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Sivaganesh VR

Sivaganesh VR

ITO-Program Manager
Chennai

Summary

Proactive Global Program Manager overseeing business systems and maintaining records of project metrics. Determined employee with over 19+ years of supervising interdepartmental activities and developing professional relationships with customers. Possessing exemplary critical thinking skills to make sound decisions.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certificates
2
2
Languages

Work History

ITO-Program Manager

DXC Technology
Chennai
07.2016 - Current


  • Earned the organizational award for best performance in Dec 2020 & 2021.
  • Expertise in incubating, managing and owning “Large Offshore Delivery Programs”.
  • Team members were identified and sourced. Also recruited subcons with the right skills to fill in for resource gaps.
  • Achieved month on month KPIs from the output on multiple pre-sales engagements including RFP solution & estimations.
  • Extensive expertise in Six Sigma , waterfall and Agile Methodology.
  • Lead multiple end-to-end Infrastructure Management Engagements experience across SDLC.
  • Lead Vendor Management, Procurements & Maintenance Renewals for Private Data Centers. commercials finalized based on multiple vendors across the globe to help align them as per the program timelines to migrate applications from various data centers.
  • Subject Matter Expert for new account setup especially for defining Governance, Continuous Process Improvement, Risk & Escalation Management, Planning & Budgeting, Cost Optimization processes.
  • Cross Industry and Multi Geography Client Management Experience.
  • Spearhead on cloud migration (AWS & Azure) covering all the phases from Discovery, Data Assessment & Validation, Landing zones finalization, Bundling, Sequencing Move Groups & Scheduling, Migration Execution, and Transformation.
  • Migrate cloud and non-cloud Applications and Servers from One/ Multiple Data Centers to Primary, Secondary, and/or Recovery Data Centers using various Migration Methods and Tools (VMWare, Azure, and AWS)
  • Application SAP – HANA migration were planned meticulously and WSRs generate as per stakeholder needs. Special applications needed extra comms and stakeholder alignment, which were executed very well. Planning done using smartsheets for all the application migrations.
  • Migrated 750+ Servers and 200+ Apps (On-Prem VMs & Physical Servers to Managed Private Cloud).
  • Cost Management including Capex & Opex Forecasting.
  • Received Program Charter and plan delivery of the overall program and its activities in accordance with the mission and the goals of the organization through planning and other team activities.
  • Define operational teams roadmaps, RACI, communication plans and templates for the managed projects are high regarded tasks for this role.
  • Conduct steering committee meetings and communicate the status with project stakeholders and influence direction of participants to meet the overall project goals and objectives.
  • Responsible for adhering to PMO best practices, standards and framework for projects.
  • Design, develop and maintain a detailed work breakdown of program milestones, deliverables and tasks to be accomplished for the initiative and ensure that tasks are accomplished on time and within budget.
  • Establish baseline on scope, schedule, cost and critical path, ensured the baselines aligned with the program map.
  • Lead and handle program risks, issues, mitigation plans and continuous improvement actions through DAIR log and CSI initiatives.
  • Identify lessons learned from projects and contribute to ongoing improvement of supported projects.
  • Deep understanding of ITIL foundation framework including Service Delivery functions, Configuration Management, Incident Management, Change Management, Release Management, Availability Management, SLA Management Knowledge Management, Asset Management & Service Desk.
  • Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands.
  • Created test cases and test scripts to maintain cohesive team approach to product development.
  • Validated the programs to meet strict design standards and quality benchmarks.
  • Devised tools and benchmarks to improve team performance and monitor production
  • Formed business referral strategic partnerships with international partners.
  • Identified system needs and designed processes to support business requirements.
  • Designed infrastructure solutions to resolve business issues and improve delivery processes.
  • Met tight deadlines to satisfy client demands and project timelines.
  • Oversaw global product development and partner relationships, enabling footprint expansion into new markets.
  • Deployed the new processes, resulting in cost-effective implementations and high level of customer satisfaction (CSAT).
  • Program includes project like ( Migrate BSM monitoring servers to cloud, Syngenta needs 3 copper network adapters HPEEth 10Gb 2p 535FLR-T, Storeonce VSA solution from branch backup DC to AWS cloud, VM installation in GREY site, FRAV - Migration servers ZetesVPC application migration, Nutanix application for CMHO)

