Prashant Pagare

Experience

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  ITI Ltd.

  Jan 1998 - Aug 1999

  Assistant Executive Engineer

  - Managed Sales and Services of high end Telephone Exchange equipments mainly for BSNL/ MTNL.- Installed and managed VSAT and Video Conferencing equipment to various private and public sector undertakings.

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  Central Bank of India

  Sept 1999 - Apr 2006

  Manager IT

  • Has been responsible for Planning, Implementation and Service Management of IT Infrastructure • Designed and Implemented Wide Area Network covering 1500 locations and • Managed Network Operations Center (NOC)• Implemented various Countrywide IT Infrastructure Projects such as Core Banking Solution, Mail Messaging Solution, ATM Infrastructure, OFC based LAN and Videoconferencing setup for 22 locations across country.• Framed IT Security Policy for the Bank and implemented various tools & services ensuring network security.• Provided training on emerging technologies and running projects at the Training College as visiting Faculty.• Managed efficiently various Technical Consultants, Service Providers and Product/Service Vendors. Show less

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  ICICI Bank

  Apr 2006 - Jun 2011

  Chief Manager - TIG

  Headed Global Helpdesk Operations for ICICI Bank and its Group Companies covering approx in 14 countries. Managed Global Network Operations & Service Availability for 4500 locations & 4000 plus ATMs • Managed Facility Management Services and End User Computing Operations with 100 plus resources• Implemented Wide Area Network for average 1000 new locations per year • Responsible for Inventory/ Asset Management, IT Procurement/Reverse Auction, • Managed Budget, Negotiation and Cost Optimization; Audit and Compliance. Show less

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  Lafarge

  Jun 2011 - Mar 2013

  Head - IT Infrastructure

  - Headed IT Infrastructure Vertical for Lafarge India and its Group Companies.- Span of operations covered approx 200 locations including 5 Major Cement Plants, 80 plus Aggregate & Concrete Plants, HO, Regional & Area Administrative Offices and CFA/Dealer Network. - Area of responsibility covered Managing Data Center Operations, Network Operations, Service Availability, Facility Management Services, End User Computing, Videoconferencing and Mail Messaging Operations.

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  ICICI Bank

  Apr 2013 - Mar 2014

  Head - DC Infrastructure Tools Vertical

  - Headed ICICI Group DC Automation Tools vertical reporting to Head - IT Infrastructure. - Implemented and managed complete suite of HP Datacenter Management / Automation Suit from its NOC at Mumbai for approx 5500 Servers and Databases. - Datacenter Set of Tools includes HP Service Manager, UD/UCMDB, SiteScope, NNMi, Asset Manager and OMI Dashboard- Also Managed Audit Automation tool called ARSIM, Single-Sign-On Tool called ARCOS and tool for DR Drills called Sanovi.

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  KEC International Ltd.

  Mar 2014 - Jun 2018

  Head - IT Infrastructure

  • Headed IT Infrastructure Vertical for KEC-RPG.• Area of operations covered End-to-end Management of complete IT Infrastructure for KEC-RPG including Network Operations, Datacenter Operations, Cloud Infrastructure, End User Computing, Voice & Data Services and Mail Messaging Operations across 100 plus location globally.

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  YES BANK

  Jun 2018 - Jul 2021

  Executive Vice President - BDTS

  Has been driving its IT Infra Tool CoE vertical function. Has been instrumental in Implementing and Managing its critical IT Infra Automation Tools such as HP ESM Tools Set, Control M, AppDynamics across Yes Bank.HPESM has been a key driver in ensuring one of the best ITOM, ITSM systems, Asset Management, CMDB implementation across BFSI.

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  HDFC Bank

  Jul 2021 - now

  Vice President - Information Technology

  Managing Bank's Critical Applications DR OperationsDriving End-to-End DR Drill AutomationDriving High Availability / DR Resiliency for bringing RTO less than 40 mins for its critical ApplicationsDriving DR Managed Service Partner Engagement and ensuring its successSuccessfully Completed Datacenter Drill for 51 Applications together within 7 hours. Driving Implementation of ServiceNow ITSM Tool for its DR function.

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  HDFC Bank Limited

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  Vice President - Information Technology