C Shivaprasada Reddy
Bengaluru
Summary
Seeking a challenging position in areas of Software Compliance and Procurement (SAM) to learn and function effectively in any organization. To constantly upgrade my knowledge and skills with available resources to prove myself as a successful professional.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Consultant
Ernst &Young (E&Y)
Bengaluru
03.2022 - Current
- Over 4+ years of experience in software asset management, compliance, and procurement.
- Supporting the client can perform well both independently and as a team player.
- Experience in licensed internal audits (understanding the Agreements and their downgrade and upgrade models) and software optimization.
- Expertise in software models and metrics for the vendors Microsoft and Adobe.
- Expertise in ServiceNow SAM Pro.
- Maintaining all the purchased software data in the ServiceNow inventory management tool to ensure software compliance.
- Getting the deployment data from inventory tools, i.e. SCCM, ServiceNow Discovery, and BigFix, preparing the Effective License Position reports (ELP).
- Expertise in cost optimization and well versed in open-source software.
- Software contract creation and renewals, and software agreements maintenance and renewals.
- Well-versed in SAM life cycle. Have some good exposure in CMDB.
- Worked on software renewals for the vendors Microsoft, Adobe, and Autodesk and eventually worked with the vendor management team to get the quotation details.
- Creating software entitlement in ServiceNow SAM Pro and Discovery, and doing software normalization and mapping with the Deployment data with Entitlement.
Analyst
First Source Limited
Bengaluru
02.2021 - 02.2022
- Supporting the US client - can perform well both independently and as a team player.
- Experience in software license and contract creation and compliance maintenance in ServiceNow SAM Pro.
- Well-versed in vendor management and communication for any kind of technical queries.
- Worked on publishers like Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft, etc., and procurement support.
- License key management.
- Provided customer service support for inquiries on licensing information.
- Make sure all the purchased software licenses are under one roof, and trial software is not registered with end-user email IDs, which may lead to an audit from the software publisher.
- Revoking access to licensed software from the user if it is identified that the user is not using the software after provision for prolonged durations.
- Expertise in software license metrics and licensing models.
- Publisher's portal management.
Associate
Wipro Technologies
Bengaluru
11.2019 - 12.2020
- Gathering user software requirements as per the project need and procuring the software through a prescribed procurement process.
- Maintaining software asset inventory of all the purchased software in ServiceNow.
- Maintaining track of allocated licenses with usernames and project information.
- Making sure all the approved, licensed software is activated upon installation.
- Contacting various vendors for new software purchase requirements.
- Reviewing user software requirements and providing appropriate software for the requirement based on the assigned project.
- Notifying project managers concerned for the licensed software renewals assigned for the project, specifically if the renewal date is nearing.
- Placed orders for additional software when necessary to ensure an adequate supply of merchandise.
- Making sure all the new software purchases/renewals are initiated from IT procurement as a single point of contact.
- Maintaining information on various publications of software.
- License keys allocation of all managed publishers.
Education
MBA -
JNT University Anantapur
06-2019
Skills
- Software Licensing
- Procurement
- ServiceNow SAM Pro
- Catalogue maintenance
- Microsoft Licensing
- Contract creation
- Software cost optimization
- SAM life cycle
- Software bundling creation
- Software License Compliance and Effective License Position Reports
- Vendor Audits
- Open source software
- Entitlement creation
- SAP Ariba
- Software Re-harvesting
- Ability to work in teams
- Ability to handle complex situations
- Quick, and eager in learning
- Good analytical skills
Disclaimer
I declare that the information and facts stated above are true, correct, and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Timeline
Consultant
Ernst &Young (E&Y)
03.2022 - Current
Analyst
First Source Limited
02.2021 - 02.2022
Associate
Wipro Technologies
11.2019 - 12.2020
MBA -
JNT University Anantapur