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Manish Jain

Manish Jain

Project Manager
Bangalore

Objective

To excel in Agile Framework where I can apply my analytical and problem-solving skills to the ever-changing world of technology and render my abilities and services to the organization most effectively. As a professional I am creative, innovative, committed towards work and always look ahead to work in a challenging environment and strive for excellence.

Summary

  • Overall 19+ years of work experience in IT Industry which includes Service Delivery Management, Project Management, IT Operations, Service Management under Agile framework.
  • Experience of Service Delivery to manage IT Infrastructure spread across in multiple GEOs (USA/UK/APAC/EMEA etc) , co- ordination with cross functional teams split in multiple geos, ensure squad members are motivated, monitored and measured in line with squad target, responsible to remove impediments to improve the service delivery performance & quality.
  • End to End Solutioning and Implementation of Complex, Large, Critical, Client (customer) facing projects spanned across
    multiple IT Towers, Multiple Vendors, 3rd Party, Diverse and distributed teams in different geography and time zones i.e. AMER, EMEA, LA and APAC.
  • Demonstrated success in leading, motivating, and mentoring cross-functional teams for managing IT Operations / Datacenter
    environment, in order to maximize levels of productivity; possess strong customer centric approach.
  • Working as bridge between Client and customer Support to help new customers familiarize with the product or service, solve customer issues and drive customer satisfaction, increase customer retention level.
  • Experience of Client/Customer Onboarding wherein I do assist and educate new customers on how to use the product & service
    to complete tasks and achieve goals, organize the required trainings to help customer learn about the product/service functionality to achieve customer’s business goals, assess the customers need and values and deliver them on high priority.
  • Accountable to do periodic customer satisfaction/ health check wherein I am doing monthly/quarterly check with the customer
    to see how they are comfortable with the product or service (CSAT/NPS) , resolve the issues or queries to make sure the customer renews the product or service, maintain long term customer relationships management.
  • Proactive Problem Solving and Handling customers Escalations - quickly responding to red flags, alerts, critical customer
    queries, overdue support tickets to avoid turning into bigger problems or escalations.
  • Instrumental in developing various security processes and procedures as per standards and best practices; ensuring compliance to information security policies.
  • Managing projects related to new data center build, data center movement, firewall, network, Router/Switches, backup, security
    etc.
  • Forward-focused Project Manager with expertise in concepts of end-to-end delivery / program planning & implementation from scope management to activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management in line with eeguidelines & norms

Overview

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19
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications

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Work History

Project Manager for Cloud&Compute Infrastructure

Kyndryl Solution P Ltd
Bangalore
09.2021 - Current
  • Creates and Maintains Project Plans: Develops, and continually updates, detailed project/program management plans. Develops work breakdown structures based on the project objectives and scope. Ensures PM methodology is adhered.
  • Supports the Management of the IT Infrastructure Project Portfolio: Work with appropriate IT and business stakeholders to define, prioritize and manage the pipeline of potential future IT infrastructure projects. Work with stakeholders on reporting the status of all projects based on established project management criteria.
  • Manage Project Status Reporting: Prepares status reports to convey project scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests, and critical issues to the client and project team.
  • Develop and Maintain Project Schedules: Incorporates regular updates from each functional team.
  • Lead Project Cost Estimation and Ongoing Budget Tracking: Provides budget information to Sr Program Manager, assists in developing costs estimates and analyzing data.
  • Perform Project Resource Management: Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts. Identifies project resource requirements and staff assignments. Checks for staff availabilities. Updates the project plan with work assignments.
  • Conducts Risk Management: Maintains documentation for identified risks and mitigation strategies. Proactively gathers and updates risk status and documentation as needed.
  • Support Stakeholder Management: Works with technology and business owners to analyze stakeholder expectations for projects based upon approved project requirements.
  • Integrate Project Business Analysis: Works with project team members and stakeholders to integrate technical and functional changes to projects into work assignment and schedules.
  • Provide Overall Project Administration: Participates in program team meetings, proactively documents meeting minutes, track issues, decisions and action items, and follow-up between meetings to drive issues to closure.
  • Other Support Duties as Needed: Performs other duties or special projects as required or as assigned.
  • Interacts with other IT and operations project managers, senior technical personnel, and other functional or support organizations.

