Samuel Devairakkam Rajkumar Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

The initial assignment was to create and deliver multiple adaptive solutions for one of the leading SME financing organization in South East Asia.Current assignment is to own the delivery for one of the largest NBFCs in India that can support high velocity and scale, driving business growth, streamline operations, provide risk-adjusted insights for effective decision making and regulatory compliance. This includes multiple Application Delivery (AD) and Application Support and… Show more The initial assignment was to create and deliver multiple adaptive solutions for one of the leading SME financing organization in South East Asia.Current assignment is to own the delivery for one of the largest NBFCs in India that can support high velocity and scale, driving business growth, streamline operations, provide risk-adjusted insights for effective decision making and regulatory compliance. This includes multiple Application Delivery (AD) and Application Support and Maintenance projects running in parallel.This role also includes providing leadership on the seamless execution of projects through efficient governance structure.Facilitating end-to-end delivery, meeting internal and external objectives like aligning the account's profitability with organizational goals and work towards the same, controlling the scope of projects, ensuring that rigorous change control is exercised, restructuring business processes & augmenting process efficiencies by various business process re-engineering/ automation/ adoption initiatives.Pivotal in developing core technology team & a highly leveraged partner ecosystem enabling shared value creation.Identifying and defining the major strategic issues for the organization and integrate diverse stakeholder interests.Interfacing with top management for evolving strategic vision, driving change, infusing new ideas and taking enterprise system performance & productivity to the next level. Show less

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

A part of the Digital IT team, which leads the digital strategy and transformation across the bank. The primary area of focus is to lead the conceptualization, development and delivery of the Retail Mobile and the Corporate Mobile Banking applications (Native, hybrid and web applications). The Retail Mobile Banking application is one of highest-rated and most frequently used mobile banking app in India.The role also involves interaction with the banking regulators (RBI, UIDAI), networks… Show more A part of the Digital IT team, which leads the digital strategy and transformation across the bank. The primary area of focus is to lead the conceptualization, development and delivery of the Retail Mobile and the Corporate Mobile Banking applications (Native, hybrid and web applications). The Retail Mobile Banking application is one of highest-rated and most frequently used mobile banking app in India.The role also involves interaction with the banking regulators (RBI, UIDAI), networks (Visa, MasterCard, and NPCI), application security, API integrations (internal and external) and technology integration with payment aggregators for payment gateways and bill pay services.Other key initiatives include implementation of end to end DevOps processes for some of the highly business critical customer facing applications. Show less

Chennai Area, India

My role at Market Simplified includes but not limited to managing multiple key projects for different customers in parallel (running more like a program) with varying priorities in the area of enterprise mobility (includes native, web and cross platform development). Project/Program/Practice Management:Manage the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple projects, review high-level deliverables across projects, conduct engagement reviews and implement quality… Show more My role at Market Simplified includes but not limited to managing multiple key projects for different customers in parallel (running more like a program) with varying priorities in the area of enterprise mobility (includes native, web and cross platform development). Project/Program/Practice Management:Manage the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple projects, review high-level deliverables across projects, conduct engagement reviews and implement quality assurance procedures to ensure profitable and successful execution engagements, manage scope and mitigate risks across projects.Project Accounting:Determine appropriate revenue recognition, ensures accurate invoicing and monitor receivables for all projects under my direction, integrate financial data for multiple projects, compare financial data for practice to that of other practices and seeks ways to maximize revenue, analyze profitability, revenue, margins, billing rates and utilization across projects and address elevated billing issues when they arise.Financial Management:To manage to and achieve revenue goals set for projects, accurately forecast revenue, profitability, margins, billing rates and utilization across projects and set expectations regarding revenue and profitability projections.Business Development:Identify opportunities and capitalize on "add-on"​ sales opportunities across projects, achieve "add on" revenue goals, assists in the identification of strategic accounts, work in conjunction with the sales team where necessary, grow long-term relationships with clients and capitalize on partnership opportunities.The role at Market Simplified also includes communication with the customer, technical understanding, leadership, enhancing teamwork, managing client expectations, promoting innovations and internal operations among many others. Show less

