Candidates About

                     

              Shoaib Muhammad                             

SAP Technical Architect Lead / S4 HANA Practice Leader

 

SAP PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

·         Over 19 years of experience in SAP BASIS/ S4 HANA Implementation / Rollouts, Administration & Leader in Consulting Environments

·         Over 16 years of experience in Information Technology, Supporting Servers, users/clients

·         Experience in Industries of SAP in Retail, Chemical, Oil and Gas, U.S Government, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Food& Beverage, Automotive, life Sciences and Financials

·         Highly experienced in resolving of critical issues

·         Drive processes and identifies business complex problems

·         Work with senior management to create strategies 

·         Performs Pre-Sales activities.i.e. proposal preparation, bid management and collateral preparation, reviewing proposals, managing projects, providing estimates and recommending the best product solutions, ability to handle complex tasks

·         Experience and worked with SAP HANA Cloud Enterprise

·         Experience in implementing S/4 HANA, Simple Finance 1511,1610

·         5 years of ERP Implementation experience on NetSuite hands-on

·         Drive processes and identifies business complex problems

·         Work with senior management to create strategies IT and SAP Landscape

·         Drive Cutover Activities from Scratch to support mode and master cutover plan

·         16 years of basis team leading experience

·         Experience in Tailored DATA Center for S/4 HANA

·         Stakeholder management experience of interacting with cross functional IT teams

·         Develop and present proposals for customized business solutions on SAP and IT landscape

·         Anchor the ’sale’ process, working with consulting sales team, client and the package practices

·         Close the sale and ensure effective project initiation, Leverage client satisfaction and client relationship to grow existing accounts, build long term relationships to ensure strong revenue pipeline. 

• 10 years of SAP Project Manager experience and Agile and waterfall project methodology experience
• Trained / Experienced in PMP (Project Management Professional) from PMI
• 8 years of SAP Functional and System Integration experience with non- SAP products

·         10 years of experience in overseeing activities as they relate to the Basis and Architecture Space, capacity planning and forecasting for SAP complex landscapes

·         10 years of experience in managing SAP Basis resources and  SAP Basis vendors

·         4 years of SAP Cloud Architecture experience in ERP solution, performed integration and functional tasks on AMAZON cloud based servers

·         Strong understanding of SAP R3 system integrity in technical as well as functional areas

·         Strong understanding of SAP System Security and hands on experience working on SAP Security

·         Project planning, manage and  communicate the progress of  each project, to leadership team, set expectations; project scope, stakeholder roles and responsibilities, timelines, escalation and change management plan

·         Resolved issues and roadblocks in timely manner and meet project deadlines with good quality of project deliverables

• Experience in ECC6.0, BI 7.4, CRM7.1, XI 7.3, SCM, SRM, MDM, and Upgrade Portal from EP6 to EP7, Portal 7.3, GRC 10 and BOBJ 4.0 installation and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience in full life cycle implementation of various NetWeaver2004s Technologies 
• Support Production environments for ECC 6.0, Enterprise Portal 7.0 BI 7.4, Solution Manager 7.1,   CRM 7.1 and BI 7.4
• 9 Full Project Lifecycle from Blue Print to Realization and Post Go Live Support experience  
• Worked as SAP BASIS Manager for a diversified teams spread in different geographic locations,  involved in capacity planning, resource management and providing overall technical/architecture guidance
• Certified in SAP HANA Administration and Managing HANA Projects

 

SKILLS:

SAP:                           3.x – 4.x, Web Application Server (WAS), Internet Transaction Server (ITS)

SAP Tools:          Central User Administration (CUA), Computer Aided Testing Tools (CATT),        Application Link Enabling (ALE), Profile generator (PG), Business Connector (BC)

SAP Systems:             SAP R/3 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0, EBP3.0, Requisite Products, BI 7.3, XI/PI 7.3, Portal (EP7), SLD, Solution Manager 7.1, SRM, CRM7.0, SCM, SAP Content Server, SAP BOBJ 4.0, MDM and GRC 10.

