Professional Bio

A multi-skilled, highly successful Information Technology Consultant with a proven track record of managing complex IT projects & programmes. Strong technical acumen and ability to lead and manage business transformation and technology initiative programmes within the Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare and Insurance sectors/domains.

Adaptable to any challenging roles and responsibilities in delivering large IT programmes.

Having more than two decades of experience in this IT industries, around 18+ years of solid experience in project and programme deliveries under various capacities, handled different sizes of projects and programmes for a wide spectrum customers across the globe.

Key Competencies

IT Project & Programme Management
IT Delivery Management
Stakeholder Management
IT Change Management
Business Continuity / P3M Governance
Incident Management
People Management
RAID Management
QA & Defect Management
Procurement / Service Management
3rd Party /Vendor Management

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Professional Certifications

PMP - Project Management Professional
PRINCE2® - Project Management Practitioner
MSP® - Programme Management Practitioner
PSM I - Professional Scrum Master™ I
ITIL V4 - IT Service Management
AWS - Certified Cloud Practitioner
PAHM® Professional Academy for Healthcare Management
Six Sigma Green Belt - Certified

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Awards / Recognitions

Received "Best Team" Award - 3 times under my leadership.
Received "On the Spot" Award - 4 times for my contribution to the timely inputs resolutions for the problems and issues.

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Technology

Software

VS COBOL II, DB2 , CICS, VSAM
Cognos, Hyperion, Mainframe SAS
IBM Focus, UNIX Shell scripts, REXX, PL SQL
Oracle 5, Pascal, Fortran, Assembly Language,
Quadra Pro, Visio Plus

Database

IMS, DB2,
FoxPro, Oracle, SQL Server

Tools

Jobtrack, DB2BMC, Strobe,
FileAid, Endeavor, ChangeMan, Easytrieve. CasePac, Minitab, LAP tools, MasterCraft

Management Tools

MPP - Ms Project Plan
JIRA /Confluence - Agile project management
Planview - RAID & Finance Management
Advanced Ms Excel - Create dynamic dashboards/Metrics
PowerPointer & Keynote - Create effective presentations

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Trainings

External Trainings

BI Business Intelligence
Big Data Analytics
DevOps Essentials & Foundations
Agile Planning & Agile Delivery
Data Science and ML Bootcamp
ML and Data Analytics with Python

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In house Training[ L= Level 1, 2, 3 E= Expertise 0, 1, 2, 3 ]

Design Thinking E2
Microservices E2
Agile Ways of Working E2
Impact and Influence L2
Strategic thinking L2
Coaching L2
Customer Focus L2
Business Acumen L2
Interpersonal Skills L2
Negotiation Skills L2
Resource Management L3

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Academic

MBA - Master of Business Administration
CSE - Computer Science & Engineering

In House Graduation Program

CATALYST - Transformation Programme professional
Leader in You - Leadership workshop
TrailBlazer - TCS prestigious senior leadership bootcamp training
Business Skills - Personal Mastery
Service Management (IS ITIL)

Areas of Expertise

Stakeholder Management: Specialised in managing large stakeholders (for both Internal & external) for large programmes – developed framework for effective stakeholders strategy for large programmes – define scope and determine priorities - establish constructive working relationship with senior key stakeholders (directors and CxOs)– facilitate engagement between senior executives, business, technology and 3rd parties.
Budget Planning & Cost Control : Rich experience in estimation, resource planning and Budget planning for the large technology and business transformation programmes – Managed cost forecast and established cost baseline – manage projects funding requirements for existing and new changes - produced business cases – Track & Monitor project/programme expenses including 3rd party vendor’s/contracts/PO costs – Review, Reconcile and report variances to Finance, Senior executives and business sponsors.
Risk Management : Extensive experience in managing RISKs for large complex programmes – Carried out Risk assessments – Risk mitigation and risk response plan –Implemented recovery strategies to recover projects and programmes from critical stages - Agree and communicate appropriate risk response plan – escalate to Risks/Issues to appropriate forum and adhere to P3M/internal compliances.
Specialised in managing Integrated testing & deployment for Bank’s large IT programmes. Delivered strategic solutions as part of T&D (testing & deployment) team for the large programmes that needs an Integrated and end-to end testing across the Bank's Core, Payments and Finance platforms including multiple channels, off-host and 3rd party interfaces of the Bank. - Managed data ring fencing strategies – managed shakedown & Deployment plan and Integrated delivery plan.,
5+ years of solid experience as Business Intelligence Delivery Manager for a large USA Healthcare customer. Instrumental in developing frameworks for lot of data analytics BI solutions and dynamic BI dashboards for senior business executives - hands on experience with SAS. COGNOS and SQL Server – designed and developed lot of ETL process and designs for Data Marts and Data Warehouses, built from various data sources and data formats.
Delivered pure development projects, Migrations, Conversions, Decommissioning and technology initiative enhancements/Remediation projects.
Built high performance team (120+ member team) from the initial phase to the closure and demonstrated, cost effective successful onsite/offshore delivery model built for the customers.
Outstanding relationship builder, having rich global experiences of working with a wide spectrum of different customers across the globe - EU (Turkey), UK (Manchester & London and Edinburgh), USA (Portland and Hartford) and Japanese customers at customer facing key roles.

Managerial Expertise

Strong Programme & Project management and delivery expertise.
Extensive cross-functional team management and leadership experience.
Ability to create and leverage need-based offerings to the customers
Proven track record of managing large stakeholders and senior management
Proficient in project management principles, methodologies and tools
Ability to create continuous value add to the customers by value adds, effort reduction, improve operational efficiencies
Applied PRINCE2 , ITIL and Lean Six Sigma principles and practices for various projects.

Our TCS team at YKB, IT Development Centre in Istanbul, Turkey, garnered media attention from one of Turkey's leading business magazines in the year 2001. Back in 1999, I played a crucial role as a technical project lead in a significant transformation program.

Our team successfully implemented this pilot program, achieving notable success by the end of 2000.

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