PROFILE SNAPSHOT
A dynamic professional and an Active Rotarian with over 14 years of experience doing:
Business Systems Analysis Functional Analysis Specifications Documentation
Requirements Gathering Functional Testing Pre-Sales
Quality Analysis and metric reporting Project Management Use Case Development Training Product Design Technology Support
Strong domain knowledge in Private Wealth Management, Portfolio Management and Financial Planning, Corporate Banking, Insurance, Capital Market, Cash Management and Payments.
Functional consultant with proven skills in business analysis, quality control, requirements gathering, project management.
Active Rotarian volunteering in blood donation drives, eye ball collection, squint operations in rural areas via district 3141.
Honorary member of Alpha Beta Gamma Business Society.
Virginia Tech Pamplin School of Business Aug 16 – May 2018
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Conceptualized, designed, documented, developed and maintained the new Evening MBA website and TLOS Portal
Process expert for Masters in Information Technology program: Advisor for prospective students
MIS Reporting: Data extraction from Business Systems, collation and projection using tolls like MS Office, Tableau
Extensive data analysis done, and ongoing regressions run on business research projects using tools like SAS and Excel
Engineered, strategized, executed the PHD and executive PHD Cohorts, trained professors and students on various learning mediums i.e. SMART board, Web Ex, Echo 360, ZOOM etc. Ran multiple programs in a concurrent mode supporting participants worldwide with real time Q & A.
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Agilent Point LLC August 2016-Present
Role: Business and Technology Advisory
Streamlined the offshore software development and delivery process, which increased Key Performance Indicators by 15%.
Oversaw and assisted in the business capture process. Coordinated business development by identifying business opportunities in North America.
Clover InfoTech Pvt. Ltd – Indian Mid-Size IT Services Jan 2015- Aug 2016
Role: Assistant Vice President – Enterprise Solutions
Oversaw the functional deliverables across clients, managed technology deliverables and streamlined the QA process.
Led the team of business analysts, trained and monitored the deliverables to ensure in-time and efficient solutions.
Engaged in domain led solutioning for large customers. Also offered end-to-end IT consultation.
Heavily engaged in functional consultation and product pre-sales with domestic and international clients.
Matched products and services to the business needs of the clients. Modeled the solutions at an enterprise level to help the clients drive the businesses more efficiently. Created and maintained performance and management reports.
NSE.IT Ltd – Indian IT arm for National Stock Exchange April 2009 – Jan 2015
Client: Bank of America N.A. - Role: Principal Consultant - Senior Business Analyst
Served as SME and gathered requirements from stakeholders of Cash Management Investment Center, designed and documented the Data Center (DC) Migration plan, prepared Use Cases, Testing Plan, Contingencies Roster.
Managed the timeline and $ 100K budget for the DC Migration plan
Managed the regression test program, for all environments including Production, UAT and BCP
Designed the interface between the core banking and time deposit applications, without any deviations
Designed and developed the request response mechanism between global banking & ITD via Message repair protocol
Created the operational strategy for server decommissioning and BCP set-up, resulting in more than $50K annual savings
Carried out DR drills to verify the data center failover of all active financial applications such as NGRTGS, IR, FX MONEY, IAS.
Client: Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) - Roles: Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst
Served as SME and key team member, helping to secure and successfully execute contract to design and implement IRDA Agency Licensing Portal, Health Portability system and the Agency Pre-Licensing and Notification system
Designed and documented IRDA Agency Licensing Portal, the implementation of which ultimately saved more than $5 Million for the Indian insurance industry. Project also received the NASSCOM IT User award 2012 in the Fin-Serve category
Trained 10K users nationwide successfully on the usage of the portal, helping to make the nation-wide rollout smooth.
Led and managed the production support teams for agency and health portability portals
Implemented the Agency Portal with 99.99% uptime, over trillion transactions, 50 L licenses and 180K hits an hour.
Implemented the Health portability portal that Insurers use to port the policy holders legally.
Client: BNP Paribas Solution - Roles: Consultant Senior Business Analyst, IT Transition Manager
Gathered requirements and performed data analysis and documentation for Head Office Finance teams in entire APAC region
Designed and implemented customized regional reporting solutions like P&L – Financial Métier reconciliation, amortization program, client RM, Business Line reporting, profitability reporting and HO & regulatory reporting.
Designed the interfaces between the Core Banking system and various upstream and downstream systems.
Acted as a POC for various dashboard, MIS reporting and steering committee meetings. Ensured timely project deliverables
Client: NSE (National Stock Exchange) - Role: Senior Business Analyst
Designed test cases and scenarios for the Pre-Market session. Completed the UAT for the pre-market session and ensured the stock price discovery was made possible. Designed and documented the various modules in the Intranet portal like Calendar Management, Resource Libraries, Marketing Campaigns, Document Repository etc. including the SSO
Miles Software Solutions Pvt Ltd – Indian Mid- Size Financial Software Solutions April 2008 – April 2009
Client: ASK Group, ICICI, Motilal Oswal, India Info Line - Roles: Senior Business Analyst, Account Manager
Designed, documented, tested and implemented the detailed process and information flow for preparing the financial plan including client & inv input, goal setting, cash flows, asset and liability declaration, client profiling, projections & risk
Documented procedure for generating Client Portfolio Model based Deviations, Life Cash Flow Analysis, Appraisal Process
Designed, documented, tested & implemented the PWG website & FA Workstation Portal with customizable dashboards,
Coordinated with clients, and managed accounts, presales and delivery to ensure timely deliveries
Citigroup, N.A. – USA May 2006 – Jan 2008
Role- IT Analyst
Strategized the rebranding of applications and created roadmap for rationalizing the 1100 intranet apps for CMB Tech
Conceptualized, designed, documented and tested the BI solution requirements for various periodic reports
Designed and implemented complete BI Solution including ETL system for data capture, processing, and access control
EDUCATION
Virginia Tech, Pamplin School of Business Evening MBA, Graduate Teaching Assistant GPA-3.91 May 2018
New York University, New York, USA Master of Computer Science, Finance GPA-3.7 May 2007
St. Francis Ins of Tech, Mumbai Uni, India Bachelor of Engineering-Info Tech GPA-3.6 May 2004
OTHERS
International Research Publication:
o9th Conference of the Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture(AFITA), Sep/Oct 2014, Perth, Australia
Mobile Applications for Indian Agriculture Sector: A case study (Research Paper)
Using mobility to improve economic and financial management of Indian Farmers (Poster)
2nd International Conference on ICT for Rural Development, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
Factors influencing the success of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) in Agricultural sector of India (Research Paper)
Tools: MS Office, MS Project, Jira, Tableau, Rational Rose, MS Visio, SharePoint, Business Objects-XI, MS - SQL, PL SQL, SAS.