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Amit Deshmukh

Amit Deshmukh

Project Manager | Digital Practice
Pune City

Summary

Accomplished and competent digital transformation professional offering over 20 years of experience in delivering solutions, managing projects and solving problems using digital offerings

  • Delivered results under dynamic, fast paced and ambiguous working environment
  • Held key leadership roles at regional and global levels
  • Experienced in implementing and managing enterprise level engineering systems and related infrastructure
  • Certified Public, Multi / Hybrid cloud and hyperconverged technologies - Azure, Nutanix
  • Expertise in building | migrating enterprise level application on public cloud

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head, Operations, IT and Product Development

InfinityX Tech Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
01.2021 - Current
  • Hands on end to end business operations, project and delivery management
  • Managed profitable business years and built growth
  • Researched market opportunity and defined customer segmentation and value proposition, as well as the pricing, licensing, and marketing & sales content
  • Helmed product development with new tech and created IP of our flagship products Netram & Xsphere
  • Defined product strategy, customer acquisition strategy and Go-to-market plan
  • Overlooked IOT implementation and Augmented Reality (AR) services to 15+ customers pan india
  • Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and overall departmental productivity.
  • Interviewed and hired talented individuals with top-level strengths, improving organizational talent and skill set.
  • Established and administered annual budget with controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate and support sustainability objectives.

Manger Information Technology PD&L

Adient India
Pune
11.2007 - 01.2021

Portfolio Management: Non-PLM Projects and Applications

  • Closely monitored a portfolio of 50+ Non-PLM Projects and Applications across North America, Europe & Asia Pacific.
  • Supervised the portfolio of $ 15M/ year and 100+ resources under the capacity of Global Non-PLM vertical
  • Maintained management information system (MIS), financial & operational dashboard.
  • Formulation and execution of cost saving initiatives. Reduced overheads by ~ $ 300K/ year
  • Led annual budgeting exercise, licenses renewals, CAPEX & OPEX planning

Project Management: Global Data Exchange

  • Adient Data Xchange (ADX) was a crucial from organizational data exchange perspective enabling secure data exchange between multiple sites, vendors and customers (mid size > $1M)
  • Successfully led the UI/UX and backend development teams using agile methodology to implement ADX
  • Prioritized product roadmap with developers, aligning the product vision with the organization need and business strategy. Reached the goal 6 weeks ahead of schedule
  • Leveraged Azure devops for CI/CD, testing and release planning. Launched ADX, creating user onboarding forecast and metrics reporting in Power BI
  • ADX implementation is projected to save data exchange and licensing cost by ~26%
  • Led multiple projects, Teamcenter data migration (Global), Virtualization, Digitalization of global engineering budgeting process, HPC cluster implementation for CAE are among the few to mention.

Project Management: Teamcenter Implementation & Global Data Migration – Holland MI. NA

  • Involved as a core member of the cross functional team formulated for strategic assessment, proof of concept and vendor selection process for Adient's PLM program (NGCDM), relocated to NA
  • Played a key role in formulating the global implementation strategy, planning and execution.
  • Extracted and documented user stories according to business requirement, established input acceptance criteria according to agile development process for plm implementation
  • Led the Global Data Migration from 4 different legacy PLM systems to Teamcenter.
  • Directed the data migration of ~13M unique parts with a team of 40 engineers over the span of 22 months.
  • Spearheaded the requirement gathering, finalized feature list and ensured product releases as per plan.
  • Successfully led the UI/UX and backend development teams using agile methodology to implement ADX
  • Prioritized product roadmap with developers, aligning the product vision with the organization need and business strategy. Reached the goal 6 weeks ahead of schedule

Manager – IT & Engineering Systems

Johnson Controls
Holland, MI. NA
10.2012 - 10.2016

Projects Management: Digital Transformation, Virtualization and Cloud Computing.

  • Identified over 14 opportunities for improvements & cost optimization across multiple domains through digitalization and digital transformation.
  • Influenced and successfully implemented CAD laptop virtualization at India tech centre. Success of this India initiative let to global implementation.
  • Replaced 150+ CAD laptops with VDI (VMware ESXI) saving $ 350K annually and led to happy users
  • Led/Executed multiple other projects like digitalization of global engineering budgeting process, HPC cluster implementation for CAE, digitalization of data centre temperature monitoring, TISAX certification of technical centre etc.

