Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · US and UK

• Little Place Labs is deploying AI on satellites and spacecraft to bring space-based intelligence to the end users in 7 minutes, thereby reducing latency by several hours/days and the data downlink by up to 98%.

Jan 2019 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Working with banks and other financial institutions across the Middle East and North Africa region, I help our customers to adopt innovative blockchain technology in the payments space to carry out cross border payments more effectively.
• With the covid pandemic impacting our customers, primarily payments companies, the industry has seen a shift from hard cash to using more digital channels. The digital shift has been accelerated and I work with customers to make this seamless and efficient.

Dec 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs

• Project Manager responsible for the onboarding Ripple customers (Banks and Payment Providers) to adopt Ripple's cross border payments product in Europe and the Middle East. I worked with multiple financial institutions in UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Turkey, Cyprus connecting them over new blockchain-based payments network. Working with internal teams spread across London, San Francisco, Sydney, Singapore and Mumbai it requires a truly a global collaboration to grow a global network.
• The flagship initiative was working closely with the Central Bank of England on a POC exploring possible uses of blockchain in payments.

Mar 2016 – Dec 2016 · 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Based out in Canary Wharf, London, I worked with EY in an internal initiative to manage cross-organisation collaboration using new digital means.

Dec 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr · Asia and Americas

• Backpacked across 24 countries in 3 continents (Asia, North America and South America). Rode a motorbike 3000km+ across Vietnam, Scuba diving and island hopping in the Philippines, travelled through China and Tibet visiting Everest Base Camp, hiked Volcanos in Indonesia, rode the Death Road in Bolivia, explored Machu Pichu and Andes mountains in South America, and much more.
• Biggest Takeaway: Globalisation is here. Almost all countries work around their constraints and people work across aim to improve their quality of life. The current reliance on natural resources is not sustainable and more needs to be done to save our planet from climate impact. Additionally, it is cheaper to travel the world than to live in western developed countries.

Jun 2011 – Jun 2015 · 4 yrs · Swindon & London, UK

• I have been engaged in different transformation programmes in Payments, Mortgages and core banking space. I have developed a deeper insight in UK Payments domain and multi-million delivery programmes.
• + Payments Implementation Manager (Faster Payments Implementation), Support BACS & CHAPS
• + Voyager Payments Implementation
• + Current Account Switch Service (CASS) - Deployment and Implementation Manager
• + SAP Core Banking Service Transition Senior Consultant
• + Mortgage Market Review (MMR) Senior Consultant

Mar 2011 – Jun 2011 · 3 mos · Greater Northampton Area, United Kingdom

• After Barclaycard acquired the EGG Brand Credit Cards, I helped Barclaycard in laying down the strategy for the cards migration.

Sep 2010 – Nov 2014 · 4 yrs 2 mos · London and South East England

• As a Consultant/Manager at Accenture, I worked on various Cards and Payments projects in the UK for a number of big banks such as Nationwide Building Society, Barclaycard and Lloyds Banking Group.

Sep 2010 – Feb 2011 · 5 mos · London, United Kingdom

• I worked on major divestment project named 'Verde' for Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) in Credit Cards area as a Consultant. I was responsible for creating the divestment strategy for LBG Credit Cards division and maintaining relationships with 3rd Parties (Amex, MasterCard, Gemalto, OCS, FDI etc) on behalf of Lloyds.

Jul 2009 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo · Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

• Working through ISBAN (Ingeniería de Software Bancario) - the technology and Operations arm of Santander Group, I was a part of the Retail Banking arm within the Payments and Cards area. The GE Money Credit Cards Migration project migrated approx 1 million customers credit cards from GE Money to Santander.

Jun 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• I worked at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) within the Credit Cards Acquiring division working on initial phase of PCI-DSS implementation based in London.

Jul 2004 – May 2009 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Worked at Infosys Technologies Ltd. for almost 5 years working for major clients like DHL and RBS.