Puneet Khera Email & Phone Number

Gurugram, Hr, In

Gurgaon

Highly self-motivated senior IT executive with over 20 years of experience in CloudConsulting, Data Engineering, and Analytics.➢ Responsible for managing multi-million dollar Data/Cloud transformation projects fromIndia.➢ Spearheading multi-technology teams of 300+ FTEs acrossData-driven Cloud projects (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS), Data engineering, CloudApp transformation and GenAI with 10+ years of progressive leadershipexperience.➢ A seasoned professional in managing cross-geographical and functional data teams,with a proven ability to drive consensus and align team members around commongoals.➢ Proven success in:○ Fostering growth in uncomfortable conditions○ Aligning team members around common goals○ Creating a culture of learning and strategic skill development➢ Startup - Thought Leadership - Played a key role in starting Maven Wave Partners India,Gurgaon in 2018, stabilizing both Data and Application Development teams, with aY-O-Y growth rate of 100% to a team of around 400 people.➢ Agile and Lean transformation expert - Certified Scrum Master - Certified ScrumMaster, driving best Agile practices and lean transformations.➢ Resource Management & Staffing - Ensuring customer satisfaction through optimalstaffing of engagements and exceeding utilization and bench targets across skilldisciplines.➢ Pre-Sales and SoW Leadership - Leading solution architects and sales engineers indesigning pre-sales work and finalizing statements of work (effort-based, time-based, orfixed bid).➢ Practice/Program Financial Management - Managing IT projects and BAU budgets,adhering to MTP processes, and ensuring compliance while delivering on time.

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Gurgaon, India

Domain Expertise - US Benefits - Healthcare, BFSI, Forensic Data extraction, e-Discovery, Marketing Analytics, HIPAA, Life Sciences.Project Financial Management - Managing IT Projects and BAU Budgets on time by following the MTP process with regular tracking while ensuring compliance. Global Delivery management - Managing multiple Software development geographically distributed teams (On & Offshore), efficiently using technology and processes, consistently improving delivery times while reducing cost.Startup - Significant contribution in starting Maven Wave Partners India, Gurgaon Operation in 2018 - stabilized both the software development and service delivery teams ramping over 100% Y-O-Y to around 50 people.Agile - Certified Scrum Master - Being a catalyst for lean transformation by setting and implementing the best Agile practices. Resource Management & Staffing - Ensuring customer satisfaction with the staffing of their engagements and exceed utilization along with bench targets across skill disciplines of the India practice.Pre Sales and SoW - Working with Solution Architects and sales engineers on designing Pre-sales work and finalizing statement of work (effort-based, time-based or fixed bid)Stakeholder Management & Collaboration - Making sure of timely status reporting and sharing Delivery dashboards to Account Directors or Product owners and escalating any risks along with mitigation plan.Cloud Data Platform Development - Delivering data driven projects to design modern cloud-based analytics databases and build real-time & batch data pipelines.Legacy to Cloud Migration - Executing comprehensive migrations from legacy data platforms like Hadoop, Netezza, Teradata, SQL Server and Oracle to Google Cloud Platform.Marketing Analytics -Synthesizing data and delivering specific marketing use cases, such as segmentation, lead scoring, targeting, churn, and attribution.

Gurgaon, India

Responsibilities:Resource Management- Making sound staffing decisions and resolving conflicts within the practice that have significant impact on utilization and on internal and external customer satisfaction. - Ensure customer satisfaction with the staffing of their engagements and exceed utilization along with bench targets across skill disciplines of the India practice.- Fulfill all demand for consulting resources within defined service levels.- Owning: 1. Business Plan -- Contribute to the strategic skills & capacity decisions for the organization. 2. Business Build -- Facilitate stakeholders interactions (from leadership to individual contributors) and leverage support of others. 3. Business Stabilize -- Operationalize delivery excellence concepts across the various resource pools to improve our profitability.4. Buisness Deploy -- Drive the resource management processes to optimize the utilization while maximizing the customer satisfaction.People Management - Work with Practice Managers and Directors in US for Resource planning, Recruitment strategy and execution across team- Retention strategy across the team, Employee Engagement- Performance management Objective creation at team member level, Performance evaluation after interacting with stakeholders and normalization across teams- Coaching and mentoring team; Identifying training needs and working with Learning & Development team to fill skill gaps- Knowledge and Transition ManagementService Delivery Management - Support Practice Managers in Workload forecasting & planning, Process standardizationProductivity Enhancement, Service Governance and Control- Leverage cross functional synergies, Backup and succession planning across teams- Identifying improvement opportunities and executing the same- Deliver the identified end-to-end Managed projects with overall delivery accountability of the offshore components

