Subodh Jha

General Manager – IT Infra & Information Security

Mobile: 9372335555 Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/subodh-jha-42447634/

Introduction
Subodh is an experienced General Manager with more than 18+ years of experience in consulting, Project & Delivery
Management, Onshore-Offshore engagements, Change Management, Business Process Re-engineering and Presales along
with designing, developing and delivering viable business solutions using different technologies. I have very well lead and
deliver a number of high-profile BFSI projects-implementation, Upgrade and My experience has encompassed a wide range of
industry sectors related to Banking & Finance, Retail, & International Organizations, Manufacturing and Higher Education
undertaking various roles and responsibilities.
I am a VMWare VCP certified professional, Certified Cloud Architect. Subodh has extensively worked on Data Center
management, developing entire Data Centre for middle and large BFSI organization. Subodh has worked with stake holders in
successfully setting up profit centers – build practices and delivery teams.
In my engagements in the projects as project manager, I was involved in development of 3 Startup organization (Wicenet,
Orpak India and WheelsEMI). Overall managed day-to-day activities of BFSI program delivery management plan, provided
direction and guidance as needed to exceed customer expectations. Ensured that team maintains high level of competence
and operational excellence and evaluated the performance of the team and training requirement.

Core Skills
 CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) Certification – Certificate No. 221902824
 Information System Audit – IS Audit
 RBI Master Direction Compliance & Gap Analysis
 Information System Audit
 Cloud Certified Architect
 Data Centre Architect
 Excellent management and leadership skills: people, process and technology
 Managing delivery and budget, Project planning, execution management along with People management, Service
delivery management, Vendor Management
 Assessing risks on a project and providing strategy and input for risk minimization
 Information Security Designer and Compliance Management
 Strong planning, organizational and multitasking skills with ability to balance competing priorities
 Ability to analyze complex problems and to deliver insightful, practical and sustainable solutions
 Lead strategy/design/implementation of solutions
 Microsoft 365 practice building
 SharePoint Team Sites Building and business use case design
 Excellent Leader. Quick to build strong, personal and professional relationships. Team-oriented and conflict resolution
skills
 Recruiting and interview
 Superior interpersonal communication skills, flexibility, responsiveness, leadership Skills
 Strong analytical skills
 Start up and practice building expertise
 Shares personal work experiences with co-workers in an effort to coach and develop the team
 Strong execution capabilities combined with an entrepreneurial and hands-on mindset
  Diverse background with broad knowledge of solution platforms, custom development, package implementations to
work on highly complex projects

Certification, Recognition & Awards:

 CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) Certification – ISACA Certificate No. 221902824
 AWS Solution Architect Associate certificate No. WCNMG1XC4
 Long Service Award – Bajaj Group- 2016
 VMWare VCP Certified
 Azure Solution Architect trained
 IBM Certified Solution Architect Cloud Computing Infrastructure V1
 Certified ITIL V3
 CISCO Certified CCNA
 Advance Diploma in Big Data – Hadoop Administration
 Certified Trainer and Installation Expert for Petroleum Products – START Italiana, Italy
 Defenders 100 Awards 2020
 6th Innovative CIOs Awards 2021
 10th InfoSec Maestros Awards 2021
 CISO Platform Top !00 Contributors 2021 – Recognition
 DataQuest Digital Leader CIO Award 2020
 BIG CIO 100 Award 2022 Sponsored by NITI Aayog.
 Long Service Award – Bike Bazaar – 2022
 BIG BFSI IT LEADER 100 Award 2022 Sponsored by Yubi (Fintech Unicorn CredAvenue).

Education
B.Tech. (Commuter Science Engineering), Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, Pune.

Contact
Mobile Number - +91 9372335555
Email – [email protected]
Permanent Address: Tiara B/203, Palace Orchard, Undri, Pune (MH) - 411028

Professional Experience
Work experience - Total Experience: - 18+ Years

Current Employer –WheelsEMI Private Limited (June’17 – At Present)

Designation: General Manager – IT Infrastructure & Information Security

WheelsEMI has emerged as the pioneer in financing pre-owned Two Wheelers and after adding New two-wheeler
finance in its product gamut, it has become a two-wheeler finance specialist in the country.
Today, they have over 3,00,000 customers across India; and have successfully disbursed loans more than INR 1000+
crores.
Currently, WheelsEMI are operational across 200+ Cities which include major Metros such as Pune, Bangalore, Chennai,
Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Jaipur, Mumbai & Delhi.
Project and Responsibility:
1. RBI Audit and Compliances: 500+ Crore NBFC
As a CISO I am responsible for information security deployment across the organization. We have approx. 40+ Physical
branch/RO/HO/BCP/DC/DR/BPOs and information security and DLP will be handled by me and my team. It includes
cloud based AV -Sophos InterceptX , UTM Firewall Fortigate/Forti Cloud.
2. IS Audit based on RBI Guidelines
3. CERT-In Direction review and Audit
4. ISMS ISO 27001 Gap Assessment and Recommendation
5. Data Centre Management:
AWS Infrastructure Migration: Our cloud strategy included both, the migration of our existing legacy systems as well as
building new cloud-native Microservices platform.
For the migration of our existing on-premise legacy systems, we have determined what should be in our target
environment and the migration strategy for each application.
 The Cloud infrastructure is built on Servers, SAN and VM.  Architecture and Design of Cloud Infrastructure is deployed
largely similar infrastructure in order to facilitate Cloud deployments and scalability based on business requirement. I
am responsible for Up and running of 50+ VMs over private cloud.
6. Branch, RO, DC, DR and BCP Infrastructure:
As a start-up growing organization, as a CIO, we need to plan implement and execute required infrastructure in agile
method.
7. Budgeting, LRP & Manpower Management
8. Infor SunSystems ERP Implementation:
The scope for implementation of the solution for financial and accounting purpose. The project cover the scope
design, sizing and requirement gathering with stack holder and Project monitoring.
The project was implemented for below mentioned module - General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable,
Fixed Assets, Integration with external System (LMS - FinnOne, HRMS – Zing HR, CRM & TDS Pack), Data Migration
from legacy System (Tally), Old LMS System (FinCraft – Nelito Systems)
9. Web/Application Hosting, SSO/SSL/Signer Certificate provisioning

