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Gopal Kirshna
Rolling Meadows, IL - 60008 USA
Expertise :ECC 5.0/6.0, APO 3.0A/4.0, Version 3.x, 4.x
Job Type :
Contract - Corp-to-Corp
Position :

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Summary

Experienced Senior SAP Basis Consultant, providing SAP Technical experience with more than twelve years of IT experience and 6+ years of ERP Applications like R/3 4.0B/4.6C/ECC 5.0/6.0, CRM 5.0, NW04/NW04s, BW3.1/3.5/7.0, XI3.0/7.0, SolMan 3.1/3.2/4.0, APO3.0/4.1, SCM4.1/5.0, SRM5.0/6.0 and EP5.0/6.0/7.0 experience, working in IT working on multi-tier architecture and client server environments.

SUMMARY experience in SAP NW04s like BW 3.x, WAS 6.40 EP 6.0, SCM, APO 3.x,4.x, SRM 5.0, SEM 3.x, CRM 3.x, 4.0 Installations, Upgrades and Production support.

Excellent skills in Unicode Conversion projects.

SAP R/3 upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7 and 4.7C to ECC5.0/ECC6.0, BW3.5/BI7.0. EP5.0/EP7.0, XI3.0/XI7.0. Installation of SAP R/3/NW04/NW04s, Supply Chain Management like SCM version 4.1 to 5.0 along with MaxDB 7.5 to 7.6, Post Installation steps, Daily system Monitoring and trouble shooting problems, configure TMS, Transports, Work Bench Organizer, Performance Monitoring/Tuning, like CCMS, Workload Distribution, RFC connectivity, Operation Modes, experience job management, Applied OSS Notes, support packages like SPAM, Kernel patches, Plug-in/Add on upgrade, Client Administration Copy like Local, Remote or Import/Export, System Copy/Refresh, Pro-active Maintenance, Spool Administration, Printer configuration/ Troubleshooting, Tem-se Administration, Language Import, 24X7 Production Support.
Upgraded Oracle 8i to 9i and 9i to 10g.

Excellent skills in Basis administration of SAP ERP and NW components on various platforms

Proficient in planning, implementation, configuration and administration of SAP systems R/3 like 4.6c, 4.7E, ECC5.0, ECC 6.0 and all the Netweaver components like BI, SCM, CRM, XI and EP experience in SAP NW04s Administration and Portal Administration and configuration.

experience in Enterprise Portals System Administration, Content Administration, User Administration, Development, Configuration and Performance tuning.
Worked extensively on Kernel Upgrade, installing Add-ons, update Support Packs and Patches, importing plug-ins like SPAM/SAINT Performance Analysis and Memory Management.

Extensive experience in configuring TMS like Transport Management System for the system landscape using STMS, setting up the Transport Routes and releasing/importing transports in the landscape.
Installed and configured Solution Manager 3.2 for Early Watch Alerts and System Monitoring.
Applied Hot/Support Packages and OSS notes and assisted implementation team with testing.
Experienced in taking online and offline backups and performing Disaster Recovery.

Excellent team player with good communication, analytical and problem solving skills. Applied skills to analyze problems and provide solutions in the environment.

Good experience of client specific documentation of implementation/changes and reporting.
Good knowledge about installing and configuring Java Web AS and EP under different operating system, like Windows and Unix platforms.

Excellent knowledge about administering and managing SAP J2EE Web Application Server. Excellent knowledge of the tools : J2EE Visual Administration, Configtool, SDM, System Analyzer and other configuration tools in J2EE engine for portal components and applications.
Good knowledge of configuring Single-Sign-On like SSO and User Mapping in a complex system landscape.
Developing custom iViews and customizing the portal based on the business requirements.
Excellent knowledge in connector framework. Used JCA, JCo and RFC to connect with SAP R/3, BW or JDBC data source and apply iViews to display the retrieved data from the respective source.
Very good exposure on HP open view Service Desk and BMC Remedy

6 years experience in Network or System Administration on Cisco Routers/Switches and Windows NT/Windows 2000/Linux 6.x. operating systems

