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Arunkumar Ponnusami

Puducherry

Summary

Accomplished AMS Basis team lead at Kochasoft Private Ltd, adept in SAP S/4HANA, ECC, and Azure. Proven track record in system upgrades, migrations, and project management. Excelled in delivering Azure Labs on time and configuring Sybase HADR, demonstrating strong technical expertise and leadership.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AMS Basis team lead

Kochasoft Private Ltd
12.2019 - Current
  • AMS Basis team lead providing full support for the clients on shared support model
  • Developed POC documents for regular basic maintenance activities, mentoring peer members
  • Actively participated in designing new Azure Labs and delivering them on time
  • Actively participating in Customer daily meetings in AMS discussions
  • Experience in project management, ITIL, and continuous improvement implementations
  • Supporting the complete OS life cycle management including OS patching, installation, & configuration
  • Configured HA Clusters using Pacemaker on Azure based Linux clusters, performed failover tests
  • Complete SolMan standard and customized Alert Monitoring configuration on demand
  • SuSe Manager upgrade and maintenance as well
  • Sybase HADR configuration and maintenance

Offshore Basis Project Lead

Jabil(US) & Aptiv from DXC/HP/HPE
05.2015 - 12.2019
  • AMS for Jabil‘s Landscape, Aptiv as Offshore Basis Project Lead
  • Have performed S4HANA and HANA DB/Revision upgrade
  • HANA Plugin installation and Live Cache Configuration for S4HANA 1809
  • SAP System upgrade using SUM
  • Full end-end SSL configuration and Support
  • Adobe Document Services (ADS) configuration
  • Periodic system refresh activities
  • Upgrade of SAP Vendavo systems
  • Annual DR rehearsal
  • Share support of multiple clients on demand basis

SAP Basis Admin

Novartis Switzerland
05.2014 - 04.2015
  • Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration of existing Novartis MII landscape
  • Installation & Configuration Activities for SAP MII 12.2/14.0
  • Setting up MCOD Oracle Database using oracle instance creation tool
  • Support Package Implementation for SAP MII
  • Regular support activities

Onsite SAP Basis Admin

Saudi Electricity Company
07.2013 - 01.2014
  • Fresh Implementation of SAP ISU system and PI 7.31 in Microsoft cluster environment
  • Applying Support packs through SUM
  • Printer Setup to interface with HP Extreme, 3rd party printing solutions and Spool Administration
  • Implementation of Advanced IDOC Adapter Engine
  • System refresh using backup and restore method
  • Framework setup for ISU Utilities enablement
  • Arabic Language Installation for the entire billing landscape
  • Maintenance of system landscape with SMSY/LMDB, configuration with central SLD bridge
  • Installation of additional application servers
  • TMS Configuration along with CTS+ implementation

Onsite & Offshore SAP BASIS Admin

Marks & Spencers UK
07.2010 - 07.2013
  • Installation of SAP systems and perform post installation activities
  • System Copy/restore from TSM [Tivoli Storage Manager]
  • Complete AMS support activities
  • Implementation of End to End root cause analysis with solution manager diagnostics & wily introscope
  • Business workload analysis, analyzing expensive SQL Statements
  • AS JAVA Administration
  • DB administration: Index creation, Table reorganization using DB6CONV tool

SAP Security Admin

Philips US
10.2008 - 06.2010
  • Audit the Security of the Roles every year
  • Execute Monthly Inactive user cleanup
  • Execute Monthly ICS control checks for SOX Compliance
  • Running Segregation of Duties (SOD) reports with CSI tools every quarter
  • Evaluate & implement support packs, patches relevant to SAP Security
  • Trouble Shooting the End Users queries and communicating with them on daily basis
  • Create and maintain users in other applications like Trade link( EP )
  • Received Managed end-user requests, using ticketing tool HP-Open view

Cognizant CoE SAP Systems
09.2007 - 10.2008
  • Complete maintenance of Internal CoE SAP Systems
  • Installation and configuration of Spend Analytics Management
  • Client Copy creation and daily monitoring activities
  • Support Package Implementation
  • Security Administration

Education

B.TECH - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING COLLEGE
PONDICHERRY
05-2007

Skills

  • SAP DMO
  • SAP S/4HANA and ECC
  • SAP HANA
  • SAP Purchase Order
  • Solution Manager
  • Sybase
  • Azure
  • System Upgrade and Migration

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate
  • ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
  • SCJP

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

AMS Basis team lead

Kochasoft Private Ltd
12.2019 - Current

Offshore Basis Project Lead

Jabil(US) & Aptiv from DXC/HP/HPE
05.2015 - 12.2019

SAP Basis Admin

Novartis Switzerland
05.2014 - 04.2015

Onsite SAP Basis Admin

Saudi Electricity Company
07.2013 - 01.2014

Onsite & Offshore SAP BASIS Admin

Marks & Spencers UK
07.2010 - 07.2013

SAP Security Admin

Philips US
10.2008 - 06.2010

Cognizant CoE SAP Systems
09.2007 - 10.2008

B.TECH - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Arunkumar Ponnusami