SATISH KUMAR V
BLR, IND,ON
Summary
IT Professional with 9+ years of experience as Project Lead, Change Management, Financial Analyst, Integrator and PMO. Expertise in managing projects across all stages - Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Closure. Adept at stakeholder collaboration, change management, budgeting, and driving projects to completion within scope, time, and cost.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
Work History
Project Lead
CGI
10.2016 - Current
- OS Patching program - (AUG 2023 / till date)
- (GCVE) Server Migration from On-prem to Google cloud – (Oct 2023 / Aug 2025)
- SAN Migration from G600 / G700 To E1090 Storage Array – (May 2023 / Feb 2024)
- Blade Migration - Minimizes the space needed to host thousands of servers by providing a compact physical machine that can fit into new chassis
- Storage migration from Datrium to V-San (Oct 2021 / Jan 2022)
- Security & Vulnerability Project – Target to Increase the compliance from 62% to 98% (Jan 2020 / till Date)
- NBU – Net Backup Server and Client upgrade – (Mar 2021 / Dec 2022)
- ACL Optimization – Access control revalidation and remediation – (Oct 2021/ April 2021)
- Server Build & Decommission Projects - (Oct 2021/ April 2021)
- Key Responsibilities Across Project Stages:
- Planning:
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
- Created Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project schedules, and clear milestones.
- Conducted kickoff meetings for requirements gathering, brainstorming, and resource alignment.
- Estimated utilization hours and technical mandates for resources.
- Execution:
- Scheduled and conducted standup meetings with technical teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
- Ensured change requests (RFC) submission and approvals via tools like ServiceNow and ITSM
- Created Method of Procedure (MOP) for implementation and led deployment efforts.
- Attended CAB meetings for RFC approvals and ensured project readiness for implementation
- Monitored project progress, identified risks, and mitigated issues promptly to keep the project on track.
- Ensured SLA adherence during migrations, coordinating technical bridges during troubleshooting.
- Monitoring:
- Generated weekly reports (progress updates, dashboards, and budget status) for clients and stakeholders.
- Conducted resource utilization analysis to optimize allocation.
- Monitor Project progress and identify potential roadblocks and implement corrective actions to keep Projects on track.
- Ensured scope completion and timely project delivery; submitted Project Change Requests (PCRs) if deviations occurred.
- Prepared Post-Implementation Reviews (PIRs) and Lessons Learned documents.
- Closure:
- Reviewed and approved invoices and ensured accurate financial reporting.
- Release resources.
- Finalized project handovers (Financials, Document, lessons learnt, CSAP, Sign-off, Archive the documents for future reference) with client.
- Core Competencies
- Project Planning & Execution: Scope definition, WBS creation, task allocation, and MOP implementation.
- Change Management: Managing RFCs, CAB meetings, and troubleshooting.
- Financial Analysis: Budget management, resource allocation, and invoice validation.
- Stakeholder Management: Clear communication, reporting, and progress monitoring.
- Release & Deployment Management
- Closure & Documentation: Lessons learned, PIR reports, and project handover.
- Tool – Jira, ServiceNow, PSA 9.2, Intellex, ITSM, Web Health Check, My Workspace.
PMO
CGI Pvt Ltd
10.2016 - 04.2021
- Co-Ordination of Execution of Sentinel One package on PROD/DR/NON-PROD Environment (Security vulnerability)
- Drive GAD (Global Access Device) migration to E590/G700 from G600
- Drive Oracle DB’s 11g & 12c legacy environment to 19c upgrade
- Driving Windows OS upgrade 2012 to 2016
- Co-Ordination Backup migration - NetBackup to Commvault upgrade
- Co-Ordination SNOW LSOF installation
- Supported as financial analyst for program
- Supported as Integrator for all projects
- (Agile)Lead the staffing projects (Resource Management)
- Roles and responsibilities as PMO
- Communicated Project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
- Closely collaborated with project members to identify and address problems.
- Perform the project management processes (Project Life cycle) which includes project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, closure and supporting processes like costing, risk management, resource management.
- Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and BAU.
- Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing and planning sessions to validate requirements.
- Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
- Document lessons learned and prepared post Implementation Report/Review (PIR)
- Track the overall financials and prepare the financial report.
- Chair bridge to address root cause and mitigate the issue within SLA.
- Work with onshore resource manager in creating utilization hour reports and estimating technical efforts.
- Provide the accurate financial report to business leaders to understand the financial status of respective projects.
- Project Closure.
Education
BBM -
01.2015
Skills
- Project Management
- Project Coordination
- Financial Analysis
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Waterfall / Agile methodology
Languages
English
Hindi
Kannada
Tamil
Telugu
Certification
- Leading Safe 6.0 ( Certified )
- ITIL Foundation V4 (Certified)
- PMP (Trained)
- Power BI (Trained)
Declaration
I hereby declare that all the information furnished above are true to my knowledge.
Timeline
Project Lead - CGI
10.2016 - Current
PMO - CGI Pvt Ltd
10.2016 - 04.2021
Bangalore University - BBM,