Candidates About

 

Amit Kumar Pandey

Professional Summary:

·         SAP certified in HANA and OS/DB Migration, Basis professional with 10 years extensive experience in S/4 HANA, Suite on Hana (SoH) implementation, HANA migration, HANA administration, SAP OS/DB migration, Upgrades, Unicode conversion, Installation, Configuration, Implementation, Support and Administration of SAP.

·         Cross Industry experience in Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Electronics, Automotive, Education and FMCG.

·         Extensive experience in production support & maintenance activities like system refresh, SPS upgrade, Incident management, Kernel upgrade, performance tuning, patching, TCI implementation, system health checks, SAP Security, SSO, SSL, system copy using TDMS, for SAP systems as ECC, BW,  SLD Administration, NFe integration, GTS, APO, MDG, PI, PO, EP etc. for both ABAP & JAVA, e-document framework, OSS notes etc, Solution Manager 7.1/7.2 installation & configuration.

·         Basis Lead for multiple SAP Greenfield implementation & migration projects for ECC, BW, BO, DMS, BPC, EP, PI, GRC,

·         Strong background in architectural design, planning and providing SAP technical architecture and support training.

·         Experienced in SAP sizing for ECC, BW, PO, PI, etc.

·         Experienced in SAP High Availability environment setup on Windows & Unix & to Disaster Recovery setup, clustered environment.

·         Experienced in SAP Fiori implementation and configuration for apps from basis perspective.

·         Experienced in TREX Installation, Web Dispatcher, Netweaver gateway, etc.

·         Mentoring the basis team members & juniors for personal & professional growth & handling team escalation & critical issues for all the clients.

Analog Devices, Norwood, USA                                                                                   Feb 2018-current

Roles and Responsibilities:

SAP Consultant

·         Working as SAP basis consultant for the Migration of SAP system to new hardware

·         Worked on system copy for ECC, system refresh activities on oracle 12c.

·         Responsible for high availability setup for SAP Production system and worked with the infrastructure team and vendor.

·         Responsible for performing HA drill.

·         Performed migration of SAP ECC production system from old hardware to new hardware.

·         Responsible for tuning SAP systems based on the new hardware specification.

·         Performed regular activities like client copy (all types), License application, operation modes, background job scheduling, printer configuration, applied patches, SSL implementation

·         Worked on day-to-day activities like administered spool requests and resolved printer issues, applied OSS notes, transports between the system landscape for ECC, GTS, CRM, etc.

 

 

Zoetis, New Jersey, USA,                                                                                  March 2017-January 2018

Roles and Responsibilities:

SAP Consultant

·         Working as SAP basis consultant to provide support to Global SAP teams( ECC, GTS, NFE, GRC,MDG, Solution Manager).

·         Worked on TDMS system copy for ECC, GTS, NFE, MDG systems and system refresh activities on oracle 11g.

·         Responsible for yearly disaster recovery drill for SAP.

·         Worked for the divestment project using SAP SLO tool for carving out the required business data out of the system for creation of new separate entity.

·         Configuration of CCMS alert mechanism and auto email notification for CCMS nodes.

·         worked on the Spain SII and E-invoicing implementation, 

·         Implemented E-document framework for SPAIN, Italy, Portugal

·         HCI integration with ECC system for SII SPAIN & E-invoicing

·         Performed regular activities like client copy (all types), License application, operation modes, background job scheduling, printer configuration, applied patches, SSL implementation

·         Worked on day-to-day activities like administered spool requests and resolved printer issues, applied OSS notes where and when required ,scheduled and monitored SAP DB Backup’s,  transports between the system landscape

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KPMG– Assistant Manager/Basis Lead                                                                 (Sept2014–Feb 2017)

Client: Azure Power, Offshore                                                                                                                  Feb 2016 – Feb 2017

Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Upgrade of Oracle 11g to Oracle12c

·         Responsible for Production support activities such as Kernel upgrade, SPS patching, system health checks, applying SAP OSS Notes, transporting requests, ADS configuration, dump analysis, monitoring and planning Online/Offline Backup of SAP Server etc.

·         Problem Investigation/root cause analysis and Capacity planning.

·         Responsible for day to day monitoring of the systems and major activities like system refresh

·         Planning the End to End Road Map & strategy for the DC migration

·         Coordination with the Infrastructure vendors, client teams on the planning and execution for the DC movement

·         Preparing Project Plan, effort estimation & technical proposal for the DC migration.

