Jun 2015 – Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Pune

• Key Result Areas:
• Acting as a Cross functional Program Manager by aligning teams including client teams, Mastercard Infosec teams, Hosting team, CaaS Teams etc to ensure that their individual plans align to the overall project delivery date
• Engaged in managing various projects interdependencies, interfacing & interaction
• Conducting:
• Requirement analysis, design, functional and code reviews
• Different agile ceremonies like iteration planning , review , retrospectives and daily scrums /
• scrum of scrums
• Steering activities pertaining to program & project life cycle management which includes program & project planning & controlling (change, schedule, scope, risk)
• Created program governance structure and continuously fine-tuned it at as per project needs and stakeholder input
• Preparing status reports using project metrics & dashboards
• Highlights:
• Successfully implemented Early Detection System by learning and retraining team in AI and Machine Learning technology
• Helped Citibank in enabling a new digital payments channel of its own having functionality similar to Apple Pay by integrating CBOL, VTS and MDES and ensuring an excellent user experience
• Displayed tremendous ability to quickly learn complex domain and integrations
• Suggested several out of box solutions to ensure project success
• Filed Patent which could impact billions of customers and bring millions of dollars of revenue for MasterCard

Sep 2014 – Jun 2015 · 9 mos

• Lead SEMS Program having SEMS Website and Parent Site projects with a team size of 32 people
• Demonstrating leadership qualities by effectively training, motivating, supporting, guiding and mentoring onsite and offshore resources, leads, business analysts, testers & developers.
• Estimation and Resource Management
• Overseeing the test case creation so that functionality is properly mapped
• Communicating with Business Analysts and key stakeholders and resolving their concerns
• Responsible for requirement analysis, client and offshore coordination
• Actively involved in team members’ recruitment process.

Nov 2010 – Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Stock Options(SOPT) was the mainframes module which allowed several companies employees to manage the stock options. After acquiring Smith Barney, Morgan Stanley decided to replace all the Mainframes green screens with JSPs
• My role & responsibilities:
• Lead a team of 12 people
• Demonstrating leadership qualities by effectively training, motivating, supporting, guiding and mentoring onsite and offshore resources, leads, business analysts, testers & developers.
• Estimation and Resource Management
• Understanding the core functionality from Mainframes team and Business Analysts and creating clear BRDs
• Overseeing the test case creation so that functionality is properly mapped
• Communicating with Business Analysts and key stakeholders and resolving their concerns
• Responsible for requirement analysis, client and offshore coordination
• Actively involved in team members’ recruitment process.
• Achievements:
• Enabled Polaris to enter into strategic domain of batch optimization by successfully executing PoC for the same
• Successfully contributed to several Pre Sales proposals in the investment banking domain

Jan 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

•  Involved in development activities on the presentation layer, Model layer, Service layer and Process layer using Struts framework and Spring framework.
•  Involved in impact analysis and issue fixes.
•  Involved in integration testing during offshore SIT and customer releases.
•  Involved in preparation of unit test cases, UT and IUT executions.
•  Functional and technical clarification support to the team and involved in preparation of design documents.
•  Conducting project domain & technical training to the new team members.
•  Involved in Handling Exceptions in different layers.
• Achievements:
• Won Employee of the Quarter award for successfully managing the major release of the project in a short duration of time

Oct 2003 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

•  Understanding the Specifications of the project.
•  Developed User Interfaces Using JSPs, HTML, CSS, Java Script and Struts Tag Libraries.
•  Extensively worked with MVC (Model View Architecture) struts Frame Work.
•  Developed Action Forms and Action Classes.
•  Involved in the client side validation using the Struts Framework.
•  Involved in Fixing of the bugs for the project.