JEPHY POTHEN

Former developer turned seasoned SAP technology consultant cum solutions architect with 27+ years’ experience predominantly in SONY with proven track record of executing 10+ high stakes full cycle SAP projects, and hands-on information security professional to ensure robust governance, risk, and compliance of systems and infrastructure. Demonstrated expertise in SAP landscape design, implementation, migration, and upgrades; vulnerability and security incident management, security risk assessment and remediation; user access management; defining strategies for systems backup with >99.9% availability; infrastructure capacity planning and resource budgeting; and performance optimization. Adept at delivering cutting-edge capabilities at profitable ROI (of 1-3 years) to support business objectives of revenue growth, geographic expansion, automation and process efficiency, and financial visibility. Strong leadership and communication skills to engage with clients and cross-functional internal stakeholders to motivate performance and inspire opportunities that leverage constantly evolving and emergent technologies.

• Securely migrating all critical applications to Cloud, generating 80% lower infrastructure cost savings with ROI
• Implemented Onapsis to automate vulnerability, compliance, and incident management, resulting in USD80K annual cost savings, and award recognition by Corporate Information Security Officer for outstanding contribution to company’s information security and privacy mission.
• Rolled out SAP GRC to automate identity and access management process, which safeguarded against unmitigated risks being introduced to production systems.
• Recognized with Excellence Achievement Award for spearheading rollout of unified SAP platform to all sales entities across Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand, which reduced ~30% IT ownership cost by replacing standalone AS400 system in each country and facilitated consolidated P&L and balance sheet reporting.