·         Leading the DC migration from Basis Side

·         Implementation of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 on oracle 12c database on windows 2012

·         Data Center migration for ECC, BW, BO, DMS and BPC on windows 2012

·         Implementation of DR site for ECC System

 

Position: SAP HANA/Basis Lead

Client: multiple clients (2 S/4 HANA Greenfield Implementation) Offshore                          Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Client facing role Onsite for Greenfield Implementation

·         Prepared end to end roadmap of the implementation of the SAP systems

·         Held various workshops with the client CIO, technical lead, hardware vendors, OS/Network teams, and other stakeholders.

·         Installation of S/4 HANA 1503/1610 for ECC, BW on HANA with Netweaver 7.4/7.5,

·         SAP HANA Administration using HANA studio and OS level including HANA patching & revision update, Update HANA content/libraries, monitoring, health check of HANA system, HANA Live content deployment, HANA Development content migration, Disaster Recovery setup, migrating delivery units, start/stop HANA system, updating HANA parameters, update HANA license, perform back & recovery of HANA system, installation of HANA DB   

·         Implementation of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 on Sybase 15.7/16 on Linux,

·         Implementation of BPC 10.1,  

·         SAP Router, SAP Gateway & SAP Web dispatcher installation and configuration

·         Imparted Training to the client team on HANA and SAP from technical perspective.

·         setup/configuration of SAP system, SAP monitoring, troubleshooting and error handling, performance/tuning, backups, applying Support Packages, installation of add-on software components 

·         Implementation SAP Fiori, SAP EP, SAP Gateway on Sybase DB  & SAP Web dispatcher

 

Client: Multiple clients (4 SAP Greenfield implementation) Offshore                                   Dec 2014-Sept 2016
Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Client facing role Onsite.

·         Implementation of ECC 6.0 EHP7, Netweaver Gateway 7.4,SAP Fiori, Solution Manager 7.1, SAP GRC 10.1, SAP BO on oracle 11g and AIX6.1/Windows , implementation of SAP Security

·         SAP Fiori Implementation for transactional, and Principal apps on oracle 11g on AIX

·         SAP solution Manager 7.1 SPS12 including Test Management, Document Management, Charm,

·         ECC Production setup on clustered environment, Disaster Recovery Setup

·         Worked on Sizing, Datacenter setup from SAP perspective,

·         Supporting Infrastructure/Network team during OS & Network setup, preparing the OS system during OS configuration from SAP perspective

·         Performance tuning of SAP systems

·         Sybase Upgrade from 15.7 to 16 ,database support, management, and administration

·         SAP Router installation and configuration

·         Implementation of SLCM module and tuning the system for 100000 end users (students), by installing  various application server, sizing of the system as per the new requirement and database and OS tunning.

Client: Al-Sayer, Kuwait               (Suite on Hana (SoH) Greenfield implementation)                           Sept 2014-Jan 2015
Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Client facing role Onsite for Greenfield Suite On Hana (SoH) Implementation on flexframe.

·         Worked on preparing strategy for implementation of the SAP landscape with client, vendors, hardware partners, network and OS teams, built strategy documents, Landscape diagrams, client strategies, Transport mechanism strategies, backup & recovery plan for pre and post Go-live and worked with the backup vendors for implementation

·         Installation of ECC on (SoH)HANA SP07, CRM on HANA SP07, BW on HANA SP08, BPC 10.1,  

·         Installation of SAP PO 7.4 on Sybase, SAP EP on Sybase 15.7, SAP GRC

·         Implementation of SAP Security

·         Implementation of SAP Solution Manager 7.1, SMD Agent and SAP Host Agent, SAP Router installation and configuration

·         Hana replication using SAP SLT and monitoring

·         HANA system maintenance co-ordination and support

Technical upgrade, migration, implementation Project proposals

Brief Profile: Work SAP Upgrade/Migration & SAP HANA and SAP Greenfield Implementation and migration including data centre for prospective client.

Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Study of the current as-is SAP Landscape

·         Study of current data centre/infrastructure, etc

·         Proposal for SAP Upgrade, Unicode conversion, database upgrade, and O.S. Migration

·         Defining strategy and blueprint, timelines, and scoping for the project,

·         Providing effort estimation for the project duration

·         Identifying/Proposing potential Hardware partner for the new Data Center setup

·         Working on SAP Sizing for the proposed landscape

·         Working with senior management for drafting and Proposal review

·         Analysing different cloud hosting models vs on premise solutions

 

AgilityWorks, UK (July 2014 - Sept 2014) - SAP Consultant -offshore

Project: SAP SQL to Sybase Migration on Windows 2008

·         Blue printing and solution designing & business development

·         Migration of SAP ECC6 EHP 6 based on SQL server to Sybase ASE 15.7 on Windows platform

·         Code page change from non-Unicode to Unicode

·         Sybase replication server Setup & log shipping setup

Project: SAP setup on Cloud Blueprint

·         Study on setup of SAP systems on AWS Cloud/Microsoft Azure Cloud for the internal projects and client demonstration.

