Umesh Karekar Email & Phone Number

Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sar

Responsible for oversight of day-to-day IT operations including Platform, Networks, Telecom, Workspace, Unified communications, groupware, and applications. Devising IT policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines across all IT with consistent controls and governance. In charge of IT Service Management, Market Data Management, IT Financials, Workforce managementMajor Achievements: Provided strategic direction for design, development, operations, and support of IT systems Setup a governance around Technology debt and retiring legacy systems  Devise aggressive hiring plan and retention strategies to mitigate impact of great resignation  Heightened ITIL best practices for managing incidents, capacity and improving stability Manage annual IT budget aligned with business objectives and design business cost allocation model Optimize the market data operations for various business lines

Hong Kong

Globally headed technology operations spanning front to back across all key business lines.Team comprising of 120 personnel supporting over 400 applications, 2500 users and range of infrastructure services 24x7 in 15 locations with annual budget of US$ 52 mil. Responsible for operational stability, efficiency, and excellence. Build up relationship/networking with other IT functions and business partners. Develop workforce strategies and workload metrics. Responsible for initiating and executing major Infrastructure projects. Identifying and remediating operational risk. Engaging in technology selection, vendor management and contract negotiationMajor Achievements: Seamless migration of datacenter facilities in Hong Kong and other locations Enhanced user collaboration platform by integrating Zoom solutions with Cisco Telepresence systems Prepared roadmap for cloud migration using SaaS and Hybrid IaaS platform Setup offshore delivery model in India as global operations hub, achieving 40% reduction in cost and seamless follow the sun model Established Service Now platform for IT operational processes (ITIL best practices), which helped improve MTTR, measure and optimize workload, and streamline inventory management  Developed IT cost allocation model (charge back) across all business lines, providing transparency of IT shared and direct cost, thereby helping business partners on achieving better ROI

Hong Kong

Oversight of entire Infrastructure Operations globally including: Voice and Data Communications, Data Centers, Server and Storage, Databases, End user support, Global Helpdesk, Change & Release management across the globe in 15 locations. Focus on enterprise growth and maturity through implementation of technology and governing processManaging all infrastructure projects driving stability and operational efficiency and catering business needsMajor achievements: Setup public cloud platform on AWS for hosting www.clsa.com and other client facing web apps Promoted hybrid cloud platform for IaaS using private VMWare platform and AWS public cloud using cloud orchestration tools like HP CSA, VCM and Kubernetes  In 6-year span, moved 5 major datacenters globally with meticulous planning and execution Successfully migrated Trader voice system (Turrets and Dealer boards) to BT Netrix solution Optimized storage platform through /elimination/reduction of tier 1 expensive on-premise storage  Revamped data backup solution using Veeam, eliminating manual tapes overheads Optimized expensive Oracle database footprint through consolidation and adopting PostgreSQL databases for non-critical applications  Developed automated patch release management tool for server and database to comply with regular security and functional updates Setup a centralize privileged account management system using CyberArk and Standard OS build compliance checker using BigFix

Hong Kong

Primary role to collect business requirements for the execution and timely delivery of key infrastructure projects. Also owned all ITIL processes in the organization like change management, incident management and configuration managementMajor achievements: Successful deployment of low latency infrastructure for New order management system and algorithmic trading system (FMS) Delivered Set Clear Integration project (Merging Settlement and clearing department), that involved data and user migration at infrastructure level Involved in Infrastructure sizing, designing and rollout of Block Security (BlocSec) Trading system in Hong Kong and Singapore  Initiated and established ITIL processes and infrastructure monitoring tool using HPOVO and HPSM suite

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Doha, Qatar

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Supporting online trading systems and networks

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electronics

ITIL certified, PMP credentials

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electronics