Chennai Area, India

Strategically analyzed and planned the basic requirements in setting up the technical and resource infrastructure of the project. Responsible for understanding and analysis of client requirements for the customization of SalesForce application for a major healthcare company based out of the UK. Built and maintained project plans by identifying constraints, opportunities, conducting analysis, synthesizing conclusions, interacting with all stakeholders and co-creating concrete delivery plans for… Show more Strategically analyzed and planned the basic requirements in setting up the technical and resource infrastructure of the project. Responsible for understanding and analysis of client requirements for the customization of SalesForce application for a major healthcare company based out of the UK. Built and maintained project plans by identifying constraints, opportunities, conducting analysis, synthesizing conclusions, interacting with all stakeholders and co-creating concrete delivery plans for the project. Show less

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Managed software/turnkey projects through the system development life cycle including analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation and service delivery for multiple projects in parallel.Roles and responsibilities as a Software Project Manager includes but not limited to:• Estimating, scoping, planning, monitoring and controlling project development/deployment activities, schedules, effort health and benefits realization for all projects. • Monitoring and evaluating… Show more Managed software/turnkey projects through the system development life cycle including analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation and service delivery for multiple projects in parallel.Roles and responsibilities as a Software Project Manager includes but not limited to:• Estimating, scoping, planning, monitoring and controlling project development/deployment activities, schedules, effort health and benefits realization for all projects. • Monitoring and evaluating project activities.• Creating and publishing project and performance reports on a consistent and timely basis. e.g., Weekly Project Scorecard.• Balancing multiple broad-scale software development projects for different customers simultaneously involving multiple priorities, limited resources and aggressive timelines. • Facilitating and monitoring issue resolution, risk identification, mitigation and monitoring plans.• Managing and facilitating Project Change Management Process and performed impact analysis for change requests. • Ensuring integration among all the teams. • Resource forecasting• Represented the Project Operations department in the pre-sales analysis and scope development efforts. Assisted in the analysis of customer RFP's, the preparation of proposal responses and the follow on contract negotiations.• Collaboratively manageing global team resources to deliver project objectives. Able to mitigate and resolve issues, re-establish project momentum throughout all stakeholder tiers including end users, technicians, engineers, subject matter experts as well as management in both business and/or operations. • Quick understanding of complex project objectives, generating project scope documentation, building stakeholder consensus to delivery approach.• Business continuity, disaster recovery, business impact analysis and business/system recovery plans. Show less

Chennai Area, India

• Played the role of a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in commercial gaming solutions.• Setting up of standard operating procedures and implementing the same.• Managed high end gaming systems from remote and offshore locations.• Disaster recovery and high availability of systems.• Incident management and emergency response.• Migration of data between heterogeneous systems (data migration).• Onsite support for User Acceptance Testing.• Data backup, restore, recovery and… Show more • Played the role of a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in commercial gaming solutions.• Setting up of standard operating procedures and implementing the same.• Managed high end gaming systems from remote and offshore locations.• Disaster recovery and high availability of systems.• Incident management and emergency response.• Migration of data between heterogeneous systems (data migration).• Onsite support for User Acceptance Testing.• Data backup, restore, recovery and data continuity.• Communication channels, player, retailer and terminal management.• Management of central gaming systems. • Participate in management consulting engagements, defining and refining Operations strategy in particular focusing on processes, procedures and usage of information technology. Show less

• To study the current state of the processes. Prepare the AS-IS process map and the TO-BE scenario.• Advice and assist in data extraction, data cleansing, data mapping, data consolidation, data loading and data reconciliation.• Develop data migration approach and strategies.• Interacting with the client for requirement gathering, high level designing and reporting.• Bridging the gap in domain understanding between the client and technical team. Coordinating with the stake… Show more • To study the current state of the processes. Prepare the AS-IS process map and the TO-BE scenario.• Advice and assist in data extraction, data cleansing, data mapping, data consolidation, data loading and data reconciliation.• Develop data migration approach and strategies.• Interacting with the client for requirement gathering, high level designing and reporting.• Bridging the gap in domain understanding between the client and technical team. Coordinating with the stake holders to translate the business requirements into actual project plan.• Creating Detailed Requirement Design Documents (DRD).• Creating Business Cases, User Interface Designs, Report Specifications, Print Specifications and System to System Interfaces.• Creating Change Request Documents.• To lead the testing team and manage the team’s day to day functioning.• Preparing test scenarios. Work with the testing team to prepare the testing plan, scope and other relevant documents and reviewing the test cases prepared.• Working with the development team to get the bugs fixed.• Analyzing the change request and coordinating the changes required with the development team.• Preparing different reports like: Signoff Report, Root Cause Analysis Report.• Training new resources for creation of deliverables. Show less

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Systems

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