Shell Grasbrook Lubricants Centre (GLC) at Hamburg, Germany manufactures a large range of oil-based lubricants products. Manufacturing Enterprise system (MES or MOM) at GLC is coming to its end of life. Scope of the project is RFP phase and the Implementation phase which is to replace this entire system with a new age modern solution aligning with global digital transformation strategy. • Planned and successfully delivered the entire RFP process in collaboration with various stakeholders… Show more Shell Grasbrook Lubricants Centre (GLC) at Hamburg, Germany manufactures a large range of oil-based lubricants products. Manufacturing Enterprise system (MES or MOM) at GLC is coming to its end of life. Scope of the project is RFP phase and the Implementation phase which is to replace this entire system with a new age modern solution aligning with global digital transformation strategy. • Planned and successfully delivered the entire RFP process in collaboration with various stakeholders. Evaluated solutions from global vendors such as Siemens, AVEVA, Schneider Electric, GE … Close collaboration with Business SMEs, and Global Process teams to develop insights into plant complexity, process flow, data flow, and integration areas.• End to End project management of Design and Implementation plan with the vendor and ensuring both the plans and delivery milestones are aligned. Ensuring the vendor delivers to the expectations. Status reporting, Steering committee and DRB management. Jan 2021 – Apr 2023/ 20 FTE/ $1.5M Logistics Control Tower (LCT) is a SaaS based track and trace logistic program for 3PL operators/FF and haulers. The scope of the program was successful implementation of the solution across 7 countries within APME ensuring value delivery is measured.• Successfully rolled out the solution to all the planned countries India/Thailand/Indonesia/Philippines/Singapore/Malaysia/Pakistan with 95% milestone accuracy on the agreed KPIs. • LCT project won the Executive Choice Award from Shell Executive Choice award (IT-GM), Q3 2021, Shell SVP CIO Award, Q4 2021, Asian Oil & Gas awards 2021 under Digital transformation category (external) • Devised a template-based approach to ensure quicker and smoother rollout. Optimized process to save efforts and cost of 20% on the overall budget. Multiple country rollouts in-parallel successfully.CGI (additional responsibilities): Competency lead for Project Management and Scrum. Show less

SI is a subsurface data visualization and interpretation system which collects functionality from multiple applications into a single workspace that supports numerous workflow. The program involves multiple global teams working on delivering a complex solutions used by Geologists and Geophysicists who use the data for all Upstream operations.Key Results Areas:• Leading, Planning and executing deliveries of multiple self-sufficient agile teams using Scaled Agile. • Established strong… Show more SI is a subsurface data visualization and interpretation system which collects functionality from multiple applications into a single workspace that supports numerous workflow. The program involves multiple global teams working on delivering a complex solutions used by Geologists and Geophysicists who use the data for all Upstream operations.Key Results Areas:• Leading, Planning and executing deliveries of multiple self-sufficient agile teams using Scaled Agile. • Established strong relationships with clients and also influenced clients with additional CGI services • Part of the Lean Portfolio Management. Identify, analyze, and mitigate risk exposure at all levels.• Consistently achieve expected KPI (Margins, Attrition …) year on year. Generating revenue of annually with continuous growth. Contributing to a high level of client satisfaction by contributing to quality & on time delivery. • Established delivery excellence approach, including key performance indicators and its measurement. Ensure teams are engaged and deliver as per plan and maintain quality and timelines as per expectations. Teams include Development/DEVOPS/AWS team.• Improvement and Innovations as a continuous process. • Aligning and driving, BU Level strategic priorities and drive delivery accordingly. • Executing multiple initiatives within the program to add value. Show less

