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SHREEKANTH MODALA
Singapore
**********.*****@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
I have 10.5 years of enriching IT experience in VisionPLUS, a credit
card application system developed by First Data International, on IBM
Mainframes. My expertise includes techno functional role handling migration
projects in various different phases of software development life cycle
including analysis, development, and implementation of Vision PLUS and its
enhancements.
I have very good written and verbal communication skills. I worked with
businesses across a variety of geographic locations and am culturally
sensitive. I have good eye for detail and excellent understanding of both
functional and technical aspects of VisionPlus. My area of specialization
in Vision Plus is CMS (Accounts Receivable component) and Trams Interfaces.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
. Comprehensive knowledge of Consumer finance domain and Work experience of
Vision Plus CMS, TRAMS, SSC, MBS and FAS modules
. Expertise Knowledge in CMS Functionality
. Possess Excellent Analytical, technical, communication and management
skills.
. Knowledge of SCRUM Processes and Experience as SCRUM Master
. Ability to handle multiple tasks with excellent leadership skills
. Designing easy-to-use and optimal Functional Solutions
. Technical planning for System Migration, with focused approach of noting
minute details of Vision plus and other systems involved with it.
. Planning mocks and dress rehearsals for production implementations.
. Managing Offshore and Onsite teams
. Effective communication with team and client in achieving best results.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ORGANIZATION ROLE DURATION
CITIBANK ITO Singapore Business Analyst/Technical May 2010 - Till Date
Lead/Insurance and Interest
Functional lead
HSBC GLTi Consultant Specialist June 2008 - April 2010
Satyam Computers service Onsite Coordinator and BAU Jan 2006 - June 2008
Ltd. system Analyst June 2005 - Dec 2006
Module Lead Jan 2004 - June2005
BAU Support and Programmer
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Hardware IBM Mainframes, Intel PCs
Platforms OS/390 MVS (VSAM), Windows NT/95/98/2000 XP
Languages COBOL, JCL, Ezytrieve and Rex
GUI CICS
Tools & Utilities File-Aid, OPC, Connect-Direct, Beta-91, Beta-92, Beta-93,
TMON, TSO, ISPF, CA7 Tools, Endeavor, Change man,
RDz,Infoman,RTC
Domain Knowledge Consumer Finance (Banking and Credit Cards--VisionPLUS)
Modules include: CMS, TRAMS and FAS
ACHIEVEMENTS
. Awarded with "pursuit of Excellence" twice for performing well in the
project.
. Awarded with certificate of "word of Appreciation" for managing,
integrating and implementing project.
. Awarded with star rating in yearly appraisal.
. Awarded with Spot awards during my tenor in HSBC
INITIATIVES
. Redesigned the system to remove hard coding from system and parameterize
it to work dynamically.
. Redesign existing code to increase performance.
. Design new programs to update parameter files during implementations.
. Review batch flow and suggest changes for batch window optimization
. Developed number of Rexx programs to extract data required during
implementation activities.
> Citibank ITO, Singapore
Scrum Master and Tech PM for G2C(Sep 2013 to Till date)
RESPONSIBILITES:
. Driving Design and Build planning sprints.
. Identify and define Impacted PPs for requirements.
. Ensure that the required tasks are created for each impacted PPs and
track teams progress daily.
. Plan DIT and SIT for the Developed code and ensure required test
cases are created.
. Conduct daily standup and ensure the delivery is as per plan.
. Log and close impediments to remove hurdles in the project progress.
. Facilitate and moderate discussion to seek solution for any
blockers.
. Daily status report and burn down charts for my scrum team.
. Conduct User demo for the features developed in a sprint.
. Conduct sprint retrospective and contribute the ideas to improve
sprint execution.
> Citibank ITO, Singapore
SME for G2C Interest (Jan 2013 to Sep 2013)
RESPONSIBILITES:
. Requirements gathering/Analysis and Solution for Interest change
requirements
. Preparing Estimation documents and coordinating with teams for their
changes.
. Preparing Functional Specification Documents and conducting
walkthrough with business for signoff.
. Coordinating with the business, development and testing teams
. Performing BAU activities for interest function.
. Review G2C Interest code and approve the changes.
. Review the compare reports to determine and difference between G2C
and BAU batches and act as necessary
. Handling new G2C changes using RDz.
. UAT and PAT support for G2C and till resolutions for Interest
Functionality.
> Citibank ITO, Singapore
Interface Manager, Japan Rainbow project, Sep 2010 to till date
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Japan Cards is one of the major cards Business Unit for Citibank.
Japan Rainbow project is initiative to migrate legacy Cardpac system to
Rainbow Version of Vision Plus. Rainbow is a common base for Asia pacific
countries.
Japan legacy BAU runs 2 different systems for bankcard and Diners
cards. With migration to Rainbow both system database would be merged and
run under single Rainbow Base. Considering its tie-ups with different
vendors and the number of impacted vendors, the interface structure was
required to be retained in terms of layout and content.
My responsibilities as a Interface Manager
. End to End management of 2000+ Interface wires in Japan (3200+ Man
days project)
. Analysis, Development and Implementation of all custom Interfaces
(Demographic, DDA, Trams and DWH and other CMS interfaces)
. Giving estimation for the Interface project
. Review of Functional and technical document and perform client
walkthrough to get it baseline
. Managing team and assisting them across various lifecycles of the
project
. Conducting and driving weekly meeting with biz to understand the
scope for interfaces and baseline the requirements.
. Establishing connectivity with various vendors and getting required
setup in place for rainbow environment.
. Internal co-ordination and follow up with various functional Teams
to ensure status of respective modules files
. Weekly status update, tracking development of overall interfaces.
