Dhananjay Satale

SENIOR IT OPERATIONS PROFESSIONAL

An enterprising leader offering chronicled success of 20 years in Process Excellence, Business
Operations, and Strategy Planning; positioning companies for the next level of growth with an
entrepreneurial bent of mind.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhananjay-satale-4758ab244/

sataledm.iitb@gmail.com +91-9892696403

Profile Summary
❖ PRINCE2, ITIL and Scrum Certified Professional with experience in conceptualizing & implementing effective ideas / strategies which adds value
to organization through inspiring leadership, rich experience & innovation excellence
❖ Strong experience in product development lifecycle. Partner with stakeholders to deliver, maintain, and operate enterprise-wide solutions, project
strategy, schedule, milestones, tasks, and estimates
❖ Comprehensive experience in enhancing value of operating business units through process improvements focused on best practice identification
and implementation. Experience in cloud, data management, analytics, AI/ML, Data Security and service-oriented Architecture.
❖ Built, managed and delivered large project across multiple practices using agile and diversified cultural locations (Onshore & Offshore); vast
exposure in designing architecture, developing, maintaining, testing and releasing solutions
❖ Led culturally diverse IT teams of 100 members across multiple technology and functional areas; directed business and IT project portfolios, digital
transformation, balancing resources, demand, opportunity, ROI and risk
❖ Fusing entrepreneurial drive & vision to identify & create new markets & harvesting untapped business opportunities
❖ Proficiency in driving IT overall operations inclusive of defining the IT roadmap, budgeting, technology evaluation, & execution of various projects
❖ Designed strategic transformation plans & implemented translating business strategies into tactical operating that leveraged business enablement,
reduced costs and streamlined operations to ensure competitiveness
❖ Align the processes, tools and people to deliver effective and efficient services to the enterprise
❖ Stimulated insight and governance of IT projects for deployment of customers and internal financial services solutions
❖ System integration experience using web services and other web based technologies
❖ A keen planner, strategist & implementer with skills in managing technology development including technology/product conception and project
definition and development activities

Core Competencies

Strategic Planning / IT Operations Business Operations & Excellence Transformation & Transition Management

Project & Delivery Management Budgeting & Forecasting Business Continuity Management

Cost & Resource Optimisation Stakeholder / Vendor Management Team Building & Leadership

Soft Skill Education

Collaborator
Masters of Technology in Remote Sensing from
2003
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Communicator

Planner
1999 BE from Government College of Engineering, Karad
Innovater

Intuitive
2021 LLB from Mumbai University

Career Timeline

2003-2007 2007-2009 2009-2012 2012-2013 2013-2017 Since 2017

 Significant Accomplishments
IIT Bombay, Development and Relations Foundation
❖ Steered efforts in setting up section 8 Company/ Foundation for IIT Bombay
❖ Strategized various IT initiatives helped increase funding by 100% in two years
❖ Spearheaded planning & budgeting of IT operations, control of operational and capital costs, technology implementation, transition and delivery;
led a team of technical and operations personnel and over 10 vendors (across IT & Operations)

UltraTech Cement (Aditya Birla Group)

❖ Extended Shutdown Management solution which reduced overall turnaround time for UTCL plant’s annual shutdowns and increased production
throughput
❖ Implemented ERP based, Mobile, IOT and innovative IT applications which resulted in bringing in operations efficiency
❖ Slashed turnaround time of issue resolution as well as number of incidents with continuous improvement suggestion

Larsen & Turbo Technology Services

❖ Built a project team from 30 to 200 in a span of 2 years and maintained a strong client repo and multi-fold the business
❖ Established offshore development centre of an Atlanta based manufacturing client at Mumbai office and made it working within couple of
months from inception
❖ Directed Projects ranged from INR 20 Lakhs / US$ 25 Thousand - INR 100 Crores / US$ 12 Million in value with a duration of 24 months

