BALAJI GUDIVADA

Professional Summary
 15 years of work experience in SAP implementation and production Support
 Experienced in Multiple SAP Full life cycle implementation
 Performed SAP Upgrade from ECC, Database oracle on AIX and Windows
 Performed SAP OS Migration from Windows to AIX platform and oracle Database
 Performed Solution Manager upgrade and configured SMD Agent.
 Monitoring using Redwood, Wily Introscope
 Performed Production on call support 24/7
 Performed SAP Security Administration and identity management
 Performed SAP license auditing for all SAP systems and submitted audit data to SAP
 Managed Large size of team and provided technical / managerial guidance
 Participated in discussion and suggestion with management, on project status and required strategy to
resolve issues to meet critical project deliverables.
 SAP Data Service implementation in progress
 Periodic System refresh has been performed of ECC.
 SSO SAML 2.0 Configuration for entire Fiori Landscape and GRC Landscape.
 Oracle DB Upgrade in progress from 10.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.4.
 Successfully completed Solution Manager Upgrade to 7.2 from 7.1
 Extensive SAP Security / GRC full life cycle implementation Implemented.
 Currently involved in Production Support and Few Project activities in Bourns, with diverse SAP
components as part of the Delivery as well as Applications which include SAP solution
Technical Skills
 SAP ERP: ERP 6.0, NetWeaver 7.5, SAP FIORI & GATEWAY, ERP 5.0, SAP R/3 (4.7 Enterprise, 4.6C,
4.6B) SRM 7.03, CRM 7.0, CRM 4.0, BI 7.3, 7.0, BODS 4.0, 4.1, PI 7.0 and XI 3.0 Solution Manager 7.0,
7.1 and 7.2
 Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server 2008, 2005, HANA and MAX DB
 Operating System: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows
 Language and tool: SMD Agent, BR Tools, Config tool, ITSM, Redwood Scheduling Tool
Work History
Senior System Administrator SAP Basis Duration: From January 2021 – till date

 Manage large SAP technical landscape consisting of global.

 Performed Green light Technical implementation of Vistex application-built Security roles according to
Business Requirements.
 Performed Green Light Technical implementation of Sales Cloud (CWC) application-built Security roles
according to respective business region.
 Level 3 support and maintenance of SAP Basis

Senior Solution Architect / Senior Project Manager

Duration: From February 2016 – January 2021

 Managed of SAP BASIS administration with emphasis on design and architecture of onsite/offshore SAP
BASIS and technical standards along with NON sap components.
 Bi-Weekly/Monthly status calls with customer and provided status information on work in progress and
pending service requests.
 Implemented three level landscape implementations of NetWeaver 7.5 Fiori Application with backend of
Gateway Server.
 SAP Hana POC project to succeed in customer place in premises.
 SAP SME’s driving POC Efforts.
 Periodically Every year Disaster Recovery systems Testing, coordinating with multiple teams along with
Major stake holders
 Project Pre-preparation has been executed for PI Patch Upgrade which has included various teams to
co-ordinate for Oracle Version upgrade and Patch Upgrade.
  In Post process ECC to BI IDOC configuration and ECC to PI ALE Configuration will be part of the
process.
 Periodic BSI Tax Factory version upgrade has been performed
 ONAPSIS Security implementation and global roll-out including ECC, BW/BI, SCM, CRM, SCM, BPC,
PI, GRC, GTS, VIRSA, CUP and Solution Manager
 Initiated Change request for Data Archiving in IXOS / Open text.
 Performed Data center Migration.
o Prepared complete a through inventory, evaluation and classification of existing data center and
server room, spaces across South Broadway Datacenter, prepared entire details.
o Five Phases we have prepared to implement entire process.
o Coordinate with all stakeholders, such as stack holders, systems owners, application owners,
third-party vendors, etc.

