Yasir Shafiq

  • SAP BASIS/HANA Lead
  • Plano, TX
  • Member Since Mar 21, 2023

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Yasir Shafiq

SUMMARY:

18+ Years of experience in SAP BASIS and 5+ years of experience in SAP HANA Database, I have worked on multiple

projects for SAP ECC/BW/S4HANA and BW4HANA Implementation Upgrade & Migrate to SAP HANA Database.

 

Skills:

·         SAP S/4HANA (1511, 1610 & 1709) Installation/Upgrade and Administration

·         SAP S/4HANA Conversion (EHP7/8 to S/4HANA 1610/1709) with DMO

·         SAP BW/ECC/SCM Upgrade and Migration to SAP HANA DB with DMO

·         SAP Simple & Central Finance Installation/Upgrade with S/4HANA 1709

·         SAP BW/4HANA 1.0 SP07 Installation, Administration and Support

·         SAP HANA Installation in non-shared and shared environment with Storage Connector

·         SAP HANA Database High Availability & System Replication (Primary to Secondary to DR)

·         SAP HANA System copy from multimode to single node

·         SAP HANA Multitenant DB Administration, Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning etc.

·         Installation for All SAP Versions on any OS with any DB

·         SAP HEC (HANA Enterprise Cloud) Datacenter Migration.

·         SAP OS/DB Migration from any source OS/DB to any Target OS/DB

·         SAP BASIS Administration (ABAP & JAVA) Stacks

·         SAP HANA Rev Upgrade /Scale-out installation with Storage Connector.

·         SAP LAMA 3.0 for System Copy/Refresh and Rename.

·         SAP SLT Installation & Configuration for SAP HANA Sidecar Solution

·         Oracle Database Installation, administration & Upgrade.

·         MaxDB, Sybase 16.0, DB2 & SQL Server Databases Installation & Administration.

 

EDUCATION:

 

·         MBA (Master of Business Administration) in Project Management

·         BBA-IT (4 Years Bachelor of Business Administration in Information Technology)

 

CERTIFICATIONS:

 

1.      SAP BASIS/NetWeaver Certified

2.      SAP OS/DB Migration Certified (Mandatory for OS/DB Migration)

3.      SAP HANA DB Administration Technology Associate Certified

4.      SAP HANA Installation (TDI) Certified (Mandatory for TDI Delivery Model)

5.      SAP BOE Servers' Administration Certified

6.      Oracle Database Certified

PROJECTS

 

Client

CenturyLink, Plano TX

Role

SAP BASIS/HANA Lead

Duration

Sep 2016 to Current

Environment

SAP HANA 2.0, BW/4HANA, S/4HANA 1610/1709 install/upgrade, Sybase DB & BODS, OS/DB Migration, ECC/BW Upgrade/Migrate (DMO), SLT & Cloud Connector, SAP LAMA 3.0 etc.

 

 

Along with other Businesses CenturyLink is a premium supplier and partner of SAP America for HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC). CenturyLink delivers consulting, hosting, network and managed services to SAP HEC customers like DOW Chemicals, Dow Jones, Eaton Vance, Adtran, Sotheby, Ulta Beauty, TopCon, Sedgwick, HPI, Carlson and many more.

 

I am working as SAP HANA/BASIS Lead in Build team and performed/performing SAP HANA, S4/HANA, BW4/HANA Installation, Upgrade and Migration activities for following SAP HEC Customers.

 

SR #

Customer

Implementation Type

                                    Detail

1

Dow Chemical

Brownfield

Upgrade BW NW7.2 to 7.4SP13 & Migrated to HANA DB with DMO (5 worker & 1 Standby nodes).

 

SAP S/4HANA 1511 Upgrade (EHP7 to S4HANA 1511) and Migration to HANA SPS11 (Oracle 11g to HANA1.0 SPS11) and post Upgrade activities.

 

BOBJ 4.1 with SAP HANA 121.06 Installation.

 

Configured BW HANA System Replication b/w Primary & DR, enabled DB encryption, Performed Backint configuration, and provide support after go live.

 

SAP LAMA 3.0 SP01 Installation on NW 7.5 SP07 JAVA Stack, performed System Copy/Refresh, System Rename and Kernel Switch with SAP LAMA.

2

Eaton Vance

Brownfield

Installed S4/HANA 1511 (SAP Word Template) with HANA Database 121 in Scale-up.

