Azher Chakkolayil,  IT PROJECT MANAGER

Azher Chakkolayil

IT PROJECT MANAGER

GAVS TECHNOLOGY, DUBAI

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
19 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 0 Months

IT PROJECT MANAGER at GAVS TECHNOLOGY, DUBAI
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2017

Managing high value Infrastructure projects for ATA readiness, enterprise mobility management, business continuity and technical architecture projects. Responsible for defining and documenting architecture, capturing and documenting non-functional (architectural) requirements, preparing estimates and defining technical solutions to proposals (RFPs).

Senior Project leader IT Infrastructure (Production IT) at Emirates Global Aluminium
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • June 2014 to February 2017

Manage IT infrastructure for 24/7 critical production environment and lead the integration program after the merger of DUBAL and EMAL to form the new entity EGA. Implementing global IT strategy for systems consolidation and process practices across the organisation. Handle planning and operations for infrastructure, software development, audit and IT service projects.

Senior Analyst – Production Management Systems at EMAL
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2011 to January 2014

Established MES layer throughout the plant, from automation to ERP, implemented solutions for production, deployed Lean and Kaizen for greater efficiency, and enabled acquisition of HSE certifications.
 Manage and Plan IT service delivery, Supplier management, Service management, Supply chain management and Area wise consumers understanding the production Information technology requirements and Business Value.
 Served as SPOC for Plant Auditing for ICS, NESA, etc. protecting company assets and people from information security risks.
 Service Delivery: Drove automation initiatives to add an MES layer to several different systems and maintained up time of 99.99% in a highly volatile environment; achieved targeted 5% improvement in customer satisfaction every year
 Set up the PMO including SOPs and processes, managed SLAs with business units and OLAs with the IT department, and synergized IT processes for production

Infrastructure Specialist – ICT Projects at EMIRATES ALUMINIUM (EMAL)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • August 2008 to February 2011

Played a key role in commissioning, designing, developing, and optimising multi-domain Greenfield and brownfield projects, managed vendors (Rockwell, Snc, WP, GE, ABB, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Cisco), and coordinated with business and technical teams to develop RFPs, CAPEX plans, SOW and BOM. Handled Initiative Clause Sociale (ICS) and customer audits.

(Network Engineer –EMAL Projects) at Getronics
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2007 to September 2008
Engineer HLL Project at Hewlett Packard, Bangalore, India
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2006 to August 2007
Systems Administrator at CG Smith Software Pvt Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2005 to January 2006

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Bharathiyar University
  • January 2002

IT computer science and Engineering

Specialties & Skills

MANAGEMENT
Enterprise Architecture
Datacenter
IT strategy
Business Continuity
Project management
Disaster Recovery
IT Automation
Virtualization

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Malayalam
Native Speaker
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Project Management Institute
  • Project management professional
  • May 2016

Training and Certifications

DIsaster Recovery Manager (Training)
Training Institute:
ISO/IEC 24762 Manager
Business Continuity (Training)
Training Institute:
PCEB ISO 22301 Lead Implementer
Enterprise Architecture ( TOGAF 9 ) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2015
Project Management Professional ( Prince 2) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2015
Valid Until:
July 2020