Nilesh Chandrakant Matekar
Stratfield, NSW
Summary
A PRINCE2 & VCP certified, Technocrat with Management qualification and Project Professional having rich and successful track record, Over 20 years experience including over 4 years of International (UK & Australia) tenure Techno-managerial experience in the areas of IT Infrastructure (OS, Storage, Database and Network) and Virtualisation Project Management including resource planning, budgeting, managing P&L, Consulting and IT Infrastructure Service Delivery. Customer management experience with leading On-site & Off-shore teams to deliver exceptional business value along with excellent IT Service Delivery. Engagement with new initiatives around the Cloud, Internet of Things. Strong process knowledge including Incident & Problem management.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
06.2023 - Current
- Infrastructure project delivery management for Brighter Super and Perpetual
- Responsible for project planning, schedules, estimation, resources, requirements and risk management for Infra Delivery
- Managing Customer, Vendors & Internal stake holders for Infra project deliveries
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
08.2020 - 05.2023
- Infrastructure delivery project management for TAL Australia, 2 Degree New Zealand, Digi Telecom Malaysia, Vodafone Australia from offshore and on-shore locations
- Responsible for project planning, schedules, estimation, resources, requirements and risk management for Technical Delivery
- Managing internal and external stake holders for project deliveries
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra
10.2018 - 07.2020
- Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
02.2017 - 01.2018
- Infra project management for IOT delivery at Vodafone India Limited
- Responsible for project planning, schedules, estimation, resources, requirements and risk management for Technical Delivery
- Managing internal and external stake holders for project deliveries
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
08.2016 - 01.2017
- Accountable for Technical project management of compute, storage, network and security infra build for US customer- Department of Motor Vehicle Nevada
- Responsible for project planning, schedules, estimation, resources, funding requirements and risk management for Technical Delivery
- Managing internal and external stake holders for project deliveries
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
08.2015 - 07.2016
- Technical project management for Vodafone Australia
- Responsible for project planning, schedules, estimation, resources, funding requirements and risk management for Technical Delivery
- Managing internal and external stake holders for project deliveries
Manager- Transition
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2015 - 07.2015
- Ensure off-shore transition of Telecom network operations of US based customer Aries
- Participate in leadership meetings to provide tactical and strategic inputs and project status
- Managing internal and external stake holders for Operation deliveries
End to End Delivery Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2013 - 03.2015
- End to End Technical Delivery manager for the transformation/migration of British Telecom’s multiple applications environments to virtual private cloud to reduce carbon foot print at UK
- Responsible for project planning, schedules, estimation, resources, funding requirements and risk management for Technical Delivery
- Managing internal and external stake holders for project deliveries
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
03.2007 - 03.2013
- Accountable to lead the off-shore Technical team for Infrastructure Delivery for British Telecom, UK
- Customer and stakeholders’ management from delivery end
- Managing all functions of Project Life Cycle from initiation to delivery and project closure
- Responsible for project planning and, schedules, estimation, resource deployment and managing their billability, risk management and for Technical Delivery of VMware mid to large size enterprise environment
- Involved in support services including ESX & virtual center upgrades
- Supported pre-sales activities like writing technical proposals, customer presentations as well as representation on advance technical capabilities
- Performing routine team administrations tasks as well as team development initiatives including recruitment, induction, training and motivation/mentoring
- Recipient of Best Manager Reward and Star Performer Reward
- Long service Award & recipient of multiple appreciation certificates
- Formation of VMware vertical in company
- Part of BT Infrastructure design team in London for 9 months
- Part of BT Infrastructure (VMware Lead) team in Leeds for 18 months
- As a presales team(technical) member contributed to won multiple bids for company
Customer Support Engineer
Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd.
09.1997 - 02.2007
- Managed day-to-day IT Operations, Wide Area Network and IT Service Delivery in compliance to technical requirements
- Responsible for Project Management, Resource Management, Vendor Management, Event Management and Technical Helpdesk operations
- Developed and implemented security standards for the network infrastructure (routers, switches, servers, firewalls) as well as for user control
- Supported configuration of various network components, including routers, switches and multiplexer etc
- Performed Wide Area Network and project management activities at Reliance refinery, Jamnagar Gujrat for 24 months
- Participated in multiple projects & Organizational activities at various locations within India during the engagement with Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd for over 9 years
Network Engineer
Allied Digital Services
03.1996 - 08.1997
Network Engineer
Acma Computers
01.1995 - 03.1996
IT Engineer
OSC Computers
04.1994 - 09.1994
Trainee Engineer
Vision Computers
10.1993 - 01.1994
Education
Diploma - Business Management
Welingkar Institute of Management
01.1998
Diploma - Computer Technology
Board of Technical Education
01.1993
Diploma - PC Maintenance & LAN Engineering
CMS Institute
01.1993
Skills
- Project Delivery Management
- IT Infrastructure
- Service Delivery
- Technical Support
- Virtualisation Management
- Project management
- Project planning
- Project scheduling
- Stakeholder communications
- Customer relations
- Project scope
- Project Risk Management
- Risk management
- ITIL Best Practices
- People Management
Certification
- Certified as PRINCE2 (Foundation & Practitioner) for Project Management
- Cloud Computing Foundation Certification
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP 3.0)
- ITIL (Foundation)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate 2.0 (CCNA)
- Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE+I)
- Novell Certified Engineer (CNE)
- MS Project 2013
- Further trained in VCE Vblock Administration, VMware vSphere V4.0 (Install, Configure, Manage)/V 5.0 (What's New) and as Cisco Certified Networking Professional (Routing & Switching), Internal trainings on AWS EC2, VMware Integrated OpenStack overview
Languages
English
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 07/09/73
Previousengagements
- Allied Digital Services, Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Network Engineer, 03/01/96, 08/31/97
- Acma Computers, Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Network Engineer, 01/01/95, 03/31/96
- OSC Computers, Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, IT Engineer, 04/01/94, 09/30/94
- Vision Computers, Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Trainee Engineer, 10/01/93, 01/31/94
Timeline
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
06.2023 - Current
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
08.2020 - 05.2023
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra
10.2018 - 07.2020
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
02.2017 - 01.2018
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
08.2016 - 01.2017
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
08.2015 - 07.2016
Manager- Transition
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2015 - 07.2015
End to End Delivery Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2013 - 03.2015
Project Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
03.2007 - 03.2013
Customer Support Engineer
Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd.
09.1997 - 02.2007
Network Engineer
Allied Digital Services
03.1996 - 08.1997
Network Engineer
Acma Computers
01.1995 - 03.1996
IT Engineer
OSC Computers
04.1994 - 09.1994
Trainee Engineer
Vision Computers
10.1993 - 01.1994
Diploma - Computer Technology
Board of Technical Education
Diploma - PC Maintenance & LAN Engineering
CMS Institute
Diploma - Business Management
Welingkar Institute of Management
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