Highlights:I have got the opportunity to work with all sectors/verticals & Industries spanned across Asia & Americas. Being a Project Manager, i get to work with almost all departments Finance, Marketing, Technical, Sales & Logistics

Skills:IT Network, PMP, IT Infrastructure, Datacenter

Goal:To be an aspiring leader embracing continuous learning.

Certification:PMP (Project Management Professional) CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Azure 900 (Microsoft Azure Fundamentals)

Senior Project Manager 08/2023 - 01/2024
AVI SPL Pvt Ltd, Tampa, Florida United States
Industry: Information Technology
Setup a PMO for a new team in India & helped in the hiring of Project Co-Ordinator's, Managers & Engineers. Introduced to all the documentations & Project Management process for a 20 Million dollar Project.
o Introduced to the Audio-Visual market of India through lens of global AV leader. o Orchestrate and run program management of new version products, release features from design through to launch, engaging cross functional team to deliver impactful customer/partner experience. o Migration of Cisco CUCM & CMS from On-Prem to Cloud & upgrading new series of IP Phones o Lead a team of over 35 colleagues & Sub-contractors to migrate a multi-story datacenter with redundant layer of WAN/LAN & Secured parameters with Palo Alto solutions. o An integral part of a cross functional team that deploys & configures the Routing, Switching & Security. o Completion of a successful DC-DR robust IT Infrastructure & achieved the timeline with no overhead budgets. o Applications used: Oracle (Netsuite) for Financial Accounting, SCM & Project management.--
Senior Project Manager 08/2021 - 07/2023
DXC Technology, Mississauga, Ontario Canada
Industry: Information Technology
Exposed to the International client. Handled Capital Markets Apps for one of the leading banks in Canada
o An exposure to serve international clients worth over $150M & a team of 40 headcounts. o Learnt change management & its financial additions to projects calculating BAC, EAC & CV’s o Introduced to Agile project management through cloud migration projects. o Projects include, - Server migrations from On-prem to Azure services. - Create Azure Logic & Function App’s using new & existing triggers. - Used Azure Monitoring for Detecting & Diagnosing issues at Infra level, Kubernetes services. - Decommissioning, Database Migration & Server Build. o Well versed with all the Routing & Switching protocols namely RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, HSRP. o Structured cabling of CAT6a & Fiber optics for LAN & ISP connectivity followed by OEM certification & OTDR testing. o In-Charge of Rack elevation & Switch port patching of a multi-story datacenter. o Applications used: Service Now (SNOW) & PPMC for Cost Management, Resource planning & Project Mgmt--
Technical Project Manager 06/2019 - 07/2021
Team Computers Private Limited., Mumbai, Maharashtra India
Industry: Information Technology
Was introduced to the Public sector, learnt how Project delays are manager & penalties are tackled. Learnt RFP's in detail.
o Introduced to Public Sector Unit as a Technical Project Manager. o Undertook the role of a BA for a particular account & introduced the use of Tableau for better analytics. o An exception to earlier profile (More inclined to Compute projects). Servers, Storage & Virtual Environments o Worked with solutions of HPE Hyper Converged technology, Dell SC series Storage & IBM Storage. o learnt RFP's in detail & how a Penalty is tackled. o Designed & deployed a multi-story Datacenter having redundant UPS, Precision AC, FM200 & WLD in the BOQ. o Part of a migration project of Microsoft Office from an On-Prem server to O365. o Proficient in Projects with technologies like Routing, Switching, Firewalls, Application security, Wireless. o Application used: SAP FI – Financial accounting, SAP SD – Sales & Distribution, SAP MM – Material Mgmt, SAP PS – Project Systems, Slack – For Project communication & File sharing.--
Project Manager 05/2014 - 05/2019
Velocis Systems Private Limited., Mumbai, Maharashtra India
Industry: Information Technology
Joined as Helpdesk Executive, & later looking at my Communication & Management skills was rewarded a position of Project Management officer.
o Successfully delivered projects worth $60M+ ensuring best effort services accounting risk management, Cost management & Stakeholder management o Worked with Cisco Advanced services team for introducing SDA (Software Defined Access) as the first deployment in India. o Lead one of the first Cisco ACI project in association with Cisco AS team as a datacenter refresh for a leading Capital Markets giant. (This was due to a vital & urgent change imposed by the Govt to segregate capital raising businesses) o Deployed a robust Cisco SDWAN with architecture for a multi-branch refresh of a private bank. The project included multiple RMA’s, Cisco TAC consultations, Routing changes according to the branch traffic prioritization. o Geographical migration of multi-layered network architectures with lift and shift management/ risk management/ ISP management. o Managed multi-location projects which includes technologies like, Video conferencing, AV, & VOIP with redundant Publisher & Subscriber setup. o Crucial Datacenter & Disaster recovery projects keeping in mind the back-bone parameters & business impacts during the process. o Well versed with both legacy Cisco IOS, Nexus NXOS configuration as well as the latest SDA & SDA deployments. o Documentations like Project Meeting Agenda, HLD, LLD, Project Plan, Migration plan, Resource management & High level POA using applications like Microsoft power point, Microsoft Project, & Microsoft office. o Coordinating with OEM TAC during critical troubleshooting and business affecting scenarios. o Applications used – Zoho for Project Management--
Duty Manager/Helpdesk coordinator/L1 network engineer 07/2012 - 04/2014
Nirmal Datacomm Private Limited., Mumbai, Maharashtra India
Industry: Information Technology
Started as a Helpdesk Co-ordinator & aced to become a Technical Level 1 Network Engineer.
o Managing separate teams of engineers according to the domains. o Communication with OEM TAC’s during critical incident in network infrastructure. o Managed turnkey projects that include both active & passive (cabling) infrastructure. o Attending Cisco & other IT related audits and defining process of post sales department. o Managing the helpdesk coordinators & pull monthly data accounting for the technical team’s. o performance. o Consider basic configurations like IOS up gradation, IP addressing, offline configuration etc.--

Himalayan Institute 05/2016 - 06/2019
Mumbai, Maharashtra, United States
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Information Technology
A full time course completed while working with Velocis as a IT Project Manager. Which helped me understand the academics better.

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