Satheesh Kumar Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Leveraging my extensive IT background, I've cultivated an appreciation for the diverse needs of consumers and colleagues, nurturing and expanding Valor PayTech's team and culture since its inception. My approach, which focuses on inclusivity, has enriched my leadership skills & fostered collective success.Responsibilities:• Team Leadership & Cultural Development: Pioneering the growth & establishment of Valor PayTech's team & culture, focusing on understanding & addressing the diverse needs of consumers & co-workers to foster an inclusive workplace.• HR Management & Strategic Recruitment: Directing HR operations & crafting a dynamic recruitment strategy and expanding talent pool with campus outreach programs. • Process Optimization & Implementation: Collaborating with various departments to introduce & refine processes and adopt cost-effective tools to improve employee productivity & teamwork.• Cross-Functional Team Collaboration: Bridging departmental divides by facilitating collaboration among architects, UI/UX designers, developers, testers, & business analysts to ensure project success.• Client Relationship & Business Development: Engaging closely with the leadership team to explore & seize growth opportunities with existing clients & prospects.Achievements:• Team Expansion: Achieved a remarkable team expansion, increasing its size by over 300% from 40 to 160+ members across seven locations in India.• Operational Excellence: Introduced & implemented cost-effective tools that markedly improved employee efficiency & collaborative efforts, setting new productivity benchmarks.• Strategic Improvements: Instrumental in designing & deploying new processes that bridged gaps between departments & enhanced inter-departmental cooperation.• Business Growth Contributions: Actively contributed to identifying & capturing new client acquisition opportunities, contributing to sustainable growth & success of Valor PayTech.

India

Served as the lead and on-ground representative for Project Super 30, a visionary initiative co-founded by a former Googler and Commander. This noble project was dedicated to transforming the lives of 30 underprivileged children through a comprehensive, holistic approach to education. Our aim was not only academic excellence but also nurturing well-rounded individuals capable of creating a positive societal impact. Our guiding philosophy was to harmonize educational pursuits and create a safe space for children and adults to learn, explore, and develop, integrating our Heads, Hearts, and Hands in a setting marked by freedom, equality, and joy.Responsibilities & Achievements:• Conducted extensive surveys across 80 villages in Dharmapuri District to identify potential children and committed families who were willing to go the extra mile for their child's education.• Led strategic planning, budgeting, and financial forecasting, ensuring the project's sustainability and success.• Managed the legal establishment of the organization, securing all necessary licenses and permissions for operation.

Tamil Nadu, India

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Collaborated with faculty to integrate career counseling into the school curriculum, ensuring a holistic education approach.• Provided personalized career guidance to students from grades 8-12, aiding their subject selection and future career paths.• Organized and conducted career counseling sessions, workshops, and career fairs to expose students to various career opportunities.• Assisted students in the university application process, including the preparation of application materials and selection strategy.• Guided students through the preparation for entrance and admission tests for national colleges and universities.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Client: Confidential (UK Local Government database support) Environment: Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g on Solaris and Windows, BMC Remedy Responsibilities & Achievements:• Led database engineers/administrators and operations teams, managing Oracle & SQL server environments across varied locations and with offshore teams.• Strengthened service level agreements by optimizing the timeframe for delivering IT solutions, enhancing efficiency.• Built and maintained robust relationships between customers and the infrastructure team to foster collaborative use of IT for business benefits.• Participated in the recruitment process, from conducting interviews to making critical hiring decisions in conjunction with HR, aimed at enriching the team with highly skilled professionals.• Ensured exceptional customer data service management, effective people management, and high infrastructure availability.• Proactively identified and resolved issues to continuously meet or exceed SLA requirements, maintaining operational excellence.• Provided round-the-clock support for over 360 Oracle databases, ensuring reliable and uninterrupted database services.• Executed database migrations and conducted daily health checks to uphold database performance and integrity.• Troubleshooted daily development, QA, and production problems, swiftly resolving issues to maintain continuous operational efficiency.• Implemented production changes adhering to a stringent change management process, ensuring smooth operational flow.

Responsibilities & Achievements: • Monitored databases actively, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.• Executed RMAN and various levels of logical backups to safeguard data integrity.• Managed user accounts by creating users and roles, assigning roles, and granting necessary privileges to enhance database security.• Generated Statspack reports to diagnose and address database performance issues.• Advised clients on database growth trends, facilitating strategic planning and resource allocation.• Conducted daily health checks of databases to preemptively identify and rectify potential issues.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Computer Application, Computer Applications