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Vimal Kumar Singh

Pune

Summary

IT professional with 23 years of experience in IT Infrastructure. Worked closely with leading MNCs as a Presales head/solution leader for IT outsourcing deals. Part of the IT Strategic Outsourcing team, responsible for understanding and analyzing prospective customers' IT landscape, designing solutions, creating financial models, developing proposals, drafting SOWs and contracts, establishing SLAs, conducting solution workshops, delivering client presentations, evaluating vendors, and managing internal and external partner SMEs. Excel in stakeholder management for deal review and approvals. Successfully collaborated with clients from various sectors including BFS, Telecom, Chemical, Automobile, and Aviation across regions such as APAC, Europe, India/SA, and America. Achieved significant milestones by winning multi-million dollar deals ranging from 20-350 million USD. Closed over 850 million USD worth of deals to date.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Presales Head - India,ME and Africa Region

Wipro Technologies
01.2020 - Current
  • Managing the SA/Bid manager team of 6 people for region and delivering presales service
  • Lead the large deal during the sales cycle along with engagement team and interface with client
  • Uses a combination of internal and external offerings, services, labour, assets, hardware, and software to meet client business requirements
  • Lead multi-discipline teams of subject-matter experts, Architects during solution development
  • Work on various RFI/RFP/deal (Multimillion and Multiyear) for USA /Canada/ME region
  • Engage in defining the SLA, SOW and Contract also involved in commercial negotiation
  • Customer interfacing which includes Clarification Workshops, Solution Workshops, Solution Presentations and Site visits
  • Drive and Own Solution discussions with Internal Stakeholders which includes: Solution Workshops, Solution Reviews Calls, Deal Review Calls and participate in Deliverability Assessment calls
  • Vendor evaluation and negotiation for any third party related scope /work /solutions
  • Run the technical delivery assessment process for internal solution approval
  • Prepare the overall solution after stitching the respective solutions from other towers or verticals
  • Prepare the overall integrated cost case which include transition, transformation and BAU
  • Own the definition of the services solutions and are the primary source of engagement management and solution design around the world and across technical disciplines
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
  • Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Principal Architect Presales- USA/Canada

Wipro Technologies
01.2015 - 12.2019
  • Lead the large deal during the sales cycle along with engagement team and interface with client
  • Act as single point of contact for client during entire bid cycle
  • Uses a combination of internal and external offerings, services, labour, assets, hardware, and software to meet client business requirements
  • Lead multi-discipline teams of subject-matter experts, Architects during solution development
  • Work on various RFI/RFP/deal (Multimillion and Multiyear) for India and SA
  • Evaluate the cloud solution offerings in proposed solution evaluation
  • Engage in defining the SLA, SOW and Contract also involved in commercial negotiation
  • Customer interfacing which includes Clarification Workshops, Solution Workshops, Solution Presentations and Site visits
  • Drive and Own Solution discussions with Internal Stakeholders which includes: Solution Workshops, Solution Reviews Calls, Deal Review Calls and participate in Deliverability Assessment calls
  • Vendor evaluation and negotiation for any third party related scope /work /solutions
  • Run the technical delivery assessment process for internal solution approval
  • Prepare the overall solution after stitching the respective solutions from other towers or verticals
  • Prepare the overall integrated cost case which include transition, transformation and BAU
  • Own the definition of the services solutions and are the primary source of engagement management and solution design around the world and across technical disciplines

DGM Solutions GTS - Strategic Solution

IBM India Pvt Limited
05.2011 - 01.2015

Lead the large deal during the sales cycle along with engagement team and interface with client
o Act as single point of contact for client during entire bid cycle
o uses a combination of internal and external offerings, services, labour, assets, hardware, and
software to meet client business requirements
o Lead multi-discipline teams of subject-matter experts, Architects during solution development
o Work on various RFI/RFP/deal (Multimillion and Multiyear) for India and SA

o Evaluate the cloud solution offerings in proposed solution evaluation
o Engage in defining the SLA, SOW and Contract also involved in commercial negotiation
o Customer interfacing which includes Clarification Workshops, Solution Workshops, Solution
Presentations and Site visits
o Drive and Own Solution discussions with Internal Stakeholders which includes: Solution
Workshops, Solution Reviews Calls, Deal Review Calls and participate in Deliverability
Assessment calls
o Vendor evaluation and negotiation for any third party related scope /work /solutions
o Run the technical delivery assessment process for internal solution approval
o Prepare the overall solution after stitching the respective solutions from other towers or
verticals
o Prepare the overall integrated cost case which include transition, transformation and BAU
o Own the definition of the services solutions and are the primary source of engagement
management and solution design around the world and across technical disciplines

Delivery Manager - ITIS

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Limited
03.2008 - 05.2011

Manager -TIS

Wipro Technologies
04.2007 - 03.2008

PM - IT Infrastructure

Computer Science Corporation
11.2006 - 04.2007

Associate Consultant

Siemens Information Systems Limited
03.2000 - 11.2006

Resident Network Engineer

Sprint RPG India Limited
02.1999 - 03.2000

Customer Support Engineer

Compushop India Pvt. Limited
11.1997 - 01.1999

Education

B.E. - Electronics

Bombay University
05.1997

Skills

  • IT Outsourcing Expertise
  • Public Cloud assessment and solution
  • Managed services outsourcing
  • IT Service Management
  • Vendor evaluation and management
  • Proposal and Bid management
  • Client relationship management
  • Data center services management
  • Solution design
  • Contract negotiation

Certification

  • ITIL Foundation
  • Unicenter TNG,
  • CCNA
  • PMP – Trained
  • IBM Certified senior technical solution manager (complex and large deal)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Timeline

Presales Head - India,ME and Africa Region

Wipro Technologies
01.2020 - Current

Principal Architect Presales- USA/Canada

Wipro Technologies
01.2015 - 12.2019

DGM Solutions GTS - Strategic Solution

IBM India Pvt Limited
05.2011 - 01.2015

Delivery Manager - ITIS

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Limited
03.2008 - 05.2011

Manager -TIS

Wipro Technologies
04.2007 - 03.2008

PM - IT Infrastructure

Computer Science Corporation
11.2006 - 04.2007

Associate Consultant

Siemens Information Systems Limited
03.2000 - 11.2006

Resident Network Engineer

Sprint RPG India Limited
02.1999 - 03.2000

Customer Support Engineer

Compushop India Pvt. Limited
11.1997 - 01.1999

B.E. - Electronics

Bombay University
Vimal Kumar Singh