Raghuveer Balimi rv.balimi@yahoo.

com
Senior SAP Consultant – Basis | Security | HANA Mobile: +65-81891423

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

SAP Consultant with 9 years experience in SAP R/3, NetWeaver Technology, Databases, Network-Security,
Operating Systems, Server & Data centers. Core expertise in ABAP & JAVA stacks, Performed multiple full cycle
Implementations and Upgrades of SAP ECC, Enterprise Portal, Solution Manager, Oracle, MSSQL. Expertise in
SAP HANA. Worked in various domains such as IT Consulting Services, Banking-Finance, Education,
HR, Manufacturing, Logistics, Gas-Petroleum and Transport. Experience in Pre-sales and Bidding.

CORE TECHNICAL COMPITENCY

 SAP HANA Implementation | Migration | Administration | Pre-sales

 End-2-End Implementation of SAP ECC, BW/BI, EP, PI and Solution Manager Systems.
 SAP Hardware Migration and ECC Upgrade.
 EHP6 Upgrade & EHP4 Upgrade: Performed Enhancement Pack Upgrades for various clients.
 OS/DB Migration for SAP ECC6 and NetWeaver Systems - Heterogeneous System copy.
 Knowledge and hands on experience with new generation SAP technologies like Business Objects , Open Text,
BW Dashboards, Content Server and Adobe server, SAP GUI, SAP HANA Developer Studio.
 Conceptual and Technical knowledge on SAP HANA, Cloud Technology & In-memory Management.
 Participated in Combined Upgrade & Unicode Conversion from SAP 4.6C to ECC6.
 Upgraded ECC, SAP4.6C, Solution Manger 7.1 ramp-up, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g
 SAP BW upgrade from 3.1 to BI 7.01 including Oracle Database upgrade from 9.2 to 10.2
 Oracle, MS SQL and DB2 Upgrades
 Expertise in Configuration and Maintenance of JAVA Stack systems.
And using NWDS, ADS, ConfigTool, Visual Admin, SDM, JSPM, JCO Connections, SSO Configuration etc.,
 Built and Configured NWDI System for Enterprise Portal and ESS & MSS Tracks.
 Expertise in Solution Manager.
SM Initial & Basic Configuration, SMD, Maintenance Optimizer, Configuring and using MO, SLD Setup, E2E
Analysis, Wily, EWA setup, SLAs, CCMS Configuration for Satellite systems.
 Homogeneous and Heterogeneous System copies ( both JAVA and ABAP Systems )
 Build, Configuration and Maintenance of SAP DR (Failover) Systems.
 System Refresh Activities from Production to Test and Sand box systems.
 Experience in Installation and base configuration of PI, MDM, SRM, CRM Systems.

 Techno functional experience in SAP modules HR, FICO, MM, SD, PS.
 Experience on Cisco VPN, Windows Clusters and VMware
 Expertise on WINDOWS, HPUX, AIX, Linux, Solaris and VM.
 Knowledge of Accelerated SAP Methodology (ASAP)
 Third Party tools : Vertex, Citrix, Sabrix, OpenText
 SAP Security, CUA & GRC

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION:

 Post-Graduation -- Master’s Degree in Business Administration [MBA], INDIA.

 Graduation -- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Application [BCA], INDIA .
CAREER HISTORY:
DECIMAL Consultancy Services April 2014

Role : Senior SAP Consultant | SAP Trainer

Environment : SAP HANA 1.0 | ECC 5 & 6 | SAP Business One | AWS Cloud
Database : SAP HANA DB, Oracle, MSSQL
OS : WIN; VM; HP-UX, Cloud
Client Profile:

Decimal Consulting Services is an End to End SAP Consulting and Training house. Offers IT services for SAP across
industries. Specialized in Consultation, Implementation, Development and Training. With comprehensive operating services
from hosting to support.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 SAP HANA Migration (Appliance) Implementation & Project Management
 Pre-Sales & Bidding

o Attending meetings with potential Clients to determine technical and business requirements.
o Ensuring that all necessary information is collected prior to producing a solution.
o Provide technical solutions in a professional manner and to agreed timeframes.
o Create and confidently deliver technical presentations internally and externally.
o Deliver training on solutions and provide product support to channel partners and internal stakeholders.
o Create internal design configuration documentation including network diagrams with technical explanations.
o Liaise with Product Management, feedback on issues with current products and provide input around new products
o Build productive relationship internally and externally,
o Perform technical development for bespoke solutions as part of a design and development frame work
o Provide accurate and timely management information include activity reports, bid reviews, project forecasts, KPI’s
Structure and produce

