SAP Consultant

RESUME

NAME Sarath babu Raguru

EMAIL *******@***-****.***

CONTACT NUMBER 408-***-****

QUALIFICATION Bachelor of Engineering in Informatics

OPERATING SYSTEM HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux, Windows

Technical Qualification SAP basis/Netweaver Consultant

Database Oracle, DB2, MSSQL

SAP NETWEAVER 2005 SR1,SR2,SR3 ECC6 ,EP 7.0 ,PI7.0,7.1, BI 7.0,APO and SCM 5.0

SRM 5.0, Solution Manager 4.0.

SUMMARY

SAP Technology Netweaver/ Basis Consultant with almost 7 years of experience and success in SAP products and supporting technologies. Worked as a Lead for 2+ year. A wide range of IT experience and professional success with a number of prestigious companies

• Hands-on Experienced in Installing, Upgrade, Unicode Conversion, hardware migration, Administering and Optimizing SAP on Oracle in UNIX (HP-UX, AIX) and NT operating systems utilizing high performance storage technologies including EMC storage with HP service guard.

• Experienced in production support, maintaining systems for Solution manager 4.0, 7.0 SAP R/3, BW, SCM/APO, XI applying and validating Kernel and Database upgrades.

• Installed add-on and Application of Support packages, ABAP dump analysis and Applied OSS Notes, Administered Transport, Printer and Batch Job Administration (Maestro), and Monthly Vertex update to support tax interfaces. Basis Security, Authorization including the Profile Generator.

• Experienced with SAP Netweaver workload analysis, performance tuning and memory management. Database upgrade and applied patches, backup and recovery, performance tuning, trouble-shooting and problem resolution and capacity planning. Installed, configured and performance tuning EP.

PROJECT DETAILS

HCL-AXON: ( Lead Consultant) Jun ’09 – Till Date

Spansion Inc: Oct ’10 – Till Date

Upgrade:

R3 4.6c to ECC6.0 (Upgrade and Unicode conversion (MDMP system))

CRM 4.0 to 7.0 and BW3.1 to BI 7.0 (Systems are already Unicode only Upgrade)

News International Ltd, London , UK May ’10 – Oct ‘10

Systems in the landscape:

SRM 5.0, SCM 5.0, Live Cache 7.6, ECC 6.0, BI 7.0

EP 7.0, PI 7.1, Adobe, GRC 5.3, and NWDi.

I was the SME for SCM and PI migration

OS migration from Sun solaris (64 bit) to Linux SLES 10(64 bit)

This is one of the tedious migration because all the systems where migrated in the same weekend

Merck Pharma, Whitehouse, NJ July ’09 – April ‘10

Responsibilities:

• Daily Monitoring for all ABAP stacks.

• Dual stack system copies(SRM,BW,ECC,HTR)

• Deployment of support pack for ABAP and JAVA stacks.

• Involved in one cutover activities(SCM,SRM,ECC 6.0,HTR,PI)

• CTS+ configuration for all the system.

• Installed SMD agents and Upgraded Willy.

• Used Mercury and Remedy ticketing tools for non production and production Systems

Environment: OS:HP Unix Database: Oracle 10G

I am Sr.SAP basis consultant and will be taking care of all the offshore activities

This is one of biggest SAP landscape with more then 180 instances.

Prosoft Cyberworld Inc: (Sr.SAP Consultant) Aug ’08 – May ‘09

Chevron Philips Chemicals, Houston, TX Dec ’08 – Jun ‘09

Responsibilities:

• EP 7.0 Installation and configuration

• Deployment of support packs to SP 14 in EP 7.0

• Deployment of ESS/MSS components in EP 7.0

• ESS/MSS Configuration

• Installation of Solution Manager 7.0 and configuration of Optimizer,EWA,Service desk, CHARM and worked in Java diagnostic tools for java monitoring

Environment: OS: Windows Database: Oracle

I was the in the client place for this project and I was Key person in setting up ESS/MSS.

And I was also involved other basis activities.

Bridgestone Nashville, TN Aug ’08 – Dec ‘08

Responsibilities:

• PI 7.1 Installation and configuration

• EP 7.0 Installation and configuration

• Solution manager 4.0 support Activities and planning phase of solution manager upgrade

PI 7.1 Installations:

• Installation of PI 7.1

• Post installation of PI 7.1

• Kernel Upgrade and Applying Support pack for ABAP and JAVA stack(SDM and SPAM).

