RAJESH SHELAR

Competent and dynamic professional with over 23 years of experience in high-growth IT environments, including 19 years of SAP expertise. Demonstrated ability in planning, implementation & upgrades, system monitoring & administration, disaster recovery, troubleshooting, performance improvement, cross-functional coordination, team leadership, and technical training & development. Currently serving as SAP Operation Lead at Capgemini, with significant expertise in cloud platforms like AWS and Azure with HANA System replication and Sybase HADR. Adept at working under high-pressure environments with strict deadlines and multiple deliverables.

• Burberry UK
• NHS24(Scotland)
• FrieslandCampina(Netherland)
• Clarios Batteries
• Cantel Medical (US)
• Invista
• Twinings (UK)
• Centrica UK
• Al-Alam (Saudi Arabia)
• Hitachi Rail
• Manchester County Council
• Gazprom
• Dorset County Council
• Subsea7(Aberdeen, Scotland)

• Burberry (London), SAP Basis Lead, Dec 2022 – Till date, SAP Technical Support of landscape on AWS having S4HANA, ECC EHP6, NW7.4, Solution Manager 7.2 SPS10, and databases like HANA 2.0, Sybase ASE 16.0, Working in preparing RCA’s for P1/P2 incidents. Working cloud team and Basis team on fixing the monthly Critical/High vulnerabilities identified from Nessus scan tool and security vulnerabilities from SAP Marketplace. Attending client meeting on process improvements
• NHS24 (Scotland), SAP Basis, June 2022 – Dec 2022, SAP PO 7.5 Installation and Integration with CRM, Installation of SAP PO. Run post-install steps of PO. Configure SLD. Integrate PO with CRM. Troubleshooting
• Friesland Campina (Netherland), SAP Operations lead, Aug 2021 – June 2022, SAP Support, Conduct meeting with stake holders of T-System and CG Basis to walk through day-to-day activities and helping them in getting approval on pending activities if any. Drive P1 issue by setting up call and pulling all stake holders and closing P1 issue withing SLA. Participate in maintaining run-book for monthly maintenance window
• Clarios (US), SAP Basis lead, Oct 2019 – till date, SAP Migration and Post migration support, Complete post migration steps of systems. Configured Technical Monitoring on Solution Manager 7.2 SPS10. Post migration support.
• Cantel Medical (US), SAP Basis lead, Aug 2017 – Aug 2019, SAP S4HANA 1610 Greenfield implementation and Support, Build S4HANA1610 on HANA1.0 database, PI 7.5, GRC10.2 and Fiori Gateway and Solution Manager 7.2 SPS5 on Sybase ASE database and perform end-to-end integration of SAP systems. Provide thought leadership and proactively assist in issue remediation and resolution. Provide guidance to offshore team members on subject matter and suggestion to remediate issues. Coordinate new team member / shadow resources onboarding. Work cohesively and collaborate with Onshore team to complete assigned deliverables from Offshore team perspective, within the planned timeline and with the highest quality. Make sure Status reports are submitted timely for both self and team members. Make sure Team members submit timecards in a timely manner. Coordinate team meetings with onsite and Offshore team mates to get status update.
• Invista (US), SAP Basis lead, May 2016 – June 2017, Provide technical support for SAP landscape and HANA Database, Work on performance related issues. Prepare system refresh & outage plan. Work closely with team & user on P1 tickets. Prepare the RCA for P1 tickets. Work with Infrastructure team in timely manner on hardware issues, backup failures and system restore and point in time recovery. Schedule daily DStum call within team and discuss critical issues, tickets and concerns if any. Schedule weekly call with customer to discuss on open action items & work with them for its closure. Run monthly outage and send communications to team and stakeholders. Keep check on tickets in Snow & generate report of aging tickets and work with team in closing tickets.
• Twinings (UK), SAP Basis, Aug 2015 – Feb 2016, To upgrade ECC from EHP6 to EHP7 and NW7.31 to NW7.4, Entrusted with preparing High level project plan, contributing with basis team to confirm proper xml is generated, landscape verification on solution manager is done, sufficient space in volumes etc. Smooth interface with client in daily and weekly calls to provide update. Run plan and confirm activities are getting completed according to timelines. Execute upgrade activities according to timelines of high level plan. Schedule Mock run to capture timelines for Production cutover. Prepare Production cutover plan and prepare lessons learnt document.
• Centrica (UK), SAP Basis, Aug 2014 – Feb 2015, To apply SP-Stack as yearly patch maintenance throughout landscape, Prepare High level project plan. Work with Basis team to confirm proper stack xml is generated, landscape verification and pre-requisites being met for seamless update. Coordinate with client in daily and weekly calls to provide update. Run plan and confirm activities are getting completed according to timelines. Prepare Production cutover plan and prepare lessons learnt document.
