Project Management, Program Management, Delivery Management

Professional Summary

o Innovative executive leader with over 18 years of experience, of which

last 13+ years in Portfolio, Program, Project and Delivery Management,

Enterprise Technology Solutions, IT Strategy and Governance,

Project/Program Management advisory and thought Leadership

o Well experienced in leading Large-scale Complex Technology Transformation

and implementations

o Big picture thinker and collaborative leader with a pragmatic approach to

solving Business Issues

o Extensive experience in enterprise application architecture, Object-

Oriented design, System Re-engineering, Enterprise Application

Integration (EAI), Legacy Modernization and Platform Migration; a multi-

linguist in technology that spans from legacy world (IBM Mainframe and

AS/400) to new age Internet technologies (Java, JEE, Spring, Hibernate,

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Middleware)

o Wide experience in providing reactive solutions through RFI/RFP,

proactive solutions through Portfolio Optimization, New Service

Propositions and Asset Monetization to enhance Value delivered to the

Clients and increase internal ROI

o Expert in establishing and directing Project Management Office (PMO),

creating Project Governance Framework and Standardization of Project

Practices and Controls

o Profound experience in using various Software Development Lifecycle

(SDLC) Methodologies

o Proven achiever who is committed to aligning technology and business to

generate cost-effective solutions and deliver multiple, mission-critical,

multimillion-dollar programs on time and within budget

o Exceptional interpersonal communicator who effectively interacts with

clients, all levels of management and Senior business leaders

o Decisive, energetic, focused manager who builds and leads high-performing

multi-disciplined teams across geographies, cultures, varied skill and

mind-set

Education

o Master of Business Administration (MBA), Institute of Chartered Financial

Analysts of India (ICFAI) Business School, ICFAI University, Hyderabad,

India (3 years), July 2005

o Master of Science (M.Sc), University of Madras, Chennai, India (2 years),

March 1994

o Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), University of Madras, Chennai, India (3

years), March 1992

Professional Certifications

o Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certificate number - 145832, Scrum Alliance

Inc., Indianapolis, USA, May 2011

o Project Management Professional (PMP), PMP number - 473166, Project

Management Institute (PMI), Pennsylvania, USA, June 2007

o Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), CSQA number - 6739, Quality

Assurance Institute (QAI), Florida, USA, September 2001

Specialties

o Managing large and complex multi-million dollar IT development Programs

and Projects

o Leading big and globally distributed engineering and business teams,

defining protocols and team structures, managing performance and growth

of managers and technologists, Team Building and Mentoring

o IT Governance, Service Propositions, Value Enhancements, Portfolio

Optimizations and Asset Monetization

o Program/Project Cost Estimations and Budgeting, Return of Investment

(ROI), Payback Periods, NPVs, Profit and Loss and Cost Management

o Program/Project Scoping, Sizing, Effort Estimation, Forecasting, Planning

and Scheduling

o Managing Project deliverable Quality and Program, Project and Operation

Risks

o Stakeholder Management (includes Directors, Vice Presidents, CTOs, CIOs

and country business leaders), Communication Strategy and planning

o Defining Project Organization Structure, Creating Project Governance

Framework and Standardization of Project Practices and Controls

o Infrastructure Capacity Planning and provisioning, Business and

Technology Change Management

o Software system environment Due Diligence, IT Operational Risk

assessments, Enterprise Architecture Assessment, Strategic Technology

Solutions and implementation Road-map, aligning technology to business

strategies, responses to RFI/RFPs

o Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS) Product selection through RFI/RFPs,

vendor and product evaluation/assessments, creating/validating MSAs/SoWs

for Vendor Services and managing Vendor services

Technology Expertise

Software Architectures - Model View Controller (MVC), Service Oriented

Architecture (SOA), Component-based, Client-Server, Event-driven

OS, Languages, Databases, Frameworks, Standards and Utility Software -

Windows, Unix, Linux, AIX, IBM Mainframe Java/J2EE/JEE, IBM PL/I, Cobol,

XML, XSL, HTML, IBM Mainframe JCL, IBM DL/I, SQL, IBM ILE/RPG, Microsoft

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Unified Modeling Language (UML), IBM

