Consultant’s Profile

U Kennedy Nwogu

uchkenn@gmail.com

Technical Consultant, Platform SAP America Newtown

Square, PA (2011- Present)

SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA 1.0, SAP Certified Application Associate

- SAP HANA 1.0 with three years experience on projects covering strategy, process, design

of HANA implementation and six years experience on projects covering SAP system

implementation strategy, process/support and Oracle database administration. Innovative

professional with proven ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems to ensure client

value. Hardware and operating system experience includes IBM, Dell and HP Proliant

G5&G6 enterprise servers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris 10, HP-UX, Windows

2003 and Window 2008 server respectively. Database experience includes Oracle, HANA

and Microsoft SQL Server.

Profile

  · SAP Technical Platform Consultant with experience in SAP HANA and SAP

NetWeaver technologies.

  · Proficient in installation, setup & landscape design of NetWeaver components & SAP

Business Suite products on physical & virtualized landscapes.

  · Strong communications skills. Worked collaboratively with various teams on projects

– System Administrators, Basis, and Application Security & Network.

  · Provides detailed documentation and effective knowledge transfer.

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Technical

  · Installed, upgraded and troubleshot SAP HANA1.0 and related SAP Landscape

Transformation (SLT) and SAP Business Objects Data Services platforms.

  · Configured various HANA ERP Accelerators.

  · Installs: SAP HANA, SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT), SAP BusinessObjects

Data Services, ECC 6 EHP 5 with HR components

  · Training: Extensive training in SAP Platform (Net Weaver architecture and

administration, change management, root cause analysis, HANA, OS/DB Migration.

  · Software: HANA Studio, Eclipse

  · Operating Systems: Linux, Windows

Education & Certification

  · B.Sc. Electronic Engineering

  · M.S. in Information Systems – University of Maryland

  · SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP HANA 1.0

  · SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP HANA 1.0

  · Root Cause Analysis Expert – SAP E2E Solution Operations

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  · OS/DB Migration for Netweaver 7.3

  · Cisco Certified Network Associate –CCNA

SAP Education Courses:

  · SAP AS Administration in ABAP and JAVA

  · Software Logistics for AS ABAP and JAVA

  · Development Infrastructure for AS JAVA

  · E2E Root Cause Analysis

  · Workload Analysis for AS ABAP

  · Specialized training on OS/DB migration and HANA

  · SAP Fiori

Experience/Project Work

Industry: Retail – Airline

Project Description/Scope: SoH Implementation.

Role: HANA Technical Consultant Duration: 4 Months – Present .

Responsibilities/Deliverables: ECC on HANA Scoping/Implementation.

Achievements:

  · Provided the overall scoping of SoH implementation.

  · SoH Installation and configuration.

  · Go-live support.

  · Resolving all HANA and ECC related maintenance/troubleshooting issues.

  · Providing HANA tuning parameters

  · Backup, Restore and System replication strategy.

  · Serves as SAP 1ST point of contact for HANA/ECC related issues.

  · HANA Sizing.

Industry: Retail – Retail NC

Project Description/Scope: HEC Implementation

Role: HANA Technical Consultant Duration: 4 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Supported/Implemented HEC

Achievements:

  · Set up and configured SLT

  · Replicated process into HANA appliance

  · Monitoring Data Load from ERP to HANA

  · Post Data load installation on HANA appliance in HEC

  · Unlocking all System accounts and RFC users

  · Monitored SAP ECC / BW and assisted Business users.

  · Checking DB Connection from ECC to HANA via test connection.

  · System upgrades to the current support packs

Industry: Retail – Brampton Canada

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Project Description/Scope: SAP HANA Implementation

Role: HANA Technical Consultant Duration: 1 Year

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Supported the overall SAP HANA Implementation lifecycle

Achievements:

  · Worked with client team to verify issues, troubleshoot and open messages on behalf of

Customer when necessary to provide resolution.

  · Analyzed traces and HANA monitoring tools to address possible performance issues.

  · Provided documentation of table migration procedures necessary for special cases.

  · Sized, configured and troubleshot SLT replication from SAP and non-SAP source

systems.

  · Created custom filter and data type conversion rules for SLT replication.

  · Configured and analyzed issues with SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT) based

replication of source systems.

