Amit Banerjee

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Head of Infrastructure and Digital Workplace @ American Family Insurance
Tampa, FL, US
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More than 30 years of Global Financial Services experience, with demonstrated capability to manage large cross-functional initiatives in a geographically distributed international (US, Western Europe and Asia) team setting. Executed 20+ medium/large size M&As during this period as lead technology executive for my company.Managed multi-million-dollar IT budgets, producing year over year savings, functioning at business unit CIO levels in large fortune 500 companies, responsible for product development in a wide range of financial service businesses, project management, quality assurance, helpdesk, hybrid cloud compute/voice/data infrastructure and IT operations.Provided Executive level representation of the Company with Banking and Brokerage related Compliance and regulatory bodies in US, Europe and APAC. Established ISO Messaging Standard (15022) and gained acceptance across International Banking Community for securities messaging used in transactions between financial institutions.Built technology platforms which are award winning (webby award) and considered state-of-the-art and leading edge, acknowledged by independent agencies and most of the peers in the International Financial Services Industry.Specialties: eCommerceScalable ArchitecturesM&A IntegrationsFinancial Services

Amit Banerjee's Current Company Details
American Family Insurance

American Family Insurance

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Head of Infrastructure and Digital Workplace
Tampa, FL, US
Website:
amfam.com
Employees:
18151
Amit Banerjee Work Experience Details
  • American Family Insurance
    Head Of Infrastructure And Digital Workplace
    American Family Insurance
    Tampa, Fl, Us
  • American Family Insurance
    Head Of Infrastructure & Digital Workplace
    American Family Insurance Sep 2023 - Present
    Madison, Wi, Us
    Responsible for all infrastructure (Compute, Network, Voice, Devices) at American Family Insurance and Operating companies which includes its Data Centers, AWS, GCP and Azure footprint in addition to service desk supporting our distributed user base and their end user experience.⦁ Migrated many of our OpCo Datacenters nationwide between two Equinix colocations, the other half this DC consolidation is scheduled for this year saving the company substantial real estate and (facilities) support costs.
  • American Family Insurance
    Head Of Platform Engineering, Enterprise One Platform (E1P),
    American Family Insurance Feb 2021 - Sep 2023
    Madison, Wi, Us
    Responsible for Delivery processes & support, technology scalability strategy, Policy, Billing & Customer platforms to achieve reusable capabilities and migration to a single platform which supports technology needs to execute business functions for all business lines on a unified, reusable and customizable EnterpriseOnePlatform (E1P).⦁ Migrated multiple Operating company/products to the Strategic Platform, enabling shut down of hundreds of legacy services.⦁ Externalized rating (Ratabase), document processing (Smartcomm & Nuxeo), payment processing, (paymentus) underwriting rules (Sapiens) and rate making (custom developed) from monolithic (Guidewire) Policy, Billing and Claims functionality into micro-services.⦁ Provided real-time observability and (architectural) drift monitoring of all (execute, messaging & persist) components of E1P.⦁ Provided hands-off B/G deployment (& tracking) through innovative use of our CI/CD technology stack (gitlab, Artifactory) while enforcing NFRs (Non-Functional Requirements).⦁ Provided integration capability of key Insurance data to Salesforce (CRM), Reltio (MDM) and GCP (Big Table) for Sales & Servicing.⦁ Implemented an exhaustive (& enforceable) set of reusable design patterns and IAC (Infrastructure as Code) to enable a testable DR capability of E1P hybrid footprint to (detect &) survive a ransomware attack disaster recovery.⦁ Enforced shift left of security & vulnerability patching of all developed code pipelines with (SAST, DAST and) real time feed from industry alerting systems of new code vulnerabilities found in running code.
  • Connect, Powered By American Family Insurance
    Head Of Information Technology
    Connect, Powered By American Family Insurance Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
    De Pere, Wisconsin, Us
