KUNAL BEDI, PMP, CSM

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Career Snapshot

Highly motivated technology professional with 17+ years of experience (mostly fortune 500 companies) in IT industry. Rich experience in project/program management, Agile Scrum Master, stakeholder management, managing teams across geographies primarily Oil & Gas, Energy and banking domain.

Project/Program management involving Risk Management, Change Management, Deployment management, E2E delivery Management.

Skilled communicator often involved in co-ordination of large number of groups with varying skills at multiple locations to accomplish tasks and goals.

Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using tools: Agile tools such as Jira/ Rally

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified, Certified Scrum Master, ITIL certified.

Core Competencies

Managerial

- Change Management - Budgeting / Forecasting - Business Plans / Models

- New Initiatives / Set Ups - Project Management - Risk Management

Technical

- System Administration - Vendor Management - Training & Development

- Technology Management - System Implementation & Design - Team Management

- Quality and Compliance - IT Security Management - Cost & Resource Deployment

Career Highlights

HCL Americas Aug’16 – Till date

Sr. Project Manager for Entergy

Project/Program manager for implementation and supporting the complete IT Infrastructure to deploy 3 Million Automated Meters to Entergy customers across their entire network. The implementation is based on the Water fall project methodology. (Time line: 24 Months, budget: $ 6 Million)

Oversee and coordinate all aspects of project and serving as manager for project team who are the liaison between project management, line management and other departments.

Working closely with accountable Delivery Leaders in the Business and Technology to ensure assigned project delivers on business objectives and value, while managing scope/timeline/budget and technical risk.

Defining complex project plans including scope, budget and schedule, and executing tasks defined in the project plan to achieve project goals using standard project management methodologies and practices.

Continually assesses project needs and resources to complete projects on time and within budget.

Assessing project issues and developing resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals. Organizing interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the program on schedule and within budget.

Monthly Status reporting to client’s higher management about Scope, Budget, Schedule, Risks.

Working closely with project teams on translating requirements and implementation of solutions

Working closely with business managers to gain in-depth understanding of business needs.

Tech Mahindra Jan’15 – Aug’16

Sr. Project Manager for GE Oil & Gas

Project/Program manager for a team size of 15-20 resources to perform Tech Refresh/ DC consolidation/ migration work at GE Oil and Gas. (Time line: 24 Months, budget: $ 3 Mil)

Extensively used –Jira, Rally- Agile Project and Portfolio Management tools to create project plans, scheduling, resource allocation, progress tracking, budget spending, reporting etc.

Tracking progress in terms of cost, time/schedule, events, tasks/activities, dependencies and progress across multiple projects, facilitate resolution of issues, and change management.

Managed Project Plan/Sprint Plan, conducting daily scrums, manage sprint and product backlogs, managing change request and test plans using Rally

As a End-to-End Project Manager/ Scrum Master - Managing multiple projects/ scrum teams with a total of over 20 resources, coordinating with various internal and external teams; Communicating and managing multiple vendors and cross functional teams.

Achieved a savings of $3.5MM by tech refresh/consolidation/virtualization of 700+ legacy servers.

Tech Mahindra Jan’14 – Dec’14

Sr. Project Manager for GE Oil & Gas

Managed Data Center Consolidation/Migration/Application Simplification Projects for GE (Oil and Gas)

Achieved a savings of $3MM by consolidating 90+ US Data rooms to their strategic Data Centers. In the process eliminated 100+ servers and migrated 200+ apps to Data Centers and increased virtualization of 60% from 36%

Successfully transitioned client IT services and process to Tech Mahindra. Responsible for the delivery readiness to Steady State Operations

As a PMO was responsible for defining, planning and delivering project, managing project team to achieve project benefits according to agreed scope and budget

Provide Program Management oversight for regional and global objectives through retained contracted functional Team.

