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Pradeep Prasad

Pradeep Prasad

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  • About me

    Trustee KRI Trust, Career Guide, Mentor, Consultant (SME)

  • Education

    • Netarhat Residential School

      1974 - 1980
      10th Adv Maths

      Activities and Societies: Best Cadet of Bihar Best Athlete One of the best actors I am what I am because of this school.

    • Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

      1980 - 1985
      B Tech (Hons) Metallurgy

      Activities and Societies: Organizer of Blood Donation Camps Two times Gymkhana Secretary Best Actor and Best Debator RK Hall Known as PP

  • Experience

    • Indian Navy

      Aug 1985 - Aug 2006
      Commander

      Various ships and shore appointments.Retired as CommanderResponsible for creation of Naval ERP Integrated Logistics Management System (ILMS), running without upgrade since 1997

    • BCI India Chapter

      Jan 2006 - Oct 2017

      In this role, I was responsible for leading Business Operations programs for Compliance as wells as for SCM for our BU(Business Unit) India Systems and Technology Labs (ISTL), across India supporting global programs. My responsibilities and contributions include:• End to End Supply Chain Mgt including Material Mgt, Procurement, Logistics & Asset Mgt – setup disciplined and robust processes for operations. This included challenging established norms and getting stakeholders buy-in for change.• Ensured entire Business Unit is compliant with various laws and regulations applicable – of each country of our interest.• Client Satisfaction – set up innovative processes to address long-pending issues.• Process Optimization – streamlined processes, and then optimized - achieved major efficiencies through elimination of wastes using collaborative management. Show less In this role, I was responsible for leading Business Operations programs towards Infrastructure management for our BU(Business Unit) across India supporting global programs. My responsibilities and contributions include:• Interlocked with global Clients to give them confidence in our business continuity preparedness.• Put successful governance system in place for infrastructure management.• Changed the way the stakeholders treated this function – from support to business enablement.• Successfully negotiated space needs creating Win-Win solutions, improving utilization by 10%.• Conceptualized, planned and conducted a complex Business Continuity exercise. Show less In this role, I was responsible for Business Continuity policy and plans at IBM India - including crisis management. This covers a very large employee base, 9 odd cities, 25 odd offices and 50 odd client locations. My responsibilities and contributions include:• Gave confidence to Clients / Prospects in IBM India’s business continuity preparedness. Won appreciations and awards• Formalized Business Continuity Data gathering and maintenance; and Integration into country requirements.• Pandemic Flu readiness for 9 months at a stretch. Awarded for the same. • Ensured worldwide confidence that IBM India with the largest number of employees & offices is pandemic ready.• Leadership in business continuity of 12 business units, 12 support functions, 54 buildings exec and their teams.• Analyzed the Businesses and processes, tools and infrastructure, as it existed.• Designed a System in line with mandates of WHO, IBM Corporate and Government of India pandemic plan.• Lean champion for integration of data from various IBM tools and applications; Lead Change Manager for user concerns.• Selfless mentoring of BCM professionals – awarded for the same. • Awarded for Excellence in Business Enablement.• President of Business Resilience Consortium.• Handled of 60 odd incidents every year successfully without client impact Show less

      • Chairman, BCI Bengaluru Forum

        Jan 2014 - Oct 2017

      • Program Mgr, Biz Controls, Supply Chain and Assets Mgt

        Apr 2013 - Mar 2014

      • Infrastructure Leader, Delivery Centre India, GTS Service Delivery

        Sept 2011 - Apr 2013

      • Program Manager, Resource & Capacity Management

        Sept 2010 - Sept 2011

      • Business Continuity Program Manager

        Sept 2006 - Aug 2010

      • Business Continuity Program Manager

        Sept 2006 - Aug 2010

      • Program Manager

        Sept 2006 - Aug 2010

      • Biz Continuity Pgm Mgr (IBM India including Daksh,Netsol)

        Sept 2006 - Aug 2010

      • Business Continuity Program Manager

        Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

    • TAA-B IIT Kharagapur Alumni Association Bangalore

      Aug 2012 - Apr 2015
      Vice President

      I was elected Secretary of apex body - IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (India) and hence I had to relinquish this post.

    • IBM India Systems Lab

      Apr 2013 - Jan 2021
      Head, Business Compliance

      Head - Tech Vitality, Pandemic and BCP Feb 2021 - currentlyHead, Business Compliance and Asset Management, ISDL Apr 2013 – Jan 2021Leader compliance posture of IBM ISDL, ensuring implementation of local and global regulations:• Audit: Ensured POSITIVE rating in Corporate Audit 2015 & 2016.• Process: Created new systems, processes, easy to use educational material and was awarded.• Client Satisfaction: Set up innovative processes to increase the client-SAT NPS to 95%.• Innovation: Awarded for multi-platform app to cut down time by 87% using Design Thinking.• Cost Takeout: Ensured USD 400K savings by optimization as well as innovative laptop planning.• Global leadership: Worked with WW Asset teams to resolve challenges of Labs across the world.• Supply Chain Management: Setup processes which reduced TAT by 75%.• Process Optimization: Collaboratively achieved major efficiencies through elimination of wastes.• BCP: Created the first ever BCP for ISDL using Agile methodology. Show less

    • IITACB

      Jan 2015 - now
      Governing Council Member

    • IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (India)

      Apr 2015 - Mar 2019
      Ex-Secretary

    • The BCI India Chapter

      Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
      Ex-General Secretary, BCI India Chapter

    • KRI Trust

      Feb 2019 - now
      Managing Trustee

      https://www.krinnowait.orgThe trust has 80G certification; i.e. donor gets income tax exemption for donated amount as prescribed.

