Chief Information Officer

To enhance my further development and ambition. Looking for senior positions in the areas of Board / Chief Operating / Advisory / Consultancy Positions in the field of IT/IS Management

Career Snapshot:
- Currently working as General Manager-IT in capacity of CIO/CTO with more than 26 years of Experience.
- Managed and implemented the projects in a multi unit distributed environment on
- Telecom – VPN (MPLS) Technologies, Wireless
- Infrastructure – Data Centers, Communications, Security, VoIP, Video and Audio Conferencing,
- Application Development – Performance Management Systems, Self Service Portals, Business Portals, Career Planning Systems, Vendor Management Systems.
- Product implementations – Supporting ERP, Maximo, Balanced Score Card, Supply Chain Management, OTRM, Retail Automation, Vehicle Tracking Systems, Gas Consumer Packages.
- Enterprise Application Integration using Web Sphere
- Expert Panel Member for Government of Maharashtra and allied state owned units for e-governance Projects and for MSRDC, Export and Import Bank.
- Well Conversant to Service Delivery - ITIL Processes and Practices.
- An effective leader with excellent communication, team building with collaboration, interpersonal & analytical skills.

Key Tasks Handled across Tenures:
- Development of Strategy to Align IT to the Business and Prepared IT Master Plan
- Handling large IT Projects and implement them on schedule as per the Strategy with the project teams.
- Process Management – Designing the IT Services for High Availability, Handling Change Management,Problem management, Capacity planning, License Management and Service Continuity.
- Complete Telecom Management with Design, Administration, Optimization, Monitoring and Management
- IT Service Management with Service Desk with Service Level Agreements.
- Information Management through Storage Management.
- Managing IT Risk - Information Security with Availability Management & IT Service Continuity Planning.
- Technology, System and Database Consolidations, Software standardization with License Management.
- Custom Built Software Applications Development and implementation.
- Increasing the usage of IT through Training and Awareness programs.
- Develop Business case Justifications and Cost/Benefit Analysis for IT Projects.
- Develop and implement IT policies covering Hardware, Software, Operational and Information Security, have the procedures developed.

- Masters in Technology (M.Tech) – Industrial Engineering (Specialization: Management Systems), Class: 1st Class, 7.01 GPA-C from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati (A.P), India (1977 – 1979)
- Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech) – Mechanical Engineering, Class: 1st Class, 68.7% from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur (A.P), India (1972 – 1977)

- Certifications: ITIL Foundation Certified

Presently Involved in:
1. Technology Management:
• Management and augmentation of Complete Telecom network for 100%availability.
• Set up of Level 3 Data Centre at Hyderabad with own telecom facilities over 65,000 Sq ft.
• Access Infrastructure with Active Directory, Identity Management, and Single Sign-on Technologies, Remote Access.
• Service Support & Delivery Management with Asset Life Cycle Management confirming to ITIL Processes.
• End to End implementation of IT Security with Managed Services and BS7799 Certification
• Redesigning of the Messaging Application and implementation with Archival Systems.
• Creation of Service Oriented Architecture through the implementation of Enterprise Application Integration.
• Extending Telecom to Business Partners over 3500 Business Partners
• Integration of all processes of the LPG Plants and providing information through Portal
2. Information Management
• Design and Setup of Automated Storage Management with Policies
3. Supporting the Business for various Packaged Applications such as Retail Automation, OTRM, Terminal Automation, Vehicle Management Systems, Docuement Management Systems, Enterprise PErformance Management Systems, E-Procurement, Supply chain Management, Network Planning and Dynamic Pricing, HP Gas Package for LPG Dealers and Learning Learning Management Systems
4. Custom Built Application Development as required by the business under Lotus Notes, ASP/JSP