Project: AMS Production Support

Role: Sr. Solution Architect Duration: June 2014 – May 2016

 HGST offshore, with diverse SAP components as part of the Delivery as well as Applications which
include SAP solution.
 Involved in SAP HANA Monitoring and Troubleshooting
 Production support for various Systems including ERP, BI, CRM, SRM, GTS and PI systems. Supporting
all production related issues in Customer landscape checking the status of Background Jobs, Deleting
Batch Record, Generating Batch Record, Scheduling Background Jobs, Table space administration,
Oracle Table reorganization.
 Analyzing Systems Performance and Tuning of initialization Parameters at SAP / Oracle / OS level,
Creating / Rebuilding Indexes
 Maintaining SAP -ECC, BW, SNC, PI, SLD, Portal, ChaRM and Solution manager systems with dual
stack and ECC and BW HANA systems
 Hands on experience with BI tools to setup SSO, SSL between BI and backend such as BW, HANA or
Active directory
 Experience with HANA administration including managing schemas, data model objects, import/export
content, SQL
 Performed Solution Manager Upgraded from 7.0 to 7.10 SP12.
 Integrated Technical Monitoring of New Landscape of SCM.

Project: upgrade / OS DB Migration

Role: Sr. Solution Architect Duration: July – 2015 – Dec 2015

 Prepared Project Plan and solution plan for entire OS DB Migration & Upgrade for Technical
Specification.
 CU & UC (Combined Upgrade and Unicode Conversion) from SAP 4.7 to ECC 6.0 EHP 7 for entire
Landscape
 Co – ordinate with ABAP Technical team to complete successfully for this project.

Project: upgrade
Role: Sr. Solution Architect Duration: August – 2013 – May 2014

 Coordinate with other leads belongs to Infrastructure Team to ensure software consistency across the
SAP landscape.
 Working closely with infrastructure teams (servers, network, OS) to troubleshoot and resolve problems.
 Working with internal and external customers to understand their requirements in order to form a
forward-thinking architectural vision for the infrastructure of the Company.
 Provide input on, and support new projects affecting the SAP environments.
 Engage and interface directly with SAP as required for product support/questions.
 Defines solutions by identifying requirements and writing functional specifications, consults with
technical subject matter experts (SMEs).
 Worked on System Refresh for DB2.
 Prepared operation forecasting and planning of existing environment.
  SP Upgrade for entire landscape has been executed
 Recommendations provided for Housekeeping of OS/Database/backup to another vendor.
 Preparation of EHP6 Upgrade.

Project: upgrade, New DR Cloud Implementation Customer: Sil Africa.

Role: Sr. Solution Architect Duration: May – 2013 – September 2013

 Prepared operation forecasting and planning of DR Implementation for non-SAP environment and SAP
environment.
 Overall ownership in implementing New SAP DR environment in Cloud.
 Setup DR Setup and database replication.
 Upgraded entire landscape of Oracle Upgrade from 10g to 11g

Project: DR Implementation, Support, Duration: October – 2010 to May - 2013

• Overall ownership SAP Technical and exceeding Service level agreement, and other contractual obligations
• Handling SAP Licensing for Godrej Group of Companies.
• Performed SAP Migration from Old Hardware to New Hardware along with EHP 5 Upgrade for entire
landscape of Godrej Industries Limited.
• Responsible for Operations forecasting and planning, resource risk management, capacity planning
• DR Implementation for entire SAP Landscape and Log shipping has been configured.
• Responsible for resource selection, resource allocation and task assignment, mentoring of new resources
and tracking multi skilling
• Performance Management of team : goal setting, review and feedback
• Web dispatcher Migration in production environment.
• BOBJ 3.1 implementation for Production in cluster & Non Production environment.
• System Refresh (Unix & Windows) + (Oracle + MS SQL)

Project: Implementation & Support Duration: March – 2009 – October - 2010

• Handling SAP Licensing for Godrej Group of Companies.

• Performed SAP Migration from Old Hardware to New Hardware along with EHP 5 Upgrade for entire
landscape of Godrej Industries Limited.
• Responsible for Operations forecasting and planning, resource risk management, capacity planning
• DR Implementation for entire SAP Landscape and Log shipping has been configured.
• Responsible for team's capability development (technical training and certification)
• Performance Management of team : goal setting, review and feedback
• BOBJ 3.1 implementation for Production in cluster & Non Production environment.

Education

SAP Certified SAP Hana 2.0 SP4

SAP Certified SAP S/4 Hana Conversion and SAP System Upgrade 2020
SAP Certified SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS/DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.52
SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP Solution Manager, Mandatory and Managed System Configuration (7.2
SPS8)
Microsoft Certified in MCSE 2002
Certificate in Y2K, Mainframe 1998
Certificate in AS/400 Midrange 1999
Bachelor’s in commerce University of Madras, 1998
Diploma in computers, Government of India, 1993