Santosh Tiwari, Project Manager

Santosh Tiwari

Project Manager

Vodafone - India

Location
India - Pune
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics engineering
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

Project Manager at Vodafone - India
  • India - Pune
  • My current job since October 2020

● Successfully performing Project Governance using
a gated approval process such as concept,
design, build, test, Launch & project closures.
● Driving various cloud services (such as compute,
storage, DB, physical network) project in Europe
Data centers mainly UK, Germany and Italy.
● Translating client requirements (such as contracts,
statements of work etc.) into Project Lifecycles
using Milestones and deliverables approach.
● Overseeing project finance CAPEX and OPEX to
the tune of EUR 1K-400K.
● worked with the internal Business Heads, Account
Delivery Managers and end user representatives to Ensure seamless flow of activities pertaining to the services enabled.
● Ensured project delivery compliance to budget, quality standards and business/end user/customer requirements following operational policies

Project Manager at Dubai Airports
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2018 to January 2019

● Oversaw $5m worth multiple IT projects for strategic portfolio in a complex airport environment.
● Owned all phases from procurement to commission and ensured defined success criteria met.
● Developed SOW document and RFP’s, participated in the vendor selection process, and provided inputs.
● Orchestrated lifecycle within strict timeframes and budget constraints by solving complex problems.
● Worked closely with senior leaders, developed executive presentations, and periodic project reporting.
● Eliminated discrepancies by reviewing process & procedures, safety adherence, and recommendations.
● Developed and initiated various plans, risk management strategies, managed invoices, and site permits.
● Motivated contracted team members (30+) to improved performance and achieve project outcomes.
● Collaborated with multiple airport operations teams to remove bottlenecks and smooth executions.

Project Manager at Infosys ltd
  • India - Pune
  • September 2017 to May 2018

Effectively managed Australia’s top telecom provider’s customer accounts to transition technical services.
● Identified and implemented an improvement to existing procedures resulted in 20% process efficiency.
● Performed extensive communication as the involvement of several internal teams and government.
● Developed and oversaw project approach, delegated project work, and ensured activities executed as planned.
● Collaborated with customers, order management teams, and vendors to organize inputs and logistics.
● Took a proactive approach in assessing and correcting problems at all stages and communicate outcomes.
● Produced status and progress reports, updated customers and senior leaders on progress, and roadblocks

IT Project Manager at Tata communications Ltd
  • India - Pune
  • March 2017 to September 2017

Managed multiple customers and about 35+ small to medium projects worth $6 million approx.
● Optimized resource training and achieved savings of around $35, 000 during process transition.
● Led various small to mid-size project teams and saw they get through blockers and challenges.
● Extensively juggled simultaneous activities managed very high-frequency customer communications.
● Enhanced user experiences, reduced operational cost implementing various technology solutions.
● Developed project governance, created KT plan, formulated worked orders, and service requests.
● Gained exposure to proposals, RFQ, RFI, performed change control in the supplier environment.

project manager network infrastructure at Tech Mahindra Ltd
  • India - Pune
  • January 2012 to February 2017

● in a continually maturing multimillion-dollar network transformation program,  delivered various size and complexity infrastructure network projects end to end for the largest oil producer company sites globally.
● Grown into the role of lead to a manager position, taking up greater work responsibilities and appreciations.
● Transformed large LAN/WAN infrastructure in a 24/7 production environment to reduced operational cost.  
● Created strategies and plans for DC server lift & shift, 20+ network refresh and 30+ software upgrade.
● Replaced 400+ Cisco network devices like routers, switches, wireless controllers, load balancers, etc.
● solved problems and conflicts during project life in multicultural teams and business stake owners’ environments.
● Executed 200+ change window (test & turn up/cutover), following change management processes.  
● Developed network migration plans,  implementation schedules,  risk identification, and mitigation strategies.

IT Operation Lead at Wipro Ltd
  • India - Pune
  • January 2006 to June 2011

Developed service metrics derived from data to track improvements in service efficiency.
● Led ITIL based central ticketing service desk (SNOW) and ensured set SLA and KPI are achieved.
● Expertise with incident management process and root cause analysis with 100+ tickets.
● Liaised with business units and vendors for issue resolutions, service support, and improvement initiatives.
● Escalated existing ticket (P1-P4) with cross-function teams and ISP for a permanent solution.
● hosted resources up Skilling sessions created team shift roster, and leave management.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics engineering
  • at YCMOU
  • February 2009

passed

Specialties & Skills

Management Consulting
IT Infrastructure
Agile Project Management
Stakeholder Management
Project Management
operations management
change management
it service management
IT infrastructure projects
leaderships
Network implementations
team management
negotiations
problem solving
Project management
migration projects
risk management
project consultant
ARUBA Wireless
Project planning
IT project & program management
Agile methodologies
project coordination
interpersonal communication
cost management
organizational communication
project implementation
local area network (LAN)
cisco infrastructure
management consulting
ms project
agile project management
service transition
Customer relationship management ( CRM)
service delivery
project execution
customer relationship management (CRM)
ms office
data center
cloud service
requirement gathering
cloud service delivery
project delivery

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Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Native Speaker
Marathi
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2016
Valid Until:
August 2022
PMI ACP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2020
Valid Until:
January 2023
ITIL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
PRINCE2 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
Valid Until:
December 2018

Hobbies

  • Chess
  • Chesd
  • Cricket