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PRASHANT

SAXENA

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An ambitious, multi-lingual Project Management graduate with around 3 years of experience in IT industry. Seeking a challenging

position within a company to offer my Knowledge, Skills, and Experience.

Educational

Qualifications

1. MSc in Project Management (03/09/2013 to 15/08/2014)

UCD-Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Ireland

2.

B.Tech in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering (10/07/2007 to 10/06/2011)

UPTU-Vishweshwarya Institute of Engineering & Technology

Professional

Qualification

&

Industry

Certificates

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (12/11/2014)

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Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration (17/04/2014)

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Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Windows Server 2008 (18/04/2014)

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Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration (18/04/2014)

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VMware Certified Associate –Data Centre Virtualization (VCA-DCV) (18/12/2013)

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Received Certificate of Highest Incident Resolver from BU Head. (17/01/2012)

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Became Comnet Silver Jewel for continuous good performance in HCL Technologies. (August 2012)

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Certificate in Embedded Technology and Robotics from Hewlett Packard Educational Services (08/06/2009 to

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16/07/2009)

Professional

Experience

Organization: SEPAM Specialists (27/06/2014 to Date)

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Designation:

IT Manager

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Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with business and technical teams of internal Business Earning Units as well as leading technology

manufacturers and service providers.

• Instrumental in New Business Development, working for new line of business 'COMITASS', engaging with fast growing

companies and providing them with ICT talent.

• Successfully manage the development, implementation, and administration of several Information Technology systems in

multiple locations around the globe.

• Established standardized practices for all computer systems within the business unit for administration, system security,

disaster recovery, preventative maintenance, and configuration management.

• CAPEX/OPEX budget responsibility for Group’s IT Expenditure and Technology offerings.

• Streamline IT Processes, Document them and implementing them as per ITIL framework.

• Provide operational excellence & innovative strategic thinking to the technology-consulting group.

• Establish & maintain risk management programs.

• Scope planning, feasibility, schedule development, budget and cost control.

• Implemented comprehensive SLA’s reviewed licenses to meet business and their subsidiary requirements.

• Provided internal client technology training & support.

• Developed & managed all technology initiatives including: data recovery, IT network, Windows Server 2008 R2,

Windows Server 2012, Exchange 2012, Terminal Server, SharePoint, Cisco Unified Call Manager, Windows 7 and Time

Management System Application.

• Arranged the meetings with vendors like National Business Machine, Vodafone, Dell, Eircom, Unitec, etc for billing and

service agreements.

Organization: HCL Technologies Ltd, India (17/06/2011 to 20/08/2013)

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Designation:

Analyst

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Responsibilities

• Hired as a Graduate Engineer Trainee and went under intensive training of VMware and Windows Servers.

• Provided mentorship to new recruits and interns.

• Able to anticipate issues and create new systems that streamline operations, as I did for disaster recovery drill for my

client.

• Hands on working experience on Windows 2000,2003 and 2008 Server Editions.

• Managed FTP servers, AD/DNS, wireless access points and load balancers.

• Hands on working experience of Remote Server Support Tools like DRAC (DELL), ILO (HP), and UCS (CISCO).

• Knowledge on VMware V-Sphere Client (Deploying, Migrating, Troubleshooting Virtual Machines).

• Hands on working experience regarding System Drive Space Issues on Servers.

• Designed and implemented highly available (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions for clients and employer.

• Working with various Microsoft monitoring tools like Process Monitor, Performance Monitor.

• Follow and document the changes, according to predefined standards.

• Working on the Remedy tool to provide time-to-time status of the work on the tickets generated by Client.

• Hands on with Remote Admin tools like Team viewer and TS.

Skills

Ø Leadership skills, which were developed during my tenure with Sepam, I was managing the complete IT infrastructure of

the company along with my team, which was based globally.

Ø Goal oriented and a high personal drive and energy.

Ø Presentation Skills, as part of my role for new Business Development in Sepam, I gave number of presentations to

companies like Dell, IBM, Zynga, and Apple, etc for talent supply.

Ø I have developed great Communication Skills as I did Volunteering for Oxfam Ireland, which involved Telephonic sales,

door-to-door fundraising, working in a team, planning events and implementing them.

Ø Meeting deadlines for client have taught me amazing Time Management skills with the use of Microsoft Project along

with good analytical and problem solving skills.

Ø Scope planning, feasibility, schedule development, budget and cost control, as I was the head of Event Management

group in my previous company.

Ø Operating systems: WINDOWS-XP/Vista/07/08, Windows-Server: - 2003/2008/2008R2, Macintosh an Ubuntu.

Ø Programming: Basics of C.

Ø Packages: MS Office, Microsoft Virtual PC, VMware, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, SharePoint and Exchange.

Ø Active Directory: Replication issues, Group policy, Trusts, User Profiles.

Ø Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and WINS.

Ø Virtualization Technologies: Hyper V, Virtual PC, VMware V-Sphere (4.0) and VMware V-Sphere (5.0).

Interests

&

Achievements

Ø Charity Project for Oxfam Ireland to raise €1190, as part of course module, which involves all Project management skills

like Stakeholder Analysis, Risk Management, Time Management, Planning, Strategy, Team Work, Event Management,

etc. (2013-2014)

Ø Business proposal for Martinsen Mayer for growth of their business. (2013-2014)

Ø Created a Business Plan to start-up a new business in India. (2014)

Ø Case Study on ‘Wal-Mart’ to get deep insight into Supply Chain Management, logistics and Inventory Management.

(2013)

Ø Live Research Project for IBM-‘State of LED lighting trend’, which provided IBM a proposal mentioning benefits of

LED in their offices along with a business plan. (2013)

Ø Designated as ‘The Catalyst’ for Event Management in HCL Technologies. (2011-2013)

Ø Created a ‘Fire Fighting Robot’ as my Major Project during Engineering which also won HOD’s Cup in College’s

technical fest, ‘Phoenix-The Electronics Guild’. (2010-2011)

Ø Participated in National Level Robo-War Games Competition in IIT Kanpur, India and also won the first two rounds.

(2010)

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