SAP Basis / HANA / Cloud / Security & Authorisation Technology Specialist

• Helped M&S to get on cloud migration path by refining strategy to reduce SAP database size.
• Upgraded SAP DB2 database to version 10.1 to realize new database layout benefits.
• Involved in continuing data archiving project run by SI partner to reduce data volume.
• Performed reorganization of tables associated to archiving object to reclaim database space.
• Helped SI partner to identify and resolve issues to upstream/downstream system arising from archiving and related processes.

• Performed Key BASIS role for project involving SAP HANA, OS/DB migration to SAP ASE/HANA, from on premise to SAP HEC.
• Worked on SAP ERP migration and landscape realignment projects.
• Executed migration support requirements to SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud (HEC) like system refresh, system build, transports.
• BASIS Lead for performing OS/DB migration from Oracle/Win to SAP HANA/Linux, Upgrade of SAP ECC 6.0 Landscape.
• SAP estate include products like ERP, BW, PI, PO, POSDM, F&R, SLD, TDMS and Solution Manager.
• SAP Solution Manager Install on Sybase ASE 16.0.
• Assisted in designing and implementing SAP security and Authorization piece to get the migration project going.

• SAP Migration Lead performing Key BASIS role for multi-phased project involving SAP HANA, OS/DB migration from Oracle to SAP ASE/HANA, from on premise to HP VPC – Virtual Private Cloud and SAP Upgrade.
• SAP BW on HANA: Managed Installation/Readiness with Hardware team, Upgrade/Migration from SAP BW 7.0 Oracle/Win to SAP BW 7.4 on HANA SPS10.
• SAP Solution Manager Install on Sybase ASE 16.0.
• SAP Solman 7.1 configuration, EWA, MOPZ, Technical Monitoring, Job Monitoring.
• Sybase ASE 16.0: Installation, Upgrade, Configuration, Performance Optimization, Backup configuration, Restore and Recovery setup.
• Created Migration Cutover plan and Technical Redbook for optimally managing PRD migrations.
• Manage Interaction with 3^rd Party teams; Infrastructure Team on sizing, Server readiness, OS team for OS settings for SAP, Cluster configurations, Backup team, Network team, SAP team.
• Key member of meeting to update stakeholders with project progress, Technical meetings, escalation meetings, Client Status Update Meetings.
• Managing SAP System Security, OS/DB Security, SAP Application Security, SSL and SNC Security.
• BW Technical tasks: Convergence, SAP upgrade, HANA Migration
• Source platforms: Windows/Oracle and target: HP-UX/SAP ASE (Sybase) and Linux/HANA.
• Implementation of SAP Fiori.
• Responsible for validating Solutions Design Documents and Provide Technical Recommendation.
• Support BAU landscape for Business continuity adhering to SLAs.
• Worked with application team to manage changes across multi-tiered BAU and Project landscape.

• Assisted senior architect in SAP design aspects like SAP landscape including component distribution, hostname, SID and Instance naming conventions, filesystem, backup policy, etc.
• Designed High Availability solution for ERP and BW components using Red Hat Cluster Suite and RAC.
• AWS deployment POC for SAP – Analysis and Recommendations. Involved in planning migrations of SAP solutions from on-premise to AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Estimating Elastic Compute Cloud virtual cores, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) requirements for SAP components.
• Designed Single Sign-On process using Kerberos – SSO 3.0
• Deployed SAP systems on VMware vSphere ESXi Virtualized Machines and worked with Infrastructure team to help them puppetize VM build ready for SAP deployment.
• Implemented SAP World Template that is on top of ERP 6.0 EhP7 SPS06 using system copy method.
• Implemented Solution Manager 7.1 SPS14 using SWPM and SUM.
• Integrated ARIS4SAP on Solution Manager system.
• Configuration of technical monitoring, service delivery on Solution Manager.
• Involved with setup and configuration of Solution Manager 7.2 demo system while it was in ramp-up phase.
• Installed Adobe Document Service (ADS) on SAP Solution Manager.
• Configured SAP ERP to use Adobe Document Service (ADS) running on Solution Manager.
• Vistex Data Maintenance, Incentive and Payback, Open Text VIM, ARC&DOC Access add-ons implementation on ERP.
• Implemented SAP BW 7.4 system and integrated with QlikView.
• Implementation of Business Process Consolidation (BPC) 10.1 for SAP NetWeaver.
• Implementation of SAP Process Orchestration (PO) 7.5 system.
• Working with Basis Technologies to implement Transport Express.
• Designed backup solution integrated with ControlM.
• Managed knowledge transition to BAU team for ongoing support.

