Bilal Hussain, Team Lead Netweaver/Basis/Solman

Bilal Hussain

Team Lead Netweaver/Basis/Solman

Fauji Fertilizer Company Ltd.

Location
Pakistan
Education
Master's degree, Computer Sciences
Experience
19 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 11 Months

Team Lead Netweaver/Basis/Solman at Fauji Fertilizer Company Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Rawalpindi
  • My current job since July 2014

Work & Responsibilities:
• Upgraded ECC to EHP7 with pre and post upgrade activities and activate business function sets as per requirement
• Upgraded Enterprise portal to Netweaver 7.4 with pre and post upgrade activities
• Integration of SAP EP to other sap system landscape including ECC, BI, BOBJ and legacy systems
• Maintenance of JCO’s for ESS/MSS, systems and certificates across multiple systems to enable SSO.
• Configuration and maintenance of SAP HA with load balancing to improve system performance
• Performed Hardware sizing including compute power and storage area Network for SAP infrastructure to move in cloud environment
• Performed user administration activities such as user creation, deletion, lockdown, activation and license management as per company security policies and procedures.
• Created and maintained user authorizations, profiles Single roles, Composite roles and Derived roles using automatic profile generator to meet business requirements
• Worked in SAP R/3 and EP Security Administration by reviewing existing Activity-Groups for better security controls and created new activity groups and Worked with process on Segregation of Duties.
• Troubleshoot and fix security/authorization related problems using SU53, ST01 and SUIM.
• Created custom development authorization object as per requirement for better controls using field exits.
• Lead Role Redesign Project to reduce number of Composite roles assigned to users to one composite and redesigned single roles in composites to eliminate redundant authorizations assignments.
• Review authorization matrix and propose changes keeping in view security compliance and conflict of interest with coordination of internal audit department.
• Client management activities client copies, client export or import, client compare, client configurations as per client role. And Maintenance of transport requests in the system landscape.
• Automated SAP Basis Security batch processes to create Audit reports periodically, Consolidate user role assignments and Reconcile User Master data across various backend systems
• Support packages and OSS notes implementation for both ABAP and JAVA Stack with kernel upgrade and upgraded Oracle DB from 10g to 11g.
• Provide daily Basis support for R/3 system, troubleshooting & system Monitoring. Monitoring the status of work process, regular jobs, application servers, system logs, ABAP dump analysis etc.

SAP Solution Manager Consultant at Arete-Global
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2014 to July 2014

Project: ARASCO
Work & Responsibilities:

• Performed Hardware sizing including compute power and storage area Network for SAP infrastructure to move in cloud environment
• Systems landscape configuration and maintenance
• SAP Support Desk Configuration with Escalation management by implementing hierarchy and module wise team concept.
• Email response management system configuration and implementation
• CHARM & ITSM configuration with BI and interactive reporting generations.
• Configuration for test management through solution manager and integration with Aris
• Status & Action profile creation and maintenance
• Configuration of email & SMS alerts on change of support tickets status.
• Service contracts implementation as per Service level agreement
• Maintenance of date profile and configuration of response time and completion time with escalation and email/SMS alerts.
• Implementation & Maintenance of SLA’s through VAR
• Support team organization management as per support levels.
• Creation of custom action and conditions for sap support desk
• SAP Project Administration and ensure configuration allow through solution manager
• CHARM Configuration
• Implementation of Change Request Management
• Work centers and incident management configuration
• Configurations for Early Watch alert, Optimizer Statistics, System Landscape and related project management documentation and configuration activities
• Configuration of Transport Management System with approval workflow.

