Nilesh Thakkar

About Nilesh Thakkar

Strategic leader and Entrepreneur with 19 years of experience into Business Availability space mainly in IT Strategy & Transformation, IT service and Data Center management in Enterprise IT Infrastructure space with strong technology management competency and thought leadership roles for Fortune 500 companies. Recent 11 years of experience in Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Management in both technical management and strong leadership roles for domestic and international market. Certified Business Continuity Professional as MBCI from BCI-UK and gained significant exposure in Business Continuity Management and leading Disaster Recovery projects to continue contributing to the DR/BCP realm. Focus on the effects rather than the cause of a business interruption, expanding the breadth of companies’ DR/BCP to improve their business resilience.Over Man hours proficiency in Enterprise Project Management delivering transformation programs and technical architect across IT Infrastructure, State Level Data Center design and implementation as per Tier architecture guidelines, Data Center assessment & audit, Cross platform Data communication, Implementation of Cross Border Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity service.Maximizing the value of IT resources and developing and optimally deploying emerging technologies to achieve strategic business goals. Govern corporate architecture with integrated Enterprise IT Governance, Risk and Compliance framework.Notable Achievementso State Data Centre design & implementation based on Tier guidelines for Government of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. o Modernization of Disaster Recovery as a service over Cloud platform to significantly improved recovery capability.o First multi-location Work Area Recovery service for building in desired, multi-city resilience. o Cross Boarder Business Continuity for Standard Chartered Scope International.o Grindlays IT Integration project of Standard Chartered Grindlays Bank.

Experience

1. Director & Principal Consultant

   Tata Consultancy Services

   Oct 2013 — Present

   New venture - THINKUP Consultancy Service is an innovative company that focuses on providing a wide range of professional technology consulting services span across Business Availability and Business Continuity for small, medium and emerging enterprise in B2B and B2C model. As a Director, focus on new Product / Service Development, Thought Leadership and Capability Building.Specialties & Service offering - o Business Availability: Technology Strategy and planning, IT service management, Data Center migration & management, Cloud adoption and migration, Unified communication & Collaboration and Content digitization.o Business Continuity: Assess, Design, Implement and Manage Business Continuity Management framework as per BCI guidelines. Implementation and management of integrated IT Governance Risk & Compliance.

Education

• IMSR India

  Executive MBA

• Business Continuity Institute, UK

  MBCI

Skills

• IT Strategy
• Business Continuity
• Management Consulting
• IT Outsourcing
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Iso 27001
• Enterprise Technology Integration
• Project Management
• Governance
• Data Center
• Data Centre Architecture
• Team Leadership
• Information Security Management
• Integration
• Vendor Management
• Solution Architecture
• Cloud Computing
• Management
• Pre-Sales
• Data Centre Architecture and Management
• Itil
• Leadership
• Program Management
• IT Operations
• Strategy
• IT Service Management
• Disaster Recovery