IT Manager | 15+ years Experience | Azure

Professional experience

Accenture Product Owner | Jan 2024 – Present

• Spearheaded data ingestion project for a major Canadian bank, focusing on ingestion from diverse sources to the cloud, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
• Oversaw performance analysis of systems to address bottlenecks and improve operational throughput.
• Directed cross-functional teams in agile methodologies, sprint planning, and stakeholder engagement for strategic IT projects.
• Impact: Enhanced system throughput by approximately 30% and reduced average response time by 25%, driving operational efficiency and business growth.

Cloud Migration Lead | Jul 2022 – Jan 2024

• Led end-to-end migration of legacy systems to Azure Cloud, leveraging tools like ADF and Databricks.
• Developed robust disaster recovery and business continuity frameworks.
• Impact: Reduced infrastructure costs by 40% and improved system uptime by implementing proactive monitoring tools and migration strategies.

Data Engineering Lead | Feb 2021 – Jun 2022

• Designed and delivered IFRS 17-compliant data systems, ensuring audit-quality information readiness before regulatory deadlines.

1. Impact: Streamlined regulatory compliance processes, saving in potential regulatory fines, restrains and operational inefficiencies.

Operations Team Lead | Jul 2020 – Jan 2021

• Directed IT operations, optimizing Cloudera infrastructure performance and addressing system bottlenecks.

1. Impact: Reduced system downtime by 50% through effective troubleshooting and proactive patch management strategies.

Big Data Consultant | Dec 2019 – Jul 2020

• Data Engineering role for complete migration from Cloudera to Azure cloud
• Impact: Proposed solution helped to transfer historical data from Cloudera system to Cloud based Azure Delta Lake system, which helped client to reduce infrastructure cost by 60% and improve efficiency by 40%

Big Data Consultant | May 2017 – Dec 2019 Data Engineering Full stack development

1. Worked on Enterprise data lake (EDL) project of a large insurance and investment firm, as team lead for creating reliable, scalable data lake solution to replace different legacy systems. The assignment involved data ingestion, typing, curating, data access layer creation and data consumption, on Hortonworks platform.

• Impact: Solution eliminated need for various systems and brought all data into one storage place, eliminating numerous requirements associated with legacy systems, saving cost by 80% in operations and maintenance of these systems.

Suncor Energy Big Data Consultant | Apr 2014 – May 2017

• Architected and deployed on-premises Big Data platforms to enhance predictive maintenance and data analysis capabilities.
• Impact: Reduced unplanned equipment downtime by 20% and lowered data management costs by 15%.

Senior Engineer/Manager | Sep 2006 – Apr 2014

• Directed cross-departmental IT projects, including the development of reporting systems post-merger with Petro Canada.

1. Impact: Achieved 25-30% reductions in greenhouse gas and royalty costs through optimized reporting and compliance systems.

Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC) Advisor – IT Systems | Feb 1999 – Apr 2006

• Streamlined operational efficiency by implementing Oracle ERP systems and modernizing production scheduling tools.
• Impact: Reduced operational costs by 60% and increased profit margins by 10% for the Polypropylene business unit

IPCL/RIL – India Engineer to Senior Manager | Jun 1984 – Feb 1999

• Played a critical role in system analysis, IT operations, and business process reengineering.
• Led multiple IT and financial transformation projects, including budget forecasting and variance analysis.
• Impact: Streamlined financial processes, improving budget accuracy and forecasting precision by 20%.