Shivshankar Reddy

Experienced strategic-thinking leader skilled in transforming underperforming teams into top revenue producers. Known for engaging and pleasant personality couple with problem solving skills. Proven ability to build high-performing, highly engaged virtual and direct cross-functional teams. Operates on both strategic and tactical levels, with a knack for translating concepts into tangible results. Adept at resolving uncertainties that impact programs and projects. Possesses deep understanding of customer pain points and suggests appropriate solutions while executing them effectively. Extensive experience in defining project requirements and scope with stakeholders, removing ambiguity through well defined acceptance criteria. Strong control over P&L management. Well-versed in managing compliance, risk, and change management aspects associated with projects, programs, and deliverables. Skilled at managing large-scale teams, driving operational efficiencies, and developing strategic roadmaps to maximize client value. Successfully managed various organization development activities such as lateral hiring, campus recruitment, training and evaluation, appraisals, sales support, account mining, vendor evaluation, as well as planning and executing team building initiatives.

• Rewarded with multiple SAP e-Invoice implementation projects from SBD, due to successful on-time quality delivery of first SAP e-Invoice implementation for their Romania business entity.
• Increased profit margin from less than 30% to more than 40% for Domino's account
• Established and grown SAP IS-Media, SAP Adobe Forms and SAP IBP practices at various organizations. Trained and Deployed multiple junior resources
• Successfully migrated legacy NFS environment (600+ critical banking applications) to futuristic NetApp cloud environment ahead of schedule resulting in a saving of 3 Mn Euros to the client. Rewarded with a new contract worth 1.5 Mn Euros to plan and migrate NAS environment (1.5 PB Data) to NetApp cloud
• Successfully delivered complex projects in collaboration with SAP MENA and SAP GDC (Technical, Custom Development and Functional). Won change orders averaging 30 man-months.
• Played defining role in winning 'The Washington Post, USA' AMS Project. Set onsite-offshore model up, hired and trained the team members and cleared client evaluation milestone leading to successful long-term contract sign-off.
• Was appointed global single point-of-contact while deputed at SAP Labs, India, for testing of 'product tax module' (Inbound and Outbound) of SAP’s Business ByDesign Product

Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute.