Pankaj Shah

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Accomplished IT professional with 15 years experience in project, portfolio & programme management within Oil & Banking. @ Shell
the hague, zuid-holland, netherlands
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About Pankaj Shah

As an accomplished IT professional, I’ve thrived in highly competitive, fast-paced environments across the Energy, Investment Banking, and Consultancy sectors. My strengths lie in managing multimillion-dollar IT initiatives with large international teams, leading enterprise-wide application and infrastructure migrations whilst reducing costs and drive profitability. I excel in interpersonal communication, collaborating effectively with technical and senior business stakeholders. My latest initiative was managing the IT integration of Ubitricity into Shell which comprised of 9 separate workstreams.

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Accomplished IT professional with 15 years experience in project, portfolio & programme management within Oil & Banking.
the hague, zuid-holland, netherlands
Website:
shell.com
Employees:
132903
Pankaj Shah Work Experience Details
  • Shell
    Programme Manager
    Shell May 2020 - Present
    London, England, United Kingdom
    • Following the acquisition of Ubitricity, I led the IT Onboarding Programme for the objective of achieving Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) Compliance. • I orchestrated the seamless migration of infrastructure and applications from Ubitricity to Shell, overseeing nine distinct workstreams, including Identity & Access Management, EUC (laptop and mail migration), connectivity, unstructured data migration, Cloud and data centre migration, SAAS migration, IT support and process, application, and organizational compliance.• I managed a team of approximately 30 Shell and 15 Ubitricity resources, optimizing a lean budget of up to $6 million.• I navigated a high-visibility program, collaborating closely with senior business stakeholders, including SVP, GM, IDT Manager, from both Shell and Ubitricity, during weekly Steering Committee meetings.• Recognised with a nomination for the CIO award.
  • Shell
    Project Portfolio Manager
    Shell Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
    London, England, United Kingdom
    • Responsible for the delivery oversight of all projects within DS Retail SOM with up to 30 projects, 15 projects managers and a budget of £9m. • Actively participated in multiple Steering Committees and a primary escalation point.• Oversaw projects within the Retail Telecoms Modernisation Programme, enhancing telecom solutions for Retail stations worldwide. Technology upgrades included WIFI, Z-Scaler, 3G/4G redundancy, VSAT, and MPLS.• Drove a significant transformation in project management practices, fostering greater accountability among PMs.• Developed an extensive Operating Plan for the 2022 budget, surpassing previous years’ standards.
  • Shell
    Senior Pm
    Shell Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Led a global initiative for a platform to monitor customer journeys for Shell Retail stations, enabling support teams to take proactive action on issues related to payments, loyalty, and site operations.• Retail Data Platform was used as a repository for data with interfaces built for SAP Hybris, Site Integration Platform (SIP), Apigee, Loyalty on Demand (LOD).
  • Shell
    Senior Pm
    Shell Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
    London, United Kingdom
    Managing several projects including the New Service Development for Windows 10 Secure and Restricted build, deployment of Office 365 applications onto mobile devices using VMWare AirWatch. Extensive liaison with IRM and security architects to ensure optimum security.
  • Shell
    Dependencies Lead - Bg Data Centre Consolidation
    Shell Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
    London, United Kingdom
    • Workstream lead for a $30M program to integrate BG Group into Shell infrastructure, enabling rationalization and shutdown of data centres in London and Australia.• Coordinated application scope across various business units.• Ensured accountability for over 2000 servers and 4000 SQL and Oracle databases.
  • Shell
    Programme Manager - Downstream Application & Infrastructure Rationalisation
    Shell Nov 2015 - Jul 2017
    London, United Kingdom
    • • Overall responsibility for managing the End-of-Life remediation of applications over 4000 global hosting assets for the Downstream business.• Led cross-functional onshore and offshore teams of up to 60 resources including project managers, developers, systems engineers, and network specialists whilst delivering migrations across all business units including Trading, Retail and Manufacturing.• Reduced the budget from $15m to $9m in just one year via resource rationalisation by performing deep dives across Shell's supplier network comprised of IBM, HP, T-Systems, AT&T, Wipro and Oracle.
  • Shell
    Project Portfolio Manager - Downstream Cross Business Projects
    Shell Aug 2011 - Oct 2015
    London, United Kingdom
    • I managed a $4m portfolio of 50+ projects within the Downstream business across work streams that included: Redesign of WAN links and removal of SPOF; WAN bandwidth reduction + downgrading links from HA to SA; PBX replacement to VOIP across approx. 100 Downstream sites. • Responsibilities included: tracking progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results; working closely with the network and hosting providers; serving as an escalation point, presenting business cases for approval.• Encouraged a culture within teams to challenge designs and promote cost effective sustainable solutions. This led to significant reduction in yearly costs that far outweighed the project costs.
  • Bank Of America Merrill Lynch
    Technology Project Manager
    Bank Of America Merrill Lynch Apr 2011 - Jul 2011
    London, United Kingdom
    I managed Infrastructure projects within the EMEA region using the Six Sigma DMAIC process. I was mainly engaged in a project which was in the RFP phase to deliver a system capable of processing high volume low value payments and receipts.
  • T-Systems
    Project Manager - Shell Global Account
    T-Systems Feb 2009 - Mar 2011
    London, United Kingdom
    • I managed the full lifecycle of projects across the globe that included the design and implementation of servers, storage and middleware in accordance with application landscape requirements.• Effectively worked with business sponsors, IRM, architects and 3rd party vendors including HP, AT&T, IBM in delivering projects through to closure via the Stage Gate process.• Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to customers, accomplished with minimal downtime through careful planning, testing and QA efforts.
  • Abn Amro Bank N.V.
    Senior Ict Project Manager
    Abn Amro Bank N.V. May 2008 - Nov 2008
    London, United Kingdom
    • Country PM for the Integration/Separation project. Separation from the RBS/ABN AMRO Infrastructure and Integration between ABN AMRO Asset Mgt. and Fortis Investments.• Managed the DC migration to new Production and Disaster Recovery DC’s including Active Directory Integration and Data Migration from AAAM (RBS shared) domain.• Successfully delivered the scope in time and on budget whilst mitigating risks/issues by alignment across technical and management teams based in Brussels and Amsterdam. 3rd party interaction included IBM, BT, HP, Telindus, Avenade.
  • Fidelity Investments
    Technical Pm - Data Center Migration
    Fidelity Investments Jan 2008 - May 2008
    Managed the migration of 500 servers from two separate data centres into a new data centre. This included the Virtualisation of servers using VMware and P2P from old to new HP hardware.
  • Credit Suisse
    Technical Project Manager
    Credit Suisse Sep 2005 - Oct 2007
    London, United Kingdom
    • Managed the consolidation of the IT Infrastructure from the 3 existing data centres to 2 new suites.• Successfully managed the migration of 2000 servers by either swinging onto new platforms, lift and shift or transformation to Virtualised servers. Hands on technical project management to migrate up to 50 servers in a weekend enabled by close cooperation with the technical and application testing teams ensuring any issues were mitigated efficiently.
  • Pricewaterhousecoopers (Pwc)
    Wintel Server Operations Team Lead
    Pricewaterhousecoopers (Pwc) Dec 2002 - Aug 2005
    London, United Kingdom
  • Nomura International
    Server Infrastructure Analyst
    Nomura International 1998 - 2002

Pankaj Shah Skills

Infrastructure Stakeholder Management Itil It Strategy It Service Management Data Center Project Management Integration It Management Programme Delivery Programme Governance Project Portfolio Management

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