Candidates About

 

Sripal Kalasani                                                                                 

SAP Basis Consultant                                                                        

                

Summary of Experience and Qualifications

 

·         Over 11+ years of vast experience in SAP Basis administration in ABAP/JAVA systems, Systems installations, Version/Release upgrades, System copies, Database Refreshes, OS/DB and Data center migrations, performance tuning and end user support. Strong working knowledge on OS platforms Unix/Linux.

·         Proven accomplishments in technical lead, project management and subject matter expert roles with hands-on technical and configuration skills. Strong client facing skills with effective communication and coordinating skills with client management and leading offshore team members.

·         Involved in 4 end-to-end SAP implementations of business projects on Net weaver products and including C4C for CRM landscape, Suite on HANA, Fiori Apps and Hybris products.

·         Participated in quick sizing of HANA instllations on Suse Linux and RHEL 6.7, Installation and configuration of the HANA database. Carried out patch, stack, maintenance and revision upgrades.

·         Configured and supported the HANA database backup and restore activities. SAP HANA Database refresh using the backup.

·         Administration of SAP GRC configuration, rule sets, workflows and approvers for user provisioning, emergency access and access recertification. Responsible for SAP GRC interface support and associated RFCs.

·         Installed and configured the necessary technical setup required for Open text VIM (Vendor Invoice Management) and also the SAP data archiving using the open text technology.

·         Strong hands on knowledge on enhancement package (EHP) upgrades  3,4,5,6 and 7 on ECC/CRM systems using the SUM tool.

·         Installed and configured the Business Objects Data services (BODS 4.2) for database HANA and extract the data. Experience working on Buisness objects (BOBJ).

·         Participated in Hybris system installation and also in the upgrade of hybris component using the maintenance optimizer xml for the upgrade.

·         Installed and configured SAP Solution Manager. SAP ChaRM configuration for managing/controlling transports. SAP Service Desk configuration for ticketing and tracking application issues. Central System Monitoring setup for Entire Landscape and setting up CCMS email alerts.

·         Excellent skills as Basis consultant in SAP Net weaver, SAP Solution Components & MYSAP Business suite with the goal of providing high system reliability, performance and optimization.

·         Expertise in carrying out system copies and Database refreshes on Windows, Suse & RHEL Linux/Oracle and Windows/SQL server 2005/2008/2012 of Net weaver products.

·         Part of performance engineering & analysis team and strong expertise in the area of performance tuning of the production servers with databases SQL Server/Oracle.

·         Performed installation and configuration on SAP PI 7.x. Configured Business systems in SLD (System Landscape Directory). Integration Engine Administration, troubleshooting Adapter configuration.

·         Carried ou Installation and Post installation activities on BI 7.x. Monitoring the extraction query. Applying support packs on BW system. Applying BI CONT Add-On in ABAP stack. Performing system refresh activities on BW system.

·         Added BI Content on Net Weaver ABAP stack. Performed Installation and Post installation activities on BI 7.x. BI System administration tasks include System Refreshes, Support, Creating source systems, BI Performance tuning, Data loading issues.

·         Update the database statistics after every one million new records have been loaded into an InfoCube for improving BW performance.

·         Worked on setting up SAP systems on VMware virtualization environment.

·         Performed installations and upgrades on Enterprise portal NW 7.x. Stack and kernel upgrades. Configured Single Sign on (SSO) between Portal and SAP, Non-SAP systems. Configured DSSO and Federation between Enterprise portals systems. Strong troubleshooting skills in Portal landscape environment.

·         Collaborated with technical and functional teams to define security designs and requirements.

 

 

 

EXPERTISE:

 

·         Product/Environment         : SAP R/3 4.6C/ 4.7 EE SR2, ECC 5.0 / 6.0 / EHP1à7 (CUA, TMS, CTS+, SAP Audit), XI 3.5, PI 7.0/7.1x, CRM 4.0/7.0 ,SCM 7.0,  BW 3.5 / BI 7.01, Enterprise Portal 6.0 / 7.01 (SSO, SSL, LDAP, UME, SNC), Solution Manager 3.0/7.0/7.01/7.1 (EWA, MOpz, ChaRM, Service Desk, RCA), ITS 6.0/7.0, TREX 6.0/7.0, CRM 4.0 / 7.0, Security weaver, CUA, SCUL, WAS 6.x/7.01/7.11 (ABAP & Java), SAP Net Weaver - SLD, NWDI, Content server, GRC, C4C, Hybris, ECC 7.40 on HANA

·         Operating System                : Windows 2000/03/08/NT/12, Unix, Suse/RedHat Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX, iSeries           

·         Database                                : Oracle 9i/10g/11g, DB2,Max DB, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012, HANA, S/4 HANA

·         Domain                                  : Manufacturing, IS-Retail, Insurance

·         Tools                                       : HP Storage Works, HP Service Desk, HP Data protector, Veritas, RMAN, Tivoli Storage Manager, SAP Web Dispatcher, SAP Router, J2EE Engine 6.x / 7.01, Visual Administrator, Configtool, JSPM, SDM, SAPDBA/BR*Tools, BR* Gui, Linux Virtualization, VMware, OEL,  SAN Manager, SWPM, SUM, Service Now, HPQC, JIRA, Ancile UPerform.