    Member of the Senior Leadership Team of this Operating Company responsible for all aspects of Technology.• Migrated & rebranded website from IBM hosted to AWS and B2C session management from Siteminder to Okta.• Technology lead to successfully spin-off Auto & Home Insurance business from Ameriprise Financial and merge with American Family Insurance within the one-year TSA period separating all technology layers without impacting business functions.• Migrated all business unit users from legacy Avaya to hosted Cisco+NICE & Genesis PureConnect integrated phone/recording systems.• Moved entire IT shop (including infrastructure engineering) from waterfall SDLC to (cross functional) Agile Squads & Guilds, achieving weekday releases using CI/CD technology for applications & infrastructure-as-code across a hybrid (on-prem DC & AWS) applications foot print.
  • Ameriprise Financial
    Head Of Information Technology, Auto & Home Insurance
    Ameriprise Financial Jul 2017 - Oct 2019
    Minneapolis, Mn, Us
    Officer & Member of the Operating Committee, responsible for all technology aspects, regulatory compliance & strategy (Datacenter, Voice & Data, Applications) supporting the business unit. • Working on multi-year initiative to build a cutting-edge policy, rating, claims, billing and service platform for our (Auto, Home, Umbrella) insurance product lines.• Deployed a cost-effective technology to be fully (certified) PCI compliant.• Delivered costs savings by implementing technology solutions for call center (IVR screen pops, Nexidia), Operations (OCR), self-service data analytics (PowerBI, PowerApps on Azure) and document management (Box.com). • Brought down the DR RTO to less than 4 hours and recently demonstrated it with a successful unannounced DR test.• Deployed (online & offline) quote aggregation technology to be able to grow our insurance (& agency) business by an order of magnitude.• Deployed RPA technology which is expected to provide substantial savings even within the first year of operation.
  • Raymond James Financial Inc.
    Vice President, Trading Systems
    Raymond James Financial Inc. Aug 2014 - Jul 2017
    St. Petersburg, Florida, Us
    Responsible for support, enhancement and modernization of Raymond James trading applications that support:• Equity and options trading,• Mutual funds trading,• Fixed income trading.• Annuities and insurance products trading.• Alternatives like UITs, IPOs, SMAs etc .Managed Development of next generation of wealth management platform after proposing and getting approval for a multi-year product strategy to compete with both Robo and Wirehouse advisor platforms. Phase I of this product launched to users enables (rules engine based) multi-order generation across equities, options and mutual funds towards a target allocation and a platform ready to incorporate (in future phases) fixed income, UITs and other instruments for order entry, order verification and order tracking over the life time of a group of diverse instrument orders.
  • Bny Mellon
    Managing Director, Enterprise Ecommerce Services
    Bny Mellon Apr 2012 - Aug 2014
    New York, Ny, Us
    Responsible for Architectural Governance & Technology roadmap for building every client facing BNY Mellon application, used by some of the largest global financial services companies and corporations.Responsible for development of reusable Shared Services, such as:* Vendor Neutral Reporting as a service,* Complex event processing as a service,* Enterprise search as a service.* Portal Framework Service.* Mobile Framework and Device Registration Service.* NoSQL (BigData) as a Service,* SOA/API Registry and ESB as a Service,* Alerts & Messaging as a Service.* Data Integration (ETL) as a Service.* Engineering of BNY Mellon’s private cloud to provide PaaS, For (re)use across all BNY Mellon Lines of business IT divisions to solve diverse business problems. On target to reduce overall annual IT spend by planned ~15% over a 3 year period through low cost technology stack standards and corporate wide service/framework reuse.
  • Fidelity National Financial
    Senior Vice President, Servicelink
    Fidelity National Financial Mar 2010 - Apr 2012
    Jacksonville, Fl, Us
