Arjun Singh Rana

Associate Director - Transition and Transformation

Wrocław, Dolnośląskie, Poland

About

Transformation / Senior IT Program Manager with 18+ years of experience driving enterprise-scale infrastructure, cloud, and operations transformations across Finance, Telecom, and Manufacturing. Expert in Target Operating Model design, large-scale migration, automation and stakeholder engagement across Europe and Asia. Proven record of delivering £10M+ programmes improving resiliency, cost efficiency, and business agility. Adopts a collaborative, client-focused approach, partnering with customers across the UK, Ireland, and Europe.

Experience

  • Associate Director Project Management at Kyndryl
    Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Senior Project Manager at Luxoft (DXC Technology Company)
    Nov 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr

    •Managed procurement and vendor strategy, including SOW definition and commercial alignment to support large-scale transformation initiatives. •Directed end-to-end global Device Lifecycle Management (DLM) transformation, overseeing planning, pilot execution, phased rollout, hypercare, and seamless transition to BAU operations across multiple geographies. •Designed and implemented a global DLM Target Operating Model, establishing SLAs/OLAs, governance structures, and standardised processes to drive consistency and operational efficiency. •Delivered a large-scale enterprise migration programme, successfully transitioning 120,000+ devices globally, ensuring minimal business disruption and high user adoption.

  • Senior Technical Program Manager at Luxoft Poland
    Nov 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr

    Managed strategic technology transformation programs for a global Swiss banking client. Led cross-functional delivery teams across infrastructure, applications, operations, and security domains. Governed program budgets, schedules, risks, and resource allocation. Supported business development initiatives through solution planning and delivery approach definition.

  • HCL Technologies (Full-time · 2 yrs 8 mos)
    • DC Transformation Project Manager Client - Rothschild UK
      Oct 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      •Managed & Delivered the Data Center Transformation from legacy physical infrastructure to a fully virtualized SDDC architecture, implementing VMware vSphere/vCenter, vRealize Suite (vROps, vRA), NSX-V/NSX-T for network virtualization, and SIEM integration for centralized security monitoring and compliance. •Application Migration from Old to Target Infrastructure with T-60 Plan •Grouping of Application and segregation based on the Infra components •Directed end-to-end infrastructure build, validation, and migration, including HLD/LLD review, environment provisioning, compute/storage/network configuration, integration testing, performance benchmarking, workload migration, UAT support, and formal decommissioning of legacy infrastructure with documented evidence and sign-off. •Commissioned remote office infrastructure, delivering WAN/LAN connectivity, firewall and routing configurations, network segmentation, and secure integration into core data center

    • EUC Senior Project Manager - University of Manchester
      Mar 2019 - Oct 2019 · 8 mos

      Managed and Delivered Successfully the EUC projects as part of T&T deal Projects managed & Delivered: Citrix VDI Project, User Profiling assessment, Migration to O365 & OneDrive

  • HCL Great Britain Limited (5 yrs 7 mos)
    • Datacentre Transformation Project Manager - Client JLT (Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC)
      Sep 2016 - Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      IT Data-center Transformation for one of the London Insurance Client. Transform the DC to SDDC by removing the physical device footprints

    • Transition Manager
      Jul 2015 - Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Client: Alstom Transport Ltd. Title – Merger/Acquisition & Transition Project Manager (June 2015 – March 2016) Motala Sweden – Supporting transition from an outsourced service provider to in-house IT organisation. Leading a team of Business Service Managers to ensure BAU service management is maintained until transformed. Integrate the Motala Network to Alstom environment and replace or move the current asset to the Alstom standard to have the smooth running of the business Delivered on-site IT and AV technical support for 200 staff.

    • Project Manager
      Aug 2013 - Jul 2015 · 2 yrs

      Client - JLT (Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC)) Managed the portfolio of multiple Business Units and growth projects as individual contributor in the role of project manager. Managed project planning, project financials including budgetary reporting/forecasting, vendor management, resource management for high value project deliveries. Major Projects Delivered within JLT: South Africa & Turkey Office Setup - JLT Turkey is a new office for MEA. Its primary business will be Reinsurance. Belfast Office Movement – JLT Thistle Business are going to relocate to new premises in Belfast. Telephony System - Integration of Nottingham Phone System to London Data centre. Coventry email Migration and Standardisation the office