Naveen Alakunte
Puchong
Summary
Accomplished Infrastructure Program Manager with a proven track record of successfully leading M&A programs and data center migration initiatives. Seeking to leverage my expertise in program management, technical acumen, and strategic planning to drive seamless integration and migration of infrastructure assets in support of organizational growth and transformation.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager
TATA Consultancy Services for AXA Account
08.2021 - Current
- Program Manager for Divestment of AXA Malaysia and Singapore
- Responsible to manage the whole program from Infrastructure and AXA GO IT.
- Lead discussions with various buying entity and setup a framework and process for Transition and Migration
- Prepare a complex project plan for knowledge transition for Infrastructure side of the application and Migration of application plus Data
- Work closely with Datacenter to understand the current application distribution in Onprem DC and Cloud.
- Work with Buyer IT team to strategise the Datacenter capacity management at destination.
- Setup dedicated MPLS between the DCs, upgrade Direct connect link between On prem to AWS
- Set up VPC peering between the regions and allow co hosting environment with API integration
- Setup Citrix Infrastructure from scratch for 1000 plus users and built connectivity with Singapore HSBC office.
- Manage Risk committee meetings to make sure security controls for large scale migrations are met
- Manage Due diligence, Planning, System migration, Closure
- Strategize and provide estimation on the overall program phase
- Prepare Migration plan and manage to make sure there is no Schedule or Cost variance
- Create Change request for any deviation in Scope, Cost and timeline for the baselined Transition out plan
- Responsible to run Risk Workshops, prepare and maintain Risk Register throughout the phase of Project
- Stakeholder Management
- Provide health check reports on time
- Escalation management
- Investigate the escalations and make sure they are addressed on time
- Billing management
- Make sure the entities are billed according to the project budget
- Create POs to the vendors under project non FTE cost
- Collaborated with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure.
- Increased customer satisfaction through effective communication of program goals and expectations.
- Negotiated contracts with vendors, securing favorable terms that supported budgetary constraints.
AD Transformation Program Manager
TATA Consultancy Services for Shell Account
08.2020 - 07.2021
- Responsible to lead discussions with various Shell, Microsoft and service providers to scope the AD infra in Azure cloud
- Generate revenue for ET&P TCS in IAM area
- Prepare a complex project plan to implement the AD transformation
- Strategize and provide estimation on the overall program phase
- Prepare Migration plan in MPP and make sure that there is no Schedule or Cost variance
- Create Change request for any Scope creeps
- Responsible to run Risk Workshops, prepare and maintain Risk Register throughout the phase of Project
- Human Resource Management
- Make sure competency gaps are removed by conducting right learning and development programs
- Stakeholder Management
- Provide health check reports on time
- Escalation management
- Investigate the escalations and make sure they are addressed on time
- Technical Platform: AD, Directory resource administration, Azure
- Location(s): Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Migration Program Manager
TATA Consultancy Services For Shell Account
12.2018 - 08.2019
- Responsible to build TCS datacentre with Networking and computing service
- Prepare a complex project plan to migrate entire Shell Infrastructure service from DXC to TCS
- Strategize and provide estimation on the overall Migration phase
- Prepare Migration plan in MPP and make sure that there is no Schedule or Cost variance
- Create Change request for any Scope creeps
- Responsible to run Risk Workshops, prepare and maintain Risk Register throughout the phase of Project
- Human Resource Management
- Make sure competency gaps are removed by conducting right learning and development programs
- Stakeholder Management
- Provide health check reports on time
- Escalation management
- Investigate the escalations and make sure they are addressed on time
Transition Program Manager
TATA Consultancy Services for Shell Account
11.2017 - 12.2018
- Overall Program Manager to perform the due diligence of existing landscape of Shell End User Computing Services provided by current Incumbent DXC
- This is a multimillion dollar engagement which is the second biggest transition on the year in ITIS
- Handled more than 60 Services Transition from incumbent to TCS in a period of 12 months
- Strategize and provide estimation on the overall Transition phase
- Prepare Transition plan in MPP and make sure that there is no Schedule or Cost variance
- Create Change request for any Scope creeps
- Responsible to run Risk Workshops, prepare and maintain Risk Register throughout the phase of Project
- Human Resource Management
- Make sure competency gaps are removed by conducting right learning and development programs
- Stakeholder Management
- Provide health check reports on time
- Escalation management
- Investigate the escalations and make sure they are addressed on time
- Technical Platform: AD, Exchange, Storage, Backup, Inhouse tools
- Location(s): Bangalore, India
Project Manager
TATA Consultancy Services for Cisco Account
12.2015 - 11.2017
- Working in Cisco Advanced Services Global Delivery Center Project Management unit to implement the Services sold to Cisco Customers in EMEAR region
- Project Manager for End to end implementation of Cisco products, Network and Migration with the help of Network engineers and Solution Architects
- Handle Scope Management
- Initiate and Handle kick off call with the customer and explaining the scope of the project and get a signoff
- Avoid Scope Creep
- Resource Management: On time Resource identification and assignments
- Time Management: Prepare in detail Project plan with WBS and schedule in Microsoft Project Planning tool
- Stake holder and Communication Management
- Cost management: Make sure the Actual cost is not overrun and it is in line with the budgeted cost with the help of Earned Value management graphs
