working as independent project management and personal financial management consultant providing project managementsupport to various small and medium size business and individualsProviding financial portfolio management solutions and investing adviceDeveloped proprietary algorithms to trade in the US financial markets, including stocks, derivatives and futures

Part of the larger PMO office responsible for managing various IT projects, including major product enhancement initiative

• Drove extraordinary results, leading and managing the creation of products that were critical to the various lines of businesses by leaning on deep Business and IT management expertise and stakeholder management.• Managed diverse teams of 5-30 professionals to drive effective decision-making on complex issues of scope, design, architecture, and process• Weaved the product vision into the team's ethos to maintain a shared understanding of business outcomes and created overall product roadmap and vision connected to the overall strategic pillars of digital transformation• Championed product development methodologies across the organization and delivered timely and tailored communication for various stakeholders, including engineering teams, product managers, and marketing partnersLending re-imagined – Retail Mortgage Lending and Auto-adjudicated Business Lending: An Enterprise digital initiative with a mission to completely re-imagine and transform Retail and Small business Lending to provide a superior team member and customer experience. Business & Agriculture Lending - Automated Pricing and Risk Engine: A custom .Net based web application to provide a relationship based Risk-adjusted RAROC Business Lending Pricing Engine for all small to medium-size business lendingBusiness & Agriculture Lending - End-to-End Workflow Management System: A custom .Net based web application to track and manage the high volume and business critical lending application workflow across multiple business units and provide a significant reduction in end-to-end processing times times leading to improved customer satisfactionBusiness & Agriculture business unit -Short Term Incentive Program (STIP): A first in the business unit to keep the sales team accountable & motivated and provide tangible financial benefits tied to great business results and an improved top line and bottom-line numbers

• Influenced significantly the shape of the client relationship by acting as the client's trusted advisor and consultant on their IT project matters• Managed Information Technology project development from initiation to closure, involving teams ranging from 5-40 members encompassing budgets$500K – 10 MM dollars.• Delivered projects using Agile methodology and managed multiple work streams carried out from multiple geographies.• Influenced significantly the shape of the client relationship by acting as the client's trusted advisor and consultant on their technical project matters.• Oversaw external vendor resources as part of the overall project resource and plan, including offshore vendors engaged in the development of custom application and post-production support.• Tracked and reported on project milestones, and provided status reports to stakeholders on a regular basis.• Managed the project scope by ensuring any changes to scope were communicated, documented and approved by the project sponsors.Alberta Electric System Operator Mainstream – Dispatch Tool UpgradeDelivered application development, enhancement and support of large functional and architecture upgrade program for a mission-critical power dispatching application; Established 24X7 application support from multiple locations.Leading Furniture Retailer in Canada – New E-commerce PlatformDefined the strategy and road-map to design and develop the new e-commerce website for a leading furniture retailer on the ATG e-commerce platform; managed a team of 10, comprising of developers and technical analysts.A large Energy company in North America - MOSS 2007 (SharePoint) Platform MigrationDesigned and developed a new employee intranet on Microsoft MOSS 2007 platform with an overall budget of $2MM serving as an intuitive, collaborative and engaging platform for the entire organization and to serve as a building block for future initiatives on this front.

Telecom Company, UK - Enterprise integration and New Market systemsIntegrated various disparate systems from the startup company into the enterprise system of this leading company which offered new broadband solutions to the larger customer base; oversaw a technical team of 30 by ensuring they were fully aware of their responsibilitiesNational Health Services (NHS), UK - Data analytics and TransformationDelivered the Datawarehouse solution while being involved with the Design, Build and Unit Test for Full P1R2 (Phase 1 Release 2) Information Management ETL project; designed the mappings through analysis of data contained within the source systems that were related to the elements within the CCA data warehouse; developed the ETL mappings to transform the data from the source applications to Data Warehouse.Travel Portal, UK – Post-production support, enhancements and service level managementResponsible for key client relationship with the focus on continuously improving the service levels; provided leadership and guidance to the project team to institutionalize mature and scalable processes to withstand and support on-going application development with rapid increase in customer base; Responsible for defining Key performance indicators (KPI's) and regular reporting to key stakeholders.

