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JIGNESH WARA

JIGNESH WARA

Head of Information Technology
Mumbai,MH

Summary

Strategic Information Technology Manager skilled in guiding navigation of modern technology. Accustomed to driving efficiency and effectiveness by developing, delivering and supporting strategic plans. Demonstrated skill in translating technical requirements to business solutions. Successful 18+ years record of building positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Glimpse of over all experience.

  • 18+ Years of experience in IT Service Delivery, Product development and management, IT Operations management, Team Development and Outsourcing Strategy, Cloud Strategy, IT Budgeting and IT cost control, Governance & Security controls across the organization.
  • Strategic partner to Business, Developing IT Function as a business.
  • Hands on Cloud services, Cloud Application Development, Serverless, IOT, RPA BOTs, Information Security and Compliance, Data Science and Analytics.
  • Experienced with Azure Cloud based services, IaaS, PaaS & SaaS.
  • DevOps practitioner with Azure DevOps
  • Application Implementation, Development, Support, Testing and IT Consultation professional.
  • Experienced with Development on various platforms (VB, .net, ASP, Java, PHP, MySQL, Oracle and MS SQL).
  • Experienced with Production Infrastructure management, Support and Product Testing Cycle.
  • Experienced with Data Analytics and Dashboard Tools.
  • Experienced with System Implementation and Integration (CRM, Payment Gateways, Coupon Engine, Loyalty Applications).
  • Experienced with Client Servicing and IT Pre-Sales.
  • Integration exposure with Web-Services based on SOAP and JSON.
  • Load testing for application scale up with tools like Jmeter.
  • Strong Troubleshooting and Debugging skills.
  • Hand on with writing complex and simple SQL PL/SQL and data management.
  • Vendor and Team Management.
  • Domain Exposure with Credit Cards, Insurance, Telecom, Loyalty & Marketing.
  • Exposure in designing, Architecting and supporting Applications and implementing processes that will enable organization to consistently meet and enhance customer satisfaction.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Head of Information Technology

Accentiv India Pvt Ltd
Mumbai, Maharashtra
03.2018 - Current
  • · Application strategy for cloud based server less migration, Cloud Infrastructure migration.
  • · Building highly performing teams by Mentoring and Coaching teams to delivery IT solutions creating business values. Aligning teams towards core business objectives.
  • · IT Labor strategy to outsource rare skillsets to add business value from IT.
  • · Define clear IT KPIs which are aligned with business objectives to review same with leaderships stakeholder on quarterly basis.
  • · Restructuring and Managing team of IT Infra, Presales, Security, Ops Managers, Developers, UI & UX Developers and QAs.
  • · Remote working strategy, building processes and implementation of cloud tools to manage and monitor Productivity KPIs for remote working.
  • · Organize and follow up on training and knowledge sharing sessions across organization within and outside of IT to upskill employees, thus resulting improved individual productivity with increase in usability of IT solutions.
  • · Plan, Budget and Drive IT strategy for IT Platforms and solutions across organization.
  • · Building and Maintaining high standards of data security controls.
  • · IT Governance to monitor and control key IT capability decisions.
  • · Closely work with Business heads, Product heads & Finance heads within organization to define 3year business plan to align on 3year IT plan and budget accordingly.
  • · Close monitoring of budget and collaborate with Finance teams to publish monthly IT Budget spends and forecasts to leaderships teams.

Sr. Manager

Accentiv India Pvt Ltd
Mumbai, MH
11.2015 - 02.2018
  • Building professional relationship with key client FPRs.
  • Responsible to Design, Architect and deployment of solutions for clients on SaaS / PaaS based service models.
  • Proactive participation in pre-sales process along with business teams. 30% additional Scale up in client projects.
  • Product development and enhancements via constant market feedback analysis.
  • Responsible to Design, Architect and deployment of solutions for clients on SaaS / PaaS based service models to save on cost by 20% and achieved higher Infrastructure availability from 99.5 % to 99.99%
  • Managing and budgeting of production infrastructure needs, aligning Data center teams with service level agreements of India solution deliveries.
  • Service reporting and sponsoring service delivery meetings.
  • Communicating across organizational boundaries – from engineers through to senior management.
  • Managing team of Managers and developers along with support and QA members.
  • Process improvements along with group’s data center and development centers to achieve best possible client and customer satisfaction.
  • Estimation of infrastructure needs to Migrate of services on cloud based Infrastructure basis new RBI guidelines which mandate to have physical data to be residing within India.
  • Active member of Business Unit Management Committee to drive business strategies

Technology and tools worked with during this duration:

  • Net.
  • SOAP UI to test soap xml and json based web services integrations.
  • IIS, Nginx, Apache Tomcat web Servers.
  • Focus ERP.
  • MS SQL server.
  • MS SSIS & Power BI.
  • JIRA as service desk and project management.

