Pravin Mittal, Head of Managed Services

Pravin Mittal

Head of Managed Services

Jocata Financial Advisory Ltd

Location
India - Pune
Education
Master's degree,
Experience
11 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 10 Months

Head of Managed Services at Jocata Financial Advisory Ltd
  • India - Pune
  • My current job since June 2022

Significant Accomplishments:
• Increased revenue of 4 Cr for the FY 22-23, ARR of 7 Cr for upcoming year 23-24
• Successful in achieving 99% Uptime of the Infra, and 97% CSAT on optimal TAT from the Support
Center.
• Successfully migrated the On-prem Solutions of our LOS systems to AWS setup within 6 weeks.
• Successfully reduced TAT by 40% towards RTM.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
• Introduced incident monitoring tool “Configurable Portal” for real-time data/logs analysis and
Masterfile control; contributed to reducing incidents by a staggering 60%.
• Drove rigorous efforts consistently to ensure 99.95% application availability for customers.
• Spearheaded development, project management, production support& database coordination for
Banking & NBFC client
• Rendered strategic direction & support for Service Delivery/Production Support for renowned banks.
• Heading the Managed Services Vertical along with Being the primary SPOC for Clients on Delivery
Vertical in Organization Which includes Project Delivery attributor developments and Support.
• Created and documented multiple alerting and monitoring systems using Best-in-industry tools. Which
leverages to lower the Risks of Security and Infra related Incidents.
• Improvised the Monitoring of development and maintenance of project/release schedules, Agreed
SLAs, and KPIs.
• Having identified areas for service improvement and implemented strategies to enhance the quality
and effectiveness of services provided.
• Managing the performance of the service-delivery team, including hiring, training, and coaching team
members to ensure high levels of productivity and quality.
• Client Relationship Management: I have built and maintained strong relationships with clients,
including regular communication, feedback gathering, and collaboration on service improvement
initiatives
• I am Involved to create a budget for the service delivery team, including forecasting, tracking, and
reporting on expenses and revenue
• Responsible for identifying and managing risks associated with service delivery, including developing
and implementing risk mitigation strategies
• Managing relationships with vendors and third-party service providers, including negotiating contracts
and monitoring performance
• Overall, playing a critical role in ensuring that clients receive high-quality services that meet their
needs and exceed their expectations.

Technical Program Manager at Lentra AI Pvt Ltd
  • India - Pune
  • January 2019 to June 2022

• Responsible for Managing Infrastructure for FINTECH SaaS based PLATFORMS, involved in Managing Infrastructure Projects along with Change / Releases for Loan Management Products based solution for multiple customers.
• Established in setting strategic decision making for various RFC’s, RAB’s, CAB, SOC 1 & 2 Audits.
• Collaborating with multiple Project teams, CISOs’ and Service Management Team for production Releases and creating Process and Procedures improvements drive efficiency in building better Release Roadmaps and Milestones.
• Implemented tools for Access Management (PAM), Automation Deployment, Monitoring, Alerting and Service Management.

•Developed OOB CI/CD Pipeline design and methodologies which included Automation, Reporting, Alerting, Automation Deployment Techniques of CI/CD on UAT/Pre-Prod/Prod Environments.
• Working Jointly with Project teams, Architects, Datacenter teams to build and maintain a sustainable Infrastructure setup (DC/DR/BCP).
• Setting up Business Guidelines for Project projections and Business needs as per the MSR review with customers.
• Facilitating in driving customer focus objectives.
• Driving and empowering the Change Management Board, Concluding Audit Programs,
• Building process model for New Customer Onboarding into our LMS and LOS systems.
• Worked as a SME in identifying Environment enhancements programs. Evaluation and Execution of new Tools POCs and SOWs.
• SPOC for All escalations related to Leading Investigations, Risk assessments, Providing RCA and Remediation towards Impact assessments.
• SPOC for driving Cloud Solution in a Hybrid Model based on our Product design and architecture based on (Microservices and API’s)
• Responsible for Cluster Management on DC and DR sites, Administrating Hadoop Cluster for Data Mining, PAM tool, Monitoring and Alerting Tools, Ticketing Tools

Service Delivery Manager at eBaoTech India Pvt Ltd
  • India - Pune
  • March 2018 to January 2019

