CHANCHAL SINGH
Ringwood
Summary
Equipped with strong problem-solving abilities, a willingness to learn, and excellent communication skills, ready to contribute to team success and achieve positive results. Prepared to tackle new challenges and advance organizational objectives with dedication and enthusiasm. Extensive experience in SAP solutions, architecture, and design on cloud platforms (IaaS/PaaS), specifically with S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, SAP Java, and SAP ISU/CRM, as well as migration knowledge on all cloud platforms. Successfully managed end-to-end projects from the feasibility phase through resource management, blueprint, design, integration, delivery, and post-go-live hypercare support.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Enablement Lead
AGL Energy Ltd.
04.2023 - Current
- AGL has embarked on a transformation program to migrate from SAP ECC IS-U and SAP CRM platform to a non-SAP ECC platform and Salesforce CRM, I lead the Tech Enablement squad, which is responsible for everything technology in the program, including Azure DevOps CI/CD setup, Git structure creation, app and network, cost management, Splunk integration, DLP setup, Source SAP integration to Informatica and engaging the SaaS & PaaS vendors, licensing discussions.
- Designing the Salesforce DevOps pipeline and providing a parallel flow of work for Sales and Service Stream.
- Optimizing the middleware platform (Mulesoft & SAP PO) to resolve platform performance issues.
- Enabling private connectivity using AWS Transit Gateway & mTLS options between the SaaS and On-premises systems at AGL.
- Risk management throughout the program and during Penetration testing.
- Suggesting ways to optimize the SAP backend systems for faster data migration & staging processes and performed impact assesment on 'ring fencing' work, including SAP parameter tuning.
- Implementation of the Third party tool 'Delphix' for Azure cost optimization and compliance management (scrambling PII Data ) for the SAP platform and downstream digital, Salesforce, and EDP platform.
SAP S/4 HANA Transformation Architect
BHP
01.2022 - 03.2023
- Assessing the current SAP setup, identifying risks and complexities in the migration by reviewing custom code, third-party integrations, and system architecture. I collaborated with the SAP and SI teams to finalize the migration approach and conduct a trial run.
- Developed a detailed blueprint and high-level design for the new system, outlining technical components, infrastructure requirements, and migration tools. I worked to align this with business needs by collaborating with functional consultants and business stakeholders.
- Tackled key performance issues, such as CPU and memory limits, storage performance, and network challenges during the SAP S/4HANA migration.
- SAP BTP/ BASIS/ Integration: requirements gathering, implementation of SAP BTP and SAP Products upgrade and migration to HANA and implementation of S4/HANA.
- Hands-On experience in SAP Central Business configuration, SAP Cloud Transport management, SAP Cloud landscape management (ALM) in SAP S/4 Public Cloud implementation projects
- Hands-on experience in the Installation and technical configuration of SAP S/4 HANA, Fiori, PO, SAP CPI, Cloud connector, Solution Manager, Data hub solutions within Major Cloud IaaS platforms.
- Extensive experience in utilising and tuning DMO for Migration to HANA, S/4 Conversion; SWPM and SAP Heterogeneous Migrations (Table Splits, Parallel Export-Import etc.)
SAP Cloud Migration Architect
BHP
10.2020 - 01.2022
- Designed the Azure technical architecture for SAP workloads in a zonal deployment, including sizing, network, backup (Commvault), high-availability, and disaster recovery for HANA, SQL, NLS and NFS/SMB based systems
- Participated heavily in the low-level design (LLD) discussions with the vendor and partners and endorsed several designs keeping alignment with future roadmap of BHP.
- Defined and planned the SAP application migration approach, including downtime minimization strategies such as multi target HSR, export/import etc.
- Actively work with the SAP Basis team to prototype and optimize the migration approach
- Coordinated cloud resource deployments with Cloud Hosting service provider and ensured cloud resources are provisioned as designed
- Lead High-availability, Disaster Recovery and Backup testing effort in conjunction with the partner teams
- Participated in the analysis of the BHP business operations to validate requirements and scope, suggest process improvements, and assist in level of effort (LOE) estimation
- Lead several conversations regarding end state solution with Customers, SAP, SAP Partners, Developers, and Architects and provided technical guidance and advice to teams with complex technical issues during the project delivery
- Owned the execution of the performance, load and stress testing cycles for HANA and SQL-based systems, including the HANA Capture & Replay cycles to validate HANA storage latency and throughput in MS Azure platform
SAP Cloud Transformation Architect
AGL Energy Ltd.
