Candidates About

 

               Zia Ali                                                                                                                                  

 

Summary:

·            Over the years Mr. Ali has worked on numerous projects playing the role of basis/portal admin. Wherein he has worked with clients in designing and implementing the SAP NetWeaver Landscape (like SAP Portal landscape); he has done sizing and performance tuning as well. He has helped in the migration of ITS from standalone to integrated in ERP systems.  Has connected systems to SLD and has helped basis teams in setting up Solution Manager Diagnosis (SMD) and new transport mechanism portals using CTS+. Also setup SAP NetWeaver Administrator (NWA). He has also worked on Double stack systems (ABAP + JAVA) and has applied patches to JAVA stack and has done performance tuning to JAVA stack by modifying various parameters using various tools like Configtool, JSPM and visual Admin.

·            Mr. Ali has over fifteen (15) years of total experience including seven (7) years in SAP. He has Web development and programming/systems administration experience.

·            He has SAP experience in SAP Basis Administration, Implementation, Configuration, Security and Development of SAP Enterprise Portal in various scenarios of Content Management, Learning Solution, Business Intelligence, Employee Self Service and Managerial Self Service.

·            As a Basis Administrator he performed several upgrades of R/3, and has singly or as a team member, handled installations,  R/3, BW, SAP Enterprise Portals, ITS installs, WAS configuration, and also general maintenance activities such as client and system copies, backups and restores, database maintenance and transports.

·            He has integrated BW, CRM, IPC and SAP R/3 component systems into landscape. He has maintained the patch levels for constant stability and high performance. He has performed user administration in portals (part of portal security) by creating groups and assigning roles to these groups so that users have required permissions in Content Management and Knowledge Management.

·            He has also performed single sign on between portal and R/3, BW, ECC 6.0, BI 7.0 and (Microsoft Windows) LDAP using Kerberos authentication. He has also managed the portal roles to control the access from portal to various contents. He has created several types of iviews like URL iViews, SAP Transactional iViews … as per requirements. Customized iviews by modifying JSP code which were part of Business packages downloaded from http://www.sdn.sap.com (formerly www.iviewstudio.com).

 

Work-Status:        US Citizen.

 

PROFESSIONAL SAP EXPERIENCE

 

                                Sharp Electronics, NJ

                                February 2008 – Present

                                SAP BW 3.1, BI 7.0, ERP 5.0 (ECC 5.0) EP 7.0 (Federated Portal Network)

 

Sharp was going through a migration from JD Edwards to SAP at their Mexico site, which would be connected to other SAP system including in USA and Japan etc. Sharp wanted to upgrade their SAP BW 3.1 to SAP BI 7.0 and then add BI java to it and form a federated portal.

 

q  Worked as SAP Basis Admin (onsite basis team lead)

 

·         Applied SAP Patches to BW 3.1 as part of prerequisite of BW upgrade.

·         Checked the file systems and table spaces to make sure they met the upgrade requirements.

·         Performed the upgrade of BW 3.1 to BI 7.0

·         Installed BI JAVA and BI Portal with two SIDs.

·         Configured the integrated ITS .

·         Published all the services of ITS to INTERNAL on solution manager using TCODE siac_publish_all_internal.

·         Configured System Landscape Directory (SLD).

·         Established the SSO between backend systems.

·         Performed integration of SAP BI 7.0 and SAP EP 7.0 ( BI ABAP and BI JAVA/BI Portal)

·         Configured Federated Portal Network.

 

Environment: BW 3.1, BI 7.0 SR2 SPS13, Oracle 10.2, AIX 5.3, ECC 5.0, Solution manager 4.0 SPS13, EP 7.0 SPS13 Windows 2003 server.

 

Ticketmaster, CA

December 2007 – January 2008

SAP Solution Manger 4.0, SAP SRM 5.0 ERP 6.0 (ECC 6.0)

 

Ticketmaster had just completed upgrade of their SAP SMR system from 4.05b to SRM 5.0. Solution manager was setup as per SAP’s recommendation and had to be used for diagnosis and error reporting software downloading. They wanted to have SAP NetWeaver Administrator(NWA) configured to administer and monitor their systems and Solution Manager Diagnostics SMD setup for Early watch and End2end diagnostics etc.

