Gaurav Mehra

CEO

Delhi, India12 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 16+ years of IT services experience
  • Expert in global operations and project management
  • Strong customer focus and team leadership
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Operations and Project Management expert in the IT services industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementCloud OperationsOperations ManagementClient Management

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipProject Management Office (PMO)Risk MitigationData ManagementProject Portfolio ManagementPeople ManagementPalantirAgile MethodologiesService Delivery ManagementStatistical Data AnalysisITILAWS Foundational CertifiedBusiness StrategyGenerative AI

About

IT Professional | Global Operations Leader | PMP, ITIL, AWS, Azure Certified With 16+ years of experience in the IT services industry, I specialize in leading global operations across Project Management, Major Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Big Data Analytics, and Cloud Operations. Currently serving as a Global Operations Manager at Rackspace, I am responsible for driving worldwide teams managing Major Incident, Problem, and Change Management functions. I believe in leading with strong customer focus, building high-performing teams, and fostering continuous improvement. I excel at quickly adapting to organizational standards, leveraging performance analysis and lessons learned to implement corrective action plans, and enhancing operational resilience. My expertise includes developing project schedules, defining SOW and estimations, establishing KPIs and milestones, leading Critical incidents, as well as end-to-end delivery management. I bring strong strategic, operational, and people leadership skills with a proven ability to align technology operations with business goals. Certifications: PMP | ITIL v3 | AWS Cloud Practitioner | Microsoft AZ-900 | Six Sigma | Scrum Fundamentals | Rubrik| Core Skills: Global People Leadership & Engagement, Client Management, Service Delivery & PMO, Major Incident / Problem / Change Management, Cloud & Big Data Operations, Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement,Financial & Risk Management.

Experience

12 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Rackspace technology

2 roles

Global Operations Manager

Promoted

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Senior Project Manager Cloud - EMEA Region

Oct 2021Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Working as a Sr. Project Manager and responsible for technical Onboarding/Implementation of public cloud projects for Microsoft Azure for EMEA Region.
  • Main responsibilities includes Leading multiple projects from requirements definition through
  • deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and project implementation plans,
  • including risk mitigation.
  • Coordinating with internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule,
  • and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments
  • Analyze project progress and, when necessary, adapt scope, timelines, and costs to ensure that
  • project team adheres to project requirements
  • Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate client stakeholders, providing day-to-day
  • contact on project status and changes
Cross-functional Team LeadershipProject Management Office (PMO)Project ManagementCloud Operations

Gfk

Operations Manager

Jan 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Growth from Knowledge is GfK has been a global leader in data and analytics, providing consumer and market insights for over 85 years.
  • Managing a span of 31 FTE’s with daily reporting, Deadlines tracking and Quality with presenting the weekly and monthly highlights of the business
  • Responsible for managing the E2E project starting from transitioning till currently managing the daily operations.
  • Responsibilities includes Transitioning of the Project from Bulgaria location to India Location
  • Migrating E2E project starting from Data In till final reports
  • Keeping a track of the project deliverables with the utmost client satisfaction
  • Preparing and sharing the cost estimations of the project and to manage within the allocated/approved budget and deadlines.
Cross-functional Team LeadershipData ManagementOperations ManagementProject Management

Ibm

Assistant Operations Manager

Dec 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · NCR

  • Brief Description of the Project - GFK Growth from Knowledge has been a global leader in data and analytics, providing consumer and market insights for over 85 years.
  • Responsible for managing the project deliverables with transitioning of EU Countries (Precisely Germany, Austria, Poland, Turkey ) to India Center
  • Managing a span of 19 Associates who were responsible for processing of Data.
  • Preparing the project highlights and sharing the weekly and monthly updates.
  • Consolidating the daily and monthly performance of the team with preparing the monthly incentives.
Project Portfolio ManagementPeople ManagementOperations ManagementProject Management

Capgemini

2 roles

Associate Consultant

Promoted

Mar 2017Nov 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • One Call Care management is responsible in providing health insurance to US based business it also provides specialized cost containment services to the workers’ compensation industry in the United States
  • Primary point of contact for internal and external Clients for the entire project – Portfolio ~ $ 15m.
  • Produce a weekly / monthly summary highlight status reports covering the status of Project improvement initiatives along with any problems / issues preventing their adoption.
  • Key Resource in Participating and setting up the Knowledge Transitioning and project process for the entire project.
  • Deliver excellent performance in client KPI (CSAT, FCR, FLR, and AHT) and internal metrics (seat/resource utilization, attrition, absenteeism etc.)
  • Managing client relationship - Client requests, Service Desk Accesses, DMOQ (Direct measure of quality), Initiating small Projects, Value Adds etc.
  • Facilitating any change in ITSM tool and systematize the testing process. • Conducting Training & Development sessions with Client for the entire team.
  • Assist with carrying out project assessments including compliance with Capgemini best practices and methods
  • Work closely with the hiring team on backfill and growth ramps (overall responsibility for capacity management).
People ManagementClient ManagementProject Management

Sr Analyst / Software Engineer

Mar 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

Igate

Senior Associate

Mar 2014Mar 2016 · 2 yrs

  • Universal American is a Fortune 1000 company with offices throughout the United States, and headquarters in Rye Brook, New York. The company offers health insurance, also deals in Medicare managed care plans, and Medicare prescription drug benefits.
  • Part of Service Desk for a USA based health insurance organization
  • Managing the base IT for the client and dealing with the basic troubleshooting on daily basis on a user’s desktops.
  • Monitoring projects infrastructure through Applications like Solar winds, Prognosis and PRTG. • Reporting of daily Commvault backs ups and a check over on daily progress.
  • Provisioning and maintaining User Accounts through AD manager plus, Active Directory and EMC 2010 Console.
  • Mentoring base level support for VDI Citrix Environment for BPO users through Director Console, VMware Console
  • In a Span of Six months was promoted as Subject Matter Expert – Duties included training the team on technical programs. Partnered with the Onsite coordinator to ensure smooth process knowledge transfer of any update.
  • Mentoring of new engineers and assisted in their individual development as instructor.
  • Knowledge manager for the project and on weekly basis handling client calls on improvising the KM for the project.

Education

Indian Institute of Management Amritsar

Post Graduation in Advance General Management

Feb 2023Jan 2024

Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies- Pune

Master’s Degree — Operations Management and Supervision

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor’s Degree — BBA + CAM

Jan 2005Jan 2008

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