Nitin Patel

SAP Basis professional with 16+ years of experience, working in highly-critical, worldwide production environment. Strong technical and organizational skills, with an all-time focus on system availability and customer satisfaction. In-depth knowledge and understanding of SAP installations upgrades, migrations, configuration, administration and troubleshooting.

● One end to end implementation and one full cycle upgrade from SAP R/3 to ECC 6.0.

● Extensive hands-on experience with 24/7 operations, troubleshooting production incidents under extreme pressure.

● Worked on multiple projects including SAP Greenfield and Brownfield (Implementation, Upgrade, migration, Roll-out and others.)

● Designed solutions for complex architecture for large Implementation and Migration requirements (mostly in Retail and CPG customers)

● Setting-up a fully functional DR-Site (Disaster Recovery Site) and execute successful DR-Drill.

● Very good knowledge on solution design for SAP HANA (Scale-up/out, Appliance, TDI etc.)

● HANA migration from Oracle along EHP upgrade using DMO tool

● Data center migration – Cloud to Cloud, On-prem to cloud, On-Prim to On-Prim.

● Very good experience on Private and Public cloud and managing Cloud architecture for SAP systems

● Worked with different vendors on E2E DC build

● Worked on different HA scenarios to focus on maximum system availability

● High experience in different SAP Product installations, homogeneous and heterogeneous system copy, SAP Version and Enhancement packages upgrade projects including Oracle DB upgrade.

● Sound Knowledge of Oracle Data Compression Activity.

● Hands-on experience on infrastructure for a complex organization and network, including multicounty setup, VLAN setup etc.

● Experience on Storage Area Network (SAN) and related technologies, network communications technology, High availability and disaster recovery architecture, communication and related technologies

● Experience with regulatory compliance issues, as well best practices in Application, Database and Network security.

● Experience on product and vendor evaluations ensuring best in class technologies and partners

● Worked closely with and manage strategic vendor partner relationships. Setup and run the Governance with the partners.

Participated in the formulation of the company's enterprise architecture and business system plans; assessing cost and feasibility, and ensured the plan is aligned with and supports the strategic goals of the business.

• SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS/DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.52
• Microsoft Azure Certified for AZ-900 and AZ-120
• Adopted Advisory skill for SAP RISE (Private Cloud Architecture)