• SLD configuration

• Connecting to Backend system(ECC 6.0)

EP 7.0 Installation:

• Installed EP 7.0

• Kernel Upgrade and Applying Support pack for ABAP and JAVA stack(SDM , JSPM and SPAM).

• Configured Single Sign on to Backend system ECC, BI.

• Created iviews, worksets, pages, Roles.

Environment: OS: Unix - AIX 5.3.0, Database: DB2

I was in the client place for setting up PI 7.1.

Clerysys Inc (SAP Consultant) Feb ’08 – Aug ‘08

Davey Tree KENT, OH Feb ’08 – Aug ‘08

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the planning for upgrade

• System Copy using Backup & restore Method

• Upgradation of SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0

• Migration from 32bit server to 64 bit server

• Installation and configuration of Solution Manager

• EP installation and Configuration(SSO)

• PI 7.1 installation and configuration

• Setting Up Standby server

Activities:

Planning:

• Hardware Sizing

• Analyzing the landscape

• Time frame of upgrade

• Upgrade strategy

• Backup strategy

Solution Manager:

• Solution Manager 4.0 installation on Windows 2003 with Oracle 10G.

• Optimizer configured for approving the support packs

• EWA was configured to get early watch alert from SAP

• Change Request management configuration(CHARM)

• Service desk Configuration

• Central Monitoring was for monitoring all the system centrally

• SLD was configured

PI 7.1 installation and configuration:

• Installation of PI 7.0

• Post installation of PI 7.0

• Kernel Upgrade and Applying Support pack for ABAP and JAVA stack.

• SLD configuration

• Trouble Shooting(SLD CHECK,CACHE etc)

Upgrade:

• Upgraded Development, Quality and production of the SAP R/3 system from 4.7 to ECC6.0

• Pre-preparation, Preparation of the system for upgrade and actual upgrade which involves some activities like extension of tablespaces, applying Support packs, Add on installation, Kernel Upgrade and rescheduling the background jobs and all other Post upgrade activities.

• Upgradation involved migration from 32 bit server to 64 bit server

• Performed 3 Dialog installation of ECC6 Production

• Installed the Standby server for production

Enterprise Portal:

• Installed JAVA and JCE Components

• Installed and applied patch

• Installed Enterprise Portal 7.0

• Also have knowledge of working with portals like creating I views, user creation and backend system configuration

• Performed Single sign on configuration between portal and ECC6

• Improved the server performance of Enterprise Portal; by increasing the server node in Config Tool

• Knowledge in working in EP tools like Visual admin, Config tool & SDM

Environment : OS: Windows Database: Oracle

I was in the Client place till the Go live. I was the only Consultant involved in the Upgradation and Migration Project.

Siemens Information System Ltd(Sr.System Engineer) May ’06 – Jan ‘07

Poste Italia, Italy Oct ’07 -- Jan ‘08

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade from 9i to 10G

• Migrated from 32 bit server to 64 bit server

• Upgrade from R/3 4.6C to ECC 6.0

• Upgrade from BW 3.5 to BI 7.0

Activities:

• Upgraded three SAP R/3 systems from 4.6C to ECC 6.0

• Pre-preparation, Preparation of the system for upgrade and actual upgrade which involves some activities like extension of table spaces, applying support packs, Add on installation, Kernel upgrade and Rescheduling the background jobs and all other Post upgrade activities.

• SPDD modifications were also done as per the customer request during the upgrade.

• Upgraded BW system from 3.5 to BI 7.0 and played a key role in the Pre-preparation, Preparation of the system for upgrade and actual upgrade which involves some activities like in SPDD modification, extension of tablespaces, applying Support packs. Add on installation, Kernel upgrade and rescheduling the background jobs and all other Post upgrade activities.

Environment: OS: AIX 5.3.0 Database: Oracle10G

This was SAP GDC outsourced Project. I was Upgrade consultant working Offshore..

ADC, Minneapolis Jan ’07 -- Oct ‘07

Upgraded three series of SAP R/3 4.6C to ECC 6.0 and BW 3.5 to BI 7.0 and APO to SCM 4.1. Full landscape Consists of 3 Development Systems, 3 Quality Systems, 3 Production Systems and 3 Mock systems which was the copy of Development to begin the upgrade before upgrading the actual development.

