Candidates About

 

Srikanth Thatikonda

My SAP Proficiency

Introduction: SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA Certified Consultant with 11 years of Experience in SAP BASIS and NetWeaver administration. Worked with clients NYPA (New York Power Authority), GenRe (General Reinsurance), Siemens HealthCare, Johnson & Johnson‎, AUTODESK, and Celestica.

SAP Skills Summary

Worked in different Domains

·         Consumer Services: NYPA The New York Power Authority, officially the Power Authority of the State of New York, is the largest state public power organization in the United States

·         Re-Insurance:  GenRe General insurance company with history of 95 years, Implementing SAP started in 2013 planned to go live international re-insurance business in 2017.

·         Healthcare : Siemens Healthcare services implemented SAP in the year 2001, it’s an upgrade project from SAP 4.6c to ECC 6.o and SAP HANA implementation project in the year 2012 and 2013

·         Pharmaceuticals:  Johnson and Johnson EMIA support project with more than 50 business Critical applications managed team for support and maintained SLAs

·         Animation software: Autodesk an animation company produces animation software business was part of implementation and Tire one support.

Technical skills:

 

Operating Systems  : Windows servers, Suse Linux 11, Sun Solaris UNIX, Red hat Linux EL10, HPUX U IA64, IBM AIX,

Database  : Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, MAXDB, SAP HANA1.6, MS SQL, and DB2

Virtual Environment: VMWare and AWS Cloud.

Project Profile:

Project 1: OCT-2016

Client                 :  New York Power Authority

Duration             :  Oct 2016 – till date

Role                   : SAP Solution Manager Consultant

Environment      : SAP ECC EHP 7, SAP BW NW7.3, SAP BOBJ BI 4.2 CR, and MS Analysis, SAP LVM 2.1, Solution Manager 7.2, SAP Fiori

OS: Windows Server 2012 all hosted on VMware

Database: Oracle 11G, MS SQL server 2012

Ticketing tool: Remedy and ChaRM

The New York Power Authority, officially the Power Authority of the State of New York, is the largest state public power organization in the United States

NYPA acquired New York State Canal Corporation in 2016, I worked on integration of NYPA and NYS Canals Corporation project, as a SAP BASIS admin for this project extensively worked on building new server for Canals and integrating with NYAP SAP systems.

 

This Integration Project deals with SAP portfolio, SAP HR and SAP MM modules, all procedures and Process related to NYS Canals Corporation need to integrate with NYPA systems. Analytical System like BW and SAP BOBJ BI systems Build and Configuration for the NYS Canals project.

 

In NYPA all server are hosted on VMWare running Windows server 2012, with Oracle Database 11G, to manage all these servers we Build SAP LVM server to manage the SAP landscape.

 

Solution Manager NYPA was using only SLD for Enterprise Portal for Time sheet entry, Were I suggest to Use more functions like CTS+ for all the SAP systems SAPEP, BOBJ BI, and Fiori.

 

Canal integration project completed on Mar 2017, after that we SAP BASIS been moved to production support, where I got to implement SAP LVM 2.10 and upgrade solution manager to 7.2 SPS3 systems and split AS ABAP and AS Java, Patching BW system to 7.4 SPS 16.

 

Looking at the trends NYPA decided to migrate there SAP BW on oracle to SAP HANA, Still the Project is initial stages we are building SAP HANA server for migration.

 

Implementing SAP Concur on AWS Cloud, NYPA has successfully implemented SAP Concur for their Travel and expenses, SAP Concur tool made easy to file their Travel expenses NYPA Employees, this went Live on 11/24/2017.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Solution manager Upgrade from SOLMAN 7.1 SP12 to SOLMAN 7.2 SP3 and split AS ABAP and AS java after solution manager upgrade.

·         Requirement gathering on Solman 7.2 upgrade, enhancements and impacted functionalities 

·         Project plan prep on pre-upgrade activities, report on projects & solutions, content activation, upgrade activities, post-upgrade activities and validation of functionalities

·         Solution manager Upgrade from SOLMAN 7.1 SP12 to SOLMAN 7.2 SP05 and split AS ABAP and AS java after solution manager upgrade.

·         Pre and Post steps for the Solman Upgrade, Pre-activation before upgrade.

·         Continue Solman 7.2 Upgrade, System Preparation, Infrastructure Preparation and Basic Configuration.

·         Solution configuration and Change Request management configuration in Solman 7.2 system & Migrating custom ChaRM transaction types and business roles after upgrades

·         The ChaRM Change Request Management including Continues Cycle, Phase Cycle.

