Merge pull request #5 from pubmania/mkdocs_migration

Create jekyll_archive.txt

.github/workflows/publish.yml

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+name: Build and Deploy
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    workflow_dispatch:
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Configure Git Credentials
+        run: |
+          git config user.name github-actions[bot]
+          git config user.email 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.x
+      - run: echo "cache_id=$(date --utc '+%V')" >> $GITHUB_ENV 
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          key: mkdocs-material-${{ env.cache_id }}
+          path: .cache
+          restore-keys: |
+            mkdocs-material-
+      - run: pip install -r requirements.txt 
+      - run: mkdocs gh-deploy --force
+        env:
+          REPO_URL: ${{ vars.REPO_URL }}
+          EDIT_URL: ${{ vars.EDIT_URL }}
+          SITE_URL: ${{ vars.SITE_URL }}
+          DISQUS_CODE: ${{ vars.DISQUS_CODE }}

docs/.authors.yml

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+authors:
+  techb0lt:
+    name: The Diabetic
+    description: Creator
+    avatar: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/102534612
+    url: https://github.com/techb0lt
+
+  ankit:
+    name: Ankit
+    description: Creator
+    country: UK
+    avatar: ./assets/images/profile_pix/profile_1.jpg
+    url: https://github.com/pubmania

docs/about/index.md

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+--- 
+title: "Ankit Mittal" 
+date: 
+    created: 2008-07-01 08:41:00
+    updated: 2024-08-14 08:40:00
+draft: false
+authors: [ankit]
+description: About the author 
+permalink: /about/ 
+toc: true
+hide: navigation
+---
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+<div align="center">
+    <span class="md-author" style="width:10rem;height:10rem">
+        <img alt="Ankit" src="../assets/images/profile_pix/profile_1.jpg">
+    </span>
+</div>
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+## EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Results-oriented Programme Manager, with over 21 years of experience in
+implementation and management of complex IT and Business Transformation
+initiatives. Passionate in the delivery of quality services and
+demonstrated ability to influence senior management decisions. History
+of results and progressive career growth through hands-on leadership,
+elimination of barriers and teamwork skills.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+## KEY COMPETENCIES
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+-   MSP registered practitioner. (Registration Number: MSPR/052974)
+-   PRINCE 2 practitioner. (Registration Number: P2R/220948)
+-   Lean and DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) certified.
+-   Strong Stakeholder Management with ability to provide consultancy to
+    Senior Management
+-   Commercially aware with an ability to translate technical jargon
+    from engineering teams into plain English for the benefit of
+    non-technical stakeholders and decision makers to ensure constant
+    and timely flow of relevant information across the project.
+-   Experience of working and managing projects in both accelerated
+    (Agile) as well as controlled (waterfall) development models 
+    and delivering in traditional on-prem as well as DevOps driven 
+    cloud deployments
+-   Managing multiple projects and programmes with large remote 
+    team size (80+)and budgets of up to 12M GBP.
+-   Over 15 years of Business Transformation Programme and Project
+    Management experience spanning across Financial Services
+    (Insurance and Banking), Aero-space, Manufacturing, Printing and
+    FMCG sectors.
+-   Proven technical expertise in database technologies (MSSQL, MySQL
+    and various BI Suites), web technologies and using Python 
+    for data analysis
+-   Thorough knowledge of DevOps methodology and associated technologies
+    (Git, Github, GitLab, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Selenium, Kubernetes) 
+    and platforms (Azure, AWS).
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+## PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+### Client: HP, various Govt. and Financial institutes across UK and Europe through IT Alliance.
+***Role: Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager/Management Consultant, 11/2014 - Till Date***
+
+-   Responsible for Print Modernisation and Transformation 
+    programme for two well known high street banks.
+-   Delivered MPCS (Managed Print Cloud Service) for several 
+    organisations including two international logistics provider, 
+    a UK govt. organisation and Nordics postal service provider.
+-   Delivered MPS (Managed Print Service) for two of the 
+    well known Financial Institute in the UK with a global 
+    presence across all continents with key focus on 
+    EMEA, APAC and United States.
+-   Driven the creation and maintenance of Knowledge Base
+    for North West Europe Market for print business operations 
+    while capturing, creating and implementing business processes 
+    delivering better customer experience and improved team 
+    satisfaction. 
+-   Outlined and delivered the complete PMO governance process in line
+    with programme management best practices.
