Project Management

SANJAY R CHAUDHARI

Cell: 009**-********* (Till 8th May 2014)

****-932-***-**** (After 9th May 2014)

E-Mail: ***********@*****.*** [pic]

Seeking assignments in Project Management / Service Delivery Operations

with an organization of repute

Career Summary

- Result oriented professional with 8 years of extensive experience in

Project Management and Service Delivery.

- Analyst with a flair for adapting quickly to dynamic business

environments; adopting pragmatic approach in improvising on solutions

and resolving complex business issues.

- Skilled in managing project management activities, encompassing

planning, design, scope definition, estimation, resource

administration, and client interaction for understanding change

requests and project delivery.

- Highly skilled in creating and designing innovative solutions to

deliver value-added services to customers in the field of IT and

collaborating with business partners to sustain healthy relations.

- A skilled communicator & an effective leader capable of managing

client engagements during the entire project to ensure smooth

execution.

Core Competencies

- IT Vision & Strategy, IT Roadmaps - Resource

Management - Process Management

- Project Management - Client Engagement -

Resource Deployment

- Due Diligence / Compliance - Service Delivery

-Competency Building/ Team Management

- Enforcing strict compliance to the SLA terms negotiated with the

client.

- Maintaining close coordination between teams for ensuring delivery of

the project as per scheduled timelines.

- Interfacing and working with client IT Managers in prioritizing and

planning IT work and thus working towards optimizing the budgets

allocated by business owners.

- Accountable for setting up the processes and guidelines for smoother

execution of the engagement.

- Monitoring service levels and metrics and ensuring information

protection.

- Tracking the metrics related to various aspects viz. quality metrics -

effort variance, schedule variance.

- Demonstrating abilities in resource orientation, project status

monitoring, looking into performance management and issue resolution.

Work Experience

Since Jul'10 working with Netmagic Solution Pvt. Ltd., Vikroli as Assistant

Manager - Service Delivery

Job Roles & Responsibilities:

- Responsible for planning, directing and coordinating for team

activities to manage and implement projects from contract/proposal

initiation to final operational stage.

- Accountable for managing the tasks assigned such as architecture,

solutions engineering, solution certification, deployment, managing

service vendors, regional operations and deploying resources.

- Demonstrating abilities in managing projects simple to complex in

nature, interacting directly with Customer, Governance, Customer

Project Managers & Vendors, developing implementation cadence that

identify tasks that need to occur for each implementation type in the

project.

- Procuring various equipments in support of solution certifications,

migration strategies and implementations.

- Playing a key role in determining, monitoring and reviewing all

project economics to include costs, operational budgets, staffing

requirements, resources and risk.

- Assessing & analyzing the needs, recommending appropriate planning

concepts & tools to be used for all facets of planning, scheduling,

and tracking projects.

- Making follow-ups for change control submission & approval processes,

inventory & billing guidelines, controls project requirements, scope,

and change management issues.

- Looking into other relevant activities such as defining and collecting

metrics to give a sense for how the project is progressing,

Developing, proposing and negotiating project proposals, quotations,

and add-ons to leadership and the client.

- Managing the overall schedule to ensure work is assigned and completed

on time and within budget.

Notable Highlights:

- Migrated CIBIL (Credit Information Bureau India Ltd.) 18 Rack Data

Centre from in-house to Net Magic Hosting Centre which includes all

three layer architecture (Servers, Storage & Network Devices)

seamlessly within stipulated time frame.

- Took up the major initiatives to design the framework for project

management process which reduced the provisioning time.

- Achieved outstanding performance award for service delivery meeting

the target, awarded by CEO of Netmagic.

- Recently i have been into IBM First Data project which had been last

for 6 months to provision entire data center services which includes

rack provisioning, cage & security devices setup, networking setup for

PR & DR(Vikhroli & Chennai), provisioning of servers, storage &

network equipments as per the delivery timeline. The end to end

project delivery was carried out by our shared resources of each

domain areas for which i was accountable. Finally the setup went live

& an example was set for upcoming projects & help to aquire new

customer.

May 06 to June 10 worked with Reliance Communications, Navi Mumbai as

Project Lead - Project Management Group

Job Roles & Responsibilities:

- Took up group responsibility for the implementation of all data centre

orders across six internet data centres in India.

- Interacted and interfaced with:

o Technology & Procurement Teams for end to end service delivery to the

customer.

o Procurement Support / Stores Teams to arrange supply of material from

vendors.

- Played a key role in developing project plans, calling kick-off

meetings and understanding and defining product delivery expectations.

- Demonstrated abilities in developing product engineering details in

consultation with the technology service delivery teams.

- Looked into the post provision of service activities and ensured on

receiving project acceptance from the customers.

- Compiled and documented the project details and formally handed over

to service assurance and 24 x 7 support teams.

- Functioned as a Project Head for migration of SAN storage of customers

from one SAN to other SAN.

Project Handled:

Storage Data Migration: Reliance IDC had installed a new SUN 9990V storage

box and so the challenge was to migrate the entire 37 hosts from old XP1024

storage to the new storage box.

Role:

- Functioned as a Project Lead and ensured smooth migration of the data.

- Participated in meetings with respective stakeholders for

understanding the technical activities involved in the migration.

- Prepared plan vs actual chart depending on the above input.

- Coordinated with various stakeholders for downtime of their hosts as

per the above chart.

- Had been accountable for ensuring proper backup of the server is in

place before the migration.

- Interacted with the :

o Technical Teams during the migration to ensure that the migration is

completed in the given time.

o Customer for any unforeseen incidence or extension of downtime with

proper justification.

Notable Highlights:

- Successfully handled the project on Storage Migration Project which

included the customer's critical data from old to new one at Reliance.

- Set up the HDFC Core Banking of 100 racks migration done in 4 days.

Education

2011 MBA (Information System) from Sikkim Manipal University

2005 B.Sc. (Computer Science) from Mumbai University

Certifications

- Certified ITIL V3 Professional.

- Completed 35 Hours Training on PMP from PMI Chapter, Mumbai.

- Course on Hardware Maintenance, Internet, Networking & Multimedia from

Government Polytechnic, Mumbai

Academic Projects Done

Title: Inventory Sales & Management System

Development Tools: Visual Basic 6.0 and MS Access

Platform: Windows XP/ 2000 Professional

Description: This project was carried out for Meditek Organization at the

department during graduate course in Computer Science (B.Sc.).

Title: Web Project

Development Tool: HTML 4.0, ASP

Platform: Windows NT/2000 Server and Windows 9X/XP.

Description: The objective of the project was to display house interiors at

the department during graduate course in Computer Science (B.Sc.)

Extracurricular Activities

- Won medals in Cricket in Inter College Competitions.

Personal Details

Date of Birth: 10th April 1983

Passport No.: L7758520

Languages Spoken: English, Hindi and Marathi

-Present Address: A-11/12, Trishul Building, Phadke Road, Dombivli (East),

Mumbai - 421201

References: Available on request

Sanjay

Chaudhari

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