Vijayakumaran sivakumaran
Senior Information Technology Consultant
Singapore,Tamil Nadu
Summary
Experienced technical delivery expert in project execution, software integration, and support. Skilled in designing, implementing, and maintaining effective solutions in a multiplatform financial services environment. Proven track record in managing end-to-end delivery of digital/IT programs, vendor management, and infrastructure risk and governance.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
Work History
Senior Information Technology Delivery Consultant
Monetary Authority of Singapore
6 2023 - Current
- Managed the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple and large complex projects with multiple work streams.
- Managed the end-to-end deployment and delivery for projects from deployment planning, setup & testing, pre-production readiness to production cutover.
- Conduct proper transition from Project to Operations before project closure with compliance fulfillment.
- Understand the solution, scope and deliverables of the project, review the implementation and cutover strategy and work towards executing a successful project cutover.
- Held overall responsibility and accountability for IT project management for Infrastructure and end user related projects
- Full scale support and implementation for observability on enterprise and regulatory applications completed with 5 million savings.
- SRE methodology-based implementation across enterprise infrastructure
- Followed Scrum and Agile methodologies in enterprise goals achievement with Business applications.
- Enabled application onboarding to observability tools like Zabbix and Elastic.
- Enabled and completed operations with significant reduction of resources and savings of 3 million USD for 2023.
- Collaborated with cross functional teams and achieved the deliverables
- Collaborate with Solution Engineer, Application teams, Infrastructure SME’s and service providers to meet the project objectives and schedule, and address issues that arise in the project through timely escalation
- Enterprise Implementations on Observability tools like Elastic, Zabbix and Watermelon
- Worked with technology partners and Vendors on implementation of various infrastructure enterprise tools
- Detailed service maps created for critical applications to determine and enhance the fault tolerance
- Architected critical applications on observability to reduce the incidents
- Expertise in observability tools like Zabbix, Grafana and Watermelon
Asst Vice President – Infrastructure Project Manager
DBS
04.2015 - 06.2023
- Driven end to end project life cycle management including architecture design, application setup and associated infrastructure for risk, audit and finance applications in DBS
- Management consulting and senior client management that includes: Strategy planning, IT transformation, alignment of business objectives and IT services, creating high quality deliverables, managing client relationships and expectations
- Managed change request, service request and production support issues and ensure service levels are met every month.
- Held overall responsibility and accountability for IT project management for Infrastructure and end user related projects which includes BU go live.
- Followed Scrum methodology to get the impediments cleared and which are identified during sprints cycles.
- Been as a product owner and delivered in tandem with the scrum team on the program objectives and cost saved to 2 million USD.
- Conducted problem solving workshops within the team and coached scrum team to achieve the desired results
- Managed and lead the upgrade / Migrate the applications related hardware & software components to fulfill banks risk management requirements
- Continuous delivery for Infrastructure risk and governance for all applications in scope
- Successfully delivered large, complex and hybrid infrastructure setups including open systems, cloud and Physical infrastructure for critical applications
- Escalation management with Technology counterparts in DBS related to infrastructure and applications
- Site reliability engineering (SRE) based infrastructure implementation across wide spectrum of banking applications
- Improved the cost effectiveness, service quality and scalability with an influence on the bank's overall strategy and business outcomes
- Responsibly delivered on Cloud and IT Services business initiatives, client relationships, client engagement management, project delivery, and service implementation for projects
- Implemented and improved upon current plan and business support capabilities to increase availability of reliability of our operations
- Lead the migration for End of life /support products and components to recommended / approved OS and components to align to latest enterprise risk strategy
- Citrix Governance, management and end user remote management for business continuity over 2000 end users.
- Software forum, Vendor engagements and server cost management and optimization delivered with targeted savings
- Data center migrations including Physical, Virtual, EPC servers and hardware appliances with over 3000 nos.
- Patch management and key initiatives across focus areas to reduce the risk debts to bank
SRE- Risk & Finance Applications Delivery
DBS
04.2015 - 06.2023
- Managed the infrastructure deployment for Bank’s projects, ensuring that the objectives encompassing schedule, scope, cost, quality, resource, integration, communication, risk, procurement and stakeholder management are met
- Lead successful team to deliver end-to-end deployment and delivery of IT infrastructure for Bank’s projects from solution review, planning, setup & testing, Pre-Production readiness to production cut over
- Cost management for software vendor licensing for JBOSS, Citrix, MariaDB, Oracle vendors
- Delivered on the committed scope of work, Project delivery and review the implementation and cut over strategy and worked towards executing a successful project cut over in several key initiatives
- Collaborated with Architecture and Engineering team, Application teams, Infrastructure teams, and service providers in delivering quality IT solutions and services to meet business objectives
- Ensured the project meet schedule and within the allocated budget and resources
- Strictly adhered to banks change management process in all related activities
- Data center migrations for production servers across wide spectrum of applications
- Technology services (Cloud Enterprise Support) & Data center Migration program
- Responsible for Data center engagement to deliver multiple IT infrastructure projects end to end through defined project life cycle
- Established working relationship with the client and vendor to achieve the milestones
- Completed DR Data center migration for DBS, Migrated over 4000 AIX, Linux and Windows boxes
- Ensured Project best practices replication, knowledge management, Project documentation are followed and implemented
- Setup and coordinate on various infrastructure Key project management initiatives in Digital banking program
- Articulated various business requirements and transformed those into program strategies and project plans for execution
- Setup active-active setup for bank infrastructure successfully.
