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Rajesh Gummadi

SCHAUMBURG,IL

Summary

  • Strong experience of over 15 years in Global SAP Implementations, HANA Administration, SAP Upgrades, EHP Upgrades, SAP OS/DB Migrations Technology Lead on SAP Solutions, offered best practices solutions for various customers using Cloud, On Premise SAP Solutions using High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions
  • Experience in planning, executing, monitoring and delivering LARGE Green-field/Brown-field Implementation projects
  • Rich experience in leading both onshore and offshore SAP technical teams, involved in implementation and infrastructure setup.
  • Experience in setup of SAP Application Lifecycle Management Solutions, Focused Solutions (Focused Build and Focused Insights), Run SAP like a Factory, Change Request Test Management and Automation with CBTA, Application Operations.
  • Datacentre migration from one vendor to another with extensive roadmaps, Upgrades, Migrations with DMO on-premises/private cloud (AWS and Azure)
  • Excellent communication skills and extensive experience working with clients and partners.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
Certification

Work History

Solution Architect

Shoppers Stop, UGL
04.2021 - 04.2022
  • Assess, discover and evaluate SAP Customer’s landscapes to migrate SAP systems to Azure through structured plan and delivery
  • Design and implement infrastructure to support SAP workloads
  • Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR)
  • Professional Services and Managed Services in maintaining SAP workloads on Azure
  • Migration of on-prem SAP systems to IBM Cloud Power VS
  • Worked with pre-sales team to design solutions and respond to RFP
  • Worked with customers or prospective customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution.
  • Managed project scope, schedule, status and documentation.
  • Set up and installed SAP software components on both Azure, AWS and IBM Cloud platforms.
  • Managed project planning, resource allocation, scope, schedule, status and documentation
  • Provided support during customer implementations and applied industry best practices
  • Executed application database upgrades, backups and restore duties

Managing Consultant

Jazz Pharma, Chamberlain
01.2018 - 04.2021
  • Part of Technical Upgrade SAP BW/BPC Landscape (NW 7.4 to NW 7.5)
  • Solution Manager Installation, configurations including Application monitoring Scenario
  • End to End Implementation of SAP BW/BPC 10.1 landscape hosted in AWS
  • Built and configured S/4 HANA and B/4 HANA applications
  • Mentoring and guiding junior members of team
  • Support Pre-sales in organizing RFPs and technical discussions
  • Interacted with clients to define and understand long-term goals and strategies.
  • Alleviated issues by using innovative methods and effective problem-solving skills.
  • Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
  • Implemented practices and procedures to reduce expenditure and increase savings.

SAP Manager

MillerCoors
02.2016 - 01.2018
  • Planning, Preparation, and execution of technical upgrade of Solution Manager 7.1 to 7.2
  • Connection Monitoring, Technical Monitoring and System Monitoring setup
  • Worked on setup of PI Monitoring and BI Monitoring
  • Change Request Management and Incident Management integration with Solution Manager setup
  • Monitoring and administration of SAP HANA Database using Solution Manager and DBA cockpit
  • Customize alerts configuration and maintained Solution Manager templates for all database and application servers
  • Traveled to client locations to implement SAP solutions and offered post-installation support services.
  • Multitasked and managed multiple deliverables and projects concurrently and facilitated use of SAP for enterprise resource planning.
  • Delivered SAP training, user support and knowledge transfer at end of project and followed up to verify successful implementation.
  • Designed deployment automation solutions to expedite implementation of SAP solutions.
  • Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.