 

Upgraded S4/HANA 1511à1610 with latest SP and HANA.

 

Configured multitier HANA System Replication. (Prod to Standby to DR)

3

Sotheby’s

Brownfield

SAP BW 7.5 Upgrade and migrate to HANA 122.06 in Scale-out (5 nodes cluster) with DMO.

4

Ulta Beauty

Brownfield

Installed BW4HANA on HANA 1.0 cluster 6 nodes (5 worker, 1 standby) with Storage connector.

 

Install 5 HANA DB nods at DR and configured ASYNC System Replication.

 

 DB Migrated BW7.5 from Oracle to HANA DB

 

Configured Multitier SAP HANA System Replication (PRD to Secondary to DR), troubleshooting during System Replication and provided Go Live support.

 

5

Sedgwick

Brownfield

(DEV, QA, PRD) Installed SAP Converging Charging (CC) 4.1 SP1 SAP ECC with SAP HANA 112 DB.

 

Configured SAP HANA DB High Availability for Converging Charging and ECC System.

 

Install SAP Hybris on HANA DB and configured High Availability and DR Setup (System Replication).

 

Configured Multitier SAP HANA DB System Replication. (Primary to  Secondary to DR) for both systems (CC and ECC)

6

TopCon

Greenfield & Brownfield

Installed HANA for ECC, CRM and SCM (DEV, QA, Pre-prod & PRD). Installed & Configured SAP HANA DP Agent, performed other troubleshooting activities and provided go live support.

 

Performed OS & Database Migration from AIX and Oracle to Linux and HANA Database of SAP BW 7.5 System.

 

SAP LAMA 3.0 SP03 Installation on NW 7.5 SP09 JAVA Stack.

 

Performed System refresh and System Rename in VM environment with SAP LAMA.

 

7

ASCO

Brownfield

Installed, ECC, SLT and BODS and HANA DB Sidecar Solution for BW and ECC Systems.

8

Adtran

Greenfield

S4HANA 1610 (DEV, QA, Pre-Prod, Prod) on HANA DB 12.06 Installation with Spanish Language and provided support after go live.

 

Configured SAP HANA Replication (PRD to Secondary to DR) for S4HANA and BW Systems.

9

Providence

Greenfield

SAP HANA 122.10, SAP EIM, SAP DP Agent, Predictive Analytics and R Server Build with Cloud Connector for DEV environment.

10

Pharma Science

Greenfield

SAP BW7.5 (ABAP & JAVA Stack) installation on HANA 122.11 Multitenant DB.

 

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 (ABAP & JAVA) installation on Sybase 16.2.

 

BOBJ and BODS 4.1 with SAP Lama 3.0 installation on Sybase 16.2.

11

Dow Jones

Green Field

Installation of SAP S/4HANA 1709 with HANA 2.0 Rev20 and Post activities.

 

Installation of BODS, BOBJ, SAP Fiori with ASE 16.2.04 DB

 

Installation of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP05 on Sybase DB

 

SAP LAMA 3.0 on NetWeaver 7.5 JAVA.

 

SAP Fiori SSL Configuration and setup with WebDispatcher.

 

SAP BW4HANA 1.0 SP06 on HANA 2.0 with 5 Nodes High Availability cluster with Storage Connector (4 active and 1 standby).

12

HPI

Brownfield & Green Field

 

Installed SAP LAMA 3.0 SP04 Installation on NW 7.5 JAVA Stack.

Performed Pre and post upgrade activities for BW System with (PCA).

 

SAP BW 7.2 System upgrade and migrate to HANA 2.0 Rev 21 DB Scale-out (5 nodes cluster: 4 worker and 1 standby) with DMO.

 

Upgrade S/4HANA 1511à1709SP01 on HANA 1.0à2.0 and post Upgrade activities.

 

Install GRC, BPC, Fiori 4.0 Frond End Server on NW 7.52 Innovation Pack.

 

Solution Manager 7.2 JAVA/ABAP Stacks SP06 Installation on HANA Multitenant DB environment.

13

Carlson Hotel Group

Green Field + Brown Field

BW/4HANA 1.0 SP06 on HANA 2.0 Rev 21 Installation.

 

Installed SAP LAMA 30. SP04, installed PCA license and used SAP PCA to perform pre/post S4HANA upgrade activities.

