
Ravi Vattam
- Sr. SAP Basis &HANA administrator
- Augusta, GA
- Member Since Jun 04, 2023
Ravi K Vattam
Professional Summary:
· Over 10.5 years of experience in IT with experience in Sr SAP Basis Consultant and Technical Architect.
· 3.5 yrs of SAP HANA administration experience.
· Performed System Builds, EHP Upgrades, OS/DB Migrations, System Copies / System Refreshes, Disaster Recover Setups & Tests
· Extensive experience in Support of SAP systems, which includes, SAP ECC, SAP S/4 HANA ,SAP HANA,SAP PI/PO ,SAP BW,SAP EP,SAP CRM, SAP SRM,SAP SCM, SAP Ariba, SAP ME,SAP MII, SAP Fiori, SAP DMS, SAP and SAP BOBJ
· Experience in Solution design, Planning and Executing on various SAP Components
· Experience in handling the teams and project lead role.
· Experience in development and review of infrastructure design, integrity of application integration landscape, validation of system configuration, security schema analysis
· Participated in the technology road-map workshops, proposed, and validated the technology adoption in the SAP environment to match the business objectives of the organizations.
· Strong multi-tasking skills and abilities to handle changing priorities in a fast-paced environment
· Worked on EHP upgrades using EHPI and SUM Tool
· Worked on Disaster recovery systems
· Worked on Homogeneous system copy and Heterogeneous system copy
· Performed Oracle upgrades (From 10.2.0.5 to 11.2.0.3).
· SAP Data Archiving
· Expertise in Database Migration Option (DMO) of SUM for update and migration of SAP systems
· Had Experience on Migrating SAP BI, ERP Server's Databases to SAP HANA using SUM Tool.
· Integrated backend systems in Process Integration
· Experience in Solman 7.1 upgrades and configurations for Managing and Managed systems
· Experience in SCM,APO/Live cache administration and configurations
· Experience in Installing wide range of SAP Systems like SRM, CRM, SCM, TREX, TDMS etc
· Experience in SAP PI Administration, EP Administration
· Hands-on experience in performing ABAP Patching via SNOTE, SAINT, JAVA Patches through Sapinst, SDM, JSPM ,NWDS & ABAP+JAVA stack via SUM, Database Patch Upgrades and Database Reorganization
· Hands-on expertise in Solution Manager Configuration (EWA, MOPZ, E2E & CHARM)
· Configured SSO on SAP systems and integrating BI system with Enterprise Portal
· Expertise on setup or integrate Logical Systems, Logical Ports , TRFC ,qRFC ,CIFS and etc
· Performed proactive monitoring of SAP R/3 Database, Short Dumps, Update Errors, and Lock entries including file systems
· Experience in Scheduling Background Jobs, Spool Administration, Client Maintenance, System Copies, applying Support Packs, Kernel Patches, Add-on installations and advance corrections using SNOTE.
· Transport Management System (TMS) - Complete setup of Change & Transport System through STMS.
· Administered Operating Systems HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows 2003, 2008 performing full backups & restore and performing health checks.
· Experienced on all aspects of Security & Authorizations - User management, Access Review, Groups Creation/Modification, Creating roles (PFCG), generating profiles, assigning roles to profiles, Authorization Traces, Generating reports & troubleshooting, CUA, LDAP Support With SSO (Single Sign on)
· Performed core SAP BI Net Weaver/Basis Configuration & Troubleshooting of ABAP and Java Connectivity, Source System connectivity, Data Loads, Process Chains, etc.
· Configured and maintained the CBS, DTR for the projects, which were on WAS 640.Any changes were propagated from the NWDI to the WAS DEV, QAS & PRD Systems via the CMS.
· Expert in installations and configurations of (System Landscape Directory), CTS+ and CMS (Change Management Service) for JAVA transports.
· Completed System Landscape Directory Maintenance by using SMSY and control Central SLD for Solution Manager, NWDI, Web Dynpro, ABAP Back End for QA, DEV and Production.
· SAP DMS installation on Max DB and configuration with ERP system
· Expertise in maintaining Oracle database.
· Worked effectively in a team environment, providing knowledge transfer to the team members as needed.
· Strong technical and organizational skills with a focus on system availability and customer satisfaction.
Educational Qualification:
· M.SC (Information Technology) from Allahabad University.
