Balram  Choudhary, VP & Head-Technology Solution group

Balram Choudhary

VP & Head-Technology Solution group

BOB FINANCIAL SOLUTION LTD

Location
India - Mumbai
Education
Master's degree, FINANCE & IT
Experience
18 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 2 Months

VP & Head-Technology Solution group at BOB FINANCIAL SOLUTION LTD
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since February 2018

BOB Financial Solutions Limited was established in the year 1994. It is a NBFC, wholly owned by Bank of Baroda, one of the top Bank in India & one of the oldest credit card company in India .

Setting up a Digital initiative for the BFSL for 5 years, Migrating various core platform to new Platform .

Set up a new Hybrid cloud for the organization
Implemented Loan management system & HRMS leveraging hybrid cloud & SAAS.

Managing third-party relationships, including service levels, risk assessments, and compliance requirements.
Establish governance and control processes to ensure that technology related risks are managed and the organization’s resources are adequately utilized.

Automation of disaster recovery program to ensure data integrity and technology functionality always remains
intact.
Establish appropriate levels of governance with respect to the IT operational performance metrics.

Leads and provides direction to the IT / Operational Teams. Selects, trains, develops, and motivates staff to meet or exceed performance expectations.

Participates in budget development and monitoring in support of business initiatives. Interviews, hires, evaluate, manage, and develops staff to ensure accountability for achievement of departmental goals and objectives.

collaborates on deployment of ITSM functions by instituting and demonstrating industry best practices for release, change, configuration, and implementation, and incident/problem management.

Responsible for developing and monitoring the approved annual operating and capital budgets.

To be advisory to senior management on strategic systems conversions and integrations in support of business goals and objectives.

Communicate IS/IT plans, policies and technology trends throughout the organization, Ensuring a secured IT environment across the organisation .

Deputy Vice President -IT at RBL Bank
  • India - Mumbai
  • June 2015 to February 2018

IT Infra, Contact Center Technology, Cloud Computing, Team Member of Enterprise Architect,

Responsible for the technological direction, Forecast Demand for IT, CC Business Application and take appropriate action before capacity limit reached. Proposes budgets for programs and projects, purchases and upgrades equipment, supervises Manager /Team Leader and IT workers, and presides over IT-related projects.

Network Head /Head -Regional IT /Head - Service Delivery /End Point Security at Reliance Capital (Reliance Life)
  • India - Mumbai
  • February 2010 to June 2015

Initiated tenure with the organization as Network Head, with subsequent additional responsibilities for Information Security & IT Governance. Played a decisive role in supporting the growth of operations from > 40 branches to ~ 1250 branches across the country.

Network Head, Business Information Security officer for Reliance Life, Service Delivery Head, Regional IT Head .

Assistant Manager -IT ( Heading IT- Delmon Poultry ) at KIT
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • June 2006 to February 2007

Outsourced to Delmon Poultry where I was responsible for entire IT of the organisatrion -Delmon

Sr. System Engineer at Mantech Computer
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • January 2006 to June 2006

• Involved in end to end management of the IT department consisting of Exchange Server, Oracle Database, Orion Application, 5 Location Remote Support, Network/ Perimeter Security
• Focused on resolution of hardware and Office Suite to enhance system uptime
• Worked on perimeter security using proxy, firewall etc
• Migrated Active Directory from WinNT to Win 2003 including network for 5 locations using Cisco Switch & Router
• Coordinated activities related to rollout of Orion Application across the company

IT Officer at IL &FS
  • India - Mumbai
  • August 2005 to January 2006

• Functioned as Data Center Incharge involved in management of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Lotus Notes Server, Oracle Database, Networking, Citrix Metaframe and CA- backup
• Migrated Active Directory from WinNT to Windows 2003 and Citrx Metaframe XP1.0 to 3.0
• Coordinated with various support teams in rolling out network for the branches
• Worked on Link Monitoring software Solar Wind and implemented symantec Antivirus for Enterprises

System Engineer at Summation Enterprises
  • India - Mumbai
  • May 2003 to July 2005

• Managed day to day IT operations for the corporate office
• Worked on data replication, high availability software, mailing solution
• Involved in clustering, ensuring high availability of various database (Exchange Server, SQL Server and Oracle) using Life Keeper tools, Microsoft Cluster
• Focused on replication of data for various databases (Exchange Server, SQL Server and Oracle Server DB) using Life Keeper. Worked on Red Hat Linux
• Involved in high performance technical computing using Woulf Kit Interconnect Card

Education

Master's degree, FINANCE & IT
  • at FOSTIIMA BUSINESS SCHOOL
  • June 2014

MBA- In Finance Major which includes - HR , Marketing , Profit and Loss account ,balance sheet , Strategic Management , Organizational Behavior , Management of financial Service , Financial instrument , Primary and secondary market , Security Operation , Project Management , Portfolio Management . IT- ERP , CRM , Networking , Information Security

Specialties & Skills

Production Support
Information Security Management
Enterprise Architecture
Cloud Computing
Information Security Management
Microsoft CRM
Mailing Solution
0365/Lync /Yammer
ERP-SAPFICO
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
Microsoft Server
Public Cloud Computing
Private Cloud
LAN./WAN
Perimeter Security
IT IS-Service Desk
Datcenter Management /Disaster Recovery
Desktop Virtualization
virtual Security
Hybrid Cloud

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Marathi
Beginner

Training and Certifications

ITIL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2010
Valid Until:
December 2010
Cloud Computing (Training)
Training Institute:
IT NEXT
Date Attended:
September 2011
Duration:
24 hours
Server Virtualization (Training)
Training Institute:
VMWARE
Date Attended:
October 2011
Duration:
24 hours
Six Sigma (Yellow Belt) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Valid Until:
December 2011
Proxy and web filtering tools (Training)
Training Institute:
Vibrant Technolozy
Date Attended:
September 2004
Duration:
56 hours
Certified Cethical hacker (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
December 2010
Desktop Virtualization (Training)
Training Institute:
IT NEXT
Date Attended:
September 2011
Duration:
24 hours
Websense Certified Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Valid Until:
December 2011
Microsoft Certified System Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2003
Valid Until:
October 2003
ISO 27001 (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Cisco Certified Network Associated (CCNA)
    Networking /LAN /WAN/Switching /OSI Layers