Sampath Kumar Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Performed client communication, managed expectations, and escalations related to project deliverables and release promotions.
• Managed project scope and baseline to ensure delivery is compliant.
• Developed project plan, schedule, agreement, and proposal to ensure timely completion of projects, within budget.
• Managed aspects of the ecommerce project including but not limited to research, analysis, documentation, design/development, testing, problem resolution, negotiations, training, status reporting, implementation.
• Planed and orchestrated software deployments to ACI’s pre-production and production private cloud. Established relationships and coordinated activities across internal groups to accomplish software promotions. Ensures.
• Solved project issues and risks (technical and non-technical) through identification, evaluation, tracking, communication, and mediation.

Dubai Internet City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Regular negotiations with partners/national switch for completion of scheme mandates, VPN to MPLS migration, special project initiation and assist them adapt and leverage latest payment technology
• Helped HQ Operation Dept. to complete special programs such as local pricing, regulatory policy research, compliance audit, etc
• Business and technical discussion or training session in project preparatory stage
• Project implementation plan and project schedule
• Follow-up of project implementation tasks including project certification, project launch, pilot testing, rollout,etc.
• Project progress report and special issue report

Dubai

• Project Management - Integrated Solutions for Hospitality & Retail chains, MPOS, Online accrual & redemptions, Cards issuing & Tokenization
• Managing consolidated risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, stakeholder maps, roles/responsibility matrices, standard project management and reporting toolset
• Identifying IT vendors for different IT outsourcing requirements, prepare and maintain a vendor database, develop vendor requests for information/ proposal (RFI/ RFP)
• Supervising frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and identify and oversee mitigation of risks and issues
• Collaborating with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis; develop and deliver progress reports, requirements, documentation, presentations and Track project milestones and deliverables
• Defining project success criteria, key performance indicators and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle

Bahrain

Manage Postilion V5.3 A/A on production environment, patch updates, Support stand in, Certified and Implemented latest EMV projects for partner banks, Chip card migrations, EMV Terminal Certifications, EMV migration across Middle East and North Africa, iCSC, Safekey on THALES HSM

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

EMV Dual Interface and PIPU - Implemented the latest EMV PAYPASS and PAYWAVE cards that are capable of Contactless Transactions at Point of Sale which reduces the transaction time to a great extent. PIPU deals with various scripts and Block codes that will be applied on Chip application to enable Offline transactions and Blocks on cards; Team Size 26; SIT.

B-Tech, Mechanical Engineering

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