Work Experience
Dec’17- March’23: IIT Bombay DRF, Mumbai as VP – Operations/ CTO
Role:
❖ Acting as a Consultant to analyse the issues, bottlenecks and automating process through different system implementations. Lead the technical
implementation, designing system architecture and support of solutions and service offerings to meet strategic needs.
❖ Lead the technical implementation, designing system architecture and support of solutions and service offerings to meet strategic needs
❖ Steering cost effective innovative solutions and new technologies for adoption and usability
❖ Spearheading technical and application management lifecycle, innovate, lead, test, deploy; delivering project as per vision, direction and road map
❖ Strategizing and implementing policies for infrastructure, applications, cloud, data privacy, data security, database, analytics and BI
❖ Responsible for the continuous compliance to company policies/directives and the Indian company law act
❖ Defining budget and forecasting for the financial year and ensure optimum utilization of the finances
❖ Studying business problems, technology needs of various departments and building solutions to increase efficiency by automation and
streamlined systems
❖ Purchasing efficient and cost effective technological equipment and software for improving operational efficiency
❖ Preparing quarterly board meeting agenda and ensure statutory and regulatory compliance for IITBDRF
❖ Assist in building relationships with vendors and creating cost-efficient contracts
❖ Documenting the processes, defining SOP’s and suggesting changes as per industry best practices
❖ Creating Dashboards and presenting to the management on the performance

Mar’13 - Dec'17: UltraTech Cement (Aditya Birla Group), Mumbai as Project Management
Role:
❖ Design architecture and delivered end-to-end multiple projects from conceptualization stage to technology mapping till final execution of projects &
support
❖ Extended innovative solutions and automation for 40 Ultratech plants spread across India
❖ Institutionalized IT Governance & program management for overall IT service delivery, SLA, functional response management, service level
management, operations management, outsourced partners and vendor management, enforcing SLA, assets management, inventory control and
forecasting, deliver operation level agreement to internal stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers
❖ Collaborated with the concerned Senior Management to assist in developing organization’s practice in the Cement Industry
❖ Defined Critical Success Factors (CSFs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other objectives that must be met by the project requirements
including non-functional requirements like Capacity handling, Response time, secure access, Alerting, Monitoring
❖ Provided support during Requirement Gathering, Signoff, Architecture Design, Technology Evaluation, Preparation of SOW, Impact Analysis,
Change Management and Roll-outs
❖ Collaborated with the stakeholders during the course of risk analysis, problem diagnoses, requirements gathering, detailed level design,
development, User Acceptance Tests (UAT) and production implementation to ensure that optimal resolutions were achieved
❖ Spearheaded implementation of processes, managing change and supporting effective management of change, in close coordination with the
project steering board.
❖ Directed Project Management activities including project initiation, scoping, solutioning, estimation, project planning, risk management, resource
staffing / management, account mining, solutions delivery and benefits tracking
❖ Mapped stakeholder’s requirements and provided them best solutions
❖ Front led various projects and ensuring delivery of projects within the time & cost parameters with a high standard of quality

Previous Experience

May’12 - Mar’13: Writer Relocations, Lalbaug as Sr. Manager

Dec’09 - May’12: Larsen & Turbo Technology Services as Manager

Jun’07 - Dec’09: 3i Infotech Ltd. as Team Lead

Dec’03 - Jun’07: Rolta India Ltd., Mumbai as Manager

 Certifications & Training

❖ Scrum, PRINCE2 and ITIL Certified professional

❖ Six Sigma Green Belt Certified from ACBC, UK
❖ Business Process Re-engineering and IT Implementation Training

Technical Skills

❖ Database: Oracle, SQL Server 2000/2005, MY SQL & MS Access

❖ Languages: C#, ASP.NET, HTML, &Java
❖ Tools: Microsoft Project 2003, DevOps
❖ ERP: SAP PS/ PM/ MM, UI5, Netweaver Gateway

Personal Details
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Date of Birth: 29 May 1978
Languages Known: Hindi, Marathi & English
Address: C31, New Bombay Railwaymen’s CHS, Sector-2, Vashi, New Bombay – 400703