Management Manager

Atanu Pramanik ******@*****.***, Ph: 408-***-****

SUMMARY

Over 18 Years of experience in Managing and Leading projects, teams, both in Software and in Information Technology Sector for several Fortune 500 companies in the field of, Insurance, Banking, Telecommunication, Life Sciences, and Software Product development.

Hands-on, agile, entrepreneurial technology leader with passion to build and lead teams.

Highly accomplished, self-driven, creative, entrepreneur, innovative.

Demonstrated strong competency in collaboration and problem solving.

Inter team dispute resolution in multi vendor model environment.

Core competencies: Product Development, Risk mitigation, Strategy, Standards, Negotiation, Proactive, and Collaborative.

Excellent communication, co-ordination and presentation skills.

Pro-active and experience working with global teams.

Ability to work independently as well as in cross functional setup - a Great Team Player.

Handle multiple tasks and responsibilities.

Strong experience in creating reports - PowerPoint presentations, project planning and status reporting using tools like MS Project, Excel for Management review.

Strong experience using MS Word, Excel, Outlook and other MS office applications.

Excellent technical, analytical, problem solving and leadership skills.

Excellent knowledge of Software Development life Cycle (SDLC), TOGAF framework, SOA, MDM, SaaS, PaaS, Patterns (MVC,Core Java, J2EE, Integration),WebServices (SOAP/REST).

Experience working in Agile, RUP, Waterfall, and other Methodology.

SPECIALTIES

International team building and leadership

Business Product strategy and execution

IT Strategy alignment with Business

Business Capability Blueprints and Roadmaps

Software architecture, design, development

Work prioritization and delegation.

Product management

Corporate Compliance, Risk & Security

Contract, Outsourcing, Partnerships

Customer Relationship Management

Cost savings thru Application Rationalization Plans.

GCO, Legal, Admin, Treasury, HR, Strategic Sourcing, Vendor Management working knowledge

SKILLS

Operating Systems

AIX, Unix system V, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows, Unix, and DOS.

Database

Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase,DB2,MySQl

Languages

JAVA, C, C++, VB, SQL, PL/SQL.

Network

HTTP, TCP/IP, Socket Programming, SNMP, UDP, FTP, Gopher, Telnet, LDAP, SMTP

Middle-Ware

WebSphere Message Broker(WMB), ETL,EJB, CORBA 2.0, SOAP, Tibco, MQ, EAI,ODM (iLOG), SOA, Data Power, BPM(IBM & Pega),Lexis Nexis

Application Servers

IBM WEB-SPHERE ENTERPRISE, BEA Web-Logic Enterprise, Netscape Application Server, JBOSS, Tomcat Apache.

IDE

IBM Visual Age for JAVA/C++, Visual café, TogetherJ, RAD/RSA

Server Scripts

SERVELTS, Scriptlets

Script Languages

XML, HTML, DHTML, UNIX-SHELL, VB Script and Java Script.

Front-End

Developer 2000 (Forms 4.5, 5.0,6.0,6i), Reports 2.5,3.0,6i, Java Swing, HTML, Javascript/Servets, STRUTS, Spring frameworks

Methodologies

UML (Unified Modeling Language),RUP, Waterfall, Agile

Tools

TOAD, Visual Source Safe, PVCS, ClearCase, Perforce and other UNIX based MAKE UTILITIES,HP-ALM, Jira, XML Spy, Stylus Studio, Alfabet IT Planning, Anthill Pro Suite

WORK EXPERINCE

Bank of the West Dec 2014 to till date

Sr. Manager - IT App Dev & Solutions San Ramon, CA

Reporting direct to Sr. VP - own, drive and provide Strategic direction towards end to end solutions through working with key business owners, vendor partners and engineering groups to engineer end to end process and IT solutions. Drive a strategy which optimizes the IT investment and aligns Business goals. Collaborate and work closely with program management, product management, legal, finance, risk, compliance and other Organizations in the Enterprise (as required) with regards to the development, test, and release. In this capacity delivered successfully CDD (Customer Due Diligence, KYC/KYA), managed CTR (Currency Transaction Monitoring) and Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM) on Actimize platform. Currently working on Digital Channels (Online Account Opening, Online Banking/Bill Pay and other services) using MDM (Good, Casper) solutions.

Managed and lead teams of fulltime employees and contractors.

Collaborating with business partners to find alternatives and solutions to business challenges.

Identifying, understanding, negotiating and documenting business requirements with various groups.

Facilitation of the IT planning and estimating phase.

Manage the delivery of business cases, scope and requirements documents, use-case documentation, test plans, and rollout communications.

Act as primary liaison with program and Solution Management during the development lifecycle from requirements analysis, development, test and bug tracking to UAT and Production rollout.

Developing and managing direct relationships with key stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure the business solutions are aligned with their goals and priorities, and how process automation through IT solutions will help them reach their goals.

