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Project Manager – IT
(Investment Banking Software)
Certified Project Management
Professional (PMP), Post Graduate in Business Management, Strong
focus on delivering value to business, Multi-lingual (English,
Hindi & Basic German)
Programme & Project Management
(10+ years)
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Turnkey
software development and maintenance projects
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Project
Planning, tracking, reporting, risks and issue management,
resource and cost management, quality processes definition
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Project
budget of EUR 3.5+ million with peak team size of 60+
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Stakeholder
and business user expectations management
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Expertise in
structured project management framework
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Outsourced
and offshore development projects
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Managed
multiple projects running in parallel.
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Setting up
project governance structure to provide optimum level of
management control
Software Engineering and
Process
(14+ years)
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Requirements
and project scope management, Hands-on experience in all phases
of Software development lifecycle
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Estimation
techniques, system analysis, architecture and database design
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Waterfall,
RUP, SSADM, DSDM and Agile development methodologies
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Software CMM
level 5
Banking / Investment Banking
Domain
(12 years
with [snip] systems)
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Core Banking
system, Payments & International Fund Transfer, SWIFT standards,
Settlement systems like TARGET, RTGS
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Pricing and
Billing system, Credit Limit Validation engine
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Investment banking - Portfolio management, Trade order
management , Trade lifecycle
Career Highlights and
Achievements
Program and Project
Management –
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Managed the
migration of 50+ applications and 8 mainframes to new data
center in 12 months time. (Budget EUR 2.0+ million). The program
has won “Best Back office Solution” award in
Financial News - Award for excellence in IT Europe 2006.
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Delivered
repeated success
through well defined & optimized project management processes
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Managed
delivery of 8 software projects with customer
satisfaction rating in top 95 percentile. (Total team size of
60+ and budget of EUR 3.5+ million).
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Managed
stakeholders expectations, project plans, issues & risks and
project scope
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Managed
delivery of SLA based 24*7 production support system with 99%
adherence.
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Managed Fixed
cost turnkey application development project of
400 Person months size.
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Reduced
project maintenance cost by 50%
after
successfully transitioning 6 projects to off-shore. Defined
optimal software engineering and project management processes.
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Delivered
results through multi-location teams (offshore and onsite) and
matrix teams
Software Engineering and
Quality Processes –
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Extensive
experience with all the phases of Software development life
cycle
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Defined
optimum processes
for more than 15 software development, maintenance and
production support projects
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Defined
organization level processes for project management and project
risk management processes.
Competency and Solution
Development -
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Proposed IT
service solutions as response to RFI/RFP for Independent testing
of applications, Fixed cost turnkey development project, 24*7
production support and application maintenance.
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Conducted
“Project Risk management” and “Transition form software
developer to project manager” training in the
organization.
Certification, Training and
Education
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Certified
Project Management Professional (PMP®)
from Project Management Institute, USA
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Trained on
“Organizations success with Project management, Portfolio
Management & PMO”
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Trained by
KPMG as Certified CMM assessment team member
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Familiar with
PRINCE 2 methodology
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Post Graduate
degree in Business Management
Employment
Details
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Freelance
Programme / Project manager for [snip]
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[snip],
London – a niche IT consultancy company that is joint venture of
Microsoft and Accenture
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Managed
various IT projects of [snip], Germany and
[snip], Singapore from November-1995 to
November-2006 through HCL Technologies.
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Worked for
[snip], Los Angeles, from March-1993 to October-1995.
Details
of Significant Projects
May 2007 – Sept 2007 -
[snip], London
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Programme
management and CIO co-ordination activities of a strategic
program to consolidate Data Centers of [snip], London.
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Delivering
success thru virtual team organization
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Programme
Management, scope definition, migration planning, tracking
application readiness for migration, presentations to project
manager / business users to facilitate planning and risk
management, process definition, coordination within the Bank.
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Process
definition, Programme Management and tracking
projects
Feb 2007 – May 2007 -
[snip], London
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Program
management of 7 projects spread across 3 clients (Vodafone, BT
and Rothschild). (Budget £1.0+ million)
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Multi-project
management, relationship management, Process definition
and Project tracking
Jan 2005 – Nov 2006 -
[snip], Germany
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Programme
management and CIO co-ordination activities of a strategic
program to consolidate and migrate data centers of
[snip], Germany. The program has won “Best Back office
Solution” award in Financial News - Award for
excellence in IT Europe 2006. (Budget EUR 2.0+ million)
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Programme
Management,
tracking applications readiness of multiple for move as per
plan, maintaining the move schedule
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Process
definition, coordination with 3rd party vendor IBM
and various other groups within the Bank. Ensuring the
implementation of best practices across the projects.
Jan 2003 – Dec 2004 -
[snip], Germany
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As Programme
Manager, Managed 3 accounts with budget of EUR 3.5 million.
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Managed the
portfolio of 6 software projects covering maintenance,
testing, 24*7 production support, migration and turnkey
development with team of 60+ resources.
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Implemented
requirement traceability, scope change management and project
cost management process in addition to other quality processes.
Participated in CMM level 5 assessments for the organization.
Jan 2001 – Dec 2002 -
[snip], Germany
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Project
Manager for 4 projects covering International Payments, German
Payments, Data-warehousing and Custom credit risk analysis
projects. Total team size of 40+.
(Budget EUR
2.5+ million)
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Headed
the
Center of Competency for Payments and straight
through processing (STP). Organized foundation and advance level
training programs in domain areas likes SWIFT, STP in Payments
domain, European Payment system, Pricing and Billing etc.
Jan 2001 – April 2001 -
[snip], India
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Project
Manager for turnkey development of “Portfolio Management
System”. The application is used for high net worth customers of
[snip] in India.
Mar 1997 – Dec 2000 -
[snip], Germany
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Project
manager for Cross Border Payments system, German Payments
system, Data-warehousing system, Custom credit risk analysis and
Customer limits projects handling the team of 30+ resources.
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Transitioned
4 applications
from Germany
to India that were identified for offshore maintenance.
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Project
Planning, customer interaction, task scheduling, delivery of
quality product and project management.
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Involved in
design and development of data-warehousing project.
Nov 1995–Feb 1997 -
[snip], Singapore
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Development
and production support of new core-banking product that
is used in Asia Pacific branches of [snip].
Mar 1993 – Oct 1995 -
[snip], LA.
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Worked as
On-Site System Analyst and Offshore Team Leader for turnkey
development of new metering system for [snip], USA.
Education Qualification
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1991–1993 Post
Graduation in Management Studies
from
Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore. This Institute is ranked No. 1 in
India and ranked in top 10 globally for research output.
Got the Grade point score of 6.2 out of 8.0.
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1986–1991 Graduation in Electrical Engineering
with 82%
marks. University topper in Electrical Engineering
discipline.
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