Accountable for planning, delivering and growing a large complex program called IP-Factory, which included multiple CGI IP/services delivery teams. Portfolio contains products for HealthCare, Child Welfare, Food Industry, Mobility, Maps, Real estate, and other areas.Key Result Areas:• Work with product management, engineering and support heads across geographies to plan and execute transitioning and setup of cross-functional delivery teams. Scaling the team to deliver excellent… Show more Accountable for planning, delivering and growing a large complex program called IP-Factory, which included multiple CGI IP/services delivery teams. Portfolio contains products for HealthCare, Child Welfare, Food Industry, Mobility, Maps, Real estate, and other areas.Key Result Areas:• Work with product management, engineering and support heads across geographies to plan and execute transitioning and setup of cross-functional delivery teams. Scaling the team to deliver excellent solutions (Manufacturing ERP, Real estate, Financial Products). • Leading a team of 140+ to deliver projects for multiple products/IP which owned by Finland. IP portfolio includes domains such as Food Processing, Mobility, Maps, Real estate, and other areas.• Consistently achieved the expected KPI (Margins, Attrition …) year on year. Generating revenue of annually with ensuring continuous growth. • Established delivery excellence approach, including key performance indicators and its measurement at program level. • Identifying leads with Prime BU during assignments and promoting offshore CGI expertise with Prime BU to help them achieve their goals in partnership with leadership team to develop these into opportunities. • Acting as a Prime point of contact for Prime BU. Driving adoption of productivity/enhancement tools ensuring continuous improvements in delivery efficiency• Building and demonstrating reusable assets, productivity improvement solutions and service offerings. Contributing to organic growth as per BU targets• Agile coach, Mentoring and guiding individual project manager to ensure teams remain strategized on delivery.• Strategize governance model and agree with all stakeholders on the approach.• Instrumental in growing the team from 30 in 2015 to 140+.• Transitioned team from traditional methodology to agile methodology. Setup Scaled-Agile teams globally.• Adopt DEVOPS across the team, stream line CI/CD. • Hercules award winner 2017 (Best Manager). Show less

Product is a CGI’s global trade finance solution, which is a fully integrated SaaS solution to various banks worldwide.Key Results Area• Delivered multiple releases using the shared global delivery team of 70+ FTEs. • Streamlined progress tracking, monitoring, and corrective measures where ever necessary. Ensured that the team (onshore/offshore) have healthy collaboration and communicate adequately.• Risks identification, have mitigation plans with contingencies being agreed… Show more Product is a CGI’s global trade finance solution, which is a fully integrated SaaS solution to various banks worldwide.Key Results Area• Delivered multiple releases using the shared global delivery team of 70+ FTEs. • Streamlined progress tracking, monitoring, and corrective measures where ever necessary. Ensured that the team (onshore/offshore) have healthy collaboration and communicate adequately.• Risks identification, have mitigation plans with contingencies being agreed with relevant stakeholders.• Share responsibilities with Global team on all project management responsibilities Show less

Product Development is an internal initiative to develop a system which caters to a “core” solution for Indian payments with primary function to handle low value high-volume transactions based on electronic files.Key Result Areas:• Create planning artifacts such as WBS, Estimates, Schedule, Budget, Resource Profile for the scope of the project• Ensure risks, issues are identified and have mitigation plans and that all contingencies needed are agreed with the stakeholders.

The Solution facilitates as a payment processing hub for bulk & low value payments to support multiple internal businesses or applications, looks after access from multiple external clearing & settlement mechanisms (ACH / RTGS systems) and handles bilateral clearing arrangements across various countries.Key Result Areas:• Initiated as Staff Augmentation Project and later transformed as a fully owned delivery program in India• Successfully handled phases from requirement analysis to… Show more The Solution facilitates as a payment processing hub for bulk & low value payments to support multiple internal businesses or applications, looks after access from multiple external clearing & settlement mechanisms (ACH / RTGS systems) and handles bilateral clearing arrangements across various countries.Key Result Areas:• Initiated as Staff Augmentation Project and later transformed as a fully owned delivery program in India• Successfully handled phases from requirement analysis to production support out of India• Grew the team from 10 to 80+ FTEs within a year• Delivery of multiple projects & releases of the product to various clients using blended delivery model.• Provided support for third party technical upgrades from India team to clients• Recognized as excellent example of blended delivery in multiple stakeholders across various countries Show less

Solution acts as high capacity network-independent messaging solution to provide support for SWIFT, Non-SWIFT, Intra-bank and Inter-Bank links. It is used by banks & financial institutions as messaging gateway with multiple host interfaces. Key Result Areas: • Planning, executing and delivery of projects & releases to various clients using blended delivery model (offshore and other shore teams).• Assuring the timely execution of these projects or releases as per the plan in a… Show more Solution acts as high capacity network-independent messaging solution to provide support for SWIFT, Non-SWIFT, Intra-bank and Inter-Bank links. It is used by banks & financial institutions as messaging gateway with multiple host interfaces. Key Result Areas: • Planning, executing and delivery of projects & releases to various clients using blended delivery model (offshore and other shore teams).• Assuring the timely execution of these projects or releases as per the plan in a professional & cost effective manner• Continuous risk management for each key milestone. Ensuring identified risks have mitigation plans with all needed contingencies of stakeholders• Verifying that all work is completed by team members as per defined quality process & other standards. Ensure all artifacts are available as per requirements and ensuring that internal & external project audits do not result in any non-compliance• Weekly & monthly reports for senior management as per local instructions for project reporting and tracking. Show less