• Implementing Intercompany Profit Tracking (IPT) for GSK Group Company on their CERPS landscape comprising various SAP products including ERP and BW.
• IPT being replacement for two of GSK’s legacy system to perform month end processing is a mission critical system.
• As SAP does not provide any standard IPT processes, it’s a bespoke development.
• As part of bespoke development, it has few humungous tables with billions of records.
• We implemented partitioned table to manage such huge amount of data.
• Regular collection of data pertaining to batch execution vis-à-vis table growth.
• Worked towards minimizing runtime of IPT batch execution mainly involving: Standard Costing, Group Costing, Usage Factor, Unit calculation, Financial Calculation.
• Few of monitoring tools used amongst all to identify bottlenecks were: Wily Introscope, ST12 and SM37C
• Worked very closely with development team to optimize bespoke code.
• Helped other projects within GSK on sticky issues.

• Supporting production systems for British Gas Residential, British Gas Services and British Gas Business comprising various SAP products: ISU/ERP, J/CRM, BW, NWMI, BODS, EWM/SCM, CE, PI/NCAAE, NW/Batch framework/Single Sign On/MarketFlow.
• Work on SLA based cases through Service Now system.
• Performing Preproduction system refresh using Post Copy Automation (PCA) tool.
• Build/change deployment using Centrica specific tool – Moose.
• Code merge between three code streams using Transport Express.
• Involved in Migration project for Centrica landscape: OS migration from HP-UX to Linux, Database upgrade from 10g to 11g using O2O and Hardware/Datacenter migration.
• Worked on SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) system to stop/start any system/component, swing application server across systems and in its setup up to an extent.
• Installation/Configuration of NW Gateway.
• Worked on CRM Exadata system with four node RAC and data guard.
• Designed CRM application to support F5 load balancer (Zeus load balancer earlier).
• Monitor systems using Wily Introscope and utilize it for system scaling.
• Involved in Solution Manager 7.1 implementation and Metrics-Events-Alerts (MEA) configuration with third party component to send SNMP trap to EMS system which in turn calls and alerts on Basis phone. Also involved in configuring incident management on Solution Manager.
• Configured work modes for each system on Solution Manager.
• Contributed to Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) High Availability design by implementing Enqueue Replication functionality.
• Involved in Support Package Stack upgrade and functional enhancement project on BGB landscape using SUM.
• Regular support to (Catalyst) Data Migration from Siebel system to SAP landscape.
• Visited British Gas call centers to meet agents as part of service improvement project and initiated setting up of model office within Centrica to take it further.
• Create various technical process and service transition documents.

• Managing SAP implementation Programs deliverable working along with various partners.
• Contribute to SAP technical design in areas of High Availability, Landscaping, Filesystem, Client, Backup and DR strategy.
• Manage multiple programs: BAU support, green field implementation, brown field implementation comprising various SAP products: ERP, BW, PI, BODS, GRC, EP and SRM.
• Managing customer number migration activity on service marketplace.
• Coordinating with infrastructure team to establish connectivity between SAP servers hosted in India and UK.
• Worked along with offshore Basis team and setup system landscape for ERP, PI, BW, SRM, EP and GRC.
• Designed Basis processes for User creation / modification, Role creation / modification, Transports, Technical Change Requests.
• Worked along with HA team to setup all Preproduction and Production systems in High Availability using PowerHA.

• Performed EhHancement Package upgrade of BW landscape involving 5 systems.
• All BW systems being dual stack with Usage Types: AS ABAP, AS Java, EPC, EP and BI Java and a heterogeneous environment with Database, ASCS, SCS, ERS running on HP-UX host and Application servers running on Linux host.
• Pre-production and Production running in High Availability scenario along with DR system for Production.
• Database size being more than 2 terabytes.
• ERP and SRM - source systems for BW system based on ISU.
• Updated DB2 9.1 to fix pack level 9 as part of EhP1 upgrade prerequisite.
• Upgraded BW 7.0 system to EhP1 Support Package Stack 07.
• Parallel upgrade of DR system using DB2 HADR and filesystem replication methods.

• Handling project delivery for pool of customers for Optimal Solutions. The customers include:

Mastek, ABG Shipyard, Ship Building Center.

