Indira Hiremath

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Public profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/indirahiremath PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

An accomplished professional with 18 years of experience in strategy, business, operations and technology, managing portfolio and programs globally, this includes utilizing business acumen & technologies to drive risk and compliance adherence, deliver products, solutions that support scalability, increase profitability, compliance across organization. In addition, I have engineered strategic solutions for software/hardware technology programs, products and services with excellent customer satisfaction and efficiently managed client’s portfolio. KEY AREAS:

Strategic planning and execution, Support organization in achieving strategic goals.

Responsible for conducting feasibility studies, cost benefit analysis and ROI of Enterprise initiatives and creating program/project roadmap

Responsible for leading geographically diverse teams (direct & indirect); provide direction, coaching and mentoring.

Establish and manage and accountable for Program budget, cost/benefit analysis, KPI’s and ROI. Monitor and report to management and executives.

Plan and execute new product / process developments. Work with customers/Business leaders, vendors to define strategic business products/processes needs, RFP reviews and manage implementation of new product/process integration.

Process improvement and Best Practice, Enterprise program and process management, Change Management, Vendor

& Customer management, Risk Management, client facing.

Responsible for driving continuous improvement with demonstrated results including cost reduction, improved service delivery and increased performance

Built and managed PMO, reengineered departmental procedures, policies and procedures, portfolio, program/project governance and quality assurance

DOMAIN EXPOSURE:

Finance, Retail, Compliance, Telecommunication, Automobile (OnStar), Web technologies, Air transport communication, Smart card, RFID, Mobile technology & solutions, Ecommerce, Embedded technology. RESPONSIBILITIES:

Plan, direct and manage Portfolio/Program budget up to $100 M. Serve as primary customer contact for program/product information. Support management for product & program definition, budgeting and proposals.

Provide assistance to Business units in strategic planning, enterprise compliance programs. Responsible for successful implementation and support. Lead enterprise Program/Product feasibility efforts.

Lead internal & international program/product teams in developmental efforts. Promote continuous improvement by conducting, documenting, and communicating lessons learned. Prepare and conduct informal and formal presentations.

Manage all aspects of portfolio/ program management and project/product lifecycles. Mentor and manage cross functional and geographically diverse team of program/project managers on core Competencies. Influence and coach effectively to manage multiple enterprise, high profiles, high priority programs/projects.

Determine, monitor, and review project economics; including costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resources and risk. Earned value management

Managed successful implementation of Enterprise data warehouse, data centers PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VP, Program management, Enterprise Data Services January 2014- Till date Regions Financial Corporation, Birmingham, AL

Portfolio:

Responsible for Strategic planning and management of Finance portfolio, which includes Corporate Tax, Treasury, Regulatory (Call Report, SEC) and External Reporting (CCAR), Organizational Management Reporting Reengineering programs.

Responsible for defining, creating, initiating program roadmap. Responsible for pipeline planning for Big data

(Hadoop) Data marts, MDM and Release management, credit card data repository, ( PCI DSS)

Responsibilities extend to collaborate with Finance and technology to process streamlining and optimization, support and maintenance strategy. Process and data governance to achieve risk and regulatory compliance.

Facilitate and Support Data governance and quality for the organization line of businesses.

Responsible for data integration, data management, data sourcing programs.

Manage and direct a team of program/project managers to support Enterprise level initiatives (8~10). VP, Program Management, Corporate Services. April 2012- Dec 2013 Regions Financial Corporation, Birmingham, AL

Portfolio:

Achieved a cost savings of ~$ 2 million in 2013 and a clean delivery of Corporate Services programs.

Responsible for Corporate services portfolio, which includes Risk, Finance, and Legal, Ops& technology, Compliance portfolio.

Directly responsible for Enterprise level projects (~25 projects) which are more than $1M - $25M budget and representing center of excellence for project management process, tools and methodology and governance for over 80 smaller projects under the corporate portfolio with a total budget of $87M.

Manage and direct a team of program/project managers to support Enterprise level initiatives (8-10).

Responsible for Corporate services Capital planning and budgeting for programs.

Conducted feasibility study of Management financial report reengineering to align with the organizations strategy. Sr. Manager -Program Management Feb 2010- March 2012 Wal-Mart Inc., Bentonville, AR (Finance & DOT Compliance) Programs/projects:

Anti-Money laundering (BSA/AML) prepaid card program for FinCEN compliance. Subprojects include POS, eCommerce, stores & clubs.

