WAHL Middle East & Africa

- Partner closely with management and employees to strengthen work relationships, enhance engagement, and foster a collaborative work environment.
- Strategic HR Planning: Develop and implement HR strategies aligned with business goals to drive organizational success.
- HR Policy Optimization: Designed, reviewed, and updated HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance and operational efficiency.
- Employee Lifecycle Management: Streamlined processes, reducing onboarding time by 30% and improving overall employee experience.
- Employee Relations: Successfully manage and resolve complex employee relations issues while minimizing legal risks and maintaining regulatory compliance.
- Performance Management: Spearheaded the transition to a continuous feedback system, enhancing performance outcomes and employee development.
- Data-Driven HR Solutions: Analyze trends and metrics to design innovative HR solutions that address organizational challenges and opportunities.
- Talent Management: Build robust frameworks for talent acquisition, development, and retention, ensuring succession planning and business continuity.
- HR Strategy Implementation: Lead the execution of HR strategies to align people processes with business objectives, fostering growth and adaptability.
- Process Improvement: Streamlined HR operations to achieve consistency and equity across people management practices.
- Leadership Coaching: Provide tailored HR coaching to managers and employees, driving leadership effectiveness and team cohesion.

Human Resources Business Partner

Oceaneering

•	Consulting and advisory services to department heads and managers to support organizations' strategic HR and Global Mobility goals.
•	General HR Administration
•	Handled multiple teams across the Middle East, Asia, and African regions 
•	Conduct training for new team members on all aspects of HR and Global Mobility related processes
•	Up to date on the labour laws of the regions to ensure compliance 
•	Served as a key contact person for all HR and Mobility inquiries 
•	UAE immigration including handling the online labour and immigration portals 
•	Assist payroll management by providing relevant employee information 
•	Analyze and Implement policy changes and cost reduction strategies
•	Facilitates onboarding procedure 
•	Maintain all HR and immigration documentation as required by law in respective regions 
•	Framing and implementing Eastern Hemisphere HR and Immigration Compliance processes

HR and Global Mobility Specialist

• Directly reporting to HR-VP to assist with various HR initiatives in the AMEA region
•Managing and Analysis of Employees Surveys for the Eastern Hemisphere. 
•Ensure compliance with Company policies. 
•Generate employee data and reports as per request from various business units. 
•Undertake HR Projects from various regions to work with other support functions like Payroll, Tax to resolve and streamline processes. 
•Develop and review HR policies and processes as required and ensure they are in line with the Company's core values and local law 
•Provide guidance and advise line managers and other employees on HR policies and procedures
•Liaise with Human Resources team across the Eastern Hemisphere to ensure the highest level of service to employees 
•Support the development and implementation of HR initiatives and systems.

Human Resources Specialist

•Handle new hire processes and International/ Intercompany transfer processes.
•Coordinate the Induction process for New Hires.
•Create, implement and manage effective onboarding plans.
•Train new team members on all aspects of HR related processes
•Conduct weekly meeting with HR Manager to discuss any new requirements about specific cases.
•Coordinate with payroll team for salary, gratuity and other payment processing.
•Discuss hiring requirements with various service line managers
•Liaise with PRO to ensure smooth operation of the Wage Protection System
•Develop and maintain HR services including Airfare, attendance management, payroll processing, Medical Insurance, Housing Allowance.
•Manage the issuance of all forms of HR communications and letters
•Resolve employee queries by liaising with relevant departments in the organization.
•Organize trainings for employees. Training software used is Learning Management System (LMS)
•Prepare HR reports as needed for the management. (recruitment, employee turnover)
•Maintain accurate and up to date employee records according to policy and legal requirements

Siemens

•Recruitment and selection
•Prepare and issue letters and certificates for employees (salary certificate, visa letter, NOC letters, employment certificates, bank letter etc.)
•Process employee payroll requests related to salary review, bonus, housing and other allowances and benefits
•Prepare of provision for annual leave and leave ticket entitlement

Human Resources Generalist

With 14+ years of HR experience in the AMEA region, I specialize in digitalizing HR processes, enhancing talent management frameworks, and ensuring regulatory compliance. My leadership has driven key transformations, including a 20% service vendor cost reduction and a successful HRIS system implementation. Passionate about driving organizational transformation through innovative HR
practices. Let's connect to explore how strategic HR practices can unlock business potential.

Kiran Babu

Red Hat

Territory Services Manager | Singapore

I develop and deliver business-driven solutions to customers, including architectural and roadmaps formulation. 

Part of the role involves leading framework and method development, pre-sales discovery sessions, and detailed post-sales design workshops.

Besides that, I also look into the technical governance role for project deliveries while collaborating with Support and Engineering teams to ensure project success.

Lastly, I render guidance to junior consultants and presales solutions architects while guiding the adoption of Red Hat’s cloud solutions and services.

Senior Consulting Architect

NCS Group

I served as a trusted client advisor in designing and deploying architecture and day-to-day technical leadership in complex projects.

Besides that, I also forged a strong collaboration with diverse teams, including client service units, lines of businesses, and NEXT Services, in defining solution offerings and value propositions to maximize win probabilities for every opportunity.

Additionally, I partnered with the delivery team to ensure smooth delivery and fulfillment of the client's expectations.

 Enterprise Architect - Telco

I led the design architectures for hybrid and multi-cloud vendor adoptions, virtualization, and containers in line with the client's cloud technology strategies.

Apart from that, I also drove the marketing, deployment, and proof of concepts of diverse Red Hat Cloud solutions.

