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Skills

Expert Advanced Intermediate

Infrastructure Project

management AWS Cloud Technical Hiring

Application Migration Azure Cloud Business Analysis

Data center Migration Pega Systems Administration Vendor Management

Cloud Migration Pega Systems Architecture

Contract

management

Network Operations

Nearshore / Offshore

management Clarity Tool

Scrum Methodology PMO Functions Rally Tool

SDLC Network Security Big Data

Analytics

Hadoop

Certifications

Azure Cloud Solutions Architect

Scrum master

PMP

Cisco UCCE

CCIE (Pursuing)

AWS Cloud (Pursuing)

Work Experience: (16+ years)

Major Credit Card Company USA (Abridge) Technical PM ( Oct 2015 – Current)

Leading Design, Development, Migration, Deployment of 17 Applications from DB2 to

Oracle Environment

IAAS and Open Stack Cloud Migration projects

Stakeholder management of Business Product Owners Development / Agile teams

Status and reporting to Business and Agile Owners along-with Rally User stories and

backlog grooming

Major Healthcare provider USA (Accenture) Technical PM (Mar 2010 - Sep 2015)

Avamar and Data Domain Migration End to End technical PM role - after assessing the

existing backup solutions with the assistance of existing backup team to understand

1600+ clients. Analyzed Total data being backed up daily, weekly and annually, find out

clients which had more than 150 GB of data, Special Clients with special deep data

structures, total number of databases, and variety of operating systems, un supporting

applications and operating systems etc

VNX Storage platform upgrade End to End technical PM role

End to End technical PM role for 4 New Application Launches Created an aggressive and

phased delivery schedule for new seed environment. Co-ordinated with all the

infrastructure teams involved to ensure delivery of network and server infrastructure on

schedule for application on-boarding

End to End technical PM role for CTO’s WIN 7 boot time enhancement project

Profitability and Quality champion for Infrastructure PMO - Techno Commercial

Forecasting single point of contact for major groups - Client directors, Accenture

Directors, Contract management and Financial management

Major Credit Card Company in USA (Accenture Payroll) Migration Manager

Mastered the "managing up" concept while working with 15 + client directors and

ensured 98% accuracy with application dependency analysis and 100% accuracy with

infrastructure discovery and business requirements

Challenge was to identify complex application components and its interdependencies –

handled with zero supervision

Orchestrated migration execution of 250+ applications (900 servers) as migration

specialist and Move Group Manager

Optimized data center Migration by employing various migration strategies like V2V, P2V,

reinstallation, lift and ship.

Accenture India Team Leader (July 2007 - Feb 2010 )

Network consultant for CIO global Application Hosting data center. Achieved data center

network readiness for Lync and MS Exchange Launch and multiple applications.

Network consultant role for Telecom expense management. Assisted client achieve 20%

reduction in fixed line usage across enterprise

Network consultant role in network optimization - The assessment will examine network

architectures, platforms and capacity of a Cisco Network. The goal is to optimize the

network, eliminate performance issues and validate the network capacity for provisioning

additional services

UK based Global and retail Commercial banking – Infrastructure projects Viz Banking call

center, DR solution for ATM and mobile banking. Execution, go live and service desk

transition

Network consultant role for Major USA based Gas Company. Successful end to end

transition between onsite project team and offshore Global Network Operations center

Xerox (ACS) India Network Specialist (April 2007 TO July 2007)

Incident Management- Proactive incident management using ticketing tools such as

Service Center and Remedy and Accountable for client proactive Notifications and ACS

Management Escalations. Ensure that no SLA is missed.

Problem Management-Proactive problem management using ITIL Standard with ISO

20000 compliance, Root Cause Analysis.

Change Management- Participate in CCB meetings. Initiating, planning executing and

monitoring client specific changes.

Network Management- L1 & L2 troubleshooting, L3 Co-ordination on Cisco

environment.(Router, Switches, firewall, Wireless controller, VPN concentrator)

Fault Management- 24*7, Proactive Monitoring using State of art Network Monitoring

Tools like Netcool, SevOne, HP Openview, Nerve Center, NetQos.

Vendor Management: Telco Co-ordination and Escalation, Vendor Meeting. Plan for and

ensure Service Continuity and Vendor interface management

Sify Senior Engineer Network Control Group Central India (AUG 2001- MAR 2007)

Largest integrated ICT Solutions & Services companies in India, offering end-to-end

solutions with a comprehensive product range delivered over a common telecom data

network infrastructure residing on 38 + datacenters. I lead the Network Control Group

supporting WAN/LAN network and voice environment for 7 locations

Datacenter management (UPS systems, Air Conditioners, Security devices, fire protection

systems, safety equipment’s etc.)

Vendor management, contract management, license management, software and hardware

procurement and budget management

Technology Audits for data centers

Regional Lead role - Integrated 1000+ documents and Artifacts to ISO 9001:2008 certified

central website for VPN, Network, Voice, Data-center hosting, Managed services and Asset

management

Regional Lead role - Six Sigma Pilot Project Rollout for 7 base-stations. The final outcome

was "Always On" service Infrastructure with 99.99% uptime for the base station

infrastructure.

Technical project manager for most Advanced 80 Cyber cafes across 7 Cities.

Implementation was completed with 0% schedule variance using skilled resources in LAN,

WAN and adaptive broadband technologies from Dax, Axxcelera, Proxim, Smart bridge and

Cisco.

Technical project manager for high visibility new business initiative whereby VPN, WAN

connectivity was to be established at 7 cities and 25 branches of major Indian Bank. The

Final solution supported VOIP, core banking applications and ATM transactions and offered

55% improved speed. Cutover from old to new solution was done with 0 % downtime.

Wipro Net Limited India Node Engineer (April 2001 to Aug 2001

Parks Webtech India Engineer NCS (Nov 1999 to March 2001)

Education

Master’s in Business Administration (HA and Information Systems) year 1999 from

Institute of Management Studies. DAVV Indore [M.P]. (The most coveted MBA program

of Central India)

Diploma in Computer Technology from Microsoft ATEC(Asset) Indore

Bachelor of Sciences from DAVV Indore [M.P]

References

Will be provided by Client Leadership on request