• As’hal Project (Saudi Arabia, Riyadh), SAP Basis Lead, Jun 2013 – Feb 2014, To Install SAP ECC 6.0EHP6, NW 7.31, SRM 7.02, CRM 7.02, MDM7.1 and Solution Manager 7.1 on Windows2012 and MSSQL2012 as database. OS-DB Migration from Linux/Sybase to Windows2012/MSSQL2012., Established Network connectivity between Capgemini and Customer by coordinating with both the network team to enable access to servers for project team members. Prepared landscape diagram, Client & transport strategy and the Technical Architect Document. Install SAProuter and establish SAPOSS connectivity. Disk sizing for all servers (Non-Prod and Prod Systems). Install Production system on Windows 2012 High Availability. Install Sandbox, DEV, QA & Training as standalone systems. LDAP Integration to ECC with Windows Active Directory 2012 to configure SSO. Enabled SSO from SAPGUI and Portal with SPNeigo. Replatform from SUSE Linux to Windows 2012. Configure CUA for Central user administration and configure batch jobs, printers. Prepare system for EWA and configure Earlywatch in Solution Manager. Prepared Prod systems for Golive Analysis checks. Troubleshooting & Documentation.
• Hitachi Rail Europe (London), SAP Basis Lead, Dec 2012 – May 2013, To Install SAP ECC 6.0EHP6, NW Portal7.3 Solution Manager 7.1 on RHEL 6.3 Enterprise Edition and DB2 9.7 FP4 database, Establish Network connectivity between Capgemini and Customer to enable Project team to access servers. Prepared landscape strategy for R/3, Solution Manager and Portal, prepared Client & transport strategy. Install SAProuter and establish SAPOSS connectivity. Install DEV and QA as non-cluster systems and Production system on VMWare Cluster for ECC6.0 EHP6 and NW7.3 Portal. Configuring batch jobs, printers. Configured all systems for SAP Earlywatch. Prepared Prod systems for Golive check. Troubleshooting problems & Documentation & KT.
• Manchester County Council (Manchester), SAP Basis Lead, Feb 2012 – Aug 2012, To do OS/DB Migration from Solaris/Oracle9i to RHEL6.3/DB2 9.7 and Upgrade system to latest release. Upgraded ECC5.0 to ECC 6.0 EHP5 SP-Stack 6 and BI from 3.5 to BI 7.3 and SRM5.0 to SRM 7.1 and Install Portal7.3, PI 7.3, MDM 7.0 and Solution Manager 7.1 and integrate all backend systems with ECC., Establish connectivity between Capgemini India Offices and MCC with help of customer and local Network team. Help Infrastructure team build new hardware according to SAP Notes. Run Pre-Unicode checks and prepare BAU system for Unicode. Decide System-Copy strategy to minimize DB export/import time. System-Copy database from BAU and build system on new hardware. Upgrade system to target release. Prepared Client & transport strategy and prepared strategy for Payroll Parallel Run. Configuring batch jobs, printers. Configured all systems for SAP Earlywatch and Golive checks. Apply performance parameters.
• Gazprom (KINGSTON), Basis Lead, Aug 2010 – Jul 2011, To build and integrate landscape of SAP ERP EHP4, NW7.0/7.1 EHP1, SRM 7.0 EHP1, MDM7.0 and Solution Manager 7.0 EHP1 on Windows-2008 Enterprise Edition and MSSQL 2008 database., Establish connectivity between Capgemini India Offices and Gazprom with help of customer and local Network team. Prepared landscape strategy for R/3, Solution Manager, BW, SRM & Portal. Prepared Client & transport strategy. Install SAProuter and establish SAPOSS connectivity. Install DEV and QA as non-cluster systems and Production system on Microsoft Cluster for ERP6.0 EHP4, SRM 7.0 EHP1, NW7.0 EHP1 (BW and Portal) and PI7.1 EHP1. Integration of systems and post implementation activity as per SAP documentation. Integrate CUA with LDAP to configure SSO on portal via SPNego. Configuring batch jobs, printers. Configured all systems for SAP Earlywatch. Prepared Prod systems for Golive checks. Troubleshooting problems. Documentation & KT.
• Dorset County Council – Completed Onsite on 2008-09, Basis Lead, To build and integrate landscape of SAP ERP EHP4, NW7.0/7.1 EHP1, SRM5.5, SRM-MDM2.5 and Solution Manager 7.0 on Windows-2003 Enterprise Edition and MSSQL 2005, Establish connectivity between Capgemini India Offices and Dorset County Council with help of customer and local Network team. Install SAProuter and establish SAPOSS connectivity. Install DEV and QA as non-cluster systems and Production system on Microsoft Cluster for ERP6.0 EHP4, SRM5.5, NW7.0 EHP1 (BW and Portal) and PI7.1. Integration of systems and post implementation activity as per SAP documentation. Integrate CUA with LDAP to configure SSO on portal via SPNego. Configuring batch jobs, printers. Configured all systems for SAP Earlywatch. Prepared Prod systems for Golive checks.
• Subsea7 (ABERDEEN), SAP Basis Lead, The complete life cycle implementation of R/3 Enterprise, Netweaver04., Server Sizing. Implementation of SAProuter. Prepared landscape strategy for R/3, Solution Manager, BW, MI & EP. Prepared client & transport strategy. Preparing all the systems for SAP Earlywatch. Cluster for SAP R/3, Solution Manager4.0 & Netweaver4.0 component (BW, MI & EP). Post implementation activity as per SAP documentation. Installation & configuring SAProuter. Configuration of SSO on Portal. Configuring batch jobs, printers.