- Cost and Revenue Forecasting
- Revenue realization
- Monitoring the Health of the Project at various stage
- Conduct weekly status meetings with all the stake holders to provide the status of the Project
- Delivery closing the Project
- Technical Platform: ACI, ASR 9K router, Cisco wireless Access Points
- Location(s): Bangalore – Cisco
ERP Integration Manager
Tata Consultancy Services for Conagrafoods Account
12.2009 - 10.2015
- Implemented a Managed service support model in Spicetec flavors and Seasoning
- Lead activities starting from RFP, Due diligence, Knowledge Transition to Smooth primary support
- As a program manager of TCS I was a SPOC between TCS and Conagra foods SFS business and leadership
- In all the projects submitted from business, work closely with business in Project initiation and planning phase, discussing the ROI, Cost and budgeting, Project Scheduling
- Work closely with TCS development team in Execution phase
- Support UAT and post go live monitoring
- Conduct weekly meetings with Customer IT Managers for each Project covering the following topics: Accomplishments for the week, Open Issues & Challenges, Resource Updates, Upcoming work and resource allocation, Review of existing Services, Planning timelines for new Projects
- Project Status Checkpoint i.e Review progress of tasks with each team member through weekly review and status reporting
- Team Monitoring and Training
- Cross assignment of tasks to ensure capacity levelling
- Resource Release and Allocation
- Service Review Meetings (Monthly) with ConAgra IT Managers, Directors and VPs
- Attend Steering Committee meetings that happen every Quarter with ConAgra CIO, SVPs, VP`s, Directors and Managers to review ConAgra - TCS relationship
Lead Developer
Tata Consultancy Services for Conagrafoods Account
11.2007 - 11.2009
- Lead Developer and Application support of Infor ERP BPCS
- Capturing and Understanding the business process Requirements
- Designing Customer GUI screen using Screen Design Aid
- Designing reports using Report Layout Utility
- Analysis of change requests and preparing High level design document and Low level design Document
- Writing programs on AS/400 using CLP, RPGLE, SQLRPGLE
- Resolving batch job failures while release of the products into the production environment using ROBOT jobs
- Conducting Unit and Integration testing
- Review and code walk through and inspection of programs for defects
- Preparing implementation strategies, Guidelines and documentation of Change requests
- Logging defects using IPMS and analysing the causes
- Resolving the problems reported from users, Providing support for User Acceptance testing
- Conducting unit and system level testing
- Monitor product quality and process capabilities through Matrix and Methods for quantitative control using TCS proprietary tool IQMS (Integrated Quality management system)
- EDI Implementation in BPCS ECM module
Developer
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
07.2005 - 11.2007
- Lead Developer and Application support for AT&T system
- Develop RPG programs
- Design screens in AS400 using SDA
- Design reports using RLU
- In Production support perform following activities: Conducting Unit and Integration testing
- Review and code walk through and inspection of programs for defects
- Worked on the Webtrax tickets which involved analyzing Issues and if an issue is identified then providing a permanent code fix through Jacktrack
- Technical Platform: AS 400, ERP BPCS
- Location(s): Mumbai, India
Education
B.E - Electronics and Communication
NIE college of Mysore
01.2005
Skills
- Large scale Program and Project Management
- M&A and Divestiture Programs
- Data center Setup for large scale organizations
- Network setup
- Security and Information Risk Management
- Risk management
- Cost management
- Procurement management
- Stakeholder management
- Budgeting
- Cost forecasting
- Cloud migration projects to Azure
- Cloud migration projects to AWS
- Project management tools and techniques
- Team leadership and direction
- Scheduling and planning
Certification
- Scrum Master Scrum org
- PMP
- ITIL Foundation
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 02/16/84
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Projects
AXA Malaysia and Singapore divestment to Generali and HSBC, 08/2021 - Present, AXA Insurance, Infrastructure Program Manager, Puchong, Puchong, Selangor Active directory Transformation, 08/2020 - 07/2021, Shell, AD Transformation Program Manager, Cyberjaya, Cyberjaya, Selangor Shell – EUC Service Migration from DXC to TCS, 12/2018 - 08/2019, Shell, Migration Program Manager, Cyberjaya, Cyberjaya, Selangor Shell – EUC Transition from DXC to TCS, 11/2017 - 12/2018, Shell, Transition Program Manager, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka Rest of the world Wireless upgrade, ACI Upgrade, 12/2015 - 11/2017, Microsoft, Neotel, GAIL, BPCL, Project Manager, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka Infor BPCS ERP upgrade and Interface rebuild, 12/2009 - 10/2015, Conagra foods Spicetec Flavours and Seasoning, Onsite Project Manager, Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska Conagrafoods Grocery foods, 11/2007 - 11/2009, Conagrafoods Grocery Foods, Lead Developer, Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra AT&T AS400 development and support, 07/2005 - 11/2007, AT&T, Lead Developer, Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Visadetails
- Malaysia, 08/2025
- USA, 10/2022
Timeline
Program Manager
TATA Consultancy Services for AXA Account
08.2021 - Current
AD Transformation Program Manager
TATA Consultancy Services for Shell Account
08.2020 - 07.2021
Migration Program Manager
TATA Consultancy Services For Shell Account
12.2018 - 08.2019
Transition Program Manager
TATA Consultancy Services for Shell Account
11.2017 - 12.2018
Project Manager
TATA Consultancy Services for Cisco Account
12.2015 - 11.2017
ERP Integration Manager
Tata Consultancy Services for Conagrafoods Account
12.2009 - 10.2015
Lead Developer
Tata Consultancy Services for Conagrafoods Account
11.2007 - 11.2009
Developer
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
07.2005 - 11.2007
- Scrum Master Scrum org
- PMP
- ITIL Foundation
B.E - Electronics and Communication
NIE college of Mysore
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