SAP BTP Architect & Program Manager

Abbas Mohammed

SAP BTP Admin/ Project Manager

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Professional Summary:

• 16+ years of IT experience into SAP implementations, AMS, Rollouts, Transformation, and Infrastructure delivery.

• Good experience in SAP System Administration, SAP Upgrade, System builds, Server Maintenance and Support in various business applications using ERP on SAP R/3, ECC, CRM, SRM, GRC, GW, BW, PO, MDM, S/4 HANA environments

• Good understanding of SAP BTP components and services, including Cloud identity services, cloud ALM, cloud foundry, BAS, SAP Integration Suite, Process Automation, open connectors and principal propagation.

• Hands on with BTP tools, Discovery center, Business accelerator hub and content discovery

• Experienced and hands on with S/4 HANA on Azure and S/4 Hana cloud public edition.

• In-depth understanding of SAP BTP architecture, including integration patterns, security models, and data management

• Good understanding of best practices in the critical evaluation and selection and development of the software components and hardware requirements of the applications and data, and the development of the application, including evaluation and selection of development methods, development processes, best practices, and tools.

• Highly organized, methodical, and skilled in SAP Program management.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem-solving skills and will work independently as well as in teams.

Work Experience

SAP BTP Architect

Mobolutions LLC, Dallas, TX April 2022 – till date SAP Basis Architect

IBM India Pvt. Ltd., India May 2010 – April 2022 SAP Consultant -Basis

SAP Labs (Hosting services) from Bristlecone India Ltd. Aug 2007 - May 2010 SAP Security Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd., India Jul 2006 - Aug 2007

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from Osmania University, Hyderabad. Certifications

• SAP Certified Technology Specialist -SAP S/4HANA Conversion, Upgrade (E_S4HCON2020)

• SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Admin. NetWeaver 7.0 (C_TADM51_70)

• Azure Certified System administrator (AZ-104), Solution Architect (AZ-304, AZ-305) and AWS cloud practitioner (CLF-C01)

• Certified Scrum master (CSM) and Certified Scrum product owner (CSPO)

• Certified Project Mgmt. Professional (PMP), Certified Activate Manager(C_ACTIVATE12) Awards and Recognitions

• Blue Captain for demonstrating outstanding leadership and engagement

• Recognition for implementing Cost containment ideas, innovation ideas and execution.

• Appreciation for TAC cost savings ideas and accelerators, bots and process improvements. Assignment history

SAP Basis / BTP Admin

Mobolutions May 2022 – Till date

Client: PepsiCo (FLNA), Sedgwick, Delicato, Cobblestone and internal projects Duration -May 2022 - Present

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded 20 + team members as a AMS delivery head for Basis, Security, Solman, and Infra.

• Experienced in SAP BRIM technology Sizing, BOM, performance Tuning.

• Worked on setup of Subscription billing cloud, Convergent charging tuning.

• Analyzing and fixing SAP security hot news and vulnerabilities, escalations if any.

• Technical table cleanup and archiving, execution of cost containment infra and design practices.

• Analyzed and deployed Azure right sizing and EWA recommendations from time to time

• Executed critical activities like RHEL upgrades, azure maintenances with proper planning.

• Preparing cutover plan and executed tasks as per plan for region rollouts.

• Supported N+1 FLNA environment S/4, MDG, TPM systems-CRM, BW, CARAB, Fiori, PO, ADS.

• Performed SAP workflow configuration for third party vendor integration.

• FLNA performance tuning – Load balancing, parameter updates etc.

• Worked with SAP Max attention for various issues and performance tuning in TPM systems

• Created BTP Sub accounts, directories, added Entitlements, subscriptions (SMP) and quotas in SA, configure entitlement and add SP in GA, transfer entity assignments, space from GA to SA.

• Onboarding systems, and formations, boosters, DB resource providers-AZ in BTP cockpit.

• Administered SAP cloud IAM – Cloud identity services, IAS as identity provider and as proxy.

• Onboarded applications in CIS-Applications and resources, configured conditional auth.

• Replication of users in Identity provisioning (CIS-IPS/IDS) and attribute transformation.

• Installed cloud connectors and configured sub account and cloud to on premise WD, ASCS integrating BTP SA-Destinations with different properties. Renewed CC subaccount cert.

• Cloud ALM (CIA, CTM) SA provisioning, met prerequisites, ALM setup, imported API token from BTP SA, activated Monitoring Use cases, collection intervals and carried landscape management for Focused run.

• Configured scope in SAP ALM launchpad for operations and analyzed monitored data-Real User Monitoring, Job and Automation monitoring, Alert Notification for Job exceptions, Health Monitoring, Integration and system exceptions monitoring.

• Helped with online VS code over BAS with BAS extension setup to overcome BAS cost.

• Retrieval of audit logs for SA using VS code using audit log service API token using Postman.

• Configured BTP cTMS node and route setup with destinations using service URL for CD/CI

(Project Piper)/CAS.

• Import MTARs to DEV nodes and forward to QA/PRD, analyze logs. Push mta. yaml CI to target, import Git entries to QA.

• Assign role collection to app users for imported app in Spaces

• Role collection assignment with application Identifier to users/groups.