    Managed Shared Services for the Enterprise, including architecture, database design, shared framework development, configuration/release management, load testing & automation, QA, Pre-Production Data Center and level II escalation of all production issues. * Developed, Evangelized and moved the enterprise towards a 3-year rolling technology road map from a monolithic set of business applications to a services oriented one, where common services like reporting, forms, mapping, business rules, cryptography etc., can be leverage by all (new & old) business specific application platforms.* Rearchitected the biggest(5+ million lines) legacy technology stack to improve scale (more than double the order handling capacity) and reduce down time from almost 2-3 times daily outage to near zero without additional investment in hardware.* Rebuilt the internet facing application stack using Phonegap, GWT, Spring, JBoss/WAS/IIS with federated single sign-on framework to be able to securely share sessions, content and private label within a short time-to-market of signing up new partners/customers.
  • E*Trade Financial
    Vice President, Enterprise Architecture
    E*Trade Financial Mar 2009 - Mar 2010
    Us
    Enterprise Architecture team is responsible for development & delivery of all the shared frameworks that business line development groups use to develop business specific services, IT processes and the Strategy for the Next Generation of E*TRADE Financial’s technology. This includes providing architectural governance for all projects that E*Trade undertakes as well as roll out of best practices and tools to ensure consistent and quality deliverable for all development groups within the company.* Architected, Proposed, Evangelized and Lead the development of E*TRADE’s Next Generation architecture framework to upgrade the website towards a multilingual, multichannel(wireless, voice & web), personalized, Web 2.0 user experience supported by Oauth based delegated authorization, Jive based Community and Comet based streaming functionality. This will be the first major upgrade to the retail website technology stack by the architecture team in the last 6 years that will support the My E*Trade & Community experience for all the business units.* Architected the Migration program to migrate the company databases (from primarily Sybase) to Oracle 11g Product Suite. This includes the use of their BPMS suite, TimesTen, GoldenGate, ODI and other major products in addition to the migration/fallback of main database engine and the (middle) services layer.
  • E*Trade Financial
    Vice President, E*Trade International, Cio
    E*Trade Financial Jan 2006 - Jul 2009
    Us
    * Developed the E*TRADE Asia IT strategy for the board. * Moved all of Investdirect’s retail business lines to in-house integrated open source based scalable platforms(including CRM, Equity/MF/Commodities Trading, Business Intelligence, Account Opening with imaging, Web presence) saving multi-million dollars worth of licensing fees at the same time increasing service levels and availability. * Following a HSBC buy out intergrated these platforms with HSBC banking technologies towards a strategic direction to make it the Global Retail Brokerage Platform for HSBC worldwide.* Successfully outsourced entire E*TRADE’s QA organization which runs completely out of offshore location supporting bi-weekly upgrades to all E*TRADE financial business lines. * Implemented Offshore Development Center for entire E*TRADE, which provides significant comp & benefits cost savings company wide in IT spends.
  • E*Trade Financial
    Vice President, Cio
    E*Trade Financial Apr 2003 - Jan 2006
    Us
    As the CIO for E*TRADE Bank entity, responsible for all aspects of technology and operations for the Bank to E*TRADE Financial, its regulators (OTS, FDIC) and various audit (GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley) entities. As a part of the executive management team, actively participated in due diligence for E*TRADE potential acquisitions, investments and other joint venture opportunities worldwide.* Raised availability metrics and increased web site speed to the fastest in the industry as measured by Keynote and received Forbes best of the web award, 2005 and Webby Award, 2005.* Launched first in the industry Quick Transfer feature to move money with anti-fraud validations from all financial vehicles (home equity, credit cards, margin, and deposits) across institutions with one click.* Launched first in the industry ET Complete product, integrating Cash Management and Trading services within one single account. This involved not only the software challenge to integrate multiple back offices (trading and banking) but also complete overhaul of all of the process flows and processing organizations within the company.* Launched industry leading lending products like Equity Express(Home Equity Loans within 24 hours) and Mortgage on the Move(Portable Home Mortgages)
  • E*Trade Financial
    Director, Software Development
    E*Trade Financial Apr 2000 - Apr 2003
