Sameer Paradia, Associate Partner

Sameer Paradia

Associate Partner

IBM

Location
India - Mumbai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics
Experience
31 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :31 years, 2 Months

Associate Partner at IBM
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since February 2017

 Head for Security Intelligence and Operation Consulting
 Implement IBM global best practice in region and contribute back with new methods
 Solution design and delivery security business
 Launch of Watson Cognitive Security, Resilient Incident Response etc. in region
 Ramp up delivery team from 10 resources to 100+ resources in nine month time
 Setup of India Managed Security Service SOC for IBM to deliver services to clients and running it with client satisfaction

Practice Head IT IS at Tata Consultancy Services - TCS
  • India - Mumbai
  • May 2013 to February 2016

 Security Practice Head for SOC, Solution design, Pre sales and Delivery
 Setting up SOC, Transition & Transformation Management, Process improvement of Service Desk and Turnkey System Integration Project implementation
 Transition & Transformation Head for APAC, MEA, Australia/ New Zealand
 Cross and upsell of services and service experience improvement

AVP - Managed Services. at Tulip Telecom
  • India - Mumbai
  • May 2011 to April 2013

Product Head - Managed Services in Network- Data, , Video conference, UC, IT Outsourcing, Datacentre, Security, Cloud etc. for Indian and International Market.

National Business Lead - IT Outsourcing at Datacraft
  • India - Mumbai
  • October 2008 to May 2011

Responsible for Business development and IT Outsourcing practice which is focused on strategic IT outsourcing opportunities and Remote Infrastructure Management with enterprise customers and partners for white labeling services. Created new business and service delivery models for acquiring new set of clients.

Director - Managed Services at Reliance Globalcom
  • India
  • June 2007 to October 2008

Conceptualize, develop and deploy innovative new value-added services with Product Development and management for entire life cycle for global clients.
 Setup the practice for Managed Services for Security & Network and Managed Operation Centers as VAS.
 Deliver the new managed offerings by leading product development process and take ownership of delivery of service.
 Liaise with Sales, Customer Marketing, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Legal Commercial Pricing to ensure consistency and best practice in developing the service offering.
 Manage day-to-day activity to ensure the managed services perform to internal and external customer satisfaction.

Senior Manager - Information Security at Wipro 3D Networks
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2005 to June 2007

 Role: Setting up the Information Security business in West India and assist Practice Head in setting up the same in North/ East India.
 Building of Technology team and educate Sales team to enable them to sale Security services in India/ abroad.
 Achievement: Got 50 clients in 2 years of time on companys list from start up. Division stood in top 4 companies in Western India region across the industry for security business in System Integration.

Support Head - Information Security at Ramco Systems
  • United Arab Emirates
  • November 2000 to March 2005

 Role: Responsible for running Service Center as Profit Center for Information Security Services in Western India as Regional Support Head. Completed biggest national level projects.
 Goal: Leading a team of Technical Consultants to provide effective customer support to client. Dealing with Techno-Commercial issues for providing support. Interaction with principals and commercial dept. of company to ensure timely offering. Responsible for financial for division.
 Customer Orientation: Understanding, Conceiving, Developing and Delivering custom made solutions/deliverables of Security Services to clients. Providing technical presales support to marketing division.
 Achievement: Handle 120+ clients for Information Security services. Division ranked in top 3 during the service period. close to 100% customer retention and service revenue renewal.

Deputy Manager at Reliance Industries Ltd.
  • India
  • April 1992 to October 2000

Responsible for setting up Instrument Engineering department for FDY(Fully Drawn Yarn) Plant with focus on carying out detailed engineering for projects, QMS, defining and implementing processes, team handling, budgeting and procurement. Managing control panel with state of the art Sun and HP machines connected via networks of around 500+ different nodes connected. Represented plant for Y2K compliance project and SAP roll out. Received 2 promotions and 3 letters of excellence in last 5 years of stay.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics
  • at Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Mumbai University.
  • January 1991

Cleared with First class with Honors

Specialties & Skills

System Design
Security
Product Management
Solution Design
Technical Support
Risk Management
Outsourcing
Compliance
IT Service Management
IT Outsourcing
Cloud Computing
Virtualization
Governance
ISO 27001
Managed Hosting
Consultancy
Information Security Management
PCI DSS
Security
Strategic IT
Network Security
IT Operations
Service Delivery
Hosting
Storage
Professional Services
Product Management
Product Development
Solution Design
IT Management
Pre-sales
Vendor Management
IT Strategy
People Management
Disaster Recovery
IT Governance
Telecommunications
Operations Management
Team Management
Service Management
Business Management
Enterprise Architecture
Data Center
Strategic Planning
Leadership
Strategic Sourcing
Management
IT Outsourcing, Information Security, NOC, SOC, Pre sales, Solution design, Delivery, Service Operat
Automation
solution design
IT Outsourcing
Managed Services
Unified Communications
Program Management
Strategic Leadership

Languages

Hindi
Expert
English
Expert
Urdu
Beginner
Arabic
Beginner