Orange Business ServicesProgram and Project Lead (Cloud, Data Centers Build and Transitions) COE Projects
Jan. 2014 - Sep. 2022Key Deliverables: Program Roadmap Development: Led the creation and execution of a strategic roadmap for application transformation and data center migration, ensuring alignment with business and IT objectives. Stakeholder Engagement: Managed communication with C-level executives, business units, and technical teams, delivering consistent updates and ensuring stakeholder alignment throughout the program lifecycle. Risk Management & Mitigation: Implemented a comprehensive risk management framework to identify and mitigate technical, operational, and regulatory risks, ensuring smooth program execution. Portfolio: Directed the hub and spoke delivery of over 1100+ sites, determining suitability for cloud migration or data center relocation, while recommending refactoring, re-platforming, or decommissioning strategies. Data Center Migration Execution: Delivered a phased data center migration plan, overseeing the transfer of critical workloads and infrastructure with minimal downtime and operational disruption.
Regulatory Compliance Assurance: Ensured adherence to financial industry regulations, including data security and risk management requirements, throughout the transformation and migration process. Post-Migration Optimization: Established a post-migration support and optimization framework, enabling continuous performance improvements and operational efficiency. Delivered complex projects and products along with transition of services for infrastructure, cloud and datacentre platforms and program level management of hardware & software application development projects ahead of schedule resulting in 10-30% cost savings in overall project cost. Played the role of leader for major International and Indian Government customer accounts such as Philips, DSM, Heineken, Microsoft, Brocade, General Electric, Accenture, Continental, ABB, Standard Chartered Bank, Cisco, Karnataka Agriculture Department, Scania, Verint, Nuance, BMC and Avaya.