Meteorite Informatics July 2013 – Feb

2014

Client : STARHUB
Role : SAP Basis Lead | Technical Architect | Pre-sales SAP HANA
Environment : ECC6 EHP4 | SM 7.1 | EP 7.2 | CRM 7.0 EHP2 | SCM 7.0 EHP2 APO | BI 7.0
Database : Oracle 10g and 11g
OS : AIX; WIN; VM
Client Profile:
StarHub is Singapore's fully-integrated info-communications company, StarHub operates a mobile network that
provides 4G, 3G and 2G services. It also manages an islandwide HFC network that delivers multi-channel pay TV services as
well as ultra-high speed residential broadband services. StarHub operates an extensive fixed business network that provides a
wide range of data, voice and wholesale services. Over Singapore’s fibre-based Next Generation Nationwide Broadband
Network, StarHub offers a broad range of home and business broadband plans along with a host of advanced media-rich
value-added services, such as IPTV for commercial entities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 SAP Maintenance and Support – Basis & Security
 SAP Archiving Project.

 SAP Hardware Migration and ECC Upgrade : SAP 4.7 EXT to ECC6 - Project design

o Create Technical Architecture document.

o Creating project plan for the System Landscape requirement for different phases.
o Gather technical requirements from Solution Delivery & functional teams and
translate into technical document which regards to infrastructure and architecture
o Develop Service Delivery Guide to support Solution Delivery and Functional Teams.
o Provide technical expertise to set the technical direction and manage issues, architecture, technical integration
and technical service levels for a group of technologies.
o Define and design technical requirements to support business requirements, participate in detailed design and
code reviews.
o Review system performance and consumption issues, review test plans, and provide technical guidance.
 o Create Shakedown templates for every system build, these templates serves as the validation
script before releasing the system to the function teams.
o Created the Change Management and Transport Strategy for Upgrade Project.
o Prepare system build sheets and build plan to SAP Basis Support team for execution.

 Pre-Sales & Bidding

British Telecom June 2011 to June 2013

Client : NUS Singapore
Duration : June 2011 to June 2013
Role : SAP Basis Lead | NetWaver Portal Consultant.
Environment: SAP ECC 6 EHP5 |EP 7.0 EHP4 | SM 7.0 | SAP Mobile 7.0 | BI 7.0 Ehp1 | BOBJ 4.0 | CRM 7.0 |GRC | xRPM 7.2
Database : MS SQL, Oracle 10g &11g
OS : Windows , HP-UX, VM

Client Profile: A leading global university centered in Asia, the National University of Singapore (NUS) is Singapore's
flagship university which offers a global approach to education and research with a focus on Asian perspectives and expertise.
Over 37,000 students from 100 countries further enrich the community with their diverse social and cultural perspectives.
NUS is actively involved in international academic and research networks such as the Association of Pacific Rim Universities
(APRU) and International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU). This global networking further enhances its international
presence.

Basis Tasks:
 SAP ABAP and JAVA Stack Administration.
Schedule, plan and execute SAP maintenance activities, Background Job Administration, Transporting
requests & ABAP Query, RFC Connections , Spool Administration, SAP Security, Performance monitoring &
Tuning, evaluate & apply SAP patches and notes, Disaster Recovery system maintenance, System Backup
Administration, Liaise with SAP through OSS for Basis and SAP Application problems resolution, SAP Router
configuration and maintenance.

Administration & maintenance of JAVA stack using ConfigTool & Visual Admin, creating Jco connections and
applying portal patches and deploying service packages using JSPM, deploy software components using SDM,
manage J2EE engine, analyze logs troubleshoot J2EE engine problems, fine tune and adjust JAVA memory
parameters. UME, LDAP & User Mapping, SSO Configuration etc.,
 Business Objects, OpenText, BW Dashboards, Content Server and Adobe server.
 SAP Security : User Id management, Roles & Authorizations.
 Closely working with ABAP Team to resolve development Issues and provide technical assistance.
 Solution Manager
E2E Analysis, EWA setup, CCMS Configuration and Monitoring for Satellite systems, Using Maintenance
Optimizer for SPS calculation and download.
 Oracle, MSSQL
Applying Database patches and fixes, configuring and executing database offline and online backups,
maintaining Tablespaces, tuning performance variables, maintaining archive logs and performing health
checks. Working with SQL query issues, knowledge in SQL scripting.
 Windows – HPUX Administration
Sizing, file system maintenance, access issues, network issues, process monitoring, CPU, shared memory and
Paging Issues etc,.

