Manager Project

Arun Kumar Kota

Toronto - Canada

**************@*****.***; +1-647-***-****

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunkumarkota/

SUMMARY

Engineer and Management graduate with rich global 7.5+ years of Techno-Functional experience in Digital Strategy areas spanning across Business analysis, Project Management, Data Science, Product Management, Transformation/Automation initiatives and IT/Operational management.

Hands-on technical skills, passion for Tech Products and global business exposure working for clients across USA, Australia and Middle-east sets apart from his peers. Currently working in the capacity of Senior Business Analyst/ Project Manager within Evergent Technologies Inc.

COMPETENCIES

Implemented business transformation, migration projects, driving Pex (Process excellence/optimization) which includes RPA (Robotic Process Automation), Analytics and AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Market Research & Analysis: Primary and Secondary Market Research, designing surveys/customer feedback tools, Deriving actionable insights from data

Championing ITIL Best Practices across different business functions with Cost and ROI Analysis

Business Development: Expertise in creating business solutions for RFPs and conducted feature demonstrations and product training sessions for sales and clients

Authored Thought papers, Innovations, Product Vision and Product Road Map

Expertise in SDLC, Agile methodologies- Scrum, PI/Sprint planning, Kanban

Tools and Technologies

Programming - SQL, Java, Oracle Middleware

Operating Systems – Mobile (iOS and Android)

Reporting/Data Science - R, Python, Tableau

Cloud Infrastructure – Amazon Web Services

Project Management - MS-Office, MS- Excel, MS- Power Point, MS-Visio, Lucid Chart, Jira, IBM RTC, Confluence, Smart Sheet

BASIC WORK PROFILE

Coordinated closely with C-Suite executives to develop product/project vision into comprehensive functional user stories and specifications; Authored user stories for new features as well as ongoing enhancements

Collaborated with cross functional stakeholders across - Sales, Presales, Client Services and Engineering to identify gaps and integration requirements

Performing Stakeholder Analysis to identify impacted groups and requirements responsibilities

Analyze the requirements and create traceability matrix with AS-IS and TO-BE scenarios

Authored Business Requirement Document (BRD), Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) incorporating Business Process Model (BPM) & Sequence Flows to help IT-Development/Quality Assurance teams

Liaised development to prioritize backlog items; and QA (Quality Assurance) teams in develop, Review test cases during Scrum, System Phase and during the Business Acceptance Testing (BAT) phase

Participate in backlog grooming exercise and work with product owners to review/update product backlog and develop user stories for backlog features and Epic

Provide accurate estimates by managing risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements and improving the level of detail

Performed daily Scrum Master responsibilities for the Scrum teams; led Scrum rituals including daily stand-up, sprint planning, and retrospectives

Brainstormed with the data ware-house/ETL team for final output and created reports using Tableau and custom data reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Evergent Technologies –Los Angeles - USA March 2018 – Present

Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager

Implemented Customer Signup and Sign in flow with in apps (iOS, Android and Roku)

Integrated payment gateways like Credit Cards, Wallets and Telco partners (operator billing)

Customized integration with Tax Systems, Sales force and analytics tools (Clever Tap and Kochava)

Provided integration with CRM fro E-commerce with dashboard for reporting

Officiated delivery of projects with project plan

Accomplishments and Outcomes:

Seamless integration and workflow automation across different platforms and the head office for better customer care and reduced IT maintenance costs by ~35% by implementing new processes

Edgeverve Systems – Hyderabad - India October 2015 – March 2018

Senior Associate Consultant

Implemented multiproduct single application flow for originating Retail assets

Customized Origination Solution with Internal workflow for Pre-approval, Processing, Underwriting stages with TAT and alerts

Approve and Reject based on KYC regulations, Qualification and external credit regulations

Implemented of a Credit Card Origination Flow

Ability to upload credit card product from third party system while migration

Create/Edit a credit card application with Pricing Control Matrix for processing and approval

Digital Banking Experience for Liabilities and Asset products

Entire range of deposit accounts, lending products and E-banking end-to-end actions like save/resume, Co-applicant, OCR Integration with

Comprehensive dashboard presenting metrics and alerts for critical events and breaks

Implemented US Federal and State Regulations for Origination and Core Banking

Single use case for all regulation handling and streamlining regulations for centralized reporting

Implemented Limit management for Loan

Limit level at Customer or account level core banking system

Reimagined product with cloud and analytics for origination and reducing TCO

Accomplishments and Outcomes:

Reduced the Total Cost of IT Ownership of the bank’s origination product by 12 % during 2016-18

Created a bank wide utility for originating which could be used across lines of business allowing bank to generate significant economies of scale.

Implemented future proof strategic solutions making the IT landscape easily adaptable to regulatory changes

ICICI Bank – Hyderabad - India June 2014 – October 2015

Business Analyst/Assistant Manager

Implemented solutions for client onboarding process and portfolio recommendations and FX module-(Options, Swap, Forwards, CLS), Interbank Loans and Deposits, Internal Funding, Treasury Bills and Bonds, Money Market instruments, Structured Products and Derivatives (DCI, IRS, Repo)

Designed optimized process by understanding pain points and reduced TAT for service request

Strategized and planned processes and ideas for increasing product volumes

Accomplishments and Outcomes:

Focus on business development across liabilities, assets and achieved growth in revenues by over 28%

Improvised and maintained long term relationships by increase in product penetration by over 17%

Zensar Technologies – Hyderabad - India October 2009 –June 2012

Software Engineer

Worked as ORACLE SOA Consultant on end to end implementation of Banking and Telco clients

Architecture design, solution design and developed applications through daily interaction with clients

Provided RFP and coordinated Project Initiation Note

Performed Competitor analysis, market research for middleware products

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration July 2012 – May 2014

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - India

- Project Management and Data Analytics

Bachelor of Engineering May 2005 – Jun 2009

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

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