Sr, Project Manager

DXC
Chennai
02.2008 - 07.2016
  • Clients: Syngenta, & Freescale, North America & EMEA), ‘16
  • Projects Delivered
  • Data Center Migration (Motorola US)
  • Managing end to end network, 300 servers, network switches from one location to another within short span of time
  • Changing the network connectivity between DXC and Syngenta from the existing BT MPLS lines to internet based VPN tunnels
  • Managed Linux OS migration from 5.5 to 6.2 for 50 servers with 3 FTE
  • Server refresh program
  • Managed by converting 300 Unix servers from physical to virtual with 10 FTE
  • Successfully completed 100 Linux builds in 90days with 15 FTEs before the dead line defined
  • Successfully completed several mock DR & BCP tests
  • Managed SAN migration from 500 TB data from clarion to vnx storage
  • Managed AIX migration 150 servers from aix 6.1 to 7.1 with 4 FTE

Project Manager (Lead Infrastructure Analyst)

Electronic Data System.Ltd
08.2006 - 02.2008
  • Managed OS patching completed for 500 servers with 60 FTE
  • Incident, Service Request, Configuration and Change is being developed and will be deployed to manage various clients in common platform,As part of Service Management leveraged solution EDS will cater above mentioned interface on need basis to various clients this will get integrated with different service management tools.
  • Updated operational methods and oversaw accounting procedures for improved efficiency.
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance.

Operation Manager

WIPRO
Chennai
01.2004 - 08.2006
  • Implemented process improvement to shape organizational culture, optimize procedures for higher efficiency and help company evolve and grow.
  • Worked in matrix management environment with oversight of division level managers, operations, sales, finance, human resources, safety and compliance.
  • Prepared annual budgets with controls to prevent overages.
  • Developed systems to track and log work issues.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Madras University
Chennai
06.2000 - 04.2003

Skills

Stakeholder Managementundefined

Accomplishments

• Received several Award & Appreciation from SAP client for T&T program, Cloud Migration, extraordinary performance for Storage, compute & network implementation in SAP Sydney, Dubai , Singapore, China Datacenters.

• Received several appreciations from DXC top management for program success.

• Received Spot Award & appreciated from Client (Motorola, US) for extraordinary performance of Data Center Migration within short span of time. Also, Received "Team Excellence" & Outstanding Performer from DXC Management.

• Key instrumental for planning, scheduling and supervising six weeks Data Centre Migration through Guiding, Supporting and motivating the team in extreme challenging conditions and successfully completed the program in time within schedule.

• Successful completion of several mock DR & BCP tests with minimal Unix resources.

• Migration of 90 Unix servers from physical to virtual.


Certification

Prince2

Additional Information

  • President for DXC DLF Chennai Toastmasters Club.

Interests

Public Speaking

Reading Books

Writing Articles

Timeline

Az-900

12-2021

CSM

12-2018

ITO-Program Manager

DXC Technology
07.2016 - Current

VCS

06-2016

AIX

01-2013

Prince2

08-2012

Sr, Project Manager

DXC
02.2008 - 07.2016

Solaris

01-2008

CCNA

10-2006

Project Manager (Lead Infrastructure Analyst)

Electronic Data System.Ltd
08.2006 - 02.2008

Operation Manager

WIPRO
01.2004 - 08.2006

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Madras University
06.2000 - 04.2003

Awards

  • DXC Champ Award 2020 & 2021
  • Toastmasters International for Rising Star Award Jan '20
  • Toastmasters Speech Contest Winner 2020 Oct '20

Publications

  • My article was published in D120 toastmaster newsletter "One two zero" toastmaster magazine. https://lnkd.in/gMtJa7g

Awards

  • DXC Champ Award 2020 & 2021
  • Toastmasters International for Rising Star Award Jan '20
  • Toastmasters Speech Contest Winner 2020 Oct '20

Publications

  • My article was published in D120 toastmaster newsletter "One two zero" toastmaster magazine. https://lnkd.in/gMtJa7g

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