·         Content activation to migrate all the data for Solution Document and Charm to Solman 7.2.

·         Documenting, Knowledge transfer and Conducting User Training workshops for new changes of ChaRM, document management, test suite, Incident management, BPMon alerting processes and objects

·         Validating Maintenance Planner, LMDB-SLD integration, solutions, branch, logical component groups and systems

·         Business Process Monitoring configuration using separate dedicated operation for the critical processes.

·         Configured TAO and Integration of HP ALM 12.53 support pack 2 with SolMan SP05

·         Installation of TREX and configuration of Enterprise Search

·         Configuring Custom transaction types for Continues Cycle, Phase Cycle and assigning numberings.

·         And running content activation to migrate all the data for Solution Document and Charm to Solman 7.2.

·         Continues Cycle includes configuring Production support landscape for all production bug Fixes

·         Phase Cycle which includes Configuring N+1 landscape for mini Projects is planned to go-live every fortnight

·         Installed and configured SAP BOBJ BI 4.2 for Crystal Reports and MS analysis, which is helpful for NYPA finance.

·         Build SAP LVM 2.10 server to manage entire landscape at one place, stop and start configured and system refresh is still under build.

·         All Database related activates installation, Oracle SBP patch installation

·         All OS level configuration ODBC connection, SSO connections for SAP BOBJ BI to SAP BW backend system.

·         CTS+ Configuration Change and Transport system. System including NON ABAP system and SAP BIBJ BI system.

·         Building/Refresh ECC and BW system with production copy for canal integration.

·         Installation of SAP BW on HANA and configuration we are still doing POC of this server.

·         Installation of HANA 1.0 SPS12 database and installing BW 7.4 and configuring source system.

·         BW data migration to SAP HANA using DMO option.

·         SAP HANA administration using studio and connecting SAP Hana to source system and solution manager.

·         Configuring SAP HANA backup and recovery to Commvault Backup tool.

 

 

Project 2: March 2014-Oct 2016

Client                 :  Gen Re General Re-Insurance Company Stamford CT

Duration             :  Mar 2014 – Oct 2016

Role                   : Solution Architect 

Environment      : SAP ECC EHP 7 with FS-RI module, SAP BW NW7.3, Solman 7.1 (ITSM, ChaRm, and Tech Monitoring) SAPDS 4.2(ECC, BW, Sybase, Oracle, and MS SQL server), BOBJ 4.1(Webi, CR, and MS Analysis), PO7.3 (ECC, GTS, Sybase, and Oracle), SAP GTS NW 7.3ystems.

OS: SUSE Linux 11 all hosted on VMware

Database: Oracle 11G, MS SQL server 2012

Ticketing tool: Solution Manager ChaRm, ITSM

 

GenRe (General Reinsurance) is a reinsurance company with history of 95 years in reinsurance business. GenRe is implementing SAP for their Reinsurance business using FS-RI and FSCD modules build by MSG

 

Entire Implementation of SAP systems on Virtual environment, to facilitate most flexible and efficient way of handing servers whole environment protected with Cluster, FT, DR and Clone backups, Well efficient design of storage for Logs, database, buffers and Backups, example logs on SSDs, Database on

 

Gen Re has international business going live by June 2017 and Already went live with North America on Sep 2014 to take advantage with SAPECC connecting to SAPGTS for global Trading for Denial Request, connecting to legacy systems using SAP PO, for SAP reporting (BW, SAPDS, SAP BOBJ BI) with best IT services model using ITSM, ChaRm and Technical monitoring

 

This was huge implementation project with all latest version of SAP with latest virtualization technologies for efficient and optimum performance. 

My Job was to provide efficient solution to connect the systems and provide data access, I was provide solution for connecting reporting systems with SAP reporting (BW, SAPDS, SAP BOBJ BI) and configuring and execution of may solution manager activates like Setup of ChaRm and Technical Monitoring.

 

The Base of the Project SAP ECC EHP 7 with FS-RI and FSCD modules, connecting to legacy system using SAP PO to update and fetch the required for historical and present business. I was providing solutions to connect the entire legacy database like SYBASE, Oracle, DB2 and MSSQL server to SAP.

 

Reporting using SAP BW, SAPDS and SAP BOBJ BI and DW systems, Gen Re mostly depend on reporting system for business proposition for the business partners; Most of the reports depend on Webi (Web Intelligence Reports), Crystal and MS Analysis reports.