Iteration Manager Cum Service Availability Manager

IBM India P Ltd
Bangalore
08.2017 - 08.2021
  • Leading 2 Squads of 25 members, responsible to educate the squad on Agile processes and help members to follow Scrum practices religiously and make a self-driven & cross functional squad.
  • Responsible to provide Infrastructure support for 400+ servers hosted on On-prem Datacenters (Pok/Boulder/UK/AP)
  • and IBM Private/Public Cloud (Ashburn & Dallas) which include end to end support for OS(AIX/Windows/RHEL) and Middleware (Domino/MQ/DB2/TSM/TDP Client).
  • Manage and track sprint progress against budgeted hours and schedule, maintain sprint flow by removing blockers and
  • bottlenecks, focusing on goals, and communicating any potential risks and recommending solutions and resolving more complicated project issues.
  • Responsible to removes project impediments that stand in the way of squad productivity and performance, create
  • technical process/procedures, SOPs.
  • Facilitate agile rituals; sprint planning, showcases, retrospectives, daily stand-ups.
  • Accountable for resource planning for effective management of BAU operations & Cloud migration projects.
  • Drive Major Incident (MI) and Critical Changes with all stakeholders to ensure issue get resolve timely and provide RCA.
  • Formulating techniques for effective Product Backlog Management/Refinement on weekly call with product owner to ensure that the Product Owner has clarity on arranging the product backlog for better delivery of project.
  • Checkpoint call with SMEs to develop automation tools/script on Domino/OS/MQ/DB2 to reduce the manual work and
  • increase the squad efficiency.
  • Facilitate discovery workshops with business and technical stakeholders, story prioritization and estimation with the Product Owner.
  • Story card management – ensuring that the cards are correct and are included and prioritized correctly for the release and iteration (using Trello \ JIRA)
  • Maintain Kanban to make sure the correct cards are in the iteration and appropriate priority has been assigned to each
  • card/story.
  • Reporting – producing the velocity charts (burn up/burn down)
  • Scrum Events – Discussion on huddles, sprint planning for scope of the next iteration, review and retrospective for completed iteration/sprint.
  • Following up card completion – keeping constant communication open with the team on how the iteration is tracking
  • Motivate squad to work on various proactive projects such fine tune of Tivoli alerts, domino and OS disk space alerts, domino and OS backup alerts, domino task alerts etc., this helps to improve the infrastructure performance and maintain customer satisfaction level.
  • Prepared dedicated Trello Kanban dashboard which is Integrated with Slack to track the squad utilization separately on
  • BAU and Cloud migration in Agile way of working and for effective communication to application stakeholders about the status of cloud migrations. Accountable to maintain security and compliance tasks and open RISK or NCI to meet the business requirement and
  • maintain the squad in green state.
  • Forthrightly Review/Showcase call with PO/Stakeholders to present the completed goals in the Iteration (2 Weeks) and get the feedback.
  • Organization Name: IBM India Pvt Ltd
  • Project Site : IBM Global Account (IGA US)
  • Role : Iteration Manager cum Service Availability Manager
  • Work Location : Bangalore
  • Period : Aug’17 to Aug’21
  • Co-ordinate with notes developer and develop a lotus notes-based application/tool to ensure squad members follow define checklist for cloud migration and update in the tool to avoid any gap in the migration.

Service Availability Manager

IBM India P Ltd
Bangalore
05.2016 - 07.2017
  • Manage and ensure availability for 400 + domino servers hosted in POK and Boulder datacenter (USA)
  • Responsible for Overall Account Green Health in terms of Application/Infrastructure Availability, Steady State, Software Upgrades.
  • Work as a bridge between Delivery Teams, Application Stakeholders/Owners.
  • Provide First Level of Escalation for issues from the customers and Delivery teams.
  • Ensure Service Delivery adherence to SLA, process and procedures and own service quality and performance.
  • Primary contact between the AFP and the Service Delivery organization where service is provided by Multi-National Delivery Teams.
  • Attend change meetings, validate, and approve changes raised by delivery support team (OS, Network Middleware)
  • Identify, Mitigate and Monitor risk in IT Service Delivery.
  • Functionally manage multiple transnational Service Delivery teams.
  • Conducting weekly meetings with customer and Redressing customer concern, identifying & implementing corrective and preventive measures.
  • Manage complex issues or outages & leading through crisis situations.
  • Perform Infra Capacity Management.
  • Provide Architectural Inputs.
  • Accountable for Business Controls and Compliance.
  • Assisting the DPE/AFP with account management.
  • Ensuring System Stability during Critical Client Cycles (This includes M/E, Q/E, Y/E, special events).
  • SPOC for outages and infrastructure problems, providing follow-up and drive the issue till resolution.
  • Driving the Standard Recovery Management Process per current guidelines in any sev1 incidents.
  • Coordinating and creating RCAs (Root Cause Analysis) per Service Management organizational guidelines.
  • Representing Service Delivery for application-initiated projects, ensuring that formally recognized request processes have been utilized.
  • Participating in audit readiness and compliance process