SAP HANA:              Certified in SAP HANA Administration

RDBMS:                    SQL Server, Sybase, DB2 and Oracle 11g

Operating Systems:  UNIX, Windows 2000/ 98 / 95 / NT 4, and Windows Server 2003 - 2012, Linux.

Hardware:                 PC XT/AT/486/PENTIUM, SUN E4000, EMC FC4500, HP 9000, Sun Ultra.

Internet Technology: Java, Web Server 4.x, Apache Web Server.

Languages:                C, C++, PL/SQL, SQL, COBOL, PASCAL, and BASIC

GUI:                           Developer 2000, Visual Basic 5.0, Power Builder 4.0, and MS-Access

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

SAP America (Contractor)                                                                                                  07/2015 to Present

Chicago IL

Basis Leader / S4 HANA Practice Leader

·         Practice building activities .i.e. documents repository, helping in pre-sales, building technical team internally and building and demo SAP Systems .i.e. S4 HANA, Fiori, Best Practices activation in S4 and cloud systems. 

·         Working with SAP S/4 HANA on HEC (HANA Enterprise Cloud) team providing them guidance on installation of SAP components (ECC, TM, Fiori, Best Practice Activation, HANA, BOBJ, Data Services and SLT)

·         Leading 8 basis team members onsite and offshore combination with 24x7 operation support

·         Working with SAP America as lead technology architecture and designing SAP and non-sap architecture for the current client

·         Defined high level Transport strategy, Client strategy, Network strategy and Upgrade strategy which were presented to Client and client had accepted all deliverables. 

• Plan and drive high level build activities, defining network, lead basis client teams
• Implementing SAP Enterprise Could on client site with on premise and Cloud Migrations option
• Configured and defined Transport Management (Software Change Management) for ECC6.0 on HANA, TM on HANA, Gateway on HANA, and PO on Sybase and Solution Manager.
• Performed client copies, system copies and post installation activities
• Integration and configuration between Vendavo, Open Text and ECC on HEC
• Performed installation and configuration of Uperform server, installation and configuration of HPQC (ALM) ticketing system, HP load runner for testing.

 

Ernst & Young                                                                                                   04/28/2014 – 7/2015

Chicago IL

SAP Manager (Basis)  

 

EY Multiple Projects

·         10 employees people manager and providing their feedback and annual reviews

·         Analyze new technologies and run competitive analyses

• Plan and drive high level cutover activities, critical path thinking, lead client teams
• Create pre and post cutover activities, production planning and mock activities
• Work with Delivery leaders and Service Sales counterparts to ensure organizational objectives and metrics are met (inclusive of Revenue, Profit, Utilization, Innovation, Client Satisfaction).
• BW migration from traditional DB to HANA DB
• Performed split of BW stacks and migrated to HANA database
• Drive/Support large multi-million-dollar implementation pursuits within cross disciplinary teams.
• Effectively manage client escalations while building/strengthening executive level relationships
• Work with Client Executives through their transformation programs resulting in demonstrated business improvements.

·         Perform assessment for NetSuite implementation of ERP & CRM systems

·         Manage the software testing process, which includes developing test plans, and working with users to execute on the test plans for NetSuite

·         Leveraged SQL tools to aid in analysis research, requirements mapping, and data validation for NetSuite

• Managing Projects on Agile methodology and waterfall as per client requirements
• Drive Core Delivery skills transformation and Services Community support to successfully enable our ‘engineered services strategy'.
• Implemented S/4 HANA and landscape strategy and configuration processes for finance

·         Design, develop and implement disaster recovery practices, procedures and plans for SAP environment

·         Develop written documentation and guidelines for application upgrades and patching for various systems      

·         Monitor daily log, performance and file usage files along with spool, job scheduling and file/spool cleanup and providing problem resolutions and be part of a 24x7 on-call SAP support team      

·         Responsible for supporting and implementing technical integrations of global 3rd party applications with SAP      