 

q  Worked as SAP Basis Admin

 

·         Applied SAP Patches to solution manager from SP 11 to SPS 13

·         Configured Single Sign On (SSO) between ABAP and JAVA stack of solution manager.

·         Changed the client number to be used in UME of solution manager.

·         Configured System Landscape Directory (SLD) for NWA.

·         Configured the integrated ITS on solution manager for NWA.

·         Published all the services of ITS to INTERNAL on solution manager using TCODE siac_publish_all_internal.

·         Completed setup of NWA and SMD.

 

Environment: SRM 5.0 (double stack) SP11, Oracle 10.2, Linux x86_64, ECC 6.0 SR2, Solution manager 4.0 ( ABAP + JAVA) SPS11 and SPS13

 

Fluor Corporation, CA

June 2007 – November 2007

EP Version 7.0, SAP Version 4.05 B and ERP 6.0 (ECC 6.0)

 

Fluor had planned to upgrade their R/3 system from 4.05b to ERP 6.0 (ECC 6.0). They were using standalone ITS (6.20) and had customized their ESS to work with ITS and web-dispatchers. To utilize the ESS in the upgraded system they had to implement portal landscape and migrate their ITS to integrated ITS. Solution manager was setup as per SAP’s recommendation and had to be used for diagnosis and error reporting software downloading. Portal transport system had to be defined using CTS+.

 

q  Worked as SAP Portals Basis Admin

 

·         Completed the installation of sandbox for EP 7.0 with rapid installer (with ESS and MSS release 1.0 XSS 600).

·         Configured Single Sign On to the BW 3.5, ECC 6.0.

·         Configured User Management Engine (UME) to the corporate LDAP server SAPNG Kerberos authentication.

·         Configured SAP portal to use ABAP UME.

·         Carried out user to role assignment for controlled access from portal.

·         Created custom Roles, Worksets, Pages and iViews for ESS.

·         Configured System Landscape Directory (SLD) for Webdynpro applications (ESS)

·         Configured the integrated ITS on ECC 6.0.

·         Installed and configured the SAP Web Dispatcher for load balancing.

·         Migrated the services from standalone ITS to integrated ITS.

·         Solved the connection problem between SAP Enterprise Portal and ECC for ESS business package.

·         Completed the sizing for production portal.

·         Worked with other basis team members to setup SMD and CTS+ for SAP Portals on solution manager 4.0.

 

Environment: Enterprise Portal 7.0 SP10, SP11 Oracle 10.2 SAP Net Weaver developer studio, Windows 2003 standard/Enterprise. AIX 5.3, R/3 4.05b, ECC 6.0 SR2, BW 3.5, BI 7.0. Solution manager 4.0 ( ABAP + JAVA)

 

 

Medpointe, NJ

October 2006 – June 2007

EP Version 6.0 and 7.0, SAP Version 4.6C

 

MedPointe needed to apply support packs to portal system and implement ESS and MSS along with travel management. They had performances issues and were experiencing difficulties setting up ESS and MSS.  Later they upgraded their backend systems R/3 from 4.6c to ERP 6.0 and BW 3.5 to BI 7.0. and Enterprise Portal(EP) 6.0 to EP 7.0.

 

q  Worked as SAP Portal Basis Admin

 

·         Designed new System Landscape for Enterprise Portal 7.0 as an effect of backend systems upgrade from R/3 4.6c to ECC 6.0 and BW 3.5 to BI 7.0 which included DI Development Infrastructure.

·         Completed the installation of sandbox for EP 7.0 (with ESS and MSS release 1.0 XSS 600) with other systems for proof of concept.

·         Suggested correction in System Landscape for the Enterprise Portal 6.0 as per recommendations of SAP. And added Sandbox and QAS box in to landscape and laid out transport strategy.

·         Configured Single Sign On to the SAP R/3, BW, ECC 6.0, BI 7.0.

·         Configured User Management Engine to the corporate LDAP server SAPNG Kerberos authentication.

·         Performed user to role assignment for controlled access from portal.

·         Created custom Roles, Worksets, Pages and iViews for the MSS

·         Configured Trex, KM and collaboration, instant messaging with sap portal and application sharing for presentations and problem solving through desktop/application sharing.

·         Configured System Landscape Directory (SLD) for Webdynpro Java applications development.

·         Created different rooms for various purposes, to manage meeting minutes, discussions etc.

·         Modified themes.

