Sr Project Manager
IBM Indi
Total years of experience :34 years, 5 Months
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Client: Leading Retail Bank headquartered in Canada.
Scope: Migrate the current estate as-is from multiple legacy Data Centers into IBM Cloud Data Centre.
Key Responsibilities:
• Initiate and manage the Discovery and Due-Diligence phase, support the affinity grouping planning and scheduling
the waves as per the signed off affinity mapping created.
• Identify and onboard the resources and plan the resource mapping and RACI for the migration activities.
• Identify risks and prepare risk response and mitigation plan.
• Conduct Pre-Migration readiness and health checks for each wave, which includes target readiness and network
enablement.
• Coordinate with multiple internal and external teams to create the Run-Book for the migration event and get it
approved by all stakeholders.
• Interface with Client Application owners to get the OAT/UAT test cases ready and signed off.
• Lead the Migration Cutover for each wave, monitor the communications and manage issues resolutions.
• Create and provide Weekly Pre-Migration status reports to Senior Leadership
• Provide hourly status reporting during the Migration Cutover which feeds into the migration RAG status for the
program.
• Support the Hyper-Care period and ensure closure and proper handover of wave documentations.
• End-To-End Ownership of the assigned migration wave from Discovery to Support handover.
• Provided directional leadership to a globally distributed delivery team and have successfully migrated over 450+
workloads.
• Have been awarded the “Cloud Migration Factory Eminence Award” and “Star Award” for my dedication and
commitment to client success.
Client: Insurance Group in United Kingdom, formed by the divestment of British Bank Group's insurance division
Scope: Transformation and migration project of the Clients Legacy Estate into the Capgemini Cloud Estate, in a Multi-
Vendor environment and be responsible for end-to-end Project Delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
• Work with Solution Architects to design the target landscape requirements and derive resources and cost.
• Create workorder/project charter for each transformation project and represent it till approval.
• Engage with steady support team and develop the sign off and handover quality parameters.
• Engage with the internal and external resources and create project plan and project schedule.
• Manage the daily budget burn and ensure the project is within budget.
• Document the Risks, Assumptions, Dependencies and Issues, and have risk responses and mitigation plan prepared.
• Work with procurement team to ensure that the purchase request is raised and approved as per plan.
• Conduct daily team meetings to progress the project delivery and address any risks or issues.
• Work with Client Project Managers to ensure that the application transformation and DevOps activities are in line
with the schedule.
• Conduct Weekly Governance meeting with Senior Leadership and Client Management to provide inputs on the
progress and discuss any requirements or Project Change Requests.
• Create and publish Weekly status report which directly inputs into the Accounts RAG status.
• Manage the complete end to end Project Life Cycle, including managing the vendor and the client resources
engaged.
• Ensure Target DC infra readiness and monitor the capacity management to ensure seamless migrations.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to team members.
• Close project and ensure invoicing and correct handover process have been followed.
• Was relocated and was working from Client offices in London to deliver the project
Skill & Proficiencies
• Project Estimations and Planning • MS Project
• Project Financial Budgeting and Forecasting • Agile Methodologies
• Risk Planning and Mitigation Management. • Pre-Sales Management
• Resource and Scheduling Management • Expert with MS Office Suite
• Relationship and Stakeholder Management • Communication and Reporting
Client: Personal and Retail insurance Group in the United Kingdom.
Scope: Pre-Sales and Bid support towards RFP response for a DC migration and Transformation program.
Key Responsibilities:
• Work with the Bid Manager and Solution teams to understand and document requirements for the proposal.
• Conduct Due-Diligence workshops with internal SMEs and Client technical managers to develop a detailed
requirement document.
• Engage the right resources and teams to create solution approach and help solution architect create the detailed
solution.
• Derive cost estimates, resourcing requirements and BOM based on the solutions provide and document it.
• Draw the delivery schedule using MS Project and document the assumptions, dependences and risks.
• Translate the Delivery project plan into summarized presentation for Senior Leadership communications.
• Develop Contractual, Financial and Delivery Milestones and provide inputs into the MSA.
• Work with the legal team to create the MSA contract by providing the inputs from the approved project plan.
• It was a 9-month effort and Capgemini was awarded the contract, out of final 3 bidders who are major IT service
providers and competitors.
Client: Global Retail Bank headquartered in North America.
Scope: Service Provider Migration/Integration for Network devices into Third-Party management for Bank of America
• Develop Support Run Book and Acceptance to Service Criteria working with Architects and Technical SMEs.
• Conducted discovery to create inventory of supportable devices and services.
• Created & Maintain the Schedule for the entire Program using MS Project.
• Tracked the Issue / Risks of the entire Program and report in the weekly governance meetings.
• Engaged and manage Global Technical Resources to deliver the project plan as per schedule.
• Liaised with external third-party vendors as part of the project implementation.
• Conducted Daily Stand-up meeting with all delivery leads to monitor and track the progress of the project delivery.
• Weekly reporting into the Senior Leadership on the progress of the project.
• Validated and Archived the documentary evidence provided for each milestone completion.
Key Responsibilities: Represent the Accenture Bangalore ODC IT Infrastructure support team.
• Assist the business leads in responding to RFP/RFQ from an IT infrastructure of the Offshore Delivery
Centre by providing budgetary costs, HL solutions and time-lines for implementation and go-live.
• Project Management of Offshore Delivery Centre setup for business lines.
• Participate and represent the ODC IT Infra in Client visits / IT infrastructure presentations / Facility walk
throughs.
• Facilitate client & internal IT Audits / Assessments.
• Lead the response to IT Security breaches and Major Incidents in the Centre.
• Monthly service reporting / review with the business leads on the health of the IT infrastructure.
• Was instrumental in the leading the ODC setup project which got Accenture India Bangalore Centre the
PCI certification. The project was conducted as part of readiness for incubating the center as an ODC
for a Global Financial Bank. Both Physical and logical security aspects were solutioned and implemented
for as per the PCI security standards
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