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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 Managementundefined

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
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