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ANAND NARAYAN

https://linkedin.com/in/anandnarayans

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Summary

Achievements and Accolades

A performance driven and award-winning Technology & Management professional with over 20 years of strong IT leadership experience with a consistent track record of driving digital transformation for large enterprises.

I have worked in leadership roles with Large Consulting & MNC organizations as well startups with demonstrated track record of delivery.

Lead multi-year product implementation and Transformation Programs for Fortune 500 customers in different business segments - Banking, Finance, Retail, Supply Chain and Oil/Gas contributing to topline and bottom-line revenue (Royal Bank of Canada, Credit Suisse, Lloyds TSB and Shell)

Managed P&L of over $40MM, team size of 450+ spanning geographies across US, Europe, North America & APAC.

Lead and managed outcome-based delivery in automation, cloud and infrastructure migration with new initiatives that have resulted in reduced capex and enhanced productivity KPI’s

Cofounded ‘Business Algorithms’, a non-profit firm that provided consulting services to government institutions on leveraging and adopting open-source architecture (LAMP) in their IT

Education:

PGDBM - Strategy and Finance, Indian Institute of Management- Kozhikode

MCA (Master of Computer Applications), Bangalore University

BSc (Mathematics), Bombay University

Certifications and Other awards

MCSD–Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer

Game Changer award for Adobe LiveCycle implementation by Royal Bank of Canada

Winner of IT NEXT100 CIO 2020. Recognizing Top 100 future CIO’s in India by IT NEXT magazine (https://next100.itnext.in/winners/2020/A/Anand-Subbaraman/6803#.X97hc9gzbIU)

Best Contributor award by Shell Petroleum for innovative use of technology to deliver genuine business value for 2 consecutive years

Fastest growing unit (Risk & Compliance - BFSI) for 3 consecutive quarters at TCS. Scaled the team from 60 to 350 in 12 months.

Saved $800K yearly spend of Credit Suisse by implementing TCS Ignio (RPA) for their Risk function

Lead a $15M application rationalization and modernization program as part of a M&A for a US financial institution. Delivered savings of approx. $1.5M back to the IT budget through cloud migration, automation and legacy modernization

Built and scaled inhouse IT capability through hiring and training @FIFO FUTURE. Reduced IT budget by over 30%. Created a new revenue model for the organization by providing infrastructure and automation as a service for logistics function of organizations. This service has contributed 15% additional revenue.

Created IT policies with Infosec/data privacy that enabled preferred vendor qualification with A.P Moller Maersk (#1 container shipping firm in the world – (https://moverdb.com/shipping-companies/)

As part of Digital connects, co-developed an IoT SAAS service that helps organizations automate the entire process of GOI/customs clearance. This was piloted during Covid for Coir industry across 2 ports in India.

EXPERIENCE

FIFO FUTURE 2019 - Present

Head-IT, Director

Reporting to Board, I provide Technology leadership for a firm offering services for logistics and supply chain businesses & functions in India. Responsible for IT strategy, product roadmap, budgets, vendor management, infrastructure & infosec. The core logistics product is offered in a SAAS model.

Key assignments and achievements

-Developed IT capability inhouse and achieved 30% savings in overall IT budget. Cut security risk by implementing company-wide Principle of Least Privilege policies. Developed policies based on ISO 27001. Helped achieve preferred vendor partner with AP Moller Maersk.

-Unification of EASE (SAAS) AMS services using Cognitive tools (Chatbots, RPA and Agile CoE) which resulted in 20% cost savings for the organization.

-Implemented DemandFarm (on Salesforce) CRM for Sales operations and Service across 6 ports and warehouses in India

-Collaborating with Tradelens (Blockchain) along with IBM & Maersk Shipping to provide smart contracts

-Heading FIFO One (ISDF) Profit Center for IT infrastructure and application services for the logistics function of export/import organizations in South India.

oBenefits - 15% additional revenue FY20. Likely to go up to 30% with additional products

oEliminated – manual effort related to logistics planning & scheduling. SAAS model offered to similar customers.

-Digital Initiatives – Connected Mobile Fleet (Trailers) using IoT platform and IoT solutions (data analytics) for Fleet Management using Azure cloud

Kirloskar Group Company 2017 – 2019

Head – Digital Products and Service Line

Lead CIO’s of US Institutions on their digital transformation programs (payments, customer support, big data, blockchain and API services) as part of their Merger & Acquisition (FHN with Capital Bank, Synovus with FCB). Lead a 160+ team that worked on Payments (First Data), Hogan mainframe, Treasury, D3 Retail, Loan Origination & Servicing, SailPoint IAM.