I also researched and shared the latest technologies, competitive frameworks, and industry and market trends while addressing and dispelling objections to Red Hat technologies.

Key Presales/Delivery projects include:
☛ For Bharti Airtel, Telco Cloud Automation (vEPC, vRAN) (Red Hat OpenStack 13/16.1)
☛ Private Cloud (VMware, Red Hat) for Bank of Philippine Islands
☛ Private Cloud (Red Hat) for PSSLAI
☛ Private Cloud (VMware, Red Hat) for TCAP

Senior Solutions Architect - Hybrid Cloud - Center of Excellence(CoE)

Atos

During this tenure, I spearheaded client engagements, requirements gathering, translation, solutions recommendations, and presentations.

This involved generating cost estimates for the defined scope of services while aligning solution architecture, including the statement of work, schedules, and other contractual documents with final terms and conditions.

Key Presales/Delivery projects include:
☛  Service Provider Cloud (VMware, Red Hat) for Telecom Egypt
☛  Service Provider Cloud (Azure Stack) for Ooredoo
☛  Defense Cloud (Red Hat) for Qatar Armed Forces
☛  Private Cloud (Red Hat, Azure) for Qatar Airways
☛  Govt Cloud (Red Hat, VMware) for SmartDubai

Cloud Solutions Architect - Telco & Public Sector Accounts

I was promoted to render technical guidance to sales specialists in maximizing telco, enterprise and government customer opportunities across the India & SAARC regions towards meeting set quotas and service objectives while maintaining high customer satisfaction.

This involved developing and implementing cloud sales strategies, guiding the gathering of architecture and design, delivering Red Hat solutions and technical proposals to prospects and customers as well as generating responses to specialized sections of requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposal (RFPs)

I also supported pre-sales workshops, demonstrations, proofs of concepts, evaluations, and benchmarking.

Key Presales/Delivery projects include:
☛  Private Cloud (Red Hat) for Bharti Airtel
☛ Telco Cloud(vEPG) (Red Hat) for Vodafone India Limited
☛  Private Cloud (Red Hat) for CRIS (Railways)
☛ Private Cloud (Red Hat) for Cleartrip
☛ Private Cloud (Red Hat) for ICTA Srilanka
☛ Govt. Cloud Deals across India (State & Central Govt.) & Sri Lanka

Specialist Cloud Solutions Architect - Telco & Public Sector Accounts

I was recruited to architect and design various software solutions, including developing coherent technical proposals (SoW, HLDs, LLDs) and conducting PoCs on emerging technologies (OpenStack, CloudForms, OpenShift).

Besides that, I also served as a subject matter expert in addressing technical, development, and strategic IT needs at clients’ sites.

Key Delivery projects include:
 
☛  Deployed Red Hat OpenStack 5/Red Hat OpenStack 7 solutions with the base as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Cleartrip, TCS
☛  Implemented Red Hat Solutions for Next Generation E-Ticketing System for Indian Railways
☛  Migrated Applications from AIX to RHEL Platform Solutions for Vodafone India, Bharti Airtel
☛  Designed and Implemented Red Hat Solutions for Defense Projects in India
☛  Designed and rolled out Red Hat Certificate Server for Govt. Of Sri Lanka
☛  Designed and deployed Red Hat Solutions for multiple MNCs / Govt. Organizations across India.

Technical Solutions Consultant

I served as the GSS (Global Support Services) Technical Lead for a wide range of Red Hat Cloud products, including Red Hat CloudForms, OpenShift, Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI), and Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

The responsibilities also involved conducting initial and secondary investigations in responding to technical support requests.

Besides that, I also partnered with the Management in ensuring the readiness of the Support team for Red Hat Cloud Products.

Technical Support Engineer

CSS Corp

I was hired to set up physical and virtual servers per client requirements. 

This included conducting installation and troubleshooting of client applications and database systems as well as migration of physical servers to virtual servers.

Systems Engineer

IntraSoft Technologies Limited

Here, I planned, designed, and implemented an array of infrastructure systems supporting the overall business strategies while serving as the primary contact for systems requirements.

This included deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting all Linux Servers and Web Assets on Amazon Web Services using Right Scale.

Server Administrator - Amazon Web Services

Bobcares

I started my career in this company tasked with providing web support to hosting companies, additionally serving as a Quality Analyst and Technical Trainer.

Senior Software Engineer

15+ Years In Driving End-To-End IT Enterprise Architecture Toward Future-Proofing Organizations | Deep Technical Acumen With Hybrid, Multi-Cloud For Telco, FSI | Strong Leadership and Stakeholder Management Capabilities

► EXPERTISE
☛ Experienced in leading complete IT enterprise architecture across Telecom and FSI sectors using hybrid, multi-cloud technologies towards futureproofing organizations.
☛ Adept in strategic IT planning, stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, cloud security, solutions pre-sales, discovery sessions, and client relationship management.
☛ Possess strong project management acumen in planning, executing, monitoring, and delivering over 24 significant projects.

► CHARACTERISTICS
☛ Exceptional acumen in forging cross-functional collaboration and strengthening professional networks with potential and existing clients.
☛ Outstanding leadership qualities to inspire and drive teams towards delivering breakthroughs and top-notch performances.
☛ Possess vast industry knowledge across the banking, financial services, insurance, and telecommunication verticals.

►SPECIALTY
☛ Solution Architecture | Strategic IT Planning | Requirements Gathering | Solutions Development | Cross-functional Collaboration | Relations Management | Solutions Presales | Cloud Security | Project Management | Coaching & Mentoring

►CONTACT
☛ abhilash@ymail.com

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