Balance the customer’s requirements with technical constraints (e.g., application size, network bandwidth, hardware/software/equipment selections) to ensure that the value of the project is realized.

Exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, architectures and standards and make recommendations for obtaining solutions.

Create and maintain a cohesive, coordinated plan and process across functional domains to deliver solutions that meet the stakeholders priorities within budgetary and product requirements.

Provide in-depth business & technical strategy for systems solutions, identify business gaps and correlate to potential solutions.

Drive the prioritization process by which decisions are made around the final project scope.

Execute on project plans and assist others in executing on project plans across the various groups.

Makes scope/schedule/resources (including budget) trade-off decisions with little or no guidance.

Ensure line of business priorities and IT capabilities (technology and resources) are aligned

Budget management – Define and gain agreement on a project budget and ensure project tracks to the budget.

Nexxo Financial Corporation (now MoneyGram International-MGI) Nov 2013 to Dec 2014

IT Solutions Manager Burlingame, CA

Direct report to VP - own, drive and provide Strategic direction by providing leadership on applications and support of ongoing initiatives. Worked closely with business owners to gather customer requirements, translate them into clear compelling business cases and requirements documents, and then implement them to deliver solutions. In this capacity delivered successfully Mobile and Web Products for several banks in money transfer, money order, check cashing, DDA,GPR products by integrating with VISA, FiServ, FIS, FIS North, WU, MGI etc.

Managed and lead teams of fulltime employees and contractors.

Instrumental in managing and executing integrated internal and vendor technology solutions.

Lead the Solution Delivery team and acts as a key business partner for the technical delivery of projects.

Provide in-depth business & technical strategy for systems solutions, identify business gaps and correlate to potential solutions

Counsel on design and architecture, internal development or outsourcing, project management and overall life cycle and implementation activities for a wide range of applications and services for lines of business or cross business use.

Facilitation of the IT planning and estimating phase.

Manage the delivery of business cases, scope and requirements documents, use-case documentation, test plans, and rollout communications.

Act as primary liaison with program and Solution Management during the development lifecycle from needs analysis and bug tracking to UAT and rollout.

Developing and managing direct relationships with key stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure the business solutions are aligned with their goals and priorities, and how process automation through IT solutions will help them reach their goals.

Budget management – Define and gain agreement on a project budget – ensures project tracks to the budget

Partner with the enterprise program office to contribute best practices and transform the organization’s software development capabilities.

Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company (FFIC) 2006 to Oct 2013

Enterprise Architect Novato, CA

Direct Report to AVP, collaborate task and activities with ITAS (IT Application Services) Managers. Day to day activity involves leading and mentoring IT Product development teams thru various phases of developments like Requirement, Design, Develop, Test and Product launch for several projects: ECM-EPAS, Claims Handling and Investigation, APV, 3CPO, Web FNOL, PI Program (Enterprise Customer Management, Enterprise Policy Administration System, Enterprise Operational Data Store, SAP ERP, SSI), Oracle Rating Engine(ERE), Salesforce.com. I held a Technical Management role with Customer facing responsibilities. All products based on multi-tier SOA based architecture on distributed platforms.

Managed and lead a team of fulltime employees and contractors.

Streamlined Architectural standards, EA position papers, procurements and guidelines by developing ARB (Architecture Review Board) committee.

Established IT Governance at Enterprise level.

Created Integration Reference Architecture and SOA adoption model.

Enforced Standards, Policies, Best Practices and influence the use and adoption among Application team Managers/Sr. Directors.

Reduced IT and Technology Complexity factor by reducing the expense ratios and therefore the combined ratio leading to reduction of the TCO.

Reduced overall IT cost by Application Rationalization & IT Portfolio Management.

Reduced operating cost by consolidating application environment Infrastructure.

Reduced Overheads by collaborating and coordinating work distribution among resources in Accenture, IBM, FFIC and external Business partners.

Formulated Strategic Application Road Maps for next three to five years and improved alignment of Business Vision and IT goals.

Involve in Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) with Business and Finance before any capital investment for large scale multi-million dollar investment towards strategic projects

Advice Executive Leadership Team (ELG team) on short term and long term Strategy, and technology platforms.

Mentored and coached the development of Solution Blueprints.

Chaired and oversaw the Standards committee for all tools, packaged products and software standards and Software currency thus managing the portfolio effectively.

Mentor, develop and delegate activity, conduct any new technology spring boarding activity thru SE CoE (center of Excellence).

Perform Vendor evaluation, product evaluation and terms and conditions with Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management organizations.

Working with stake holders currently to establish a Mobile Platform strategy for the company after completing mobile FNOL etc.

Project Initiation, estimation and long term gains from RtC (Run the company) and CtC (Change the company) perspective

Raining Data 2005-2006

Manager-Engineering & Development San Jose, CA

The ePharma solution (Java/J2EE) tracks individual pedigree of drugs throughout the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain. A SOA based n-tier distributed web architecture product.

