Rajiv Chowdhury
IT Professional
South Delhi
Summary
Experienced Delivery Manager with 17+ years of experience in Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Coordinates schedules, teams and resources to consistently meet customer demands and exceed expectations. Looking for opportunities to work in a high-growth dynamic environment with vibrant culture and talented people. Seeking out roles with appropriately challenging work in the areas of Business Development, Delivery & Project Management, Pre-sales, Marketing & Strategy.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
4
4
Languages
Work History
Delivery Partner
PPG Industries, Corning
05.2023 - Current
- Currently managing 4 active accounts under TCS Manufacturing North America South Atlantic region
- Coordinated delivery of contracted solutions at program level and in full accordance with outlined cost, scheduling and quality terms
- Independently standardized and automated the tracking of project details, with dashboards for KPI and SLA reporting; assisted in driving key business decisions
- Involved in the pre-sales activity for preparing the proposal for 2 key accounts under the manufacturing business unit for North America
- Managed frequent client and vendor interactions for project governance, prepared weekly reports focusing on project delivery progress and risk management plans
- Collaborated with several functional teams to facilitate all operational needs from recruitment to successful go-live of applications.
- Managed timely project delivery progress, identified and monitored risks through regular townhall meetings & workstream reviews.
- Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
Delivery Manager
British Telecom
09.2015 - 04.2023
- Handling both private & public cloud migration projects (viz. BT-EC platform, AWS, GCP, Azure & OCI).
- Monitored customer quality metrics and took proactive steps to implement resolutions and restore acceptable levels.
- Was responsible for Release Planning and Capacity Planning for all the projects within the portfolio.
- Contacted suppliers and vendors about issues with deliveries or products.
- Assisted the Pre-sales Team in preparing the RFP for new ventures.
- Taking ownership for ensuring the project continues to progress as planned and proactively taking action to address risks that could impact the final delivery
Technical Project Manager & Solution Architect
Telia Sonera
08.2014 - 08.2015
- Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing, and planning sessions to validate requirements.
- Was responsible for laying out the migration strategy for the legacy systems
- Carried oracle database migration from legacy version to Oracle 11g Nimbus Cloud platform.
- Carried out performance tuning of database, decommissioning of database and also devising the backup strategy for the applications
- Also managed the housekeeping activities for unix servers.
Team Lead & DBA
Hartford Financial Services
01.2012 - 07.2014
- Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
- Was involved in designing Physical & Logical model of the database through Erwin tool
- Carried out different types of database cloning activities including RMAN cloning and troubleshooting RMAN related issues.
- Applied PSU patches as well as RAC cloning
- Installed Oracle binaries.
- Was involved in the setup of Oracle dataguard and physical standby
- Did monitoring of database health through OEM 12c Grid Control, IBM BMC Perceiver & Sitescope
Team Lead & DBA
Supermedia
08.2011 - 12.2011
- Carried out Oracle database housekeeping activities.
- Was involved in the troubleshooting of RMAN related issues and was actively involved with the database backup team
- Was involved in the granting and revoking of roles and privileges for database schemas and application users
Team Member
NE-VAT, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India
08.2007 - 07.2011
- Was part of the Primary Data Centre Team at Guwahati and the DR site at Kolkata
- Involved in the monitoring of Tape Library, Network switches & routers, SAN boxes and Tivoli servers.
- Performed application & database switchover activity from primary site to the DR site.
- Administered the Squirrel Mail Server & Symantec Antivirus Server.
- Imparted training to the end users.
Trainee
TCS Training Programme (ILP)
12.2006 - 07.2007
Education
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) - Marketing, Strategy & Analytics
IIM Lucknow
04.2021 - 03.2023
Masters of Computer Applications (MCA) - undefined
Sastra University
04.2008 - 04.2011
Bachelor of Science (BSc-Chemistry Hons.) - undefined
Gauhati University
08.2002 - 08.2005
Skills
Project Management
Stakeholder Management
Delivery Management & Business DevelopmentCloud ComputingData AnalyticsSAP Success Factors Infrastructure ManagementOracle DBA, Unix Admin, Middleware AdminManaging cross functional TeamsAWS Solution Architect, GCP Admin, OCI AdminManaging Project Budgets, Portfolio Management, People ManagementManaging Migration of Legacy Systems to Public & Private CloudsGovernance & Reporting
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect
Timeline
Delivery Partner
PPG Industries, Corning
05.2023 - Current
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) - Marketing, Strategy & Analytics
IIM Lucknow
04.2021 - 03.2023
Delivery Manager
British Telecom
09.2015 - 04.2023
Technical Project Manager & Solution Architect
Telia Sonera
08.2014 - 08.2015
Team Lead & DBA
Hartford Financial Services
01.2012 - 07.2014
Team Lead & DBA
Supermedia
08.2011 - 12.2011
Masters of Computer Applications (MCA) - undefined
Sastra University
04.2008 - 04.2011
Team Member
NE-VAT, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India
08.2007 - 07.2011
Trainee
TCS Training Programme (ILP)
12.2006 - 07.2007
Bachelor of Science (BSc-Chemistry Hons.) - undefined
Gauhati University
08.2002 - 08.2005