Operating SystemUNIX like HP-UX, AIX, SUN, Windows-NT/2003/XP/98, Veritas, NetBackup 3.x, HP9000, IBM RS/6000 and Intel based servers RDBMSOracle 10g, 9i, 8.x, DB2, SQL Server 2000. SAP Installations and ConfigurationSAP NW 04/NW04s, SAP R/3 3.0E/3.1H/4.0B/4.5B/46C/46D/4.7, WebAS 620/640, ECC 5.0/6.0, BW 3.0B/3.1/3.5/7.0, CRM 3.0/4.0, SRM 3.0/4.0/5.0, SCM4 .x and XI3.0/7.0. ITS 3.0/4.6D, EP5.0/6.0/7.0, APO 3.0A/4.0, EP 5.0/6.0/7.0, mySAP.com, SAPGUI, SAPHELP, ITS 2.0/3.0/4.6D cProject Suite 3.10/4.0, xRPM4.0, TMS, CCMS, CUA, System and Client Copy, applied Support Packages, Load Balancing, Archiving, Performance Tuning, SAP Router Installation, Oracle Server 7. x/8 .x or 9. x/10g, on WinNT, AIX, HP-UX and SunOSToolsApprova BizRights Suite, CCMS, PFCG, SAPDBA, BRTOOLS 620/640/700, BRGUI 640 Migration Monitor, CATT, BMC RAC, Data Guard, OEM, Rman, TOAD, Quest Central, FogLight, ERWin and SQR PatrolNetworkingTCP/IP, DHCP, NFS, NIS, DNS, WINS, IIS, SAN, EMC

Certifications : Cisco Certified Network Associate like CCNA
Microsoft Certified System Engineer like MCSE


Employment

2007 -  Present
Upgrade Team Lead

Nike Inc Beaverton , OR Upgrade Team Lead

Planned and Upgraded to SCM 5.0 from SCM 4.1 on HP-UX or Oracle 10 environment.
Unicode conversion after SCM 5.0 like non-Unicode Upgrade
Preparing for Unicode conversion with SPUMG
Max Database upgrades from 7.5 .x to 7.6 .x as part of SCM 5.0 Upgrade
Upgraded Oracle 9 to Oracle 10 database
Kernel upgrades, Go live Analysis and problem resolution, System refreshes
Backups like offline, restores using BR* tools, Applying Support packs, BI-CONT, add-ons
LiveCache backups using DBMGUI, Initializing and restoring Max Database for livecache using DBM GUI

Transports using STMS, Client administration, Analyzing ABAP/4 Dumps, Scheduling and monitoring different kind of experience jobs, Performance monitoring and tuning
Participated in SAP Event Manager 5.0 upgrade
Database administration like Oracle and Max Database
Responsible to load and apply Support Packages, Add-ons, Kernel Upgrades and Hot patches like SPAM/SAINT.
Experienced with Spool Administration like configuring printers and trouble-shooting spool request, deleting old spool jobs and working with TemSe objects.

Performed daily health check for Paragon Production systems using various tcodes like SM50, SM12, DB01, ST03, ST22, SM21, DB02, ST04, ST06, ST02, DB12, DB13 and some other related codes and procedures if needed.
Troubleshooting system problems by analyzing system log update monitoring and lock entries and configured Alert Monitor for System monitoring.
Installed SAP Notes Assistant across all systems. Implemented the SAP Solution Manager to collect and analyze all system monitoring data for recommendations and problem analysis.
Configured CCMS alerts integrating with Solution Manager and Maintained Central Monitoring system with automatic e-mail forwarding.
Configures CCMS email alerts for high priority jobs and 24 X 7 Production support.


2005 -  2007
Basis Team Lead

Procter and Gamble Cincinnati , OH Basis Team Lead

Upgrade from R/3 4.7 to ECC6 on HP-UX or Oracle 10 environment.
Upgraded Netweaver components include ECC6, XI7.0 and EP7 on HP-UX/Oracle 10g.

Managing SAP servers, Create and Maintain user Roles and Authorization profiles, Monitoring user logins, user sessions, restricting default logins in instance parameter file, trouble shooting user level problems to access the servers and maintaining security throughout the SAP landscapes.
Configure and execute SAP change control functions, the TMS, setting up Transport Routes, Configure Transport Domain Controller and customize Workbench Organizer.
Client Administration like creating Clients, Client copy like Local and Remote, deleting clients and assigning logical systems to clients
Responsible to load and apply Support Packages, Add-ons, Kernel Upgrades and Hot patches