• cTMS service instance service JSON key credential adds to SAP Continuous Integration delivery

• Adding technical members to SPACE as space developer/manager

• Entitlement and subscribed-SP cloud Foundry runtime, cloud transports (app/service). HDMI containers, HANA clouds and mappings, Alert notification, Automation pilot.

• Create GitHub repository, generate token with repo scope for BAS, clone CF api-devspace in BAS, install generators and run template wizard generators for CI/CD (Piper pipeline).

• Setting up BTP -integration suite entitlement for APIs and Graph with API key property destinations from API business hub.

• Created communication user, system and arrangements in S/4, created trust to consume APIs.

• Knowledge of Extensibility for on-premises/cloud-In App and Side by side-Core clean, Build WZ

• Knowledge of Process Automation -Rule creation for Input, decision, output conditions SAP BASIS / HANA Architect

IBM May 2010 – April 2022

Client: Ernst & Young, USA.

Duration: May 2018 – April 2022

Responsibilities:

• Performed upgrades, migrations, system Refreshes Improved technical process and deployed Basis efficiencies.

• Performed PO migration import – export method, updated Axis adapter and JCE policy strengths. Configured PO to failover across DCs with DB Virtual host and PO components with Load balancer host.

• SAP HANA Performance and Memory-Problem Analysis, HDB Optimization. Handling High Availability HANA Scale-up & Scale-out Systems.

• Hands on experience on HANA Replication and Site Switching/Takeover. HANA DB Backup and Restore. HANA Migrations using DMO tool from Transactional DB’s to HANA.

• Work with SAP to understand latest technical solutions and deploy fit for purpose solutions that are scalable and meet performance requirements. Technical Project Manager Contribution:

• Managed successfully large SAP program- Mercury in a multi-project environment (>65)

• Responsible for the achievement of project goals in time, quality, project success and customer satisfaction in project, a multiyear million fixed contract.

• Prepare and review Service catalogue with proper service breakdown, SLOs, reporting and sign off procedures. Prepare RACI for critical services that involve multiple teams.

• Manage critical planned activities within teams such as FDRs, Wave and releases.

• Demonstrated4-quadrant dashboard to show measure, activities, OLAs and Capacity.

• Cutover management to successfully plan and execute production cutover activities on multiple data interfaces on EY landscapes by replacing old servers.

• Involved in decision making for change management and Service requests in collaboration with vendors for hardware change executions as well as those of SAP applications.

• Provided technical leadership for company to effectively steer strategic plans and future projects. Manage day to day operations of the project including team management Client: American Insurance Group (AIG), USA.

Duration: Oct 2014 - May 2018

Responsibilities:

• Performed SP upgrades for all SAP systems includes Solman 7.10, ECC Ehp7 and SAP BW.

• Performed SAP Fiori configuration as per guide with identity provider-LDAP portal.

• Resolved issues with Fiori Launchpad sign on, SAP Authenticator sign on.

• Performed the Upgrades, Unicode conversions and migrations on to HANA using DMO.

• Performed HANA revision upgrades-Installation and configuration of SLT system

• Deployed transports via CTS+ for PI, analyzed server logs on issues. EP, AS-JAVA Client: Westcon, USA.

Duration: Jun 2010 - Oct 2014

Responsibilities:

• End to end Implementation -Solution manager, ECC 604, GTS, ADS, BW and TREX

• Provided AMS support post implementation.

SAP Consultant-BASIS

SAP Labs (Hosting services) Aug 2007 - May 2010

Client: SAP Hosting services (Training, Demo, Consulting) Duration: Jun 2010 - Oct 2014

Responsibilities:

• Installation of solution manager, EWA configuration and technical monitoring alerts.

• Upgrade from SCM 5.1 to SCM 7.0 and TM 5.0 to TM 7.0

• Migration to different databases ECC, BI, SCM systems from physical host onto VM Migrated system from one data center to other using export-import

• Installation, upgrade and config. of Live cache, optimizers, WCL files for SCM landscapes

• BASIS TLO for TDC systems supporting Teched.

• Automation of Proactive checks for SCM, XI, CRM products SAP Security Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd., India Jul 2006 - Aug 2007

Client: Ericsson Sweden

Duration: Jul 2006 - Aug 2007

Responsibilities:

• SAP Security Administration – Creating and troubleshooting roles and authorizations

• Worked dedicatedly “CSRonline” process on CRM system. Additional (IBM) Organizational Roles Contribution GBS TAC Service Delivery Lead/ IBM Certified People Manager

• Conducted Weekly TAC meetings among Project Delivery leads to brainstorm,enabling peers a venue to resolve issues quickly and effectively based on Agile scrum practice.

• Availed Subject Matter Experts from mix of projects to reduce workloads, took timely initiative to complete tasks or handle escalations within expected time constraints.

• Brainstormed teams for innovative ideas, automation wherever possible, best practices and for adaptive approach of tools and methods across projects. IBM Solutioning SME (Basis and Security)

• Performed solutioning for various projects both for Support, Transition and Implementations.

• Backed Deals for IBM of various clients TTC, Walter and Wales UK, Nebraska Power, T- Mobile etc., with best response to RFP.

• Projected efforts for SAP products, SaaS products and various integrations including pricing, support model and KT plans.

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