SAP Netweaver/Basis Team Lead at Descon Engineering Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • October 2010 to March 2014

• SAP Netweaver Basis Certified Professional with solid experience in SAP Netweaver Basis, SAP Netweaver BI, and SAP Enterprise Portal with Master in Computer Sciences having more than Seven years of industry experience.
• Having strong knowledge and significant experience of Solution Manager implementation including, CHARM, Service desk, System landscape management & monitoring, SLA’s / Contracts, VAR features, support desk email & SMS alerts, Action and Status profiles maintenance, solution optimizer, Project documentation etc.
• Proficient in use of standard security administration tools such as Profile Generator for Authorization Profiles/Roles administration (design, development, implementation), and User administration, (mass user creation and maintenance).
• Hands on experience of HA configuration for SAP ECC, EP and PI systems with active/active and active/passive scenario at Suse 11.
• Extensive work on BCP (Business Continuity Plan) and establishment of DR with oracle archive application method and Platespin protect.
• SAP Netweaver team lead possessing extensive experience in various aspects of SAP Netweaver Basis including design of system landscapes for projects, SAP Enterprise Portal, Identity Management, SAP PI Systems, SAP web application Server (ABAP, ABAP+JAVA, JAVA), SAP internet Transaction servers, and Solution Manager
• Over 7 years of wide experience installing SAP servers on Linux, Windows, maintaining Oracle databases, office applications and other, knowledgeable in computer hardware and various network devices.
• Performed user administration activities such as user creation, deletion, lockdown, activation and license management as per company security policies and procedures.
• Created and maintained user authorizations, profiles Single roles, Composite roles and Derived roles using automatic profile generator to meet business requirements
• Critical authorization objects such as S_TABU_DIS, S_PROGRAM, and S_DEVELOP were restricted and monitored. Also Worked with security related tables such as AGR_TCODES, AGR_USERS, and AGR_DEFINE.
• Worked in SAP R/3 and EP Security Administration by reviewing existing Activity-Groups for better security controls and created new activity groups and Worked with process on Segregation of Duties.
• Troubleshoot and fix security/authorization related problems using SU53, ST01 and SUIM.
• Created custom development authorization object as per requirement for better controls using field exits.
• Worked with Development, Change management and Network communication team in providing Security solutions with industry best practices.
• Automated SAP Basis Security batch processes to create Audit reports periodically, Consolidate user role assignments and Reconcile User Master data across various backend systems
• Upgraded ECC 6.0 from EHP4 to EHP5 with pre and post upgrade activities and activate business function sets as per requirement
• Support packages and OSS notes implementation for both ABAP and JAVA Stack with kernel upgrade and upgraded Oracle DB from 10g to 11g.
• Provide daily Basis support for R/3 system, troubleshooting & system Monitoring. Monitoring the status of work process, regular jobs, application servers, system logs, ABAP dump analysis etc.
• Solution manager installation and configuration
• Systems landscape configuration and maintenance
• SAP Support Desk Configuration with Escalation management by implementing hierarchy and module wise team concept.
• Status & Action profile creation and maintenance
• Configuration of email & SMS alerts on change of support tickets status.
• Service contracts implementation as per Service level agreement
• SAP Enterprise portal installation with HA
• UME configuration ABAP as data source and EP user and roles administration
• EP preparation for ESS/MSS.
• EP content package installation and activation for ESS/MSS and BI

SAP Netweaver Consultant at Punjab Beverages Co. Pvt. Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Faisalabad
  • July 2007 to October 2010

