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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
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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)