Key responsibilities and achievements include-

Defining, evangelizing and implementing the Digital Vision program through appropriate digital initiatives, enterprise architecture and application portfolio design

Migrated from CICERO desktop to Salesforce for their CRM

Mortgage Platform rewrite – Conceptualized and built Integrated Azure cloud to automate end to end operations leveraging RPA along with smart rules.

oBenefits: 50% reduction in match variance, improved site uptime to 99.97%. Improved site visibility, compliance with authorization workflows and processed applications.

Office 365 implementation – Achieved 20% reduction on Opex.

Implemented an optical recognition RPA solution in an outcome model resulting in an annualized saving of over $300K for the regulatory team. The RPA solution was developed as an inhouse product bundled with AI & ML

Implemented Blockchain (Ethereum) based asset management solution to avoid credit frauds.

Tata Consultancy Services 2012 – 2017

Delivery Head – Financial Risk and Compliance vertical - BFSI

Responsibilities include

Own P&L for 40M USD vertical (450+ people) Achieved 30% growth YoY

Own Growth targets and Global delivery for Risk and Compliance customers within BFS

Center of Excellence:

oDrive innovation in technology, business processes across industry, delivery framework and creating accelerators/add-on solutions to help our customers in implementing best practices and drive cost effectiveness

Define revenue and headcount growth strategy for engagements, tactical management and relationship management with client C-level executives.

Incubated Risk & Compliance BA COE practice. Achieved $5M USD revenue and 45+ practitioners in 2 years

People Excellence – Recruitment, skills readiness, Trainings and performance management.

Key Projects

-Implementation of regulatory compliance projects (FRTB, CCAR, RNiV & Basel)

-Managed 24*5 IT operations of over 60 environments and 28+ applications used by their worldwide customers. These applications cut across various technologies using J2EE, C++, Informatica, Microsoft Tech Stack, UNIX & Oracle, Redis.

-Global rollout of TCS Ignio RPA for L1, L2 Market Risk Support. Saving of $800K realized in the 2nd Year

-Led consulting engagements to develop Risk and Compliance based business for TCS – BFS for key European banks – Credit Suisse, Lloyds TSB & ABN Amro.

iGATE-PATNI 2007 – 2011

Enterprise Architect – CTO Office Royal Bank of Canada (Capital Markets & Wealth Management), Toronto

Responsibilities include

Responsible for effective Technical engagements with customers/partners of Capital Markets and Wealth management businesses. Set up of offshore teams for these 2 verticals. Contributed over $25M to the BFS practice.

Presenting feasibility/cost benefit analysis of products/solutions for stakeholder buyin

Key Projects

Lead a $12M Product implementation with worldwide Rollout – Adobe LiveCycle for WM and GoldenSource (Reference Data Management) and TCS BaNCS for RBC

Incubated Data Management practice. Grew the team to 28+ practitioners in 18 months

Recognized for creating a successful data management practice for RBC Capital Markets.

Enhancements in - Anti-Money Laundering, Reconciliation, Risk & Compliance

Wipro Technologies 2002 – 2007

Enterprise Architect – Microsoft Consulting Unit, London

Responsibilities include

Responsible for effective Technical engagements with 3 clients (Shell, Emerson and Marks & Spencer) for deployment of MS stack and showcase business value of IT investments. Achieved 30% revenue growth YoY for the consulting unit

Client interaction for functional and non-functional requirements

Incubated SQL Data practice focusing on Retail domain. Grew the team to over 40+ practitioners in 2 years. Later merged with Enterprise Data warehousing consulting group

Participation is preparation of software requirement specifications and prototyping.

Lead a SCM development & implementation that integrated with Shell Petroleum’s SAP ERP

oManaged team of 40 developers and had a worldwide roll out across all Shell Marine locations

oOrganization change management by conducting workshops across Shell UK

oSetting up infrastructure for SCM (Datacenter, WAN links, DR etc) along with Microsoft

oSuccessful Go Live (country wise approach) as per the plan

Other Key projects implemented

oAsset Management (ITAM)- Marks & Spencer

oStore Stock Management – Marks & Spencer

oIntranet Portal - Shell

oSelf-service applications - Emerson

PSI Data Systems (now Aditya Birla Minacs) 2000 – 2002

Product Developer & Implementation support

Responsibilities include

Writing code for financial products in C++ and Java.

Wrote shell scripts to support the PSI Data’s ATM software. ATM business was later sold to Diebold.

Implementation of TBA (Total Branch Automation), flagship PSI product at Vijaya Bank.

Others:

•Consultant with PEOPLE Foundation (non-profit) pro bono. Advisor/Board member to NGO’s in Karnataka on strategy, program management and governance.

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