Devang Desai Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Responsible for managing Data Center Operations for entire area zone with 4 large scale Data centres as well as 3 Edge Sites Data Center Operation technicians and Colo contractor teams.
• Manage and develop teams of engineers, provide technical and leadership expertise and ensuring highest level of performance.
• Manage and maintain existing in-house Data Centers.
• Help build and bring online new Data Centers.
• Find gaps and improve processes and procedures.
• Manage and assist to form working relationships with external vendors and contractors.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Successfully migrated Global Data Center at Sun House - Mumbai within a downtime of 48 hours (2018)
• Successfully migrated Erst Ranbaxy Global Data Center situated at Gurugram to Co-location (2020)
• Implemented Primary and DR Data Centres on Tier 3 standards and 30 regional Data Centers on Tier2 and Tier 1 standards from grounds up.
• Moved mission critical business applications to AWS and Azure Clouds over IAAS, PAAS and SAAS platforms and achieved 12% TCO savings at Sun Pharma.
• IT Infrastructure harmonization of the acquired company Ranbaxy Ltd (India), Pola Pharma (Japan), Insite Vision, Pharmalucence (North America), Biosintez (Russia), SPIL (Australia) etc.. in to Sun Pharma, involving.
• Successfully implemented IT Infrastructure for new plants & offices at Sun Pharma (2011 till date)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Spearheaded the entire IT Infrastructure Management services delivery and handled:o Crisis Managemento Business Continuity Plano Vendor Managemento DC-DR Drillo Data-center Managemento New Projectso Involved in.

Mumbai Area, India

• Growth Path:Sep’06-Sep’07 Program Lead – Pidilite Industries LimitedOct’07-Jun’08 Program Manager – CBoP (Centurion Bank of Punjab)Jul’08-May’10 National Program Manager – Axis BankKey Result Areas:As National Program.
• Successfully conducted external audit at Axis Bank site with zero NC.
• Contributed in introducing the SLA model by outsourcing resources to franchisee / partners thus by saving on cost and resource head count.
• Capably modified the network monitoring tool for trend analysis and bandwidth utilisation and introduced centralised help-desk model. Introduced remote model for resolving the incidents logged thus by providing FTR.
• Received the Best Program Manager award nationally for Q2 year 2009-10.As Program Manager – CBoP (Centurion Bank of Punjab):
• Adroitly managed the IT infrastructure management services delivery of CBoP – Centurion Bank of Punjab for Wipro InfoTech across the Nation

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Growth Path:Jul’02-Feb’03 Group Leader - Field Support DivisionFeb’03-Jun’05 Project Manager - Reliance InfocommJul’05-Sep’06 Asst. Territory Manager