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Responsible for Strategy, Developing and Managing Information Services for all group companies under the apex Suhail Bahwan Group Holding company.* Successfully migrated, ERP system from Oracle 9i DB and 11i apps to 12C DB and 12.2.5 apps. Original Platform IBM AIX P520 - Current Platform Intel LINUX ** Successfully Implemented SharePoint for Collaboration Activities** Successfully completed phase I implementation of Hospital Information System for American Spine Center- Phase… Show more Responsible for Strategy, Developing and Managing Information Services for all group companies under the apex Suhail Bahwan Group Holding company.* Successfully migrated, ERP system from Oracle 9i DB and 11i apps to 12C DB and 12.2.5 apps. Original Platform IBM AIX P520 - Current Platform Intel LINUX ** Successfully Implemented SharePoint for Collaboration Activities** Successfully completed phase I implementation of Hospital Information System for American Spine Center- Phase II Clinical and Phase III Lab systems implementation in progress.** IT Security Assessment and Implementation - Project Awarded, work in progress*.* Project Management Tool. - Assessment completed, vendor identified, contract awarding in progress** E-commerce site development for Electronics division evaluation completed, vendor identified, contract awarding in progress** Warehouse Management System integrated with fleet management system for development for upcoming Centralized Warehouse - Project Awarded, work in progress*.Property Management system implemented for managing our Real Estate Business of the group managed by ChairmanCurrently in the process of:01. Re-structuring data center02. Optimization and integration of Lync and Polycom for collaboration and video conferencing03. Evaluation and Implementation of fabrication tool for steel fabrication04. Evaluation of Barracuda device for email archival05. Evaluation of implementing a private cloud internally for Email and collaboration.06. Evaluating existing IT Policies and amend the same to current scenarios as applicable.07. Evaluating implementation of project management tool.08 Integration of Travel Domain applications with Oracle ERP Financials.09. Travel Domain new website assessment10. Assessing upgrade (Migration) on existing IT Helpdesk - IT 360 to ManageEngine11. Evaluating Service Management tool for Health Care Equipments.12. Evaluating Workshop Management tool for Travels Division Show less

Responsible for Managing 1. Overall Resource requirements in Infrastructure Business Unit. 2. Development of Infrastructure Competency in line with Organization Business requirements3. Learning and Development of Infrastructure Business Unit.Also responsible to support the pre-sales for proposals, and rfp's as a part of core team member from Technology Practice.

Key Accountabilities: Financial/Monetary: (Revenue/Cost): Manage the program budget both CAPEX and OPEX Manage vendor contract payments Accountable to ensure the overall program budget (CAPEX and OPEX) is spent as planned and report any variances to the program board and steering committees Customer/Client: (Internal/External): * Acts as primary customer contact for program activities, leading program review sessions with customers to discuss cost, schedule, and… Show more Key Accountabilities: Financial/Monetary: (Revenue/Cost): Manage the program budget both CAPEX and OPEX Manage vendor contract payments Accountable to ensure the overall program budget (CAPEX and OPEX) is spent as planned and report any variances to the program board and steering committees Customer/Client: (Internal/External): * Acts as primary customer contact for program activities, leading program review sessions with customers to discuss cost, schedule, and technical performance * Consolidate an overall program plan based on each project"s program * Create an overall program management plan including (risk, resources, time, scope, cost, etc) plans * Planning strategic programs and proactively monitoring the overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate; * Manage program interdependencies in terms of resources and milestones Suppliers/Vendors: (Regulators/Others): Leads the negotiation of contract and contract changes. Coordinates the preparation of proposals including financial terms/conditions of contractLeads project team as well as vendors Monitors the vendor performance and takes corrective actions as required People/Employee: (Unit/Bank wide): Manage/lead a team of project managers and project team (cross-functional and cross-organizational )who are assigned to his/her during the program life cycle; Conducts program review session with his/her project managers to align the overall program and reports the results to ITPMO, senior management, and key stakeholders Reports directly to program steering Proactively provide feedback on the program team’s performance and resolve any issues/conflicts Negotiate internally to obtain the HR resources required to achieve the program goals Performs team assessments and communicate with functional managers for that purpose Show less

I was a part of IBM Global PM competency involved in delivery of Infrastructure Projects for Asia Pacific. - This role is responsible for leading a Program/Project team in delivering a solution to the customer using the appropriate business measurements and terms and conditions for the project. includes managing all project resources, including subcontractors, and for establishing an effective communication plan with the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the… Show more I was a part of IBM Global PM competency involved in delivery of Infrastructure Projects for Asia Pacific. - This role is responsible for leading a Program/Project team in delivering a solution to the customer using the appropriate business measurements and terms and conditions for the project. includes managing all project resources, including subcontractors, and for establishing an effective communication plan with the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the Engagement/program/projects team and regular Program/Project status to the customer.Provide direction and leadership to ES IT Project Services and Operations, including training, mentoring and developing metrics.Develop and document annual and long-term technology plan that incorporates and ties directly to the organization vision and strategy. Review and update this plan (at least on a quarterly basis) to reflect changing needs, priorities, and available technologies.Identify, innovate and execute business ideas to improve division goals and targets.• Initiate, manage, and take ownership of strategic dialogues with other teams in the organization.Takes ownership and responsibility for the productivity of the team, and improving service excellence.• Evaluate technology and vendor strategies (on-site, hosted, cloud, outsourced models) to meet the infrastructure requirements within approved budget of all systems supporting internal and external customers.Partner with other technology teams in defining and maintaining processes and procedures regarding disaster recovery, capacity planning, change control, security, problem resolution, performance management, and availability.Work with application teams on design and operations issues, including capacity planning, ITIL, change control, security, business continuity, problem resolution, performance, availability, service desk and other areas. Show less