DB2, Oracle, IBM IMS/DB, Data Caching through JDK and EhCache, EJB,

Servlets, JSP, JDBC, Struts, Spring (MVC, Security, REST, Batch, LDAP,

JDBC, Cache, JMS), Hibernate, Java Persistence (JPA), JSON, JQGrid, SOAP,

Ajax, UDDI, WSDL, Java Messaging Service (JMS), Jaspersoft Jasper Reports,

IBM Program Call Markup Language (PCML), Ant, Castor for Data Binding,

CloverETL, IBM Doors, Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS), CollabNet

Subversion (SVN), IBM Rational Clearcase, Microsoft Word, Excel,

PowerPoint, IBM Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, Eclipse, IBM-RAD, Bugzilla,

HP Quality Centre, BMC Remedy

Software Server, Adaptors, Reports and Middleware Products - IBM Websphere,

Apache Tomcat, IBM MQ, IBM HTTP Server, Oracle Access Manager (OAM), SAP

Crystal Reports, IBM Content Management On-Demand (CMOD), IBM Tivoli Data

Exchange (TDE), NeoModus Direct Connect, TIBCO, BMC Control - M, IBM

Websphere, Apache Tomcat, IBM MQ, IBM HTTP Server, Oracle Access Manager

(OAM), IBM IMS DC, IBM CICS, SAP Crystal Reports, IBM Content Management On-

Demand (CMOD), IBM Tivoli Data Exchange (TDE), NeoModus Direct Connect,

TIBCO, BMC Control-M, IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter, IBM CICS Transaction

Gateway, IBM CICS Web Support, Oracle Webgate, Oracle Java Connector

Adaptor (JCA), IBM Websphere Adaptor

Project/Portfolio Management Tools, Software Development Methodologies,

Sizing & Estimations & Standards - Microsoft Project Plan (MPP), CA-Clarity

(Niku), HCL-PMSmart (customized Digit ), Planview, VersionOne, JIRA,

Pivotal, Microsoft Sharepoint, SDLCs' - Waterfall, Incremental,

Prototyping, Iterative/Rapid Application Development (RAD), RUP, Agile

(Scrum), Size and Effort Estimations - Function Point, Program Evaluation

and Review Technique (PERT)/Line of Code, WBS, Object Size Count (OSC), Use

Case/Complexity Factor, Project Performance Measurements - Earned Value

Management (EVM) and Metrics (CMM and CMMi standards)

Professional Experience

Since September 2013

Insigma Inc., Virginia, USA: IT Project/Program & Delivery Management

Consultant

Managing large and complex IT programs with Multi-year, Multi-million

dollar budgets and distributed teams placed onsite-offshore and near-shore.

Program/project type includes development of new applications, business

process automations, enhancements to existing applications and Enterprise

Application Integration for big global clients in dedicated and Cloud

infrastructure and hospitality

Responsible for managing technology programs from initiation, planning to

execution and control Providing Technology Solutions and implementation

road-map Project Sizing, Effort & Cost Estimations Scope Management

Project Planning & Scheduling Risk Management Team Management

Communication Strategy and planning Onsite-Offshore team management

Change and Release Management Capacity Planning and Infrastructure

provisioning for Applications Managing 3rd party product vendor services

Conducting Program/project steering committee meetings with Senior

stakeholders, business and project teams Stakeholder management (includes

Vice Presidents and Directors) Software Quality Assurance and Program

Technology Solution Delivery

Agile Scrum SDLC methodology followed. Agile Project Management that

includes Coaching, Chairing Product and Sprint Planning and Sprint

Retrospective meetings, removing impediments, guiding the teams on the

values and practices of Scrum

Significant Insigma Inc. Clients Serviced

Information Technology Consultancy: Rackspace, San Antonio, Texas, USA as

Project/Program Delivery Manager

Managing a multi-year, multi-million dollar complex program and delivery of

a key CIO initiative to automate all the business process involved in the

lifecycle of load balancer and associated environment from device

inventory, Supply Chain, Provisioning, device management to decommissioning

for both dedicated as well as Cloud infrastructure.

