I am an accomplished IT Director, having executed many complex SAP projects. I have over 14 years of experience in Database and BASIS administration. I lead the Application Platform delivery practice at McKesson IT with responsibilities for over 45 SAP technologies including HANA, Sybase IQ. My role has expanded beyond SAP platforms like Cloudera's distribution for Hadoop, IBM's Information Server and Tableau.
For the past 3 years, I have successfully led and delivered one of the world’s largest BW on HANA implementations, modernized over 300 of our SAP assets through a complex migration to a virtualized, private cloud platform and co-innovated with SAP Labs on a pilot migration of ECC to HANA.
Prior to being a Director, as a senior BASIS administrator, I specialized in the design, planning, support, deployment, migration, upgrades and refreshes of many SAP implementations.
I have led small and large teams that are spread across the world delivering simple to complex projects with agility yet maintaining quality. While I am extremely technical, I am a strong team player, make well informed decisions, communicate and collaborate well at all levels and can maneuver through sticky and high pressured situations with poise and grace.
While I have executed over 40 projects in the past decade, in the past 4 years, my key achievements are highlighted below:
- Migration of over 300 SAP assets to internal private cloud offering
- Led BW on HANA migration and introduced Sybase IQ as a viable archiving solution using Near Line Storage capabilities
- Working with SAP Labs, proved that one the world’s largest ECC databases can be migrated from Oracle to HANA
- Virtualized Cloudera's Hadoop Distribution on the internal private cloud
- Upgraded over 65 Oracle databases from 9i to 11g in 7 months
- Upgraded Vistex from version C to version E
- Upgraded Vertex from E to O series while creating new HA/DR procedures
- Migration of ECC EHP4 to EHP6 in less than 8 months
Director - Application Infrastructure Services @ After having successfully led a complex transformational program that modernized our SAP landscape and delivered HANA, my role now has been expanded to platforms outside of SAP. I now have platform delivery ownership of Cloudera's distribution of Hadoop along with IBM's Information Sever for ETL, Master Data Management as well as our Visualization technology stack with Tableau From August 2015 to Present (5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector - BASIS Enhancements @ - Led the delivery of the Aurora program that required modernizing of over 300 SAP assets to One Cloud, our internal private cloud offering. The SAP assets needed a makeover that was long overdue to sustain the growth we have seen over the years. This also required agility in provisioning our environments through automation
- Several HANA opportunities that were conceptualized through POC’s were executed as projects. The SAP Business Warehouse was upgraded to HANA as part of the Aurora program. ROME a very high profile Generics initiative today runs on a HANA side car implementation, financial closing runs on HANA using COPA and we will soon go live with BPC on HANA for US Pharma and Canada.
McKesson was shipped the first Ivy Bridge, HANA appliance from Lenovo China. We worked with partners like IBM, SAP, Suse Linux, DSS and consulting firms all working towards the same challenge of making this “first” appliance production grade.
Overall HANA has now been proven to be a de-facto standard for analytics that have high performance needs.
Built a team of 15 BASIS administrators from scratch due to out sourcing decisions. Individuals were hand picked, mentored and coached over the past 3 years From November 2013 to July 2015 (1 year 9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDatabase Architect @ I joined McKesson as a Database Architect after having worked as an Oracle Database admin for over 6 years at a utility power house in the Mid West. My strong Database and Unix skils coupled with my soft skills gave me the opportunity to transition to SAP BASIS administration in 2007.For 6 years, I worked in various capacities on BASIS projects including operational support, patches and service pack upgrades, refreshes. Over these years, I rose through the ranks and gained a very strong foundation in BASIS with an ability to work on any complex project. My key achievements include multiple CRM implementations and a major BW upgrade besides the many routine administration tasks that were carried out. From May 2007 to October 2013 (6 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDatabase Administrator @ After graduating with Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin , Madison, I had an opportunity to build my foundational experience with Alliant Energy, Here, amidst many talented Oracle administration team members, I learnt a lot contributing along the go on many projects including operational maintenance. From May 2001 to April 2007 (6 years) Madison, Wisconsin Area
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science @ University of Wisconsin-Madison From 1998 to 2000 Meena Kishanchandani is skilled in: Business Intelligence, SDLC, Integration, Business Analysis, Oracle, Data Warehousing, Requirements Analysis, Database Design, Enterprise Architecture, Disaster Recovery, PMP, IT Strategy, ETL, SAP Basis, SAP HANA