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Maharashtra, India

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Pune Area, India

Pune, Maharashtra

Cardiff, United Kingdom

The assignment was to define and rolled out an optimized software development life cycle model for both parts (Lex Autolease & BlackHorse) of Asset Finance Division of Lloyds Banking group. This new process hadto be aligned to the Lloyds existing processes but taking up only the suitableand value adding steps and deliverables in it. I was responsible for defining the new process androlling it out. This involved research of existing processes and the parts ofthe wider lloyds process that might be applicable to this Motor Finance ITshop. This also involved addressing pain areas of portfolio cost tracking,Business engagement challenges at project kick-off and Implementation readinessrigor across the protfolio. Once defined, these processes had to be rolledout across the fleet finance business (Lex autolease) and the retail finance business(Black Horse) of Motor Platform. Challenge: Getting the buy-in from key stakeholders and ground staff – Conducted 60+workshops for feedback and updates, thus involving teams at all levels in development of this life cycle model. Along with this a push from senior management ensured buy-in and smooth rollout.

London, United Kingdom

I was accountable for more than half of this £25+M and 200 member program. This new proposition introduced a completely new channel of business within UK car finance market. It allows customers to pre-arrange secured finance for a car they plan to buy and transfer money to the dealership once the sale is agreed. The application is launched within 9 months of concept definition.Customer capitalized on the first-to-market advantage. The solution is doing better than expected, churning higher than expected business due to a market changing proposition and an efficient system solution that helps the customer buy a car loan quicker than they could finish a sandwich for lunch. Below is a summary of my contribution – a) Program planning and tracking for on-time delivery of all milestones with high qualityb) Effectively worked through the politics by building trust c) Kept focus of team on target in the middle of significant organization changeMy performance build confidence in the customer and led to Wipro winning multi-million guaranteed business for the following year and opened doors for more business. It positioned Wipro as a leading contender as an offshore partner.

Riyadh, Ksa

I initiated the planning of a set of 8 projects aimed at upgrade and migration of the MS-Exchange setup of a large telecom company in KSA. Following is a summary of my contribution – a) Director level stakeholder managementb) Mining for additional businessc) Cost managementd) Program Planning, tracking & reportinge) Liaising with Wipro internal practices to get optimum result for the customerI also build credibility for program management capability, thus helped Wipro win a large Migration program with the same customer.

London, United Kingdom

In this short one-month assignment, I augmented the central PMO team of a resiliency program of one of the largest banks in UK. I led the program reporting, resource mobilization, planning and organization of the program sponsor steering reviews.

Pune Area, India

Contributed in a 3 major pre-sales activities of responding to proposals for potential business in Wipro. My contribution was related to Insurance related technical solution, project and program management capabilities and Resource procurement process in Wipro. I also played a significant role in client presentation for the same proposals.

Pune Area, India

Led a signature program to provide a business service on behalf of the insurer to GPP employers meet the new pensions regulations(Auto-enrollment for employers). This program included grounds-up code development (application and security), infrastructure setup (cloud) and support setup (application, infrastructure and BPO) for this new SLA driven business service. This application got advantage of being amongst the first of its kind, compliant to regulations and scalable application. Thus it is successfully and reliably churning business through a number of direct customers and agents. Competition rate this as 20 times better than any other application in the market. This program won an award for delivery excellence as the BEST LEAN PROJECT within BFSI business unit for achieving a very slick delivery in an extremely short timescale and saving approx. 39% against the original planned effort/cost for Wipro.

Pune Area, India

Successfully led a consulting assignment for critical assessment of a US based home claims valuation product. This provided the customer with • An in-depth architecture and design assessment. • functional gap analysis with leading competitive products • Product improvement roadmap to increase market share.

Dublin, Ireland

Led the delivery of a 3-year program of a grounds-up development of a General Insurance underwriting and policy admin system for one of the world largest insurance companies. This system provided:• reduced customer servicing costs • single customer view to reduce churn• ability to launch new productsAs program manager, I also led a 3-year contract and setup of post-production service management framework based on ITIL based standards.

Salisbury, United Kingdom

Managed a multi-site, multi-cultural team responsible for extending traditional insurance systems into investment business. This involved integration with stock brokers and discretionary fund manager to off ‘self invested personal pensions’ for high-net-worth individuals. Timely delivery of this program was estimated to avoid a potential loss of business of approx. 60M GBP from new and existing customers.Achievements:• Successfully realigned business expectations for this major change program to agree more focus, time and money for a successful delivery of what was termed as “most demanding project” by the IT program manager. • Led the requirements management, estimations and initial planning of the program for 18 IT strands.• Led delivery across 4 locations with strong adherence to process and a high quality delivery. • Successfully implemented LEAN principles in delivery. This helped us pass saving of $132K to the customer and achieve the recognition of the ‘best LEAN project’ across Wipro corporation. • CSAT of 6.7/7• I was awarded ‘feather in my cap’ for my outstanding contribution in this program.

Managed delivery of 3 small projects in parallel. 2 regulatory projects and a project to modify the APE calculation approach. Each project had an offshore based delivery team and was successfully delivered in expected timelines. These had a customer satisfaction of 5/5, 4.7/5 and 4.9/5.

Led the application maintenance and support for a leading insurance company in UK

Be, Mechanical

Activities and Societies: Sandwich Program with 5th Semester and 8th Semester in tool room at Cummins India, Diesel engine manufacturing.

Pg Diploma In Guidance And Counselling, Psychology, A Grade

Activities and Societies: Pursuing personal counselling using therapies like REBTThis was a distance education course done along.

Hsc, Hsc

Activities and Societies: Insync inter-college cultural shows