Ashok Jayagobi: S&A Tech lead & Scrum Master in Bangalore

• Coordinated efforts of 12 team members engaged in SAP role deployment through Agile-Scrum project for SAP Role deployment of integrating 49 kernels into one integrated landscape solution. • Custodian of the built roles and Quality officer ensuring roles are assigned with least privileage basis. • Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and Product demonstrations. Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline. • Change Management using Solman CHARM. • Role built with "Least Privileges " and deployed for SAP R/3, SAP BI, SAP HANA and SAP FIORI environments. Periodic reviews made to ensure the controls are in place. • Gathered Business requirement, Role matrix creation, SOD review, build of template and derived roles and providing technical solution to business. • User management and trouble shooting of day to day project delivery activities, supporting functional and technical teams. • Managed quality assurance of SAP roles including on site evaluations, internal audits and stake holder feedback. • Defined Identity and Access management and its integration to third party software. Performed ITGC assessment and ensured smooth transition to operations. • Ensured the Data at Transit and Data at rest are secure and define controls for Vulnerabilities identified. Vulnerability analysis and threat detection.

• Provided detailed advice to customers regarding SAP GRC Access controls and process controls and managing a team of 8 • Implemented SAP GRC AC - EAM component and PC. Collaborated with clients from concept through final delivery of product or service. • Privilege management, role and user admin for SAP HANA. Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to avoid perpetual problems. • Evaluated current processes to develop improvement plans. • Developed role metrics derived from raw business requirement to track improvements in organizational efficiency.

• Lead the GRC Center of Excellence which is a 15 member team.. Contributed to success of client's organization by improving performance, motivation, job satisfaction, hiring practices, training programs and management systems. • Identified business issues through careful collaboration with key stakeholders. • Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates. • SAP R/3 full life cycle role implementation and several roll outs / deployment. Requirement analysis, Role design, Role build, and deployment done with very minimal time for clients. • Contributed to continuous improvement of Edrington and plan international clients based on learning from ideas, client implementation, and previous experiences.

• Handled the entire Change management track for the client Royal Philips. Supported end to end operations of SAP R/3, BI and Internal controls audit. Managed the CR track team • Configuration and setup up of Access control components like ARA, ARM and EAM through SPRO and NWBC. Implementation of SAP GRC Process control automated and manual controls. • Created support documentation that empowered and enabled user community to extend skills, leverage system features and find resolutions to questions without intervention from support team. • Performed tests of functionality, security and performance of different SAP environments. • Reviewed internal controls and Security baseline technical documentation and procedures. • Led internal training for SAP GRC and SAP HR security modules, to train support team, end-users and new employees. • Followed up with clients to ensure optimal customer satisfaction following support engagement and problem resolution.

• Advised on design, planning and implementation of SAP R/3 security projects. • Created detailed road maps of action items and project goals and provided reporting and analysis to inform budgeting and planning. • Evaluated diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication and resource utilization issues. • Resolved any issues and problems arising during project execution. • Liaised with customers, management and sales team to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions.

• Lead a 15 member team for operational activity support of the client • Interacted with team and clients to develop and plan out project work. • Conducted multiple knowledge sharing sessions per requirement to capture lessons learned and streamline product improvement process. • Assessed impact of current way of working of business processes on users and stakeholders and evaluated potential areas for improvement. • Mapped current business and operational processes and offered recommendations for improvement. • Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results. • Consulted regularly with internal customers on application development project status, new project proposals and software-related technical issues.

• Maintain landscapes for the support package and add-ons which are released by SAP. Maintain authorizations and also users for testing environment and acceptance testing • Release of Support packages to SMP - Service Market Place. Maintain the clients for the test environment for doing a client copy and also transport management systems control for seamless transports • Work on GRC tool Compliance calibrator to ensure SOX compliance

K- Corp Services India Pvt Ltd.- Test and Implementation Engineer June 2003 - Mar 2005Test • Level 1 support given for SAP end users. • Onsite support for the clients • Trained in SAP Basis and Security.