·         Solved connection problem between SAP Enterprise Portal and R/3 for MSS business package.

·         Resolved the issue with automatic publishing of service from R/3 to ITS. (fixed RFC problems.)

·         Build sandbox to be identical to DEV portal.

·         Suggested client to update the landscape and go for failover server/load balancing cluster architecture.

 

Environment: Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP16, SP18 with WEB AS 6.40, and EP 7.0 SP 11 Oracle 9.20, 10.2 SAP Net Weaver developer studio, Windows 2003 server Data center and standard. ITS 6.20, R/3 4.6c, ECC 6.0 SR2, BW 3.5, BI 7.0 (ABAP + JAVA)

 

DOI, VA

March 2006 – August 2006

EP Version 6.0

 

DOI was gearing up for a large scale project of connecting 13 bureaus and adding lots of services and functionalities with each bureau’s addition. They were implementing whole mySAP ERP suite. They wanted a Project Portal wherein they wanted to have different discussion rooms and document repository for project.

 

q  SAP Enterprise Portals Lead

 

·         Implemented System Landscape for the Enterprise Portal

·         Configured Single Sign On to the SAP R/3, BW

·         Configured User Management Engine to the corporate LDAP server

·         Wrote the Technical Specifications for user self registration which involved sending out requests to concerned Bureau SPOC at the submission of request.

·         Created Roles, Worksets, Pages and iViews for the PMO (project management office) portal.

·         Configured Trex, KM and collaboration so that the documentation can be stored in central repository with controlled access and be available for immediate access to the project team.  Made it so that the search can be accomplished on key word in documents and titles through collaboration instant messaging with sap portal and application sharing for presentations and problem solving through desktop/application sharing.

·         Formed different rooms for various purposes, to manage meeting minutes, discussions etc.

·         Modified masthead iView to modify the out of the box links and add new ones.  Enhance d two sets of themes for basic and high contrast.

·         Allowed anonymous user login to display default page with certain information and links.

·         Conducted several sessions for potential end users and also wrote how-to guides for end users.

 

Environment: Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP16, SP17 with WEB AS 6.40, Oracle 9.20, SAP NetWeaver developer studio, SUN Solaris.

 

Kimball, IN

November 2005 – January 2006

EP Version 6.0

 

Kimbal was in the process of implementing Portal and had to provide access to vendors for   processing purchases. They wanted to utilize their existing Microsoft Visual Basic applications without having to recode it, therefore .Net PDK needed to be used.

 

q  Worked as SAP Enterprise Portals Consultant

 

·         Designed and implemented System Landscape for the Enterprise Portal

·         Configured Single Sign On to the SAP R/3

·         Configured User Management Engine to the corporate LDAP server

·         Developed User Interfaces using .NET PDK and Visual Studio 2003.

·         Wrote the Technical Specifications for DOT NET.

·         Created Roles, Worksets, Pages and iViews (.NET) called various RFCs, .NET Web Services to achieve Dealer/Contact person Portal for Kimball.

·         Through the dealers, portal dealer/contact person could load multiple SIF file for their purchase order and complete billing and shipping details. The PO would then be converted into XML file format and stored in NT shared directory for XI to take on the processing of mapping to R/3 and IDOC.

·         Called existing .net web services to maintain the dealer account with contact person’s information etc.

·         In different scenarios called various custom RFCs to validate data or display reports.

·         Actively participated in technical discussions where thoughts were being exchanged on storing acknowledgement with versions control created by R/3 in forms of PDFs and shared internally and along with dealers.

 

Environment: Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP14 with WEB AS 6.40, Oracle 9.20, SAP .NET PDK, Visual Studio 2003, .NET Connectors, Windows 2000 Server

 

Coors (Remote project)

June 2005 – October 2005

EP Version 6.4

 

Coors was implementing BW and SRM. They had given support contract to EDS and I worked for EDS as sub contractor.

 

q  Worked as SAP Enterprise Portals Consultant

 

·         Updated the patch levels on SAP Enterprise portals and brought consistency in the sandbox and development system.

·         Was part of designing and implementing System Landscape for SRM and was responsible for the Enterprise Portal.

·         Configured Single Sign On to the SAP R/3, BI

·         Configured User Management Engine to the corporate directory using LDAP adapters

·         Installed Sap Netweaver Studio and configured so that development work can be implemented into portals directly.

