Candidates About

         

                     Venkata RK                                                       

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of strong technical experience in the SAP Basis/Netweaver Administration,
• Experience in Installation, Configuration  and Administration of  SAP Applications
  • SAP Netweaver Java: EP 6.0/7.0
  • Netweaver Dual Stack systems: XI 3.0/PI 7.1, Solution Manager 4.0/7.0/7.1/7.2,BW 7.4/7.5
  • SAP Netweaver ABAP: ECC 6.0
• Experience in SAP Upgrade Technology: performed R3 4.6C – ECC 6.0 Upgrade
• Experience in SAP BW 7.3 migration to SAP BW 7.5 on HANA using DMO option of SUM.

·         Experience in Homogeneous System Copy using backup/restore mechanism and Import/Export mechanism SAP ABAP, JAVA, ABAP+JAVA stack systems

·         Experience in Heterogeneous System Copy using backup/restore mechanism and Import/Export mechanism SAP ABAP, JAVA, ABAP+JAVA stack systems

·         Experience in End-to-End HANA administration

·         Experience in Suite on HANA(SOH) Installations and Migrations.

·         Experience in S/4 HANA 1503,1511,1610 Installation,configuration and administration

• Experience in Production support on SAP Business Suite environments with 24*7 on call support
• Performance Tuning and Monitoring of SAP applications.
• Experience in Sybase Installation,administration, backup and recovery 
• OS migration,Split DUAL stack and Upgraded ECC 6.0 EHP5 to ECC 6.0 EHP6

·         Oracle DB upgrade on AIX platform 9.2.0.8 to 10.2.0.2.

·         Expertise in administration of SAP WAS /7.30/700/640 Systems using J2EE Visual Administrator, NWA (NetWeaver Administration), Config tool, and Telnet.

·         Installed and Configured Solution Manager Diagnostics.

·         Configured Web Dispatcher for load balancing.

·         Installed TDMS add-on and configured in receiver, sender, central systems and created packages for data transfer from QA to DEV systems with different scenarios.

·         Experience in Backup, Restore and Recovery and performance tuning of SAP R/3 on Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server databases and participated in Disaster Recovery test.

·         Experience in Transport system landscape design. Configuration of STMS, NWDI configuration and Java transports, Client copies, System refresh/DB refresh, Import of support packages using SPAM/JSPM, Enhancement pack upgrades(EHP1/EHP5). Language imports, kernel upgrades and Oracle patch upgrades, Implementing SAP Notes(SNOTE), OSS administration, SAP Router configuration, Printer setup and administration (SPAD), Database administration (SAPDBA/BRTOOLS), qRfc/tRfc administration, BP replication, ALE/Bdoc administration, update error administration, SSO configuration, LDAP configuration, Federated portal setup, email configuration.

 

 

Technical Skills:

SAP	SAP R/3 4.7 / 5.0 / 6.0, Solution Manager 4.0/7.0, Net weaver 04, 2004s WAS 700/640, XI7.0, EP6, EP7, UCES, BI, NWDI, SCM, SRM.
Languages	Java, SQL, HTML, UNIX
Operating Systems	HP UNIX, AIX, Solaris, Windows, Linux
RDBMS	Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL SERVER 2005, DB2 9.7, SAP HANA
Office Applications	MS Office, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, MS-Word, Excel, Power point, MPP, IBM Lotus Notes, Visio 2003.
Tools	IBM Tivoli, Rev-track,Jobtrack,Maestro, Tidal, HP OVSC, Remedy, ECAPS

 

 

Education:

              Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Andhra University

 

Certification:

              Oracle soloris 10 System Administrator Certified Professional

Experience Summary

 

BASF, New Jersey 

SAP BASIS and HANA CONSULTANT 

Upgrade and HANA Migration Project                                           Nov 2016 – Till Date

Client Description: BASF is a European chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries and operates six integrated production sites and 390 other production sites in Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas and Africa.

