Farooque

About Farooque

PMP Certified Professional with 16+ years of diverse experience in the IT space predominantly in SDWAN, Data, Voice, Security, Cloud computing, Data Center technologies, Product Management, Project Management, GRC, AMC, Audit, Vendor Governance, and client servicing. Having a proven track record of setting up and managing IT Network infrastructure, transforming the legacy infrastructure, ability to drive complex, large scale, and most critical infrastructure solutions, team management, and customer relationship. Have closely worked with Senior leadership for driving & implementing various strategic, transformational, and cost optimization initiatives contributing to the bottom line growth of the organization. Expertise in concepts of end-to-end project planning and implementation from scope management to activity sequencing, effort, risk analysis to quality management in line with guidelines and norms; headed various services, support, development, and enhancement projects.Exhibited leadership in designing and implementing the ITIL service management model.Leveraged skills in interfacing with CIO/CTO & business leaders for evolving strategic vision, portfolio review, and successful completion of projects; effective in developing, transitioning, and customizing processes in line with specified guidelines. Proficiency in building Data centers, Branches, SDWAN deployment, and Migration from scratch. Exhibited leadership in spearheading the entire transition operations right from scratch including process stabilization, performance monitoring, key metrics development, resource deployment, and stakeholder reporting.Hands-on experience leading all stages of system development efforts, including requirements definition, design, architecture, testing & support. Profound communication skills both in oral & in writing; a skilled & hardworking professional with diverse network & system security experience. Outstanding project & program leader; able to coordinate & direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating & guiding teams.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Project Manager Technology, Services, Engineering (Product Portfolio)

   A.P. Moller - Maersk

   Nov 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Ultimate accountable for the readiness of new Data center.Ultimate accountable for the readiness of new branches.Ultimate accountable for the migration of old DC to new DC.Ultimate accountable for the migration of branches from old DC to new DC.Ultimate accountable for the decommissioning of old DCSOW preparation and explanation to all the involved team.Build a project plan and identify all the key milestones for project completion.Having Kickoff call with stakeholder to explain SOW and Project plan.Schedule and designate tasks to specific team membersWork with engineering leaders, QA, Dev Ops, product managers and managers in design discussions and workshops – internal and external.Accountable and responsible for managing the complete lifecycle of IT Business Applications programs/projects from original concept through final implementation.Develop a detailed program/project execution plan and manage all phases of the project including projects financials, progress status tracking and reporting, monitoring scope creep, testing and release to productionProvide overall project management as per the governance model with standup and weekly Core team meetingsEnsure weekly and monthly project status reporting highlighting Gap’s, Risk and mitigation plans with support required. Recording and managing project issues and calling out where necessary to right stakeholders.Ensures full transparency with velocity, burn down/up reporting, and communicating team progress with value focused metricsCollaborates with Product Owner in backlog grooming

Education

• University Institute of Technology, RGPV

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and communication Engineering

• ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2021 — 2023