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Wellington, New Zealand

Data and Analytics (D&A) team within Transpower, a state-owned Enterprise providing infrastructure and market systems for delivering electricity to homes and businesses within New Zealand, has successfully delivered D&A Modernisation project implementing a new Cloud Data Platform using AWS, Informatica, DBT and Snowflake to ingest data from nine non-core systems into Cloud.Market System Data Ingestion project aims to provide an end to end overview of entire business by connecting and accessing organizational data from various application source systems

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Following delivery of project solution to pilot group, I was requested to lead the Operational Workstream to deliver the Operational Support Model for the Service, approval from Operational Readiness Review Board for BAU handover of the Service and establishing Service Governance to ensure transition of service from project to BAU Support.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Assisting Ministry’s project team with organization wide rollout of Collaboration tools like M365 SharePoint and OneDrive for achieving compliance with Public Records Act, OIA and Privacy Act requirements

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Working on an initiative to rollout Microsoft Teams Telephony across the organization. Responsible for managing the operational readiness activities related to Teams Telephony project, leading gathering and documenting business functional and non-functional specifications for operational handover through workshops and analysis of use cases during delivery phase, creating process maps and technical documentation for provisioning new telephony equipment, knowledge articles on end user technology usage and recycling of old telephony equipment. I am also involved with the ITSCM programme to assist with mapping and formulating plans related to MBIE Business Continuity and DR Assurance activities.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Business Transformation (BT) programme Consultant with responsibilities to provide services to support all change initiatives through sprints, assisting with Decommissioning, ensuring stability and availability of fit for purpose environments, defining and adopting co-existence strategies and providing advice to Service Management practices and BAU support.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Managing Environment Management Team within New Services Platform Group at Inland Revenue NZ. Responsible and accountable for availability and stability of Non-Production Environments.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Providing services to Environment Management Team within New Services Platform Group at Inland Revenue NZ.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Worked on an initiative on the adoption of Cloud Strategy within Corporate, Governance and Information (CGI) group, I was responsible for analysis and management of activities related to the migration of existing integrated suite of tools into a cloud to provide hosting as a service for vendors and internal teams.

Wellington, New Zealand

As part of Application Services Delivery on MBIE account, HPE team were looking for an accountable, single point of contact to liaise with MBIE and associated vendors to streamline delivery of services to Immigration NZ agency. I was approached to take up the role and integrate Immigration NZ business team, MBIE ICT, third party vendors and associated suppliers to deliver seamless Application Management System (AMS) Service to Immigration and Visa officers of INZ. Responsibilities• Understanding customer’s key business challenges and requirements.• Managing communications and providing visibility on deliverables and commitments• Negotiating with vendors for adaptive partnering and managing stakeholders.• Liaising with Network, Operations, Middleware, Applications and DBA teams to ensure seamless service delivery for Change, Release, Incident and Problem Management.• Process improvement related to Configuration, Environment and Deployment Management.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Transitioning from Technical Consultant to Application Service Management team as part of handover to BAU team on DIA Account, I was entrusted with providing ongoing support to DIA Production along with shared responsibility for MSD and IRD accountsAchievements• Streamlined the delivery of releases and successfully managed Change, Problems and Incidents at DIA, MSD and IRD accounts as part of BAU activities.• Accountable and responsible for creating, maintaining and auditing Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery exercises across Govt. accounts thereby creating operational resiliency.• Audited Asia Pacific regional accounts to assess maturity of service delivery via Functional Assessment tool and conducted Health Check program resulting in introduction of Start of Day Portal for Service Management across APJ region.• Designed, developed and implemented Managed Services BAU Initiative to introduce common processes (comms plan, procedure manuals, operation guide), governance (contracts, SLAs, SOWs) and reporting (P1 incidents, operational and service) across AoG accounts at HP

Wellington, New Zealand

HP team were gearing up for phase one release of Passport Redevelopment Program to DIA and offered me this permanent role to streamline and improve processes related to Release and Deployment. Achievements• Proactively identified and improved release and change processes for service delivery which led to using standard set of processes across Application Management Services accounts.• Coached, mentored and assisted resources to achieve resource utilization and cost benefits by moving work items to best shore centres.

Wellington, New Zealand

Starting New Zealand phase of my career, I joined Alcatel-Lucent to provide my services on Telecom account supporting the Operational Support Systems (OSS) team to deliver builds and releases related to service provisioning and network configuration functions. Responsibilities • Formulating and adhering to the Configuration Management related CMMI Processes.• Planning and Managing builds and installations of project releases in customer’s environments.• Responsible for identifying configuration items, creating, baselining and maintaining branches and environments for projects, project controls and planning and delivering milestone builds.

Wellington, New Zealand

Telecom New Zealand were replacing the mobile content delivery platform and had contracted Tech Mahindra to deliver the services. Responsibilities • Client management, platform management and involvement in business planning activities.• Detailing effort estimates based on factors like resourcing, integration and schedules.• Coordinating with the customer resources, onsite and the offshore teams

Pune Area, India

I was head hunted by Tech Mahindra to lead the content delivery program of work based on my experience in mobile device and server side implementations.Achievements• Successfully managed the Content Delivery Services project for Telecom NZ.• Managed onsite and offshore resources effectively to deliver solution on time and within budget.• Created MIS reports and Progress reports against delivery milestones • Represented organization to external customers and assisted in shaping technical direction and strategies within the organization and for customers.

Mumbai Area, India

Mumbai Area, India

Project Management Professional ( Pmp ), Project Management

Certified Project Management Professional ( PMP ) from Project Management Institute.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electronics

Activities and Societies: Social and Cultural Committee, Electronics Students Association ( ESA)