Mr. MD Agrawal
MD Agrawal is Head of IT and Deputy General Manager of IS department At Refinery division of Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (Mumbai, India), one of India's prime public sector undertakings in field of manufacturing and marketing of petroleum products.
Mr Agrawal is Past President cum President elect of Computer society of India which is largest body of IT professionals in India having over 60000 members
Mr Agrawal is President, SEARCC (www.searcc.org), confederation of south East Asia Computer societies.
Mr Agrawal is Fellow of Computer Society of India.
Mr. Agrawal carries over 29 years multi facet experience in managing and leading various projects and responsibilities in IT. He is instrumental leading over 50 major projects having total Turn Over of &10 Millions. Mr. Agrawal’s Professional experience expands in areas of IT strategy & Business Continuity planning, Project Management, Staff development, Knowledge Management , IT Infrastructure development including Data Centers, System , Network & Facility Management and developing and implementing Integrated IT solutions. With his rich experience, BPCL has accomplished various software and infrastructure development projects. He was instrumental recently bringing transformation for effective use of IT in the manufacturing division of BPCL. In his early career, he has acquired specialization on IBM Mainframe and corporate wide Infrastructure developments.
Currently he is leading a major physical security project for refinery division where an integrated system of CCTV network, Access control system, visitors pass with SAP is being deployed. He is also leading a big Project of integration of all back end systems encompassing all Refineries under BPM framework.
Contribution professional bodies including CSI: Mr MD Agrawal is Founder President of CSI CIO Club in India and had organized more than 100 technical programs .
Under his leadership, CSI hosted most successful National conventions , CSI 2010 , CSI 2004 in year 2004 and in 1999 - CSI 99 . Instrumental of organizing numerous Workshops and events. He has made a role model for Chapter activities. He has been past chairman of CSI Mumbai Chapter. He has spearheaded students wing of CSI and promoted many student chapters. For his contribution TO CSI, he was awarded Chapter Patron Award.
Mr. Agrawal has received Fellowship award of CSI; Highest award CSI offer to one individual for outstanding contribution to society and to industry.
He has delivered talks in National & International Conferences including Delphi’s Summit in San Diago, Marc Evans events in Singapore and Indonesia. Recently he was invited Economic Times Summit in Mumbai and BI International conference held by Marcus Evans in Singapore.
He is freelance writer in National Magazines including Network Magazine on subject like Disaster Management, Network Planning and Knowledge Management. He is hon. Visiting faculty to many organizations and education institutions.
Recently, Agrawal’s contribution to IT was recognized by bestowing to BPCL
With following two awards.
1. CIO 100 Asia Pacific in year 2008
2. CIO Best CIO award 2010
3. PC Quest Best IT Governance award in year 2008
4. Seagate Enterprise Intelligent Award instituted by Express Group in Year 2004
5. International Best Practices Award of Delphi, an US based Research body , in Year 2002
He is MSc. Mathematics Gold Medallist and two year teaching experience for PG classes and two year research experience, before joining BPCL.