Database Backup or recovery, Monitoring, trouble shooting the Backup problems by investigating the cause like due to media failure or due to system failure or some other reasons
Applying OSS Notes to the systems downloading from OSS as per instruction or where ever applicable
Monitoring the initialization parameters that determine the behaviour of the Oracle Database Server
Monitoring the alert log file to see the major changes, events and errors that occur during the running of the Oracle
Managing Archive Logs. Monitoring Systems for its database growth, memory utilization, doing SAP health checks daily for its better performance
Spool Administration - configuring printers and trouble shooting spool request, working with TemSe objects

Configuring Operation Modes, Managing Instance Profile, managing Logon Groups for load balancing
Performed extensively tasks like Reorganization of table spaces, creating indexes, maintaining data dictionary objects to suit various requirements of users in different environments

Created R/3 Transactional iViews on SAP Portal, Configured SSO on login Integrated R/3 Security work with Portal
Configured CCMS alerts integrating with Solution Manager and Maintained Central Monitoring system with automatic e-mail forwarding
Performance Tuning of SAP servers, Configured CCMS sets as per the requirement.
Oracle Database patch upgrades like 9.2.0.4 to 9.2.0.6
Responsible for optimum utilization of the resources on the project
Handling tickets on HP Open view Service Desk and Applying Vertex updates like geocode and ratecode
Performing Database refresh Time finder, online and Offline, via tapes like Recovery of Database and Post Database
Monitoring various kind of Backups and trouble shooting failed backups and Client administration which include client copies/exports
Moving transports to different kind of systems via SAP level and OS level, Transports to BW systems with source mapping, Creating and monitoring different kind of RFC connections
System bounces - SAP and Database, APO systems - Live Cache, J2EE Engine Restart

Providing Developer key or object keys, Database administration. Working with extents and tablespaces, Monitoring experience jobs and scheduling whenever necessary
Familiar with IXOS, Net Backup and Control-M products and Worked on BC, ITS, LDAP and IMS interface tools.


2004 -  2005
Basis Consultant

EL companies Inc , NY Basis Consultant Environment : SAP R/3 4.6c BW3.5 SRM4.0 HP-UX Oracle9

Responsible for the installation, configuration and maintenance of 4 HPUX R/3 instances and 6 Windows 2000 servers. SAP and Oracle installation.
Applying support packages, plug-ins, Applying SAPGUI patches and OSS notes using SNOTE.
Configuring STMS and Transport Routes, Creation and Copying of Clients like Local and Remote.
User/developer support, troubleshooting, transports, OSS administration and user maintenance, Performing all types of Backups and Recovery in a Cycle
Used to set up RFC connections between SAP R/3 system to SAP system and between SAP BW system and SAP R/3 system

Created and changed roles, activity groups for authorization profiles using Profile generator as per company security policy, Assigning users to activity groups. Assigning profiles to users. Displaying authorizations and profiles, working with the user information system.

Adapting Predefined Activity groups and authorization profiles, Determination of necessary authorizations to match business requirements, Changing and Monitoring the startup, default, instance profile parameter

Performed daily administrative activities like Alert monitoring, Scheduling periodic jobs, experience processing, User management, R/3 Buffer monitoring like CCMS, database monitoring, Verification, troubleshooting of Short Dumps, system logs etc.
Responsible for daily security checks monitoring unsuccessful logons monitoring inactive users and locking inactive users in production system

Created the necessary authorization objects like RSSM and made the info providers authorization relevant. Also created the support roles and assigned the same to Support team. Created and generated the profiles like PFCG on both the R/3 and BW side and assigned to the appropriate users.

system security and authorizations using profile generator to create new roles according to the company requirements and assigning them appropriate SAP and system authorizations

Used to apply hot packages and spool administration and Used to Backup and Recovery using Third party tool like Brightst or Arcserve Backup, Created Security components according to OLTP and OLAP environment and Created and design of roles and profiles under client security policy guidelines.
Performed client copies between clients on the same system, remote copies and client transport between different systems.
Troubleshooting system problems by analyzing system logs, Updating monitoring, Alert monitors, System traces, Lock entries, System dumps Monitoring performance, workload analysis and performance tuning.
Monitoring Disk space, Monitoring the User processes, CPU usage from OS, Creating OS users and permissions and Worked to develop security around custom reports for HR, MM SD module and BW.
All business roles were analyzed and mapped business roles to transaction code according to business processes


2002 -  2004

Parametric Technology Corporation Needham , MA Environment : 4.5B 4.6C Windows 2000 SQL Server2000 SAP ECC5.0 SAP XI 3.0 SR1 SAP APO SCM 4.0 Oracle 9i and IBM AIX 5L WINDOWS 2003/2000 .

