Shwetank Sharma

Noida

Summary

Dedicated and experienced Software Asset Manager with over 11 years of expertise in SAM Project Management, Software License Audits, Software Licensing, SAM tool management and SAM best practices integration within organization. Proven track record of optimizing licensing, ensuring compliance, and driving cost savings. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive efficiency and cost savings.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certification

Work History

Manager - SAM

Proteam Advisory Solutions LLP

05.2020 - Current

Leading a team of proficient consultants in managing the licensing process for a wide range of publishers, ensuring adherence to stakeholder requirements and industry regulations.
Leading Microsoft and Adobe licensing team.
Conduct regular license compliance audits to reduce unlicensed compliance risk.
Provide expertise on licensing models for virtualized and cloud-hosted environments to ensure compliance and cost-effectiveness.
Collaborate with procurement and finance stakeholders to optimize license costs and renewals.
Managing multiple large scale projects from US, UK, etc. and delivering ELPs for various publishers.
Conducting trainings for the SAM team on Microsoft Volume Licensing.
Working on different SAM tools like Snow, SAM Pro, Flexera, etc.

Consultant - Risk Advisory

02.2019 - 05.2020

Lead a team involved in managing, planning, and conducting Microsoft LCC compliance audits.
Conducting license compliance audits, end-user audits, scanning the inventory using automated / semi-automated tools / manual i.e. customized Visual Basic scripts, PowerShell and SCCM commands.
Preparing Effective License Position reports, deployment summary and licensing summary from various deployment and entitlement records.
Attending Pre-audit and post-audit closure meetings with the publishing stakeholders & audit clients. Facilitating the settlement meetings post-audit results without prejudice.

Software Asset Management - Solution Analyst

Hexaware Technologies

08.2017 - 01.2019

Providing on-going high-end support to the customer for complete SAM engagement process.
Working closely with Presales team and assisting them with solution design and RFPs for new bid.
Working as Subject Matter Expert on Microsoft Licensing and Snow License Manager.
Avoid Audit Risks - Establish and maintain software license compliance as well as prove compliance with fast and accurate reports.
Devising an Effective License Position (ELP) for the client by studying the current software deployments against the respective vendor's software library.
Reduce software and support costs by eliminating or reallocating underutilized software licenses. Software Metering to harvest the license and reduce the unused installation to avoid extra licensing cost.

Associate SAM Consultant

SoftwareONE

07.2014 - 07.2017

Working on FlexNet tool of FLEXERA (FNMP),Snow License Manager and Aspera to manage the licenses and deployments as well as creating the custom reports for customers.
Acting as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the US region and leading a team of 6 people.
Analyzing the entitlement and calculating compliance for major publisher like Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, etc.
Working on Microsoft/Customer funded engagement to produce effective license position in order to calculate compliance.
Predicting the lifecycle of the software's for better management of customer's IT environment.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Computer Science

Amity University

12.2014

Skills

Microsoft, Adobe, VMware, IBM etc licensing
Microsoft LCC audit experience
Software audit support

SAM tool - Snow, Flexera, SAM Pro, Aspera
Team Leadership
Project Management

Accomplishments

Employee of the Year Award, Proteam Advisory Solutions LLP | March 2024
President’s Club ‘SAM Consultant of the Year’ nomination, SoftwareONE | May 2016
Gold Star Award, quarterly award for ‘Service Development’, SoftwareONE | September 2015
Employee of the month award for Service Quality, SoftwareONE