Manager Project

``L.R.CHANDRASEKARAN

Email: **.**************@*******.*** Phone: +65 96446326

*********@*****.*** (Singaporean) USPhone: +1-408-***-****

Roles

Senior Business Solutions Consultant

Solution Architect

Project Manager/Quality Manger

Data Architect/ Oracle Technology consultant

Oracle Developer

Global Support Manager/Client Services lead APAC

Product manager/Change Manager

Product Owner/Scrum Master

Employment History

SunGard Ambit*RB Senior Principal Consultant 1998 to date

Australasian IT Analyst Programmer 1997 to 1998

Punjab National Bank Business System analyst 1981 to 1997

Methodologies

Agile Development

Water fall

Project Management

Product Management

TOGAF - ADM Academic Qualifications

Project Management Professional (P.M.P)

Certified Information Technology Project Manager (CITPM)

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) DBA

Bachelor’s Degree in Science.(B.Sc.)

Certified associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB)

TOGAF@ 9 certified Enterprise Architect

Specialization Areas

Customer Lending / Collateral Management

Credit Risk Management/Exposure Management

Retail Banking/ Online Banking

General Ledger

Nostro Reconciliation/ Payments

Client information Management

Anti-Money Laundering

Also involved with Sales process RFP/RFI responses preparation. Solutioning, fitment analysis, pre-sales demo preparation, test cases preparation

Agile methodology

Has acted as product owner/ scrum master in many change management projects. Familiar and friendly with people management.

Applied Scrum methodology for Quality Assurance Project.

Product backlog

Scrum backlog – user stories

Sprint burnt down chart.

Current

Designing / implementing tailor-made financial solutions as Financial IT Consultant for SunGard Ambit Retail Banking Solutions

Implemented full cycles in leading financial institutions in APAC & EMEA Functional Skills, which I am practicing

Banking Business Consultant –Projects

Projects Manager internal Projects

Scoping & Estimating

Full Cycle implementation

Statement of Work preparation

Leading the Client services team in ASIA Support ensuring Client satisfaction and keeping the incidents in control with weekly reporting to the CEO of the progress.

Leading the Client Services Asia (Ambit CBS + Channels) support First level – 14 Banks

(value USD: 3 m) Change Management

External Vendor Management

Business Process re-engineering

Requirements Gathering – functional Mapping’

Business Process Management

Managing cross functional /technical consultants

3 onshore consultants/12 offshore consultants.

Domain Experience

Loans (Lending Solutions) Consumer/corporate/consortium/ NPL processing/restructuring

Pre-Approval Processing, Credit scoring

Loan Facility creation – Collateral Management – Limits Definition

Drawdowns/Repayment schedules/Re-pricing/ Risk monitoring

Payment auto receipting and auto hunting

Doubtful status monitoring/ Reclassification

NPL processing and suspense interest accounting

Provision creation, Loan partial and full write off processing

Suit Filing/Decrees processing. Loan expiry process and Closure.

Syndicated Loans – Our Managed as lead bank or as participant

Share distribution to the respective banks

Credit Risk Management Counterparty/Bank level Risk /Group Client Risk/

Country Risk/Regional Risk/Gap Limits/ CCY risk /Trading risk/Credit risk factor

General Ledger Multi-currency Ledger Management/Cash Flow/

Accounting rules creation/Nostro Accounts Management

Retail Banking /online banking Current/Savings/Term Deposits/Overdrafts/agent services

Enterprise operations Common data setup and manipulations/ Auditing configuration

Customer information Centralized information management/contacts/relations/common parameters

Collaterals Management Register/assign/release

One Collateral sharing across multiple Loans

Multiple collaterals servicing one Loan

Anti-Money Laundering Watch List management -OFAC/HM treasury/Black list

Nostro-reconciliation MT940/950/ auto match/forced matching entries.

International Payments SWIFT messages MT103/102 processing

Domestic Payments Exposure to Sri Lanka Inter-bank Payments System

Clearing Operations Current/Savings account based Cheques /Demand drafts/Pay Orders/Manager’s Cheque / Cheque processing/Returns/Regional clearing

Foreign Exchange Spot Forward and Swap Deals management

Money Market Demand Deposits/repo

System Administration Batch Processes / Audit /Security/Meta-data management & configuration

Customer Relationship Management Customer oriented – cross selling/reporting and consolidation of info

Some of the Banks I have implemented/involved/Leading the client services team 1st level.

ICICI bank India Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand

DFCC Vardhana Bank Sri Lanka

Muslim Commercial Bank, Sri Lanka Singapura Finance Pte Ltd, Singapore

Exim Bank, Malaysia

Ceska Sporitelna Prague

SKB Banka, Slovenia.

Crown Agents Bank, United Kingdom The Land Bank, Philippines

Central Bank of South Sudan Vietnam International Bank, Vietnam

Housing Development Bank, Vietnam

BACA Bank, Vietnam

Bank Danamon Indonesia

Significant Achievements

Defined and executed processes successfully for the turnaround of a failing project at DFCC Vardhana Bank Srilanka, which was failing, on Product Quality.

Closely worked with client and brought down the outstanding incidents on the product from 550 to zero for Singapura Finance Ltd and saved about 150K USD on support fees annually going forward

Closely worked with DVB/DFCC banks and brought down the Incidents from 120 to 10 (current assignment)

As the Quality manager applied agile methodology for Quality and ensured successful delivery and acceptance of the software for United bank Limited, Pakistan running about over 1300 branches.

Acted as Scrum Master for some sprints.

Created, Co-authored the Module-Vision document for new product Development for Credit Risk Management based on the SOA Architecture

Contributed new features in the areas of

Credit Risk Management, General Ledger, CIF.

Process Designer: Application Security / Batch Processing

Designed and implemented Data Level Security for banking functions in Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand. Documented the current Business Process Flow and designed the Future process flow for the Central Liability system for the Bank Danamon, Indonesia.

As the Head of Training for Professional Services, created video training materials managing a team of functional consultants and trained about 30 consultants Given training to the IT and Bank users for 4 banks in Vietnam, 2 Banks in Sri Lanka, one bank in UK, One bank in Slovenia, one bank in Indonesia under the “Train the trainer” Mode on credit, Credit Risk Management,, Enterprise and General Ledger, Nostro Reconciliation, retail banking

Designed /co-authored the Business process flow for company wide Requirements Gathering Process/Templates

Functional Mapping Process/Templates

Global Support Issues Tracking Process/ Support Management Process

Functional Specification Templates

Change Management process

Test case preparation process/Test scenarios

Test results templates

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