Resume of Brajesh Shridhar IT Manager, PMP, ITIL, Project, Program, Portfolio Manager, Change Manager, Implementation Manager, Infrastructure Manager, Delivery Manager

1. Brajesh Shridhar PMP®,
ITIL® https://www.linkedin.com/in/brajeshshridhar
Cell: +61 449 922 361;
brajesh.shridhar@gmail.com , brajysh@gmail.com
Profile Summary
 PMP, ITIL Certified IT Professional, with 16+ years of rich and insightful experience.
 Senior Project Manager/Program Manager for ANZ bank (for Wipro Technologies).
 Managed decisive multi-million Transition, Transformation and Infrastructure upgrade programs
spanning global geographies in multi-vendors’ environment.
 Excellent Management and Technical Leadership skills to efficiently manage customers, product vendors
and project team
 Extensive experience in project planning, cost and schedule estimations, effort estimation, problem
tracking, process improvements, governance framework, change management, risk management,
project progress monitoring and team monitoring
 Strong analytical, written and oral communication skills, self-motivated, creative, innovative and ability
to adapt to new technologies
 Extensive experience of end to end SDLC using Waterfall, Iterative and Agile Methodologies
Core Competencies
Program, Project and Delivery Management Application and Infrastructure Migration
Requirement Gathering, Analysis to Solution Delivery Application Development and Support
Change and Release Management Team Development & People Management
Special Proficiencies include Technical Knowledge of multiple Technologies, Platform, Framework,
Databases, Development/Testing/Other Tools; Functional Knowledge of Banking, Finance and Insurance
(BFSI), Wealth & Investment (Asset) Management, Logistics and Transportation sectors . Expertise in
Estimation techniques like PERT, WMFP, Evidence-based scheduling refinement, etc. Proven record of
instilling regular process improvements through CMMi and Lean methodologies.
Functional/Technical Proficiencies
 Program Management: Planning & administering projects as well as overall program, Defining and
Implementation of Practices & Control, Resource Management, Defining and implementing SLA/KPI and
Contract (SOW/MSA/WO) management.
 Project Life Cycle Management from Initiation & Feasibility Study, Business Function Study, Requirement
Gathering and Elicitation, Scoping, Work Break down, Estimation, Costing & Budgeting, Resource
Allocation, Scheduling, Risk Management and Execution Control Planning/Monitoring to timely & quality
based delivery & closure.
 Application Development and Support Management through Study & Analysis of Problem Tickets/Change
requests, Impact Analysis, Feasibility Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, Configuration
and Change Management.
 Technical Skills: Windows, MS.NET, J2EE, WSAD, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C#, VB.NET, ASP, VB 6.0, COM, MTS,
COM+, VS.NET, Smalltalk, Object Studio, XML, XSL, DOM, MS Access, Oracle, MS SQL Server 7.0/2000, DTS ,
MSDE 2000, MS Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Interdev, Visual Source Safe, Harvest (CA), Autosys,
ERWIN, VISIO, Influx, Microsoft Project Plan, Business Objects, Actuate Reports, Crystal reports.
Qualification/Certifications
 M.C.A. from MITS, Gwalior, Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal
 B. Sc. (Electronics & Communication) from Dr. H. S. Gaur University, Sagar
 Project Management Professional (PMP) and ITIL V3 (Foundation) Certified
 Certified Internally (Infosys) as Analyst in MS.NET/MS SQL Server200,
 Quality Auditor (CMMi), in Banking and Financial Domain Fundamentals
 Brainbench Certified on VB, SQL Server and RDBMS Concepts
 Expertise: Agile Methodologies, Function Points Estimation, Lean and Sigma Methodologies
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2. Previous Engagements
Organization Duration Designation
Wipro Technologies May 2013 to till date Senior Project Manager
IBM India Private Limited, Pune Feb 2010 to May 2013 Project Manager
Infosys Technologies Ltd. Dec 2003 to Feb 2010 Project Manager, Tech Lead,
Mindmill Software Ltd., New Delhi Feb 2003 to Dec 2003 Software Engineer/Lead
CMC Limited March, New Delhi Mar 2002 to Sep 2002 Software Engineer
JSM Technologies, New Delhi Jul 2001 to Mar 2002 Software Engineer
Infozech Software Ltd., New Delhi Jan 2001 to Jul 2001 Software Engineer
Wipro Limited - Program Manager/Senior Project Manager (May 2013 onwards)
Reporting to the Delivery Head/Program Director for Infrastructure Transition and Transformation programs.
