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Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Leadership role focused on successful business integration program execution scheduled over 3 years for integrating legacy Bayer Animal Health NZ business (Manufacturing & Commercial site) into Elanco.Key Responsibilities Develop Programme execution strategy for New Zealand Business Set up NZ governance team to control execution and be the NZ SPOC in global PMO team Collaborate with key stakeholders from manufacturing, supply chain, warehouse, quality, finance, and commercial departments for effective programme execution Engage with steerco to discuss programme performance and business cases Govern overall programme execution aligned to business plan for SAP, non-SAP & Infra tracks Review and sign off scope for various functions for SAP, non SAP & Infra tracks Review and sign off entry/exit criteria for project phases Manage interdependencies between concurrent projects in terms of functionality and schedule Ensure the Program RAID log is up to date for identified Risks, Actions, Issues & Decisions Plan Business activities during Deploy & Run phases of migration for business ramp down, blackout, Cutover, Business ramp up & Hypercare without impacting BAU E2E IT Vendor engagement from scoping, contract, and delivery including financials management Vendor performance governance for IT service delivery against SLA E2E business/service improvements governance – from Business Case to IT Operations Collaborate with global security team to coordinate recurring cyber security campaigns like phishing Collaborate with site leadership team to review reported Health & Safety incidents and subsequent CAPAs

Auckland, New Zealand

Senior IT Leadership role primarily focused on smooth transition from legacy Bayer to standalone Animal Health business domain (AH.biz). SAP ECC carve out from legacy Bayer was the critical responsibility on top of migrating non ERP apps to a new domain. Represented Elanco ANZ business in Elanco Global IT to ensure adequate IT support during integration of acquired Bayer Animal Health business. Key Responsibilities Programme Delivery and Governance for SAP Carve Out programme. End to End project governance – from business case to IT service transition. Vendor performance governance for IT service delivery

Auckland, New Zealand

Senior customer facing management role responsible for IT Infrastructure managed services transition from incumbent to HCL for Security track covering EUC and Data Centre for Fonterra NZ.Key Responsibilities - Transition Delivery and Governance Planning & execution of Knowledge transition sessions with incumbent & HCL SMEs. Status updates to Fonterra Programme leadership team. Escalate transition blockers to Fonterra leadership team for resolution. Collaborate with HCL offshore leadership team to ensure transition progress.

Auckland, New Zealand

Key ePMO improvements: Accurate effort utilization reporting with required flexibility Efficient Work Order process with reduced lead time from 30+ to 10 business days

Auckland, New Zealand

Key Achievements: Governed Infosys’ engagements for a large Re-Engineering Transformation programme running over 3 years executed in multiple phases with peak team size of 150+ team members working from onshore/offshore locations Successful delivery of Customer, Pre-paid, Fibre & Post-paid Transformational programmes Rated consistently between 6-7/7 in all Engagement Level Feedbacks on multiple parameters – Quality, Schedule, Budget and Communications Centralized CI/CD set up for 5 applications Data & Automation Hub - Implementation of Automation use cases, Dev and Maintenance of BI platform, Implementation of Big Data Set up and JUCCI (Join, Use, Change, Care, Involve) framework for deriving customer insights Streamlined C level Governance reporting for Infosys

India, Belgium

Key Achievements: Improved Programme Quality (measured in Escaped Defect Density – defects per 1000-person hrs) from 2.6 to 0.65 in my first programme and this was further improved to 0.12 in my last programme Established Telenet Knowledge Management Repository for ensuring quick on boarding of new members as well as reducing key person dependencies. Successful Change Management for modernising programme delivery model Successful Offshore Development Manager leading team of 150+ cross functional team members working on programmes and operations.

India, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany

E2E Project Management activities to ensure successful project delivery in terms of quality, schedule and budget

India

Requirement analysis, high/low level design, implementation & testing activities for assigned projectsJava/J2EE technologies, Struts MVC framework, Websphere, Weblogic, Oracle DB

India

Development and testing activities, thorough understanding of J2EE technologies like Servlets, JSP, EJB, Struts, Weblogic application server 5.0, Oracle DB

Pune India

Industrial Sales - Identify and pursue new opportunities in End User and OEM segments, follow up, negotiations and deal closureSecure Engineering services contracts

Mumbai, India

Basic & Detailed Engineering & Procurement for turnkey projects (Man made Fiber and Petrochemical plants based on patented Dupont Technology) in India & abroad, stage wise implementation of various utility packages.

Mba, Marketing, First Class

NZQA certified Level 9

B.E., Mechanical, First Class With Distinction

NZQA certified Level 7