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APOORVA MITAL

APOORVA MITAL

Sr. IT Manager
Woodbridge,NEW JERSEY

Summary

· Highly motivated and business driven Senior IT Project/Service Manager with over 13 years of diverse experience in delivering business value to customers leveraging cutting edge digital technologies and platforms

· Service Manager well-versed with all facets of ITIL based Service Management with a proven track record of achieving and improving SLA's and Business KPIs

· Experienced Change Control and Release manager, leading CAB meetings, planning releases and risk assessment of changes before Production deployment

· Leading Build and Operations teams in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) deployments of Supply Chain Planning solution across Medical Device & other sectors at J&J

· Adept at different software development execution and operations models such as Agile, DevOps, ITIL and Cloud service offerings

· Accomplished in effective stakeholder management - proficient in communication and status reporting to senior client stakeholders (Directors & Vice President)

· Experienced in developing innovative solution proposals for clients and supporting large transformation RFP/RFIs in Life Sciences sector

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certificates

Work History

Sr. Project Manager/Service Level Manager

Johnson & Johnson (through LTI)
Raritan, NJ
10.2015 - Current

• Service Owner managing and monitoring Change Control and Release management for Health Care Systems (HCS) Business Applications
• Leading CSI initiative for automating HCS manual paper-based Change Control process by moving to Enterprise IRIS (ServiceNow) Change Management process thus resulting in reduction of total manual change efforts by 30%.
• Training and mentoring IT and Business teams on IRIS end to end change Management process
• Trusted advisor to and partner with Senior Executives, Directors, Managers to ensure a smooth and robust Change and Release management at HCS
• Driving Service Reliability improvement of Data & Analytics application portfolio through careful Identification, Classification, Prioritization & prevention strategy leading to a reduction in recurring ticket count by 25% and SLA (TTRC & TTR) achievement > 90%
• Coaching AMS teams on Knowledge Centric support (KCS) for resolving incidents and designed a quality scorecard for rating Knowledge Articles (KA) attached for resolving tickets thus improving MTTR SLA
• Successfully transitioned and maintained OMP+ functionality deployments (releases/sprints) from Projects to Steady State Operations working closely with Build/Project teams gaining good understanding of their Jira Kanban board.
• Leading stakeholder communications, client management and executive level reporting for engagement performance
• Supporting large transformational RFI/RFP responses in Life Sciences sector to get new business

Business Manager - SAP Practice

LTI
Mumbai, India
02.2013 - 09.2015
  • Close coordination with onsite solution & sales teams (internal stakeholders) for preparation of Techno-commercial proposal for clients to bring in more than $8 Mn in yearly sales
  • Interfacing with client’s business and IT teams (external stakeholders) to understand As-Is state/ pain points by conducting discovery workshops.
  • Technical Documentation - End to end proposals consisting of (Value Proposition, Solution, Timelines & Financials); User manuals; end user training manuals.
  • On-boarding new sales team members on solution offerings through WebEx presentations, one-to-one sessions, internal newsletters and thought leadership papers.
  • Streamlined operational efficiencies by delivering recommendations for knowledge-base processes and procedures.
  • Aided senior leadership during executive decision-making process by generating daily reports to recommend corrective actions and improvements.

Sr. Test Engineer

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) India Development Centre, Insurance
Gurgaon, India
01.2008 - 12.2010
  • Designed and validated test support systems for Insurance services of Bank
  • Led automation of the standard release level manual regression and Business test cases.
  • Developed, maintained automation scripts every release and ensured execution as per agreed cycle time.
  • Ensured the quality of deliverables by defining standard review checklists and performing quality checks.
  • Improved efficiency by reducing workload from 63 man-hours to half a day for two parallel machines.

Software Engineer

Turning Point Software Solutions (P) Ltd
Bangalore, India
03.2006 - 11.2008
  • Independent Verification & Validation testing of a US Telecom Major OSS/BSS portal to help them achieve Networx Universal contract.
  • Performed Gap analysis by comparing GSA’s (General Services Administration) Networx RFP documents and Qwest’s requirement document.
  • Designing and executing the test cases based on the Gap analysis, for GSA certification testing.
  • Interfacing with Qwest technical team regarding major bug fixes and leading issue resolution as per Service Level Agreement.

Education

Master of Business Administration - Information Technology Management

S. P. Jain School Of Global Management
04.2011 - 03.2012

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
09.2001 - 06.2005

Skills

ITIL Service Management

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Certification

ITIL 4 Foundation

Software

Tableau for data Visualization & Reporting

Jira for Agile development

ServiceNow & SAP Solution Manager for Change Management

PVCS Version Manager for code version control

Unix/Linux

AWS & Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

HPALM

Timeline

Sr. Project Manager/Service Level Manager

Johnson & Johnson (through LTI)
10.2015 - Current

Business Manager - SAP Practice

LTI
02.2013 - 09.2015

Master of Business Administration - Information Technology Management

S. P. Jain School Of Global Management
04.2011 - 03.2012

Sr. Test Engineer

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) India Development Centre, Insurance
01.2008 - 12.2010

Software Engineer

Turning Point Software Solutions (P) Ltd
03.2006 - 11.2008

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
09.2001 - 06.2005
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