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Ranjan Viswanadh

Ranjan Viswanadh

Service Delivery Manager
Hyderabad

Summary

Overall, 15 + years’ experience in IT with 7-year experience as an SAP BASIS consultant and with over 7 years as Service Delivery Lead and 1.5 year as a Service Delivery Manager with a diverse knowledge of various SAP R/3 system landscapes, proven experience in R/3 technical support, Installation, Upgrades, system administration, project management, training, and customer support Organized, planned, and successfully delivered several Basis activities on time. Assumed leadership of an offshore team of Basis consultants to improve the delivery of services for a multinational global company. Proposed changes in coordination with management to the project team and worked closely with onsite team members and customers. Result: SLA performance has improved; defect item count went down, and ticket resolution time was faster. Led a successful team of consultants to deliver complex program and project tasks. Ability to work with different organizations and levels, from executives, business users, functional and development teams to IT Project Management focus areas include project planning, capacity management, and customer communications Delivery - focused and was able to motivate teams to perform value-added services, project proposals, oral presentations, timeline determination, effort estimation, staffing schedule, and post- go-live support Multiple engagement experience with the global delivery model including offshore functional and development support Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills, was able to manage a team of 20 members. Staff and competency development experience with coaching and mentoring skills Strong experience in leading and managing AMS Support Model for Operations and Maintenance Experience with project scoping, planning, estimation, execution, and implementation methodology Ability to manage people across different geographic locations and cultures. Has knowledge of the SAP components and their integration with other related SAP products.

Tireless Service Delivery Manager talented in assessing client needs and developing solutions to promote business opportunities. Established decision-maker with background in mentoring others to accomplish project milestones. Offering exemplary client relationship building prowess.

Knowledgeable SAP Consultant with experience taking ownership of SAP solutions and related software and services. Talented at managing legacy installations as well as spearheading new deployments. Keen to drive positive movements in revenue and business performance through direct oversight of all branded and related products.

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

SERVICE DELIVERY MANAGER

Lemongrass
New Delhi
04.2021 - Current
  • Capacity planning by Ensuring sufficient resources and right placement of workforce within team
  • Communication and influencing – establishes communication channel, actively listens, clarifies, gives/seeks feedback, clear and concise, persuasive/negotiates with others
  • Develop detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports
  • Ensure adherence to quality standards and directs and/or provides analysis of trouble tickets to identify root cause
  • Escalate critical underperformance to Account Manager
  • Manages workload and assignments of subordinate staff through daily interaction and periodic staff meetings
  • Works with client for direction and priorities
  • Monthly and Weekly Connects with Customers to discuss progress of planned activities and ongoing issues.
  • Participated in drafting service budgeting, advising on areas of possible improvement to reduce costs and service delivery times.
  • Maintained proper staffing levels to guarantee timely and accurate deliveries.
  • Planned and managed full project lifecycles, from conception through final completion.
  • Supervised operations of 24-hour customer service desk staffed by team members.
  • Met with business leaders to better understand IT issues that negatively impacted businesses.
  • Facilitated completion of deliveries and verified documentation.
  • Contributed to internal and external account reviews.
  • Coordinated among multiple external stakeholders to gain consensus on major project milestones and prioritization goals.
  • Worked with vendors to schedule daily pickups and weekly deliveries.
  • Advised clients on methods, technologies, process improvements and training that would increase overall business potential.
  • Attended staff and client meetings and served as liaison to manage operations for account.
  • Coordinated new hire recruitment, training and development.
  • Evaluated personnel workloads to support capacity planning, adjusting service call scheduling according to available staff.

DELIVERY LEAD

DELL SERVICES
BANGALORE
04.2017 - 04.2021
  • Attend Change Management Sub Committee and Change Acceptance Board along with Project & Development Managers post testing and pre-Go-Live
  • Conduct regular project review meetings with project managers to monitor project- level performance, budget, schedule, risk, and quality management
  • Direct and supervise project management staff to ensure timely, effective, and efficient performance of project managers’ responsibilities
  • Always Ensuring customer satisfaction
  • Identify areas for improvement that feed into continuous improvement plans
  • PMO
  • Liaise with all areas of IT & Business in order to assist Project Manager with dissemination of information to external clients where necessary
  • Line management of team members and their professional development
  • Manage and review individual performance of project managers within sub-BU 3
  • Performing analysis and resolve technical problems, formulate long-term solutions to address issues escalated from production
  • Proven relationship management working across teams
  • Understand and execute Change and Incident management
  • Work with client/customer to create technical strategies and frameworks
  • Working with other Delivery Leads to perform impact analysis on key initiatives.

