Sandeepan Chatterjee

A Highly Committed Engineer Professional with 15+ of enrich experience in IT Infrastructure Management covering Project Management, Service Management, Service Transition, IT Operation, Program Management, Digital T&T for renowned entity such as Wipro, Nestle, Siemens, HCL, Infinite, L&T and Ericsson. Progressive 10 years’ experience as Certified Project Manager in successfully delivering IT Infra projects of medium to large level of complexity through the entire stages from inception, planning, execution and Closure. Have attained exposure in leading key Streams in Cloud (Migration, Automation, New Services) and drove major Cloud Migration across APAC, USA, and EUR regions as a part of Global Digital T&T Program.

Managed multiple Projects and workstreams simultaneously in Cloud from concept to final delivery entailing Cloud migration life cycle from discovery to UAT until Go-live through disciplined execution, measurable outcomes, and liaising with technical teams from Cloud, Infrastructure, Network, Application, DevOps. An Impressive communicator, proficient in interacting with Top management, Agility in adaptability, Deft in driving SMEs from all areas of the business and working effectively with distributed teams Globally.

Customer Project Manager at ERICSSON (2023-07 – Present)

IT Engineering and PMO Portfolio

• Managing Global Projects in Cloud under Digital Transition and Transformation Program across streams: Cloud Migration, Orchestration and Automation, New Services onboarding along with Customer integration.
• Lead the Project deliverables being driven by PMs across the streams and weekly reporting to Governance body on achievements metrics, Project timeline status, Milestone update, RAID Logs, Lowlights and Highlights.
• Lead Cloud Migration planning including discovery, Migration waves, Runbook readiness, cutover and rollback entailing Landing Zone readiness, VMs and Storage replication along with Software Defined Network setup for Gateway migration.
• Project Planning with MS Project, requirement gathering and analysis to freeze the scope, efforts evaluation, Budget planning, scheduling, multiple stakeholders liaising, final Implementation, delivery to Cloud Platforms and final Operation Handover.
• Leading the steering committee meetings, monitoring the Project progress, liaising with technical teams, providing required support on any impediments, coordinating with client teams to meet the project goals and the timeline.
• KEY Achievements:
• Appreciated by Unit Head for delivering Critical milestones of Cloud migration of 1000+ VMs across Data Centers (APAC, USA, and Europe) in GCP. Building the landing Zone (VPC Network, links connecting Colo) across multiple GCP regions, inventory discovery using CS Scan and Migration with M2VM deployment tool and Mediator servers.
• Accolades received from Leadership team for leading the Global POC (Cloud Native Solution using Squid Proxy & L4 Passthrough LB) successfully in GCP by liaising with multiple stakeholders within the stringent timeline of the Project.
• Applauded by Clients for seamless execution of VLANs Gateway migration from On-prem to Cloud using VMware HCX Manager across the Globe with detail analysis entailing Runbook readiness followed by final execution.
• Steered to fast track the Projects deliverables on building the IaaS Platform, Integration of IaaS with Service Catalogs, Automation in Cloud, SaaS Product Brokerage and Cloud Security (Encryption and Micro-segmentation).
• Exalted by Customers for exhibiting the agility in delivering some key projects such SIEM migration for MBNL, Network Element Integration and Data integration setup with GKE Cluster in Google Cloud.

Project Manager at INFINITE COMPUTER SOLUTIONS (2019-09 – 2023-06)

Project Manager in Ericsson IaaS/PaaS Digital Transition & Transformation Program for the integration and implementation of the Cloud Infrastructure platform for hosting the Ericsson Service Delivery tools and platforms.

• Migration Strategy: Lead end-to-end cloud transformation engagements by evaluating customer environments and aligning technical execution with business outcomes and facilitate migration readiness assessments.
• Manage Program scope, attending the Solution Design (HLD &LLD) workshops, schedule agreement, resources allocation, progress monitoring, lead all project communications, Act as the escalation point for customers.
• Analyze & gather business requirements from large & complex client environments and perform required research and investigation to identify and create thorough accurate techno commercial solution proposals.
• Responsible for managing Project Managers and Solution Architects across the Program. Drive team accountability through clearly defined milestones and maintain effective communication with stakeholders to advocate for the team.
• Steering daily stand-up meetings, imparting training to Global consumers on the release of any new pattern in IaaS. Organize workshops with Enterprise SMEs’ and engagement with Internal teams from COE, Security, Networking, PO etc.
• KEY Achievements:
• Managed three streams simultaneously: Cloud Migration, Orchestration and Automation, New Services onboarding to Cloud and driven multiple key Projects successfully and have received accolades for the same.
• Have led critical Cloud Migrations successfully across the Globe starting from strategy assessments, Cloud Infrastructure and Application Migration Design Document readiness followed by Runbook finalization.
• Have developed various Cloud Infra as a Service pattern for Global consumers on Windows/Linux OS, SQL and Oracle DB, NetApp (NFS/CIFS) Storage, Citrix XenApp 7.15 VDA and LBaaS (NSX) within the Project timeline.
• Delivered multiple Projects in developing Automation with Ansible platform, Jenkins Server and GitLab code repository such as Citrix PVS 7.15 Master Image and VDA provisioning, Beyond Trust APIs integration.
• Achievement of Time bound Critical milestones for optimal and efficient usage of Cloud Infra to deliver VMware ESXi clusters consolidation of Edge, Compute, Oracle, Citrix, and Netapp Clusters using vMotion for ESXi host migration.

Manager - Operations at LARSEN & TOUBRO (2019-02 – 2019-08)

Managed the SWAN Project which was the Core IT Infrastructure Project for supporting e-Governance initiatives comprises of multiple devices supporting 100+ sites with centralized Data center connected with multiple sites.

• Act as a single point of contact from client’s perspective for the periodic review on Project progression /Operation updates entailing the SOW Freezing, Design changes, Probable Gap on IT Infra deliverables, Risks and Escalations. Publishing the MOM, Dashboard, Risk Register, Issue Log to all intended stakeholders.
• Led the team in seamless Project implementation and Operation of 100+ sites across the state encompassing Data Center set-up with Network devices, Servers, Firewalls with IPS, along with WAN migration to MPLS & I

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication.