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Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Managing Authentication Standards, working with Platform owners to ensure their compliance to the standards• Managing Authentication Suppliers, including contracts, supplier issues, ensuring adherence to Supplier Management COE processes• Plan, monitor and control vendor costs, manage Authentication team budget• Facilitate high profile meetings to ensure not only adequate adherence to governance policies but also to create transparency with senior key stakeholders within the company

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Managing Authentication strategies on B2B and B2C channels • As an authentication SME, providing guidance and support in investigating and mitigating during fraud attacks• Establishing a process and leading a task force to monitor TruValidate (TransUnion product) data and take corrective actions to prevent fraud • Managing $25 M department budget, overhauling how Authentication expenses are tracked, developing insights into where significant dollars are spent• Ensuring Authentication team benefits are delivered above and beyond the plan

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Drove organizational/delivery partner alignment and cross pillar synergies, removed barriers, maximized our investments, expanded capabilities exponentially via smart prioritization and technology leverage• Worked with leaders across the enterprise by providing Thought leadership to influence multi-year Strategic Initiatives• Worked with development team to track deliverables, manage milestones to maximize bottom line impact• Led op-planning process for the one of the biggest enterprise wide strategic initiatives • Spearheaded enterprise wide initiatives to enhance project intake and financial tracking processes Managed up to $35 M annual Strategic Initiatives budget• Led monthly investment update with Sr. leadership team, tracked and created transparency of financials for informed decisioning• Delivered multi-year initiatives that maximize value to department and to the enterprise, boldly reprioritizing and pivoting to what matters most via intake process (waterfall and agile); Portfolio decision maker influencing strategic priorities and sequencing• Significantly improved Great Places To Work (GPTW) score for the department by implementing a wide-ranging list of initiatives around communication, training, leadership etc.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

•Responsible for standardizing Program and Project Management practices across the global organization•Provide Project Management training across the division•Setup, customize and configure IT infrastructure (using HP iNav) for each country operation within Equifax to meet the Program Management needs•Working with each of the Data and Analytics teams on a regular basis to ensure project management on each of the project•Addressing resource constraints by engaging with the Steering Committee for prioritization whenever a conflict arises•Working with Sales and Sales consultants to review the project pipeline and engaging with appropriate Data and Analytics teams to ensure proper delivery of each project•Program Manage new platform initiative across US and other countries.

•As a most senior member of project management team, responsible to standardize project management processes.•Managing Infrastructure project to build strong and robust IT infrastructure•Managing an outsourcing project that will eventually outsource company’s current ecommerce platform to an outside vendor. This also involves managing the changing culture within the company that will be needed with the new outsourcing process.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

•Recently managed a successful conversion project for Bank of America that was considered as one of the most efficient conversion projects in the history of Bank of America•Responsible for successful delivery of high profile Bill Payments projects to Bank of America•Interact with Senior Management within Fiserv and Bank of America for project reviews and issue resolutions•Working with other project managers and teams to ensure successful projects delivery•As a Senior Project Management associate, responsible for standardizing project management artifacts

Atlanta, Ga, Us

•Interacted with clients such as American Airlines, Delta and Air Canada to understand their needs for Credit Card processing and delivering the projects to meet their needs•Managed projects and project managers across North America and Europe to serve credit card acquiring needs of global airlines.•Worked with off shore based resources to ensure successful project delivery •Assisted with translating the Business needs of the clients to the internal software project development teams and vice versa•Reported the program status to the senior executives on the weekly basis across North America and Europe

Columbus, Ga, Us

•Managed multiple medium to large (up to $10 Million) sized moderately to highly complex insurance related projects to successful implementation•Assisted the company in achieving CMM-III certification – set up new PM processes that are repeatable and predictable•Provided management and direction to assigned personnel including staff development and training, budget management, feasibility studies, delegation, project and resource control, leadership and teamwork coordination•Conducted formal review with business sponsor at each SDLC phase completion and project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction; tracks client satisfaction levels•Managed project issues and risks

•Interacted with Clients for Requirement and scope definition•Planned, Scheduled and Monitored life cycle development from requirements to support•Managed over a $1.5 Million financial budget to ensure profitability for the technical support team

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Mba, Finance

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Ms, Computer Engineering