Finance compliance - Anti money laundering (SAS) credit card. BI for compliance reporting using OBIEE.

Department of Transportation program- Hazardous material & waste management and transportation in compliance with State, federal rules & regulations.

Manage and direct a team of project managers (~8) Sr Project Manager (Consultant) Jan 2009- Nov 2009 Bank of America, Atlanta, GA (Enterprise Technology & development) Projects:

Merrill Lynch transition and acquisition projects, implementation across the Corporate Investments Group and the Corporate Treasury.

PCI DSS, Compliance. Oracle OBIEE

Sr Project Manager (Consultant) Jan 2008 - Dec 2008 SITA, Atlanta, GA. (Air Transport communication and IT Services), Project:

SITA TEX – Switching, highly available host system for Airline communication.

LMA – Monitoring systems & applications management.

Built Data centre in Atlanta for North America

Manage and directed a team of engineers (~22).

Sr Project Manager (Consultant) March 2007 - Nov 2007 OnStar, General Motors, Detroit, MI (Automobile Industry)

OnStar – Product Re-engineering, new features and Customizations: OnStar Automotive navigation system

(GPS/GIS), remote diagnostics, emergency warning system, automatic driving assistance systems, integrated hands-free cell phones.

Sr Program Manager (Program Management) April 2006- Dec 2006 BLUE Interactive Marketing Inc. Singapore. (Ecommerce, Interactive marketing, CRM) Projects:

HP Asia Pacific, CRM Ops account. Support and manage HP worldwide customer database/data warehouse and eCommerce application

“Blue Rapport” CRM/eCommerce product enhancement, customization, campaign support, IHG eLearning management system, Document management system and Priority intensive applications.

LDS (Lead distribution management, CRM) for Polycom.

Manage and direct a team of program/project managers to support Enterprise level initiatives. (~10) Product Manager (R&D) July 2004 -April 2006

Bubble Motion Inc. Singapore

Projects:

Responsible for Design and implementation of “BUBBLE TALK” product (software/hardware solution). Customization of user Interface for customer services, billing systems integration, System architecture for Telco GSM carriers such as M1, Singapore DIGI & Airtel, Malaysia, CSL Hong Kong, Indosat, Indonesia.

Manage and direct a team of Architects, developers and testers to support product development and support

(15~20).

Software development Manager Jan 2000- June 2004

Gemplus Technologies . France, Singapore (GSM, CDMA, 3GPP, Telecom Systems, Solutions and services) Projects:

GSM Proprietary operating system development (GSM standards) for smart card in Compliant with ETSI (GSM) standards.

Applet development. (Prepaid, Postpaid cards). Cell broadcast, for Star hub, Singapore, WIB Browser development and validation, Multi-subscription filter development customized for India, China and Hong Kong regions, Mobile banking for dual slot mobile phones.

Operating system and Application development for NTT DoCoMo, (W-CDMA). Applications for SMS with cryptography (encryption and decryption) of data (Des.3Des, MAC, PKI). EDUCATION

Master of Engineering, Karnataka University, India. Bachelor of Engineering, Mysore University, India. Advance Diploma in Embedded System and Application (ADESA), Singapore. Professional Certifications:

PMP ® (PMI), CSM ® (Certified Scrum Master), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, ITIL V3®. PM PRINCIPLES, TOOLS, METHODS:

PM Tools: Clarity, MS Office suite 2013, Version One (SCRUM tool), UML, SharePoint. Enterprise Project Management, Outlook, JIRA.

PM Methods: Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall (PMBOK), Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC), RUP. PM Principle, Processes & Practices : PLC, PMI, Earned Value management, PMLC, SDLC, Product life cycle TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology: Web technology, Ecommerce, Telecommunication, Automobile, Embedded technology, Smart card, Mobile banking, card security, cryptography, PKI, Infrastructure. Air transport Communication (X.25 Protocol, Pocket Message switching), RRRT (Rational rose for real time) Data warehouse, Business Intelligence, Supply chain, SAP. Compliance: PCI, DOT, BSA/AML, SOX, ETSI, PII.

ISO certification: ISO 9001:2000 standard development process requirements, CMMI level 4.

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