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Varun Sharma

Country Head and Head of Global delivery
Gurgaon
Varun Sharma

Summary

With over 20 years of extensive IT experience across various skill sets, roles, and industry verticals, I bring a wealth of knowledge and experience. Accomplished in IT Delivery Head and Manager roles, I have successfully led enterprise projects, managed data, and provided senior-level solution consulting. Strong expertise in country management, delivery and people management, project lifecycle management, proposals, statement of work, cost and budget management, end-to-end IT project implementations, handling multiple project deliveries, project scheduling, vendor management, stakeholder management, risk management, demand and supply management, project budgeting and cost controls, SDLC, and Agile development.

Overview

21
years of professional experience
19
Certifications
4
years of post-secondary education
6

Awards and Accolades

Work History

TechGenies

Country Head / Country Manager
06.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Develop and implement business strategies to achieve company goals.
  • Manage and oversee daily operations in the country.
  • Ensure compliance with local laws and regulations.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.
  • Monitor market trends and identify new business opportunities.
  • Manage budgets and financial performance.
  • Lead and motivate a high-performing team.
  • Ensure customer satisfaction and address any issues promptly.
  • Collaborate with global leadership to align country strategies.
  • Conduct regular performance reviews and provide feedback.
  • Develop and implement marketing and sales strategies.
  • Manage risks and ensure business continuity.
  • Represent the company at industry events and conferences.
  • Prepare and present reports to senior management.
  • Ensure operational efficiency and continuous improvement.
  • Managed budgets, financial planning, and forecasting to optimize profitability for the country operations.

TechGenies

Delivery Head / Director of Global Delivery
06.2020 - 08.2024

Job overview

  • Managed multiple accounts and projects at TechGenies, some of the key clients include - Lockton Companies (Insurance), TrenData (People Analytics), INSALA (Talent development, Mentoring, Alumni), Beirut Law Firm SaaS.
  • Guide new ideas through Ideation and Design process to ensure they are sufficiently defined to address strategic goals and designed with the right stakeholder involvement.
  • Develop and manage program operating costs budgets for program activities and monitor expenditures to ensure that they remain within budgetary limits.
  • Successful delivery of Projects and Programs run by PMs reporting to this role.
  • Leading PMCOE - Project Management Centre of Excellence.
  • Create and Review RFPs and Statement of Work and Staffing Agreements with new Clients.
  • Collaborate with Accounting and Senior Leadership to oversee the procurement of any hardware, software or services needed for a project or program.
  • Coordinates closely with Resource Managers and Product Managers to plan deliverables execution.
  • Manages the execution, monitoring and controlling of each work stream using Agile methodology of software development.
  • Leading and implementing the Agile and SAFE practices across the organization.
  • Leading the organization's PMO community to constantly improve delivery guidelines, templates and processes.
  • Project Risk management includes identification, analysis, and mitigation.
  • Tracking Org level Metrics and Project Metrics thru Earned Value Analysis.
  • Led cross-functional teams for successful project completion within deadlines and budget constraints.
  • Managed large, transformative initiatives impacting multiple delivery channels.
  • Analyzed data trends related to delivery performance for enhancing efficiency levels across the organization.

Zensar Technologies

Onsite Track Management/Senior Technical Specialist
03.2019 - 11.2019

Job overview

  • Company Overview: Zensar Technologies, worked for client Old Mutual Financial group in Capetown.
  • Interact with the Client Business Managers, Architects, SMEs to understand the business and Functional requirements and help them in developing business requirements.
  • Creating Delivery roadmap and Detailed level Knowledge Transition Plan to be shared with Stakeholders.
  • Conducted walkthrough (Knowledge Transfer) sessions with Vendor, Business, Dev, and SQA teams for requirement understanding and query resolutions.
  • Lead analysis sessions, gather requirements and write specification and functional design documents for enhancements and customization; Analyze product impact.
  • Project support related activities. Preparing and presenting Weekly status report and contribution in preparation of Dashboard.
  • Zensar Technologies
  • Led technical workshops, sharing expertise with colleagues to improve overall team capabilities.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality projects within tight deadlines.
  • Mitigated risk exposure by identifying potential vulnerabilities in existing systems and proposing remediation strategies.

Principal Global Services

IT Delivery Manager
08.2016 - 01.2018

Job overview

  • Company Overview: Principal Global Services
  • As a Delivery Manager and Solution Consultant in Investment Management and Asset Management Domain I have been managing Data Integration and Risk Management Team of 20 which works on creating new ESDL architecture (Enterprise Shared Data Layer) and ODS involving Data Integration, Transformation thru Mulesoft, Informatica and Data Reporting and analytics thru DWBI tools.
  • Managing Risk Management team supporting Fund of Hedge Funds - Risk Modeling, Covariance and Correlation between Funds, Skewness, Kurtosis, Regression analysis, Predictive analytics through Monte Carlo Simulation, Historical Simulation.
  • Principal Global Services
  • Participated in team projects, demonstrating an ability to work collaboratively and effectively.

