Leading mandate for Personal Banking platform resiliency and support

Part of Canadian Banking & Wealth Technology Solutions, spearheading Technology projects in Personal banking Technology space.

MBA General Management

• Led a 10-member offshore team from client location; actively participated in handling client RFPs leading to 2 project-wins• Abated a technology change (to MSBI) worth $2M for the client by pioneering the use of Unicode in EliLilly data systems• Proposed/implemented Metadata Inventory, leading to senior-management reporting and a 20% drop in support effort• Spearheaded 3 enterprise-wide version upgrades of Informatica for Fortune 500 US pharmaceutical giant, reducing migration… Show more • Led a 10-member offshore team from client location; actively participated in handling client RFPs leading to 2 project-wins• Abated a technology change (to MSBI) worth $2M for the client by pioneering the use of Unicode in EliLilly data systems• Proposed/implemented Metadata Inventory, leading to senior-management reporting and a 20% drop in support effort• Spearheaded 3 enterprise-wide version upgrades of Informatica for Fortune 500 US pharmaceutical giant, reducing migration time by 40% through best practices• Co-ordinated Oracle upgrade and Unix-to-Linux migration for ETL systems, reducing downtime by 20% for 20k users• UTF project: led a 3-month proof-of-concept to study the impact of non-English languages in EliLilly data-warehouses along with data transfer (MQ Websphere) and data management (Hyperion) teams; report published as best-practices by client Show less

• Led an 8-member ETL team in collaboration with Data Management and Data Transfer teams; promoted to lead position after just 1 year versus normal timeframe of 2 years• Achieved customer satisfaction index of above 90% for the project for 4 consecutive months, handling design, development, implementation and support for Informatica and PLSQL-based subscriptions and publications• Conceptualized and implemented the automated Informatica code-review process, leading to annual savings of… Show more • Led an 8-member ETL team in collaboration with Data Management and Data Transfer teams; promoted to lead position after just 1 year versus normal timeframe of 2 years• Achieved customer satisfaction index of above 90% for the project for 4 consecutive months, handling design, development, implementation and support for Informatica and PLSQL-based subscriptions and publications• Conceptualized and implemented the automated Informatica code-review process, leading to annual savings of $20k for project• Streamlined the screening, onboarding, knowledge transition, and appraisal process of project in less than 5 weeks through an overhaul of the knowledge repository and Known-error-database (KEDB)• Redesigned and automated the format of Monthly Status Reports to Fortune 500 client, reducing manual effort by 40% Show less

• Led the implementation of core banking solution in 990 branches of an Indian Central Bank in a record 1-year period • Supervised a team of 5 developers in Foreign Exchange module of Core Banking Project; designed a unique metadata-based database architecture, integrating Foreign-exchange module with general-banking, saving 20% operational effort• Implemented an online migration system in UNIX, enabling remote go-live of Trade Finance module, saving time by 80%