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Gardening, Music, Travelling
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Suchitra Kaul

Suchitra Kaul

Project Manager, PMP Certified, CSM
Noida

Summary

SNAPSHOT Certified Project Management Professional PMP Certified Scrum Master, equipped with 18 years of experience in IT Global Infrastructure Project Management & Service Delivery.

Experience in delivering End to End Project Life Cycle for customers across US, Asia Pacific, EMEA region. Ensuring Completion of Medium to high end projects related to Software Deployment CLM Conga, Cloud Implementation, SDWAN Migrations, Contact Center Migration, Data Center Migration, Tools Implementation, Messaging & Collaboration & Backup/Recovery spanning across Initiation, Planning, execution till closure.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications

Work History

Project & Program Manager

Legalease Solutions Pvt Ltd
12.2022 - Current
  • Project & Program Manager leading the CLM Program & also working on Software deployment Projects for US based clients
  • Responsible for deployment and delivery of CLM Software Projects on Conga Platform from conceptual through final design and implementation
  • Involved in Project Design Workshops, Kick Off Meetings & Develop BRD, Project Plan
  • Tracking and Monitoring project process and deliverables and generating reports and dashboards using JIRA
  • Working with stakeholders on reporting the current status of all projects based on established project management criteria
  • Manage Project Status Reporting: Prepare Weekly status reports using Microsoft BI Boards
  • Develop and Maintain Project Schedules
  • Perform Project Resource Management: Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts
  • Identifies project resource requirements and staff assignments
  • Conduct Risk Management & Maintains documentation for identified risks and mitigation strategies
  • Using Agile Methodology values, principles and practices to plan and manage deliver the solutions.

Senior Project Manager

IBM
Noida
09.2019 - 12.2022
  • Account : SANDVIK
  • Projects Managed : SDWAN Migration, Contact Center migration to cloud

Provide End to End Project Management for RFS's

  • Ensure the scope statement is clearly understood and as agreed by project teams, stakeholders and customer and other stakeholders
  • Create the Scope baseline, and the process for scope change control
  • To develop detailed implementation plan using MS project OR account specified tool
  • To Conduct Project Definition workshops with all with all the stakeholders for large Projects
  • Engaged in Vendor, Supplier & Contractor Management activities spanned across EMEA regions, including coordinating
  • MPLS, SDWAN Equipment Ordering, Tracking, Delivery, Deployment of SDWAN and Test & Turn up
  • Responsible for requirement gathering and high level scoping of projects
  • Responsible for requisition for resources with right skill set for the projects
  • Responsible for estimating, planning and Scheduling the project
  • Responsible for submitting a clear statement of work along with the project plan including cost and schedule estimates for approval from customers
  • Monitoring, tracking and updating project schedule and Budget
  • Gain approvals to change requests, rebase line when applicable, update/revise the project plan and report status
  • Ensure to gain formal acceptance and sign off of the project by the sponsor OR customer and validate that all conditions of satisfaction are met.

Technical Project Manager

IBM India Pvt Ltd
Noida
04.2016 - 01.2019
  • Account : ABN AMRO
  • Projects : Datacenter Migration, Networking Infrastructure Projects in coordination with AT&T & CISCO
  • Ensures the scope statement is clearly understood and as agreed to by the project team, customer, and other stakeholders, create the scope baseline, and the process for scope change control
  • Ensure that the project plan is complete, and determines the overall project management plan for use in managing and controlling during project execution
  • Manage the overall costs to tasks, associate any billing codes, gain acceptance, create the cost baseline and the process for cost change control
  • Develop the resource plan addressing how resources are brought onto and taken off the project as supporting detail to the project plan
  • To establish a plan for time-reporting and project status reporting processes
  • Executing the communications plan including user acceptance and training sufficient to ensure internal and external reporting/communications are met
  • Identify roles, assign risk owners, responsibilities and levels of authority for management and decision-making, develop contingency plans, implementation criteria, and alternatives strategies as supporting detail to the project plan
  • Execute the risk plan, implement corrective action, mitigation, workarounds, update the plan and report status
  • To execute the project plan, implement mechanisms to measure, record progress, and conduct ongoing analysis of variances, risks, and changes, as well as update/revise the project plan and report status
  • Gain approvals to change requests, re-baseline when applicable, update/revise the project plan and report status
  • Ensure to gain formal acceptance and sign-off of the project by the sponsor or customer and validate that all conditions of satisfaction have been met.

