Seasoned Engineering Manager adept at seamlessly integrating project technical aspects and making information relatable to non-technical personnel. Experienced leader and program manager with 22-year history in field. Clear communicator, decision maker and problem solver.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Automation Lead
Standard Chartered Bank
10.2017 - Current
Responsible to drive automation agenda for End User Services, which involves defining strategy, roadmap and delivery.
Manage team of 20 members consisting of SMEs and developers to deliver process automation across End User Services.
Collaborated with business and services owners to stay current on intended deliverables and features.
Utilized Agile software development methods like SCRUM to increase team efficiency by 50%.
Delivered automation solution which have resulted in approximately 160K hours of savings to date which is equivalent to 88 FTEs.
Run monthly EUS Automation Forum to discuss deliveries from previous month and also provide demos on cool stuff delivered by team.
Adapt to already existing toolsets like RunDeck, Atrium Orchestrator, ELK (Elastic stack), Systrack, SCCM and PowerBI to deliver innovative solutions.
Manage development stack of ReactJS/ AngularJS, .Net, PowerShell and MS SQL to deliver websites deployed using CI/CD pipeline.
Well versed with Atlassian toolsets like JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket to manage code traceability to actual request.
Vice president
J. P. Morgan
11.2012 - 09.2017
Worked with various stakeholders (Engineering teams, Operational Leads, etc.) to help provide efficient and optimized service.
Established service improvement team which was responsible in improving incident efficiency by more than 50%
Implemented and deployed new solutions in liaison with engineering teams
Implemented Agile process for management of service improvement tasks for workspace services based on Kanban methodologies
Due to all service improvement activities were successfully able to manage 150,000 VDI environment without have single major incident during my time.
Sr. Workspace Infrastructure Analyst
Credit Suisse AG, Credit Suisse
01.2009 - 10.2012
As a subject matter expert in the team my responsibilities are:
Working closely with internal clients like application owners, business leads and understand their requirement
Co-ordination with engineering team for new products and solutions
Operational stability and handling escalations
Attend Change Management and Problem management meeting and effectively present changes and queries raised regarding virtual workspace
Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly management reports
Respond to IT Risk and audit related queries
Involved in BCP planning and related activities
Training of new team members
Achieved Six Sigma green belt certification by delivering 50% reduction in incidents.
Technical Consultant
OriGem Solutions PTE
02.2008 - 01.2009
Member of Global Mobile Technology Operations Team responsible for application and desktop virtualization initiatives
Handling Citrix farm with over 500 servers and approx.
1000 applications spread across globe
Responsible for day to day support and maintenance of farm
Installation of applications and getting it tested on UAT and implementation in Production
Benchmarking resource utilization by applications
Responsible for Change management, Problem Management and Incident Management
Involved in virtual machine provisioning activities.
Senior System Administrator
HSBC, HSBC Software India Private Ltd
03.2006 - 02.2008
Managed HSBC UK Citrix farm which had about 800 CPS 4.0 servers and more than 1800 application installed on them with 15000 concurrent users
In addition to that also involved in attending new application request on Citrix which involved testing application on Citrix and also checking compatibility
Was also involved in training other team members on Citrix
Was handling Citrix team lead responsibilities in absence like sending weekly status reports, having meetings with client, etc
Successfully implemented Citrix Farm for HSBC Dubai, which included setting up of CPS 4.5 farm with SQL Data store and external connectivity
This was to support 850 users in 4 months’ time
Was involved in ITIL implementation in HSBC GLT which helped get ISO 20000 certification for organization
Completed reports detailing network and systems performance and downtime issues
System Administrator
Various Service Providers
08.2001 - 01.2006
Managed datacenter and desktop environments
Managed IT systems on trade floor
Responsible for debt systems like RTGS and NDS
Performed incident and change management activities
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
Thadomal Shahni Engineering College
Mumbai
09.2001
Skills
Stakeholder Management
Team management
Product development
Agile methodology
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Data Analytics and Visualization
Virtualization
Workflow Orchestration
Scrum Methodology
Accomplishments
Well accomplished in setting up high performance teams from scratch.
Provide leadership to a team of 20 staff members.
Achieved 165K hours of savings equivalent to 88 FTEs till date
Created tools like API generator which have received bank wide appreciation
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