Information Technology Consultancy: MGM Resorts International, Las Vegas,

Nevada, USA as Program & Product Delivery Manager

Managed program and delivery of software applications that support MGM's

business portfolio through their Mlife portal. Total life-cycle

responsibility for the entire line of application systems that falls under

Mlife umbrella including strategic planning, development, UX, enhancement

and 7x24 production support.

December 2009 to August 2013

Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) Scope International, India & Global: Consumer

Banking - Lending & Wholesale Banking Information Technology Divisions:

Head of Development

Leadership and management for portfolio of large and complex Multi-year,

Multi-million dollar IT programs with Capitalization budgets >$20M and

annual operating budget ranging from $1M to $2M with large distributed

global team. End-to-end program/project responsibility that includes

development and global implementations and application/product management

responsibilities includes enhancements and 7x24 production support across

SCB markets (geographies).

Drove technology service offerings to SCB business through new

product/application development, COTS product identification, integration

and implementation, technology transformations that includes system re-

engineering, platform migrations, Enterprise Application Integration,

Legacy System modernizations, application infrastructure migration and

enhancements, asset monetization and Portfolio Optimization

Responsibilities include Managing technology programs from Project

initiation, planning to execution and control and closure Defining and

managing Programs/Projects Scope and Technology Deliverables that support

business goals in collaboration with Senior Business Leaders and

Stakeholders Technology architecture assessments and Governance,

providing Strategic technology solutions and implementation road-map

Aligning technology to business strategies Project Sizing, Effort & Cost

Estimations Capitalization Budgeting Yearly Operation Cost Budgeting

Cost Management Stakeholder Management Project Planning & Scheduling

Risk management Large & Distributed Team Management, Team Building &

Mentoring Communication Strategy and planning IT Governance IT

Operational Risk assessments & Control Participating in Enterprise IT

Risk Audits Creating Project Governance Framework and Standardization of

Project Practices and Controls Change and Release Management Capacity

Planning and Infrastructure provisioning for Applications Conducting

Program Executive Committee meetings involving CIOs, CTOs and country

business leaders Chairing Program and Technology Working Committees

constituting project teams and country business managers Vendor

identification and selection for products and services through RFI/RFPs and

assessments Vendor Management Software Quality Assurance and Program

Technology Solution Delivery

Project SDLC methodologies followed includes Waterfall, Iterative,

Incremental, Agile Scrum and Hybrids. Agile Project Management includes

managing different agile project teams, Coaching, Chairing Product and

Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective meetings, removing impediments,

guiding the teams on the values and practices of Scrum

January 2003 to November 2009

HCL Technologies Ltd, Global: IT & Engineering Services: Project Manager

Lead and managed large and complex IT programs with Multi-million dollar

budgets that range between $2M to $5M with large distributed teams.