Sr. Manager - IT Service Delivery

Emart Solutions Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
12.2014 - 11.2015
  • (0 years 11 months) Bangalore.
  • Building professional relationship with key client staff.
  • Successful service delivery - SLA achievement and high level of customer satisfaction.
  • Responsible to Design, Architect and deployment of solutions for clients on SaaS platform.
  • Good communication around issues and opportunities – get things done, make things happen.
  • Collaborating with senior management on client account management and growth.
  • Service reporting and sponsoring service delivery meetings.
  • Removing all obstacles to customer satisfaction and / or financial performance.
  • Communicating across organizational boundaries – from engineers through to senior managers.
  • 3rd party management responsibilities.
  • Looking out for client’s and Emart’s long-term interests.
  • Managing team of team leads and developers along with support and QA members

Technology and tools worked with during this duration:

  • PHP.
  • JAVA.
  • SOAP UI to test soap xml and json based web services integrations.
  • Apache HTTP, PHP and MySQL.
  • Order Management and CRM.
  • MySQL Workbench.

Manager

Gold Fingers Information Technology Pvt ltd, HQ France
Mumbai, MH
01.2014 - 11.2014
  • (0 years 11 months) Mumbai.
  • Discuss all production and integration support aspects with application development team.
  • Interact with infrastructure, release management, change management and application teams.
  • Prioritize issues raised and resolve it accordingly.
  • Coordinate escalation and resolution of major service issues.
  • Requirement gathering from business team and planning development for same.
  • Preparing BRD and SRS for development of additional requirements.
  • Change management for CRM application based on new business needs.

Technology and tools worked with during this duration:.

  • Eclipse for coding /modifications / quick work arounds.
  • SOAP UI to test soap xml and json based web services integrations.
  • Asp.net.
  • Net webservices.
  • Android Application development.
  • Batch scripts.
  • Apache Server, PHP and MySQL.
  • Sales Force.

Manager - Technology (Application Management)

Payback, Loyalty Solutions and Research Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
12.2011 - 01.2014
  • Responsible for Technical Integration support for all Partners at Payback.
  • Points gateway setup and implementation both instore and online partners.
  • Documentation of entire Integration kit and maintaining versions.
  • Helping partners to achieve onboarding with complete automated integration with no (Zero) manual interference.
  • Develop relations with business community and managing outsourced service providers.
  • Managing team of developers and QA.
  • Impact analysis of new feature implementation on core functions of Operations and Finance.
  • Setting up and maintenance and supporting replica of production environment (External Test Environment) for partner test runs.
  • Ensure that integration meets all security compliances and is fully functional without any loopholes.
  • Owning payback NPG application and responsible for development and managing application.
  • Building prototypes and tech scoping for Points gateway application.
  • Working towards continuous performance enhancement of application to be able to manage more transaction volumes.
  • Change Management for NPG (Points gateway) application based on new business needs.
  • Planning for NPG development, bug fixing and release basis business needs to ensure good customer and partner experience.

Technology and tools worked with during this duration:

  • Eclipse for coding /modifications / quick work arounds.
  • SOAP UI to test soap xml and json based web services integrations.
  • Java.
  • Oracle 10g.
  • TOAD.
  • Solaris.
  • Shell scripts.
  • Batch scripts.

Associate Manager

Payback, Loyalty Solutions And Research Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
03.2009 - 12.2012
  • Provide technical support for Mainframe production cycles jobs and troubleshoots issues.
  • Discuss and working closely with Application development team for SQL Queries performance tuning for production jobs and cycles.
  • SQL Query performance tuning.
  • Responsible for Deployments and Maintenance of all Payback Applications.
  • Provide regular status reports to management on application status and other metrics.
  • Collaborate with management to improve and customize reports related to production support.
  • Setting up various reports by writing simple and complex SQL Queries and even Stored Procedures for different internal teams such as Operations team, Fraud analytics team, marketing team and Finance Team as per ongoing business needs and requirements.
  • Discuss all production support aspects with application development Team.
  • Planning, testing and execution of Data fixing scripts using PL/SQL Scripts if required on production.
  • Report promptly to management and business partners regarding critical outages until resolution.
  • Arrange, assign, adjust and monitor shifts to have apt coverage.
  • Managing and Guiding L1 Support Engineers with Job failures and troubleshooting.

Technology and tools worked with during this duration:

  • Oracle 10g.
  • SQL.
  • PL/SQL.
  • Oracle Stored Procedures.
  • Java.
  • Jboss 4.0 and 5.2.2.
  • Apache http.
  • Apache Tomcat.