• • Managing Implementation, Testing and Support Teams.
• Overall Control on Product and Project management.
• Responsible for overall Costing, Estimation and Budget planning of Projects.
• Monitoring and forecasting actual estimation based on Project status of completion.
• Driving End to End Requisition of Product phase from Blueprinting till Go-Live phase.
• Managing and Driving Implementation of the Product categorization, Creating Test Cases and Setting up Support Function Formulation towards Customers.
• Responsible for End to End Delivery of the Project Setup for different customers.
• Setting up Service Management standards, processes, and tools for Go-Live Projects.
• Ensures Service Management processes fulfil business requirements and are sufficient to deliver the required Service Levels Agreements and Contracts.
• Strategic Change and Program Management accountability for the delivery of Transformation programs to deliver the IT Service Strategy
• Setting up ITSM roadmap, implementation, and continual improvement in support of the Service Processes and Controls
• Servicing an overall commercial account worth £2.2 Million for Different Customers in Australia and New Zealand.
• Created new Processes to implement faster delivery of Project Execution and Service Management Environments for production projects.
• Provided and Executed to Break through between People and Process barrier.
• Managed in moving from Waterfall to Agile methodology.

IT Service Delivery Manager at Tech Mahindr
  • India
  • April 2016 to November 2017

• IT- Infrastructure and Service Operations Including Incident, Problem, Change and Release Management, Client and Stakeholder Management.
• DevOps implementations, Infrastructure Migration.
• Security and Compliance Governance Auditing.
• Agile Framework implementation and In-house Process setup.
• Stabilizing, Automation, Cost reduction and high Productivity within project/teams.
• Project System and team transformation towards DevOps.
• Implemented Cloud based infrastructure setup (AWS, Microsoft Azure)
• Executed monitoring tools and improved automated infrastructure components.
• Supported SaaS projects and automated project workflow services using UIPATH. Which helped to reduce manual process turnaround time from Hours to Few Seconds.
• Creating Monthly, Yearly Report to Top Management on various aspects related to Service Operations Roadmaps, Deliverables, CSI, and KPI’s.
• Coach, facilitate, solve work problems, and participate and driving towards Project goal for the entire teams.

Project Lead /Scrum Master at Deutsche Bank
  • India
  • June 2015 to March 2016

• Managing technical issues and functional processes by working as Scrum Master.
• Addressing to major incidents and escalations as a part of response team.
• Client Interaction on understand data requirements for individual projects.
• Supervising major incidents are validated and progressed in accordance with SLAs aligned to Incident priority and status, based on business service requirements
• Analysing project scope, project requirements, and time and skill level requirements; furnishing metrics to management regarding project health, efforts and defects.
• Developing daily project progress charts, excel reports and PowerPoint presentations for senior management.
• Collaborating with the change management team to execute and implement the change in the current process; following-up with external/internal teams and business units, helping team members in checking the bandwidth.

Network Operation Centre Lead at BMC Software
  • India
  • November 2012 to June 2015

• Conducting disaster recovery (DR) activities in every quarter-end, examined share point for production and DEV environments; rendered support to R&D teams in installation, configuration and administration of AIX/Windows Server /Solaris 9/10.
• Regulated system assembling and software installation, established and managed user accounts in UNIX/AIX/Windows, and assisted in installation, up-gradation, configuration and deployment of the same.
• Presented scripts for automation of tools; scheduled back-up jobs and performed administrative roles for tuning application on production environments.
• Established RBAC, ACL for the users performing various task in terms of development and regulated production, QA, maintenance servers.
• Performed task under ITIL by working with various teams to enhance the environments.

Senior Support Engineer at Sanpulse Technologies
  • April 2012 to October 2012

Education

Master's degree,
  • at Bharati Vidhyapeth University
  • January 2009

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Master's degree, MCA
  • at Bharati Vidyapeeth University
  • January 2009

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Specialties & Skills

Process Management
Project Delivery
IT Project Management
IT Technical Support
MANAGEMENT
AUDITING
AUTOMATION
COACHING
COST CONTROL
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DELIVERY
DRIVING

Training and Certifications

DevOps (Training)
Training Institute:
Corporate Training Programme
Date Attended:
August 2017
Duration:
60 hours
ITIL V3 Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2013
Prince 2 Practioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015