+-   Matrix managed large teams - typically including a team of 
+    upto 2 - 10 country project managers, 3 technical
+    consultants, 2 - 20 technicians, 2 PMO support staff, 2 - 4 Helpdesk
+    Operations Managers, 3 - 6 developers and 2 - 4 project support officers.
+-   Engaged with operational and technical stakeholders from 
+    multiple organisations to deploy Print Modernisation and 
+    Transformation programmes as well as associated process changes, 
+    embedding the helpdesk and implementing changes with benefit tracking.
+-   Delivered new processes within HP to benefit tracking at 84% saving
+    with an overall reduction in effort of nearly 25 man-days each
+    month.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+### Client: Unilever, UK through CloudTalent.
+***Role: Senior Project Manager, 05/2014 = 10/2014***
+
+-   Engaged to manage a vendor selection and procurement project aimed
+    at delivering a new infrastructure, PaaS and SaaS contract for its
+    Enterprise Compute Service current mode of operation with a view to
+    be prepared for future mode of operation and associated
+    transformation.
+-   Responsible for planning, monitoring and reporting progress of the
+    project, stakeholder communication and engagement, weekly reports to
+    senior stakeholders at Unilever and CloudTalent, maintaining RAID
+    log, resourcing and managing project costs for CloudTalent.
+-   Managed the delivery of RFP to strict deadlines under high pressure
+    environment (5 months project).
+-   Engaged stakeholders based in different geographies and managing
+    their expectations.
+-   Prepared detailed weekly report slide decks and used them to drive
+    structured weekly client and internal delivery review.
+-   Organised confidential RFP related activities and communication with
+    various internal and external stakeholders.
+-   Managed and reported on costs and resource forecasts.
+-   Facilitated communication between CloudTalent and Unilever Subject
+    Matter Experts to expedite decisions.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+### Client: Brammer PLC, Knutsford, UK
+***Role: Programme Manager, 04/2013 - 04/2014***
+
+-   Engaged to set-up and manage the Trading Platform Programme aimed to
+    unify the IT infrastructure and a Target Operating Model in line
+    with both financial and technical strategic business goals.
+-   Responsible for planning and monitoring the time, cost and quality
+    for the programme, stakeholder communication, identifying and
+    embedding change within the organisation with minimal operational
+    disruption, provide structured governance for organisation wide
+    projects that impacted the programme vision, reporting programme
+    progress to Senior Management Team and Board of Directors.
+-   Rolled out the new service management framework that involved
+    migration of secondary and tertiary IT support from Manchester to
+    the IT co-sourcing partner based in Poland while keeping the primary
+    support in Manchester.
+-   Rollout of iPAD across UK, Germany and Europe as a Sales Support
+    Tool integrated with the Microsoft Dynamics (CRM).
+-   Implemented Enterprise Service Bus, Master Data Management database,
+    Transactions Database, Stock Database, abstracted layer for
+    localised ERP systems in different countries, Brammer e-shop for
+    European subsidiaries (Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Poland and
+    Czech)
+-   Initiated business transformation programme for pan-European Key
+    Accounts operations of Brammer aiming to deliver a target operating
+    model that supports collaborative cross border order management
+    while maximising savings for customer as well as Brammer.
+-   Set-up project management internally within Brammer PLC and resource
+    management practices with IT co-sourcing partners, mentored Junior
+    Project Managers and PMO Manager to establish regular reporting,
+    developed and introduced dashboard templates and Graduate Trainee on
+    techniques involved in Business Analysis such as six sigma
+    workshops, process mapping.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+### Employer: Amor Transportation Sector, Daresbury, UK
+***Role: Programme Manager and Senior Project Manager, 11/2011 - 04/2013***
+
+-   Engaged to deliver the programme aimed to development of a new
+    product called Chroma Human Resource Management System (CHRMS) as an
+    addition to the existing offering of Chroma Software Suite in
+    partnership with Manchester Airport while delivering implementation
+    of Chroma suite at several other airports in the UK and Europe.
+-   Responsible for planning, monitoring and reporting the progress of
+    programme and other implementation projects to external and internal
+    stakeholders, optimising resource usage between programme and other
+    projects, negotiating costs for change requests, agreeing delivery
+    time-frame and roadmap for enhancement requests, pre-sales support.
+-   Managed the complete development and delivery of new modular product
+    called Chroma Human Resource Management System (CHRMS).
+-   Managed business change within Transport Sector to deliver new
+    governance and streamline culture between FS Walker-Hughes and Amor
+    Group post the merger of two companies.
