Customer focused and result oriented professional with 17+ years of experience in leading various assignments as Project Lead / Database Architect across the USA/UK/EMEA/APAC. Among which 13 years worked with Cognizant, to help the customers by providing solutions to deliver successful technology transformation and managed services propositions. Extensive IT industry exposure with hands on experience in database Infrastructure design and delivery.
Commanding experience in MSSQL Server Infra DBA, Database Storage Design and Performance Tuning, DR strategy, Azure migration. Led a number of complex technology transformations, legacy database modernization and support projects.
Profile Summary
Effective and accountable in leadership roles: More than seven years’ experience in Leadership roles as Technical Lead / Infra Manager / Database Architect. This involves managing demanding customers, critical infrastructure support, managing high performance technical teams, performance tuning
Delivery experience: Delivered large projects involving multiple work locations through technical expertise and leadership. managed large accounts with team size 50+ as Tower Lead to provide Database, Infrastructure, Application support and transition programs from one vendor to another.
End to end customer Interaction: Extensive experience in working closely with customers at each stage of the presales and delivery cycles. This includes customer workshops, business process design, SLA Management, database capacity planning, estimation, business benefit analysis to deliver transformation programs and managed services contracts. Extensive experience in working with customer and partners in APAC, EMEA, UK and USA for delivery of projects and solutions.
Industry expertise: More than 17 years of working in IT Service Delivery industry. Worked as Database Architect and Administrator Lead for various customers to provide business solution propositions. Experience in work and ITIL process (Incident, Change and Problem Management), MSBI Migration and delivering solutions around it to help customer plan and manage high-value end users.
Solution expertise: Worked in large deals as the SQL Server database SME to define solutions focusing on – transition management, ‘to be architecture’, target operating model, database Infrastructure solution, preparing and review in SOW, IT strategy & roadmap and customer transformation Journeys.
SQL Database Infra strategy and roadmap: Worked with top business and IT managers of customer organizations to define and deliver the futuristic enterprise architecture, Infra Database strategy and roadmap focusing their digital journey. This includes but not restricted to cloud migration, market data analytics, multi-tier websites architecture, salesforce automation, regulatory dashboards.