SAP Solution Manager SME

ZF TRW, John Deere
03.2012 - 02.2016
  • System Owner for Solution Manager system Landscape.
  • Configured and Supported Service Desk, Monitoring, Licensing, Audit Management, Business Blueprint processes, Test Management, Change request management Scenarios
  • Design and develop solutions for operational metrics gathering and interactive reporting.
  • Technical Monitoring, Early Watch Reports, Business Process Monitoring setup
  • Implementation of SAP Solution Manager Component Based Test Automation (CBTA)
  • Custom Dashboards like IT Performance Monitoring, and MOPS
  • Implementation of RSALF for SAP MAX Attention customer
  • Lead offshore team in configuring Technical Monitoring, Connection Monitoring and PI Monitoring
  • Designed/Planned/Executed solution manager upgrade from 7.0+EHP1 to 7.1
  • Configuration of Central Monitoring, LMDB migration, Alert Inbox and RCA
  • Connection Monitoring. Technical Monitoring and System Monitoring
  • OCC operations setup and End User Experience Monitoring
  • Early Watch Alerts, CHARM, Maintenance Optimizer for Support Package

Lead Basis Consultant

Marks & Spencer, Colorspot Nurseries, Dixons
11.2006 - 03.2012
  • Managed heterogeneous client system landscapes for multiple clients in shared support model
  • Troubleshooting performance issues
  • Configure monitoring setup for newly added systems in Solution Manager
  • Performing regular maintenance activities – Kernel Patching, Support patches & Stack upgrades
  • Work on support tickets while ensuring adherence to agreed SLA’s with customers
  • Ramping up of team members for first level and Second Level support projects
  • Part of core team to Install and administer various SAP NetWeaver components
  • Built SAP systems and configured various monitoring tools such as SAP Solution
  • Start and stop of SAP services in Clustered environment on both Windows and Linux environments.
  • Monitoring Daily Backup, archiving and automation of clean up scripts
  • Participating in evaluations and supporting creation of project Plan
  • Creating and reviewing checklists, service reports and other document templates
  • Participated in technical aspects of SAP implementations including environment planning, infrastructure planning, gather requirements and installation
  • Activation of Industry specific components IS Utilities,
  • Applying of Support Pack Stacks and Support Packs for ABAP and JAVA, using SPAM and JSPM, and applying of Kernel patches
  • Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity
  • Developed team communications and information for meetings
  • Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic
  • Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor
  • Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer And Information Sciences

JRNRV University
Pratap Nagar
01.2007

Skills

  • Design Solutions
  • Database Upgrades
  • Solution Testing and Implementation
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Best Practices and Methodologies
  • Application and Server Monitoring
  • Solution Building
  • Application Administration

Accomplishments

    SAP Migration Scenarios:

  • Discover and Assessment of SAP Landscapes, Migration of SAP Workloads on Azure, Installation of SAP Landscape on AWS, Migrating On Prem to Power VS in IBM Cloud, Azure Monitoring Solutions for SAP, Modernization of SAP Landscapes on Azure, AWS and IBM Cloud

    • Implementation Scenarios :

  • Application Operations, IT Service Management - Incident Management - Service Desk, Change Control Management, Landscape Management, Business Process Monitoring, Test Suite, Data Volume Management
  • Enterprise Resource Planning - ERP, Customer Relationship Management - CRM, Supplier Relationship Management - SRM, Supply Chain Management - SCM, SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA - S/4 HANA
  • Enterprise Portal - EP, Business Intelligence - BI, Process Integration - PI, Web Application Server ABAP and JAVA, SAP Landscape Virtualization - LVM
  • DB2 LUW, Oracle, MS SQL Server, SAP In-Memory Computing - SAP HANA
  • AIX, HP-UNIX, Windows Server, Redhat Linux, SUSE Linux

Certification

  • SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA 2.0, SAP
  • SAP Certified Technology Specialist - SAP S/4HANA Conversion , SAP
  • Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty , Microsoft
  • Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, Microsoft
  • SAP Certified Technology Associate - Root Cause Analysis , SAP
  • SAP Technology Consultant Certification for SAP Net Weaver 04 , SAP

Timeline

Solution Architect

Shoppers Stop, UGL
04.2021 - 04.2022

Managing Consultant

Jazz Pharma, Chamberlain
01.2018 - 04.2021

SAP Manager

MillerCoors
02.2016 - 01.2018

SAP Solution Manager SME

ZF TRW, John Deere
03.2012 - 02.2016

Lead Basis Consultant

Marks & Spencer, Colorspot Nurseries, Dixons
11.2006 - 03.2012

Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer And Information Sciences

JRNRV University

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