Responsibilities

 

 

·         Supporting multiple SAP applications including SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7, BW 7.3, NW 7.3/7.4, BOBJ 4.1, GRC 10.1, SCM 7.1, liveCache 7.8/7.9, PI 7.4, EP 7.4, HANA 1.0 SP9, Solution Manager 7.1 etc 

·         Migrated ERP 6.0 Ehp1/Oracle to ECC 6.0 Ehp7 HANA using DMO option

·          SAP BW upgrade 7.31 to 7.5 on Hana

·         BW House keeping activates before BW Upgrade

·          Implemented S/4 HANA On premise Edition by installation and updating the HANA Landscape systems

·           HANA Studio and other tools installation and configuration 

·           Implemented SAP HANA S4 Landscape for Simple Finance 

·           Supported SAP HANA 2.0  

·            Performed number of system refreshes of various SAP applications 

·           Planning and execution of DR tests 

·           Performed a number of kernel and SP upgrades for various systems to latest patch levels 

·           Configured SSO between various systems, SAP ECC, BW, BOBJ, EP etc 

·           Planning, coordination and execution of quarterly OS and DB patches 

·           Performing Database Administration of Sybase, Oracle and DB2 databases as required like troubleshooting databases for issues like running out of space, resolving performance issues, updating DB statistics, checking parameters, checking database growth and adjusting database sizes etc 

·           Design and implementation client specific solutions in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 

·          Configured LMDB Systems and setting up EWA For the new systems in the landscape 
          

    

 

Ascend Laboratories LLC, Parsippany, NJ                                                              March 2015 – Oct 2016

SAP BASIS and HANA CONSULTANT

S/4 HANA 1610 Implementation Project                                                                   

 

Client Description: The company provides high-quality and cost effective generics which address a number of health issues in several therapeutic areas. By addressing specific market needs, Ascend is dedicated to improving patient outcomes and reducing the cost of healthcare.

 

 

Responsibilities

 

·         SAP Fiori implementation. SAP NW Gateway 7.5 installations, Post Installations. And configuration of SAPNW Gateway 7.4 with SAP S/4 HANA 1610 landscape in Organization

·         Implementing SAP Fiori and Integrating SAP Fiori with all SAP S/4 HANA environments .

·         SAP S/4 HANA 1610 installations, Post Installations and configurations.

 

• Performed Installation, setup, configuration, upgrade of SAP HANA database, SAP HANA studio and SAP HANA client. Installed SAP HANA 1.0 SP4 upgraded it to SAP HANA 1.0 SP12
• Performed Installation of S/4 HANA on HANA database.

·         Performed Backup and Recovery.

• Good understanding of HANA DB performance, HA, DR and scalability

·         Performed Installation, setup, configuration of SAP HANA database, SAP HANA studio and SAP HANA client.

·         Involved in SAP HANA Administration including creation and management of schemas for different SAP systems, data model objects, and import/export content.

• Performed Installation, setup, configuration, upgrade of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 on Sybase database.
• Managing SAP HANA and Sybase database as and when required
• Adding SAP HANA System in SAP HANA Studio, Stopping, Starting and restarting SAP HANA Services.
• Backing up and recovering SAP HANA Database.
• Exporting/ Importing SAP HANA System.
• Managing SAP HANA License.
• Managing SAP HANA users and monitoring system.
• Activating the Traces.

 

 

United Utilities, Warrington,UK                                                                                    June 2014 – Feb2015

SAP BASIS CONSULTANT

ECC 6.0 EHP5 Support Project

 

Client Description: United Utilities Group plc (UU), the United Kingdom's largest listed water company. The group manages the regulated water and waste water network in North West England - which includes Cumbria, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside which have a combined population of nearly 7 million.

 

Responsibilities

• Performance monitoring and Tuning of Oracle database.
• Backup and restore of the database through TSM
• Good Expertise in Database Restore & Recovery scenarios.
• Handling the Database Administration.
• Performed activities like daily database backups, file-system backups and recoveries, regular tablespace management, database tuning and problem determination.
• Involved in database maintenance, backups, recoveries, maintenance of logs, problem identification and resolution, security and disaster recovery planning.
• Maintained UNIX shell scripts and scheduled cronjobs for automation.
• Performed SAP Router configuration.
• Performed Kernel Upgrade, SPAM update and Oracle Patch Upgrades.
• ITS administration
• Performance monitoring and Tuning of SAP systems, and also has good knowledge in troubleshooting performance issues.
• Performance Tuning of SAP servers by using some t-codes like SM50, SM12, DB01, ST03, ST22, SM21, DB02 and some other related codes and procedures if needed.
• Moving transports and troubleshooting transport issues in the 5-system landscape.
• Defined and maintained the instance definition for OP Modes/Servers, switching, scheduling, Work Process Distribution.
• Maintained the Profiles, Fine-tuned Instance profiles parameters for performance improvement, Logon load balancing (SMLG).
• Spool Administration like configuring printers and trouble-shooting spool request, deleting old spool jobs, working with TemSe objects.
• Troubleshooting system problems by analyzing system log, update monitoring, lock entries.
• Extensive use of Central User Administration & Central CCMS monitoring.

