Bio

Technology today is the underlying foundation of nearly every business as they transform into a digital company. As a Sr. Solution Architect with more than 23 years of experience in SAP technology industry as both an end user and a consultant, I have been designing solutions around the needs of SMB as well as the largest enterprises. In my current role, I’m responsible for designing solutions around SAP and it's extended eco-system of products based around NetApp’s portfolio of solutions including those within the public clouds. As the business world moves more towards a hybrid cloud model, my customer have come to rely on my extensive experience and expertise to help them either transition to on premise HANA within a private cloud or anticipate and prepare for the impact to their organisation making the transition to the public or hybrid cloud. With a focus on SAP HANA technology, I have been leading the SAP solution architecting efforts for SAP HANA and SAPs portfolio into NetApp’s GSI organisation and large enterprise customers. My previous responsibilities around both delivery and the running of large scale deployments of SAP solutions has given me a wide range of experience in the following areas: Managing BASIS teams with full lifecycle end to end delivery responsibility. Extensive experience of automation and automated delivery of solutions Rapid deployment/re-deployment, Migrations and upgrades Validation and troubleshooting. Specialties: SAP HANA, SAP Basis, Netweaver 04/04s, Solution Manager E2E, Oracle, MS SQL, MaxDB, Disaster Recovery, NetApp storage systems, NetApp SMSAP/SDU/SnapVault, SAP HA Solutions.Microsoft Exchange, SMS, ISA/Proxy and Networking technologies.