Quality Analyst

Payback, Loyalty Solutions And Research Pvt Ltd
Mumbai, MH
03.2008 - 03.2009
  • Testing of all i-mint Applications.
  • Closely working with Development and production team for all fixes and releases.
  • Proactively participating in analyzing production bugs and helping development team to fix same by providing inputs of various scenarios.
  • Documenting Deployment steps and process required for Production Deployments.
  • Development of some Internal Applications like, Marketing SMS campaign managements.

Technology and tools worked with during this duration:

  • Oracle 9i.
  • Java.
  • Jboss 4.0 and 5.2.2.
  • Apache http.
  • Apache Tomcat.

Manager - IT.

Pace Setters Business Solutions Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai, MH
01.2003 - 03.2008
  • Managing team of Infrastructure support and developers.
  • Responsible for developments and managing Application life cycle, design and architecture.
  • Development of CRM applications.
  • Integration of CRM Applications with Dialers and VOIP.
  • Setting up competitive Dialer based solutions for company to increase efficiency.
  • Delivered CRM solutions on below projects :-
    1) ICICI Bank credit card collections.
    2) Reliance E2E project.
    3) TATA E2E project.
    4) Orange/ Hutch / Vodafone Telecom Collections process.
    5) Max Newyork life insurance process.
    6) ICICI Merchant EDC sales and maintenance process.
  • Was responsible for understanding all above processes and Design & Develop applications for automating operational tasks.
  • Integration of all applications with crystal reports to generate various analytical dashboard reports on click of button.

Education

MDP - AI & ML For Business Excellence

IIM
Kozikode
02.2021 - Current

M.C.A - undefined

NEM

G.D.C.A - undefined

NEM

Skills

RDBMS (Database)undefined

Accomplishments

Best Promising Start - Apr 2015 honor Issuer Emart Solutions Pvt Ltd.

(This Award was for New Joiners who had started well with the organization.)

Peer to Peer Recognition - Apr 2015 - Issuer Emart Solutions Pvt Ltd.

(I was Honored with this Award, basis the maximum votes that I had received from my peers for the value that I was able to add to my Peers with my Personal Effectiveness.)

Always Committed to Excellence - Jan 2013 - Issuer Payback

(Working closely with partners which helped company to complete 100% of the integration within the desired timeframe)


IKON - Jan 2013 - Issuer Payback (This is the Annual award given by the company based on the Performance and other factors)
Collaboration Champion - Nov 2012 - Issuer Payback Spotlight - Feb 2010 - Issuer Payback (i-mint)

(For solving a logical challenge with a script in Sybase at BIU ICICI BANK.
This script was technical challenge in Sybase which was based on forming a Tree Hierarchy on member data based on the Primary & Secondary type of accounts in database.
This had helped the company to setup the Risk & Fraud mitigation process.)

Creative Star - Sep 2008 - Issuer Payback (i-mint)

(For developing the solution on automation of SMS Campaign management)

Certification

Design Thinking from IBMI – Berlin, Germany. (Online)

Additional Information

About My Family

I currently stay with my Wife and my Daughter.

My Wife runs a NGO and is a social worker. My Daughter is 8 years old and currently schooling.

My Parents stay nearby and my Father is a retired Sr Engineer from India Railways while my Mother is a house wife.

Interests

Following the fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics and some of its interesting concepts about the reality of physical world

Timeline

Design Thinking from IBMI – Berlin, Germany. (Online)
04-2021
Microsoft Azure Architech Technologies (AZ-303) from Simplilearn. (Online)
03-2021

MDP - AI & ML For Business Excellence

IIM
02.2021 - Current
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals from Simplilearn. (Online)
01-2021

Head of Information Technology

Accentiv India Pvt Ltd
03.2018 - Current
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There from Dale Carnegie. (Mumbai)
04-2017

Sr. Manager

Accentiv India Pvt Ltd
11.2015 - 02.2018

Sr. Manager - IT Service Delivery

Emart Solutions Pvt Ltd
12.2014 - 11.2015

Manager

Gold Fingers Information Technology Pvt ltd, HQ France
01.2014 - 11.2014
Certificate Course in Linux Administration from Linux Learning Center Pvt Ltd. (Bangalore)
06-2013

Manager - Technology (Application Management)

Payback, Loyalty Solutions and Research Pvt Ltd
12.2011 - 01.2014

Associate Manager

Payback, Loyalty Solutions And Research Pvt Ltd
03.2009 - 12.2012

Quality Analyst

Payback, Loyalty Solutions And Research Pvt Ltd
03.2008 - 03.2009

Manager - IT.

Pace Setters Business Solutions Pvt Ltd.
01.2003 - 03.2008
Certificate Course in C, C++, Unix from CMC Ltd.(Mumbai)
09-2001
Certificate Course in Information Technology from CMC Ltd.(Mumbai)
01-2001

G.D.C.A - undefined

NEM

M.C.A - undefined

NEM
JIGNESH WARAHead of Information Technology