    Us
    Responsible for directly managing a software development group that delivers E*Trade financial services products in Brokerage(for the Active Trader market) & Banking. * Launched “first in industry” products based on streaming quotes (MarketTrader, EtradePro and MarketCaster) for the Active Trader customer segment. MarketTrader platform was then internationalized for use by over ten E*TRADE international sites.* Technology lead responsible for acquisition and integration of Telebank, Inc., Loansdirect, GE Financial Services and CCS (ATM network) with E*TRADE.* Launched among the online brokerage industry, first of its kind, integration of E*TRADE’s website with streaming digital video media from internally produced as well as Wall Street On Demand’s programming. * Designed and developed a highly scalable and reusable(across business units) Alerts platform via all channels(e-mail, wireless, voice) that was deployed to launch E*TRADE’s Advanced Order (trailing stops and bracketed orders) as well as provide for Lending and Banking(bill pay, balance, rate, deposit) alerts.
  • S.W.I.F.T.
    Program Manager
    S.W.I.F.T. 1989 - 2000
    La Hulpe, Wallonia, Be
    Responsibilities for managing multiple Board level, mission critical, large-scope projects, cross-divisional implementation teams in the United States and Europe. Project management was full cycle from RFPs, to conceptualization through implementation in a geographically distributed, cross-functional and international setting. Managed a geographically distributed (Europe, Asia and the Americas) staff.* Launched a new service for SWIFT allowing secure interactive traffic to complement the existing store-and-forward messaging service. CREST (Share Settlement system for the UK Stock Exchange), ABN AMRO Bank and Deutsche Bank were some the early users of the service and was the fasted growing revenue generator for the company.* Developed artificial intelligence based Customer Support stations and operator management stations to provide hands off diagnostic and problem resolution capability, increasing support calls efficiency and increasing global service availability.* Participated as core member, authoring the SWIFT message standards for worldwide working group, designing message formats and contributing to ISO standards, including the more recent ISO 15022 message standards.
  • S.W.I.F.T.
    Manager
    S.W.I.F.T. 1987 - 1989
    La Hulpe, Wallonia, Be
    Responsible for the design and development of core components of the new SWIFT II global messaging network. SWIFT II was a two year multi-million dollar project to replace the highly available SWIFT I(BSC based) network to the next generation(X.25 based) worldwide network. My team built the two key modules(regional processor and gateway) of this network providing high reliability and smooth migration of over 2000 banks in over 150 countries.
  • Unisys
    Executive Engineer
    Unisys Jun 1981 - Mar 1987
    Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us
    Responsible for supervising design and development group, maintenance of I/O module of the Unisys MCP operating system software, and Burroughs GEMCOS/COMS messaging control system software. Provide system software support to major banks like, Credit Agricole, France.* My group built one of a kind Unisys mainframe operating system that could penetrate the IBM mainframe market by mimicking the IBM System/36 operating system using a simple toggle of a software switch.

Amit Banerjee Skills

It Strategy Enterprise Architecture Integration Sdlc Software Development Business Intelligence Strategy Software Project Management Management Vendor Management Program Management Outsourcing Data Center Product Management Business Analysis Crm Architecture Databases Banking Project Management Cloud Computing Soa Financial Services Agile Project Management It Management Requirements Analysis E Commerce Cross Functional Team Leadership Agile Methodologies Information Technology Solution Architecture Java Enterprise Edition Oracle Governance It Operations Disaster Recovery Unix Compliance Xml Web Services Perl Scalability Distributed Systems Server Architecture J2ee Data Warehousing Security It Governance Software Engineering Pmo

Amit Banerjee Education Details

  • George Mason University
    George Mason University
    Computer Science
  • Indian Institute Of Science (Iisc)
    Indian Institute Of Science (Iisc)
    Electronics Engineering
  • St. Stephen'S College, Delhi
    St. Stephen'S College, Delhi
    Physics

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