Sr SAP BASIS Architect

Thilip Kumar Ravilla

Sr. SAP Platform Architect/Manager

Contact

+1-682-***-**** (Whatsapp)

*************@*****.***

Secunderabad, India

LinkedIn @thilip-kumar- a1797926

OBJECTIVE

SAP BASIS Lead, Techno-functional Architect, and Technical Project Manager with over 18 years in SAP technologies. Certified in SAP NetWeaver 7.0, SAP HANA, and Project Management Professional (PMP). Over the past few years, I have gained proficiency in agile project methodology and have successfully supervised a team of four and managing mid-size SAP projects spanning across technical upgrades, migrations, global enterprise-wide product implementations, rollouts. Equipped with strong problem-solving abilities, willingness to learn, and excellent communication skills. Known for passion to deliver with excellent quality and high standards.

Experience

SR SAP BASIS ARCHITECT, KUBOTA, GRAPEVINE, TX

September 2023 – December 2024

●Configure HA Cluster setup in SAP B/4 environment

●Setup SAP Signavio portal integration to on-premise ECC, configure extractors in Signavio to extract data from ECC to analyze in SOLMAN BPM

●Experience in Oracle RAC, Oracle ASM, Grid Infrastructure and performed Exadata migrations

●Redistribute tables CDPOS, KONV to secondary index server using table placement rules.

●Administration of SAP system hardware in MS Azure private cloud (IaaS)

●Expertise in configuring and troubleshooting CHARM configuration

●Provision Sybase ASE DB in HANA Cloud for SAP Cost and Pricing application

●Coordinate and represent SAP changes in weekly CAB meeting.

SAP BASIS LEAD, PACCAR INC, RENTON, WA

November 2012 – September 2023

●Setup of subaccounts, establishing trust, etc in SAP Cloud foundry and Neo environments and setting up system replication in Cloud Neo and CF environments

●HANA table (CDPOS, KONV) partitioning using hash partitioning

About Me

Computer Science Engineer

SAP Netweaver Certified Professional

SAP HANA Certified

PMP Certified

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science

July 2002 – June 2006

RMD Engineering College, Tamil Na

du, India

SKILLS

SAP ECC, S/4, SLT, GRC

SAP Solution Manager(SOLMAN)

SAP BTP (Cloud Foundry)

CPI administration and integration

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP HANA Cloud

SAP RISE, Signavio

BOBJ, BODS

SAP Gateway, Fiori

Linux,AIX,AS400(iSeries),Windows

Oracle RAC, ASM, Exadata

SAP LaMa

SAP Cloud Transport Management

CI/CD pipeline with GitHub

Presales

S/4 Transformation (Greenfield, blue-

Field implementation)

SAP Warehouse Management

SAP Project Management

●Configuration of SAP SLT replication from SAP on-premise source systems to SAP HANA Cloud DB’s, HANA on-premise DB’s to Snowflake DB’s via SAP DI.

●Lead SAP PI/PO Migration efforts which involved migrating from PI 7.4 to PI/PO 7.4, importing B2B adapters, creating business systems and mappings in SLD, importing technical design objects, configuring communication channels, etc.

●Implemented HANA Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP S/4

●HANA 1.0 to 2.0 DB migration using SDA to convert from Big Endian to Little Endian

●Project Manager – Performed the role of project manager for SAP HR upgrade project, SSO 2.0 and Fiori mobile app implementation. Also, the technical design for SAP SSO 2.0 and Fiori app performed and coordinated with packaging team and business divisions for phased roll-out to different divisions across the world. Act as bridge between product owner and Scum master to effectively track delivery in accordance with scope and business requirements. Coalesce with cross teams to build cutover plan, track SAP changes, coordinate freeze, outage and communication to project teams. Stakeholder and Risk management.

●Change Manager – Represent Changes for SAP Competency in weekly CAB meeting. Coordinate and plan with functional teams on preparing delta transports, project transports to integrate in system refreshes or project cutover plan.

●Had been in presales for choosing between Intel/IBM hardware for SAP S/4 implementation. Involved in presales of App Dynamics, SAP LaMa product procurement for SAP competency.

●Effectively manage Correction and Transport System (CTS) in SAP by proposing optimal configurations and methodologies to function efficiently especially during system refreshes, soft and hard freezes as required by projects.

●Configured SAP Analytics Cloud with HANA Cloud Live, SAP S/4 with CORS setup

●Experience supporting Transportation Management project functionalities that are widespread on different Cloud platforms i.e. SAP Cloud, on-premises SAP S/4 systems

●Experience as SAP Architect designing solution to use SAP Fiori mobile App using Azure ADFS and using SAML SSO.

●Perform and consistently improve system refresh/copies of HANA 2.0 databases

●Installation of SAP LaMa on SOLMAN and integrating to satellite SAP application and HANA databases. Enable post-copy automation to SAP ECC, BW systems to perform pre and post refresh tasks.

●Expertise in configuring MAI (Maintenance and Alerting Infrastructure) on SolMan 7.2

●Expertise in SAP enterprise portal content management, Knowledge Management (SAP KM) and migrating portal content across different servers

SAP PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT, AG TECHNOLOGIES, HILLSBOROUGH, NJ

March 2012 – October 2012

●Worked as contractor for Apple client. The primary role was performance tuning of SAP BW 7.0 Systems, patching, regular day to day monitoring and administration of SAP landscape.

SAP BASIS ASSOCIATE, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS, SACRAMENTO, CA

July 2008 – March 2012

●Worked with multiple clients in banking, retail and pharma doing upgrade assessment, ECC upgrades using CUUC (Combined upgrade and Unicode conversion), Spend Analytics and E-Sourcing implementation

● Firefighter configuration in GRC/Virsa to production systems.

●Worked on setting up HighAvailabity for SAP ECC using Oracle RAC.

● In parallel to working with clients, I have been a significant and important contributor to SAP COE by training other SAP BASIS resources, and preparing technical presentations for other clients

SAP SYSTEM ENGINEER

SIEMENS INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CHENNAI, INDIA

July 2006 – July 2008

●First job. I got trained in SAP BASIS, Oracle DB and AIX and was immediately part of BBC client managing SAP systems as BASIS and Security combined. Quick learner and prime BASIS member leading in tasks like Oracle patch upgrade, recovering production databases following crash and other technically critical operation tasks.

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