·         Comparing various Cloud hosting Organization and services.

·         Selection of Appropriate organization meeting the project requirement

IBM (May 2008 -July 2014) - Lead HANA Migration Consultant/SME Migration

 

Client: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC, USA ( HANA migration) /offshore                                                  Oct 2013 – July 2014

                LSS, IBM USA( HANA migration) offshore                                                                            Aug 2013 – Mar 2014

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

·         HANA Migration of SAP BW 7.31 to HANA platform from current oracle Database

·         Code page change from non-Unicode to Unicode

·         SPS upgrade from SPS 4 to SPS 9

·         PCA tool & DMO implementation as part of the HANA migration

·         BW Support Pack Stack update from NW7.3 SPS 4 to7.3 SPS 9

·         Coordination with the BW team for preparation, perquisites, post activities, etc

·         Coordinate with the stakeholders  for planning of the migration

·         Post migration support

 

Client: Multiple (Solution & Strategy Designing for Upgrade & Migration)

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

 The requirement was to do the effort estimation & building blueprint and technical roadmap for upgrade/ migration of the system to the new infrastructure of DB2/Oracle/MS-SQL & O.S. as (AIX/LINUX/Windows)  and/or upgrade of the current SAP systems in scope. The effort estimation was supposed to be carried out for the end to end Migration as well as the break for individual phases.

The blueprinting & strategy defining was focused on various options and to do the impact analysis of the each of the available options. This study also determined the best possible approach to the achieving the requirements.

The pre-study aims information about the possible upgrade approaches, scenarios and efforts for upgrading SAP application landscape to the last available solutions of SAP. Some e.g. for the proposal worked on are:

 

Position: Lead OS/DB Migration & Upgrade Consultant

Clients: NOKIA, Volvo, ABB, Brother (onsite/offshore)                                                                  Feb 2012 – July 2014

(Finland/Sweden/Norway/UK)

Roles & responsibilities:

·         Onsite Coordinator & migration Lead

·         Data centre migration including SAP BI/CRM/ECC/PORTAL/PI/HR/ and Non-SAP products Apache and third party components, installation of TREX, Web dispatcher, etc, System copy of BW, ERP, SRM, CRM, APO

·         Both In place migration from Oracle database to DB2 database with HP-UX, Solaris, Linux as the Operating system and OS migration

·         End to End coordination with the Client teams for system readiness before migration and till the system is handed back to the customer

·         Responsible for CRM (Web shop) Migration, TREX installation, Apache

 

Position: Consultant (Upgrade & Unicode conversion)

Client: Schaeffler, Germany,                                                                                                                      June 2011 – Oct 2011

Office Depot, UK/France, Offshore                                                                                                        Jan 2011 – June 2011

Roles & responsibilities:

·         Upgrade of SAP R/3 4.6C(Non Unicode) to ECC6 EHP4 (non-Unicode) with database on DB2 single landscape with dual landscape strategy,

·         Responsible for coordination with all the teams involved in the upgrade

·         Unicode conversion and upgrade from SAP R/3 4.7(non-Unicode) to ECC6 EHP4 (Unicode) using CUUC strategy

·         Upgrade SAP system from existing SAP 4.7 to ECC 6.0

 

Client: VODAFONE, USA ( Production support & build) Offshore                                                              Aug 2008 – Dec 2010

Roles & responsibilities:

·         AMS support project with more than 250 system in the dual landscape with all SAP products like ECC/EP/BI/CRM/SRM/NWDI/PI/MDM/ etc and various third party products like Informatica, Readsoft, Ebydos, B2B etc.

·         Responsible for day to day basis activities like incident management, transport management, change management, etc.

·         CTS+ and transport route configuration

·         Part of the major activities like system refresh, cutover, system build

·         Worked on job monitoring, job scheduling, job setup through Redwood

·         Gained SAP System Refresh experience including ABAP stack production to quality system copy for

·         ECC systems and Portal systems

·         Implemented problem management process for Basis team

·         Carried out Installations of ABAP and Portal systems

·         For SAP System Monitoring and Health Checks – Recommendations given for overall performance improvement and process improvement

·         Did Troubleshooting activities, provided support by handling the tickets.

 

 

EDUCATION:

·         Master in Computer Application, University of Pune, Sinhgad Institute of management, India in 2008

·         Bachelor in Information Technology, IGNOU, New Delhi, India in 2004