Core Competencies

Program/Portfolio Management

Strategy Roadmap, Performance

Digital Transformation (RPA, AI)

Delivery Management

Quality Management System

Process Re-engineering

Customer Relationship

Product Development

Client Engagements

(Departments/Business/Stakeholder)

Management, Score Reporting

Estimation & Budgeting

Well experience in Transformation Program/Product Development, Project Management, Delivery, IT Management & Implementation; targeting top level assignments in the industry

Profile Summary

Strong visionary with verifiable year-after-year success in achieving business growth objectives with turnaround, & rapid-change environments Currently working as a Digital Transformation Program Manager with Gulf International Bank for long-term reliability of solutions in a complex, globally distributed environment

Acquired national & international experience for developing customized solutions for domain including Core Banking/Finance, Fintech, Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP), BI, Digital Transformation, People, Process, Data, E-Commerce, & so on

Led multi-cultural cross-functional teams for delivering Product Development roadmaps, Organization Change while adhering to organizational framework Process Improvements, Quality Management and standards business process mapping, requirements into functional specifications and conducted client assessments and requirements gathering for scope definition; Quality and Internal/External Audits and client satisfaction

Managed delivery frameworks and new technology implementation projects for streamlining related activities as per delivery quality standards Adhere the regional Central Bank Policies and business solutions, RCA, aligning vision & steering growth initiatives, Management Reporting, Scorecard, technology plans & strategic

Process Automation, Implementation the SOP, preparing of business case, use case, test case to align the organization strategy Career Timeline (Recent Experience)

NIIT

Technologies

Khaleeji

Commercial

Bank

Avana

Capital

Rohit Mehta

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Godrej

Consumer

Product Ltd.

TATA

Consultancy

Services

Cap Gemini

Consulting

India Ltd.

Dec ’03 – Aug ‘05 Apr ’06 – Nov ‘07

Nov ’06 – Jun ‘09 Jun ’09 – Mar ‘15 Apr ’15 – Feb’ 20 Mar ’20 – Jul ‘21 Sep ‘21 – Present Gulf

International

Bank

Work Experience

Since – Sep ‘21

Mar ’20 – Aug ‘21

Gulf International Bank, Bahrain/KSA as a Program Manager Digital Transformation

Highlights:

Managing the Digital Transformation Program/Projects at enterprise level, including the Retail and corporate banking

Undertake detailed strategy planning for implementation of Core Banking, ISO/SWIFT, GCC-RTGS, e-invoices, Open Banking, e-KYC, (defining program deliverables, success criteria, benefits management, dependencies, change control, risk management) including escalating risks & issues as required. Establish project teams, Vendor evaluation, Project Planning, Executions, Project/Product transitions.

Building the Project/Program budget estimations, costing, Total cost of ownership, AMC etc

Bridging the gap between functional head and technical teams Coordinates activities of the offshore and onshore project team, authorities SAMA, Tadawul, CBB, identifies necessary resources and develops schedules to meet completion deadlines. Ensure that deliverables, objectives and outcomes of the project(s) are achieved as specified, within timescales, to budget and agreed quality standards

Lead board meetings and facilitate workshops as required, producing & presenting written and oral reports/management information to Senior Management and other groups as appropriate.

Identify functional and technical risks their mitigation plans and actions. Closely monitor project, product progress, performance, and quality, including evaluation and benefits realization

Providing technological direction; proposing budgets for programs and projects, purchases and upgrades, supervising sme’s, specialists, vendors Avana Companies, Bahrain as a Program Manager Digital Transformation Highlights:

Responsible in managing all aspect of AVANA digital transformation Program and project management from across a wide variety of high-profile digital related project activities, involving institutional and business change; including the following aspects:

Undertake detailed strategy planning & documentation (defining program deliverables, success criteria, benefits management, dependencies, change control, risk management) including escalating risks & issues as required. Establish product teams, co-ordinate staff, Vendors engaged in project work and provide leadership, vision, coaching & direction to product team members Ensure that deliverables, objectives and outcomes of the project(s) are achieved as specified, within timescales, to budget and agreed quality standards Lead board meetings and facilitate workshops as required, producing & presenting written and oral reports/management information to Senior Management and other groups as appropriate.

Closely monitor project, product progress, performance, and quality, including evaluation and benefits realization

Identify user /customer training needs and ensure appropriate training is provided Aug ’16 – Feb ‘20

Khaleeji Commercial Bank, Bahrain, as Sr. Project Manager, Transformation Key Result Areas:

Successfully delivered the VGAT (Voice Guided ATM Transaction) with in 30days of time span, including the Regional/Bahrain First Animated ATM Screens on NCR ATM’s.

Delivered and upgrade the management dashboard, BI (Business Inelegance), QlikSense, & Qlik View, Swift Messages 2018 complaint and Trade Finance Swift Messages (MT4*, MT9* & MT7*) series with CBB mandate.

