Shuvendu Pusti

Data Center Exit Program, McGraw-Hill

Program Objective: Helping client to migrate all on-prem applications and IT infrastructure from existing data center to suitable cloud platforms and enable them to shut down the DC

• Led Data Center Exit program comprehensively, overseeing migration strategy finalization through to go-live, maintaining strict adherence to timelines and budgets
• Collaborated extensively with diverse stakeholders to comprehensively assess the application landscape, finalize cloud migration strategies, and meticulously identify potential risks, ensuring informed decision-making and risk mitigation
• Spearheaded project timeline and resource planning for 60+ critical cloud migration initiatives, encompassing a spectrum of network and security appliances, databases, and mission-critical finance applications, effectively ensuring seamless execution and delivery
• Facilitated effective and timely coordination among various client teams and external vendors across 4 different geographies, fostering a harmonious and productive working environment conducive to project success
• Maintained a steadfast commitment to project execution timelines, ensuring strict adherence to organizational policies, procedures, and quality standards, thereby guaranteeing the delivery of high-quality outcomes within predetermined parameters
• Proactively identified and mitigated risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle, orchestrating troubleshooting calls and engaging subject matter experts as needed to swiftly resolve challenges and maintain project momentum
• Developed meticulously detailed hour-by-hour cutover plans for transitioning to the cloud and flawlessly executed the cutover according to plan, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum efficiency
• Provided timely and comprehensive reporting to the leadership team, including up to the level of COO, offering clear insights into project progress and performance
• Exercised strong leadership and mentorship, providing guidance and direction to project team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment conducive to achieving project objectives with excellence
• Acted as the primary liaison between application teams, vendor partners, solution engineering, and IT infrastructure teams, ensuring seamless coordination and alignment of project objectives.

Global Permissions System, McGraw-Hill

Program Objective: Develop a centralized permission management system to manage procurement and permissions for digital assets.

• Developed and executed strategic plans for the program (worth $2M+), aligned with organizational goals and priorities
• Defined delivery milestones and phases for the program based on priorities and complexities
• Established effective communication channels to manage stakeholder expectations and ensure alignment with project goals
• Responsible for effective resource management and maintaining project schedules, timelines, and milestones
• Proactively identified risks and mitigated them, creating contingency plans to ensure timely delivery
• Developed and managed project budgets, tracking expenses and resource utilization to ensure cost-effective project delivery
• Managed project scope, requirements, and change requests, assessing impacts and communicating changes to stakeholders to maintain project alignment and minimize disruptions
• Provided regular project status updates and reports to project stakeholders, including senior management, ensuring transparency and accountability.

Robotic Process Automation, McGraw-Hill

• Collaborating with diverse business units to gather RPA use case requirements.
• Analyzing business requirements, processes, and systems to pinpoint RPA automation opportunities.
• Conducting ROI calculations to demonstrate automation value.
• Establishing and managing the product roadmap and product backlog.
• Define Acceptance Criteria for the stories.
• Arrange and optimize product backlog.
• Responsible for planning and facilitating standard meetings, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews, daily stand-ups, and PI planning.
• Remove impediments for the blocked or stalled stories.
• Serving as the liaison among business stakeholders, development teams, and other relevant parties to ensure RPA initiatives align with organizational goals.

Digital Asset Library, McGraw-Hill

• Maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog, which is a dynamic list of all features, enhancements, and fixes required for the product
• Working closely with stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback and then prioritize items based on business value, risk, and dependencies
• Breaking down requirements into user stories of manageable size of work that can be implemented by the development team
• Defining acceptance criteria for user stories to ensure that the development team understands what constitutes a successful implementation
• Backlog grooming and prioritization
• Participate in sprint planning meetings to discuss the prioritized items from the product backlog
• Execute the project in Agile methodology and ensure high-quality and timely delivery
• Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, to keep them informed about the progress of the product and gather feedback.

Advanced Royalty, McGraw-Hill

• Requirement analysis, feasibility study, and solution design
• Performance tuning and data analysis
• Coordination with business leads to finalize requirements and accordingly define the technical solution
• Carry out POCs to prove concepts
• Data migration from legacy systems.

1Step, McGraw-Hill

• Leading the technical team managing the 1STEP system
• Responsible for system health and performance
• System enhancements as per business needs
• Upscaling the system to keep aligned with the latest framework to ensure the highest performance, scalability, and security.