  · Provided Admin and Modeler security roles.

  · Planned HANA backup strategy with systems administration team.

  · Analysis and diagnosis on standalone & scale-out HANA systems.

  · Deployed and activated SAP HANA Live for ERP- RDS contents.

  · Integrated HANA and BOBJ.

  · Moved flat files and physical tables to and fro HANA systems

Industry: Manufacturing – NJ

Project Description/Scope: RDS for Accelerated FICO with HANA

Role: Technical Consultant, Platform Duration: 5 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables: HANA verification and upgrade, SLT and Data Services

configuration and replication.

Achievements:

  · Verified HANA appliance delivered by HW vendor and updated HANA software.

  · Troubleshoot issues with appliance as delivered by HW vendor.

  · Created multiple HANA Systems on a single appliance.

  · Sized, configured and troubleshot SLT replication from SAP and non-SAP source

systems.

  · Created custom filter and data type conversion rules for SLT replication.

  · Sized and configured Data Services.

  · Provided Admin and Modeler security roles.

  · Planned HANA backup strategy with systems administration team.

  · Knowledge transfer of HANA administration.

Industry: Software Services – Newtown Square, PA

Project Description/Scope: HANA Landscape Administrator.

Role: BW/HANA Consultant: Duration: 4 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Managed the HANA Landscape for Internal Consultants.

Achievements:

  · Updated HANA DB software.

  · SAP HANA Database Installation/Patching.

  · Landscape Transformation Replication Server for SAP HANA Installation.

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  · Data Replication Administration.

  · Performed BW /HANA migrations

Industry: Information Technology - MA

Project Description/Scope: Solution Manager Administrator

Role: Solution Manager Consultant: Duration 4 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Configured, Upgraded and Maintained System Landscape in

Solution Manager

Achievements:

  · Solution Manager upgrade to 7.1

  · Solution Manager Post Installation Processes

  · Maintained all System landscapes in Solution manager.

  · General Solman Operations and Administrations

Industry: Government – Boston MA

Project Description/Scope: SAP HANA

Role: Technical Consultant, Platform

Duration: 3 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables: HANA verification and upgrade, installation of SLT, and

configuration of accelerator prerequisites and replication framework.

Achievements:

  · Verified HANA appliance delivered by HW vendor.

  · Extensive troubleshooting of issues with appliance as delivered by HW vendor.

  · Updated HANA DB software using SUM tool

  · Installed SLT and accelerator prerequisite components.

  · Configured initial SLT replication framework.

  · Knowledge transfer of HANA administration.

Industry: Software – Newtown Square PA

Project Description/Scope: SAP HANA verification and upgrade

Role: Technical Consultant, Platform

Duration: 7 weeks

Responsibilities/Deliverables: HANA Verification and Upgrade

Achievements:

  · Upgraded components of HANA Platform.

  · Verified HANA appliance installation as delivered by HW vendor.

  · Provided knowledge transfer on basic HANA maintenance activities.

Industry: Software Services – Newtown Square, PA

Project Description/Scope: Internal Project to migrate an existing BW system to HANA

platform and to configure real time replication of ECC information to HANA using SLT

technology

Role: Technical Consultant, Platform Duration: 5 weeks

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Configure real time replication of ECC data to HANA as

well as coordinate and support BW migration to HANA.

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Achievements:

  · Installed, upgraded and troubleshot HANA platform.

  · Configured real time replication of ECC data to HANA using SAP Landscape

Transformation (SLT) technology.

  · Extensively troubleshot SLT and HANA issues to resolution.

  · Played significant role in coordinating overall project and provided technical guidance

and support to team members migrating BW to HANA.

Industry: Software Services – Newtown Square, PA

Project Description/Scope: Installation/SSO Configuration of NW Portal.

Role: Basis Consultant Duration: 12 Months.

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Project Planning (Technical Perspective).

Achievements:

  · NetWeaver portal Installation

  · ESS/MSS Business Package deployed in portal with basic configuration.

  · SRM 7.0 Business Package deployed in portal with basic configuration.

  · XSS Java Software components deployed in portal to support ESS/MSS (ESS, MSS,

PCUI.