01.2018 - 09.2020
- SAP Cloud Solution Architects who assess the requirements and align to the SAP Public cloud (Azure/AWS) architecture blueprint
- Good experience in SAP Infrastructure sizing on public cloud
- Hands-on experience with conversion of On-premise ISU on HANA (Brownfield) installation to S/4HANA in Azure including the conversion processes with downtime minimized strategy
- Good experience in Cost Optimization resource of SAP systems in public cloud
- Hands-on experience with cloud build automation using Terraform/Azure Resource Manager and Azure CloudFormation Templates
- Hands on experience of High Availability Architecture and Disaster Recovery design for different SAP Modules which are certified, tested and cost effective
- Experience with High-Availability cluster design (SIOs, NFS, RedHat, SUSE, Windows)
- Work with Cloud providers and business teams to troubleshoot application performance on cloud environment and other business critical issues
- Hands on experience in building SAP infrastructure specific compute, storage, and networking design in Cloud environment - AWS/Azure
- Lead SAP HANA and S/4HANA infrastructure hosting strategies, technical data migration and deployments for SAP systems focusing on downtime optimized approach
- Support Data Volume Management processes (DVM): Assess data lifecycle management, growth assessment and build data storage optimization architecture techniques in the context of HANA environment
SAP Environment Manager and Technical Team Lead
AGL Energy Ltd.
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Create and maintain an inventory of environment components and assemblies
- Create and maintain non-production environment related processes and templates
- Maintain an environment usage schedule
- Act as point of escalation during Test Execution phases, where appropriate provide incident management and root cause analysis
- Sign off environment maintenance activities prior to systems being released to projects
- Design and implement efficient procedures for the distribution and installation of changes to the systems
- Ensure the health of pre-production environment – disc space, CPU, memory, Servers etc
- Put in place and maintain appropriate archiving and backup strategies
- Ability to work in a cooperative team environment with internal and external vendor resources
- Plan and co-ordinate availability of non-production environments
- Schedule maintenance slots and communicate to the relevant teams
- Work with the various project managers and Test Leads to coordinate planned outage and environment refresh
- Manage and report on Risks/Assumptions/Issues and Dependencies of the test environments for the associated projects
- Work with overall Release Manager to agree appropriate release implementation dates
- Co-ordinate infrastructure upgrades and changes with the Infrastructure Team
Senior Basis Expert
Australia Post
01.2017 - 01.2017
- Participate in the development and execution of SAP HANA landscape strategies
- HANA Change Advisory member, evaluate and approve all HANA changes to ensure there are no performance or technical issues caused by them
- Reviewing the existing BW on HANA landscape and performing a thorough health check, proposing and implementing recommendations
- Setting up CTS+ for HANA Delivery Units and integrating with RevTrac
- Evaluate System partitioning design and changing table partitioning and redistribution of tables to improve performance
- Responsible for administration of SAP HANA system integration within an SAP Landscape
- Responsibility covers HANA Security, HANA SLT Configuration, Suite on HANA and BW on HANA Migrations, HANA System Monitoring, HANA Install & Configuration, Health Check, and Monitoring
- Setting up HANA replication to Disaster Recovery site
- Upgrading HANA Production system to SPS12 from SPS11 and BW ABAP stack to BW7.5 SPS05
- Including WebDispatcher upgrade, kernel upgrade and Oracle upgrade for JAVA stack
- Performed Oracle upgrade from version 11.2 to 12.1 on a clustered node setup for SAP ERP and SAP CRM production landscape
- Resolving long pending Problem tickets on performance and system stability
- RevTrac Release Management upgrade and setting up base platform
- SAP Portal Oracle parameter recommendation and improved performance with resolution of java node issue
- Assist with SAP projects around new installs, migrations, upgrades, and induction of new SAP technologies such as S/4 HANA, mobility and new innovations on the in-memory database
- Proactively manage landscape instances and participate in governance to optimize and prioritize demand
SAP Basis Lead Consultant
AGL Energy Ltd.
