Sameer Karkhanis Email & Phone Number

Cupertino, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

My responsibilities as M&A Integration Leader:• Strategic and trusted advisor to senior executives and deal sponsor• Facilitate buy-in of proposed solution• Surface strategic opportunities and challenges• Lead and participate due diligence, operational discovery, day 1 planning, pre- and post-close integration planning, and execution• Mobilize and manage cross-functional teams• Drive accountability for integration deliverables• Design and implement repeatable frameworks, playbooks, and operational processes• Manage project risks, issues, actions, and decisions• Develop and manage integration budget and optimize integration costs• Manage change and communications to all stakeholders in a timely, concise, and clear fashion• Enable a work smarter than harder culture by leveraging technology and tools• Measure and monitor value drivers and synergies through metrics and performance scorecards • Enhance integration framework, methodologies, and best practices for future acquisitions• Synthesize recommendations and feedback into an action plan

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Managed the migration of high profile site areas involving 35,000+ web pages on Cisco website to the latest Documentum based Cisco.com 2.0 platform through all phases of the project.• Executed project plans and managed deliverables using standard Cisco SDLC and DMAIC methodologies.• Managed cross functional teams of developers, site area experts and infrastructure to develop fully integrated products. Leveraged the onsite-offshore model for fast tracking.• Administered and managed Documentum Web Publisher customizations & infrastructure.• Lead the design and development of EMAN monitoring scripts which provided real-time system status which improved the response time and reduced downtimes, saving Cisco millions of dollars.Managed and improved performance of the Documentum platform for Cisco.com 2.0, in collaboration with Cisco IT load testing team

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Lead the development team for the integration effort of large enterprise content management systems (CCEWP and CCIM) with the latest Documentum based dynamic enterprise platform.• Provided 24 x 7 first-level business and tier-2 technical support for production system issues. Supported 10,000+ users throughout US and overseas. Leveraged Remedy tool very effective for tracking and case handling.• Designed & implement templates using WebWorks 2003 for automated transformation of technical documentation authored in Adobe Framemaker to HTML.• Re-engineered and developed custom parsing module for content formatting which resulted in 50-60% system performance improvement and reducing the overall end-to-end deployment time to website.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

- As a Technical Lead managed software development and change management.- Developed, customized and fixed over 200+ SQL reports to mitigate Y2K issues in Oracle application implementation at Cisco.- Trained and mentored team members.- Managed and tracked bugs and features.- Efficiently and proactively handled the release management.

B.E (Vjti), Electronics Engineering

Project Management

Master'S Degree, Project Management