. Setup process to track upload files and raise tickets if any file
misses SLA.
. Tracking Tills and getting it closed.
Initiatives Taken in this project
. Automate the tracking of file delivery to respective destinations.
. Track and highlight Teams about missing setup for upload/download
setups.
. Assist teams to have a connectivity setup.
. Automate validation of files to remove invalid double byte
characters.
. Generate compare utilities to track differences between BAU and
Rainbow downloads.
> Citibank ITO, Singapore May 2010 to Aug 2010
SME for Insurance functionality (May 2010 to Aug 2010)
RESPONSIBILITES:
. Requirements gathering/Analysis and Solution for insurance/Interest
change requirements
. Preparing Estimation documents and coordinating with teams for their
changes.
. Preparing Functional Specification Documents and conducting
walkthrough with business for signoff.
. Coordinating with the business, development and testing teams
. Performing BAU activities for insurance and function.
> HSBC Global Technologies, India, June 2008 to April 2010
Consultant Specialist for HSBC Europe and Middle East
HSBC Global Technology (GLT) is part of the HSBC Group - one of the world's
largest financial service organizations. GLT India is the first Global
Technology Center of the HSBC Group that provides technology solutions and
services for a large spectrum of applications including Vision Plus cutting
across multiple business domains and geographies. HBEU and HBME are two
major regional units of HSBC supporting Europe and Middle East region
business. GLT take care of all the enhancements required at regional and
global layers. As a part of my tenure at HSBC GLTi, I have been majorly
working for HBEU upgrade as consultant specialist and Technical team lead
for HBME Middle east project.
PROJECT PROFILE
. PSD, HSBC GLTi, July 2009 to May 2010 - Functional Lead
BRIEF: PSD (Payment Service Directive) is a regulatory in UK for which all
banks in European union are supposed to make funds available to the
customer as soon as the payments are cleared in bank. The paid amount
should get reflected in customers OTB immediately.
RESPONSIBILITES:
. Involved in design, development, Unit testing, SIT and UAT batch support
and production implementation.
. SPOC for Real time payment processing, reconciliation of payments and
mixed credit processing.
. HBEU Upgrade, HSBC GLTi, Nov 2008 to July 2009 - Work stream Lead
RESPONSIBILITES:
. Involved in Functional GAP analysis for DSA (Data Service Access)
and Business reports for HBEU upgrade project.
. Prepared Impact Analysis Documents, Functional Specs and Technical
Specs for GAPS identified.
. Conduct meetings with business and explain the functions of GAPS
Identified to give clarity on GAP to the Business and get final
decision on Each Gap
. Coordinate with SCM team to finalize on implementing the code at
custom, regional or global layer.
. HBME RCoE, HSBC GLTi, June 2008 to Nov 2008 - Offshore Team Lead
BRIEF: HSBC Middle East Regional Center of Excellence Team is responsible
to implement new custom requirements for Middle Ease Base.
RESPONSIBILITES:
. Team Lead to handle new requirements and resolve application issues
. Reviewing Functional Specs, Technical Specs, One Time conversion jobs
. Prepare Implementation process document for quarterly releases
. Status updates to Client and Onsite.
> SATYAM COMPUTERS SERVICE LTD., Poland, Jan 2007 to June 2008
Technical Team lead for Version upgrade, GE Money, Poland
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
GE Money has cards and loans processing in Vision plus V811 version.
There was lot of functionality built at custom layer. With GE Corporate
initiative to launce Global version of Vision plus it was mandatory for all
the business to migrate to newly launched global version of Vision plus.
This was major upgrade to implement considering no impact to ongoing
quarterly releases.
My responsibilities as Technical Team Lead
. End to End management of Implementation/Deployment activities and
system setup as per project life cycle
. Understand new processes and drive implementation activities to
comply with new standards and new processes.
. Coordinate with business, Developers and manage team at offshore and
onsite.
. Define architecture for batch flow for new version and modifying
base flow to fit custom jobs.
. Tracking day to day application and Environmental issues.
. Redesigning conversion flow and suggest strategies to optimize
conversion flow.
. Handling region setups and ensuring parallel testing happen at
different stages of SDLC.
. Design new templates to handle implementations
. Weekly Meetings with client and the business users.
. Weekly Projects status report preparation and discussion with the
client on schedule as well as any hurdles in delivery.
> SATYAM COMPUTERS SERVICE LTD., Poland, Jan 2004 to Jan 2007
BAU System Analyst for GE Money, Poland
My responsibilities as a BAU System Analyst:
. Analysis and resolution of defects raised in Production
. Providing temporary and instant solutions for production issues
. Designing and developing permanent solutions for temporary fixes
. Producing data extracts and analysis reports for use by the business
. Carrying out various work orders from the business
. Actively monitoring the system and its performance to identify key
areas for tuning
. Producing Root Cause Analysis documents for Severity 3 and higher
issues
. Handling Production implementation, performing Reviews
. Communicating all the changes as part of various implementations to
development teams to facilitate retrofitting activity.
EDUCATION
DEGREE UNIVERSITY YEAR OF PASSING
Intermediate New Samarth High Secondary 2000
School
B.Sc Computers Aurora Degree College 2003
PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME SHREEKANTH MODALA
E-Mail ID **********.*****@*****.***
PASSPORT /VALID UPTO F6774217 / 23 FEB 2016
TYPE OF VISA HOLDING / VALID UPTO SINGAPORE EMPLOYMENT PASS - G6215679T
NATIONALITY INDIAN
LANGUAGES KNOWN ENGLISH/TELUGU/HINDI/GUJARATI
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