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Devanand V

Summary

  • Knowledgeable SAP Basis Consultant with close to 8 years of experience in various areas like SAP Upgrades, Conversions, Installations & Support projects.
  • Working experience in complete lifecycle of systems from initial installation, Upgrade, Patching, Support maintenance till end of life.
  • Effective team player with complete Team centric approach in work.
  • Solid understanding of project requirement and good experience as Team lead leading the team to complete the project deliverables on time & with customer satisfaction.
  • Good communication and organizational skills.
  • Successful working experience in production oriented, deadline driven projects.
  • Driven by new challenges and strong desire to be successful in completing the challenges & tasks I take up.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

SAP BASIS & S/4HANA Consultant

Bosch Global Software Technologies
08.2021 - Current
  • Handling projects on Upgrades, Conversion etc like SAP Upgrades, S/4HANA Conversion, H4S4 Conversion, DB Migration etc. and delivering them on time with high efficiency
  • Performed upgrades on various kinds of systems like S/4HANA, ERP, BW, SCM with optimizers & Live cache, IDM, Dual Stack etc.
  • Performed Zero Downtime Option(ZDO) Upgrades
  • Performed different conversions like S/4HANA 2023, S/4HANA 2022, H4S4 (HCM for S/4HANA)
  • Team lead of a SAP Focused Run team primarily responsible for

a) Configuration & administration of monitoring & Alerting

b) Usage of MAI Alerting Badi interface

c) Alerting Optimization

d) Usage & adoption of other FRUN features like Configuration & Security Analysis, Predictive Analysis etc.

  • Complete ownership of multiple systems as System Consultant/Basis administrator with system types like S/4HANA, ERP, SAP IDM, EWM, BW with responsibility for all the major activities in those systems
  • Part of the team that handles huge project landscapes with more than 700 systems

SAP BASIS & HANA Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2020 - 07.2021
  • One of the Team leads.
  • Joined a fresh project when it was being transitioned to us from other organization. Handled project transition right from scratch. Took KT from the incumbents & handled complete KT process with Shadow and reverse shadow phases.
  • Prepared SOPs for most of the KT topics we took.
  • Responsible for delivering project deliverables on time and with high efficiency.
  • Day to day Support tasks & activities.
  • Ensuring & fine tuning performance of systems without memory, resource bottlenecks.
  • HANA DB Administration
  • Installation & upgrade activities in systems
  • Handled & resolved critical issues & Major issues (Priority 1, 2) . Handled RCA meetings & provided RCA's.
  • Undertook Training sessions & KT sessions to team members.

SAP BASIS & HANA Consultant

TCS(Tata Consultancy Services)
07.2016 - 12.2019
  • Joined the project when it was being transitioned to our team. Took KT from the incumbents.
  • Carrying out day to day Basis Support activities that are specified in the skill set.
  • HANA DB Administration
  • HANA DB installation & HANA DB upgrades
  • Installation & Upgrade activities
  • Handling of incidents, tickets with >95% SLA compliance.
  • Trained co team members & juniors.

Education

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

JNTUA College of Engineering Anantapur
JNTU University
05.2016

Skills

  • SAP Upgrades
  • Zero Downtime Option(ZDO) Upgrades
  • SAP Focused RUN & Alerting Badi
  • S/4 HANA Conversion & DB migration
  • H4S4 conversion HCM for S/4HANA
  • Installation of SAP Systems & components
  • SAP HANA DB Administration
  • Daily & regular support activities
  • Performance, Capacity assessments of systems and fine tuning
  • Troubleshooting performance issues
  • Leading the undertaken projects
  • Good experience in both Upgrades & Installations projects and Support projects
  • Working with & managing Clients directly and efficient customer handling
  • Working experience on different Databases & OS
  • Working experience on multiple tools used for Application & DB administration
  • Theoretical knowledge on SAP RISE, Cloud ALM

Accomplishments

  • Was awarded by the clients for committed and extensive support & service
  • Was awarded by projects for continuous dedication & customer focus work
  • Was awarded the best performer of the team
  • Received multiple appreciations from Clients, Team Leads & Managers
  • Was promoted as a Team Lead with in short time in my projects because of my work, ethics & customer handling.
  • Was awarded the best team award by Client

Databases, OS & Tools experience:

Databases : HANA, Oracle, Max DB

OS : Linux, AIX, Windows

Major Tools : SUM, Focused Run, SWPM, HANA Cockpit, HANA Studio, Readiness check, Sizing, ChaRM, Redwood BPA, LaMa, Database Manager, Database Studio, Service Now, BMC Remedy, Splunk, Wily Introscope

Timeline

SAP BASIS & S/4HANA Consultant

Bosch Global Software Technologies
08.2021 - Current

SAP BASIS & HANA Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2020 - 07.2021

SAP BASIS & HANA Consultant

TCS(Tata Consultancy Services)
07.2016 - 12.2019

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

JNTUA College of Engineering Anantapur
Devanand V