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Akhilesh Prasad

Senior Manager - Application Service Manager
Singapore

Summary

Resourceful Project Manager with 15 years of expertise in organizing planning, developing, deploying and maintaining IT Projects and products. Key interest in enhancing and deepening client relationships to delivery value for both client and my company. Special focus on Agile and Cloud transformation initiatives.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Senior Manager, Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions APAC
Singapore
10.2012 - Current
  • As SPoC for Client in APAC regions for more than 8 years, I am responsible for detailed project planning, scope definition, product delivery and maintenance for end to end management of client engagements.
  • Located in Client Singapore office, I am serving as point person for client communications and manage client interactions for projects consistently above $1.5M annual revenue for last 5 years.
  • Managed client expectations and resolved disputes throughout project lifecycle of various products delivered.
  • Contributed in Client Cloud Transformation journey. Led project which resulted in $160K annually saving in Infrastructure and licensing cost in 2021.
  • Engaged in Client Agile enabled transformation. Participate and contributed in daily stand-up, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives as certified Scrum Master.
  • Responsible for leading periodic meetings with Client stakeholders to communicate project status, proactively identify project risks and work to mitigate and resolve issues and make recommendations to ensure project success
  • Provide leadership and mentoring to team members on project development and client management skills to develop team members who are leading their own teams across the global now.
  • As leader in the region, I am constantly planning for future resource needs as per client future project plans and growth aspiration of team members. This has resulted in stable service level for client even through planned and unplanned team members releases.

Business Technology Consultant

ZS Associates (I) Pvt Ltd
04.2011 - 09.2012

Worked in designing, development and QA to deliver Date Warehouse solutions for leading Biomedical client.

Technology Analyst

Infosys Technologies Pvt. Ltd
09.2005 - 04.2010

Participated and eventually lead QA team in BI product development and maintenance project

Education

PGPM (Post-Graduate - Management) Finance, IT

Great Lakes Institute of Management
05.2010 - 04.2011

BE (Bachelor of Engineering) - Mechanical

V.T.U, J.N.N. College of Engineering
09.2001 - 05.2005

Skills

Client Engagement

Project Management/ Agile

Data Warehouse/ BI Solutions Tools

Cloud Transformation

IT Service Management

Pre-sales/ Proposal

Accomplishments

  • Participated in successful proposal and execution of Cloud native DW project for China Market worth ~$2M in 2021
  • Led $1.5 M DW BI application support project for APAC region
  • Delivered $200K savings in Infrastructure and Licensing cost through cloud migration and portfolio consolidation in 2021
  • Establish Cloud Infrastructure support team for Client's APAC team in 2020. Cloud Infrastructure support team saved ~$65K in cloud operational cost by size and type optimization recommendations in 2021.

Certification

AWS CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT – PROFESSIONAL

Timeline

AWS CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT – PROFESSIONAL

12-2021

GOOGLE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL CLOUD ARCHITECT

11-2021

MICROSOFT CERTIFIED: DATA ANALYST ASSOCIATE

08-2021

PROFESSIONAL SCRUM MASTER I (PSM I)

06-2021

SNOWPRO CORE CERTIFICATION

05-2021

Senior Manager, Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions APAC
10.2012 - Current

Business Technology Consultant

ZS Associates (I) Pvt Ltd
04.2011 - 09.2012

PGPM (Post-Graduate - Management) Finance, IT

Great Lakes Institute of Management
05.2010 - 04.2011

Technology Analyst

Infosys Technologies Pvt. Ltd
09.2005 - 04.2010

BE (Bachelor of Engineering) - Mechanical

V.T.U, J.N.N. College of Engineering
09.2001 - 05.2005
Akhilesh PrasadSenior Manager - Application Service Manager