+-   Managed Infrastructure and Interface development projects part of
+    the EAL Separation programme.
+-   Delivered AMOR\'s Chroma Airport Suite software across national and
+    international airports.
+-   Provided responses to RFP's for Australian, Norwegian, Dubai and
+    American airports with two successes while others were yet to
+    decide.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+### Employer: Barclays Corporate, Northwich, UK.
+***Role: Project Manager (Business Transformation and IT), 05/2008 - 09/2011***
+
+-   Engaged to deliver business transformation and change initiatives
+    undertaken by the Operational Excellence Team of Barclays Corporate.
+-   Responsible for planning, monitoring and reporting of projects,
+    adhering to project management practice guidelines, ensure
+    commercially realisable benefits.
+-   Delivered a servicing activities hand-off model that created
+    capacity within sales realising a benefit of £350,000 in 3 months.
+-   Managed end to end rollout of Siebel and TotalView Workforce
+    Management system.
+-   Managed the move of IT support services, phased migration from
+    legacy to strategic VOIP solutions
+-   Delivered the secure email solution for communication between
+    BARCORP and its business partners.
+-   Delivered business transformation project aimed at segmentation of
+    client base following the organisation restructure
+-   Delivered an enhanced complaints management process framework within
+    6 months making the Barclays Corporate compliant to Regulatory
+    requirements and closing over 70 audit observations.
+-   Conducted feasibility study with an aim to recommend product that
+    will enable Automated KYC (Know Your Customer) and provided complete
+    recommendation.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+### Client: Aviva (then Norwich Union), York and Norwich, UK through Tata Consultancy Services.
+***Role: IT Project Manager, 07/2005 - 12/2007***
+
+-   Engaged to deliver development project, enhancement and support
+    services to agreed cost, schedule and quality for Financial Services
+    Applications Group within NUIT.
+-   Responsible for planning and governance of assigned projects,
+    managing staff and third party service providers and vendors,
+    identify resource requirements to feed into the business planning
+    process and interface between Business and IT community.
+-   Managed an electronic funds transfer systems migration project aimed
+    at replacing the 9 stand-alone systems through an enhanced Payment
+    Preparation System to cater for Chaps, Inter account Transfers,
+    International Payments and Foreign drafts.
+-   Managed policies migration with process to ensure phasing out of
+    retained policies.
+-   Enhancements to the Payment Preparation System to transmit payments
+    via Hexagon ABC and ensure conformance to European Payments Council
+    Resolution of 2005 in respect of Euro cross-border payment standard
+    (BIC & IBAN).
+-   Migration of old accounts from NU Cash-book to Heritage Cash-book
+    under Swiss-Re arrangement.
+-   Delivered the system upgrade of finance application suite.
+
+### Client: GE Healthcare and Amersham Biosciences, Sweden through Tata Consultancy Services.
+***Role: IT Projects and Engagement Manager, 07/2004 - 07/2005***
+
+-   Engaged to deliver the knowledge acquisition from Amersham
+    Biosciences IT Team based in Sweden and facilitate move of IT
+    Support Services to offshore.
+-   Responsible for working with client services and business partners
+    to ensure a seamless transition, stakeholder management, resource on
+    boarding, progress reporting, to be the escalation point, managing
+    enhancement projects.
+-   Built and delivered a successful outsourcing model aimed at reducing
+    the IT department's 2004 operating costs by 30%.
+-   Created a new work-flow for production implementation teams to
+    prioritize requests. Integrally involved with core team that
+    improved the process to separate support from development requests
+-   Reduced the support team's work-load by over 70% in two-months from
+    the original 300+ weekly requests by introducing new workflow and
+    collecting appropriate management information. As a result, team was
+    able to focus more on value-added enhancements and less on recurring
+    issues.
+-   Managed complex enhancement projects involving multiple technologies
+    (JAVA, JDE, Websphere, Apache) with teams based at Sweden, UK, India
+    and US.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+### Client: Tata Consultancy Services. Support Groups, Mumbai, India
+***Role: Project Leader, ESS-Ultimatix, 09/2003 - 07/2004***
+
+-   Project documentation, quality assurance, impact analysis, resource
+    planning related to Change Request and enhancements.
+-   Server Administration, Database design and maintenance.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+### Client: Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India through Tata Consultancy Services.
+***Role: Developer/Module Leader, SmartGov, 04/2001 - 09/2003***
+
+-   Designed, Developed and Tested Applications using PL/SQL stored
+    procedures, Lotus Script, JAVA, Javascript
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------