Syed Raza Ahmed, Information Technology Specialist

Syed Raza Ahmed

Information Technology Specialist

Cognizant Technology Services

Location
Canada - Mississauga
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
14 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months

Information Technology Specialist at Cognizant Technology Services
  • Canada - Mississauga
  • My current job since February 2021

Ensured formulation, development, implementation, and delivery of technical solutions is integrated with the business solutions.
•Contributed to strategic planning, execute tactical plans and monitor progress; incorporated industry best practices, conduct internal and external benchmarking and implement standards, key measures and metrics.
•Managed a team of employees that perform within set technical guidelines and standard operating procedures and responsible for helping drive technical outcomes.
•Sett-up goals, offer feedback, source developmental opportunities and provide long-term career guidance to counselees and others across the department.
•Developed and executed organizational change management plans to ensure project management adoption of new systems and processes.









•Proactively participated in the evolution of improving delivery of solutions to business clients, leveraging program & project management knowledge by being a change champion; integrated and aligned with other departmental processes & solutions
•Integrated new team members and connect them to the resources and opportunities to help further their development and career goals; regularly engage with counselees and those they work with, to help them continuously improve.

Technology Lead at Cognizant - United States
  • United States - Schaumburg
  • August 2016 to January 2019

The aim of the project was to provide test Operations support for Discover’s Production Assurance testing environment. Discover Production Assurance was responsible for maintaining the production assurance test environment up and running and is available to perform the user acceptance testing for the business users before the projects go-live for any releases. Test Operations team supports 7 Major release environments and 5 minor release environments in testing various functionalities used by the business users related to Discover Cards and banking systems. Strong knowledge on Middleware design and take decisions technically that are required for the application and project.
Role:
•Coordinated with Enterprise Architects, Project Managers, Vendors and Developers to define and implemented a Software Configuration Management solution.
•Well-versed with Middleware design and take decisions technically that are required for the application and project.
•Responsible for performance tuning the WebSphere Application Server environments including JVM, connection pooling, web container, EJB container and caching.
•Addressed & resolved issues on time by involving/coordinating the appropriate teams, investigating defects and assigning to appropriate teams for resolution, support batch runs and resolving batch run and environment issues in their assigned environments.
•Coordinated with offshore team on multiple automation and monitored themes governed by Cognizant Service Improvement plan reducing the redundant and manual processes to save time and cost for the client.

Associate Tech Specialist at Tech Mahindra Ltd
  • India
  • June 2012 to August 2016

Result Areas:
•Established, managed and motivated multi-disciplinary project teams as well as positive and collaborative relationships with leadership; led internal customers and teams in the development and maintenance of project and/or program artifacts, such as scope, approach, solution, plan, resources and estimates
•Ensured execution of project management governance & best practices including management of project forecasts, costs, and budget.

SR Tech Associate at Bank of Americ
  • India
  • August 2009 to June 2012

Worked extensively with developers, help desks, and data source teams in a 24x7 availability environment.
•Carried out configuration of Web Server, that redirects http requests to Web Sphere Server.
•Played a part of Production L3 production support team and resolved issues across Bank’s Web sphere Environment.
•Supported middle ware infrastructure; managed AppServer using CA Wily Introscope tool.
•Handled 1000+ instances of WebSphere Application Server on AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris.
•Oversaw all administrative tasks like Installation, Configuration, Deployment, and Troubleshooting of WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on AIX, Linux, and Solaris Platforms.
•Managed day-to-day tasks to ensure the smooth & efficient operation of the WebSphere run time environment including troubleshooting.
•Troubleshoot all the WebSphere related issues reported by the clients in different environments like Dev, Test, XUAT, Pre-Pod and Production.

System Administrator at IQ Resource Pvt. Ltd
  • India
  • August 2007 to July 2009

Responsible for installing, managing and troubleshooting Windows NT 4, 2000 & 2003 Servers domain networks.
•Led implementation of security and installing applications using Group Policies.
•Provided support to the server on which applications run, check edthem for regular upgrades and kept backups of the data.
•Implemented changes to the application when needed and customized it according to the need of the business.
•Drafted reports in the usage of various applications and analyzed the future need of the applications.
•Set-up and managed MS Exchange 2003 Server and Client.




ANNEXURE

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Maharishi University Of Management And Technology
  • June 2005

I have Participated in below activities : 1.College Level Cricket Tournament. 2.Volunteering in social activity in neighborhood. 3. Achieved Winner certificate in Badminton Tournament.

Specialties & Skills

Production Support
Application Management Services
Middleware
System Migration
IT Project Management
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Middleware Application Support
Enterprise Application Support
Release Management
API Gateway Infra Support
Service Delivery

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Cloud and Nextgen Technology training (Training)
Training Institute:
Udemy and Company Internal Learning sites.

Hobbies

  • Sports
    I wont multiple award in Badminton Tournament at School and College level.