Noida Area, India

- Managed complete Noida operations vertical focused on E-Discovery and data processing.Institutionalized data driven governance.- Successfully grew and stabilized service delivery teams ramping over 100% Y-O-Y to around 50 people across QA, operations, support, Analytics and Metrics Reporting.- Developed KPIs geared towards improving delivery excellence, operational excellence, and people management; implemented a standard organization dashboard to measure these KPIs across all teams.- Expert in analysing business scenarios through analysis of data and providing findings, insights and recommendations.- Managed data flow from data warehouse to visualization tools. Perform data auditing and troubleshooting. - Implemented Data Blending, importing data from multiple data sources (File based/Server based) to tableau desktop and blending them together to produce meaningful records/Views for the customer.

Noida Area, India

Roles & Responsibilities at Conduent:Works closely with Client Managers and Client Delivery teams: To get the deliveries done and manage Noida operations. Design new processes and Criteria for standardization. Scale ongoing Delivery models. Drive execution of Standard practices. Support the transition of new implementations to ongoing setup. Monitor, enforce and continue improve Delivery model. Implement process improvement ideas which results in cost/Time saving.Reporting and Analytics: Analyze important KPI s and publish monthly Dashboards. Create reports to verify steady state of ongoing operations.  Create Tableau reports and story for Client Account Managers. Work with Client Managers to gather Analytics requirements and provide insights to CoE on building models to develop effective solutions. Works closely with Analytics group in validating Data models.Management Formulate strategy for RBC bonus payout of team members.  Regular Performance Management. Conduct regular associate development discussions. Helps drive associate engagement & related associated issues. Track performance of project team members and takes appropriate action. Make sure team provide 24/7 coverage without break on all processes. Create team management plan with relevant details such as (WBS, Effort Estimations, and time estimations). Risk Management and Mitigation. Create & Maintain project management routines. Create and implement succession plans for 100% critical and high performers.

Noida

Noida Area, India

Noida Area, India

Noida

Roles & responsibilities:Project Management Leading system support activities from offshore and supporting the Business Manager in the development and implementation of test strategy. Estimation of work to be done from off-shore. Work allocation to Associate BAs and BAs. Participating in weekly meeting to discuss the feasibility of requirements. Coordinate and communicate with onshore team for project related matters.  Ensure timely project deliveries (milestones and deliverables). Report project status/issues to project manager.QA Management Reviewing the business cases and requirement document; creating the technical specs for coding. Review the code and get it unit tested thoroughly within the team to ensure high quality code releases. End to end defect management including prioritization of defects and follow through until issue resolution. Responsible for providing time estimates on test case planning and execution.Team Training Provide and organize training for new hires. Measure training effectiveness and develop skill maps for all resources on the team. Execute cross training programs to build core competencies on the team.  Formulate the approach and lead the knowledge transitions on key clients.Production Move support Support client team in finalizing the production move objects. Responsible for code moves to production environment. Get the testing done post the move. Get the sign offs from clients teams. Work with DBAs and Configuration management for emergency moves.Others Review intermediate process outputs and ensure quality of deliverables at each stage of the process. Play an active role in implementation and enhancement of SQA processes. Escalate the issues to the business partners/stakeholders pro-actively.

Gurgaon, India

Roles & responsibilities handled at Hewitt Associates:QA Management Defining testing scope.  Project testing estimation. Work allocation to Test Engineers. Communicating with clients (LS). Participating in review meetings. Preparation of post project reports.Requirements Gathering Studying and analysis of requirement documents like project vision document and use cases.Test planning & management: Participate in the project kick off on QA front. Defining test strategy. Preparing test worksheet. Getting test cases done by Test Engineers. Preparation of test environment. Test case review. Monitor and resolve any issues related to data or setup. Monitor testing progress and make sure that the deadline is met.Training and ramp-ups Preparation of training plan. Monitoring associate ramp-ups/Coaching. Mentoring and Training.

New Delhi Area, India

New Delhi Area, India

Roles & responsibilities Venture Infotek Global Pvt. Ltd:QA support in operations Creating Host interface requirements documents. Downloading the REV file to the terminal. Creation of scripts from system requirements specifications. Analysis of Credit / Debit application. Functionality testing of the terminal. Raising bug to the support team.

Noida Area, India

Pgpba, Business Analytics

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electronics & Communication