• Gathered the business scope for evaluation of technical requirements and documented the same.
• Hardware sizing for SAP environment including Networks (LAN&WAN).
• Operating System Installation and preparation of servers for SAP Web Application Server.
• Installation and configuration of SAP Servers in three system Landscape environment (DEV, QAS, PRD).
• Installation of Solution Manager, installation and configuration of Data Disastrous Server (Backup Server). And ensuring proper synchronization with real time server (Production Server).
• Solution Manager configurations for Early Watch alert, Optimizer Statistics, System Landscape and related project management documentation and configuration activities
• Support packages and OSS notes implementation for both ABAP and JAVA Stack with kernel upgrade.
• Using JSPM java stack patching and new Business packages installations.
• Configuration of Transport Management System.
• SAP system profile maintenance, default, instance and startup profiles.
• Setting up and administering SAP print services and background jobs.
• Client management activities client copies, client export or import, client compare, client configurations as per client role. And Maintenance of transport requests in the system landscape.
• Users and Role maintenance, Modification / Creation of various authorization profiles related to various system operations
• Identification and development of user roles and authorizations in coordination with Functional consultants of all areas.
• Configuration of central user administration
• Developing Data Backup Strategies, Regular Backup of data (including all types of data backup).
• Maintenance and monitoring of Oracle (10g) database management system i.e backup, recovery and space management
• Using BRTOOLS extend tablespace and datafiles, reorganize tables, and update database statistics, database backups and other related activities.
• Performed regular database activities using SAP DBA (DB13).
• Monitoring and performance tuning.
• Configuration of SAP Internet Transaction Server and providing SAP html GUI access over the secure communication network with SSL configuration.
• Maintaining SICF services and Integration engine configuration.
• Maintenance of RFC connections in ABAP/JAVA
• Configuration in Visual Administrator and config tool for JAVA WAS.
• Setting up operation modes as per peak and off-peak hours
• Business Workflow configurations for different scenarios’
• SMTP configuration and integration with email server to generate email alerts from different workflows
• Ensure System availability at remote warehouses with security implementation to prevent from unauthorized access.
• Day to day health check of all sap serves.
• Conduct training sessions for SAP Technical team regarding SAP Netweaver platform.
• Helping functional team in troubleshooting technical problems
• Preparation and Maintenance of SAP IDES server for training purposes.
• Developing User Documentation and Training Materials.
• Supervise all the network issues and Functionalities and monitoring of network performance in close coordination with Manager Networks.

Manager at Mehr Dastgir Group of Companies
  • Pakistan - Multan
  • June 2004 to June 2007

• Supervise all technical and functional requirements of the company including equipment/hardware upgrades, operating system upgrades, installations/configurations, and account provisioning.
• Continuous maintenance of network, operating systems and databases handling.
• Installation, configuration and implementation of windows servers and ERP application.
• Participated in the development of Reports related to new requirements of Income Tax Ordinance and Payroll system and Coordinated testing activities among the QA team members
• Prepared Monthly, Quarterly & Annual schedules to facilitate half yearly & annual audit.
• Documented the configurations and prepared functional/technical specifications.
• Provided daily support for customizing issues and troubleshooting of problems in different areas Operating Systems, Databases (oracle) and application servers.
• Backups, recovery management and performance tuning of Oracle Database.
• Supporting the NT/Win2000 workstations and users and managing SSL certificates.
• Software configuration, setting up firewalls, increased security level of operating system.
• Developed and customized scripts that resulted in improved systems monitoring.
• Developed various reports and dashboards in Crystal report for top management.
• Monitoring and controlling of all critical activities performed at servers.

Education

Master's degree, Computer Sciences
  • at Bahauddin Zakariya University
  • September 2004

DB Administration Computer Architecture Software Engineering System Administation Visual Programming Compiler Construction Advance Obeject Oriented Programming Data Structure & Analysis of Algorithms

Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics
  • at Govt. Post Graduate College Layyah
  • June 2002

Mathematics, Statistics, Economics

High school or equivalent, Mathermatics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology
  • at Govt. Degree College Kot Adu
  • May 2000

Additional Mathermatics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology

High school or equivalent, Sciences
  • at Govt. High School Kot Sultan
  • April 1996

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology

Specialties & Skills

SAP Netweaver

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Configuration Workshop (SAP Sales & Distribution (SD)) (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
Date Attended:
January 2008
SAP Netweaver Basis Academy (TADM10, TADM12, TADM51) (Training)
Training Institute:
Siemens Engineering Company Ltd.
Date Attended:
March 2007
Certification SAP Netweaver 7.0 (Training)
Training Institute:
Siemens Engineering Ltd.
Date Attended:
November 2009
SAP BI (TBW20) Training Academy (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. / AXON
Date Attended:
March 2008
Configuration Workshop (SAP Production Planning (PP)) (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
Date Attended:
January 2008
SAP BI (TBW10) Training Academy (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. / AXON
Date Attended:
March 2008

Hobbies

  • Financial Analysis of IT Projects