·         Developed some iViews using NetWeaver Studio.

·         Customized IViews changing the JSP code.

·         Designed Portal Content as per required functionality based on the role

·         Applied SAP notes to R/3 system. Created transport routes and performed regular basis activities.

 

Environment: Enterprise Portal 6.40 SP9, Oracle 9.20, PDK, SAP NetWeaver, Sun Solaris

 

Cadence, CA

November 2004 – April 2005

EP Version 6.3

 

Cadence was implementing HCM system for Global access. They were migrating from custom application with people soft as backend to SAP with oracle database.

 

q  Worked as SAP Enterprise Portals Consultant

 

·         Designed and implemented System Landscape for the Enterprise Portal and ITS

·         Configured Single Sign On to the SAP R/3

·         Configured User Management Engine to the corporate LDAP server

·         Development required IViews for Employees Benefits using NetWeaver Studio.

·         Customized ESS, MSS IViews changing the JSP code.

·         Designed Portal Content as per required functionality based on the role

 

Environment: Enterprise Portal 6.30 SP6, Oracle 9.20, PDK, SAP NetWeaver

 

Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc., CA

February 2004 – October 2004

EP Version 6.0

 

Seminis was implementing SAP Enterprise Portal and required certain reports to help their support desks for their daily operations.

 

q  Worked as SAP Enterprise Portals Consultant

 

·         Designed and implemented System Landscape for the Enterprise Portal and TREX

·         Configured Single Sign On to the SAP R/3 and BW

·         Configured User Management Engine to the corporate LDAP server

·         Developed necessary IViews for Portal Benefits Delivery module using NetWeaver Studio.

·         Following are the main web reports – Users Info, Login Info, By Region (Unique Users); Top Users, Repeat Users, All Users (Active Users); Top Pagehits, Usage Period (Portal Usage); Top Folders (Folders). These reports were designed using Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Crystal Reports 9.0 Enterprise tools.

·         Designed Portal Content as per required functionality based on the role

 

Environment: Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP2, SQL Server 2000, BW, PDK, SAP NetWeaver

 

HP, IL

November 2003 – February 2004

EP Version 6.0

 

HP was implementing portal for trainings and for internal projects.

 

q  Worked as SAP Portals Consultant

 

·         Developed portals implementation strategies for client.

·         Estimated implementation efforts based on business process requirements including budget, resource requirements and timelines

·         Identified solutions for customers and conducting gap analysis to identify software shortcomings and workarounds/alternatives

·         Wrote proposals and statements of work

·         Supported sales demos at trade-shows of ASUG and SAPPHIRE 2004.

·         Presented Sap Portals  implementation strategies and showing SAP Portals  software to customers/prospects

·         Configured the internal SAP Portals demo system

·         Integrated BW, CRM, IPC and SAP R/3 component systems into the landscape.

·         Installed and configured unification Server and Unifiers for Implementing Drag and Relate Functionality.

·         Deployed and demonstrated ESS, MSS and LSO Business packages from iviewstudio

·         Imported individual SDA files from SAP Best Business practices for BW content, CRM – Customer Interaction Center and R/3 (ERP) applications

·         Developed new Iviews using BSP Applications.

·         Deployed Business Packages for Portal Users and Communication and enabled Collaboration with MS Exchange.

 

Environment: Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP2, Oracle8.1.7, BW, PDK, Eclipse Windows  2000/ HP Unix 11i

 

Black & Decker, MD

April 2002 – November 2003

SAP Version 4.6C, 4.7

 

B&D were upgrading their backend system and wanted somebody to act as part of support and upgrade team.

 

q  Worked as SAP Portals and Basis Consultant

 

·         Worked on Upgrading US landscape to SAP R/3 4.7 Enterprise from 4.6C.

·         Maintained 2 SAP R/3 Systems with Databases of over 1TB each and a SAP BW System with a Database of 600GB.

·         Performed SAP copy back from PRD and BW PRD to TST and BW TST.

·         Load balanced 530 printers from Data Base server to Logical Spool Servers on the four Application Servers.

·         Monitored and evaluated the U.S. R/3 4.6c, Europe R/3 4.6C, and BW 2.0 systems. Archived Tables.

·         Completed support pack imports into BW and SAP R/3.

·         Resolved ABAP Dump problems.

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