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Project Manager and Onsite Technical Lead
04.2008 - 07.2016

Job overview

  • Company Overview: IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
  • As a Project Manager I am responsible for requirements gathering, analysis, design, work assignment, project Tracking and implementation of solutions for new implementations and upgrades for our IBM US customer Element Finance Services.
  • Interact with the Client Business Managers to understand the business requirements and help them in developing business requirements.
  • Maintaining the requirements traceability matrix throughout the project.
  • Lead the development team in designing and delivering solutions.
  • Effectively communicating and coordinating between the offshore and onsite team and the Business Analysts.
  • Provide day-to-day direction to the team and regular project status to the onsite team/ Project manager.
  • Ensure timely delivery of new and complex quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
  • Project Planning, Estimation, creation, and maintenance of the overall project plan.
  • Project Risk management includes identification, analysis, and mitigation.
  • Reviewing all deliverables to ensure the expected quality is maintained.
  • Ensure that production support activities are carried out properly for smooth continuous functioning of the business applications.
  • Tracking resolution of Trouble tickets to ensure SLA and SLO adherence.
  • Identify and communicate issues/risks/conflicts in a timely manner to the senior stakeholders.
  • Review the Estimates and functional specifications for service requests.
  • Scrum Master - Performing Agile scrum ceremonies for the team.
  • Maintaining artifacts as per IBM and Element quality processes.
  • Establish Quality procedure, monitor and audit deliverables of the team.
  • Preparing the Weekly status report which tracks the status of all old and new projects with their status, estimates, Qual dates and priority.
  • IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

CSC India Pvt. Ltd.

Senior Software Engineer
12.2005 - 04.2008

Job overview

  • Company Overview: CSC is a software consulting and development company, having prestigious government, banking and insurance clients.
  • As a Senior Software Engineer I was responsible for analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of solutions for new implementations and upgrades in the Strategic Pricing and Skateboard projects which involved new developments and Enhancements for the Home and Motor Insurance services of the Zurich Financial Services Group.
  • Work with Business Analyst in translating business requirements into Functional Requirements Document and to Detailed Design Documents.
  • Lead analysis sessions, gather requirements and write specification and functional design documents for enhancements and customization; Analyze product impact.
  • Create and present product designs and architecture to clients.
  • Coordinate and communicate tasks with developers.
  • Ensure that development is performed as per requirements.
  • Work with QA to create test scripts and scenarios for enhancements and customizations to the core product.
  • Communicate activities/progress to project managers, business development, business analysts and clients.
  • Perform Defect and Risk management activities.
  • Develop implementation and test plans, build software acceptance criteria, coordinate and work with clients to oversee the acceptance and dissemination process.
  • CSC is a software consulting and development company, having prestigious government, banking and insurance clients.

Infosys Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Software Engineer
07.2004 - 12.2005

Job overview

  • As a Software Engineer was responsible for analysis, development and testing of solutions for new enhancements and upgrades in WBS (Wholesale Banking Systems) Project which handled provides on-line real-time back office processing in support of the bank's Global Treasury Services group, serving global financial institutions as well as large corporate and multinational customers of our client Bank of America (BOFA).
  • Understand the High-Level design and convert them into program specifications.
  • Coding and Unit Testing.
  • Documenting the test results.
  • System testing the entire functionality.
  • Supporting the Integration Testing.
  • Perform Defect and Risk Management Activities.

Education

G.G.S. Indraprastha University
Delhi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from Electronics And Communications Engineering
07.2000 - 06.2004

Skills

Program Management

Certification

Project Management Principles - PM10G, PM54G, PM36G at IBM India

Awards

  • TOP CONTRIBUTOR REWARD (IBM)
  • BRAVO AWARD (IBM)
  • SERVICE EXCELLENCE AWARD (IBM)
  • ORION AWARD (IBM)
  • OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AWARD (CSC)
  • PROJECT DELIVERY EXCELLENCE AWARD (TECHGENIES)

Timeline

Country Head / Country Manager

TechGenies
06.2020 - Current

Delivery Head / Director of Global Delivery

TechGenies
06.2020 - 08.2024

Onsite Track Management/Senior Technical Specialist

Zensar Technologies
03.2019 - 11.2019

IT Delivery Manager

Principal Global Services
08.2016 - 01.2018

Project Manager and Onsite Technical Lead

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
04.2008 - 07.2016

Senior Software Engineer

CSC India Pvt. Ltd.
12.2005 - 04.2008

Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
07.2004 - 12.2005

G.G.S. Indraprastha University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from Electronics And Communications Engineering
07.2000 - 06.2004

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