 

I was handling all the Reporting system, including SAP BW 7.3, SAP Data Services 4.2 and SAP BOBJ BI 4.1systems upgrade, supporting all the data loads, configurations and design for connecting all legacy systems.

 

Solution Manager 7.1 system setup, basic configuration and managed system configuration for ITSM and ChaRm Configuration Configured Technical monitoring setup for Prod system including Database, Host, and applications alerting configuration

 

This is N+1 landscape with project and maintenance landscape for effective utilization of ChaRm features, N+1 is very effective for implementation of new projects in Project Line and Production bug fixes is on maintenance line. Effectively managed retrofit and Cutover using ChaRm

 

Managed number of releases including RAS 1A go-live on Sep 1^st 2014 for North America region, activates including for release offline backups, ChaRm RFC and Change document IDS and release strategy, supporting BW and DW loads.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Installation and upgrade of systems including SAP Data Services 4.2, SAP BW 7.3, SAP BOBJ BI 4.1

·         Configuration including connecting SAP and Legacy systems to Data Services and loading DW system

·         Solution Manager Configuration for ITSM, ChaRm and technical Monitoring

·         ChaRM release cycle close and opening the cycles

·         All Database related activates installation, Oracle SBP patch installation

·         All OS level configuration ODBC connection, SSO connections for SAP BOBJ BI to SAP BW backend system.

·         Installation of Web Dispatchers and end to end SSL connection to web dispatchers

·         NWBC system configuration to support NWBC client

·         System refresh SAP BW, GTS, SAP BOBJ BI using BAIR file, and SAP Data Services using ATL file

·         CTS+ Configuration Change and Transport system for ChaRm. System including NON ABAP system SAP BIBJ system.

·         Retrofit of PRD bug fixes from maintenance line to project, cutover activity after PRD implementation to maintenance line.

·         Configuring Promotion management for SAP BOBJ BI from DEV to QA, STG and PRD

·         Configuring Solman DBACOCKPIT to non-sap system including SAP BIBJ BI and Data Services.

·         SAP Data Services Upgrade from 4.1 sp2 to SAP Data Services 4.2 SP3 Pl2 a total of 6 systems upgraded including STG and PRD which were in distributed systems.

·         SAP BOBJ BI Upgrade from 4.0 sp6 to SAP BOBJ BI 4.1 SP6 Pl2 a total of 6 systems upgraded including STG and PRD which were in distributed systems.

·         Configuring load balance from SAP ECC and SAP BW to SAP Data Services for effective utilization of resources

·         MOPZ for Stack file generation and downloading relative support packs.

 

 Project 3: June 2012

Client                 :  SIEMENS HealthCare services. Malvern PA, USA.

Duration             :  JUN 2012 – Feb 2014

Role                   : Sr SAP BASIS Admin.

Environment      : 

  SAP: R3 4.6C, ECC5.0, ECC6.0 with EHP4, NetWeaver 700 with SAP-SCM, BI, PI, SLT and SAP Solution Manager 4.0, SAP HANA 1.6, BODS 4.1, BOBJ Bi 4.1

OS: IBM AIX, Linux 5.10, HPUNIXB.11.23, Linux GNU SLES-9.

Database: DB2 DB6, Oracle 11G

Ticketing tool: Clarify

 

SIEMENS Healthcare stands for innovative products and complete solutions as well as service and consulting in the healthcare industry. SIEMENS HealthCare ITS Services Provide technologies service to the HealthCare products world Wide products, all Business running on SAP it has all modules of SAP. The Core Business of SIEMENS Healthcare runs on SAP R/3 4.6C version.

SAP HANA 1.4 implementation with SLT SPS06 and BODS 4.1, configuration to ALL North America systems like ECC6.0, Solution manager7.1, SLT and no SAP systems using BODS, SAP HANA administration using SAP HANA Studio. DATA provisioning using SLT and BODS, monitoring using SAP HANA Studio

This project is more about upgrading the R/3 4.6C system to SAP ECC 6.0, this upgrade has many phases as the system is highly customized for specific to SIMENS Business operations like CIP2SAP add-ons.

Implemented SSO (single sign on) using SNC, Configured SNC connection to different interfaces including non sap systems like Siebel, Prism (com server), Java TS, WebMethods...etc. and configured between different SAP systems (SAP ECC, BI, PI, UC4...etc. and Web As Java).

CERT Measure Plan 1.5 this is basically SOX auditing, these are predefined standards need to follow for security reasons. I implemented all the change and configuration as per the CERT Measure Plan 1.5

These systems running on IBM AIX on ISeries and DB2 Db6 7 database, all are standalone systems without Cluster, However for Server failures a unique process called OSR is designed and architecture by Siemens Healthcare Team for uninterrupted Business operations.

