9810447081(M)Shephali.kataria@gmail.comDeputy General Manager – Consulting Head at Birlasoft

Experience SummaryCurrent Organization - Birlasoft – February 2016 till date(Current Role – Practice Head IT Portfolio Transformation Consulting)Tata Communications Limited – October 2015 till January 2016HCL Technologies Limited – June 2006 till September 201510+ Years of work experience in Strategic IT Consulting, Portfolio Assessment and Optimization, creating cost-benefit business cases for IT investments, Cloud Assessment, Post Merger Integration, Decommissioning Program Management, Business Process Mapping, Transition, project management and Pre-Sales.Ability to multi-task effectively and function well in fast paced and demanding environments. Have converted multiple leads into projects through effective client presentations and solutions.Worked across multi domains, Banking, Financial Services, Retails, Media and Pharma and across the globe US, EU, APACShe holds a valid Business Visa (B1/B2) for USA.Functional / Technical Competency Proposals, Costing, Margins, Resourcing, Sales Presentations SIAM/ITSM Process Consulting Sourcing Advisory IT Portfolio Optimization(Applications, Infra, tools) Cloud Assessment Due Diligence, Transition and Project Management Technical and Functional Gap Identification Strategies Process mapping and impact assessment for application Application decommissioning and Archival strategies Assessment of business impact and relevance on IT during mergers/ de-mergers Developing cost-benefit cases for IT investments Well versed with key methodologies

o Project Management Toolo Transition Management methodologyo IT Optimization methodologyo Decommissioning Bluebook

Achievements and Certifications

Certificate of Appreciation and Excellence from HCL top management for extra ordinary performance and delivery to achieve high targets in short span of time twice in first two years of employment.

League of the Extraordinary Award every year for outstanding performance in last 9 years

Delivery R&R Certificate for being the Livewire in the team

Certificate of Transition Practitioner

Associate HCL Business Analysis Professional – HCL Technologies Ltd.

Shephali Sharma

First Leap in Achieving Managerial Experience – HCL Technologies Ltd. Developed Transition Framework, Decommissioning Framework and Cloud Assessment Framework

Some of the Key Projects Executed

Global IT Portfolio Management Execution IT Portfolio Management Assessment and Framework creation for TCL Portfolio Assessment and Cloud Readiness Assessment for a Leading Entertainment Brand,

Orlando, Florida Portfolio Optimization and Cloud Readiness Assessment for a leading Pharma Company at

Basel, Switzerland SIAM advisory for a leading bank Sourcing Advisory Decommissioning Business case for a leading Insurance Company at Wisconsin, USA

Decommissioning Program Management for a Global Pharmaceutical Organization, US Business Process mapping for a leading Chemical Manufacturing Organization, Midland,

Michigan Sourcing Advisory for a leading European bank Application Portfolio Optimization for a leading Financial Services Organization, Seoul, Korea Infrastructure Portfolio Optimization for a leading Insurance Company, Seoul, Korea Portfolio Integration and Centralization for a leading Pharma Company, New Jersey, US   Transition and Due Diligence for Europe based Client Part of core team member creating the HCL’s proprietary transition framework, tool and

website

Roles and Responsibilities

Global IT Portfolio Managemento Responsible for supporting the IT portfolio governance process, IT Portfolio tracking &

reporting, analysis of IT portfolio investments, and reporting to enable effective decision making and delivering business value for TCL.

o Ensures that the portfolio dashboard is up to date with key metric information (start/end dates, current budget, resources, PM assigned, high level status, and project type) and lead the monthly review process to focus on significant changes in timing, scope, resources, and cost, including analyzing portfolio trends, issues, dependencies, and metrics.

o Works with Leaders and Project Manager(s) in monitoring of portfolio progress and health by keeping an updated view of all the projects that are planned, in progress in a management dashboard. 