Responsibilities:

Upgrade of oracle from 9i to 10G

Upgrade from R/3 4.6C to ECC 6.0

Upgrade from BW 3.5 to BI 7.0

Upgrade from APO to SCM 4.1& Live Cache Upgrade 7.5 version

Conversion of Non Unicode system to Unicode.(Migration)

Upgrade:

• Oracle Upgrade from 9i to 10g

• System copy of Development to Mock system to start the upgrade before upgrading the actual development

• System copy Production to Quality before doing Quality upgrade to make sure that the Quality system is same as production system

• Upgraded of SAP R/3 systems from 4.6C to ECC 6.0

• Pre-preparation, Preparation of the system for upgrade and actual upgrade which involves some activities like extension of table spaces, applying support packs, Add on installation, Kernel upgrade and Rescheduling the background jobs and all other Post upgrade activities.

• SPDD modifications were also done as per the customer request during the upgrade.

• Upgraded BW system from 3.5 to BI 7.0

• Pre-preparation, Preparation of the system for upgrade and actual upgrade which involves some activities like in SPDD modifications, extension of table spaces, applying Support packs, Add on installation, Kernel Upgrade and rescheduling the background jobs and all other post upgrade activities

• Upgraded APO system to SCM 4.1

• Pre-preparation, Preparation of the system for upgrade and actual upgrade which involves some activities like in SPDD modifications, extension of table spaces, applying Support packs, Add on installation, Kernel Upgrade and rescheduling the background jobs and all other post upgrade activities, Upgraded the Live cache to 7.5.

Enterprise Portal:

• Performed Single sign on configuration between portal and ECC6

• Improved the server performance of Enterprise Portal; by increasing the server node in Config Tool

• Performed 3 Dialog installation of ECC6 Production

• Knowledge in working in EP tools like Visual admin, Config tool & SDM

Environment: OS: Unix - AIX 5.3.0, Database: Oracle 10G

I was working both Onsite and offshore and was involed in the Entire Upgradation and

Unicode converstion.

SIEMENS PG, HAMBURG, GERMANY

Sept ’06 – Jan ‘07 Responsibilities:

• Planning and requirement analysis of Memory, Disk Capacity, and Processors for SAP R/3 upgrade

• Implementation and maintenance of system landscape including but not limited to, licensing, saprouter, GUI installation, Application server maintenance, authorization concept, etc.

• High degree of proficiency in Client administration including Import, Export clients

• Scheduling, Monitoring and Administration of Background Jobs

• Spool administration and monitoring of printing services

• Extensive experience on SAPDBA functionality, Tablespace administration.

• Performance & System monitoring and Workload Analysis using CCMS.

• Configuration and Maintenance of the Change & Transport Management system.

• Configured and maintained SAP Router.

• Proficiency in client/server Network troubleshooting, Database, Backup, Performance Issues & housekeeping operations. Documentation of various BASIS activities.

• User Administration, including creating and managing Users, User Authorizations, Role and Profile generation and maintenance

I was working has Consultant from Offshore

JOHN KEELS, SRILANKA Jul ’06 – Sep ‘06

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the blue print stage to design the security outputs.

• Involved in the requirement gathering and acted as a key person to represent the security team in interaction with the business and cross functional teams.

• Worked with the functional team and Business team to design roles based on the requirement.

• Responsible for Creation, Maintenance, support, and deactivation of SAP security related activity groups, profiles/authorizations, and users

• Involved in Unit Testing and UAT for the designed roles, Recommended the SAP best practices for the security implementation in SAP R3

• Responsible for the realization phase and cutover activities

• Involved in the security design documentation and segregation of duties analysis of the entire project implementation, Design of the user management and authentication

Spectra soft Technologies (Trainee) May ’05 --- Jun ‘06

Orchid Chemical Ltd, Chennai May ’05 --- Jun ‘06

Responsibilities:

• System Landscape Design in High Availability Environments

• R/3 Installation of Rel.4.6C, Rel.4.7 on platforms such as Windows NT, and RDBMS such as Oracle.

• User Administration & Role Administration

• CUA Configuration

• Spool Administration

• System Refresh

• Database Monitoring (Backup & Tablespace administration)

• Transport Management System.

• Client Administration (Local & remote client copy)

• Data Archiving (SARA)

• CCMS Configuration

• Health Check

Varehouse Infotech (Trainee) Oct ’04 -- Apr ‘ 05

• SAP Basis R/3 training and internal Project(VTH for 6 months)

Training:

• Trained Technical SAP Basis Consultant 'SAP Net weaver’,

• SIEMENS, India, Workload Analysis (ECC 6.0)

• SAP Basis R/3 training and internal Project(VTH for 6 months

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