Manage Service Delivery within the Project Delivery domain, Transition projects and provide leadership and delivery management for multiple high profile US clients (60 clients) in a shared services model. Projects involve introduction of completely new services, the transition of services from client (or other providers) into Accenture, or other complex programs of change. Project delivery skills and client relationship management are paramount, and experience in supporting operational… Show more Manage Service Delivery within the Project Delivery domain, Transition projects and provide leadership and delivery management for multiple high profile US clients (60 clients) in a shared services model. Projects involve introduction of completely new services, the transition of services from client (or other providers) into Accenture, or other complex programs of change. Project delivery skills and client relationship management are paramount, and experience in supporting operational environments across multiple locations is a valuable asset.Responsibilities:• Consistently apply agreed Project Management Methodology – Accenture Delivery Methods (ADM) and Project Management processes.• Engage resources via the standard PMO processes, and interface to respective delivery domains to co-ordinate work.• Provide leadership to the project team to ensure production of deliverables as per agreed plan / SLA• Demonstrate proactive Risk, Issue, Status Reporting and Change Management discipline, and assume clear ownership and accountability for project issues where required.• Drive the Quality Assurance processes, including formal and ad hoc reviews of other projects within the Project Delivery domain.• Provide input to key learning points and to drive continuous improvement activities.• Deputize for the Senior Project lead when required, and provide additional escalation and management support for all projects within the PD domain. Show less

Global Operations Manager: 24/7Team Size: 184Project: Morgan Stanley from May 2007 to April 2009• I was responsible to; handle global operations alongside leading the Windows team. • The Job involves proper planning of all scheduled activities within the environment which calls for intrusive actions and/or major configuration change leading to downtime of infrastructure. • The role requires extensive global coordination with - client interface, L3 and the offshore teams… Show more Global Operations Manager: 24/7Team Size: 184Project: Morgan Stanley from May 2007 to April 2009• I was responsible to; handle global operations alongside leading the Windows team. • The Job involves proper planning of all scheduled activities within the environment which calls for intrusive actions and/or major configuration change leading to downtime of infrastructure. • The role requires extensive global coordination with - client interface, L3 and the offshore teams. • Role also calls for working along with different service line of operations in co-ordination like Windows server operations, Unix Operations, San Operations with Distributed Command Centre to deliver appropriate SLA. Show less

My career in Infosys started with setting up of IT Development center at “Mohali”, Chandigarh. During my stint at Infosys, Mohali for 6 months I was delegated with the following assignments:Setting up of • Data Center, File/Exchange Servers, Upper/Lower Level Proxy Server, Setting up 289 LAN Points to facilitate desktop environment.Link Connectivity Established Between:• 2MBPS link between Bangalore and Mohali (Chandigarh).• 64 KPBS IPLC circuit between Fremont and… Show more My career in Infosys started with setting up of IT Development center at “Mohali”, Chandigarh. During my stint at Infosys, Mohali for 6 months I was delegated with the following assignments:Setting up of • Data Center, File/Exchange Servers, Upper/Lower Level Proxy Server, Setting up 289 LAN Points to facilitate desktop environment.Link Connectivity Established Between:• 2MBPS link between Bangalore and Mohali (Chandigarh).• 64 KPBS IPLC circuit between Fremont and Mohali (Chandigarh) provided by VSNL and PUNCOM• 64 KPBS IPLC circuit between Fremont and Mohali (Chandigarh) provided by STPI and SPRINTNetwork Equipments maintained: • Cisco 6509, Cisco 3660, Cisco 2600, Cisco 2500Involved in setting up UNIX Boxes:• Sun Solaris E 250 Servers, Sun Solaris Ultra 5 WorkstationAfter my stint at Infosys, Mohali, I was transferred to Corporate Headquarters at Electronics City, Bangalore. In addition to the responsibilities of Network Engineer, had been assigned the role of “Operations/Team lead” which involves the following responsibilities:• Desktop/Laptop maintenance, Vendor Management, Establishing and Maintaining Customer connectivity, LAN maintenance• Tracking Assets (Hardware and Software metering) using network management tools, Support for more than 6000+ desktops• Providing project specific environment for establishing of new projects• Firewall Support, Implementation of Network Management tools from CA Unicenter TNG (AHD, AMO, TNG BASE) servers across Infosys Bangalore, Antivirus Monitoring Setup “Inoculate IT and E trust", Actively involved in Domain wide Migration activities from NT4.0 to Active Directory.Other Activities include:• Managing File Servers, Exchange Servers, Proxy Servers, Ghost Servers, Antivirus Servers, AMO Servers, TNG Servers and AHD Server.• Establishing and maintaining customer connectivity for projects• Maintaining Antivirus Setup• Backup and Restoration. Show less