Responsible for overall project coordination/management from onsite including project oversight, client satisfaction, scheduling, coordination of internal and customer resources, scope control, technical issue resolution, reporting and developing project work-plans.Acting as an interface between the Client's Business team and the offshore development team, translating the business requirements into high level IT requirements.Supporting business development with the Account manager to seek new business and providing value to the clientAir Canada/Destina.ca: Montreal, Canada: Mar 2001 – Dec 2004 (Online travel portal)Destina.ca, was an online travel site, wholly owned by Air Canada that offered customers one-stop travel shopping, reservation and destination information services which was later merged with Air Canada parent web site. Implemented Internet booking engine (BookSMART from Datalex) with personalization and marketing engine to ensure each site visit is unique and tailors the experience to match customer profile; Responsible for Defining and managing the SLA’s and measuring success against the same; Actively participated in business development with the Account manager to seek new business and providing value to the client.Priceline.com Stamford, USA and Sydney, Australia: Apr-2000 - Oct 2000 – (CRM application Implementation)Design and Implementation of their automated IVR servers try to satisfy customer looking into the transactional databases and their offer status and call routing as required with the goal to provide high quality of customer service minimizing the turnaround time. As a project lead I was responsible for Business requirement analysis and managing the implementation of CRM in their Australia and UK JV for Telecom and Airline; Active participation in analysis, designing and partial coding of the critical COM component, which is used by IVR (Interactive Voice Response System) COM interface.

GR-Book Online: Delhi, India: Aug 99 - Mar 2000 (E-governance system in public sector)GR Book was developed for government of Gujarat, India as part of their drive for e-governance across their various departments; The system was responsible to hosts and manages GR's (Government Resolutions) with the ability to track the issue(file) from origination to closure. I was the key interface between internal IT team and client’s business team, translating the business requirements into high level IT requirements; Build application architecture and accountable for overall product quality.Daewoo Motors India Ltd. (DMIL): Delhi, India: Feb 99 - Aug 99 – (Payroll System Implementation)Payroll system automation to facilitate the generation of pay slips, considering all the relevant business rules and calculations regarding earnings, deductions etc. and manages [retrospective] promotions/increments/arrears/loans and advances. As the project lead, I was responsible for the overall technical solution and delivery; designed the overall test strategy (both functional and non-functional), Helped in defining and implementing the road-map for integration with existing MfgPro system

• HR Module implementation of a bespoke internet-enabled ERP systemInfinium HRNT (GAP): Delhi, India: Sept 98 - Feb 99 (HR Module implementation)GAP was the HR module of the internet-enabled ERP product catering to niche markets. The application was accessible using a thin client, web-based interface; Implemented complex business rules and workflows to support various HR tasks related to employee lifecycle management (hiring/approval workflows and transfer of employees). As a module lead, I was responsible for Implementing Skills/Competencies modules for Employees in an organization; Creation of Low-level design documents and code reviews; Reviewing integration testing results and ensuring all the SEI CMM level 4 quality processes are being followed in my module.

Forbes FAS: Mumbai, India: Sept 97 - Aug 98 (Accounting for Shipping and Logistics management)Creation of data extraction interface from COBOL based Mainframe system in EDP Department, besides providing all the features of conventional financial accounting packages, like 'AP', 'AR', 'GL' etc. and generates various MIS reports.Responsible for designing and implementation of 'AP' (Accounts payable) and MIS Reports (using VB 4.00) module besides developing an interface to upload/download data from text files to/from Sybase tables using Sybase DB libraries.Online Trading system for National Stock Exchange (NSE): Delhi, India: June 96 - Aug 97Online trading platform to enable brokers of NSE National stock exchange of India Limited to do online trading with NSE through VSAT Link over x.25 while simultaneously handling the trade request by sub-brokers community, dispersed across multiple physical locations. Designed UI interfaces in VB and implementing TCP/IP Sockets both on client and server layers.