Previous Employer –Bajaj Auto Limited – Auto Finance (Apr’11 – Jun’17)

Designation: Manager – IT

Bajaj Finance Ltd (Formerly Known as Bajaj Auto Finance Ltd) is one of the leading Non-Banking Financial Corporation
in India. Headquartered in Pune, the company's product offering includes Consumer Durable Loans, Lifestyle Finance, Digital
Product Finance, Personal Loans, Loan against Property, Small Business Loans, Home loans, Credit Cards, Two-wheeler and
Three-wheeler Loans.

Project and Responsibility:

1. ADFS Implementation – Single Sing ON

Mapping Soft match with AD object with Azure AD
Password sync between O365 AD and AD
Review the AD FS terminology
ADFS deployment and Implementation on Azure. Its includes
Implementing Active directory federation services v3.0 /v4.0.
Implementing Active directory federation service proxy v3.0 /v4.0.
Federate new domain with ADFS for windows single sign on including O365 and other
application who supports SAML token ( Application owner needs to help from
Application side )
Setup optional features as per the requirement of WEPLL including the following:
Setting up SSO with O365 and Domain
SSO needs to be done for few application
2. Inhouse Data Center Management:
Data Center of Bajaj Auto Finance is a facility composed of networked computers and storage that businesses and
other organizations use to organize, process, store and disseminate large amounts of data. A business typically relies
heavily upon the applications, services and data contained within a data center, making it a focal point and critical
asset for everyday operations.
As a Sr. Manager, I was responsible for Day to Day activity including Backup, network, compute, capacity and
availability management.
3. Oracle Exadata Migration from IBM P Series Platform:
The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is a computing platform optimized for running Oracle Database. Exadata is a
combined hardware and software platform that includes scale-out Intel x86-64 compute and storage servers, RoCE or
InfiniBand networking, we have implemented complete end to end migration from existing IBM P-Series Platform to
Oracle Exadata for Bajaj Finance. As a result, the entire process of EOD/BOD and EMO performance was executed
within reasonable timeframe.
4. Information Security Framework Implementation: ISO 27001
Implementing ISO 27001:2013 Certification was helped our company gain manifold and consistent benefits. Not only
will it keep your confidential data secure, it will instill a lot of confidence in your stakeholders and customers, seeing
how you are safeguarding your data against security threats. We have implanted successfully with help of consulting
form Mahindra Defense Limited.
5. FMS and User Experience Management:
As an IT Infrastructure head, I was responsible for day to day activity of FMS support managed by IBM.
6. Office 365 Email and Domain Migration from inhouse Exchange Server
7. BCP Site Implementation for 35% capacity of entire setup.
As a Data Center Head, the availability and business continuity are core responsibility. Well Defined DR site
implemented in another seismic zone.
 8. Hosted Contact Center for Customer Support
9. BYOD Implementation for 1400 Employee under on Hybrid Cloud:
The Basic need of BYOD implementation is for data security and availability of application/data for remote user like
sales and Collections FOS. We have implemented BYOD over Microsoft RDS platform and user profile data will be
backed up over Azure Cloud.

Previous Employer –Orpak Systems Limited formally (Gilbarco Veeder Root Ind. Pvt. Ltd.) (Oct’08 – April’11)
Designation: Sr. Engineer (TAC)

Orpak (Gilbarco Veeder-Root), is a supplier of fuel dispensers, point of sale systems, payment systems, forecourt
merchandising and support services.The company operates as a subsidiary of Fortive and its headquarters are located in
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. It employs approximately 4,000 people around the world, with sales, manufacturing,
research, development, and service locations in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim, Australia, the Middle
East and Africa.
Project and Responsibility:

As a Senior Engineer, I was responsible for IT Infrastructure implementation and operation support for Petroleum PSU
Retail Outlet Automation (HPCL, IOCL, Petron Corporation, Start Italiana & Ages GAS. The Service delivery, team building, add-on
order from client and regular improvement in IT Operation are the main responsibility.
1. Retail IT Infrastructure Project, Fuel Management Division
2. POS System Implementation for 278 Petroleum Retail Outlet
3. Remote Monitoring System - Hindustan Petroleum – Retail Automation Control Centre
4. Wireless Vehicle Identification System (wVIS)
5. Service Management Based on ITIL

Previous Employer –Honeywell Automation India Limited (Oct’06 – Jul’08)

Designation: Commissioning Engineer

Project and Responsibility:

1. IT Infrastructure Project, - E-Governance Project for INDIAN Fortune 500 PSU
2. Retail Outlet IT Infrastructure Deployment
3. Tank Interlock System
4. Windows Servers Management

Previous Employer –WICENET Limited (Aug’05 – May’06)

Designation: Software Programmer

As a software developer and fresher, I got the opportunity for brief study of Product profile design, configuration
manual design and create the packing for web-based user interface. It includes client support and web browser comparative
design using Java Script. Product is implemented for India, USA and Ghana (South Africa).