• SPOC for all major technical activities for customer.
• Monitor system availability producing daily health check reports to the business and maintaining system availability above 99% with full redundancy.
• Monitor SAP system backups on a daily basis, analyze any delay or disruption to backup service and liaise with backup solutioning team in case of problem.
• Monitor performance of the system: maintaining maximum average time for business-critical SAP transactions to be less than 1.5 seconds.
• Monitor batch job schedules; maintain interfaces and successful run of same. Report application, interface team in case of any non-technical issues.
• Manage change control through landscape taking care of change requests in form of transports and guiding users through the process.
• Ensuring client policy and log any change of client settings with full details to be produced during system audit.

• System Copies from Production servers to quality, test servers based on Oracle and MaxDB database
• Administration of SAP and Non-SAP databases based on Oracle, MS SQL and DB2.
• Planning and executing Support patches, Support Package Stack, Enhancements Upgrade in customer landscape. Patch application to ABAP stack using SPAM/SAINT and JAVA stack using JSPM/SDM and Enhancements using SAPEHPI. Support functional team to develop and test implemented modifications.
• Using Visual Admin, Configtool for JAVA based SAP systems.
• Installing Add-ons, Language Installations for SAP systems
• Managing windows MSCS cluster systems (Microsoft cluster high availability servers) within SAP administration perspective.
• Setup of Disaster Recovery system and assisting database team to define SOP for DR system.
• Performing DR drill.
• Prepare and assist in building Service Maintenance Technical Document, Standard Operating Procedures.
• Tablespace Reorganizations, online Index rebuilds using SAP tools.
• Oracle database upgrades from version 9i to version 10g
• SAP License Renewal for ABAP and JAVA systems.

• Handled All in 1 FaSt track Implementation for Sona Alloys involving FI, CO, MM, SD and PP modules using ASAP Focused methodology.
• Installed ERP 6.0 EhP4 Ready SR1 system and upgraded to EhP4 SPS04.
• Installed and Activated SAP Best Practices for India Baseline v1.604.
• Implemented three system landscape for SAP ERP 6.04, Production in High Availability using MicroSoft Cluster Services.
• Designed Client and Backup Strategy.
• Implemented Solution Manager 7.0 EhP1 and ERP IN v1.604 Demo systems.
• Solution Manager Post-Installation using SOLMAN_SETUP Guided procedure.
• Configured Adobe Document Services, Maintenance Optimizer, Early Watch Alert, Service Desk and Remote Service Delivery on Solution Manager.
• Configured Extended Transport Control on ERP.
• Configured SMTP for sending Emails to company’s internal as well as external addresses.
• Completely handled Post Implementation activities like Kernel Upgrades, application of Support Package Stacks and SAP Notes, Local and Remote Client Copy, Client Export-Import, Printer Configuration, STMS Setup.
• Provided Post GoLive on-site support.

• Handled End to End Implementation for Great Offshore involving FI, CO, MM, SD, HR, PS, PM, ESS, DMS modules.
• Implemented three system landscape for SAP ERP 6.04, Production in High Availability along with Enqueue Replication Server using Red Hat Cluster Suite with three application servers for load balancing.
• Implemented three system landscapes for Enterprise Portal 7.01 and Content Server 6.40 for Document Management System.
• Implemented SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management systems.
• Implemented XSS (Self Service) Usage Type on ERP 6.0 EhP4 system using JSPM.
• Designed file system for Linux, Client and Backup Strategy for all landscapes.
• Implemented Solution Manager 7.0 EhP1 and ERP IDES 6.0 EhP4.
• Implemented Authorizations using Master-Derived Role concept and conducted authorizations training for functional consultants along with core team so as to enable them to produce L1, L2 and L3 authorization matrix.
• Completely handled Post Implementation activities like Kernel Upgrades, application of Support Package Stacks and SAP Notes, Local and Remote Client Copy, Client Export-Import, Printer Configuration, STMS Setup, DB2 Parameterization, Monitoring tasks.
• Performed SAP Pre GoLive, Optimization and Verification Checks.
• Conducted SAP Basis training for the Core Team.
• Provided Post GoLive on-site support.

