Faraz Syed

First-rate Senior Consultant with exceptional skills and knowledge in SAP BASIS and over 12 direct years of experience providing outstanding support to users of all levels on SAP S/4HANA and SAP Netweaver. Subject Matter Expert on SAP BASIS and established reputation as sharp technologist able to work well with people to find solutions.

2020-08 – Current

2015-01 – 2020 08

Technical Architect

Saint Gobain India - INDEC, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Implementation and Support

• Managed, planned and executed various support and implementation activities for a 20-system landscape involving various SAP environments like ERP, Solman, GRC, PI, S4HANA, SCM, BW.
• Successfully led a team of 5 to smoothly execute various project activities.
• Implemented SAP Best Practices Solution for SAP S/4HANA 1909.
• Solid documentation and knowledge sharing skills to help team members level up.

Senior SAP BASIS Consultant

Pricewaterhouse Coopers India, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Implementation

• Implementation of the Three-System landscape based on SAP S/4 HANA 1610, 1709 and 1809
• Implementation of the Peripheral Systems, including but not limited to SAP Process Orchestration 7.5, SAP Fiori on Netweaver 7.5, SAP BW/4HANA, Solution Manager 7.2, Content Server 6.5, SAP Webdispatcher 7.53, SAP GRC 12.0, SAP BObj BI 4.2 SP 07.
• Hands-on experience with various Operating Systems including SuSE SLES 12 and Redhat Linux 7.6, Windows Server 2016/2012/2008, IBM AIX 7, Sun Solaris 11
• Installation, Setup and Administration of Database Management Systems :-
• SAP HANA 2.0 SPS03
• SAP HANA 1.0 SPS12
• SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 16
• SAP MaxDB 7.9
• Custom Roles and Authorization design based on the organization's needs and requirements.
• Performed the Disaster Recovery Setup of systems based on Oracle and HANA
• Continuous monitoring of systems to ensure optimal system performance

Solution Manager

• Successful Installation, Configuration and Administration of Solution Manager 7.2 SP05 and 7.1
• Performing end-to-end custom configuration of the ITSM and ChaRM functionality to adapt to the various needs of the organization, including but not limited to:-
• Setting up custom ChaRM Approval procedures
• Adding custom statuses to the existing workflow
• Setting up Mail Form notifications to the concerned parties involved
• Authorization design based on key responsibilities
• Screen changes to show/hide standard/custom fields
• Imparted high quality training to the core end-users on the usage of the standard as well as customized ITSM and ChaRM functionality.
• Prepared solid documentation in the form of User Manuals to aid end-users in the better understanding of the ITSM and ChaRM process.

Migration

• Performed migration of SAP systems based on SAP ECC 6.0 and Solution Manager 7.0 from AIX to Linux Platform
• Performed simultaneous upgrade of Database from Oracle 11g to 12c
• Incorporated High Availability setup on the Production system
• Involved in the planning and execution of Carve-Out/Divestiture of the sold company and its subsequent migration to a fresh landscape
• Performed successful migration of the ECC, XI, Bobj, Portal systems, provided Hypercare support and co-ordinated various activities at client site in Singapore during Go-live.

Upgrade

• Successfully planned and performed EHP 7 upgrade on the existing ECC 6.0 landscape
• Created the target stack using the Maintenance Planner and consumed the same using the Software Update Manager 2.0 to upgrade the system
• Troubleshooted and fixed various types of errors encountered during the EHP upgrade

Support

• Providing missing authorizations, assigning T-code rights based on SU53 messages
• Ensuring PR-DR sync and regularly performing DR Switchover mock drills
• Creating/modifying User roles as per customer requirement
• Extracting specific user master data for audit purposes
• Performing database refresh/homogeneous system copies on Oracle and HANA databases
• Performing import of critical transport request and all TR related troubleshooting
• Performing special customized monitoring and preparing sheets accordingly
• Performing client copies
• Troubleshooting and fixing portal and system startup issues
• Performing daily monitoring of SAP ABAP and JAVA stack systems
• Performed upgrade of system components as a pre-requisite for GST India implementation
• Performed ADS configuration for printing PDF documents
• Performed Homogeneous system copy using Backup-Restore method on Oracle and SAP HANA databases
• Performed EWA configuration for its automatic generation and mail delivery
• Daily routine support activities

2006-07 - 2010-07 Bachelor of Engineering: Information Technology

Xavier Institute of Engineering - Mumbai 

• Graduated with First Class - 67%
• Final Year Project - PC-Controlled Wireless Spybot - Recognized and appreciated by the College Dean
• Actively involved in the annual college festival