- Reply rate:
- -
- Availability:
- Hourly ($/hour)
- Location:
- Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Experience:
- 20 years
Praveen Bahl-EXPERIENCE Summary:
Certified PMP having qualitative experience of 20+ years in IT industry with 9+ years in Project management
which includes implementation of tools and readiness of the infrastructure in the Company delivery centers.
Experience in Infrastructure projects and migration of on-premise Infrastructure/Applications to cloud computing
environment (AWS cloud).
Experience on various stages of SDLC management of IBM premier modeling Product–Rational Software Architect
family of products and continuous improvement.
Managed large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline using agile and
waterfall project management methodologies.
Experience in managing SCRUM Teams and collaborating with worldwide cross functional geographical distributed
project team to achieve desired goals and objectives.
Experience of more than 7 years in Software Configuration Management activities using different Version Controls
(ClearCase, Synergy, CMVC, RTC, VSS)
Experience of more than 5 years in managing Application (.Net and SQL DB) of Insurance domain and Defect
Tracking (Synergy, Change and Informix DB) Production Servers.
Certification: PMP Certification - 2012
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - 2018
Certified Scrum Master® - 2013
Cisco Certified Network Associate 1.0 (CCNA) – 2000
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCP, MCP+I, MCSE)— (WinNT-4.0) -1999
Qualification:
Post Graduation Diploma in Business Administration from SCDL in 2011
Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) from Poona University in 1995, INDIA
Company: –
Position: -- IT Transition Manager/Project Manager
Responsible to liaison with customer and other key stakeholders to assess the business needs of the customer and
identify key challenges, constraints, and risks and thereby define the project scope after extensive due diligence.
Creating Statement of work and obtaining sign off from the Business/Client.
Manage projects through the entire project management lifecycle starting from drafting project plan using MS
Project and roll back plans.
Management and execution of Infrastructure projects which includes
Global Wide Area Network MPLS/IPSEC connectivity deployment between Company and Client data centers.
Creation of VLAN, routing of traffic from VLAN to Data Centers via company VRF’s and done required
firewall changes to access client systems (VDI or Citrix) as per the requirement.
Monitoring of Backbone (Delivery Centre to Data Centre) or MPLS/IPsec connectivity Bandwidth utilization
between Data Centre and upgradation of connectivity Bandwidth if required.
Procurement of Hardware and Software as per the requirement of Client/Business
Managing and responsible for the implementation of the required tools which includes
Creation of Business requirement document and getting sign-off from the client.
Organizing required Infrastructure based on the tool requirement – within Company domain or Cloud.
Creating Project plan as per SDLC for the development and implementation/Go-LIVE of the tool.
Tracking the scope and schedule of the project as per Project Plan and ensure minimal changes to the project.
Prepare agenda for steering committee meeting, record MOM and follow up on action items.
Resolve conflicts, track risks and issues for timely completion of the project.
Responsible for the development of knowledge management portal using MS Share Point to capture the lesson
learnt during project and best practices & process improvement initiatives to enhance quality of project deliverables.
IT Manager-Consultant (09/2014 – 08/2016)
Transition Manager for Minjar Cloud Solutions (p) Limited.
Transition of TATA Motors, Pune application and database infrastructure which was managed by TCS to
AWS.
Responsible for the tasks related to the transition and actively involved with TATA motors, TCS and
Minjar technical team for the smooth transition and remove any impediments for the timely completion of
the transition project.
IT Support – Network for Chegg India Pvt Ltd, and providing support on Network and Infrastructure related issues.
IT Manager for Numo.in (http://www.numo.in ) to provide web application support.
Company: – IBM India (P) Ltd. (08/2008 – 03/2014) (IBM acquired Telelogic in 2008 )
Position: -- Senior Staff Software Engineer (Role: Project Management and Scrum Master)
Responsibilities
Managing all project related information like Status Report, Issues and Risks, Assumptions, Change Management,
Milestones, QA, Extraordinary Change Requests and Schedule Mgmt
Scope (functional and non-functional requirements): L1 Monitoring, sizing, closeout, Beta programs, trials, productto-product dependencies
Organized and Facilitated Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and any other
Scrum-related meetings
Working with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown and Release
Burndown.
Trained and coached development team to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum.
Responsible for various activities like Executive Approvals, Legal plans, Customer Issues projections, Quality
Improvements, Market/Segment introduction of product, support and enablement for products etc.
Process improvements in CCB's (Change Control Board) to ensure Quality, Defects Projections for the year, Quality
Metrics preparation and tracking, Tracking progress through Agile, Reviews and PMC (Product Management
Committee) updates. Increasing the Automation for testing.
Introducing and implementing Continuous Integration principles and practices for Development Team using Build
Forge/Jenkins.
Developed automated process for code builds and deployments using Build Forge, Shell Script, and Perl
Responsible for builds of software used to connect to Mainframe and migrating the Build infrastructure from US to
India which replacing Rational Build Forge with Hudson/Jenkins for build related activities.