British Telecom
Duration : Aug 2012 to June 2013
Role : SAP SME

Client Profile:
BT is the world’s most established communications company with a profitable turnover of more than £20 billion, employing
90,000 people in 170 countries. British Telecommunications (BT) is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and
encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. Known as a major technology player who pioneers the digital
advances that shape and drive the information age BT help people create, collaborate and communicate better than ever
before.

Pre-Sales and Bidding:

 Participate in sales presentations with the sales team as SME

 Preparing ‘Sales Catalogues’ and presenting them to Vendors

  Designing Solution Architecture for Vendors as per their needs

 Collaborates on interdisciplinary projects

Accenture Singapore (Contract) Client – BHP Billiton (1SAP R2A)

Duration : March 2011 to May 2011
Role : SAP Basis Service Delivery – Roll Out
Environment : SAP ECC & all NetWeaver Products.
Database : Oracle 10g, 11g and DB2
OS : AIX, Linux

Client Profile:
World’s largest diversified natural resources company. BHP is among the world’s largest producers of major commodities,
including aluminum, copper, energy coal, iron ore, manganese, metallurgical coal, nickel, silver and titanium minerals, and
uranium along with substantial interests in oil and gas.

Activity : Optimize BHP Billiton System landscape, simplify administration and maintenance effort, eliminate system
redundancies.

 Design and Execution of Cutover Activities for SLO.

 Building the SAP system and Preparing them for SLO.
 Performing all Basis Technical activities necessary during the activity.
 Participating in SLO execution carried out by SAP
 Technical Integration between SAP systems.
 Performance Validity Test.

Vvolve Consulting Services: Client - Barclays Capital

Duration : Nov 2010 to Feb 2011

Role : SAP Basis Project Consultant
Environment : ECC6, EP 7, NWDI, SM 7.0, XI 7.0
Database : Oracle 10g & Max DB
OS : Windows and AIX

Client Profile: Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC employing over 25,000 people
worldwide. Barclays has had a presence in Singapore since 1973 provides large corporate, government and institutional clients
with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs.

 EHP4 Upgrade : Upgraded ECC6 (SPS20) System to ECC6 EHP4 (SPS 8)

 Built and Configured NWDI System and integrated that with Enterprise Portal.
 Configured ESS and MSS Tracks.
 Building new ECC6 system with System Copy of current ECC6 system.
 Performed Java System Copy and built new EP System for EHP1 SPS 7 Upgrade.
 Including new systems in SM Maintenance Optimizer
 Using Solution Manager Maintenance Optimizer for Stack calculation.
 SLD Setup
 EP Post-Configuration using NWDS, ConfigTool, VisualAdmin.
 Patching Systems using JSPM
 Assisting Functional Team FICO and HR in analyzing and resolving techno-functional issues.
 Oracle 10g Installation and Upgrade.

HITACHI Global Storage Technologies

Duration : Mar 2008 to Oct 2010
Support Environment : SAP R/3 4.6C, ECC 6.0, BW, SRM, EP, SM, PI, MDM
Database : Oracle 9i & 10g
OS : IBM AIX 5.3 & 6.1

Client Profile: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded in 2003 and was formed as a result of the strategic
combination of IBM and Hitachi’s storage technology businesses. Storage is one of Hitachi’s five core businesses, substantial
technology and financial resources have been committed to ensure a successful and profitable business.
SUPPORT PROJECT: Roles and Responsibilities
 BASIS Activities – SAP & Oracle Performance Tuning; System Refresh ;System Backups; System Failover Setup and
Maintenance; Client Administration ; Batch Administration; Spool Administration; OSS and Patch Administration;
Transport Management; SAP User Administration; Resolving User Tickets & Issues; Vertex Tax Updating; Server
Resource Management  Performing RCA for Issues and Documenting Procedures.
 Oracle DBA Administration ; SAP WEB AS Administration (ABAP & JAVA)
 Java Administration - NWDS, Config Tool, Visual Admin, SDM, JSPM, SAP Web Management Console.
 UNIX Administration & Shell Scripting ; Working with AIX, TSM, Business, Functional, Service and Lotus Teams for
solving Critical Issues and User Tickets ; Reporting on Current System Status (Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly) ;
Performing Analysis on Future System & Business requirements with Business Team.
IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT: Roles & Responsibilities
 Building Disaster recovery Systems for ECC 6, BI, SRM Systems
 Worked with SAP America, Inc. for IMPEMETATION and UPGRADE
 IMPLEMENTED NetWeaver 7 EHP1
 Combined Upgrade and Unicode Conversion Approach
(SAP R/3 4.6C, Oracle 9.2, AIX 5.3 to ECC 6, Oracle 10.2, AIX 6.1)
 SAP BW upgrade from 3.1 to BI 7.01 including Oracle Database upgrade from 9.2 to 10.2
 SRM 7.01 Installation ; INSTALLATION of EP, MDM and PI ; INSTALLATION of Solution Manager System.
 Web Dispatcher INSTALLATON; Configuring CCMS agents to a Solution manager system

