Deepak Gonchikar Mba, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Managed the delivery of IT environments across a wide range of technologies by managing external vendors and internal NAB groups. The delivery of IT environments was critical to business enhancements or critical software currency risks that had a demanding client schedule and thus demanding stakeholders and consisted of a design outside the standard NAB patterns.• Served as the NAB point of contact for all infrastructure delivery for the project and thus managed stakeholders, communicated… Show more Managed the delivery of IT environments across a wide range of technologies by managing external vendors and internal NAB groups. The delivery of IT environments was critical to business enhancements or critical software currency risks that had a demanding client schedule and thus demanding stakeholders and consisted of a design outside the standard NAB patterns.• Served as the NAB point of contact for all infrastructure delivery for the project and thus managed stakeholders, communicated key updates and followed up with colleagues when necessary.• Was responsible for sourcing and procurement activities in relation to the infrastructure.• Forecast, budgeted and tracked the financials of the engagement for all infrastructure components and addressed variations with the client PM. Often, projects required a high number of PCR’s which required tracking the expenditure of approved funds against a constantly changing scope.• Planned the infrastructure delivery by considering the multiple dependencies and thus managed stakeholders by setting the expectation right with respect to delivery lead-times.• Agreed on a communication plan with stakeholders and communicated key updates regarding milestones, exceptions to the plan and threats and blockers.• Provided regular status updates and weekly reporting to my people leader and sought assistance/escalation as and when I needed them. Show less

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Assisted the Infrastructure PM’s with the vendor engagements by serving as a Project Coordinator in the PMO where I got the opportunity to compare NAB’s engagement model with its partners against the models I had previously worked in for outsourcing organizations. Here, I also got the opportunity to gain a closer view of the many components that come together to make an engagement work and to always have an escalation point in order to get the partner to focus on key priorities.• Worked on… Show more Assisted the Infrastructure PM’s with the vendor engagements by serving as a Project Coordinator in the PMO where I got the opportunity to compare NAB’s engagement model with its partners against the models I had previously worked in for outsourcing organizations. Here, I also got the opportunity to gain a closer view of the many components that come together to make an engagement work and to always have an escalation point in order to get the partner to focus on key priorities.• Worked on Vendor management – specifically procurement processes such as raising shopping carts, Goods Receipting bills and directing invoices through PAP. Worked on the end to end process of approving a SOW by following up on approvals and releasing a PO to the vendor.• Assisted the IDM’s in agreeing on the vendor engagement by reviewing and providing feedback on the Infrastructure Delivery Agreements. Also assisted IDM’s by preparing monthly reports such as the timesheet actuals report, Master Execution tracker and the PO tracker.• Simplified the engagement with IBM by being the gatekeeper for the small and medium requests via JIRA by converting the requirements received in email from teams across NAB to a JIRA epic which was then downloaded and sent off to IBM along with supporting artefacts.• Automated the MET reporting by enabling the generation of a PDF report for management using a VBA macro to read through the spreadsheet where IDM’s had put in their project updates and then generate the report at the click of a button.• Managed approvals/rejections of Completion certificates by following up with NAB stakeholders and capturing the details in the tracker. Also briefly ran the Express Checkout meetings to follow up with IBM on delivery of VM’s and tracking updates in the tracker. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

• Responsible for maintaining the Financial Management Plan of the project by capturing hours logged by the project team to ensure I can provide a snapshot of spend to date, Estimate at Completion and Estimate to Complete to the Senior Project Manager. • Maintained the RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) for the project by documenting items and following up with owners on updates/actions to ensure I can provide weekly updates on the most pressing action items to the higher… Show more • Responsible for maintaining the Financial Management Plan of the project by capturing hours logged by the project team to ensure I can provide a snapshot of spend to date, Estimate at Completion and Estimate to Complete to the Senior Project Manager. • Maintained the RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) for the project by documenting items and following up with owners on updates/actions to ensure I can provide weekly updates on the most pressing action items to the higher management. • Created the project artefacts such as Stakeholder Engagement Plan, MS Project Schedule, Scope statement while assisting the Senior Project Manager with estimation sessions, requirements gathering and adhering to the project plan. • Handled resourcing and assigned tasks to team members, monitored their progress while removing all impediments to progress thus ensuring the team adheres to the schedule and also managed the communications between team members and stakeholders. • Performed administrative functions such as organising and facilitating meetings and stand ups, capturing meeting minutes and action items and following up with project team on updates, maintaining the artefacts on SharePoint and communicating updates to the project team. Show less

Bengaluru/Sydney

• Worked on the Stronger Super legislation (specifically the TOPS Act) for Australian based insurer to enhance reporting to APRA thus ensuring regulatory compliance.

Bangalore/Melbourne

• Worked in a client facing role as an onsite coordinator for 3 years, leading a team of 10 members at Australian insurance giants' Mainframe application development team through multiple projects • Worked with solution architects and clients, converting their requirements into technical specifications and high level functional designs• Active participant in workshops held with business representatives to determine project scope; created the work breakdown structure of project… Show more • Worked in a client facing role as an onsite coordinator for 3 years, leading a team of 10 members at Australian insurance giants' Mainframe application development team through multiple projects • Worked with solution architects and clients, converting their requirements into technical specifications and high level functional designs• Active participant in workshops held with business representatives to determine project scope; created the work breakdown structure of project deliverable's; provided walk through's, review and signoff of quality management plan and technical documents.• Worked on a team that developed the adviser web site and client web site thus enabling both advisers and clients to check policy information and submit service requests online, leading to a 30% reduction in the number of calls received by the call center• Successfully developed and implemented Straight Through Processing(STP) which reduced the time required by admin officers to process a New Business application from 2 days to under 6 hours; applied root cause fixes to recurring issues in the production support system leading to a 20% reduction in the incoming incidents per month• Worked on a project to migrate legacy applications to out of the box product allowing end users to interact with the system in a more convenient and flexible manner.• Worked on a team to migrate documents from Filenet to UCM leading to savings in liscensing costs. • Prepared Weekly Dashboards, Service delivery reports and Balanced score cards to maintain client relationship Show less

Bhubaneshwar/Chennai

• Worked as a developer on U.S. based Fiserv’s Mainframe based Mortgage banking application and Ford Automotive Logistics application.• Was tasked with building enhancements, preparing test cases and testing the deliverables.• Led a team of 3 people while assisting them and coordinating their deliverables• Provided weekly status updates for my team to the client and also walkthrough’s on the designs• Worked on technologies such as Mainframes and Visual Basic

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, General

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, First Class