Responsibilities:
• Develops and reviews project proposal and plan to determine schedule, cost trends, establishing
processes for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources
for various phases of project.
• Devise plan, monitor the execution, and coordinate change, manage and control to ensure scope,
budget and schedules adherence of projects.
• Responsible for RFP proposal management, SOW preparation and vendor management.
• Undertake strategy creation for contingency planning and risk management.
• Oversee and direct the project engineering teams and manage conflicts within the different
groups.
• Evaluating and identifying areas of people/ process improvement and facilitating implementations.
• Complying with best practices and enforcing regulatory policies and procedures.
Achievements
• ANZ Yearly Town-hall award -2015 for Great Service and Great Outcome for ESU program.
• ANZ Yearly Town-hall award -2014 for Great Decisions and Great Service for ESU program.
• Five Grand Prix Champion (monthly) awards in the span of 18 months.
• Successfully upgraded 6 SQL applications from Win2000/SQL 2000 to Win 2008/SQL 2012.
• Successfully upgraded GSS application from Win2003/SQL2005/PeopleTool 8.48 to
Win2008/SQL2012/PeopleTool 8.53.
• Successfully migrated 154 databases from AIX/Oracle legacy environment to EXAdata environment
in record 6 months’ time with peak database size of 20 Terabytes.
• Grow and Glow award for Best executed project in 2015 across Wipro APAC region.
• Awarded best performer award on many occasions.
• Shared Success Awards for various excellences in the Wachovia Bank.
Major Projects
Customer ANZ Bank Australia
Duration June 2014 onwards
Details Enterprise Server Upgrade (ESU) is program is to migrate the Microsoft windows and SQL Servers
from Legacy to new environment. It involves application appreciation, requirement gathering and
elicitation, like to like architecture design, migration and warranty support. Vendor management
and documentation (legal contracts etc.) was another important aspect of this program. Post
deployment the infrastructure used to get decommissioned which being handled by another team.
Customer AMP Australia
Duration Nov 2013 to May 2014
Details This program was about to migrate the Oracle databases running in AIX and Linux environment to
EXADATA platform. It was aggressive project to migrate 150+ databases of peak size of 20 TBs in
the span of six months. Project activities involved were Infrastructure appreciation, requirement
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3. gathering and elicitation, Planning, migration and warranty support. Change/Release
Management, Vendor management and documentation (legal contracts etc.) was another
important aspect of this program. Post deployment the infrastructure used to get
decommissioned which being handled by another vendor.
IBM India Private Limited - Project / Acting Program Manager (Feb 2010 to May 2013)
Reporting to the DPE/CAM leading leading 25-30 resources in projects
Responsibilities:
• Develops and reviews project proposal or plan to determine schedule, cost trends, establishing
processes for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources
for various phases of project.
• Accountable for leading the team for timely and quality delivery of projects.
• Responsible for RFP proposal, SOW preparation and vendor management.
• Involved in coordinating with clients for prioritization of account projects.
• Coordinated with cross functional teams for project related requirements
• Reviewed and approved project plans for conformance to program strategy, plan and schedule
• Conducted periodic reviews and provide status updates to customer steering committee and
sponsors.