  · Single Sign on configuration to backend ECC system

  · SAP ERP Central Component (ECC 6.0 and Ehp), ABAP and Java stack

(troubleshooting, user security maintenance, patch management, installation, upgrade,

archiving, system copy, Unicode conversion)

  · Netweaver 7.0 and Ehp and Enterprise Portal and Employee and Manager SelfService

(ESS and MSS) and Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship

Management (CRM) and Solution Manager 7.0 and Ehp and SAP GRC Compliance

Calibrator 5.3

  · BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 (security, installation)

  · Oracle 10g, MS SQL Server 2005 (administration, installation, upgrade

  · Working in a group of Basis and Security people.

  · Installed, Configured maintained and monitor ECC6.0, BI 7, SRM 5.5, EP 7, DWM

etc environment.

  · Worked on deploying and configuring the landscapes for customer use.

  · Configured enterprise portal and connected to back end systems.

  · Deployed Support pack, Support stack and enhancement package when needed.

  · Designed the whole system landscape. Did the Sizing of the whole project.

  · Configured the SAP environment as per business need.

  · Performed the database refresh and system refreshes of SAP systems having dual

stack i.e. ABAP and JAVA.

  · Implemented advanced alerts in system for monitoring purposes using CCMS.

  · Advance planning of system using system growth statistics.

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Industry: Insurance – Stanford CT

Project Description/Scope: SAP Basis Administrator

Role: Technical Consultant, Platform

Duration: 7 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables: SAP Basis Installation and Administration.

Achievements:

  · Solution Manager System Setup

  · Installation of SAP Solution Manager EHP1, Configure the Transport Management

System, Upgrade System kernels; Configure Basic Parameters, Perform Initial Basic

Setup, Setting up of System Landscape Directory, Open OSS Connection on the

System, Integrating Systems in the Solution Manager, Configure and Activate Early

Watch

  · Configure Maintenance Optimizer, Create Service Desk Support, Configure System

Monitoring, and Configure E-mail Alert for Alert Monitoring, Configure SAP

Solution Manager Diagnostic Agent, and Configure Service level reporting.

Configure Service Channels, Configure Business Process Monitoring. Configure Endto-End

Diagnostic, Schedule Job, Upgrade Solution Manager with Enhancement

packages

  · Setting up the Active Directory Server and DHCP Server

  · Set up and configure the DNS Servers; Set up and configure the DHCP Server; Set up

users and systems on the on the domain; Perform general administrative task on the

domain; Design and implement group policy on the domain; Setup Security Policy

and Setting up of File Storage Server

Industry: Software Services – Newtown Square, PA

Project Description/Scope: Internal Project to install an ECC 6 EHP 5 sandbox system with

HR components

Role: Technical Consultant, Platform

Duration: 3 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Worked as a team to document and troubleshoot installations

and upgrades.

Achievements:

  · Successful installation, upgrade and documentation of entire process.

  · Significant contributions in troubleshooting HR component upgrade.

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Consultant’s Profile

SAP Basis Consultant: World Bank Group Washington

DC ( 2009-2011)

  · SAP ECC 6.0 Installation for DEV, QAS (ABAP + Java Stacks),

  · Setting up the Prototype of the Development System and Quality for Assurance System

for the project.

  · Worked closely with the UNIX team in creating file system structures in AIX for new

installations

  · Setting up the Transport System Landscape Architecture, System Landscape

Architecture.

  · Performed Transports of Requests from the Development system to Quality Assurance

System,

  · Created Clients and performing local and remote Client Copy within the development

system, quality assurance system and production system

  · Configured Work Processes and Memory Management; Perform SAP System’s upgrades

based on SAP Best Practice; Upgrade SAP System (Development System) from ECC 6.0

EHP3 to ECC 6.0 EHP4 and SAP Netweaver 7.00 to SAP Netweaver 7.

  · Configured SAP online help for end users;

  · Designed and created Users’ roles and authorizations; Configure Printing Facilities on the

Production Client.

  · Performed R/3 instance monitoring, performance system administration, technical

problem solving, security of operating system and SAP; Setting up the entire IT system

architecture Design and Setup the Security Policy on the SAP System

  · Implemented storage and backup Management; Designed and Implement the Risk

Analysis Plan, Daily Administration Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan

  · Supported users throughout the project lifecycle.

Citizenship: US Citizen.

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