Administration & IT Operations – Adient India, Johnson Controls

  • Led India Technical centre IT forecast and budget planning (~$ 3M) for FY 2018-19 FY 2019-20 and FY 2020-21
  • Designed, implemented, and maintained Adient’s cloud computing infrastructure and services.
  • Collaborated with the global team for selecting the appropriate cloud platform (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud), configured and deployed cloud infrastructure for multiple Asian sites, managed and optimized cloud resources, and ensured the security and compliance of the organization's cloud environment.
  • Additionally, monitored and troubleshooted cloud-based systems, worked with other IT staff to integrate cloud services with on-premises systems.
  • Worked on containerization of Adient’s Teamcenter environment and successfully completed the proof of concept/pilot for Dev2 environment.
  • Streamlined CAD automation and encouraged/enabled the engineering teams to use them. 120+ macros were added under a single toolbar for better usage and management. Published weekly usage report to the management.
  • Coordinated and interfaced between cross functional teams of engineering, business development, sales and manufacturing.
  • Setup and headed managed service desk initial with Wipro and later with Infosys.
  • Supervised varying team sizes of ~20 to 100 people during various tasks and projects. ~Million contacts a year (2000 to 8000 per day) since 2009

Sr. Lead Engineer

Tata Johnson Controls
Pune
11.2007 - 09.2012
  • Incident Management of issues that develop relating to varying CAD-PLM platforms and CAE applications. Application supported and managed were CATIA V4,V5, UG-NX, Ideas, GVPM, Multiple OEM Teamcenter environments like TC-FORD, TC-GM, TC-Chrysler, Honda Navi, HM, LS-Dyna, Ansa and multiple license management tools like LUM, DSLS, Flex-LM.
  • Regular upgrade and version control and monitoring of all the above-mentioned environments and applications
  • Defect management of internal/ external application and process related defects.
  • CAB process, this is (BAU) business as usual process, and it covers production changes to the in-scope applications as required by a RFC, Project, Incident, and Problem. The Change Advisory Board is the main authority in the change management process

Application Engineer

EDS Technologies
Pune
09.2006 - 11.2007
  • Provided Presales and Post-Sales Support on DS Products like Catia V4, Catia V5, ENOVIA, VPM

Application Engineer

Softcell Technologies
Pune
09.2005 - 08.2006

Presales and Post-Sales Support on PTC Products like Pro Engineer (Pro E) Pro Engineer Wildfire 2.0 & Windchill

Design and Quality Engineer

Prabha Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
04.2003 - 08.2005
  • Responsible for the Design, Development, and quality of various automotive products like Wiper Motor, Windshield Washer etc

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

BNCOE Pusad
Amravati University
2002

Skills

  • Program Project Management
  • Cloud Computing Multi / Hybrid
  • Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)
  • Digital Transformation Virtualization
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Nutanix Multicloud Infrastructure
  • RPA Microsoft Power Apps
  • Industrial IOT
  • Engineering Systems PLM CAD CAE
  • Teamcenter ENOVIA VPM

Certification

  • NCP-MCI, Nutanix] - Dec 22
  • NCP-MCA, Nutanix - Nov 22
  • NCA-MCI 5.2, Nutanix] - Dec 22
  • NCA-MCI 6.5, Nutanix - Nov 22
  • Azure Fundamentals Az 900
  • Azure AI Fundamentals AI 900

Languages

English
Hindi
Marathi

Work Availability

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Quote

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
Seth Godin

Timeline

Head, Operations, IT and Product Development

InfinityX Tech Systems Pvt. Ltd.
01.2021 - Current

Manager – IT & Engineering Systems

Johnson Controls
10.2012 - 10.2016

Manger Information Technology PD&L

Adient India
11.2007 - 01.2021

Sr. Lead Engineer

Tata Johnson Controls
11.2007 - 09.2012

Application Engineer

EDS Technologies
09.2006 - 11.2007

Application Engineer

Softcell Technologies
09.2005 - 08.2006

Design and Quality Engineer

Prabha Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
04.2003 - 08.2005

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

BNCOE Pusad
Amit DeshmukhProject Manager | Digital Practice