SAP BASIS LEAD

FLUXKON TECHNOLOGIES
New Delhi, DL
07.2014 - 04.2017
  • Actively identify efficiency improvement opportunities and work on service improvement plans and driving automation
  • Configure and execute SAP change control functions including transport management system (TMS) and batch jobs management across instances
  • Demonstrated architecture and design expertise with enterprise server and storage networking projects in support of SAP in large-scale environments
  • Develop and refine best practices for Basis Administration group, leading team through continuous improvement
  • Identifying and analyzing potential areas for improvement of SAP systems (pro-active problem management) and delivering continuous improvement
  • Interface with all delivery competencies including app, db, and infrastructure also including service center to resolve issues
  • Own incident, problem, and change management across all competencies including technical part of SAP application as well as infrastructure
  • Know-how on project management and change management best practices and tools
  • Proven program and project management, ITIL, and continuous improvement implementations
  • Seamlessly providing transition of project t delivery to RUN team with well documented design and how-to documents
  • Solution Manager: Basic configuration, Business Monitoring configuration set up, using Solution Manager for automatic triggering of emails for alerts
  • Supports development of practices and procedures to manage technologies based on "best practice" standards.
  • Managing customer calls on Daily, Weekly and Monthly basis.
  • Connected with Customer on the available tools and other functionalities which company is providing which in turn increased the Revenue.

Software Engineer

Accenture
Pune, MH
04.2013 - 10.2013
  • Participated in designing, scaling and implementing databases created to customer specifications.
  • Implemented NetWeaver and J2EE platform.
  • Recommended and built custom indexes within SAP database solutions.
  • Applied necessary support packs to SAP and Oracle products, maintaining up-to-date and secure software installations.
  • Installed kernel upgrades per technical documentation guidelines, adhering to SAP's best practices.
  • Designed performance testing protocols for several SAP products.
  • Managed system performance and user profiles.
  • Performed root cause analysis on technical issues and developed effective resolutions.
  • Operated within several environments such as IBM AIX, Linux Affinity and others.
  • Reviewed technical specifications of deliverables and recommended improvements.
  • Multitasked and managed multiple deliverables and projects concurrently and facilitated use of SAP for enterprise resource planning.
  • Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
  • Coordinated efficient large-scale software deployments.

Software Engineer

Regional software Research Labs
Vijayawada
06.2007 - 04.2013
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
  • Provided guidance and mentored less-experienced staff members.
  • Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.
  • Traveled to client locations to implement SAP solutions and offered post-installation support services.
  • Installed kernel upgrades per technical documentation guidelines, adhering to SAP's best practices.
  • Applied necessary support packs to SAP and Oracle products, maintaining up-to-date and secure software installations.
  • Delivered SAP training, user support and knowledge transfer at end of project and followed up to verify successful implementation.

Education

MASTER’S - COMPUTER SCIENCE

ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY
Guntur, AP
01.2009 - 01.2011

Bachelor of Science - COMPUTER SCIENCE

GOKULA KRISHNA COLLEGE ENGINEERING
SULLURUPET
04.2003 - 04.2007

Skills

Process Managementundefined

Timeline

SERVICE DELIVERY MANAGER

Lemongrass
04.2021 - Current

DELIVERY LEAD

DELL SERVICES
04.2017 - 04.2021

SAP BASIS LEAD

FLUXKON TECHNOLOGIES
07.2014 - 04.2017

Software Engineer

Accenture
04.2013 - 10.2013

MASTER’S - COMPUTER SCIENCE

ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY
01.2009 - 01.2011

Software Engineer

Regional software Research Labs
06.2007 - 04.2013

Bachelor of Science - COMPUTER SCIENCE

GOKULA KRISHNA COLLEGE ENGINEERING
04.2003 - 04.2007
Ranjan ViswanadhService Delivery Manager