• Handled End to End Implementation involving FI, CO, MM, SD, HR, ESS, DMS modules and integration with their legacy system using XI.
• Involved in the process of defining technical scope of the project and analyzing various Hardware vendors for SAP implementation.
• Implemented three system landscapes for SAP ECC 6.0, EP 7.0 and SAP PI 7.0, Production in High Availability along with Enqueue Replication Server using SUN Cluster.
• Implementing two system landscapes for Content Server 6.40 for Document Management System.
• Implemented Solution Manager 7.0 EhP1 and ECC IDES 6.0
• Configured Solution Manager to handle Remote SAP Database though DBACOCKPIT.
• Implemented SAP Web Dispatcher in DMZ and configured it to achieve reverse web proxy to publish ESS over Internet.
• Installed and configured SAProuter 7.10 for SNC connections.
• Establishing communication of SAP PI system with various SAP and Non-SAP systems.
• Designed file system for Solaris, Client and Backup Strategy for all landscapes.
• Configuring STMS, Extended Transport Control on ECC, CTS+ on PI, Email and Printers.
• Completely handled Post Implementation activities like Kernel Upgrades, application of Support Package Stacks and SAP Notes, Local and Remote Client Copy, Client Export-Import, Printer Configuration, STMS Setup, Oracle Parameterization, Monitoring tasks.

• Handled End to End Implementation for Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd involving FI, CO, MM, SD, PS, DMS and CRM Modules.
• Implemented three system landscapes for SAP ECC 6.0 and CRM 6.0
• Implemented three system landscapes for Content Server 6.40 for Document Management System.
• Configured Connectivity of various SAP CRM components with ECC and BI.
• Configured CRM WebClient User Interface.
• Configured Client-Based Groupware Synchronization.
• Designed file system for Windows, Client and Backup Strategy for all landscapes.
• Configured STMS, Extended Transport Control on ECC, Email and Printers; implemented Authorizations using Master-Derived Role concept and Oracle Parameterization, handled Going Live and Post Implementation activities.

• Performed SAP Technical Upgrade from R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 with database size of around 1.7 TB.
• Performed OS and Hardware Migration as part of SAP Pre-Upgrade strategy, Production on High Availability Cluster - HACMP.
• Performed Oracle Upgrade from 9i to 10g as part of SAP Upgrade Prerequisite.
• Installed New GL Migration Cockpit and provided support to SAP functional team for SAP New GL implementation (Functional upgrade) project.
• Provided Post Upgrade Support. Handled Basis Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning issues.

• Handled End to End Implementation for Bharat Bijlee involving FI, CO, HR, MM, SD, PP, PS, QM, DMS, ESS and MSS Modules.
• Implemented three system landscapes for SAP ECC 6.0, Production in High Availability using HACMP 5.4 with three application server instances for load balancing.
• Implemented three system landscapes for BI 7.0, EP 7.0 and Content Server 6.40 for Document Management System.
• Implemented Solution Manager 7.0 and ECC IDES 6.0
• Implemented NetWeaver Development Infrastructure 7.0 for Java developments.
• Installed and integrated SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio with the SAP NetWeaver Developer Infrastructure to allow combination of local development and testing with centrally synchronized, team-oriented development.
• Configured BI Java by integrating BI-Portal for Business Explorer web functionalities.
• Configured IBM TSM [Tivoli Storage Manager] Backup solution for all SAP instances.
• Performed Restore-Recovery drill using TSM as a proof of concept.
• Worked with IBM Virtualization Technology LPAR at server level.
• Installed RWD uPerform 3.0, part of SAP Productivity Pak with Oracle as database.

• Managed 15 system landscapes along with DR setup; with SAP versions varying from R/3 3.1I to NW 7.0, responsible for entire Basis activities including Security and Authorizations using SAP GRC complying with SOX.
• Performed Disaster Recovery drill.
• Homogeneous and Heterogeneous System Copy [Linux, Unix, Windows / Oracle, SAPDB].
• SAP Installations [R/3 4.6C, R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0].
• Additional Dialog Instance installation onto an existing SAP system to achieve Load balancing and dedicated Update Servers.
• Language Imports, Language Supplementations.
• Oracle Upgrade [Patch and Version], IGS patch Upgrade, TREX patch upgrade.
• SAP Systems checks, Monitoring and Tuning, Reorganization of Tablespace / Table.
• Security and Authorizations using SAP GRC Tool - Virsa to comply with SOX [Sarbanes-Oxley].
• Performed Installation of SAP GRC tool – Virsa add-ons.
• Database Administration of Oracle, MS SQL and MaxDB, SAP Backup Management [Tivoli Storage Manager].
• Document Management Services.
• Oracle database and UNIX administration, administration of Interfaces using Unix Shell Scripting.