This curriculum vitae provides information about Murali Kalpathy Janardhanan, including his contact details, educational qualifications, professional experience, areas of expertise, and recent assignments. It summarizes that he has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry with 15+ years spent working with SAP systems. Some of his recent projects involved migrating SAP landscapes to new hardware platforms, procuring additional SAP licenses, and preparing for the introduction of SAP HANA. He holds an MBA and has expertise in areas like SAP BASIS administration, capacity planning, software development, and developing IT strategies.

1. Curriculum Vitae
MURALI KALPATHY JANARDHANAN ( alias Murali K J)
FLAT 4C, JAI LAKSHMI APARTMENTS,
PUTHUR, PALAKKAD – 678 001
KERALA STATE
Cell : +919633019590 / +919867003596
Email : kjm.lalitha@gmail.com
Brief Profile
A First Class Graduate in Science with over 80% aggregate marks. Started my IT career
working for Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) from 1983. After a 18 month initial
exposure in LPG bottling plant at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, joined the EDP (Electronic Data
Processing) department of the organization in August 1985. During the past 30 years, I
have worked in almost all the sections of Electronic Data Processing (EDP), now termed as
IT department, viz.,
 Computer operations & batch processing
 Programming and software development ( JCL, COBOL, foxbase, C, etc)
 Database management like Ingres, Oracle.
 Desktop environment software packages like Foxbase, etc.
 Application Development in SAP ABAP, Java, etc.
 SAP Hardware, Software & License procurement
 Project Plan preparation & management of project like Virtualization using Vmware.
 Liaising with domain experts and technical experts and preparation of feasibility
plan for initiating projects
 Auditing of project progress in SAP environment.
 Developing IT strategy plan for an organization for say next 3-5 years.
Last Post held: Dy. General Manager, SAP (BASIS) & Infrastructure, ERP Competency
Centre, BPCL, Sewree, Mumbai.
My areas of responsibility from the period 2009 to 2014 were :
 SAP Version Upgrade Planning & Implementation
o SAP ECC enhancement pack 6 for BPCL main SAP landscape ( with IS OIL)
o SAP ECC enhancement pack 6 for BPCL HR SAP landscape
o SAP GRC version upgrade Java stack to ver. 10 on ABAP
o SAP NW Portal version upgrade to NW 7.3 (Two landscapes internal &
external portal)
 SAP Hardware Capacity Planning
o SAN Storage technology evaluation, tendering process, seeking approvals
and commissioning

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o SAP Servers Capacity Management, Procurement, management of system
administration and Basis administration
 Capacity Planning for Business Continuity Planning
o Hardware match between primary and disaster site, effective utilization of
data centre infrastructure
o Data replication management between primary & DR site, responsibility for
maintaining RPO of less than 10 mins.
o Planning, implementation and management of IT disaster readiness, switch
over to disaster site to demonstrate readiness at periodic intervals.
 SAP License Measurement & submission
o SAP License measurement, optimization of user and engine licenses
o Assignment of SAP licenses based on Roles and ensuring compliance of the
same
o Evaluation, tendering and procurement of new / additional SAP Licenses for
the organization.
 Responsible for Audit compliance
o Audit of SAP system landscapes and compliance by external party
o Policy documentation and adherence to policies
o Review and enhance of policies e.g OS policy, management of root, SAP
admin, super user, priviledge user password.
o Implementation of password vault – scoping and justification.
 New Product evaluation in SAP
o Planning for SAP HANA upgrade
o HANA hardware requirements - SAP HANA for BW & Enterprise HANA
o SAP License management for SAP HANA , Business Objects.
o SAP Enterprise Content Management , OpenText & SAP data archiving.
Total Team Strength : 50+ members, 4 – 6 contractual firms engaged in providing
hardware infrastructure services deploying on an average of 3 -5 staff per firm.
Reporting hierarchy upwards :
Dy GM (Basis)  GM ( ERP CC In-Charge)  Director (Finance) of the organization.
GM ( Technology)
Educational & Experience
Qualification B.Sc ( Physics) First Class with over 80%
Certified ABAP consultant – ABAP 4.0B
Certified E2E Change Management
Certification course in Software Project Mgmt
From IIM, Ahmedabad.
Currently doing my Executive MBA from
SP Jain Institute of Management & Research,
Mumbai.
Experience 30 years plus experience in Oil & Gas
15 + years experience in SAP environment
4 + years in IT Capacity Planning

