Jayan Kurian Varghese, Senior Quality Specialist

Jayan Kurian Varghese

Senior Quality Specialist

RTA

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Computer Application
Experience
22 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 3 Months

Senior Quality Specialist at RTA
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2016

Working as a Lead Sr. Specialist in Smart Services Department for Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) responsible for elevating the quality & maturity of Services offered through Smart channels
Responsibilities:
¢ Elevate Quality & Maturity of RTA Services offered through Smart channels
¢ Ensuring the efficiency & effectiveness of smart services by conducting periodic quality assessments, benchmark studies etc.
¢ Implement Smart Service Platform Quality Assessment Framework based on international standards and applicable Smart Dubai Government guidelines and criteria
¢ Implement Smart Policies, Process, Procedures with RACI, KPI's etc.
¢ Elevate Digital & Mobile adoption for all RTA services to fulfill direction of H.H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum; the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, and ruler of the Emirate of Dubai
¢ Review & Audit the quality of service during lifecycle of project and operational phases
¢ Aligned with governance framework including AGF, TQA etc.
¢ Major Incident Analysis Report (MIAR), Corrective & Prevention Action(CAPA)
¢ Active member of Change Advisory Board (CAB)
¢ Adapt innovation specially on AI, AR, VR etc. to support Smart Dubai initiatives.

IT Manager, Project Manager at Tawazun Economic Council TEKNIP
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • February 2013 to July 2016

Role : IT Business & Project Manager
Seconded to Caracal Light Ammunitions, a subsidiary of Tawazun Economic Council / EDIC as IT Business Manager to streamline IT Operations & Project Management.

Achievements:
 Slashed OPEX & CAPEX by 35% by negotiating pricing, contracts and licensing, while ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services
 Implemented Business Process Automations / Transformations by embracing apposite Enterprise solution / software with due consideration of Return on Investment (ROI) & TCO
 Applied Continuous Service Improvement to ensure Business Continuity
 Leveraged IT Service Management (ITIL Framework) with Enterprise Governance (COBIT) mechanism
 Minimize People dependency by documenting the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and ensure sharing of roles & responsibilities among respective SME’s and developing cross functional capabilities
 Adopted IT Strategy and Business Planning (Roadmap) In line with Corporate strategy
 Employee Smart Goals in line with Department Goals & Corporate Goals (effective Cascading option)
 Monitored Budget of development & management and done Cost containment
 Ensured Service Strategy, Design and Transition (Policies & Procedures)
 Ensured IT Projects are delivered within agreed time frame, budget and to avoid scope creep. Applied Enterprise Project Management (PMI / PRINCE2 / EPM)
 Accomplished ISO Certifications (ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011, ISO/IEC 27001:2013)
 IT Shared Services (IT Centralization, IT Decentralization, IT Service / Technical Catalog)
 Ensured Reliable IT Services by having High Availability and ensure Business Continuity (Disaster Recovery, Replication datacenters)
 Reviewed Risk Management & Information Security to minimize the organizational risk & to ensure Corporate Credibility
 Ensured effective Software Licensing (Legal Compliance, Licensing based on effective utilization)
 Ensured effective Monitoring and Control by implementing CCTV, Access control, T&A on dedicated Facilities Network

Responsibilities:
 Effective Utilization of resources to ensure business continuity
a. Application team (Business Applications, Infrastructure Applications & DBA's)
b. Development team (Device Programming, web app, web service etc., MOSS)
c. ERP team includes Oracle EBS, Dynamics AX, Dynamics GP
 Release Management Process owner
 Major Incident Analysis Report (MIAR), Corrective & Prevention Action(CAPA)
 Transformation for SIP (Service Improvement Plan) from Risk Register & CSI Initiatives
 Manage Microsoft Enterprise Agreements
 Effectively Managed Microsoft EA volume account
 Centralize the ERP (Dynamics, Oracle EBS) Applications
 Consolidation of Oracle and SQL Server databases
 Datacenter Consolidation
 Board Member of ISO (20000, 27001) Certifications, & Upcoming Surveillance Audits
 Implementation of ITIL Best Practices
 Developing Policies / Process / Procedures specific to IT Operations
 Processes Automation
 Reviews (Support Calls) with Team Members (Applications & Database)
 Contribution to Departmental Goals
 Review & Finalize Smart Goals of Team members
 Identifying, initiating and managing IT Operational Projects
 Software Licensing (Microsoft, Oracle) and true up's
 National resource development
 Tawazun ITID Budgeting
 Case studies and Feasibility studies
 IT Audits (External & Internal)
 JD’s for Application team
 Minimize People dependency
 IT Service Catalog and respective Technical Catalog result in costing and automation
 Change & Release management (CAB, ECAB)
 SOP - Standard Operating Procedures

Team Lead Application, Project Manager at ENOC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2004 to January 2013

Role: Team lead for Applications (IT Operations)
Lead Microsoft applications like SharePoint Portal, EPM etc. and in-house developed applications including, B2B, B2C, POS Interfaces, Tasjeel RTA Interfaces, Web services etc.

