7.0, EP 7.0, PI 7.0, Solution Manager 4.0, IS-Retail, FSCM [Finance Supply Chain Management], EHP2 [Enhancement Package 2].

Work with SAP Net Weaver 2004 or higher, Solution Manager 3.2 or higher and J2EE/Java stack installation and administration.

Research emerging technologies for Technical Infrastructure, Ensure SLAs are met.

Establish, configure, and manage all SAP client and server environments, including development, test, training, sandbox, and production.

ABBOTT LABS(INFOSYS – CHICAGO, IL) 07/2006 – 02/2007

SAP Basis Team Lead maintained a onshore and offshore team of 8 basis members covering 24/7.Planning, Designing the SAP Landscape Architecture for the new dimensional My SAP.

Defining the SAP Landscape in conjunction with the SAP Application teams for Sandbox, Development, Quality, Staging, Training, N+1 and Production systems.

Implementing the SAP Best Practices for System Landscapes and deploying or incorporating the standards and procedures into the Landscape Definition and setup.

Planning, configuring, and implementing Global Code migration to different SAP landscapes.

Communicating with application teams, meetings, providing solutions for upcoming projects, system architecture documentation and technical documentation, mentoring junior administrators, providing technical support for 3rd party interfaces and integration to SAP R/3.

Work with upper management in terms of (Un) planned outages, Resource allocations.

Knowledge Transfer for offshore team in terms of Abbott procedures, policies, and protocols.

Defining SLA, Project scopes, timelines in coordination with management teams.

Coordinating with other Infrastructure teams like Network, PC, Unix, DBA, tools.

Assigning Basis/DAB related activities for load balancing to the offshore Basis team.

X1 Upgraded to SP Stack19 having interface issues with Web Methods and Web Sphere.

Solution Manager Upgrade from 3.2 to 4.0 and configuring and implementing Service Desk, TMS, IMG components.

BW migration from SUN to HP using SAP Migration Tool Kit and then Upgrade it to BI 7.0.

Involved in the planning phase of ECC 5.0 upgrade from SAP R/3 4.6C.

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES(NAPERVILLE, IL) 06/2003 – 07/2006

SAP Member of Technical Staff for Lucent Technologies. Involved in various projects and production support for the Telecom Industry.

Basis starting from Installations, Migrations, Upgrades, Trouble Shooting, Performance Tuning (OS, Database, R/3), Third Party Interfaces.

Sizing the hardware, Installing, configuring, and implementing CRM, SRM, PLM and SCM to interface with Net Weaver components like XI, MDM, Portals, and BW with base being WEBAS 6.40 kernel. Configuring SCM, CRM to XI and BW connectivity.

Doing production refreshes for both ABAP+JAVA stacks to test and training systems using backup, restore and re-configuring Java stack and using Load to export and import the database schema’s for Abap and Java.

Involved in building SCM, CRM, SRM, PLM, MDM landscapes which includes Sandbox, Dev, Test, Prod and Training systems.

Involved in setting up policies and procedures of Sarbanes Oxley for all SAP and interfaces to SAP landscapes.

Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting ITS [2.0, 6.20. 6.40] for different landscapes.

Involved in setting up, configuring and implementation of High-Availability, Disaster Recovery for all SAP systems using HP Service Guard.

Planning, Implementing and Going Live with Quote to Cash for 14 different countries on 7 system landscapes covering different modules and markets.

Co-ordination and consolidation of moving data centers from Denver and Town and Country to Lisle for all SAP servers for 7 landscapes.

Plan, Install and configure BW landscape Dev, Test, Production and Sandbox.

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