Raj Balakrishnan, Cloud4C services

Raj Balakrishnan

Cloud4C services

Cloud4c Services

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Physics
Experience
24 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 1 Months

Cloud4C services at Cloud4c Services
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2022

A transformational Leader and customer success Innovator at heart, having led major break-through projects, today I am leading our crucial team of program managers, Cloud Solution Architects, Quality, and process engineers who work across the various domains of solutions and services to help customers migrate their data, develop apps, run their business, help their employees collaborate, and run a smarter enterprise. Development of IT business strategy for a large group of customers in Middle East and support of cloud4c overall IT strategy

Service Delivery Manager at Wipro Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2019 to April 2022

 Offshore Delivery leader (Cloud & Infrastructure) for BFSI & Enterprise Customers - Managed account of $10m USD Globally.
 Establish policies, procedures, best practices in the accounts. Awarded best SDM for 2020
 helped existing clients accelerate their adoption of Cloud and Cloud technologies
 Customer Experience - Meeting SLAs. KPIs & CPI, Tickets, Major Incidents and P1 Review, Optimization & Driving Productivity with automations and reduced FTE. Risk, Governance & CSAT
 Growth - New Logo & Stay green, Delivery assurance & transformation

Senior Manager IMS at Sundaram infotech Solutions
  • India - Chennai
  • August 2014 to November 2019

 Overall technical and business responsibility for Cloud and Managed Services within Sundaram Group of companies. Manage Datacentre services revenue and business goals, manage the P & L and drive actions to rapidly accelerate growth
 Spearheaded IT infrastructure with DC, DR, with a team of more than 100 professionals and coordinated with application development team for Sundaram Finance (using Oracle 11g and ADF home grown ERP, Oracle Financial and Oracle Hyperion for Group Consolidation).
 Tracked infrastructure assets, their procurement as well as ensured the security of infrastructure and applications.

Project Manager at IBM India Ltd
  • India
  • June 2009 to January 2012

Manage project scope and manage project changes through the change management process
 Work with customers and technical resources to develop project plans, detailing work break down
structures and identify critical path
 Prepare & formulate IT strategic and operational plans to align to the organization’s vision and
ensure cost optimizations
 Hands on Implementation of Quality standards like CMMI-1.2; Scrum; LEAN & 6-sigma principals
in execution and delivery

Support Engineer at CA India Pvt Ltd
  • India - Hyderabad
  • March 2007 to June 2009

Product Support Arcserve and Etrust

Dy Commandant at Indian Coast Guard
  • India - Delhi
  • July 1995 to December 2004

Datacentre Practice - Indian Coast

Education

Bachelor's degree, Physics
  • at Gandhigram Rural Institute - Deemed University
  • May 1994

B.Sc Physics

Specialties & Skills

Cloud Computing
Project Management
IT Infrastructure
Data Center
cybersecurity
Information Security
Program management
Delivery Management
Cloud Migrations
Governance
Risk Management
STRATEGY, BUSINESS enablement

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Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

CIOKLUB DUBAI
  • Member
  • January 2022

Training and Certifications

Certified Information Systems Security Professional. (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2023

Hobbies

  • Golfing