- AIX EPC virtualization setup and cost savings up to 4 million successfully delivered
Citrix End User Management & Enabling Remote Work During Covid-19
DBS
01.2020 - 12.2020
- Setup and managed citrix infrastructure for Risk and Finance Tech & business users across various platforms and regional countries as well
- Migrated around 1000+ tech and business users to Citrix during COVID-19 and support their day today tasks without impacting business
- Provisioning Xenapp, Citrix virtual desktop and applications with respect to application group and security
- Citrix License server, Netscalers setup and application rollout to end users
- Designed and provisioned Citrix architecture for Citrix and server & user management
- Citrix License, software provision and tech resource management which includes overall budget management
Project Lead & Delivery
Citibank
01.2010 - 03.2015
- Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms and the merger of disparate systems from acquired client companies
- Enterprise Implementations: Global rollouts of new software and systems
- Responsibly delivered on the scope of identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks and mitigation
- Conducting regular impact analysis to assess the consequences of the project deliverables on other sections of the business
- Applied patches to major subsystems and services, roles, and file system components within a Windows Systems environment and performs Operating System and patch testing on all changes prior to installation
- Controlled system access and security aspects of critical systems
- Effective vendor management with external vendors like TIBCO or IBM for software issues resolution
- Manage and support NetApp NAS Filers for 8000 over end users CIFS shares in ASPAC region
- NAS filer management of Volume, Qtree, Quota and Network drives assignment
- Raise and implement weekly schedule changes using of Change management system as per ITIL Process
- Hands on experience in project costing, profits updating and resource planning to the senior management for new project approvals
- New Citrix server and application Provisioning and capacity management
- Citrix License Server management and License budgeting
- Managed Web Interface servers, Modifying Server farms and upgrade once the new Version is released
- Providing second level support (24
- 7) for citrix users remotely
- Installation / Configuration and maintenance of Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 Servers
- Patch management using SPAC and TPM
System Engineer
EDS-HP
01.2009 - 12.2009
- Managed all Windows projects, desktop configuration, installations and support for various clients
- Managed SMS server for installation of necessary software’s on client systems and patch deployment
- Performed profile management such as new user creation and applying security policy (user, group and password)
- Performed Tape management for Application server and AS400 server’s backup for CISCO Recall
- Configured the Microsoft Outlook for the clients
- Monitored/Configured the performance of the File and print servers
- Involved in team planning and maintenance of systems of customers from Sweden
System Engineer
Cambridge Solutions
09.2007 - 12.2009
- Installation / Configuration of Windows 2003 Server and workstations
- Diagnose and Monitor the performance of network in Windows 2K Servers
- Administered and maintained client-side lotus notes
- Interacted with Client (Lenovo, Japan) for project management activities
- Configured and managed Windows Vista for client computers for nearly 200 users
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Anna University
India 08.2001 - 04.2005
Skills
Project Management
Tech leadership
Strategic Planning
Training and mentoring
Customer Service Management
Cost Reduction
Continuous Improvement
Vendor Collaboration
Stakeholder Relations
Teamwork and Collaboration
Agile Methodologies
Risk and compliance
Technical Analysis
Change Management
Infrastructure Governance
Certification
Citrix certified Administrator
Overview - Jobtitle
Senior Information Technology Consultant
Timeline
Citrix End User Management & Enabling Remote Work During Covid-19
DBS
01.2020 - 12.2020
Asst Vice President – Infrastructure Project Manager
DBS
04.2015 - 06.2023
SRE- Risk & Finance Applications Delivery
DBS
04.2015 - 06.2023
Project Lead & Delivery
Citibank
01.2010 - 03.2015
System Engineer
EDS-HP
01.2009 - 12.2009
System Engineer
Cambridge Solutions
09.2007 - 12.2009
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Anna University
08.2001 - 04.2005
Citrix certified Administrator
MCSE certified
SMS server certified
DBS SRE Certified
ITIL certified
AWS Cloud practitioner
Certified Scrum Master
Senior Information Technology Delivery Consultant
Monetary Authority of Singapore
6 2023 - Current
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