Viswanath Sashank Jajala

• Globally heading the team of software Developers, testers and process experts engaged in DevOps, CD/CI and QA testing for the Digital Products.
• Established new vertical under enterprise IT to cater the Quality assurance and software testing services for Wartsila's digital products in the Energy storage and optimization business.
• Stabilized and created a clear matrices for measurement.
• Accountable for software testing / QA for customer delivery projects.
• Extending the capabilities of Development , testing and platform administration to other Business units. IoT edge platform administration and development on Azure cloud.
• Working with the leadership to establish a sustainable digital technology hub to cater to technological needs for continuous product development and deployment.
• Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
• Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures and performance strategies.

Strategic Cyber Risk Management (Assessment, Remediation and Value at Risk analysis)
Factor Analysis of Information Risk Methodology
Third Party Cyber Risk Management: Onboarding (Due Diligence), Monitor & Control, Audits.
Customer Assurance Activities : Accountable for Assurance activities for the customer Cyber flowdown.
Fraud Investigations & Assurance
ISO 27K, CCC, Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus, CMMC...
Policy Governance and Oversight.

• Global Head of SAP Basis, Security & GRC Team, Project Manager for Global GRC project, Part of Management team - IM, Digital Champion, Platform architect/ Stream Lead S/4 HANA Program.
• Established from ground up - IT Risk management, Internal Controls and Governance for ERP.
• Accountable for End to End delivery in SAP Technical (Basis/ Development/ Change & Release) and Security areas & TCO globally for 80+ countries and 130+ locations.
• Budgeting and forecasting (Rolling forecast for 5 quarters for SAP) from technology, People and General Administration. Finalizing Roadmaps for SAP Basis and Security (GRC) (3 Years rolling)
• Recent Programs: DB Compression, EHP7 upgrade, GRC 10.1 Upgrade, SAP Fiori, SAP KNOH, SAP HANA DB PoC, SAP Cloud platform (Hackathon in Helsinki), SAP Solution Manager Upgrade (7.3), M&A integration projects, GRC 10.1 AC and PC (in Progress), Core Member of SAP S/4 HANA Journey Program (SAP Platform/ Technology Architect), Governance Risk & Compliance initiatives.
• Optimized & Automated Security and compliance activities with RPA (UiPath)
• Vendor Management: Approve time sheets, RFCs, Enhancements (Content and Commercial Approvals), RFIs & RFPs.
• Delivery Management: Deliveries per IT Rroadmaps, Manage Service managers, Solution Architects, Solution Managers and Solutions experts.

• Head of SAP Basis and Security Practice, Head of Instructional design & Training Team.
• Program Management: Responsible for multiple projects with different clients.
• Managing SAP Security Implementation, Roll outs, Support projects SAP Basis and Security & GRC
• Solution Architect - SAP Basis, SAP security, GRC.
• Delivery Management: SAP and Instructional Design.
• People Management 20 + FTE.
• Presales and Bid management for potential customers and Leads.

• SAP Basis and Security Practice), Project Manager/Delivery Manager - SAP Projects, Team Member - Business Development / Bidding Team (SAP Nordics) (Denmark, Switzerland, India).
• CoE Lead for SAP Basis and Security for Nordics Region.
• Solution architect for SAP BASIS & Security involves gathering the requirements from business, translating the business requirements into technical design and deliverable, Design, Develop, Test and Implement SAP Security Roles, Profiles
• Delivery management and project management with Onsite/Offshore team and multi vendors.
• Client relationship management and handling escalations: Responsible for Project delivery, Operations, staffing and Skill enablement of FTEs (30+ FTEs).
• Consolidation, simplification & Optimizing of the SAP landscapes.
• SAP security Audits in co-ordination with external/internal auditors, SOX compliance and Risk identification/mitigation, evaluation of controls.
• POCs (proof of concepts) for new technology to check and verify feasibility.
• Managing pre-sales and collaboration with sales leadership.

• Onsite transition team, Offshore Tower lead (Team of 18), SME for ECC, BI, APO, RFID and SAP Console solutions (USA, India) Onsite Lead: Neenah, Wisconsin (US) for the transition of the project where the core responsibilities included, Understanding the landscape, technology and components installed, Creating the operations and technical manuals before starting the support for the systems and To provide the support for the data centre.
• Transition of the Support, operations and Development work from Onsite to Offshore.
• Key Parameters were Quality and Time.
• Maintenance and Operations responsibility for All SAP Servers.
• Client relationship Management was Key KPI.
• Responsible for maintaining SLAs, training and assisting team with technical as well as process issues.
• Lead ITIL processes.

• Maintaining the three-system landscape with uptime requirement of 24/7,SAP R/3 kernel upgrade for resolving problem related to different executable files.
• Daily System monitoring CPU utilization and run time analysis of the different wait times and acting accordingly.
• SAP Patching (Support Packs, Hotfixes, Notes and Security)
• Change Management: Transportation at both STMS and O.S level and monitoring the problems and trouble shooting.
• SAP User Administration

• SPOC for maintenance and enhancement of live web sites for various customers Maintenance of Windows applications and Hardware.
• Troubleshooting issues and providing resolutions.