Aug 2017 – Feb 2018 · 6 mos · Bangalore

• PM at Advanced services. Handled 3 accounts at Cisco
• A multi million multi year services engagement for a leading telecom provider in the US
• Network WAN upgrade for a manufacturing company
• Services engagement for a leading e-commerce company in the US
• Responsibilities
• • Consulting
• • Project management (End to End)
• • Account management
• • Stakeholder management
• • Budgeting and Forecasting

Oct 2015 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Client : Royal Bank of Scotland
• Currently working as a PM – IT Infrastructure for one of UK’s biggest banks. Tasked with handling Data Centre transformation projects in the sphere of virtualisation, DB upgrades and migrations with a project budget of ~$1million. Three major focus areas are as follows
• • Application server virtualisation
• • SQL server upgrade to 2014 and virtualisation
• • Oracle server upgrade to 10.0.x.x and virtualisation
• Responsibilities
• • Project management (End to End), co-coordination with multiple teams across UK and India
• • Resource estimation and allocation
• • Change, Risk and Stakeholder management
• • External vendor management and co-ordination

Sep 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Client : Intel Security
• Responsible for end to end project management of IT Infrastructure (AV, Network, Unified Communications, Server, Storage and Security) related projects in the APJC and EMEA region. Successfully executed 15+ projects with an combined CapEx and OpEx budgets ranging from ~$50,000 to $2 million USD.
• Primary responsibilities included
• • Project management (End to End), co-coordination with multiple teams across APAC and EMEA
• • Requirements gathering and analysis
• • Budgeting and Cost estimation
• • Resource estimation and allocation
• • Remote installation co-ordination
• • External vendor management and co-ordination
• • Project and financial documentation
• • Documentation of minutes of meeting and follow through on action items
• • Develop process, procedures and templates for PMO

Apr 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Worked as a PM consultant from Team Lease at GE. Responsible for and actively involved in 4 network related projects as below
• • 3P global process improvement - Customer engagement, requirements gathering/management, solution engineering, ITIL simplification(Service Now), inventory management, reporting, auditing, training, communication to develop/deploy a global process for simplification of management of 3rd party network connections in GE(~apprx 3500 connections)
• • Firewall security remediation – Phase 2 extension of the firewall security project as described below involving ~100 firewalls
• • Firewall product management – ~800 firewalls. Ensure billing to right BU’s, tech refreshes of EOL equipment. project management to replace DC firewalls, consolidation etc
• • Data Center Migration/Management – Movement of DC from one vendor to a different vendor.
• Planning, co-ordination and communication with multiple stakeholders across India to ensure a smooth migration. Inventory and Asset management, Telecom/Vendor/Documentation management.

Sep 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Client : GE
• Project leader responsible for the projects as below
• Project : 3rd Party Connectivity
• • 4 member team entrusted with looking into the security vulnerabilities, migration, tightening and documentation of 3rd party information/security on 3rd party firewalls i.e. which provide network connectivity to GE’s partners
• • Involved in drawing up/implementing a new process map in GE for third party connections by bringing everyone from security teams, l4,l3,l2 network teams, leadership teams to integrate and deploy the new process
• • Critical risks reduced by 63% and High risks by 55%(based on the analysis of firewalls in the security tool Skybox)
• • Appreciation from GE Program managers, Network Leaders, Technical leads for various project initiatives ranging from Process Improvement plans, Solution engineering, Training to the Security and Network teams
• • Estimated savings to business ~$171,000 over a 6 month period
• Project : Hand over to Service
• • Auditing of newly provisioned devices to ensure devices adhere to certain standards before being deployed into Production
• Project : Network Diagramming
• • Team involved in mapping of the entire network architecture of GE consisting of over 13k devices and 5k circuits
• Project : Service Now CMDB
• • Actively involved in providing leadership/training to various teams during the transitioning of the CMDB db from the IT tool Kintana to Service Now

May 2009 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Client : GE
• Project : Network CMDB Build/Improvement
• • TL for the project for a period of 11 months with 6 people in the team which involved client engagement, vendor management, inventory audits, asset management and reporting
• • The project involved storing network information on devices in a centralized database for 13,000 devices and over 10,000 circuits to make the process of locating asset information much more faster/simpler
• • Post completion of the project the average resolution time for a network incident reduced by up to 15%
• • Vendor management – Coordinating with 50+ vendors such as sprint, att, verizon, global crossing etc to help build an accurate centralized database of network circuits, consisting of both technical as well as non technical information to help in billing /troubleshooting

Nov 2008 – Apr 2009 · 5 mos

• Client : GE HC
• Team member of the Client Security team that was responsible for
• • Symantec wintel server support
• • Client AV& IPS support
• • 60,000 end user PCs under management and monitoring for virus infections and threats
• • Windows security updates testing and patching
• • Detection/Containment of virus, malware etc outbreaks