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Sameer Prabhakar

Head of IT Infrastructure
Pune

Summary

Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills, long term strategy and sound judgment to positively impact company success.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Program Manager - Head of IT Infrastructure

Principal Global Services (GCC)
05.2021 - Current
  • Heading the IT Infrastructure team responsible for Global Infrastructure during non - US working hours
  • In house team size of 100+ multi geography team of engineers in India, Philippines & SEA
  • Responsibilities include enabling AWS/Multi Cloud Journey, On Prem Operations/Modernization
  • Managing 7 Scrum Teams
  • Datacenter - Compute, Containerization, Pipelining, Virtualization, Storage & Networks
  • ITAM/Capacity Planning, Cloud FinOPS Budgeting (~$25 Mil), Cost ownership - Instrumental in CAPEX savings of over USD 1 Million+ in less than 2 years, OPEX savings of USD 4 Million+ every four years
  • Enterprise Service Center, Workspace Services
  • Contract Management across geographies excluding US
  • Introduced CSR employability (6 Engineers)

Independent Consultant

Adeft IT
02.2017 - 04.2021
  • Have been working as a freelance IT consultant (mainly in the areas of IT Infrastructure, strategy, optimization, Remote support & Cloud adaptation (AWS/MS Azure/Google Cloud)
  • Major Projects: Britishvolt, UK - Played a lead role in setting up one of largest greenfield Li-On battery manufacturing plants in the UK
  • Responsible for overall Digital and IT Strategy, Cloud First/Hybrid Data Center IT Infrastructure, MES & ERP design, and rollout planning
  • Have been exploring & learning about Social enterprises, Sustainable living, Natural farming, and Animal welfare
  • Also took this time to solo travel mostly by road.

Head - Infrastructure and Production IT

Volkswagen India
08.2014 - 09.2016
  • Key Responsibilities: IT Strategy, Planning and Budgeting (~€5.3 Mil)
  • Overall IT Infrastructure & Production IT management for Region India (€ 400K Revenue)
  • Leading multiple teams in various Infrastructure Domains (80+ direct & indirect team members)
  • Service Operations and Service Management Lead Service Transitioning initiatives
  • Budget and Cost Management
  • Setup a robust Change management process
  • Part of the APAC IT Infrastructure leadership team Mentoring & succession planning
  • Business Continuity planning sponsor

Head - Production IT

Volkswagen India, Pune
04.2013 - 07.2014
  • Key Responsibilities: Leading the team responsible for managing day to day operations and Production applications
  • Incident, Change, Problem & Release management Overall Governance SLA Management Key business interface for Production requirement analysis and execution Supporting 3 shifts – 24 x 6

Head - IT

Magma HDI General Insurance Ltd.
07.2012 - 12.2012
  • Key Responsibilities: As part of the Core Management Leadership Team, responsible for IT strategy, technology decisions and plans
  • Facilitating the Core Application development/support for Policy Servicing, CRM, Internet Portal, BI and MIS
  • Leading the integration of Core policy administrative application with legacy systems
  • Infrastructure planning, architecture and implementation for the Core and Support Applications
  • Evaluation of modern technologies and new initiatives
  • Responsible for budget forecasts, scope, analysis and allocation

Manager IT Infrastructure

Volkswagen India, Pune
06.2010 - 07.2012
  • Key Responsibilities: Managing and Mentoring an internal team of 5-7 team members along with 40+ contractual employees to maintain SLA/OLA's
  • Part of the Worldwide rollout team for IT Security Program Managing 3 separate contracts with outsourced vendors and driving monthly SLA reviews
  • Managing the local IT Service Desk/Data Center Support operation for approximately 2500 users
  • Responsible for Budget/License planning for the IT infrastructure vertical

Systems Manager

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, Pune
06.2007 - 05.2010
  • Key Responsibilities: Datacenter Management – Part of the core team managing/monitoring datacenter operations, administration for more than 500 Servers/SAN/NAS/Appliances which included a mix of IBM/HP Blade servers, IBM P series servers, IBM/NetApp storage Monitoring/Reviewing a team of 20+ FM engineers/administrators
  • Support Manager for PAN India – liaison with various vendors for on-site support
  • Key member of the DR/BCP Planning Team Vendor Management/Negotiations – RFP/RFI Preparation

Systems Administrator

Canada India Institute Industry Linkage Project, Pune
05.2002 - 03.2005
  • 45 satellite Locations | LAN | WAN | Mail | Server | Overall IT Management.

Systems Engineer/Manager

Duotronix (P) Ltd, Pune
06.1997 - 04.2002
  • Founded and Headed the Computers sales and support wing

Education

Bachelor of Commerce -

Ranchi University, Ranchi

Skills

IT Infrastructure Management

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Websites

Personal Information

Nationality: Indian

Timeline

Program Manager - Head of IT Infrastructure - Principal Global Services (GCC)
05.2021 - Current
Independent Consultant - Adeft IT
02.2017 - 04.2021
Head - Infrastructure and Production IT - Volkswagen India
08.2014 - 09.2016
Head - Production IT - Volkswagen India, Pune
04.2013 - 07.2014
Head - IT - Magma HDI General Insurance Ltd.
07.2012 - 12.2012
Manager IT Infrastructure - Volkswagen India, Pune
06.2010 - 07.2012
Systems Manager - Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, Pune
06.2007 - 05.2010
Systems Administrator - Canada India Institute Industry Linkage Project, Pune
05.2002 - 03.2005
Systems Engineer/Manager - Duotronix (P) Ltd, Pune
06.1997 - 04.2002
Ranchi University - Bachelor of Commerce,

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