He holds a Graduate Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, and Post-Graduation in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Vidya brings more than 25 years of technology consulting leadership and delivery experience. She joined Genpact from Accenture, where she performed diverse roles and more recently led the technology delivery for some of the very large global multinational clients.

Vidya began her career in 1993, working with multiple IT companies like Infosys, Wipro and Cambridge Technology Partners before she joined Accenture in 2003. She has a degree in statistics and has an additional diploma in computer science.

With more than 24 years of professional experience, Vikas is an innovative, sharp and self-motivated executive offering deep expertise in IT Service Strategy, Project Management for Global IT Delivery, Asset Compliance, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery, Cyber Security and Crisis Management with emphasis in enhancing the effectiveness & efficiency of Processes. Managing availability, scalability and operability for IT delivery are his core skills.
Highly recognized in the Industry for delivering impactful technical solutions that reduce TCO and deliver a strong ROI in line with business goals. Hands–on experience of delivering multi-million dollars IT investment via lease or capital mode. Highly developed innovative & strategic business analysis skills to deliver complex projects.

With the core ability to define and solve unstructured business problems Vikas has ensured that all efforts result in overall cost savings. Proven abilities of collaboration across teams and delivering multiple projects under pressure. Pragmatic approach in leading IT Resilience and Crisis Management practices across geographies and assets. Proven abilities of collaboration across teams and delivering multiple projects under pressure. A well-travelled executive across UK, France, US & India who thrives when managing diverse multicultural relationships in a globally expanding footprint.

Noteworthy Achievements
Part of Top Gun (High Potential) pool for senior executives at HCL
Part of HIPO (High Potential) pool for senior executives consecutively for more than 3 years in Steria
Winner Next 100 CIO award for 2014
Winner Director’s Club Award IIS InfoTech Ltd. for 2000

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

1. ssociate Vice President, IT Infrastructure, Asset Management & Business Continuity – 2018 till date
2. Secured 20+% annual savings consistently for 2 years; Owning an annual budget of more than $15mn CAPEX and $3.5mn OPEX
3. Enhanced end point compliance – Responsible for End User Security & Compliance for 150K+ assets
4. Significant project in a complex environment accomplished by using innovative techniques to manage Asset Lifecycle of more than 200K+ assets across multiple geographies
5. Leader of central Crisis Management response team tasked with managing mission-critical infrastructure, designed and rolled-out resilience 6. initiatives in the last 3 years to reduce down-time for business
7. Leveraging and adoption of automation tools and technologies enabling self service for cost reduction and better customer experience
Responsible to lead a team of 750+ IT engineers across service desk, infrastructure & asset management to help implement new ways of working
using digital technologies like self service automation, AI etc. to improve end user experience
8. Worked on major projects to integrate operations across geographies and optimised by use of tier 2 cities leverage
Worked on various kinds of migrations to new and state of art technology like Microsoft end user productivity and mobility tools leading to migration of more than 50K endpoints along with enablement of Mobile application management across 100K+ users
9. Actively worked on Cloud Migration of data and assets for a seamless infrastructure management

Head of IT Asia Pacific and Business Continuity Management Head India

1. Customization and implementation of 14 Global programs including Migration to Microsoft Office 365 platform including email, instant messaging and SharePoint online, Consolidation of local applications which resulted in closure of 600+ Lotus Notes applications, LAN refresh and IPT rollout for 3000 seats and end point refresh of 4000 seats, Migration to Global Active Directory. RAS/VPN access refresh, Server estate virtualization, Migration of videoconferencing services on cloud, Master and load set rollout using SCCM.
2. Cloud First Program- Responsible for development, implementation and management of the future state of IT process and technology involving heavy utilisation of Cloud and Virtualisation technologies
3. Directing the integration strategy for India in all aspects of IT infrastructure and applications between the Steria and Sopra organisations as part of the merger
4. Defining target organization including combination of outsourced and insourced model for service delivery