Program/project type includes development of new applications, enhancements

to existing applications, System Re-engineering, Platform Migrations and

Enterprise Application Integration and Legacy Systems modernization for big

global clients in business domains Retail Market Research, Rocket Science,

Insurance and Banking

Responsibilities were managing technology projects/programs from

initiation, planning to execution and control and closure Project Sizing,

Effort & Cost Estimations Financial Budgeting Cost Management Scope

Management Project Planning & Scheduling Risk management Client

Management Large & Distributed Team Management (Onsite-Offshore), Team

Building & Mentoring Onsite-Offshore team management Communication

Strategy and planning IT Change and Release Management Capacity

Planning and Infrastructure provisioning for Applications Creating

Project Governance Framework and Standardization of Project Practices &

Controls Managing Profit & Loss (P & L) for the Delivery Unit

Conducting Program/project steering committee meetings with Senior

stakeholders, business and project teams Stakeholder Management (includes

Directors, Vice Presidents, CTOs and CIOs) Pre-Sales and Post-Sales

support by performing Due Diligence, Identifying new business initiatives

in existing accounts by Value Creation through technology architecture

assessments, providing Strategic technology solutions and implementation

road-map, aligning technology to business strategies, Response to RFI/RFPs,

Enterprise Discovery Landscaping, Business Applications Portfolio

Optimization and new Service Propositions Software Quality Assurance and

Program Technology Solution Delivery

Project SDLC methodologies followed includes Waterfall, Incremental,

Iterative/RUP and Hybrids.

Significant HCL Technologies Clients Serviced

February 2009 to November 2009

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (FFIC): Program Manager: California, USA

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (FFIC) founded in 1863, is one of the top

20 Property and Casualty Insurance companies in the United States. FFIC is

the non-life insurance arm of Allianz SE, of Munich, Germany, one of the

largest property and casualty insurers and financial services providers in

the world.

Managed the Casper program, an initiative from FFIC to increase operational

effectiveness by reducing the number of redundant systems, reduce cost of

policy processing, automation of expensive manual processes and to avoid

expensive legacy system updates.

May 2006 to June 2007 and April 2008 to January 2009

Halifax & Bank of Scotland (HBoS): Program Manager: Edinburgh, UK

Halifax is the largest home mortgage lender in the UK. The company HBOS

(currently part of Lloyds Banking Group) offers a host of financial

services including retail banking, consumer credit, savings products and

asset management services.

Managed technology projects of varying sizes in HBoS Retail Banking during

my tenure with HBoS.

July 2007 to March 2008

Skandia: Program Manager: Southampton, UK

Skandia (a member of the Old Mutual Group, a FTSE 100 listed company) is a

leading UK based Life and Pensions Organization, providing a wide range of

insurance and pension solutions in United Kingdom.

Managed ACharge, a Latent Risk Program and a regulatory initiative mandated

to Skandia by UK government to investigate the charging structures and fix

the situations where charges are not accruing correctly as well as to put

control measures for such kind of situations not occurring in future. IT

solutions included fixes, new application development as well as

enhancements to the existing applications

July 2004 to April 2006

Boeing Company: Program Technology Lead: Seattle, USA

The Boeing Company is the world's largest aerospace and defense corporation

with a product range covering commercial jetliners, military aircraft,

satellites, launch services, human space flight, missile defense, moving-

platform connectivity and network-centric solutions for defense and

homeland security.

Boeing's Flight Test Computing System (FTCS) is used to ensure that every

airplane produced by the Boeing Company meets US and foreign government

certification standards. End of 2003, Boeing came with a proposal to

enhance their existing FTCS system running on obsolete technology platform

in IBM Mainframes to a new world distributed system that could provide

competitive edge, reducing operating cost and time to market, a vision set

then for not only its other commercial & military flight models but also

for its current innovative 787-Dreamliner delivery.

Managed the technology solution delivery, system re-engineering, software

architecture, design and development for the FTCS Program

January 2003 to June 2004

Symphony Information Resource Inc. (IRI): Project Manager: Chicago, USA

Information Resources Inc. (IRI) is a major consulting company in the area

of providing industry with consumer insights and market intelligence. IRI

provides customers with the most robust data available on electronic point-

of-sale (POS) purchases of thousands of consumer brands sold all over the

world.

Managed the Panel Support program, started by IRI to continuously improve

and simplify the process of the applications and reducing the effort in

managing the systems through technology process improvisations, new

application development, enhancements and support

EARLY CAREER

March 2002 to January 2003

SIP Technologies & Exports Ltd.: Associate Project Lead: Chennai, India

April 1997 to September 2001

Datamatics Ltd: Software Analyst: India & Global

Professional Contributions

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Development, Project Management

Institute (PMI), Pennsylvania, USA, February 2012

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