Responsible for timely delivery of project deliverables within the scope of the project's parameters

-Servers

-Applications

-DataStorage

- Licensing

Tracking project progress and completion of project status reports

Actual vs. Budget financial impact analysis

Managing the integration of multiple components both within the project and across the program

Created executive dashboards and presented to senior management

Continuous improvement of Project Management templates and tools and other PMO initiatives as required

Genpact Jul’12 – Sep’13

Sr. Manager/Project Manager-Technology

Key Attainments:

Managed end to end IT operations from an IT infrastructure stand point

Responsible for setting up IT infrastructure for new project delivery

Managed internal and external stakeholders for smooth functioning of IT operations

Implemented Information security and solution designing of MPLS/ IVPN etc based connectivity solution

Managed key accounts for their Servers, Network, Voice and End point computing

Managed costing and budgeting from IT standpoint

Key player in IT strategy discussions and provided inputs in shaping the short term and long term strategies

Operations & program management of IT infrastructure (LAN/WAN, Desktops, Servers, HPC environments, Virtualization, Storage, Backups, Databases, Network Security)

Atom Technologies (A Financial Technologies Group) Aug’11 – Jul’12

Manager-Infrastructure Technology

Key Attainments:

Relationship Management (Internal & External Clients)

IT Infrastructure setup & uptime

Security Management

Network Management

Team management & Vendor management

Technical issues management

Audited and implemented Payment Industry Certifications PCI DSS and PA DSS for Mobile Applications

Computer Associates, Hyderabad May’10 – Jul’11

IT Manager-Infrastructure Engineering

Key Attainments:

Implemented solutions for Enterprise IT Infrastructure (Change Management Process, Enterprise Backups, Datacenter Management, etc.) and Enterprise Applications

Instrumental in managing and setting priorities for maintenance, development and evaluation of specific Infrastructure System (specific to UNIX/Linux and VM)

Defined SLA and OLA & delivered KPIs on infrastructure solutions collaborating with Global Delivery team to ensure that all business related goals were met

Advocated for & implemented 24x7 Service Desk Operations and ensured smooth delivery and operations

Proactively led a 15 member team charged with incident, problem and change management process handling issues and alerts as needed

NYSE Euronext, New York May’06 – Jan’10

Team / Project Lead

Key Attainments:

Collaborated with Operations Team to manage service delivery by setting goals, aligning expectations, analyzing performance reports, developing & implementing action plans to improve performance

Monitored incident, problem and change process and managed problem & change issues and alerts as needed

Developed metrics to measure the effectiveness and performance of Operating Team

Partnered with cross-functional team to solicit infrastructure recommendations based on applications needs

Significantly contributed in managing system performance making recommendations to improve and implemented system wide changes to enhance overall system proficiency with tools like Cacti

Led L2/L3 Teams and worked to create process to handle Level 3 escalations

Major Environment Used: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-4, 5, Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9, HP UNIX 11i-LP3000/RP3440, NYSE Trading Applications, FIX Protocol 4.2, etc

Polaris Software Labs Ltd. Mar’04 – Mar’06

Project Lead

Key Attainments:

Successfully worked as Sr. UNIX Web Administrator / Team Manager in IT infrastructure environment providing server administration, application administration and automation solutions to support business objectives

Successfully led a team of 8 Engineers charged with supporting more than more than 1000 GE Intranet/Internet Websites running on more than 200 Solaris Ultra Servers in a high availability failover ENV

Actively involved in setting up of Disaster Recovery Operations in a highly complex Webenv

Major Environment Used: Sun Solaris, Jrun, Iplanet, NAS, Apache, Netscape Directory Server, Siteminder, Solaris 2.6, 2.8, E250, E450, Win NT, Apache 2.x, Weblogic 8.x, etc

Key client handled: GE Advanced Materials

Slash Support Ltd. Mar’01 - Mar’04

Lead Application Consultant

Key Attainments:

Pivotal in providing enterprise level technical support for e-commerce products for Sun's strategic customers in US Segment

Handled installation, configuration & administration of Oracle 8 & 8i Database on Sun Solaris 8 Enterprise-450, Ultra-60, Ultra-10 and Ultra-5 Servers

Major Environment Used: Java, Sun ONE and iPlanet Application Server and other iPlanet Products, Sun Solaris, Oracle 8i, etc

Key client handled: Sun Microsystems

Bank of Punjab Ltd. May’99 – Feb’01

Database Administration

Education & Certifications

GNIIT from National Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science from University of Delhi

Certifications:

PMP Certification by Project Management Institute (PMI) in Nov 2013

Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance

Red Hat Linux Certified

ITIL V3 Foundation / ITSM Certified

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