Team Lead/Domino SME

IBM India P Ltd
Bangalore
08.2014 - 04.2016
  • Worked as Team Lead and taking care of Domino Team consist of 8 members which is responsible to manage servers located in Singapore Datacenters.
  • Provide 2nd/3rd Level Notes / Domino Admin Support, maintained a Global messaging, and collaboration environment
  • Handling the escalated Sev-1/ Sev-2 calls for effective resolution and prepare the RCA to present in client meeting.
  • Doing daily huddle with team to address team challenges related to incidents & changes.
  • Managing 2 Lotus Traveler servers running in HA mode and integrated with Airwatch MDM to provide secured email access on Android & iOS devices users.
  • Daily management / monitoring, assignment of tickets & changes in Remedy (ITIL Based Tool) to the team members
  • Housekeeping of servers on weekly bases to maintain consistency of domino servers and Databases and user’s mail files to avoid Server Crashes, for continued access
  • Doing monthly Maintenance on set of domino servers wherein performing certain task fixup/compact/updall on system
  • Managing Blackberry Server wherein we do Add / Delete users, Assigned Software Configuration, Assign IT Policy, Set Activation Password
  • Responsibility for ensuring that all Changes are appropriately documented, approved & executed.
  • Preparing Process documents, guiding and helping team members to adhere to SLA targets and improve their technical skills.
  • Major Achievements:
  • Reconfigured the quota value of appx 8000 Cabin Crew users mail file from 75 MB to 225 MB via a customized tool wherein we changed the hardcoded scripts in the agent which update the quota value on the iNotes servers.
  • Upgraded 12 Domino servers & Symantec antivirus from 32bit to 64bit to enhance the server performance and toReduceli>reduce the frequent server crash.
  • Implemented the dead mail clear tool on SMTP gateway servers to clean up the dead emails which saved significant efforts of the team.
  • Successfully integrated the Airwatch MDM with Lotus traveler server to provide secured email access to user on their Android & iOS devices.
  • Fine tune the Tivoli alerts and removed the monitoring of those task which are not configured to run on the domino server. This has saved team members efforts and reduced the incoming ticket count by 40-50%.
  • Successfully upgraded HA Traveler server to IBM Notes Traveler 9.0.1.0 with IF7 to support iOS 8.x device.

Lead Consultant

CSC India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
03.2013 - 08.2014

Technical Service Specialist

IBM India P Ltd
Bangalore
12.2010 - 03.2013

Technical Specialist

HCL Comnet System & Serv P Ltd
Noida
01.2009 - 12.2010

Sr. Technical Executive

Softcell Technology Ltd
New Delhi
06.2007 - 12.2008

Sr. FMS Engineer

CMS Computers Ltd
New Delhi
10.2004 - 05.2007

FMS Engineer

Allied Digital Service Ltd
New Delhi
11.2002 - 09.2004

Quote

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Education

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting

Delhi University
New Delhi
04.1998 - 05.2001

Skills

Project Management

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Certification

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) in Windows Server 2000

Accomplishments

  • Successfully migrate 200+ servers from On-prem to IBM Private cloud.
  • Successfully migrate 9K+ databases from DST server, assist squad for technical and resource planning.
  • Successfully consolidated 30+ domino servers in EMEA & AP GEO.
  • Successfully migrate 35+ servers from Japan CIC to India CIC, servers were migrated from Japan on-prem Data servers (Sagimino) to IBM Private Cloud (Ashburn/Dallas).

Interests

Badminton

Jogging

Cricket

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

IBM Rock Star Award given for excellent contribution towards the success of GTS Services Delivery business and dedication towards achieving client satisfaction.

IBM Means Service Award is selected by the Leadership Team of GTS Services Delivery and given for excellent contribution towards the success of GTS Services Delivery business and dedication towards achieving client satisfaction.

1st Prize for various Employee Engagement Activities (sports & cultural) in IBM.

Timeline

Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer

06-2022

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)

06-2022

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

05-2022

Project Manager for Cloud&Compute Infrastructure

Kyndryl Solution P Ltd
09.2021 - Current

Professional Scrum Master® (PSM-1®)

07-2021

Iteration Manager Cum Service Availability Manager

IBM India P Ltd
08.2017 - 08.2021

Service Availability Manager

IBM India P Ltd
05.2016 - 07.2017

Team Lead/Domino SME

IBM India P Ltd
08.2014 - 04.2016

Lead Consultant

CSC India Pvt Ltd
03.2013 - 08.2014

ITIL V3 Foundation

11-2011

Technical Service Specialist

IBM India P Ltd
12.2010 - 03.2013

IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0

07-2009

Technical Specialist

HCL Comnet System & Serv P Ltd
01.2009 - 12.2010

Sr. Technical Executive

Softcell Technology Ltd
06.2007 - 12.2008

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) in Windows Server 2000

02-2005

Sr. FMS Engineer

CMS Computers Ltd
10.2004 - 05.2007

FMS Engineer

Allied Digital Service Ltd
11.2002 - 09.2004

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting

Delhi University
04.1998 - 05.2001
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