• For a leading Automotive interiors manufacturing company, assisted in a architecting their SAP Landscape focused in merging two SAP landscapes into one, review of related processes and control points. This SAP focused assessment delivered major findings that benefited the company both financially and operationally
• Technical vision for the function and plans for implementation of new technical projects, budgets, allocates resources, and determines schedule of technology releases or project deadlines      
• Work with Multiple SAP Functional Teams Infrastructure (OS and DB Team) and third party vendors and contractors      
• Provide guidance, direction, and authorization to carry out major plans and procedures, consistent with established policies and procedures            
• Performed initial hardware sizing for BW on HANA and on Cloud using rapid deployment services
• I am responsible for the operational support of a Global SAP platforms and will report into the IM Director, Global ERP Application Platforms
• Integration with legacy environments to SAP and decommissioned after completion of life cycle
• Owns/execute L1 and L2, Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, Capacity, and Availability for SAP BASIS and SAP Database services

 

Cognizant Technology Solutions (North America)                                        09/2012 – 04/15/2014

Chicago IL,

SAP Basis Manager (HANA / Cloud Technical Architecture)

 

Cognizant Project

Cognizant Multiple projects, SAP Business Suite on HANA / Managing Basis projects (11/2013 to 4/15/2014)

• Working as a SAP HANA Architect / Manager on Cognizant servers for the various customers and design the appropriate HANA solution architecture addressing all technical objectives
• 4 direct employees people manager, one is onsite and 3 were offshore
• Performed Assessment for client to use NetSuite with ERP implementation and Testing scenarios
• Managing projects on water fall methodology
• Leads a team of 10-15 resources (company, client and third-party resources), in area of expertise, to conclusion of a project phase (Management).
• Working and managing multiple projects of Basis and HANA on clouds servers

·         Performing Pre-Sale presentation for clients, customer-facing role primarily responsible
for building and delivering high-impact, detailed software demonstrations of SAP solutions with latest SAP Technology (SAP on Clouds, SAP Business suites on HANA)

• Assists sales staff in qualifying leads and generating proposals (Leverage).
• Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel (Leadership).
• Developed & designed Attribute views, Analytic views, and Calculation views for ERP system
• Export & Import of Packages in DB HANA

 

Cognizant Project

Sears Holding Corp, SAP Implementation in Hoffman Estate IL (from 09/2012 to 11/2013)

 

• My role on this project was to work as Basis solution architect / project manager leading 20 offshore basis resources including 12 client’s basis resources provide them guidance on Security, Solution Manager and SAP business suites for technical basis activities which includes installation, post install migration of BW to HANA DB and configuration steps
• Was involved in pre-sales activities for SAP solution transformation, participated in a supporting role in customer facing presentations in retails
• Installed and provided guidance to infrastructure team to install ERP on AWS Cloud and performed integration with non-sap systems
• Full Project Lifecycle from Blue Print to Realization and Post Go Live Support
• Completed hardware sizing using sap quicksizer for Windows and Linux servers with Oracle 11g and SQL databases 2008.
• Managing the design, build, enhancement and support of SAP systems for the Home service and HR functions
• Performed Split for BW dual stack systems into two system using SAP Split tool 
• Performed BI 7.3 ABAP & Java support packages upgrade using SUM tool and post processing steps
• Configured (ALE) and IDOCS to communicate with Non-SAP environments for receiving and sending client/systems
• Fully accountable for technical (Basis) architecture design of a new SAP landscape including ERP, XI/PI, CRM, ECC, Solution Manager, and Transport Management for JAVA transport using CTS+ transport management system, PI SLD setups, IDOC monitoring, Java and ABAP Tuning.
• Designing, testing and implementing backup / recovery, disaster recovery and failover of SAP systems as well as designing SAP Security, including Single Sign On, SMD agent installation for solution manager monitoring
• Full life cycle implementation from blue printing till post go-live support
• Hands on experience on SAP HANA Studio 1.0
• Complete understanding of SAP HANA Appliance Architecture.
• Administration and troubleshooting of SAP HANA studio and DBA Cockpit
• Maintained users and authorization for SAP HANA Studio
• Updating SAP HANA and SAP HANA Studio
• Developed & designed Attribute views, Analytic views, and Calculation views for ERP system
• Worked on SLT, BODS process flows for Data-Provisioning to SAP HANA