Solution developed was a component-based solution for global payments. It was considered as integrated version of components owned by Logica. It was modelled on a Service Oriented Architecture in which all business functions are specified as independent services with well-defined callable interfaces, which were orchestrated in a defined sequence to form a business process using a work flow manager.Key Result Areas:• Conducted discussions & reviews for technical and functional documents… Show more Solution developed was a component-based solution for global payments. It was considered as integrated version of components owned by Logica. It was modelled on a Service Oriented Architecture in which all business functions are specified as independent services with well-defined callable interfaces, which were orchestrated in a defined sequence to form a business process using a work flow manager.Key Result Areas:• Conducted discussions & reviews for technical and functional documents and ensured that all technical deliverable like design & code were quality controlled • Mentored design team during the course of project execution• Coached the development team to deliver work packs on time with required quality and no slippages • Ensured team deliver assigned tasks with required quality and ensured that the team was adhered to quality procedures• Reviewed all artifacts (design documents, code & test logs) in BLR and verified their adherence to required standards Show less

Solution was a user interface for Integrated Accounting System of a central bank in India. System facilitated a hub for the bank users to conduct banking operations by staff on UI workstations. It was being allotted to Integrated Accounting Unit independently. Project ensured connectivity to IAS system locally or remotely.Key Result Areas:• Managed the team to deliver assigned tasks with desired quality & allocated time• Handled a vendor from Chennai to deliver a Document Management… Show more Solution was a user interface for Integrated Accounting System of a central bank in India. System facilitated a hub for the bank users to conduct banking operations by staff on UI workstations. It was being allotted to Integrated Accounting Unit independently. Project ensured connectivity to IAS system locally or remotely.Key Result Areas:• Managed the team to deliver assigned tasks with desired quality & allocated time• Handled a vendor from Chennai to deliver a Document Management System• Functioned as System Expert to interact with acceptance team for preparing test cases & test scripts.• Worked as an interface for delivered Document Management System to interface using C++ & COM Technology and signed & verified documents for their authenticity with proper security Show less

Multiple Roles (last Role-Project Lead) at Logica (now CGI) May1999–Jan2003Product functioned as a Card & Merchant Management System for both issuing banks and bank (acquiring transactions). It focussed to needs of financial institutions that issued credit & debit cards and merchant transactions. System interfaced with major Interchanges like MasterCard, VISA, Europay & AMEX. Product utilised a Client or Server Architecture (server comprised of end of day batch process that was invoked… Show more Multiple Roles (last Role-Project Lead) at Logica (now CGI) May1999–Jan2003Product functioned as a Card & Merchant Management System for both issuing banks and bank (acquiring transactions). It focussed to needs of financial institutions that issued credit & debit cards and merchant transactions. System interfaced with major Interchanges like MasterCard, VISA, Europay & AMEX. Product utilised a Client or Server Architecture (server comprised of end of day batch process that was invoked from client). The client used 3-tier Architecture Data Object, Business Object and User Interface Object.Key Result Areas:• Functioned as Project Lead for Baseline 5.2, involved in planning, estimation and people management of 8 members with proper analysis, design, development, testing & maintenance. Received appreciation for quality procedures and involved in getting zero NC during external TICK-IT auditing • Worked as Team Lead for MasterCard IPM Compliance Project. Was responsible in preparation of case study document that formed the basis of this project• Managed client & server team in incorporate changes in the product• Played a significant role in development of AMEX or Finplus Project and appreciated for work as the release went live with client (eServices, Poland) without reporting of a single bug • Team lead to the development of MasterCard INET Clearing Processes in QCardS• Handled the certified National Bank of Sharjah (NBS) for INET with Master Card• Incorporated QCardS Issuer for Centurion Bank, Mumbai in going live for the same (1st line of support for this bank)• played various other roles like DBA and other activities during product execution • Looked after pre-sales activities by providing information through RFI & RFP Show less