·         Interfaces                              : Biz-talk, Vertex, Rightfax, Aventx, Easy DMS, Fiori Apps, BOBJ,BODI, Winshuttle, HANA Studio & Next labs

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

• Masters in Human Resource Management from Symbiosis University.
• Bachelor of Science from Madurai Kamaraj University

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:

 

 

Mohawk Industries (Atlanta, GA)                                                                                               (Nov 14 to Present)

 

    Role: Sr Basis Consultant

    Environment: Solution Manager 7.1, ECC, CRM, SCM, BI/HANA, C4C, Hybris/HANA, GRC, S/4 HANA

 

Mohawk Industries Inc

 

Mohawk Industries Inc is the world’s largest flooring company, with operations in North America, Eurpoe, Asia and Australia. Its products and brands span every major flooring category across a wide range of price points and distribution channels. Headquartered in Calhoun, Georgia, and its shares trade on the New York stock Exchange under the ticket symbol MHK. The company manufacturing portfolio consists of soft flooring products (carpet and rug), hard flooring products (ceramic tile, natural stone and hardwood flooring), and laminate flooring. The company employs 32,500 in operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia and the United States.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Participated in SAP implementation of project CONNECT deploying the latest SAP technologies such as SAP HANA, S/4 HANA for success factors, Hybris marketing, Cloud for Customer (C4C), Fiori Apps and Success factors.

·         Took part in the initial sizing discussions and carried out the SAP HANA database installations on Linux Operating systems  SLES 11 / RHEL 6.7.

·         Performed SAP HANA revision upgrade, stack upgrade and maintenance upgrades as and when the new releases.

·         Designed and setup the SAP HANA backup using the file system methodology and successfully refreshed/recovered the systems with Production backup using file system.

·         Implemented the Cloud for customer (C4C) integration with On-Premise landscape and HANA cloud integration using basic and certificate authentication and followed up with necessary support activities.

·         Implemented the SAP’s newest business component Hybris marketing and also upgraded to latest version 1.2 using the latest SUM tool with SP 15.

·         Carried out the GRC implementation and supported the necessary follow up setup and authorization activities using GRC.

·         Involved in installation and configuration of SAP Business objects data services (BODS) and helped the team with extraction and loading issues. Carried out the SAP BODS upgrade to latest release BODS 4.2 and configured the functionality.

 

 

The Home Depot (Atlanta, GA)                                                                                                      (Jul 14 to Nov 14)

 

    Role: Sr Technical Consultant

    Environment: Solution Manager 7.1, ECC, CRM, SCM, GTS, BI/HANA, Portal, PI.

 

The Home Depot

 

The Home Depot is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. It operates many big-box format stores across the United States, Canada and Mexico. The company is headquartered at the Atlanta Store Support Center in Cobb County, Georgia, in Greater Atlanta. In terms of overall revenue reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States. The store operates out of large warehouse-style buildings with megastores operating in larger facilities.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Executed Data Extraction Transfer Loading (ETL) using SAP Data Services 4.0 to import csv files into SAP HANA tables.

·         Well versed with SAP HANA Administration, Performance Optimization, Modeling using different types of views, SQL, SQL Script topics.

·         Involved in SAP HANA Security including User Management, Roles and Privileges.

·         Setup the SAP HANA landscape and upgraded to the latest SPS using the tool HDMLCM.

·         Designed and Implemented the ChaRM functionality and created the projects for each landscape to include several systems in the setup.

·         Installed the solution manager system and configured the Service desk for Incident management using the ECC system landscape for daily support system activities.

·         Work with teams from opening the change request for a defect, bug fix, new functionality, enhancement or new project to successfully implementing the changes into production through ChaRM Solution Manager 7.1.

·         Plan, manage and implement the changes into production environment in a planned manner in scheduled windows. Setup, change and manage the project, life cycles and support the change management process and procedures in Solution manager 7.1.

 

 

 

 

Tyco Fire Protection Products (Lansdale, PA)                                                                     (Apr 11 to July 2014)

 

Role: SAP Basis lead

Environment: Solution Manager, ECC, BI, Portal, PI 7.0, MDM, DMS, SQL server, Oracle 10g/11g,  Windows 2008/2012 Server

 

Tyco Fire Protection Products, a division of Tyco International, was formed as part of Tyco Safety Products to bring together the world’s most recognized brands under a single powerful umbrella. Through this comprehensive approach, customers gain access to the greatest possible range of bundled solutions, with a global reach unmatched by any others

 

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Implementation of SAP landscapes for Americas, Leading the technical team from onsite reporting to client leadership team directly.

·         Took part in technical design meetings, hardware sizing activities, system installations, troubleshooting the performance issues in data load activities, configured the technical setup of web portal.

