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London, Gb

Lead all converged IT operations across Vodafone’s Mobile and enterprise domains, managing over 200 applications with a team of 500+ FTE to enhance operational performance.Spearheaded digital transformation initiatives focused on GenAI and automation in operational activities, achieving a 30% reduction in costs and significantly improving system reliability.Directed cloud transformation projects, successfully migrating legacy servers to cloud environments, resulting in enhanced scalability and cost efficiency.Insourced and optimized four major support contracts, generating £15M in revenue and achieving 35% cost savings.Collaborate closely with C-level stakeholders to align IT operations with business objectives, driving improvements in service availability, stability, and customer satisfaction.

London, Gb

Head of Business Mobile and Fixed Operations Heading below verticals for Digital & IT1) Mobile Business Operations: Mobile Business/ Corporate users Mobile Enterprise application stackE2E stack of Mobile enterprise - Provisioning, Billing, In life support, Service management and others - ( Amdocs Applications E2E stack, 50 + IT applications)2) Fixed Business Operations Fixed Enterprise Applications stackVF Enterprise business digital channels, CRM, Provisioning systems, Middle layer applications and back-end systems. ( 100+ IT Applications)3) Operations Support Systems - OSS Mobile and Fixed Operations support systems Network assurance, Networking monitoring, Network provisioning and other applications supporting Mobile and Enterprise business (180+ applications)4) UK end to end Order management Managing entire life cycle of customer orders on entire IT stack and support business, agents and other teams to have no impact in day to day for ordering.Key activities - Complex Transformation programs and insoursing, AI lead operations (machine first model), Running Operations in Agile way, Silent operations, Service mode model from offshore, Managing and mentoring the next gen managers/leaders in Operations, Finance management (~£35 Million ), Global Team size (500+ peoples), Service management, Cost optimisation & Budget planning, Continuous improvements (Devops implementation, CI/CD implementation, Cognitive tools, automation, advanced monitoring tools implementation, Energy saving and efficiency implementation and others

London, Gb

• Head of Test Management Services for Enterprise IT and covering area's of Quality assurance, Testing, Environment, DevOps ( CI/CD) and Release management.• Managing team of 120+ test enginners and managers across platforms and domains of IT life cyle, Environment Management, Release Management and Quality Assurance in Services Mode (Factory mode - Best shore based).• Service owner for Testing (Test Centre of Excellence) & Test Environments (Test Environment Management Services).• Program Test manager for an complex, multi year BSS transformation programme for enterprise IT. (Leading Testing, Environments, Support & Quality assurance).• Test Quality Assurance manager for all Enterprise IT deliverable's from different vendors/Partners.• Set-up and stabilizing of Test service factory (Onshore & best shore model) running from multi geographical locations & running with waterfall model & agile factory model.• Managing & Implementing optimization techniques on E2E life cycle, Continuous deployment and Continuous integration (Devops) techniques in to organization.• Innovating and implementing best practices, Process improvements and continuous improvements with in Test management services (Tcoe, Tems).• Test services Budget forecasting and cost management, Implementing cost optimization techniques in running servicesAs an IT Environment manager.Setup new end to end Integrated Test Environment's building them on hybrid environments (Cloud & Virtual machines, legacy on physical boxes).Implemented Test center of excellence (Onshore and Offshore model - Test factory)Implemented Test Management Services (Quality management, Service management, Operations management, Change management, Problem management, Defect management and Etc).Implemented service monitoring tools for measuring service availability & built service portal.Implementing Schedule and Cost optimization on e2e life cycleManaged team size of 120+ in the test factory and 100+ indirectly

Bracknell, Berkshire, Gb

Managing and supporting all integration (Middleware, Order management) test environments across VF Uk environment for Vendors, Third parties and projects. Delivery & Support Management of all integration test environments (Tibco, SVAP & Omega) totally around 35 to 40 different types of environments (E2E and other types) based geographically at different locations.Managing and delivering work packages at 85% offshore and 15% onshore model. Managing requirements, work packages, cost, schedule and people.Managed team of 40 + head count both at onshore and best-shore.Consultant from Mphasis Uk to HP UK

Bracknell, Berkshire, Gb

As a portfolio manager, Managed retail applications - Svap(Vodafone Retail applications for store, partners and call centre for order-management & customer-care) at Vodafone Integration team.Managed and delivering work packages with offshore and onshore model.Setup and transitioned core legacy applications into best-shore.Managed requirements, work packages, cost, schedule and people. managed an team of 15 peoples (both at onshore and best-shore)Release & Deployment Manager, Web Services Account, Vodafone UK.Lead Releases and Deployments (Implementation) for Online Web services team and Retail applications for Vodafone UK , Reading, UK. I drive the project or releases after FIT/FAT testing through dress rehearsals and cut over or deployment of the gold build on web portal (Live) and I take ownership of the deployment on to production site and will provide post implementation support for web service support team. I will coordinate, Facilitate and manage work from many other vendor teams (Development teams, Testing teams, Support teams) from different geographical regions. I over see and plan for the entire staging, Deployment and post deployment support for the site and hand over the release to online support team of Vodafone. I create and manage all the required documents and process documents to suit the Vodafone change management and service operations criteria.Consultant from Mphasis Uk to HP UK

Murray Hill, Nj, Us

Worked at Bell Labs Bangalore (Alcatel-Lucent) as CM/RM lead from Sasken Networks. Hands on Installshield 12, Build and release activities, Perforce and Clear-case administration.Daily activities involved Continuous integration, Automation activities and creating builds (RPM & Install script creation for Installshield 12), Perforce administration. Integration of Builds with auto testing scripts (Acceptance and regression of code written in onshore and offshore team). Worked and supported Development, Testing and supports teams. The product later distributed as the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian and won several industry awards.Technical consultant from Sasken India (Bangalore) in to Bell Labs India (Bangalore)

Stockholm, Se

Worked for Sony Ericsson team and lead Configration & Relesse team Cybercom-Datamatics.An joint venture company of Cyber group and Dramatics India.Lead team 10+ for Configuration Management and build management, Responsible for all deployments and all updates on to the digital portal (internal and external Akamai portal).Full control on central repository of the portal with support activities on CVS.CM and Integration server management & deployment management for all development and Testing. Testing was performed by multiple vendors (Valtech, MediaCatalyst and others) for integration of the portal.http://www.sonyericsson.com or http://www2.sonyericsson.com

Configuration Management lead and Involved in supporting all account for SCM activities, Involved in CMMI level 3 and level 5 accreditation.Build and Release management support for all projects in the organisation. Source code management on Clear-case, VSS and CVSBuild, release management and R & D Test Lab Management for Arbortext team (PTC).Build, Deployment and Auto Testing (Implemented Continuous Build and Continuous Integration) for Arbortext Testing lab.certified Sun Solaris 9 administration and Clear-case administration certification in this role from Sun and Rational respectively.Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) acquired FCG in 2007

Diploma Of Education, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science And Engineering