Ajay Shahani, IT Project Manager - Service Delivery

Ajay Shahani

IT Project Manager - Service Delivery

VASCO WorldWide

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Information Technology
Expérience
12 years, 4 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :12 years, 4 Mois

IT Project Manager - Service Delivery à VASCO WorldWide
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis octobre 2013

- Hired as consultant in Oct 2013 to rollout VISA centers for Saudi Mission,
- Insourced by VFS Tasheel in Oct 2014,
- Rolled out more than 70 centers across 33 countries,
- Rolled out Point of Sale (POS) across Value Added Services (VASCO),
- Rolled out IT Service Management tool for enabling IT automation,
- Involved in multiple projects from inception till closure & handover to operation,
- Involved in datacenter hosting project to host company infrastructure,
- Travelled to Russia to integrate partner IT organization with native IT organization.
- Service Manager for Europe & Russia region,
- Handling team size of 15 technical teams members,

IT Consultant - Project based job à Provise Consulting
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • mars 2013 à octobre 2013

Consulting on ITSM for company's 2 major customers in Banking & Military domain respectively.

--> Consulting & Developing framework for IT Service Asset & Configuration Management
--> Consulting for IT Service Continuity Management by doing Business Impact Analysis, Gap Assessment, Continuity Strategy.

Deputy Operations Manager (IT) à Capgemini India
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • août 2008 à mars 2013

 Deputy for Nordic Operations Manager for IT Support and Operations Management responsibilities/activities
 Infrastructure management for 16 offices, including datacenters spread across 4 Nordic regions (Denmark, Finland, Norway and
Sweden)
 Bi-weekly and Monthly service performance metrics for all supported services
 Working closely with IT Operations Director for defining Operational budget and forecast. Validate current costs on account of
available budget and handle OPEX procurement
 Key responsible and first point of contact to business for IT performance and service delivery
 Escalation level for services that are in production
 Incident and Problem Management for major incidents and business critical situations and responsible for continuous
improvement in current processes
 Project Management for new introduction of services or major changes in existing services
 Vendor Management, negotiating with vendors for new services and/or improvements in existing service levels
 People management, handling team size of 20+ technical and process resources working from multiple locations in India and
Sweden

Change Manager à IBM India
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • janvier 2008 à août 2008

 Transition of Change management process from former vendor to IBM standard, Know-how of the current Change process &
enhancing the same
 Rolling off change management process across all Vodafone circles in India
 Visit all circles for training the technical staff on Incident, Problem and Change management, coordinating change management
process through Change Review Board meetings
 Ensuring integrity of Change requests in form of approvals, rejections and coordination’s
 Weekly and monthly change management KPI reporting to Vodafone Management
 Closely working with the MAXIMO tool design team for change management module implementation
 Creating & managing a temporary Warroom (helpdesk) for central incident logging at the initial phase of project transition.

Shift Lead-Support à Accenture
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • juin 2006 à décembre 2007

 Lead and manage a support team to provide Computing and Desktop support services to customers in the areas of phone
system, desktops, networking, Printers, Servers, LAN & WAN networking link
 Overseeing daily operations to manage the overall delivery of IT services to customers as per defined process & SLAs.
 Supporting the facility IT Lead in all aspects of IT service delivery to all technology and BPO accounts.
 Providing a single entry point for Business/Customer & the internal Delivery Organization.
 Project Management - Manage and provide guidance to BAU and transition/migration of projects from facilities/to new facility.

System Administrator à Wipro Infotech
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • avril 2004 à mai 2006

 To coordinate detection and resolution of issues known to Technology Operations, managing speedy and effective resolution
and ensure that a service orientated focus is maintained by all support chain participants through normal day to day operations.
 Administering Status of servers through utilities like what’s UP Gold; Installation and Configuration of Active Directory-Directory
Services on Win 2k and 2K3 Platform.
 Securing Desktops & Servers by implementing group policies on Domain and OU Level. Part of BS7799 activities and awareness
of BS7799 policies, ensuring Procedures followed by Team Members as per BS7799 Policies.
 Escalation and Coordination with Internal and External clients for Approvals and requests.
 Conduct Weekly team meetings for new projects to be rolled and providing them technical knowledge.
 Creating Users and Groups as per requirement and giving appropriate rights and even troubleshooting user management.
 Worked as Resident Engineer at Wipro Spectramind call center in Powai; handling mass calls for system updating, applying OS
patches, virus scan patches.
 Resolving desktop issues - Windows 2000 Professional OS, Microsoft, Outlook, and Lotus Notes, Network connectivity, Vlan,
Domain connectivity and Security issues.
 Techno Management profile

Resident Engineer à Embee Software Pvt Ltd. (Wipro Franchisee)
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • mai 2003 à décembre 2003

 Server side administration, Lotus notes (Client Side) Administration and troubleshooting, Network
Administration/Configuration, Desktop Administration/Configuration, Printer Installation and maintenance.
 Providing Desktop support for users of the clients. Solving mailing related problems of Lotus notes and Microsoft Outlook as
well.
Sites of Wipro under Responsibilities: - Haldia Petro Chemical, SRF, Ford India, Total Fina, Solutia and NALCO

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Information Technology
  • à Sikkim Manipal University
  • janvier 2009

2009 Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from Sikkim Manipal University

Diplôme, Electronics and Video Engineering
  • à Radio Electric Institute
  • janvier 1998

Diploma in Electronics and Video Engineering from Radio Electric Institute, affiliated to Maharashtra State Board

Specialties & Skills

Incident Management
IT Operations
IT Service Management
Customer Relations
CLIENTS
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
DESKTOP ADMINISTRATION
DRIVERS
ENGINEER
ETHERNET
ISO 20000
Service Desk Management
Incident, Problem & Change Management
IT Operations Management

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Suédois
Débutant

Formation et Diplômes

Implementing ISO/IEC 20000 (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
October 2012
Valide jusqu'à:
October 2012
ITIL® V3 Service Operation intermediate (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
August 2011
Valide jusqu'à:
August 2011
Prince 2 Foundation (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
December 2011
Valide jusqu'à:
December 2011