    • IBM

      Feb 2021 - Dec 2022

      Member SPbD (Security and Privacy by Design) is a critical global role to assure business that nothing slips through the gaps. Conducted reviews and gap analysis of scores of products (software as well as hardware) following tight GA (general announcements) schedule. LotusNotesDomino sunset has been a one in a kind global project which involved 30 year old systems to be replaced. Worked on thousands of application migration successfully on target before bowing out. Head - Global Technical Operations Projects, Member, Security & Privacy by Design Responsible for Technical Vitality for Systems. Also responsible (as addl resp) for global Pandemic in System Dev labs and BCP in addition to global Systems End User Device Security Mgmt.

      • Member – Security & Privacy by Design; IBM Systems NotesDB Migration

        Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

      • Head - Global Technical Operations Projects; Member, Security & Privacy by Design

        Dec 2021 - Sept 2022

      • Head - Tech Vitality, Pandemic and BCP

        Feb 2021 - Nov 2021

    • TAA-B IIT Kharagapur Alumni Association Bangalore

      Sept 2021 - now
      President

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Agile Explorer

      IBM

    • IBM Blockchain Essentials

      IBM
      Sept 2018
      View certificate certificate

    • IBM Design Thinking Practitioner

      IBM
      Sept 2018

    • Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP)

      DRI International (Disaster Recovery Institute)
      Nov 2019
      View certificate certificate

    • IBM Virtual Collaborator

      IBM
      Aug 2020
      View certificate certificate

    • Corporate Service Corps Alum

      IBM
      May 2017
      View certificate certificate

    • Project Management Professional (PMP)®

      Project Management Institute
      Dec 2009

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Pradeep Prasad
      Distinguished Service Award IIT Kharagpur Jan 2018 It is awarded to Pradeep Prasad for his distinguished services to the Alma Mater, IIT Kharagpur
    • Awarded to Pradeep Prasad
      IBM ISDL Innovation Award IBM Nov 2017 Innovation Award was awarded to Pradeep for his unique solution to a sudden challenge; his innovation saved 85% time and efforts.
    • Awarded to Pradeep Prasad
      Journal of Eminence, IBM India South Asia IBM India South Asia Jul 2015 External RecognitionPradeep Prasad, from IBM India Systems Lab, has been elected as the Chairman, BCI Bangalore Forum by the Business Continuity professionals across various IT, BFSI, Services and other Industries in Bangalore.BCI (Business Continuity Institute, UK) is a institute to further the awareness, knowledge and skills across the professional communities, and helps organizations embed Business Continuity in their culture, in line with ISO 22313. Election for this coveted post… Show more External RecognitionPradeep Prasad, from IBM India Systems Lab, has been elected as the Chairman, BCI Bangalore Forum by the Business Continuity professionals across various IT, BFSI, Services and other Industries in Bangalore.BCI (Business Continuity Institute, UK) is a institute to further the awareness, knowledge and skills across the professional communities, and helps organizations embed Business Continuity in their culture, in line with ISO 22313. Election for this coveted post shows not only Pradeep's leadership, but also IBM's eminence in this field. Pradeep has been a judge for worldwide BCI awards for the past two years.http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/NHBHCareer HighlightsPradeep in his current role, leader accountable for satisfactory compliance posture of IBM ISDL, ensuring all applicable local and global regulations are strictly adhered to in letter and spirit. He owns Asset Optimization for ISDL and also the global (non-US) SME on Asset Management.Veteran CdrPradeep, a revered officer, was part of the core team which created ILMS (Integrated Logistics Management System) for the entire Indian Navy. He was also the first ever Naval officer to be appointed to the Strategic Forces Command, popularly called Nuclear Command.Pradeep, an IIT Kharagpurgraduate, is also an alumnus of the much coveted IBM CSC (Corporate Services Corps) and has earned laurels in China recently.To know more about Pradeep’s career, achievements, technical eminence refer the following linkhttp://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/NHAW Show less

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Chairman, BCI Bangalore Forum

      Issued by Business Continuity Institute (BCI) on Jul 2014
      Business Continuity Institute (BCI)Associated with Pradeep Prasad

    • Secretary, and ex-officio Director

      Issued by IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (india) on Apr 2015
      IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (india)Associated with Pradeep Prasad

    • ex-Vice President

      Issued by IIT Kharagpur Bangalore Alumni Association on Aug 2013
      IIT Kharagpur Bangalore Alumni AssociationAssociated with Pradeep Prasad

    • Volunteer for China Rural Old People's upliftment

      Issued by IBM Corporate Services Corps on Dec 2014
      IBM Corporate Services CorpsAssociated with Pradeep Prasad