· B.sc (Computer Science) from Osmania University
Certifications:
· SAP OS/DB migration certificate (C_TADM 70-73)
· AWS Certified Sys Ops Administrator - Associate
· ITIL® Foundation Certificate
Professional Experience:
Role : Senior SAP Basis &HANA administrator
Client : New Yorktimes & Morris communications, Augusta,GA
Duration : Feb 2015 – Till Date
Project : Implementation, Upgrade & Support
Responsibilities:
· Performed HANA Administration, Troubleshooting ,Performance Issues, architecture and roadmap
· Performed implementations of SAP HANA SPS09, and Upgrades to SPS10 & 11. Provided go live &post go live support.
· Performed Implementation, upgrade and Support of SAP ECC 6.0with EHP7, SAP BW 7.4,SAP EP 7.31,SAP PI7.31,SAP CRM,SAP SRM, 1,SAP BOBJ and Solution manager 7.1
· Providing support to day-to-day Basis technical production support of complex SAP systems landscapes
· Performed SAP Fiori installation, Post Installations and configuration activities
· Performed EHP7 upgrade for SAP ECC system
· Performed system refresh activities for SAP ECC,SAPBW and SAP CRM system
· Perfomed OS migration for SAP BW system from HP-UX to Windows
· Worked with VERITAS clusters servers
· Worked with Disaster recovery systems
· Performed Client copies. Performed Local, remote client copies and worked with Client Exports and imports .
· Worked on Performance tuning for both SAP ABAP& JAVA stack systems
· Performed Support pack stack Upgrade
· Performed Kernel upgrade
· Worked with Backup and recovery of SAP system with BR tools and other third party tools
· Worked with SAP profile parameters, Operations modes, background job management, spool and Printer configuration and trouble shooting of printing issues
· Worked with EWA, Maintenance planner ,LMDB,SLD ,Root cause analysis of SAP Solution manager.
· Created System Aliases for SAP ECC ,SAP BW systems in Portal
· Define JCO Destinations to the Backend System using Jco RFC Provider Service
· Worked with NWA Tool, Telnet tool, Configtool
· Configuring the portal systems as per application and client requirement.
· Generating the Certificates and Keys from StrustSS02 and Integrating with Portal
· Performed regular maintenance activities and handled problem tickets based on priority
· Working with the functional team to configure the workflows as per the client requirements.
· Performed regular maintenance activities and handled problem tickets based on priority.
· Monitor Inbound and outbound queues and clearing the messages
· Performed Support pack upgrade of ABAP stack and Java support pack using SWPM tool.
· SLD configuration, Business system and technical system creation.
· Implementing SSO with X.509 Certificates and Secure Login Server
· Install Secure login library and secure login client for SAP SSO setup.
· Performed Oracle database administration activities
· Doing cache refresh activities (Delta and full cache on regular basis).
· Check the connectivity using sldcheck from ABAP to SLD.
· Worked with Background job and Spool and Printer configurations and trouble shoot the Print issues.
· Worked on SAP security activities for SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver systems like user creation, deletion ,role creation, single role and composite role creations and assignment of roles to users, authorization control. USMM reports generations and providing the reports to SAP.
· Worked with SAP Audit teams Providing required reports to audit team.
· Supported SAP systems which are running multiple Operating systems &Oracle database environment.(HP-UX, Suse Linux and Windows)
· Worked with SAP High priority Production issues and prepared root cause analysis documents for resolved issues.
· Providing on call support.
Role : Senior SAP Basis administrator
Client : Kirby Building systems
Duration : Jan 2014-Jan 2015
Project : Implementation, & Support
Responsibilities:
· Performed Sizing, Architecture ,implementation of SAP BW 7.31,SAP EP 7.31,SAP,SAP PI7.31,SAP CRM and SAP Solution manager7.1
· Performed EHP upgrade for SAP ERP and SAP BI systems and worked with SAP UPG tool
· Performed system refresh activities for SAP ERP & NetWeaver systems
· Performed heterogeneous system copy
· Installation of SAP Solution manager 7.1 system and completed post installation activities and initial configuration activities
· Performed SAP HANA database support activities like Hana database backup , Monitoring, alert management ,user management
· Performed Oracle Upgrade from 10.2.0.5. to 11.2.0.3
· Performed SPS upgrade for ABAP stack & Java stack
· Performed Kernel upgrade
· Worked for Performance tuning for both ABAP & Java stack systems
· Splitting SAP BW dual stack system and Staging the BW system for Net weaver 7.31 upgrade.
· Performed EHP5 to EHP7 upgrade
· SLD configuration, Business system and technical system creation.