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10 + years SAP Programming/system design
In SAP environment.
Professional Trainings during my stint with BPCL
SAP trainings ABAP workbench ( SAP Certified
consultant 4.0B)
undergone SAP BASIS Technology – select modules
ALE/IDOC
SAP Data Archiving
SAP Business Information Warehouse 3.0B
Other Trainings Certificate Course in COBOL
(Soft skills) RDBMS fundamentals & Ingres
( Technical skills) Software Project Management from
IIM Ahmedabad
Managing People in software projects
From IIM Bangalore
Exec MBA I am currently pursuing Executive MBA from
SP Jain Institute of Management Research.
Completed four contact programs & two exam
Sessions.
Balance contact sessions & exams are in
Jan 2015, Apr 2015 & July 2015
10 days of contact sessions with exams during
Contact sessions at SPJIMR Campus, Andheri
Recent Assignments
SAP system landscape Migration from Itanium Architecture to Intel x86 platform.
Lead the project comprising of over 12 SAP Basis administrators. Tasks involved :
 Understanding of virtual environment like Vmware.
 Evaluating whether Red Hat Linux is best suited for SAP environment, searching for
customers who have gone this way
 Taking inputs from SAP – vendor on the strategy
 Carrying out test in small test environment – OS/DB migration.
 Planning for OS/DB certification for administrators
 Planning for the Virtual environment, Servers/Switches/Storage/Backup environment.
 Planning for Disaster site and how replication of data happens between primary &
DR.
 Preparing summary plan for management, detail plan for execution.
 Procurement of hardware, services, training on Vmware,
 Planning for productive system movement.
 Rolling out to complete 50 + systems from HP Unix/Itanium/Oracle db to Intel
Xeon/Red Hat/Oracle .

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Positioning of Hardware Load Balancer in lieu of software load balancer.
Lead the project comprising of over 8 SAP Basis administrators & network / security team
members.
 Limitations of SAP web dispatcher – software load balancer.
 Requirement of additional Reverse Proxy - Apache
 Ability of hardware load balancers
 Evaluation of products in this area – F5, Citrix, Radware
 Pilot / Proof-of-Concept with vendors
 Preparing business case & benefit study
 Procurement of the Application Delivery Controller - ADC
 Testing for SAP & non-SAP ( Microsoft – IIS ) environment.
 Planning for productive system movement.
SAP License Measurement & Additional License Procurement.
Every year, it is mandatory for customers using SAP software to run the SAP License
Measurement Program and submit the out to SAP for license compliance. The above task is
simple, but identification of users into category e.g. SAP Application Professional User,
Limited Professional User, etc. Is a challenging task especially from cost/commercial point
of view.
Identification based on roles/authorizations attached to user, strategizing using SAP GRC
action usage summary, liasing with SAP off-site & on-site audit team for license compliance,
procurement of additional SAP licenses are some of the tasks that was done by me during
the last three years.
Also, evaluating newer types of Licenses in SAP environment, e.g SAP Business Analytics
Professional User for Business Objects, SAP NetWeaver Administrator, etc. need to be
factored in when organization goes in for fresh SAP software such as HANA/Business
Objects, etc.
Preparation for introduction of SAP HANA in BPCL :
BPCL has been using SAP Business Intelligence right from version 3.0B. During the coming
financial year, preparation of justification for better analytics using in-memory computing
and the power of Business Objects was prepared by me and approval sought from the
Company Board for investing in the SAP License for HANA and Business Objects.
The implementation would be in phases comprising of :
 Moving prior year queries ( upto current financial year) into Sybase IQ
 Configuring SAP BW HANA for current year and year -1.
The project has been approved and license procurement for SAP software has since been
done. Hardware procurement of applicance in progress during April 2014.
Preparation of IT Strategy for the Organization
For the first time in 2006, the organization constituted a special group of 8 members from
different domain to present to the Board the IT strategy plan for the subsequent 5 – 6 year
time frame. Was associate Lead of the group interacting with various vertical and business
unit heads to understand the business initiatives and plan for corresponding IT initiatives.

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Presented to the BPCL board, a set of 16 themes of IT initiatives, which could be taken up
and the business benefits that would be possible. As on date in 2014, all the 16 themes
have been implemented by the organization. Few of the themes proposed were :
Empowering Field staff - making available analytical data of customers to field staff visiting
key customers
High performing workplace - enabling the different workgroups to share ideas and plans,
and work towards them. Ready reckoner for new entrants to understand procedures, why
and how a set of tasks need to be done, etc.
Enterprise Service Architecture - an IT plan to ensure that applications and services are
beyond one particular system and how to manage them so as to provide mission critical
services.