Sid Gupta

Experience

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  Ericsson

  Jan 2007 - Jul 2007

  DBoR
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  Alcatel-Lucent

  Jul 2007 - Jan 2008

  DBoR
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  IBM

  Jan 2011 - Jul 2014

  Type of projects managed and successfully delivered include in the IT Infrastructure space, Shared Infrastructure such as SAN/NAS Storage migrations, switches and Data center relocation , application upgrade and enhancements Delivered 3.2 Million dollar projects under Sieble 10 upgrade Program for Telstra (Client of IBM Australia) sales and customer support Delivered 6.7 Million dollar projects under IT strategic program to deliver business resilience capabilities for the Corporation, including the refresh / relocation of data centers, upgrade of storage (SAN), setting up disaster recovery for more than 90 business critical applicationsDelivered 1.3 Million dollar project to develop single sign on Solution using LDAP over 5000 servers for 10,000 end users.Assisted project management team to delivered Credit card application upgrade worth 2.5 Million dollars (BillPay - for phone credit card billing) in 2013 . The project was Fixed price, and was running 6 months behind schedule, Identified savings of $700k and recovered 3 months on baselineExtensive management and collaboration of stakeholders based across Australia, India, China, and USAUsed AGILE and Prince-2 methodologies and PMBOK and ITIL frameworks to deliver numerous projects.Identify & build business requirements, and establish project scope document from internal and external stakeholders input;Establish regular communication with stakeholders and team members via steering committee meetings, team meetings, and status reports;Prepare, agree, publish, and track project plan, schedule, issues log, risk log, and change requests;Track project financials and provide regular status reports to program and executive management;Perform Post Implementation Review at project completion to evaluate project success and identify areas for improvement and recommendations;Managed and utilize human (global dispersed) and financial resources within a leveraged (matrix) environment. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Mar 2008 - Jul 2014

  • Project Coordinator

    Jan 2011 - Feb 2011
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  Sabbatical year

  Aug 2014 - Aug 2015

  Sabbatical year

  Sabbatical - Relocation from Australia to Switzerland, Learning German, traveling and volunteering (involved in prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts, alternative development, crime prevention )

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  Zurich Insurance

  Feb 2016 - now

  Managing migration of various SAP and Middle-Ware Finance and Treasury portfolio applications to newly set up centralised cloud and manage services.• Accountable for Treasury (TRIS) SAP /MW application’s key data center transition and migration to new infrastructure platform. • Acted as the primary interface between customer/users, business , service providers and vendor to manage all IT infrastructure changes on the environment.• Reviewed TRIS existing IT infrastructure and proposed , implement new redesigned lean solutions which brought resilience, flexibility and lowed operational cost in the landscape.• Setting up Data base as a service for 200 DBs on T5 Sparc super cluster. • Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to successfully solve complex technical issues. • Coaching of project managers in understanding and delivering efficient project managemnt Show less

  • Application Portfolio Manager

    Apr 2020 - now

  • Project Manager

    Feb 2016 - Apr 2020