Milind Lokegaonkar

About Milind Lokegaonkar

Aspiring for a challenging position as a senior management level position in an IT organization or IT head / CTO in an IT user organization that can explore the knowledge & experience that I acquired during my 30+ years in the IT industry.Specialties: Techno-commercial, Customer Support, Customer Engagement, Innovation, Service Planning,PMP, ITIL Expert, PRINCE2 & MSP Certified Professional

Experience

1. Program Manager - Deal Assurance

   Hewlett Packard Enterprise

   Nov 2020 — Present

   Responsible for Deal assurance of Consulting, Infrastructure Management, As a Service Deals, and Complex Deals from Geo - Working with the Sales, and Solution team to understand the scope of RFP or Scope of Works- Participate in customer meetings to seek clarity on RFP or SOW- Validate solution prepared by Solution Architect- Prepare project plan, transition plan & delivery plan along with resource sizing- Work with vendors and partners as per requirement - Review financials & prepare a risk log with a mitigation plan- Handholding with transition manager during the initial period of transition- Average deals worth 150+ M every year- Running projects for risk mitigation in projects by reducing vendor costsAchievements - There are no Red Projects due to continuous improvement in the Deal Assurance program.

Education

• VJTI

  L.E.E. (Electronics), Electronics

  1985 — 1989

• National Center for Software Technology, Mumbai

  Certificate course in Networking, Networking

  1993 — 1993

• Raja Shivaji Vidhyalaya

  SSC

  1977 — 1983

Skills

• IT Infrastructure Management
• Bid Management
• Cisco Technologies
• Itil
• Deal Assurance
• Pre-Sales
• Disaster Recovery
• Solution Delivery
• Cloud Computing
• Customer Support
• Risk Management
• Customer Engagement
• Managed Services
• IT Service Management
• Virtualization
• Service Delivery
• Global Delivery
• Remote Operations
• Security
• Solution Architecture
• Vendor Management
• Data Center
• Prince2