Installation and configuration of knowledge management and collaboration Configuration of User Management Engine like UME, Implemented SSO like Single Sign On for various users to logon to Enterprise portals.
Providing Basis support to wide variety of SAP Products with different RDBMS for internal SAP AG systems and also to Customers of SAP Hosting, Analyzing Problems related to SAPDBA and BRTOOLS.
Performed Kernel Upgrade, System Copies, Client copies, Spool Administration.
Applying SAP R/3 Support Packs
Performance tuning of all the SAP Releases like 4.X
Daily system checks for SAP Internal systems and recommend changes according to the report.
Perform R/3 systems refreshes and client refreshes applying License and Taking care of Transports, Configuring SCOT and CCMS, Define operation modes and distributed workload among available application servers, Implementing SAP notes, Schedule, monitor and perform backups - partial online recovery of data files, table spaces, tables etc and complete offline backup using SAPDBA and BRTOOLS Performing Log Backups.
Configuring and Managing Transport Management System like CTS/STMS, Configured RFC for parallel processing and ALE Configuration, Responsible in giving technical training for project teams.


2001 -  2002

British American Tobacco UK Environment : 4.5B 4.6C Windows 2000 SQL Server2000

Uploaded Master data, Transaction data and Hierarchical data into the SAP BW.

Performed Administration and support for various activities like OS and R/3 with BW
Managing the Log files and logs related to OS, Database Backup, Analyzing the ABAP dumps and logs.
Segregation of Duties like SOD and analyzing Risk Assessment using VIRSA compliance calibrator 4.0.

Client administration and client copy, Monitored the experience work process and job, Monitored the buffers, Managed and tuned the work process, Buffers.
Performed Database enhancement, performance tuning and monitoring, Table space administration, Buffers, Database logs. Configured and managed Printers like SPAD.
Monitored OS related to performance, file systems and process, Performed ABAP trouble shooting and programming error determination.
Created users in Production system, Transported objects from DEV to QAS and finally to PRD system.
Devised and documented procedure for backups of R/3 and EP from all regular day-to-day basis jobs.


1998 -  2001
India Senior Network Executive

In TechNet Pvt Ltd India Senior Network Executive
Configuring CISCO Routers of series 3600, 2600, 2500 and 1700.
Configured OSPF, Static routing.
Implementation of NAT and traffic filtering through Access Lists.
Disaster recovery like Loading IOS, Password recovery and IOS backup.
Monitoring Leased Lines with monitoring tools like MRTG, SolarWinds and WhatsupGold.
Configured VLANs in Cisco switches 1900 and Cisco routers like 3640
Dial-up networking services and Knowledgeable about BGP.
Manage LAN/WAN installation/configuration/support for dedicated line customers.
Fair knowledge about Multicast Routing Protocols like DVMRP, MOSPF and CBT
Duties involve maintaining the Linux, NT servers and SQL servers.
Regular maintenance of web servers, virtual hosting of web sites in the web server.
Maintaining the RADIUS and RAS Servers.
Configured and regular maintenance of 2 SQL servers. This includes creation of databases, tables and making periodic backup plans.
Converting daily RADIUS logs to text files and making them available through web interface.
Regular maintenance of Java Web Server.
Configured and maintained web servers. like IIS on NT, Apache on Linux and JWS on NT.
Installation of all types of software packages of UNIX and Windows NT4.0, 95, 98.
Installation, configuration and maintenance of proxy server on windows.
Hosting of web sites on our US server, Taking weekly backups on the servers.

Worked as a team member for our organization in the ISP like Internet Service Provider In- biz .net setup.
Duties involve installation of operating system on Micron servers.
Maintenance of 40 nodes Intranet. Troubleshooting LAN of all our branches and Head office.
Installation of total connectivity with Linux 6.0 and Win NT.


1995 -  1997
System Administrator

Sristek Technologies India System Administrator




Education

Graduate in BE From Bangalore University, India.



Miscellaneous

Responsible for giving network solutions for both LAN and WAN using network cards, switches, hubs and configuration of web servers for the local Intranet.
Installation of all types of software packages of UNIX and Windows NT4.0, 95, 98.
Regular maintenance of web servers, virtual hosting of web sites in the web server.
Attending break calls, Intranet administration. Coordinating the customer support for efficient operation, training them on common protocols, application software.

Available up on request




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