·         Carried out the system copy activities during the datacenter migration activities. Upgraded the Oracle database from 10g to 11g.

·         Analysis and high-level design for a complete, end-to-end, SAP Sales Order archiving solution across both ECC and CRM, including the document management aspect.

·         Involved in development, testing, and implementation of predecessor archive objects. coordinated across ECC and CRM in a complex SAP landscape.

·         Setup the various necessary third party interfaces like Biztalk, Vertex, Rightfax besides Easy DMS, BODS, Ancile Uperform etc.

 

 

 

SWISS REINSURANCE                                                                                                                   Jan 2011 to Mar 2011

 

Role: SAP Basis Lead

 Environment: ECC 6.0, BI 7.0, CRM, Solution Manager 7.0, XI 3.0/7.0, EP 7.0, Oracle 10g, DB2, Red Hat Linux                           

 

Swiss Re is a global Reinsurance Company, which does the business from over 70 offices in more than 20 countries, providing risk transfer, risk financing and asset management to its global client base. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re offers financial services products that enable risk-taking essential to enterprise and progress.

 

Responsibilities:  

·         Rolling out SAP GUI 720 to across the end users desktops after setting up the front end installation server and distributing the package after creating the definition file and SMS package.

·         Extensively used ST03, ST05, SE30, ST02, ST04 for workload, tuning and Performance analysis in production environment. Performance and tuning on SAP ECC, SAP PI, SAP BI with specific checks for Garbage collector jobs and expensive SQL statements. Addressed disk I/O, CPU bottleneck, buffer, memory and swap issues

·         Early watch reports are analyzed and identified with the recommendations and implemented the same thus enhancing the performance.

·         Carried out the Enhancement Package upgrades on ECC 6.0 and CRM landscape systems. Carried out the database upgrade on DB2 database.

 

 

 

Tesco & Star Bazaar                                                                                   July 2008 - Dec 2010

 

Role: SAP Basis Consultant

 Environment: Windows 2003 Server /Oracle 10g/11g, Max DB, DB2

                                   

Tesco is a global grocery and general merchandising retailer headquartered United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues (after Wal-Mart and Carrefour) and the second-largest measured by profits (after Wal-Mart). Trent ventured into the hypermarket business in 2004 with Star Bazaar, providing an ample assortment of products made available at the lowest prices.

 

 

 

 

Responsibilities:  

 

·         Handled various issues ranging from OS/DB and data center migration of the STARBAZAAR servers to daily monitoring, troubleshooting production issues, configuring backup of servers through HP data protector using the integration technology.

·          Performed installation of Enterprise portal (EP 6.0, 7.0). Applied java support packages using Java Support Package manger (JSPM). Applied business packages to the system using SDM.

·         Set up operation modes and configured logon load balancing across the application servers. Extensive knowledge on upgrading the support packages, stacks and Kernel on both ABAP & Java environments.

·          Configured Single Sign on (SSO) between Portal and SAP system (ERP CRM), Non-SAP systems. Worked on System Administration and User Administration in portal environments. Configured export import Transport method for standard packages transport. Transport Management done using NWDI for custom development packages.                     

·         Executed all aspects of SAP Data Archiving including the development of complex and interdependent Archive Objects.

·         Client deletion activity followed by reorganization of the table space(s) to claim the space at OS level. Created clients to allow development, testing activities, performed client copies.

·         Configured transport domain and integrating all other systems into transport domain, creating transport layers for data transport, transporting data from and to the systems in the domain, monitoring different transport logs, troubleshooting the problems in data transport.

·         Creating the batch jobs in SAP and scheduling them. Monitoring the batch jobs for the cancelled jobs and troubleshooting the failures in jobs.

 

 

Trent Limited                                                                                            Jan 2008 to Jun 2008

 

Established in 1998 as part of the Tata Group, Trent Ltd. operates Westside, one of India's largest and fastest growing chains of retail stores. The Westside stores have numerous departments to meet the varied shopping needs of customers. The company has already established 45 Westside departmental stores.

 

 Role: SAP Basis Administrator

 Environment: AS/400, I Series, AIX/ Oracle 10g/11g, Enterprise Portal, ECC, Process Integration

 

 

Responsibilities:  

 

·         Carried out the implementation for the Westside, this included ECC, BI, PI and solution manager. Setup the pre Go-Live recommendations for SAP and carried out the related activities.

·         Participated in the data archiving architecture and implemented the archival of data in ECC landscape.

·         Setup the Solution manager features like Central user administration and service desk.

·         Took part in various system refresh activities from production to test systems. Planned and executed system performance enhancement per SAP recommendations.

·         Daily monitoring, troubleshooting production issues, configuring backup of servers through HP data protector using the integration technology

 

 

AG Technologies (Pvt) Ltd                                                                      July 2006 to Dec 2007

 

Role: SAP Basis consultant

Environment: Sun Solaris, Windows 2003 Server / Oracle 10g, SAP R/3 4.7 EE, Solution Manager

 

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