Pradyumna Mohapatra, PMP®

Managed a high-impact cloud transformation initiative under AIA Group’s Ascend 200 Strategy and AIA Malaysia’s Technology, Digital & Analytics(TDA) program, driving the strategic migration of 80% of workloads from legacy data centers to Azure Cloud within an ambitious 18-month timeline. As AIA Malaysia’s largest single-project investment, the initiative aimed to modernize IT infrastructure services, achieving long-term cost optimization, scalability, and agility. Successfully navigated complex interdependencies with concurrent group-led projects, ensuring alignment and delivery across multiple stakeholders while driving infrastructure modernization in line with business objectives. AI Tool Application in Project Delivery: • Utilized Microsoft 365 Copilot (AIA enterprise-approved) as a daily productivity tool — applied to project planning, estimation, MOM documentation, status reports, executive presentations, financial forecasting, risk documentation, tracking, and governance. • Applied Copilot to generate structured work breakdown structures, milestone schedules, and effort estimates — refined with team inputs and stakeholder feedback. • Leveraged Copilot to draft and format executive reports and presentations for the CTO and Project Board — maintaining consistent quality and governance standards. • Familiar with ChatGPT and Claude through personal use, broadening understanding of GenAI capabilities relevant to AI project delivery. Key Achievements: • Led team of 50+ delivering AIA Malaysia's largest cloud transformation (USD 12M) — less than 5% scope/timeline deviation. • Achieved 10% cost saving on IT services; 100% compliance with RMiT, TPSA, BNM regulatory standards. • Zero unplanned outages throughout the program lifecycle.

Led global technical projects and account governance across the full lifecycle—from pre-sales to implementation and delivery—for hybrid cloud infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) initiatives. • Successfully delivered business-critical transformation projects with 100% client satisfaction, driving significant cost optimization. • Managed end-to-end setup and migration of hybrid cloud infrastructure, including data center consolidation and relocation, EOL technology refresh, and security SIEM migration from on-prem to AWS. • Oversaw application and database transitions to AWS and Azure platforms, supporting both IaaS and PaaS architectures, ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency. • Acted as a key liaison between global clients and partners, ensuring alignment of business goals with technology execution • Recognized by Executive Vice President of DXC Technology for excellent work in project delivery.

Managed IT core infrastructure and private cloud build initiatives for banking and telecom transition projects across globally distributed data centers. • Led multiple waves of data center and cloud migration, as well as infrastructure consolidation efforts across diverse geographies. • Oversaw Managed Private Cloud (MPC) engineering, including resource planning, capacity management, and coordination of team deliverables. • Collaborated closely with infrastructure project leads to plan and execute multi-location data center migrations across the EMEA region. • Engaged with global stakeholders across varying levels of seniority, ensuring alignment, clear communication, and successful delivery of project milestones

Led a 10-member technical team delivering database migration and consolidation projects under tight timelines for strategic data center initiatives in Hong Kong. • Developed and executed solutions for complex, time-sensitive projects to migrate critical databases to target data centers. • Achieved a 20% reduction in the database landscape through application consolidation, significantly improving system manageability and reducing both Data Center OpEx and CapEx. • Accountable for optimizing delivery processes to enhance business outcomes while consistently meeting or exceeding Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets.

Led a 15-member delivery team, overseeing database services and infrastructure transformation for Unilever’s global operations. • Delivered technology solutions and acted as a key liaison for stakeholder engagement during major integration initiatives. • Designed and executed proof-of-concept (POC) demonstrations to validate solutions prior to production implementation, followed by smooth transition to operations. • Contributed as a core member of the architecture team, providing critical input for High-Level (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation. • Spearheaded data center (DC) migration projects, ensuring seamless transition and system transformation aligned with operational goals.

Served key clients including ING Bank (Wholesale), Singapore and Cigna Insurance, Hong Kong. • Recognized by the CTO of Cigna Insurance for outstanding performance in data recovery and proactive prevention of a potential security breach. • Delivered end-to-end infrastructure and database support for critical banking and insurance systems, ensuring reliability of 70+ production databases. • Led Security Audit Compliance, Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), Project planning and implementation for new build, upgrades, migrations, and disaster recovery (DR) drills aligned with ITIL framework, strengthening service continuity and compliance. • Provided operational support, implemented high-availability solutions (Cluster, mirroring, log shipping, etc), and partnered with stakeholders to ensure seamless service delivery across production environments. • Led project planning, implementation, and disaster recovery (DR) drills for ING’s infrastructure services support. • Provided comprehensive end-to-end support, including weekend and on-call coverage, ensuring high availability and performance of critical systems.

Client: NOKIA Global I have worked as technical consultant II (Database ) for HP Global Centre Malaysia, handling Nokia worldwide L2 database (24 x 7) support of HP Infrastructure Services Malaysia Center (ISMC) supporting America and Europe region. Provided stand-by and on call support as needed.

Ensured reliable service delivery of database environments through installation, optimization, and security management. Designed and implemented backup/recovery strategies, automated operations, and provided 24/7 client support to meet SLAs. Partnered with IT teams and product owners to maintain a large-scale eLearning platform, ensuring high availability and minimal disruption. It’s a mammoth portal, which was serving the supplementary education needs of the primary school children in the UK.