Basudev Samal

Associate Director - Delivery

Role
Associate Director at Cognizant
Location
Pune, MH, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Basudev Samal

30 years’ experience in industries, spanning various sectors – IT, ITeS, Manufacturing and Education & Training.# With over 19 years of experience IT Services Industry, worked in various capacities and have implemented large scale enterprise applications, leveraging onshore / offshore delivery models in Banking and Financial Services, Telecommunications, Insurance and Manufacturing industries.# Have handled responsibilities for large & diverse work force, setting direction and building high performing teams who deliver results consistently, directing change management, assessing and top grading talent.# These included multi-year and multi-phase transformational projects ranging from $1M -$15M.# Have been effective in utilizing strategic and tactical approaches to balance priorities when setting vision and building solution roadmaps.# As a Certified Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP & Prince2) have extensive experience in leveraging modern day execution methodologies & tools, industry best practices wherever applicable.# Experience Account Management activities including Operational excellence, P&L, Contract, and Risk Management.# Business Data Analytics and my passion for generating business value from data has helped me and my customers for strategic decision making.# My Passion for Digital technologies: IoT, Industrial and Home automation has helped me at a personal level, however have never had an opportunity to serve end customers through projects. Specialties: Thought Leadership, IT Program / Project Management, System Business Analysis, Operational excellence, Smart Devices & IoT

Experience

  1. Associate Director

    Cognizant

    Jul 2025 — Present · Pune, IN

    Service Delivery Manager - Transform Business

Education

  • Kendriya Vidyalaya

    Class XII, Science

    1981 — 1990

  • University College of Enineering, Burla

    Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering

    1991 — 1995

Skills

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Project Management
  • Transition Management
  • Team Management
  • Data Warehousing
  • Project Governance
  • Outsourcing
  • Six Sigma
  • Sdlc
  • Solution Architecture
  • Program Management
  • Resource Management
  • Software Development
  • Ms Project
  • Pmo
  • Pmp
  • Business Intelligence
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Management
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Pre-Sales
  • Project Planning
  • Unix
  • IT Strategy
  • IT Service Management
  • Change Management
  • Offshoring
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Erp
  • Process Excellence
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Analysis
  • Service Delivery
  • Process Engineering
  • Business Analysis
  • Global Delivery
  • Process Improvement
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Software Project Management

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