Successfully upgrade the iMAL Core Banking server’s, module for Trade Finance Delivered and implementation of Vision Debit Card management system and regional first instant debit card issuing

Delivered and guided for Contactless Debit Cards Issuing (on-us and off-us transaction)

In Fintech successfully implemented the Open Banking first in Bahrain with AISP

& PISP with Token United Kingdom, Mobile App & e-Banking channels Implemented the eDinar Payment Gateway with coordination with Benefit Bahrain and certification with Visa/Master card schemes Delivered and supporting the EFTS, Fawri, Fawari+, Multiple Bill Payment with multiple third party integrations

Meet the CBB mandate for implementation of Country Blocking, eKYC, PCI-DSS compliance data encryption and purging/scrubbing.

Guided the teams for Bahrain Personal Data Protection Privacy guideline Delivered the Bank’s monthly raffle Application and successfully audited by Ministry of Finance/CBB and KPMG

Presently ongoing projects with CBB mandates are Tokenization with Benefit, Contactless Debit Cards Acquiring, Debt Collection System Enabling the Bio-Metric Transaction at ATM’s and branches and many more Apr ’15 – Jul ‘16 Al-Hilal Group, Saudi Arabia & Bahrain, as Senior Project Manager Highlights:

Implemented the various programs to achieve company strategy objective including Application/ERP Support, IT Infrastructure & DR Solutions across Bahrain

& Saudi Arabia

Managed various activities throughout the project lifecycle including planning, execution, budgeting, costing, estimation, risk analysis, monitoring and controlling

& documentation

Pivotal in setting up the help-desk center in Bahrain & Saudi Arabia Ensured timely & quality deliverables for meeting customer requirements, resolving/escalating client issues

Supervised delivery of projects for major clients

Converted IT project department/operations as profits center for the organization Jun ‘09 – Mar ‘15 NIIT Technologies, India, as Architect, Product Manager Highlights:

Designed & implemented, Oracle, SAP, MFG/PRO ERP & DB2 application databases o Implemented Database Warehouse for Holiday Autos website in London, for Last Minute (Travel website) and Saber Inc. in travel domain with Sabre Updated project status on project server/SharePoint; interfaced with stakeholders for proper communication about the project progress Migrated the datacenter & version migration for Progress/Oracle Database; migrated the datacenter from UK to Cyrus One datacenter in US Extended 24x7 live site support (L1, L2 & L3) as DBA & Lead Production Support Worked with a major client & coordinated with multi-cultural teams from all across the world

Nov ’07 – Jun ‘09

Previous Experience

Capgemini Consulting India Ltd., as Senior IT-ERP Consultant, Datacenter Leader

Highlights:

Implemented, administered & tuned a 1000+ GB database for UK & Ireland based offices of Marks and Spencer ERP

Extended production support of various store applications, including General Merchandise (Mainframe) applications, SAP basis, Oracle DB Ensured adherence to customer quality policy for PMBOK/PMO/PMI process Involved with implementation & support of the following: o Oracle-ERP/Progress database of PeopleSoft ERP instances for Schneider & GE Electrical, France

o Progress-ERP database & data warehouse system with >2 TB 1200 database instances; worked as a Database Administrator for support activities related to applications having the Oracle/Progress MFG/PRO DB2 database Apr ’06 – Nov ‘07

TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), India, as IT Analyst (DBA/ERP Leader) Aug ’05 – Feb ‘06 Sarvotham Care Ltd., India, as IT Manager Dec ’03 – Aug ‘05 Godrej Consumer Product Ltd., India, as IT/ERP Administrator Apr ’02 – Dec ‘03 Martin & Harris (P) Ltd., India, as IT Admin, ERP – DBA Analyst Apr ’00 – Mar ‘02 H P Expert Systems, India, as Sr. Software Developer Certifications

Education

Digital Transformation Program UC Berkeley USA in 2022 Machine Learning Stanford University, USA in 2021

PgMP from Project Management Institute, USA, in 2021 PMP from Project Management Institute, USA, in 2017 Certified QA Software Engineering from Cap Gemini University, UK, in 2009 ITIL Information Technologies Infrastructure Library – ITIL Institute, UK, in 2008 OCP-Oracle Certified Professional from Oracle University, USA, in 2006 MBA from Manipal University, Inida in 2013

M.Sc. from Maharishi Dayanand University, India in 2000 B.Sc. from Himachal Pradesh University, India in 1999 Personal Details

Date of Birth: 27th July 1977

Languages Known: English & Hindi

Address: Flat #45, Bldg# 685, Road# 3519, Block 335 BAHRAIN Nationality: Indian

VISA Status: Resident Permit (Bahrain)

Marital Status: Married

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