Ajay Devnath

Experience

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  National Hydro-electric Power Corporation

  May 1989 - May 1994

  Sr. Supervisor (EDP)

  - In-house Development and implementation custom Financial, Payroll, Inventory management systems- Developed “Price Store Ledger” for the organization which was implemented in all the project across Organization

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  NEPA Limited

  Jun 1994 - Jun 1997

  Assistant Manager (EDP)

  - As head of EDP, developed and implemented customised ERP for organization including Finance, HR, Payroll + PF, Inventory management, Sales & invoicing- Computerized the processing and accounting for paper production, input material & production output - Time-to-time enhancement of in-house applications as per Govt guidelines and also as per industry standards- Govt Reporting as part Annual account closure & budgeting

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  Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd.

  Jul 1997 - Mar 1999

  Assistant Manager

  - As head of EDP (West And South zone), Developed and implemented custom ERP for organization including Finance, HR, Payroll, Production planning, Inventory management, Sales & invoicing- Computerized the Oil processing and accounting for various Govt Of India Oil companies- In-house development of step-by-step calculation of process through-put- Time-to-time enhancement of in-house applications as per Govt guidelines and also as per industry standards- Govt Reporting as part Annual account closure Show less

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  NIIT Limited

  Mar 1999 - Nov 2000

  Consultant

  - As Techno-functional leader, delivered custom-build ERP for Rastriya Chemicals and Fertilizer (RCF - A Govt Of India Enterprise) with a team size of 110+- The major functionalities were following systems * Financial Accounting * Payroll & PF * Materials Management * Costing Analysis * Procurement * Subsidy management * Invoicing & billing * Production Planning and Control

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  Mastek

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2004

  Project Leader

  - As Technical Leader, solution'ed and implemented Large project in UK (LCCS - London Congestion Charging Scheme) along with multiple partners. This was the 1st, automated project for Toll/ entry tax in UK for individuals and commercial fleets- Implemented Insurance product eElixir with multi-country rollout- Implementation of Mamis ERP for 2 large Indian customers

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  Polaris Consulting & Services Ltd

  Nov 2004 - Jan 2006

  Sr. Consultant

  – Led the Solutioning team for ERP & Insurance groups with multi-million $ project wins in India & Global Market- Solutioning of Citi's banking and credit card system with release of product upgrades- Implementation of PeopleSoft HRMS for performance management within the company

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  IGATE

  Jan 2006 - Dec 2006

  Sr. Project Manager

  – Implemented $3.6M B2B and B2C programs for Japanese customer with some key features related to of licensing and payments * Online license purchase, Bulk/ individual * Payment in One-time/ monthly * Renewal * Upgrade's * Inventory & Billing management * Notification to customer on availability of upgrades/ renewal date/ monthly charge due * Discounting * Blocking/ un-blocking of account with notifications * Support related information and migration to new version/ products Show less

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  IBM

  Dec 2006 - Sept 2017

  Delivery Project Executive

  - Worked as Delivery Project Executive/ Portfolio Manager/ Sr Program Manager since Dec-2006. The Industry/ vertical worked are Automotive, Energy & Utilities, Telecom, Travel & Transportation- Worked in IBM UK as Senior Business Area Manager for Energy & Utility account, from May-2011 to May-2013- As Delivery Project Executive, managed Large Focus Account (LFA), a global Travel & Transportation account “Hertz” with multi-million $ annual revenue, spread in multiple geo and drove the Solution to Delivery with 270+ team size- As Portfolio Manager, managed Focus Account (FA), Test Center of Excellence (TCoE) portfolio for Canadian Telecom customer “Bell” with 70+ team size- As Senior Business Area Manager, managed Focus Account (FA), a $26M annual revenue account in Utility domain in the U.K for one of the biggest Energy & Utilities customers (National Grid) and drove the Solution and Delivery of multiple sub-functional domains (Electricity & GAS)- As AIS (Application Innovation Services) Industry Leader for Utility Domain, handled 20+ development projects across globe in Utility domain- As Program Manager, successfully led the Solutioning and Delivery teams for 1st SmartGrid Program of IBM with value of AUD $800K, in Utility domain- As Program Manager, successfully led the Solutioning and Delivery teams for one of the largest Utility Account “Scotia Gas Networks” in UK with annual revenue of $2.0 M- As Program Manager, managed All special projects including SOX compliance project of value $12M, for one of the biggest Global Automotive customers “General Motors”, wherein the IT portfolio comprises of 200+ applications and 1200+ interfaces distributed across heterogeneous OS and / or software platforms Show less

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  @Smart World & Communication BU, L&T

  Sept 2017 - Mar 2023

  - Implemented the 1st Smart Meter project for L&T SWC and providing application support- Successfully implemented Smart City Projects of Pune, Nagpur, Raipur- As Project Director, delivered New-gen data center for NIC Data Centre- Completed the project within defined timelines and ensured successful Go-live

  • Senior DGM and IT Delivery Head (Utilities)

    Jul 2021 - Mar 2023

  • DGM and Program Director

    Sept 2017 - Jun 2021
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  L&T Technology Services

  Apr 2023 - now

  Delivery Head

  - As IT Delivery Head, handling multiple large Cloud based Smart Metering Projects implementation in India with Pre-paid functionality and service delivery- Leading IT Solution & Architecture, Estimation & sizing, Technical presentation & discussions for Implementation, Support, Data Analytics, On-prim to cloud migration, application modernization O&M for Global clients