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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Program and Objectives: Upgrade and modernize the core equipment finance applications, remove unsupported technical stack and to the new data centre infrastructure and identify opportunities to make the applications.
• Achieved savings of 2M AUD in license costs for old version of the product, by delivering the new version into production ahead of target and decommissioning of legacy software/hardware.
• Identified and implemented a tactical solution to fix an existing production issue related to tax calculation at a cost of 200K to avoid revenue loss of 2M AUD / month.
• Identified opportunity to accelerate testing cycles through implementing test automation (for test data and test execution), effectively reducing testing cycles from weeks to run under 12 hours. (50K investment with.
• Identified and implemented a data analytics solution to provide insights into application usage, features used and application performance.
• Received the GEM Award in recognition of delivering the program on time and the benefits delivered.Responsibilities:

• Program and Objectives: Develop strategic risk assessment capabilities to meet APRA regulatory guidelines and bring lending risk within the appetite of the bank (big 4 bank in Australia).Accomplishments:
• Worked with engineering team to create a flexible framework to progressively add new rules for calculating lending risk, implementing more than 220 rules over 4 product increment cycles.
• Identified process improvements to maximize defect detection by adopting a “shift left” approach to do early functional testing and security testing resulting in zero delivered defects.
• Worked with engineers to design and implement a data quality check feature to detect data issues across applications and save up to 3 hours per banker per loan application. (~300,000 hrs per year for all.
• Bottomline responsibility to deliver the program to implement strategic risk assessment capabilities within the lending business applications, owned from project charter to handover to BAU support.
• Prepare project schedule, resource forecast, resource allocation, task allocation, monitoring and tracking deliverables and achieve planned milestone targets.

Sydney, Australia

• Program and Objectives: Transition and optimise middleware service operations to a cost-effective operating model and vendor. Accomplishments:
• Identified opportunities to plan optimal onsite/offshore staffing for the transition execution and saved 150K in the investment costs.
• Established new ways of working (adopting agile based delivery) and setup team structure, tools to support that.
• Created a service catalogue for project services and established process for ordering and fulfilment of services.
• Delivered a revenue pipeline of 25M AUD over 5 years and reduction of 25% annual costs for the client. Responsibilities:
• Prepared a detailed transition execution plan with multiple phases, objectives, assessment criteria for moving to the next gate.

Chennai Area, India

• Program: Strategic programme to build a modern Identity & Access Management solution to be used by the staff and customers of a large UK bank (RBS).Accomplishments:
• Improved the IAM capabilities of the organisation by removing multiple logins (up to 20) and use a single authentication method across applications.
• Rolled out the solution within key business banking applications to realise ROI of 2M per year.
• Rolled out the first 2FA system in the bank to be used by the staff for logging into internal applications.Responsibilities:
• Bottomline responsibility for the program delivery from charter creation to handover to production support and closure.
• Helped adopt agile based deliver model, integrated backlog and scrum of scrums with all the delivery leads.

Chennai

• Project and Objectives: 1. Strategic billing transformation program to replace legacy billing systems to a single billing solution that will remove inefficiencies in billing, stop revenue loss, flexible and easier to.
• Identified suitable products, vendors and partners for the program and achieved a cost saving of 3M GBP.
• Achieved optimal use of remote and on-site vendor partners and achieved tactical savings of 250K GBP.
• Explored and implemented test data automation solution and achieved cost savings of 100K GBP. Responsibilities:
• Prepare business case with solution options, benefits and cost estimates for sponsor level decision making.
• Prepare project schedule, resource forecast, resource allocation, task allocation, monitoring and tracking deliverables and achieve planned milestone targets.

Stockholm, Sweden

• Project and Objectives: Transformation program to modernise accounting system used by a pharma major in Sweden, to move from A+ (Aditro) to SAP based solution.Accomplishments:
• Liaised with all the application owners and technical teams to progressively refine the cost estimation and saved up to 1M USD for the satellite systems (interfaces) delivery.
• Created robust training plans, training material and change communication packs for the business users.
• Created process documentation, technical documents, support handbooks and operation manuals to be used for application support teams.Responsibilities:
• Manage the transformation project from planning to implementation with core SAP implementation and changes to 25 interfacing applications.
• Prepare project schedule, resource forecast, resource allocation, task allocation, monitoring and tracking deliverables and achieve planned milestone targets.

Greater Chennai Area

• Objective: Pursue new business opportunities for a newly created business vertical focused on content management solutions.Accomplishments:
• Led the pre-sales activity for a multiyear deal and won the deal for 60M USD (over 5 years).
• Involved in pre-sales activities and clinched 4 key deals (5M total) with Pharma and Banking clients of Infosys.
• Delivered an automated account opening solution that provided response within minutes (vs weeks)Responsibilities:
• Pre-sales activities involving business proposals based on customer requirements.
• Led multiple pursuit teams working on different solutions / client outcomes and helped successful conversion of proposals to successful deals & programs.

Chennai Area, India

• Project and Objectives: Establish a centre of excellence within the organisation for content management skills, solutions and services. Pursue and win new business opportunities, provide talent for successful project.
• Rapidly grew the business unit to 30 trained consultants within 6 months and helped execute new projects.
• Led the efforts for new business pursuit and created new business opportunities worth 10M USD.
• Identified and negotiated suitable training partners and achieved savings of 250K on training programs.
• Received Most Valuable Player Award for winning multiple new business deals.Responsibilities:
• Identify and hire talent for the centre of excellence and provide them with technical training.

Chennai Area, India

• Project and Objectives: Develop web applications & services for a European mobile service operator.Accomplishments:
• Developed a billing solution for Wi-Fi Hotspot services and helped achieve 10x revenue growth.
• Developed a solution to build a customer web portal with 3 language locales (EN/DE/FR).
• Received best developer award for the Wi-Fi Hotspot Services Billing project.Responsibilities:
• Gathered requirements, designed applications and developed applications.
• Designed and developed an Identity and Access Management solution to be used by staff and customers.

Ms, Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Science