Sameer Rawal

Experience

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  HCLTech

  Jul 2005 - Jun 2008

  Lead Engineer
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  UHGIS

  Jun 2008 - Jul 2014

  Project Lead/ Process Consultant

  • Business process mapping• Interacting with metrics team to in designing and developing organizational metrics• Documenting process scope, business objectives and systems requirements• Defining the process owners and level of involvement of other departments• Describing approved key performance indicators for the documented process• Analyzing and Assessing processes impact • Representing the design of a new or existing process• Development of process flow diagrams• Specifies major elements, activities and tasks related to processes• Lead the Analysis, development, customization of new & existing tools/utilities• Analyze existing tools/utilities and propose solutions for customization needs for diff apps• Analyze trends of manual effort and propose technical solutions to address the needs• Develop and test new tools/utilities as per org requirements• Drive implementation of products identified for institutionalization• Develop and maintaining standards, common processes and best practices for Automation COE• Ensure timely deliveries as per implementation plans.• Meet onsite/offshore stakeholders to walkthrough features of new tool and benefits.• Provide timely updates on projects and status reporting.• Create User documentation for new and existing tools/utilities. Show less

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  HCLTech

  Aug 2014 - now

  Name: Novartis – Privilege Access Governance EnhancementClient: Novartis, HyderabadResponsibility-• Face of HCL for the PAGE program. Leading the transition, engineering and service delivery• Service Management, SLA management• Develop the future roadmap and a support model for 3000 applications• Provide consultation to customer on process, tools and ISRM• Staff hiring and management, mentoring and guiding the team• Resource planning and technical transition of the applications• Solution/proposal preparation; and resource ramp up planning along with Managed Service Pricing Model• Develop Value add and automation propositions. Managing HOTS between different stakeholders • Synchronize and work with application teams to assess and identify automation opportunities• ITSM Process consulting & Program Management• Devops tools standardization and automation model Show less Project Name: Luminus – Transition/TransformationClient: Luminus, BrusselsResponsibility-• Planning the Lift & Shift of data centre and involved in move group planning based on application relationship and integrations.• Resource planning and technical transition of the applications; and calculating the effort estimation required during transition.• Create/Modify/Reconcile project plans in governance and project management meetings• Leading the knowledge transfer of application and setting up support team.• Manage 24X 7 Operations• Managing HOTS between different stakeholders before Go-Live.• Leading the execution of lift & shift across data center with planned application downtime.• Coordinating with Application Architect(s) / Domain Managers for seamless migration.• Planning/leading the re-architecture of applications based on criticality.• Initiate automated health check of applications for proactive operations.• Identifying infrastructure optimization opportunities with successful planning/execution.• Plan life cycle management of middleware and applications with interaction with Domain Managers and application SME’s. Show less Project Name: Statkraft – Transition/TransformationClient: Statkraft, NorwayResponsibility-• Worked as a planning lead for chalking out the resource planning and technical transition of the applications; and calculating the effort estimation required during transition.• Create/Modify/Reconcile project plans in governance and project management meetings• Participation in RAID meetings and maintaining the same.• Meeting with clients to have understanding on applications.• Setting up steady state support team.• Automate deployment using CI/CD pipeline• Plan for Transformation and involved in move group planning.• Managing HOTS between different stakeholders before Go-Live.• Group the applications into move groups that should be moved together to preserve the functionality and integrations.• Finalization of migration principles.• Coordinating with Application Architect(s) / Delivery Managers for seamless migration Show less Project Name: DC Lan TranformationClient: Volvo, SwedenResponsibility-• Lead application team in transformation projects – NG DC LAN, SCA and CART• Complete dependency mapping and profiling of the applications, middleware and batch jobs. Interacting with SME’s and SRM’s for environment understanding.• Analyze the gathered information from various sources and bucketize the applications as per the value chains/workflows, by identifying various application dependencies• Group the applications into move groups that should be moved together to preserve the functionality and integrations• Finalization of migration principles.• Finalization of application testing approach to be followed. Interacting with Volvo for making Functional as well as Non-functional test cases ready• Coordinating with Application Architect(s) / Delivery Managers for seamless migration. Show less • Worked as a planning lead for chalking out the resource planning and technical transition of the applications; and calculating the effort estimation required during transition.• Plan for Transformation and involved in move group planning.• Managing HOTS between different stakeholders before Go-Live.• Create/Modify/Reconcile project plans in governance and project management meetings• Participation in RAID meetings and maintaining the same.• Leading 2 tracks – L1.5 and .Net• Understanding the project architecture and design for Dotnet Applications.• Meeting with clients to have understanding on applications.• Conducting meetings with in the team and discuss on the issues, taking initiates and motivate the team.• Creating various reports using SAP BO• Working on Projects/Critical issues, supporting and managing team on the issues• Managing various financial business segment customer for supporting Schedules and Jobs. • Developing production schedules to meet customer requirements and operational guidelines. Show less

  • Service Delivery Manager/ Transition Lead - Novartis

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Transition/Transformation Lead - Luminus Belgium

    Dec 2018 - Jan 2020

  • Transition Lead - Statkraft Norway

    Apr 2018 - Dec 2018

  • Senior Manager Transformation- Volvo, Sweden

    Apr 2016 - Mar 2018

  • Service Delivery Lead - DNB, Norway

    Aug 2014 - Apr 2016