Projects & Service Delivery Manager

Fujitsu India Ltd
08.2011 - 04.2016
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
  • Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
  • Service desk monitoring and management
  • Services management and update as per ITIL best practice
  • Introduce service management best practice for cost effective service delivery
  • Closely working with Fujitsu teams across the globe to manage Global Infra IT Services Projects
  • Resource planning within team and across the Global teams for assigned projects
  • Effectively participate in DSR & Process improvement plans meetings
  • Represent the team as SPOC for the external audits


IT Executive

Fujitsu
Noida
01.2007 - 01.2011
  • Infrastructure Support Services
  • Providing 1st, 2nd level support to, customers globally and following the Escalation matrix as per Escalation process
  • Active Directory users and groups management
  • Mail quota, delegation, rights management
  • Create Modify and Maintenance of public folders
  • Managing Users and Groups through Active Directory
  • Managing the RSA Secure ID server
  • Manage day-to-day problem ticket resolution of the Active Directory, MS Exchange, Outlook Service for all clients
  • Contacting hardware and software vendors, system software and applications personnel to provide information and assist in resolving hardware and software problems
  • Handling the daily operations to ensure that all the Restart tickets are attended and completed within SLA
  • Manage MS Exchange & Active directory day-to-day work requests for all clients in relation to all user Moves, Adds & Changes
  • Establishing work priorities to ensure that daily work requirements & project deadlines are met
  • Significant Contributions:
  • Successfully performed functions pertaining to AD Management, Mailbox creations, Managing and creating RSA secure ID tokens and providing L1 & L2 support to the seeking assistance for software, hardware and technology issues
  • Ensured maintenance & updating of documents in Centralized database for quality audits.
  • Configured and implemented IT initiatives to produce measurable business value.

Executive - IT

Birlasoft Ltd
Noida
09.2006 - 08.2007


Troubleshooting clients issues pertaining to software, hardware and technology issues as a first point of contact in the organization.

Supported a node of more than 800 users in GE Global Development Centre

  • Handled Active Directory user account creations, Mailbox Creations, mailbox deletions, mailbox quota & implement mailbox policies on Microsoft Exchange server.
  • Responsible for generating anti-virus reports daily.
  • Additionally, took care for the assets (hardware and software) via VSS database
  • Accolades:
  • Certificate of achievement for strict adherence to SLA
  • Spotlight Award 2012 for maintaining all time high SLA on IT issue track
  • Received Apex 2013 Service Delivery Award.

Associate Engineer

Times IT Services Pvt. Ltd
03.2005 - 08.2006

Worked as an associate IT Engineer primarily involved in resolving Level 1 end user IT issues for the clients.

Junior Engineer

Hotline Switchgear Ltd
08.2002 - 07.2004

Worked as a junior engineer in R&D section

Education

PGDBA - IT

Symbiosis

Diploma - Electronics

Institute of Engineering & Technology
06.1996 - 06.1999

Skills

Microsoft Projectundefined

Certification

Project Management Professional PMP Certified.

Accomplishments

Managers Choice Award for successfully delivering the SDWAN program.


Certificate of achievement for mentoring the team.


Received Apex Service Delivery Award.

Gardening, Music, Travelling

During my leisure time I love to spend time listening music and perform gardening.

Timeline

Project & Program Manager

Legalease Solutions Pvt Ltd
12.2022 - Current

Senior Project Manager

IBM
09.2019 - 12.2022

Technical Project Manager

IBM India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 01.2019

Projects & Service Delivery Manager

Fujitsu India Ltd
08.2011 - 04.2016

IT Executive

Fujitsu
01.2007 - 01.2011

Executive - IT

Birlasoft Ltd
09.2006 - 08.2007

Associate Engineer

Times IT Services Pvt. Ltd
03.2005 - 08.2006

Junior Engineer

Hotline Switchgear Ltd
08.2002 - 07.2004

Diploma - Electronics

Institute of Engineering & Technology
06.1996 - 06.1999

PGDBA - IT

Symbiosis
Suchitra KaulProject Manager, PMP Certified, CSM