Project Management o Socialize/discuss and align the assessment activities required to be conductedo Liaise with various stakeholders across the organizational hierarchy for delivery of assigned

programs

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o Focused on coordinated planning, prioritization, risk management and execution of activities, timely and quality deliverables.

o Interfacing with customer stakeholders, offshore delivery team, managing customer expectation, ensuring project delivery, Leading and guiding the team to enable global integration and centralization

o Defined/ implemented internal processes to streamline operations, enhance productivity and accomplish project goals

o Monitored performance of team members and rendered productivity enhancement feedbacko Maintained regular interaction with teams across verticals to ensure smooth functioning of

operationso Developed/ maintained detailed program plan, status reports, ownership of P&L with cost

benefit analysis of important aspects of programo Identified/ managed critical decision requirements escalated critical issues to the senior

leadership team

IT Portfolio(Applications/Infra/Tools) Optimization And Digital Assessment o Application portfolio discovery and analysis, recommendation and roadmapo Provide assessment wrt cloud adoption and mobility drive and provide the modernization

roadmapo Provide improved visibility in to all in-country applications portfolio and business value served

by the portfolio.o Maximize reusability of applications in portfolio through regional fitment, wherever feasible,

without reducing business valueo Identify functional Redundancy across regional office and countries and identify candidates

for consolidationo Cost reduction opportunities for applications identified for consolidation.o Centralized visibility for End-of-Life technology landscape and associated risk assessmento IT road map definition for the next 3 years for enabling global integration and centralizationo Portfolio analysis vis-à-vis technical and functional aspects of the applications to provide

roadmap for each application(Retain, Reengineer, Retire, Replace)o Conduct client workshops for application analysis and data architecture developmento Develop cost-benefit cases for IT investmentso Facilitated workshops with IT managers to discuss current state and future state IT

requirementso Future state IT requirements, data flow diagrams and application landscape diagramso Identify opportunities for improvements and high level solutions

Decommissioning Program Management and Consultingo Socialize/discuss and align the decommissioning execution assessment activities required to

be conducted by the stakeholders in BAU and project mode o Calculate indicative Decom Effort, Timeline and Cost (For HCL activities for Pre-Decom,

Decom and Post Decom Phases)o Identify data elements for benefits, costs and risks for inclusion in the business caseo Collation of all effort and creation of a high level Decom execution plan for estimation

purpose

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o Decommissioning Candidate Identification – Roadmap alignment, functional assessment and technical assessment

o Decommissioning Impact Assessment – Assess Business Impact, Application and Infrastructure Impact and Benefit Opportunity

o Decommissioning Solution Planning – Access management, Interface management, data, application and Infrastructure management

o Create Project plans and coordinate with all the stakeholders to ensure all tasks are completed on time

o Work with application decommission/retirement leads to follow-up on activities for decommission/retirement

o Complete the Retirement Plans and Retirement Summary Reports

Presaleso Responsible for client presentations, client management, proposal defense, client and

industry research. Track the end to end proposal management and related activities.o Focused on enhancing revenue generation through identification of new business

opportunities and cross selling across existing accounts through consulting and business analysis skill

o Guided team members in conducting pre-sales, business solution development, proactive lead generation, opportunity identification/qualification, drafting/ review of proposals, effort estimation & pricing, presentation/ demonstrations

o Built proactive niche customer focus solutions and then did target customer pitching as part of business development strategy of differentiating the organization from competitors for selected product and service line

o Collaborated with the geography sales team in interacting and closing critical business deals across regions of Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and America for push selling of identified services

Transition and Due Diligenceo Analyze data collected during DD and assess offshore readiness for application portfolio o Create transition plan and ensure its successful deliveryo Focus on coordinated planning, prioritization and execution of activities during the transition

lifecycleo Ensure timely and quality deliverables aiming at a successful transition.o Establish joint governance model in close association with the client and the third partyo Ensure timely sign offs and closure from the client for go live to next phaseo Consolidate and generate weekly status report, and present dashboard to client senior

management o Responsible for tracking transition progress, following the check and balance method through

audits

Education

Masters in Business Administration(Marketing) from IIMM, Pune, India in 2006

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Bachelors in Computer Applications from GGDSD College, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. In 2003

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