Production system ECC6.0 running on IBM AIX iSeries, with 10 App running on RedHat Linux, with DB2 DB6 as database with OSR as cluster with 2 hour failover time. With contingency system Netapp snap mirroring and snapshot. And worked in upgrading SAP Pi system from 7.1 to SAP Net weaver PI 7.3 (only JAVA)

Responsibilities:

·         Upgrade from 4.6C to ECC6 using standard sap procedure (using sapup tool)

·         Migration of all app server from IBM AIX to redhat Linux

·         Preparing the rehat Linux server and installing new app-servers servers.

·         Coordinating with functional and ABAP team to overcome issue related to SPAD and SPDD

·         Implementation of SAP SLT system (SAP landscape transformation) for SAP HANA Data replication

·         Installation and configuration of SLT standalone system NetWeaver 700 with DMIS 2101 SP10

·         monitoring of SLT system using Transaction LTRO

·         Multiple configurations can now be stopped/started in one go via the additional buttons using Transaction LTRC enhancements in SLT systems

·         working with Transaction LTRS (advanced replication Settings) A new way to deal with 'legacy' IUUC_REPL_CONTENT

·         Configuring SAP Business suite to SAP SLT, Creating RFC connection to ERP, DB connection to SAP HANA in SAP SLT system, Configuration open Hub connection from SAPBW to BODS

·          Installing DIAM add-on in SAP Business suites system like SAP ECC 6.0 to activate SLT component.

·         Monitoring and troubleshooting issues triggers and Data loads in SLT system.

·         Monitoring the IUUC jobs Control, monitor and replication jobs in SLT and ECC systems.

·         Monitoring IUUC logging tables for disk full events in SAP ERP systems and maintenance activity of HANA and SAP SLT.

·         Configuration of Data replication for Real time(SLT) and near real time replication(BODS 4.1)

·         Loading the Initial data, Data replication, suspend and Resume the replication

·         Troubleshoot Table replication issues example Trigger issue, Load Issues connectivity and configuration issue...etc

·         Designing data replication using  Data services Designer

·         Data administration using CMC (Central Management Console)

·         Creating Data models using SAP HANA Studio

·         Creating Packages, stricture packages, Attribute Views, Analytical Views and Calculation views

·         Designing and assigning Row level security using Analytical Privilege

·         Designing Procedures and functions

·         Administrative tasks

·         Starting/Stopping SAP HANA using <SID>adm, root, and SAP HANA Studio

·         Security user and role administration

·         Configuring import server data and creating Devilry Units

·         Exports and Import of Tables, Views, Functions, landscapes, catalog…etc

·         Designing Backup and recovery Strategy using SAP HANA Studio, DBACOCKPIT and SQL command level.

·         Daily monitoring using SAP HANA Studio, Solution manger.

·         Planning maintenance activity of SAP HANA, BODS and SLT.

·         Troubleshooting issues in SAP HANA Studio using administration console.

·         Activating different types Traces SQL, Performance, user...etc. to trouble shoot issues related to performance.

·         CTS+ Configuration for transporting the Objects from one system to another system in Landscape

·         Configuring Solution manager for DBCOCKPIT, EWA, ALERTS, Root Cause Analysis...etc.

·         Configuring SDM agent, Host Agent, SUM using on-site configuration tool.

·         Enabling SSO (single Sign On) using Kerberos, SAML, X.509 certification based authentication.

·         Configuring Master, Slave and Standby server for High Availability

·         SAP HANA system clone for QA and DEV.

·         User and Role administration

·         Designing roles for Molder, Administration, and data consumer (end User)

·         Creating users assigning roles and Privileges to users

·         Troubleshooting authorization issues for all users types

·         Configuring Kerberos, SAML, X.509 Certificate based logons

·         Configuring data services, Creating Batch Job’s, data flows Administration using CMC (Central Management Console)

·         Configuring ODBS, ODBO, JDBS...etc. connection from SAP HANA to SAP BOBJ BI tools

·         Intelligence Platform BOBJ BI4.0, which includes creating and maintaining users, groups, objects, and access level.

·         Configuring SAP BW system to BODS (ETL) using Open hub Administration SAP BOBJ BI tools (Dashboard, Crystal reports, Universe, BO Explorer, Analysis  ...etc.

·         SAP PI administration including RFC destinations, Partner Profiles, Logical systems SLD configurations, J2EE engine Administration

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