 

IBM                                                                                                                            09/2010 – 9/2012

Chicago, IL

SAP Basis / HANA Managing Consultant   

 

IBM Project

Worked in IBM Kraft Foods Project in Chicago IL (from: 12/2011 to 9/2012)

 

• Managed SAP Basis, Security and Development teams (4-8 team members in each team) and performed some hands on as well
• Responsible for designing a new landscape to facilitate splitting of a large company in Chicago area.
• Managing 12 Basis team member internally for IBM
• Tuned ABAP and Java systems for optimum performance.
• Performed system refreshes to support several cutovers
• Helped troubleshoot performance with long running conversion and deletion jobs to ensure timely completion the conversion jobs as per the SLA

 

IBM Project

Worked in IBM Medtronic Project in Minneapolis MN (from: 06/2011 to 12/2011)

 

• My role on this project was to work as Basis Lead and performed Basis hands-on activities as well:
• Led 22 offshore Basis team members and 6 onsite Basis team including contractors:
• My activities are including:
• Worked on SAP selling proposal for the customer and worked with customer’s team to build value demonstration
• Point of basis escalation for support and project team’s members.
• Performed hardware sizing for IBM AIX and for DB2 database.
• Prepared planning of all KT sessions that had been given to IBM by Medtronic
• Installed and configured SAP HANA SLT on Solution Manager 7.0 for data replication purpose
• Administration and troubleshooting of SAP HANA studio and DBA Cockpit
• Maintained users and authorization for SAP HANA Studio
• Updating SAP HANA and SAP HANA Studio
• Installed and configured Portal 7.1
• Configured the ALE environment with the new IDoc and message type (customer model, partner profiles and linking IDoc to message types and Created IDoc type (WE30) Client independent
• Coordinate/organized meetings between different teams on client site like Basis, DB2, and Data center operation, UNIX and Storage teams to resolve the given issue(s).

 

 

IBM Project

Worked in IBM HRMS Project in Chicago IL (from: 09/2010 to 06/2011)

 

• My role on this project is to work as Basis architecture and as basis advisory responsibilities including hands on as needed from Realization phase to post go-live support 
• My activities are including:
• Led 18 Basis team members
• Led SAP HANA efforts to analyze and implementation perspective and provided feedback to leadership team

 

 

Accenture                                                                                                                   07/31/06 – 09/18/2010

Chicago, IL

SAP Basis Technical Architecture

 

       Accenture Project

Worked with Best Buy in Minneapolis, Minnesota (from: 07/31/2009 to 08/2010)

 

• My role on this project was to implement SAP CRM 7.0 as a Basis Lead with supervisory responsibilities
• 2 direct employee’s manager and provide annual feedback and sit in laddering calls
• Performed configuration with NetSuite for cloud applications for BestBuy distribution centers

My Activities were including:

• Completed hardware sizing of SAP CRM 7.0 for Prod-like environment and Production environment
• Installed and configured SAP CRM 7.0 as per client requirements

 

 

      Accenture Project

Worked with USDA in Metro DC, Washington DC (from: 3/31/2009 to 07/30/2009)

 

• My responsibilities were on this project to provide guidance to Basis/Security team as a team lead in activities including:
• SAP Enhancement Packs - work with Basis team to implement ECC, Portal and PI enhancement packs in non-production environments
• Installed and configure solution manager, CTS+ and configured maintenance optimizer
• Execution Architecture Design - assist the design of the execution components of the SAP Web Application Server and ECC applications

 

   

       Accenture Project

Worked with Cargill in Minneapolis, Minnesota (from: 10/01/2008 to 03/30/2009)