 

 

S/4HANA 1709 Upgrade (1611 to 1709) with Hotel Management Add-on and post activities.

 

Performed System refresh of existing SAP systems with SAP LAMA.

 

NetWeaver 7.52 Innovation Pack with Fiori Front End 4.0 Server Installation.

 

Solution Manager 7.2 ABAP/JAVA Stacks SP06 Installation and Post activities.

14

ESI

Green Field (Build in Process)

S4HANA 1709 SP01 with Add-on SAP GRC Access Control 10.1 SP06 on SAP HANA 2.0 Rev 24 Installation.

 

SAP HANA Active/Active System Replication from Primary to Secondary (SYNC) and then Secondary to DR with ASYNC (Primary to Secondary to DR).

15

NPC

Brown Field

(in Process)

SAP HANA 2.0 Rev 24 Installation on 5 Nodes Cluster and setup High Availability (4 workers and 1 standby) with Storage Connector.

 

SAP BW7.2 Upgrade to 7.52 and Migrate to HANA Database 2.0 by DMO

 

SAP BW DR Setup on HANA Database 2.0 (Primary to DR with Async).

 

 

 

 

 

Client

T-Mobile, Frisco TX

Role

SAP BASIS/HANA Database Principal Consultant

Duration

March 2015 – Aug 2016

Environment

Datacenter Migration, SAP BW Upgrade with DMO, SAP SLT & BODS, SAP HANA DB, Oracle DB & Maxdb

 

This was datacenter migration, new installation and upgrade project for SAP ECC, SAP SCM and SAP BW.

Responsibilities:

·         Designed & Implement technical plan for SAP HANA DB installation in scale-out environment.

·         Installed SAP HANA Database on 6 nodes Cluster (5 Workers + 1 Standby).

·         SAP BW 702SP11 to 740SP09 upgraded and migrated to SAP HANA with DMO (HANA Scale-Out Environment).

·         SAP SCM 7.0EHP3 Upgrade and Migrate to SAP HANA SPS 10 with DMO (HANA Scale-Up Environment).

·         Installed SAP HANA LCAPPS-Plugin into SCM HANA DB & migrated standalone Live-Cache to Integrated live cache after SCM Upgrade.

·         Performed OS/DB Migration for SAP ECC6 and BW Systems and post Migration activities.

·         Add additional  active node into SAP HANA Primary and DR sites in Production environment

·         Install/Remove SAP HANA plugins (AFL, UFAL, SCS, and LCAPPS).

·         Performed SAP HANA Database system copy from Multi node to Single node (m to m-n).

·         Execute Table-Redistribution/Re-Partitioning to get the data over to the new nodes after system copy and adding new node into SAP HANA Cluster.

·         Configured SAP HANA High Availability & Disaster Recovery (System Replication) for business continuity.

·         Installed SAP SLT Sever for data replication for SAP HANA Sidecar Solution.

·         Implemented HANA Sidecar to handle 4.5 million real time ATP query calls with < 1 second processing time.

·         Performed table and view replication for SLT Solution from ECC, BW & OER to HANA Database.

·         Performed SAP HANA SPS11 Upgrade.

 

 

 

Client

McKesson, San Francisco CA

Role

SAP HANA DB/Basis Technical Consultant

Duration

June 2014 – Feb 2015

Environment

SAP BW Upgrade on HANA with SUM (DMO), PCA, SAP HANA SPS08, SAP HANA HA/Replication, BODS & SAP SLT

 

McKesson is ranked 15th on the FRTUNE 500 with more than $137.6 billion in annual revenue. McKesson is pharmacies and institutional providers like hospitals and health systems. The company pharmacies and institutional providers for health care information technology solutions that touch the lives of patients in every health care setting.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Created project plan of existing SAP BW landscape for upgrade & migrate to SAP HANA.

·         SAP LVM 2.0 Installation and installed PCA license to perform SAP BW Pre/Post upgrade activates.

·         Participated in Hardware Sizing activity for existing SAP BW System upgraded & migrated to SAP HANA SPS08 Rev 83.

·         Performed SAP BW 702SP08 (Oracle DB) upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP06 and Migrated to HANA DB Rev83 with SUM (DMO) for Sandbox, DEV, QA, Pre-Prod & Production Systems.

·         SAP BASIS+HANA DB Administration for BW Scale-out System post upgrade go-live support.

·         Configured System replication between Primary & Secondary) with ASYNC.