IBM INDIA PVT LTD – Bangalore Oct 2005 – Feb 2008

Client : SHELL PETROLEUM, The Hague, The Netherlands

Role : SAP Consultant (Project Takeover)
Environment : More Than 500 IBM AIX Machines, 200+ Landscapes.
Servers : IBM System P5
OS : AIX 4.2 to 5.3
Components : SAP R/3 4.0, 4.6, 4.7, ECC5 with Solution Manger, BW, EP, CRM, SRM, ERM.
Data Base : ORACLE 8i to 10g

Client Profile: Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. Active in more than 130 countries
and territories and employ 108,000 people worldwide.

Roles and Responsibilities:

PHASE I: Project Planning :
 Understanding current environment, procedures, requirements and analyses business processes.
 Complete the project within the defined time.
 Defining and Selecting Team and Partners to provide support after project take over.

Traveled to SHELL HQ, The Hague, Netherlands to study SHELL Technical environment and Architecture.
SHELL got a unique environment, they have a automated process for every thing including INSTALLATIONS,
UPGRADES, MIGRATIONS.
PHASE II : Project Support:

 Identifying Resources and setting up Team to provide Active support

 Providing KT to Team members
 Performing installation and Post Installation activates as per the schedule.
 SAP Upgrades, Hardware and Database Migrations.
 Tivoli Server Manager Setup and Configuration.
 Providing Support like creation of Clients, User IDs and Updating the Patch Levels.
 Scheduling and taking Backups.

Client : ABB INDIA

Role : SAP Consultant. (Implementation & Roll Out)
OS : HP - UX
Components : ECC 6, Solution Manger 4.0, BW 7.0, PI 7.0, EP 7.0, CRM 4.0, SRM 5.0, TREX 7.0.
Data Base : Oracle | DB2
Backup : Tivoli

Client Profile: As one of the world’s leading engineering companies, ABB helps customers to use electrical power effectively
and to increase industrial productivity in a sustainable way. The ABB Group of companies operates in over 100 countries and
employs about 120,000 people. ABB operations in India include 14 manufacturing facilities with over 7500 employees.
IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT:
Roles & Responsibilities
o Analyzing Business requirements. o Designing new Landscape Architecture o Hardware Sizing & Coordinating with all Teams
and maintaining the prerequisites for the installation of mySAP Components such as File System creations, installations of
firmware and other dependencies o Coordinating and working ABB Basis Team & Functional Teams for Functional Testing o
Change Management Structure and Preparation o Final preparation & Stress Test
o TSO (Technical Support Organizing) o Go live o Disaster Recovery System setup O Support Takeover.

ACTIVITES:
o IMPLEMENTED my SAP ERP 2005 Components.
o Full life cycle IMPLEMENTATION of ECC 6.
Migrated existing SAP R/3 4.6C Non-Unicode system (WINDOWS) to ECC 6 Unicode (HP –UX).
o IMPLEMENTED Solution Manger 4.0 with SAP Solution manager Consultant.
o INSTALLED & Configured BW 7.0, XI 7.0, EP 7.0, CRM 4.0, SRM 5.0, TREX 7.0 with SAP INDIA.

Client : HITACHI GST

Role : Basis Consultant.
Environment : AIX 5.3 SAP 4.6C with Oracle 9.2.0.7

Client Profile : Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded in 2003 and was formed as a result of the strategic
combination of IBM and Hitachi’s storage technology businesses. Storage is one of Hitachi’s five core businesses, substantial
technology and financial resources have been committed to ensure a successful and profitable business.
Roles and Responsibilities:

Day to Day issues:

• Troubleshooting brarchieve and brbackup issues • Scheduling background jobs, monitoring and troubleshooting
• Studying database checks and tuning the system further • Tablespace administration. •Space management on systems
• Performance tuning of application servers and database. • Spool administration • Analysis of ABAP dumps
• Studying Earlywatch reports and tuning the systems accordingly • System Health Checks • Resolution Of User Tickets.
• Unix Scripting for interfaces.

Core Technical Activities Performed:

• System Refresh (Quarterly) • Vertex Tax Updates • Applying Support packs and notes • Performing SPAM/SAINT upgrades
• Performing Kernel upgrades • Oracle Patch upgrade • Adding Data files • Cluster system Refresh and Maintenance.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Marital Status : Married

Singapore Status: PR