· Doing cache refresh activities (Delta and full cache on regular basis).
· Check the connectivity using SLDCHECK from ABAP to SLD
· Monitor Inbound and Outbound queues and clearing the messages
· Deployment of SQL JDBC drivers through JSPM
· Performing all SAP security activities like from User creation, Role creation, gathering requirement from business team and functional team and involved in SAP Audit
· Worked with Functional team and performed active role in technical design documentation
· Creation of basic transition documentation and coordinating with offshore leads.
· Creation of new support documents and addition of new changes in the existing documents.
· Creating knowledge base articles for the team.
· Worked on Single Sign-On with SSL and SNC
· Performed Single sign on configuration for SAP landscape systems.
· User creations, mass user creations and password resets.
· Adding the roles to the user upon request.
· Creation of roles and assigning roles to the new users.
· Working with authorization checks and user information maintenance
· Working with SAP Audit team
Role : Senior SAP Basis Consultant
Client : Essar Steel ,Minneapolis, MN
Duration : Feb 2012-Jan 2014
Project : Implementation, upgrade & Support
Responsibilities:
· Implementation and Supporting multiple landscapes of SAP ERP6.0 with EHP5,SAP BW7.3,SAP CRM7.1,DMS, SAP EP 7.3and SAP PI7.3
· Performed EHP upgrades
· Performed oracle upgrades.
· Performed system refresh activities.
· Performed Hardware migration.
· Performed backup restore/recovery activities.
· Installation web dispatcher and configured logon load balancing between java dialog instances.
· Installation &post installation activities of EP 7.0/7.1 system.
· Deployment of business packages (ESS and MSS) using JSPM in EP systems.
· Defined Jcoconnections between EP and BI systems using Jco RFC provider service.
· Creation of portal users.
· Create users and users groups in SAP BOBJ system
· Giving the Custom access to reports based on the requirements in SAP BOBJ system
· Start and Stop of SAP BOBJ system
· Creation of standard end user role so that portal user can login to the system with minimum privileges.
· Imported portal archives using transport packages option
· Exported portal content using transport packages option and imported subsequently in to the target systems in the landscape
· Defined iView’s, roles, work sets in EP systems
· Defined roles and assigned it to the owner using permissions editor
· Defined portal themes using theme editor
· Applying patches through SPAM and brining all systems to the same patch levelin the landscape
· Imported transport requests to the subsequent systems and defined transport strategy in the landscape for transport process.
· Background jobs management
· Create and maintenance of user master records
· Creation of roles and composite roles
· System health checkups on daily basis
· Performed addition of the data file to the required table space from BRtools
· Taking online, offline and file system backups using HP data protect tool
· Created dynamic profile parameters using RZ11.
· Maintenance of operation modes using RZ04.
· Generating SAP developer access key and SAP object access key and availability of SAP systems in Service market place and maintaining the connections for URL’S
· Working with service market place
· Adobe document service configuration
· Installation of application servers in existing production system.
· Solving high priority issues within defined SLA time frame.
· Analyzing the EWA reports.
· SAP security activities on ERP,EP and Solman systems
· Working with Global data centers and coordination with IT infra team
· Transport request movement to quality and production system, importing the TR’S to production system from other landscapes and Import of the transport requests at OS level through TP.
· Downloading the SAP scripts from SE38 and smart forms.
· Taking the Trace for slow performing of reports and transaction codes from ST12.
· Working with BRtools for addition of data file to table space and frequent monitor of the table space.
· Working with profile parameters.
· Doing cache refresh activities (Delta and full cache on regular basis).
· Check the connectivity using SLDCHECK from ABAP to SLD
· Kernel Upgrade
· Monitor Inbound and Outbound queues and clearing the messages
· Deployment of SQL JDBC drivers through JSPM
· Start and stop the Java stack from ABAP stack and JCMON
· User creations, mass user creations and password resets.
· Adding the roles to the user upon request with Proper approval
· Creation of roles and assigning roles to the new users.
· Working with authorization checks and user information maintenance
· Performed s SAP Single sign on ( SSO) configuration using SAPNEGO with X.509 certificates
Role : Senior SAP Basis Consultant
Client : Essar Energy
Duration : Aug 2010- Feb 2012
Project : Implementation, upgrade & Support
Responsibilities:
· Monitored and analyzed system performance problems using workload monitor
· ST03, monitor the system hourly basis using ST02, ST03 (R/3 Buffer) and ST06 (Operating system).
· Involved in the 24x7 production support.
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