 

• My role was on this project as “Technical Architecture/ Basis Lead” writing policies, processes and procedures
• Wrote policies of SAP support Architecture, system shutdown and restart procedures

 

       Accenture Project

Worked with Ingram Micro in Santa Ana California (from: 05/27/2008 to 08/30/2008)

• Worked as SAP Technical Architecture and basis administrator lead including contract employees
• Created Technical Architecture design of the following SAP systems.
• ECC 6.0, BI 7.0, EP 7.0, MDM 5.5, SRM 5, GTS 7.2, Solution Manager 7.0, SLD 7.0, PI 7.1, TM 6.0, and TREX 7.1.
• Performed design Architecture workshops (meeting) with client to get their business processes and SAP components.

 

Accenture Project

 Worked with Tesoro Petroleum in San Antonio Texas (from: 03/2008 to 05/2008)

·         Led 2 onshore and 2 offshore (IDC) resources

·         Resolved all issues related to Production environments

·         Installed High Availability ECC 6.0 on Microsoft Cluster with oracle 10g

·         Install and configured ECC 6.0 on development, quality and production environment

 

Accenture Project

 Worked on Accenture SAP Implementations (from: 03/2007 to 03/28/2008)

·         Led 12 members of basis team

·         Completed all phases of ASAP methodology from Blue printing till go-live 

·         Build/Installed SAP R/3 4.6C, EP6.0/7.0 and BI7.0 on Windows 2003 Servers, MS SQL 2000/2005 Environment in 5 system landscape of 2TB/1TB sizes for the Database

 

Accenture Project

Worked with SUNOCO Chemicals in Philadelphia (from: 08/2006 to 02/2007)

·         New implementation on ECC 6.0 and SAP XI from blue printing till post go-live

·         Installed and Configure ECC 6.0 and XI on their DEV-QA-PROD. Environments on Windows Server 2003 and SQL2005 Database

·         Resolved their days to day production issues

 

 

Bearing Point Inc.                                                                                                   Feb 06 – 07/28/06

Chicago, IL

Senior SAP Basis Technical Architecture  

 

• Administer and installed Netweaver 2004s Abap and J2ee engine layer on Linux 32 bit
• Applied support packages for Netweaver 2004 and troubleshooting
• Installed and configure BSI Tax Software on ECC 5.0

 

 

 

 

Jabil Circuit Inc.                                                                                                       Nov 05 – Jan 06

St. Petersburg, FL

R/3 Basis & Security Consultant

 

• Administer ECC 5.0, Starting and stopping during installation and trouble shooting
• Applied Support Packages and  Client Copy  on ECC 5.0
• Coordinate with OS Administrators for OS and Hardware issues
• Edit users role, activities and group from 4.6B to 5.0

 

Internal Revenue Services (IRS)                                                                               Aug 05 - October 05

U.S Dept. Of Treasury

Oxon Hill, MD

R/3 Basis Consultant

 

·         Joined IRS in Realization phase and completed all the basis installations within 3 three weeks till go-live

·         Installed and Administer Internet Transaction Server (ITS), monitor network performance.

·         Data Archiving for Development system, Quality system and Production System.

·         Administer SAP Business Connector (BC), Starting and stopping (BC) on Unix Server.

·         Administer SAP EBP Server, trouble shoots with Oracle listener and EBP Server.

·         Applied OSS Notes, performed CTS procedures, kernel upgrade.

 

Steelcase Inc.

Grand Rapid, MI                                                                                                       Dec 04 -  Jul 05  

R/3 Basis Consultant

 

·Full life cycle implementation from blue printing till Go-live

·Involved in Setting up of network and local printers and Monitored spool and temse.

·Monitored network performance.

·Applied OSS notes, SAP transports and support packs on R/3 4.6d

·Production support which involved solving day-to-day user problems and troubleshooting.

 

Hewlett Packard,

Roseville, CA                                                                                                             Jun 04 – Nov 04

Basis Consultant

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