• Prepared and presented timely status reports to customer and internal senior management
Major Projects
Client IGA (Internal to IBM)
Duration March 2012 – May 2013
Details This program was about to migrate the Application’s Infrastructure from non-standard
environment to standard (Managed) environment in Cloud. It was to support and consolidate the
internal IBM applications environment. Size of such projects has been huge in terms of servers
(Range of 20 -50), platforms, technologies and network infrastructure. Project activities involved
were Infrastructure appreciation, requirement gathering and elicitation, like to like architecture
design, procurement of the infrastructure (as needed), deployment, transition and steady state
support.
Client Omers, Canada
Duration January 2011 – March 2012
Details Managed multiple infrastructure projects including Windows, VMWare and UNIX data Centers. I
was project manager/acting Program Manager for IBM where contract is sub-contracted to
multiple vendors like NOVA Networks, Bell etc.
Client Amgen Healthcare, Usa
Duration April 2010 – February 2011
Details Managed multi-vendor infrastructure project, to upgrade Learning Management System (LMS).
Vendors involved were HP, AT&T and Amgen internal development teams. The scope of the project
was to implement new environments i. e. Development, QA, UAT, Production and DR for
application. It involved 50+ servers in load balancing environment, Clustered Oracle and Java
environment to support the application.
Infosys Technologies Ltd - Project Manager, Tech Lead, Software Engineer (Dec 2003 to Feb 2010)
• Started as Software Engineer and steadily progressed as Onsite Coordinator, Team Lead and
Project Manager
• Reported to the Sr. Project Manager/Group Project Manager and led over 25 - 40 resources in
projects.
• Managed project activities like requirement gathering, elicitation, feasibility studies, estimating,
budgeting, planning, tracking, resource management, SOW preparation and proposal writing.
• Gained exposure to global delivery model (onsite and off-shore).
• Worked and managed multiple projects at the CMMi level 5.
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4. • Preparation and analysis of various reports Milestone Report (MSR), Matrix / closure reports SPC
(Statistical Process Control), DIR (Defect Injection Rate), DDR (Defect Detection Rate) etc),
Integrated Project Plan, Status Reporting, as well as for quality of deliverables.
• Involved in management of solution development as well as product support projects.
• Supported clients during mergers and takeovers, in terms of Infrastructure changes at
Organization level.
• Performed Team Development measures like recruitment and training planning for the
resources.
Major Projects
Project RMS (RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM)
Client Wachovia Bank USA
Duration August 2005 – February 2010
Details Relationship Management system provides the facilities of managing Product profiles, Customer
Information and product requests. Tracking and Implementation of the requests. It has 5 other
applications (namely Deal Analysis, Decision Support Tool, Sales Proposal and Reporting, Business
Partner Database, Account Analysis and Assignment Tool) in various technologies to support
features like reporting, Request Processing, account assignment etc. .
Technologies Smalltalk, Object Studio 6.4, Oracle, Java, J2EE, Asp, ASP.net, Actaute Crystal Reports, Autosys etc.
Project COSS (COST OF SALES SOLUTIONS)
Client DHL Worldwide Express
Details COSS deals with the controlling process of cost incur in transporting shipments. It includes various
tariffs for shipments (e.g. Trucking, Custom, Gateway, Import and Export Handling costs)
management, Station Management, Zip/Postal Code maintenance, Cost Validations, Shipment data
loading and Cost Validation for shipments.
Technologies SQL Server 2000, IIS 5.0, T-SQL, HTML, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, ASP.Net, C#, Business Objects
5.1.7., ROBO Help etc.
Other Projects
TechnoRisk
Genisys
Visitor Controller
Message Maintenance System
Web Conference System
Partner Database
TRI-CRM
E-Bill
Personal Details
 Desired Job Type: Project/Program Manager/ Delivery Manager/ SDM/Release/Change Manager
 Current Location: Melbourne, Australia
 Visa Status: Permanent Resident
 Reference: Available on request.
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