Nitinn Saxena

Overview

24

years of professional experience

12

Certifications

Profile Summary

Successfully implemented streamlined, customer focused technologies in a career reflecting strong leadership and quality delivery. Extensive experience in project management, program management and building high-performance teams.
Successfully completed Services Transfer from Incumbents to the Organization, I'm working for.
Technically equipped to understand technical issues overview and provide opinion/guidance to team and all stakeholders
To take end-to-end bottom line responsibility for a project, participate and ensure proposal, estimation and scope for a project is completed, build the project team, schedule assignments, monitor, review and report project status, manage project risk, ensure successful delivery and implementation.
Solid reputation for resolving complex issues, ensuring continuity of services, and delivering exceptional customer service. Natural communicator and team leader with strong motivational skills and ability to build, produce and succeed. Strength in forging solid relationships with technical teams, clients, leadership and partners.
Instrumental in Project Management, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, Project Monitoring & Controlling, Stakeholder Management, Requirement gathering and Assessment, Skilled at analyzing, motivating, troubleshooting, multitasking, innovative and communicating

Major Projects

Building and renovating Datacenter Rooms: This is a generic description of projects where the Datacenter rooms were redesigned , All the services like Network , Virtualization, storage,backup, Database were transferred to newly built datacenters .This project involved handling customer's vendor like Dell, Advanced Unibyte.The challenging part of this project was to carry out all these activities without disturbing ongoing production
Transitioning services from incumbents:This is a generic description of projects where the Infrastructure services were transferred from one organization to other as client has decided to change Outsourcing partner
Objective: The project is to analyze what all services are present in Client's environment,respective stakeholders,arranging resources , planning for Knowledge transfer, getting the runbooks created, hosting Steering committee meeting etc
Transitioning servers from 1 virtual DC to other and to Cloud:Team Size: 45, Distributed in 3 diﬀerent Countries/geographic locations Technical Environment: 10,500 windows/Linux servers, P2v,V2V,Zerto
Objective: The project is to test, facilitate and move servers to newly built Virtual DC
Deploying Carbon Black on all Servers:Team Size: 15, Distributed in 5 different Countries/geographic locations
Technical Environment: 500 windows servers
Objective: The project is to test, facilitate and deploy Carbon black Intrusion detection s/w on Servers and after successful deployment setting up ticketing bridge for automated ticket creation
Moving servers to IBM Blue mix(cloud):Technical Environment: 200 File servers and 225 App servers
Objective: The project is to test, facilitate and move servers to cloud in order to reap cloud benefits
Deploying Cylance End Point protection on Server and workstationsTechnical Environment: 45000 windows workstations and 2700 Windows servers
Objective: The project is to test, facilitate and deploy Cylance Antivirus on Workstations and Servers and after successful deployment uninstalling MacAfee.
Centralizing Printing in across globe in Client's organization using Cirrato:Technical Environment: 45000 windows workstations and 400 Print Servers spread across 55 geographical locations.
Objective: The project is to consolidate the print queues running on the servers and workstations and ultimately transfer those queues to Cirrato server and thereby decommissioning current print servers.

Certification

PMI -ACP

Work History

Group Project Manager

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD

01.2022 - Current

Leading all project meetings and manage all communication with various departments for project
Analyzing all projects and prepare appropriate reports to resolve all risk mitigation issues
Managing communication with senior management and prepare ad hoc reports for same
Developing project schedule and design various associate activities for team and coordinate with various stakeholders to plan and implement all projects eﬀectively
Analyzing all projects and ensure compliance to project schedule and monitor eﬃcient delivery of all projects according to budget and timeframe
Managing budget requirements for projects and prepare accurate ﬁnancial estimates for all group projects and monitor funding for same
Preparing monthly budget forecasts and collect all data for various ﬁnances and accounting practices to ensure compliance to budget
Administering all functional requirements for group projects and allocate budget for same accordingly maintaining quality standards for same
Coordinating with stakeholders and ensure all project deliverables according to business requirement and documents all project deliverables.

Project Manager

IBM INDIA PVT. LTD

08.2015 - 01.2022

Led projects from requirements deﬁnition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and project implementation plans, including risk mitigation
Coordinated with internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and deﬁned budgets, in collaboration with project staﬀ from various functional departments
Analyze project progress and, when necessary, adapt scope, timelines, and costs to ensure that project team adheres to project requirements
Established and maintained relationships with appropriate client stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes.

Senior Manager

HCL Technologies Ltd

07.2007 - 08.2015

Associate-Tier 2(Wintel)

Perot Systems

02.2006 - 07.2007

Quality Mentor

Vcustomer Services India Private Limited

02.2004 - 10.2005

Network Engineer

Optitech Software’s Pvt. Ltd

12.1998 - 01.2004

Skills

Waterfall Project Management

Agile Project Management

Vendor EngagementTransition ManagementStakeholder ManagementTeam Management

Monitoring and Controlling

Risk ManagementRequirements AnalysisProject Cost ManagementForecastingTraining and DevelopmentClient ManagementWaterfall Project Management Agile

KANBAN

Scrum

Technical Understanding

Advanced understanding of Microsoft Project

Accomplishments

IBM-Automated the Creation of Cloud migration Runbook in IBM.The time required to create runbook was reduced from 6 hrs to 5 mins which resulted in speedup the migration cycle
IBM-Received customer champion award twice for my contribution in an escalated Project
IBM-Conducted first ever Agile Hands on workshop for every PM in Delhi NCR/Bangalore
Guiding teams of different teams to adopt Agile
Coaching Team on Microsoft Project Coaching Team on Microsoft Project,Cloud,Slack and Trello
HCL-Earned Comnet Jewel for successful handling of account services