Project Manager
Capgemini India Private Limited
Total years of experience :17 years, 5 Months
• Oversaw the entire phases of large-scale projects that facilitated the achievement of organization’s business goals. Secured communication within teams to develop strategic project plans and gain high-level satisfaction rates.
• Executed 2 to 11 concurrent projects with budgets ranging from $250K to $20M.
• Successfully handled and completed different projects, namely:
• Oil & Gas client Data Center Relocation (250 servers)
• Assessed and strategically formulated a plan for consolidation of network and desktops at multiple customer sites.
• Took charge of managing and monitoring multiple IT network projects to ensure thorough completion within budget and time constraints. Served as project manager for the data center migration, overseeing server installations, power configurations, network design, and server build-out.
• Directed the implementation of hosting environment to support large hosting customers. Carried out 6 concurrent projects at once with budget ranging from $500K to $750K.
• Led efforts in managing company-wide Active Directory migration across multiple countries and 3600 users by utilizing Quest tool.
• Significantly contributed in attaining successful margin through execution of costing structure.
• Conducted risk analysis for client moving into Data Center Hosting.
Provided oversight and control by being present locally for all vendor staff contracted on behalf of Credit Risk IT/ITES projects sending organization in UK.
•Single Point of Contact for all escalation between LRC IT managers and the vendor team & vendor team management.
•Responsible for rolling out new and enhancement of banking applications
•Rolling out applications for the Credit Risk clients using Software development Life cycle model.
•Responsible for setup of Virtual Desktop Environment at Vendor Location (TCS). Desktop Virtualization for the benefit of system administrators and end users. Result in over fifty percent improvement in productivity and maintain the Offshore/Onshore ratio of 10/90%.
•Work with the Vendors to ensure they adhere to the SLA established with the bank.
•Ensure proper controls in place at the Vendor location to operate in the Virtual Desktop Environment. Controls that meet the banks Audit and Security Requirements.
•Presented cost reduction initiatives to Deutsche Bank management that would be beneficial to the bank and the vendor. Some of them being Training and Automation of Manual Tasks.
•Worked on creating online training for Legal Risk & Capital, Treasury and Corporate Banking IT business users on Paragon system functionality.
•Managed a team of 125 Vendor Staff working on RTB & CTB Projects.
•Built successful relationship with Key Senior Management team of the Vendor Staff for long term success.
•Conducted face-to-face interviews with vendor staff prior to on-boarding them onto any LRC IT projects. Projects being delivered from off-shore at the vendor’s location where VLDM is co-located.
•Ensured that Deutsche Bank controls and KOPs are adhered to (PCC, ASG & IT Security Standards, Data Protection)
•Participate as an independent reviewer in internal and external vendor audits reporting back to DB Project Managers.
•Administered ID creation, DBRAS token requests and access to DB systems required by vendor staff.
•Conducted periodic reviews of local vendor team performance making recommendations to DB Management to improve productivity
• Provided oversight and control by being present locally for all vendor staff contracted on behalf of Credit Risk IT/ITES projects sending organization in UK.
• Manage cost reduction initiatives for the bank which included Training and Automation of Manual Tasks. Resulted savings of $300K
• Responsible for setup of Virtual Desktop Environment at Vendor Location. Desktop Virtualization for the benefit of system administrators and end users. Result in over 50% improvement in productivity and maintain the Offshore/Onshore ratio of 10/90%.
• Work with the Vendors to ensure they adhere to the SLA established with the bank.
• Ensure proper controls in place at the Vendor location to operate in the Virtual Desktop Environment. Controls that meet the banks Audit and Security Requirements.
• Created and executed a new VoIP solution for the relocation of 2400 users.
• Managed a new print services contract in a period of 6 weeks.
• Generated significant cost reduction in printer expenses within more than three years, saving $300K.
• Spearheaded IT Infrastructure deployment of DR Site
Managing projects to deploy Mission Critical Public Safety Wireless Systems for New York City Public Safety Agencies.
•Systems include Wireless Broadband, SCADA Systems, RDLAP, AVL, Radio IP, Consolidated Dispatch, Channel 16, SmartNet and SmartZone Systems.
•Monitor progress on project plans, goals and milestones.
•Lead a cross functional team of twenty five members.
•Involved in contract negotiations, scope of work and proposal responses.
•Manage ongoing project task force meetings throughout project lifecycles. Create, distribute and update business requirements and project plans detailing all business tasks associated with the project at hand.
•Responsible for streamlining internal processes to ensure efficient responses were provided to the customer.
•Interface with outside vendors and outside partners to prioritize, manage and execute all project related initiatives.
•Co-ordinate between installation team and the customer as to the deployment of Wireless Systems
•Understand customer needs and try to satisfy them in a timely fashion.
•Work with engineering and the factory to make sure all the material is available to meet the customer orders
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