01.2010 - 01.2016
- ABAP JAVA stack split and end-to-end upgrade of ABAP and Java stacks with downtime minimized approach on standalone, distributed and MSCS HA system
- SQL Server Upgrade from 2008 R2 to SQL 2012 SP02 on standalone and MSCS HA environment
- Designing and implementation of SQL Always on Availability Group
- Performance of the Web UI including personalization option and telephony integration (AJAX polling)
- Hardware Load balancer configuration, Web dispatcher setup, SSO setup for WEB UI, VM cloning for CRM7 training environment, side effect report assessment
- Setup of Solution manager EEM (End user Experience monitoring) and Technical monitoring for ERP, CRM and HANA systems
- Setting up interfaces with Paypal, Printing party (Fuji Xerox), Banks, LiveOps, Weather zone
- Implemented ChaRM and setup strategy, workflow, approval process for migration of transports
- Installing the GRC 10.1 and carrying out the post installation steps
- Installation and configuration of Data Services 4.0 and upgrade to Data Service 4.1
- Setting up Central User Administration (CUA), Kernel Upgrade, and ADS configuration for interactive form, Language installation, and Central SLD setup
- Setting up Rev-Trac for 3 parallel project landscapes for strategy-based approval process and code merge & code retrofit activities
- Lead Technical Landscape Design with Change Management and Deployment Teams, providing technical input and thought leadership
- SAP Performance optimization to run conversion in minimum time
- eated several working project test systems for ISU/CRM (based on time slice and Business partner), BW (using Shell method) and ECC 6.0 (based on time slice and Company code)
- Setup multiple clients in Training Environment using TDMS with different data requirements for each client, this allows different trainings to be conducted at same time and refreshing one client does not require outage for other clients
- TDMS configuration and setting up ECC HR system with PD and PA data and also with company code selection
- HANA sizing and roadmap exercise for sandbox system, test system, pre-prod system and Production system
- Also setup BO and DS systems and performed a Bo-DS split later in project
- Designing High Availability architecture for SAP HANA database
- Design and implementation of SAP Data Services, Business Objects and DQM 4.1 in high-availability heterogeneous environments
- Designing the complete architecture and landscape of the SAP system for Spectrum data migration project
- Setting up backup TSM solution, restores, point-in-time recovery
- Configuring CUA for user administration of all project systems and configuring CPS Redwood for automating batch testing
- SAP Router setup and configuration for SAPOSS
SAP Basis Consultant
Bose Corporation
10.2006 - 04.2010
- Responsible for system administration including Basis support of ECC, BI 7.0, XI/PI, EPP,APO, SCM, SRM, GTS, PLM systems, with the goal of providing excellent system reliability, performance, high availability and overall optimized systems
- Provide SAP Basis administration production support (247), performance monitoring & performance tuning, problem analysis & resolution, and other activities required to maintain system integrity and maximize uptime
- Monitoring, Housekeeping activities and Structured Troubleshooting, including monitoring all Production systems, monitoring Java engine availability for Portal and SRM shopping card
- Monitoring SAP System Buffers table Buffers and workload analysis
- Used System trace, ABAP trace and SQL trace to solve application problems and solving performance problems
- Table space Management & reorganization using BR
- Defining SAP jobs/scripts/calendars in Autosys using Job Information language (JIL)
- Monthly update of Taxware files on ECC system
Education
Postgraduate in Cloud Computing -
California Insititute of Technology (Caltech)
California, USABachelor's of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Punjab Technical University
Punjab, India Diploma - Computer Hardware and Networking
Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering And Technology
IndiaSenior Secondary Education - Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (PCM)
Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering And Technology
India Skills
- IT Technical Enablement Lead
- SAP Technical Architect
- SAP Release Manager
- SAP Implementation & Cutover Manager
- SAP Environment Manager
- SAP Basis Lead
Certification
- Salesforce DevOps Leadership Certified Consultant
- Mulesoft certified Architect – MUK-2024
- Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: AZ 303
- Microsoft Certified (AZ120): Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty
- SAP Certified Technology Specialist - SAP S/4HANA Conversion and SAP System Upgrade
- SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS/DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.52
- SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA
- SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Cloud Platform Integration
- SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP HANA) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5
- Technology Consultant SAP Netweaver'04 - SAP Web AS for Oracle
- SAP PI Implementation and Operations Certified Consultant
- Red Hat Linux Certified System Administrator
- SCJP (Sun Certified Java programmer)
Timeline
Technical Enablement Lead
AGL Energy Ltd.
04.2023 - Current
SAP S/4 HANA Transformation Architect
BHP
01.2022 - 03.2023
SAP Cloud Migration Architect
BHP
10.2020 - 01.2022
SAP Cloud Transformation Architect
AGL Energy Ltd.
01.2018 - 09.2020
SAP Environment Manager and Technical Team Lead
AGL Energy Ltd.
01.2017 - 01.2018
Senior Basis Expert
Australia Post
01.2017 - 01.2017
SAP Basis Lead Consultant
AGL Energy Ltd.
01.2010 - 01.2016
SAP Basis Consultant
Bose Corporation
10.2006 - 04.2010
Postgraduate in Cloud Computing -
California Insititute of Technology (Caltech)
Bachelor's of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Punjab Technical University
Diploma - Computer Hardware and Networking
Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering And Technology
Senior Secondary Education - Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (PCM)
Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering And Technology
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