Company: –Telelogic India (P) Ltd (02/2007 – 07/2008)
Position: - Configuration and Release Manager (Project Lead)
Teleologic (Later acquired by IBM in 2008) was the leading global provider of software and services for Enterprise
Lifecycle Management (ELM) and it provides solutions to automate development lifecycles and provide enterprise-wide
visibility to help companies and government agencies work on the right things in the right way. Telelogic had products like
SYNERGY for Version Control, CHANGE for Change Management, DOORS for Requirement Management and so on
which gets release at the same time.
Responsible for Release management activities of all the Telelogic products and this requires regular interaction
with all the product labs to get status update for each product, starting from development, testing and defects
resolution.
Administration and managing of Telelogic (IS) Production Support servers which includes Synergy and Change
servers. These servers are used by Global Support team to provide support to Telelogic (IBM) Clients and log the
defects so that development teams can have a look and provide solutions for the problem.
Responsible for Defect Tracking System (Synergy and Change) used for logging defects by internal testing teams.
Installing and Configuration of Synergy Server (and DCM) for different product labs
Integration of Synergy/Change DB Server with RATLC, a ClearQuest Database server to track Customer tickets.
Upgradation of Synergy and Change Servers to the latest released version on Production and Test Environment
wherever it’s required.
Configuring /Enabling SSL on Servers containing confidential information.
Company – Fair Isaac India, Bangalore (11/2006 – 02/2007)
Position: - Configuration Management Technical Lead
Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC) is the leading provider of decision management solutions powered by
advanced analytics. Fair Isaac solutions make mission critical business decisions that are more precise, consistent and agile.
Automation for Compiling, Building using Visual Studio.NET, deploying and configuring on Development
Environments for Developers and on Integration Environment for QA testing
Company – Zapapp India (p) Ltd / First Indian Corporation Bangalore (9/2003 – 11/2006)
Position: - Configuration Manager / Senior Configuration Engineer
ZapApp India and First Indian Corporation are member of First American Corporation USA. Effective April 2006,
offshore development division was migrated from ZapApp to FIC.
Responsible for SCM activities which includes
Management of Development Code using VSS.
Automation for Compiling, Building using InstallShield, deploying and configuring on Integration Environment for
QA testing.
Installation of Build on Production Server in USA and administration of SQL Database Server.
Company – DynPro (P) Ltd. (6/2003 – 8/2003)
Position: - Software Engineer
Worked as a Software Configuration Consultant to support SCM team of IBM Germany.
Installation, Configuration and Administration of ClearCase and ClearQuest Environment
Creation of Project/Component VOBS, Dynamic views, Importing and exporting Schemas, creation of
Integration/development streams.
Troubleshooting ClearCase problems pertaining to VOB, Views, Clearcase metadata, Checkout and Check in issues.
Company - RadixOne INC, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA (12/99- 11/2001)
Position - Programmer/Analyst
Installation and Configuration of
Exchange server 5.5 as Mail Server on Windows NT 4.0 Enterprises Edition
Firewall Servers such as MS Proxy and Checkpoint firewall on LINUX server
Samba (2.0.7) on Solaris 8.x Servers to have them accessible from Windows system
Installation and Administration of OS server – Tomcat-3.2.2 and Apache-1.3.2 used for hosting of secured (SSL)
website (https://www.radixoneimm.com/immigration).
Responsible for Builds and Source Code Management. Migration of data from VSS to ClearCase and Administration of
ClearCase Servers which includes creation of VOBs, Views and backup/restore scripts.
Optimization & tuning of SQL database (Stored-Procedures, Indexes, and Tables) for development team. Routine
backup of databases.
Installation of MSMQ Server used for the development of project (http://www.residentscreeing.net)
Migration from NT-4.0 Servers to Win2000 servers. Clustering and Load balancing of Win2000 Advanced Server.
Hosting (and managing) of corporate web site (http://www.radixone.com) using MS-IIS 4.0.
Company – Text100 India, Delhi (09/1999 –11/1999)
Position - Senior Executive (IT – Administration)
Supporting a Network of Public Relations Company with 40 nodes, which includes Window-NT/9x and MS-Exchange
Server as a mail server.
Company: - TULIP SOFTWARE (P) Ltd. (3/96 – 11/98)
Client: -NOKIA Pvt. Ltd., INDIA (6/96 – 11/98)
Projects handled: Network cabling for 700 data and voice points with Win-NT (4.0) as Domain Controllers (PDC & BDC)
and NT- Workstation & Win-95 on client side.
Up gradation of hardware and software of Servers and Workstations as per requirement.
Creating & managing user accounts with appropriate rights & security permissions according to their respective
departments & positions
Troubleshooting of all Clients related Network, software & hardware problems. Tele-Support
for connectivity problem from project offices & Field Engineers on site to Head-office.
Praveen Bahl
