Virendra G. Email & Phone Number

Leeds, Gb

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

- Led digital transformation projects with a budget of £1M+, ensuring the successful migration of cloud services, resulting in a 20% increase in operational efficiency.- Managed risk mitigation strategies, reducing project delays by 15%.- Managed projects from inception to Implementation, including extensive client interaction, ensuring over 95% Client satisfaction rate.- Negotiated and managed project budgets, optimised resource allocation ensuring profitability and delivering quality.- Collaborated with cloud architects and engineers, ensuring project milestones were met on time and within budget, while improving client satisfaction by 25%.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

- Managed the deployment of third-party solutions across E.ON’s infrastructure, ensuring 100% contractual compliance and reducing integration time by 10%.- Led a team of 30+ specialists, improving team efficiency by implementing an automated monitoring system, resulting in a 30% reduction in troubleshooting time.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

- Delivered a £3M cloud optimization program, transitioning infrastructure from private to public clouds, resulting in a 25% reduction in infrastructure costs.- Spearheaded the setup of an automated service catalog, aligning with E.ON’s 5-year roadmap and improving service request processing time by 40%.- Led Cross Functional teams to meet tight deadlines and complex client requirements without compromising on Quality

Sandy, England, United Kingdom

- Led the £5M IT service transition for 800 sites, achieving a 95% satisfaction rate and a 20% improvement in service delivery times for Kier Constructions- Drove the implementation of Wipro Holmes (Automation platform), resulting in a 50% reduction in manual processes and a 15% decrease in operational costs.

Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom

- Delivered an EU Target Model compliance program, ensuring 100% adherence to EU directives within budget (£4M) and on time, using Agile methodologies.- Facilitated SCRUM and Sprint planning meetings that increased team productivity by 20%.- Facilitated Strategy meetings and spearheaded project direction, ensuring alignment with SSEs long term objectives.- Coordinated with Engineering Leaders to scope and track program deliverables, achieving 95% on-time completion Rate. teams

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

- Delivered and Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) transformation program for Npower Revenue assurance Business that formed part of the Npower’s Wider Data Transformation Programme (DTP)- Led the program to ensure 100% convergence of data from multiple heterogeneous source systems into a SAP BW Datawarehouse and then build reports on top of that data. - Reduced the End-to End process times by 75%. - Reduced manual intensive work by 75%

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Customer name : RWE NpowerPlayed a key role in setting up the IT service delivery for RWE Npower working through various roles like IT transition manager, Smart Metering Business Analyst, IT programme Manager and IT portfolio mananger for their Domestic and Energy Services Business delivering c. 6-7M GBP IT business/ year.My Roles and Responsibilities included but not limited to : - Working with Npower Domestic Business and Innogy stakeholders to define the IT strategy and new Business requirements- Defining the project/Programme Pipeline and governance framework;- Effective co-ordination of the IT and Business tasks and their interdependencies- Managing and resolving any risks and other issues- Managing budgets, monitoring the expenditure and costs against benefits that were realised- Resource allocation and management- Ensuring architectural coherence within the Wipro and npower design authorities- Managing communications with stakeholders when and where required and appropriate- Responsible for delivering the Reporting Workstream in Agile Mode.- Reporting progress of the programme at regular intervals to Programme Governance and IT Services Leadership- Line management responsibilities for Project Managers/Architect within the team including; objective setting; performance management; reviews; guidance and support; general coaching

India/ United Kingdom

Key Projects in National Grid :::- Enterprise Services Data Centre transformation Programme : Role: Project Manager Description: The objective of Enterprise Service transformation programme was to migrate entire National Grid’s (Non-CNI) Application infrastructure to CSC owned Datacentres in UK. - Service Management transformation Programme Role: Project Manager Description: The objective of National Grid’s Service management transformation programme was to successfully channel out the erstwhile CSC Service Management tool and integrate the New HPSM tool without impacting the service management processes and metrics reporting.- Gas Distribution Front Office (GDFO) Business Transformation Programme : Role: Project Manager Description: The objective of GDFO programme was to replace National Grid’s ageing IS assets, which had reached the end of their supportable life, with new systems and processes that will enable the business to deliver systems related Opex benefit savings in the areas of Operational Productivity, customer service and Controls and data quality. The targeted saving were of the order of £6-7M per year. - Integration Centre of Excellence (ICoE) Role : Project Manager Description: Delivery of interface and middleware requirements for the entire National Grid Program.- Fulcrum Application Support Role : Business Analyst Description: Application support and New Application Development for the entire Fulcrum Connections Account; Technology used – Asp.Net, Oracle, VB, ASP, PL/SQL on Windows XP and UNIX Platform.- AS Settlement Enhancements : Role : Senior Developer / Architect Description: Solution architecture, development and delivery of various bespoke applications for National Grid-Transmission domain.