Sameer Gharat Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, Gb

Bristol, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

• Led the programme initiative to introduce automation for creative content production for Unilever digital Commerce. • As the programme manager for Automation, led the efforts to prove the concept by running pilot projects with all business groups within Unilever. • Having proved the concept of Creative Automation, led productionisation of the automated production of Supplementary Image content • Acting as the Scrum Master of a high performing creative design team working at a consistent cadence of 3 weeks, successfully delivered automation outcomes for the stakeholders. • Also led on the initiatives for continuous improvement of processes leading to a smooth and seamless experience for Unilever stakeholders and Publicis delivery teams.• Managed the Data & Reporting stream engaged in publishing high quality and accurate business metrics and dashboards to enable business decisions informed by accurate data

London, United Kingdom

Accomplishments:• Headed the delivery of £10mn (over 3 years) custom-built tooling to equip a state-of-the-art converged security operations centre• Delivered SecOps tooling that helped the bank score high on an industry-standard cybersecurity defense maturity evaluation based on Intelligence Driven Defense• Led the transformation of a 100+ strong project team into 10 Agile, high-performance cross-functional product/feature teams successfully delivering business value on a consistent basisResponsibilities• As an Agile Delivery Manager with the CSO, I was responsible for delivering innovative custom-built tooling, for a joint cyber & physical security operations centre, using modern technologies like Angular, Java, ELK stack, Hadoop, Apache Kafka, etc.• I led delivery of a comprehensive Case Management system for the Security and Compliance Investigations functions, built on Appian, a modern low-code development platform• As a Service Transition Lead, I set up a framework to track readiness of products and services for transitioning over to Operations teams and guided teams in implementing robust development practices – Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI / CD), logging, monitoring, Test Automation, Change Management with Quality Control, Continuous Improvement , etc. • As an Agile Coach and a Lean software delivery governance Champion, I was responsible for providing direction and mentored individuals and teams to adopt Agile and Lean delivery tools (JIRA, Rally, Confluence, etc.) and techniques (Scrum, Kanban, being self-organising, story-point estimation, planning poker, etc.)• As a Scrum Master, I was responsible for facilitation of Agile (Scrum) ceremonies like daily stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos, Sprint Retrospectives, regular story grooming sessions, etc. Additionally, I enjoyed building trust within the teams, motivating team members for shared successes and conflict/blocker resolution – essentially being a Servant Leader

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

* As a senior Business Analyst for British Telecom Global Services, BT’s global services division, engaged with stakeholders to understand and define the business change needs, distilled them into documented requirements / User Stories and liaised with IT design and development teams.* Led the business analysis team in transforming the IT and Network operations tooling while maintaining or exceeding the stakeholders’ expectations from the estate.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

* As a Senior Big Data Analyst for Openreach, BT Group’s wholesale telecom network provider, worked on fault visit reduction initiative by defining hypotheses, digging into large individual and imaginatively joined datasets to search for patterns or trends using tools like Datameer, Tableau, etc.* Having applied various analysis techniques, was able to recommend a reduction of up to 50% of visits where the engineer had to visit a customer multiple times to fix concurrent faults on multiple products at the customers’ premises.

London, United Kingdom

* As a senior Solution Designer for various business units of British Telecom, the UK’s biggest telecom provider, worked on designing end to end solutions for a range of products and system stacks that included Broadband, IPTV (Live and VOD), final-mile and backhaul network products, etc.* Led on analysis of complex requirements from multiple stakeholders, applying Strategic Thinking, exploring design options before recommending the most feasible in terms of cost, robustness, maintainability and security.* Designed effective end to end (E2E) solutions and had close engagement with business managers and architecture and technology delivery teams.* Liaised with design teams from other product lines and lines of businesses to define long term solution roadmaps.* Led an offshore-based solution design team delivering complex solutions in service provisioning, fulfilment and assurance for Telecom OSS/BSS systems. Managed personnel, created and tracked project plans and constantly endeavoured to in build strong relationships with stakeholders based offshore and onsite at customer locations.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

* As a senior technical associate on a project for maintenance and development of one of the largest operational support system in the world for a top UK telco, had the sole responsibility for designing and developing one of the most complex set of codes within the project* Led the offshore design and development team responsible for software development of the order management system that fulfilled the telecom giant’s voice and data provision orders* Provided VVT and live Production support for the Software Systems and Subsystems owned by the team