Girish Keswani, Assistant Manager - IT

Girish Keswani

Assistant Manager - IT

Bhatia Brothers

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
22 years, 7 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 7 months

Assistant Manager - IT at Bhatia Brothers
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2012

A dynamic IT Professional with over 15 years of profound work experience in managing IT services for large enterprises across multiple regions. Proven problem-solving and technical skills to improve the team and organizational performance. Excited about turning emerging technology into working production-ready systems. An ardent mentor who leads a team with purpose and understands that a strong working relationship produces exceptional results.

Associate General Manager - IT at CBay Systems
  • India - Navi Mumbai
  • May 2005 to December 2011

A leading provider of healthcare (Medical Transcription) business process outsourcing (“BPO”) services.

CBay is spread across 17 locations in India and I led teams across these locations for three major functions: IT Infrastructure Management, Procurement and IT Governance.

Responsibilities and Achievements:
IT Governance:
• Helped frame and implement the IT policies and provided key technical inputs to Compliance for Standards and Safeguards update
• Key player for implementing QMS for IT department like ISO 9001 and Six Sigma
• Eliminated non compliance for IT processes across all locations during third party security audits.

IT Procurement:
• Helped draw out the Annual IT Budget to meet the Business needs
• Worked with world class vendors like Dell, IBM, Cisco, etc. for procurement of IT Infrastructure on both CAPEX and OPEX based pricing
• Rationalized product pricing by 10%-15% year on year.

IT Infrastructure Management:
• Designed and Implemented IT infrastructure across locations by leveraging the latest technologies like Virtualization, UTM Devices, etc.
• Trained by Principles like Fortinet, VMware, IBM, and Cisco for Deploying and maintaining their products.
• Implemented multiple projects across all locations to further improve the IT infrastructure and get better RoI.
• Trained and mentored team members to pick up more responsibilities and deliver expected results.

Systems Administrator at Godrej Remote Services Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • April 2001 to April 2005

Was responsible for the complete IT infrastructure of a 300 plus computer network. Coordinated with CBay Systems for production related issues. Trained and led a team of six IT support members.

Responsibilities and Achievements:
Technical:
• Lead the IT team in managing the entire IT infrastructure
• Implemented technologies like Single Sign-on using Windows AD, Cisco PIX, Qmail etc.
• Coordinating with vendors for IT requirements.

Operational:
• Handled the complete distribution of daily work and coordinated with CBay for various production related issues like Quality, Routing, etc.
• Involved in enhancing the efficiency of production processes by creating macros to automate certain processes and reports.
• Planned and implemented night shift rotations for the team.

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at University of Cumbria
  • March 2017

Dissertation in E-commerce technology.

Specialties & Skills

NetSuite
Project Management
IT Procurement
Virtualization
Technical Support
Infrastructure Design
People Management
Datacentre Operations
Systems Support

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Gujarati
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Fortinet Fortigate Product Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Fortinet
Date Attended:
June 2009