·         SAP Security Administration across the SAP Systems

·         Work with profile generator (PFCG) in creating roles, profiles, composite roles, derived roles, and global roles.

·         Assignment of role (activity group) requirements based on job functions and audit control processes

·         Troubleshoot Security/authorization related problems using SU53, ST01 and SUIM

·         Effectively analyzed trace files and tracked missed authorizations for users access problems and inserted missing authorizations manually.

·         Transported the generated roles and profiles using SAP transport management system.

·         Created users and maintained user master and established Security policies and procedures.

• Database Administration, Working with sapdba, working with RFC destinations like creation/deletion of RFC destinations.
• Client Administration like Creating Clients, Client copy (Local and Remote), deleting clients.

• Perform SAP system, database, operating system, and transaction tuning to insure the best possible response times for the end-users of the SAP system.
• Monitoring SAP systems using CCMS.
• Apply SAP software corrections including SAP OSS notes and SAP support packages.
• Configure and execute SAP change control functions including the transport management system (TMS) and the ABAP/4 workbench organizer and customizing organizer.
• System error detection procedures, database reorganization, and SAP background job scheduling. Configure and resolve problems with the operation of the SAP spool and background job systems.

• Database Backup / recovery, Monitoring, trouble shooting the Backup problems by investigating the cause like due to media failure or due to system failure or due to some other reasons.
• Applying Patches, Doing Kernel upgrades for SAP whenever required. Managing disk utilization Problems with resetting trace or removing stat files or following some other method.
• Configuring Operation Modes, Managing Instance Profile, managing Logon Groups for load balancing.

·         Performance Tuning of SAP servers by using some t-codes like SM50, SM12, DB01, ST03, ST22, SM21, DB02 and some other related codes and procedures if needed.

 

 

 

 

JUSCO                                                                                                        June 2013- March 2014

ECC 6.0 Ehp4 Upgrade & Support

SAP BASIS CONSULTANT

 

Client Description: Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company (Jusco) is India's only comprehensive urban infrastructure service provider. Carved out of Tata Steel, from its Town Services Division in 2004, the company's mandate was to convert an obligatory service into a customer

 

Responsibilities

 

• Daily system checks and troubleshoot any errors.
• Research into SAP notes and SAP documents on the OS version, Database version, Installed Add-On’s and Current SAP PI support Pack level and implement sapnotes/support packs.
• Estimating the database growth and request additional diskspace proactively.
• Preparing the Plan for implementing support pack stack in Production, Dev & QAS.
• Post Go-live Basis Support for PI 7.0 system
• Administration of PI 7.0 (AS ABAP, AS JAVA, PI 7.0 application) for performance, availability and maintenance.

 

 

PI Administration:

• Startup/Shutdown of PI systems.
• SXMS_QREG to manage queues( register, de-register queues)
• SMQ1 & SMQ2 queue administration
• Integration Engine Configuration & tuning “RUNTIME” parameters.
• Readiness Checks for PI 7.0 systems
• Runtime Workbench Administration & Monitoring
• SXMB_MONI monitoring for XML Messages
• Performance Monitoring of PI systems.
• Exchange Profile administration
• Standard SAP PI jobs for Archiving & Deletion of messages using Table switch concept.
• Defining and troubleshooting archiving procedure for workitems.
• Troubleshooting the message archiving issues by implementing necessary notes/support packs.
• Assisting the development team with the required traces/logs/dumps to troubleshoot message processing issues
• Troubleshooting various issues with seeburger adapters and assisting development team in fixing issues with seeburger adapters.
• Updating kernel patches, support packs and updating seeburger adapters.
• Automatic Registration of PI Components, PI Business Systems after Support Packs/Upgrade
• Export/Import SLD for Backup/Restore SLD data.
• Set-up synchronizing between Runtime & Design time SLD’s and between Local & Central SLD’s
• Moving transports between development quality and production.
• Configure RZ70 in source systems for automatic data transfer to SLD.