·         Added additional SAP HANA node into existing SAP BW Production HANA Cluster (same done in DR Site).

·         Upgraded SAP HANA DB to Rev 85 (83 to 85)

·         SAP HANA System Copy (Multi nodes to single nodes).

·         Migrated SAP HANA Statistics server into Embedded Statistics

·         SAP BODS Administration for data replication to SAP HANA System & moved big tables on other nodes.

·         Performing Performance Tuning activities for SAP HANA DB

·         Provide SAP BASIS/BW support for info cubes, process chain, info objects and PSA.

·         Exercised to Switchover of Primary SAP BW on HANA site to DR Site and performed verified post switch-over activities.

·         Installed SLT System and Performed table and view replication for SLT Solution from ECC, BW to HANA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Client

Saudi Aramco Saudi Arab 

Role

SAP BASIS Lead

Duration

Feb, 2013 –Jan, 2014

Environment

SAP ECC6-EHP4 Upgrade, SAP BW Upgrade and Migrate to HANA DB.

 

Saudi Aramco - the State-Owned Oil Company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a fully integrated, global petroleum enterprise and a world leader in exploration, production, refining, distribution, marketing and petrochemicals manufacturing. It manages the world's largest proven conventional crude oil and condensate reserves of 260.2 billion barrels and the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves of 288.4 trillion standard cubic feet.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         SAP ECC 6.0 Upgrade (DEV, QA, PRD) to ECC6-EHP4 with Oracle 11g and post upgrade activities.

·         SAP BW 7.4 (DEV, QA, Pre-Prod and PRD) Upgrade, Unicode Conversation and then Migrated to SAP HANA Database SPS06.

·         Performed post SAP BW Upgrade activities and provided go live support after upgrade.

·         Implemented password policies, user log-on policies, database user’s policies in SAP and Database.

·         Applied SAP Security Notes and host fixes suggested by SAP Solution Manager.

·         Installed sub module of IS-OIL (SAP IS-OIL-PRA) into ECC6-EHP4 System.

·         Activate Business Function Switch (OIL_PRODUCTION & OIL_REVENUE_ACCOUNTING) for SAP-OIL-PRA.

·         Provide SAP BASIS Production Support after Go-Live SAP IS-OIL-PRA System.

·         SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Installation and ST patch upgrade, post installation activities, Maintenance Optimizer, Early Watch Alerts, CTS+ configuration.

·         SAP CRM 7.0 EHP1 to 7.0 EHP2 Upgrade.

·         SAP System Copy from Non-Unicode to Unicode after Successful SAP System Upgrade and Unicode program conversion.

·         Install SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI) with SAP.

·         Applied support packages, kernel upgrades, transport tools (TP & R3trans) and applied SAP Security notes.

·         Configure SAP Router and Web-dispatcher and implement security parameters.

·         TREX setup and integration with SAP E-Recruit using RFC.

·         CTS+ Setup for Java Stack in Solution Manager by creating Transport Domain controller, Including other systems in the Transport Domain, Configuring  Transport  Routs.

·         Performed Local & Remote Client Copy, System Refreshes, SAP Printer and spool configuration.

·         Checking and maintaining the profile parameters in system profiles using RZ10/RZ11.

·         Applied SAP License, Maintenance Certificates & Ongoing Production Maintenance Support.

·         Performed SAP System copy from DB2 to Oracle Database.

 

 

Project

PIFRA (World Bank Funded Project)

Role

SAP BASIS Lead

Duration

May 2005 – Jan 2013

Environment

SAP 4.6C, SAP 4.7, ECC6, Oracle 8i, 9i & 10G,  SAP Solution Manager 7.0, SAP OS/DB Migration.

 

As a Senior SAP BASIS consultant and Technical Lead I was responsible for planning & coordination, controlling & accomplishment of all SAP Basis related following activities.

 

·         Team Management/ Project Planning.

·         SAP Technical Upgrade SAP 4.6C to SAP ECC6-EHP5 & Oracle DB from 9i to 11g.

·         Configured Oracle 11g RAC in SAP Production environment.

·         Report to the higher management about ongoing and upcoming project technical activities.

·         User & Role Authorization, Transport Landscape Configuration in Homo and Heterogeneous environment, Client Administration, Kernel Upgrade, Support Patches upgrade, Add-ons installation and SAP Notes implementation.

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