Achievements:
BMC Remedy Implementations & Support for ITSM, CMDB, ADDM etc., SAP Business Objects, Customer care (800 ENOC), with High available & Disaster Recovery environments, Microsoft EPM for Project Management.

Business Analyst & Architect. Several Case studies done including Microsoft TMG, Identity Management (Group ID), Integrations, Document Management System, SSO, High availability & DR including Load balancing, SQL Server Clustering, Application Consolidation and database consolidations.

Project Management Office, Enterprise Project Management Process and Review of ongoing projects. Excellent Project Management done for several projects including BMC Remedy, B2B, B2C Portals, SharePoint Portals, Unified Web hosting, Unified Communication Solution (Lync), Unified SMS solution, etc. as per PMI

Major Projects:
 BMC Remedy ITSM Suite 7.0 with High availability
 Upgrade of BMC Remedy ITSM Suite 7.6.04
 SSO for BMC Remedy (ARS 7.5 & ARS 7.6.04) JSS-SSO Plugin
 Integrate BMC Remedy Asset Module with Oracle EBS
 Customer care (800 ENOC) & Quality Audit Application using BMC Remedy ARS
 Email Automation for BMC Remedy ITSM Modules
 CMDB Implementation
 SOP for all IT Operational Process
 Identity Management using Group ID & Integrations like HRMS to AD
 Automations like AD account creation, Client Automation, Server Automations etc.
 Microsoft Enterprise Project Management 2007 and Upgrade to 2010
 Automate Inactivation of employee and Asset - BMC Remedy Synchronization with HRMS
 Timesheet Management for Engineering & Project Mgmt. department
 SOP Automation using BMC Remedy Change Management
 Microsoft TMG implementation
 Unified Communication Solution (Microsoft Lync 2010)
 SQL Server Cluster (2005 & 2008) and DR implementation for ENOC
 Employee Portal Using SharePoint (MOSS 2007 & 2010)
 Tasjeel & RTA interface using web services
 Ruby VeriFone, CASIO POS Interface for Shift, day and month end processing from back office of C-stores of ENOC, EPPCO, Pronto & Zoom brands / stores.
 EPPCO B2B Portal for Accounts department
 EPPCO Lubricants B2B Portal
 DR and High availability Solutions
 Business Analysis for few project including, EPM for Engineering, Business Transformation Dept., Emirates gas, CPOP, DMS etc.
 Implementation of Microsoft EPM for ENOC IT, Engineering and GTS
 ETI application for In-house ticket booking which is integrated with Oracle HRMS
 Loan Management System for Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development (AAAID), Sudan using VB.Net
 Ship.Net for ENOC, Dubai Shipping (D&K) Dubai using VB.Net
 GCS CPS (Consumable Procurement) Portal for ENOC Group using VB.net

Application Developer at Transcend Technologies
  • India
  • March 2002 to April 2004

Developing Applications, Web Services, Windows Services, Web application etc.

Education

Master's degree, Computer Application
  • at Madras University
  • March 2002

Degree from Madrass university is Masters in Computer Application, However gained lot of knowledge from Professional Experience

Specialties & Skills

Business Analysis
IT Operations
Application Analysis
Project Management
Windows and Web application
SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, CE, Oracle
Sharepoint Server 2007, 2010
Microsoft Enterprise Project management (EPM) 2007 Project Server 2007, 2010
BMC Remedy IT Service Management, CMDB, ADDM, Knowledge Management
IT Operations Management
Team Lead Applications
IT Governance
Disaster Recovery, Replication
Project Management
Risk Management
Information Security
IT Service Management
Budget Development
ISO/IEC 27001:2013
ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011
ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Department of Health and Medical Dubai
  • Blood Donor
  • February 2005

Training and Certifications

MCP, MCITP, MCTS (Microsoft) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2008
ITIL V3 Expert (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
M_o_R (Management of Risk) Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2015
PRINCE2 Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2016
TOGAF 9.1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
COBIT 5 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2013
(Training)
Enterprise Project Management (Microsoft) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2010
PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
SitesPower Dubai
Date Attended:
March 2012

Hobbies

  • Stamp, Coin and Currency collection
    Around 200 + coins including very ancient rare collections
  • Batminton