 

ECC Upgrade:

 

 

• Responsible for System Builds of Upgraded ECC 6.0 Landscape from 4.6C,( Sandbox, Training, QA System, Development, Cross-Projects, Production)
• Analysis of the Client Landscape for the interfaces to be migrated and middleware connecting to the SAP and non-SAP applications.
• Participated in Hardware Sizing discussion with Client team and Hardware Vendor Partner.
• Designed & Implemented the Windows Microsoft Cluster for the ECC 6.0 as POC.
• Responsible for Operations of the ECC 6.0, landscape like Backup, Restore, Recovery, Daily Monitoring of the Systems in the project landscape.
• Oracle Remote Upgrade from 9.2.0.8 to 10.2.0.2, Platform Migration from 32 bit to 64 bit and ECC 6.0 Upgrade.
• Set-up the TMS for the new landscape and mange the transports with dual maintenance strategy for the Upgrade.
• Oracle Parameter Tuning and SAP Performance Tuning for the Upgraded ECC 6.0 systems.
• Responsible for choosing the right Software component release/version/patches of SAP and Oracle for ECC 6.0.
• Responsible for the Configuration of Transport Management System (STMS) and Dual Maintenance strategy of the entire Project.
• Support the Technical team during development, Testing and Deployment.
• Worked with SAP service team to minimize the downtime for the upgrade, provide Post Go-live support for easy transition to the Production support team.
• Optimized the end-to-end Downtime of the Cut-Over with Platform Migration, Oracle Upgrade a ECC 6.0 Upgrade & Unicode Conversion in one weekend.
• Conducted 4 end-to-end Cut-over Trails as Cut-Over Preparation.
• Responsible for the Integration of all Applications connected ECC 6.0 Core.

 

TATA STEEL                                                                                            July 2009 – May 2013

Basis Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, IBM AIX 5.3,Oracle 10g

 

Client Description : Tata Steel Limited (formerly Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited (TISCO)) is an Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and a subsidiary of the Tata Group.

 

It is one of the top steel producing companies globally with annual crude steel deliveries of 27.5 million tonnes (in FY17), and the second largest steel company in India (measured by domestic production) with an annual capacity of 13 million tonnes after SAIL.

 

Responsibilites

• Database tuning (update DB parameters)
• Analyzing tables and index and Rebuilding INDEX
• Adding datafiles to tablespaces, resizing datafiles.
• Generating SCCR keys in OSS, Open/Close OSS connection, Register Developer ID.
• Monitored and analyzed Performance Problems using Workload Monitor ST03, monitor the system hourly using ST02, STO3 (R/3 Buffer) and ST06 (Operating System). 
• Analyze and solve ABAP shot dumps, update records failure and daily checkups of System logs.
• REORGS when required through BRTOOLS.
• Monitoring operating system parameters like CPU idle %, memory, disk space.
• Check the status of background jobs. Analyzing cancelled jobs and re-scheduling the background jobs upon confirmation for functional teams.
• Maintaining the OSS Connections and the System data.
• Monitoring the system message and maintaining system message during the shutdown for maintenance.
• Monitoring active user to identify the no. of sessions opened by user, memory utilization.
• Analyzing GUI problems
• Applying SNOTES.
• Run table statistics using t-code DB20.
• Monitoring the system time to time and involving troubleshooting problems like resetting passwords, clearing lock entries, unlock users.
• Responsible for Table space administration using BRTOOLS. Monitored the Table spaces using DB02OLD and creating a new data file using BRTOOLS when the table Space exceeds the limit, Archive size monitoring and extending table space using BRTOOLS. 
• Performed monitoring, workload analysis, performance tuning using memory tuning, Database table and index reorganization, sql trace, buffer tuning, Monitoring Dispatcher and work process through dpmon, TOPAS.
• Client Administration like Creating Clients, Client copy (Local and Remote), and assigning logical systems to clients.
• System monitoring tuning and trouble shooting. (SM04, ST06, ST03, SM21, ST02, SM51, ST06, ST04), Database Monitoring and problem solving (DB02, ST04, and DB12).
• Load Balancing between Application Servers SMLG.
• Resolving performance problem of Reports by rebuilding INDEX using ST04 and by BRTOOLS
• Post installation activities like SGEN.