Directed management team and developed the organizational structure for this start-up.

Improved time-to-market ePharma solution by advising the Management team and assisted on Product Design.

Developed the Integration framework (SOA based Architecture) for exchange of pedigree information among the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain.

Created and supervised a team of 11 engineers (developers and testers).

Reduced over heads by optimizing onshore and offshore resources.

Liberty Mutual 2004 - 2005

IT Technical Manager Indianapolis, IN

Underwriter Assistant (Java/J2EE) enables a fully automated underwriting, and policy issuance environment capable of supporting “unattended” processing for commercial lines. A SOA based n-tier distributed web architecture product.

Improved time-to-market capability of the Underwriter Assistant product by meticulous planning, continuous assist and advice to Sr. Management to make decisions to initiate phases of Project.

Reduced over all time line by improved collaboration with Business and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to gather Business, Functional and Non Functional Requirements.

Led a team of 25 which included Architects, Developers and Testers.

Orchestrated product design, testing, and production of Underwriter Assistant.

Streamlined the persistence flow improving the Application performance many folds thus improving the overall customer satisfaction and acceptance of Product.

Successfully implemented the complex e-business solution which requires Integration (EAI Tier-SeeBeyond call to several disparate systems) with legacy data and Enterprise Information Systems (EIS).

Delivered the Project in time, in budget with extended scope.

SBC (now AT&T) 2003 - 2004

IT Technical Manager Indianapolis, IN

The TAB/db (Java/J2EE) is an Inventory Management tool to maintain locations and connections between all equipments in central offices spread over 13 States in US.A n-tier distributed architecture application.

Successfully completed the Proof of Concept and assisted and guided Business and Leadership team to finalize decisions.

Reduced overall project time line by improved collaboration with the Business and Subject Matter Expert in gathering the Requirements both at System and at Application level.

Oversight and led Architecture, Design and successfully implementation of the role based, secured, n-tiered, layered distributed architecture application.

Implemented the JAAS framework.

Architected and designed the Rules Engine using Polymorphic Iterative principle.

Led team successfully thru all phases of Project to accomplish a successful product.

Assisted in the Hiring process and creating a team of successful candidates.

Mentoring thru development and release process model.

Communicated any issues & risks well in-time to the senior management thru out the process.

Managed task allocation and capacity utilization.

Trained and managed client employees during the transition phase in efficiently using the new tool.

iPass 2002 – 2003

IT Manager Redwood Shores, CA

The iPass Corporate Access solution, together with virtual private network (VPN) products, allows mobile employees, day extenders and telecommuters to gain secure, reliable, high-speed access to their corporate network or the Internet from virtually anywhere in the world using AAA authentication server. A 3-tier multithreaded application with distributed databases over the Globe.

Managed and Coordinated with Business and Functional teams to develop Functional Specifications, Data Flow Diagrams and Data Modeling.

Collaborated with Architecture team and participated in the development of Design specifications.

Architected, designed and implemented the Persistence framework along with Caching mechanism.

Developed J2EE APIs using Java, JNDI, JDBC to implement the Normalizer engine.

Developed and supervised developers (core Java, HTML, Jsp/JavaScript) thru the project lifecycle.

Ericsson Design Center 2001-2002

Engineer III (Team Lead) Berkeley, CA

A n-tier architecture app with distributed object computing concept. Goal to provide access to user’s voice mail from traditional phone, SIP phone, PDA, cell phone email client (MS Outlook etc)

Coordinated with Business and Functional teams to develop Functional Specifications.

Collaborated with Architecture team and participated in the development of Design specifications.

Developed (core Java, HTML, JSP/JavaScript) and supervised other developers thru the project.

Implemented the TIBCO APIs RvSession, RvSender, RvMsg and send for the IP based phones.

iKnowMed (now McKesson) 2000 -2001

Lead Berkeley, CA

KnowChart is a 3-tier web architecture B2B application. The goal is to capture medical sensitive data for cancer and other regimens of patients over period of time using HL7 Standards.

Performed Requirement Analysis & use case diagrams using UML.

Developed Middle-Ware Applications in Java, Schemas & JSP/Javascript programs.

MCI Worldcom (now Verizon) 1999 – 2000

Sr. Developer Cedar Rapids, IA

Worked with the Systems and Design team hand-in-hand.

Improved overall performance by Caching Data Locally.

Developed Applications (Java, Servlets, HTML) and performed Unit Testing.

Several Software Projects as Manager/Developer (national/multinational clients) Mar ’93 to Jan ’99

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Telecommunication) 1989 – 1993

Cornell University- Executive Leadership Program 2013

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Community Service:

Wild Life Rescue and Habitat Center as part of Day of Sharing from Fireman's Fund

Volunteer Services for Marin and Napa County apart from biking, visiting new places and food.

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