Associate Director / Project-Program Manager
RBC Royal Bank of Canada
Total years of experience :36 years, 11 Months
RBC Canada’s largest bank as measured by assets and market capitalization and one of the North America’s leading diversified financial services companies.
SR. PROJECT MANAGER - GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CENTRE - WEALTH MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY: Responsible for managing high profile trading projects/programs with high visibility - successfully delivered multiple, complex projects within functional and strong matrix organization.
Key Initiatives:
- Trading platform - TradeLink (Equities, Options, Fixed Income and FX)
- Trading platform - Charles River and Bloomberg TOMS
- Bulk-trading and Order Aggregation - Broadridge, Middleware, Fidessa
- Global Securities Aggregation
A global company specialized in outsourcing and development of trade processing for global banks/financial institutions. BMO, Barclays Bank, ANZ Bank, and CGI-AMS founded the company in August 2000.
Managed Trade Portal and middle-ware International Trade Finance platform with three global hubs - responsibility included managing large projects, application performance, security, infrastructure, stability and 24x7 availability of production and multiple test regions.
Successfully managed implementation of multi-bank global Corporate B2B Trade Portal, a web based customer front-end using dynamic branding; component based open architecture, Imaging, Messaging, Reporting and integrated Middleware technologies. Application providing high scalability with Web Logic clustering, EJB object clustering, complies with J2EE standards and is secured by firewalls, SSL and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) certificate authentication using smart card technology
Established marketing environment (including back-end Object Trade Line and middleware) that allowed client banks to conduct on-line demonstration of Trade Portal to their existing and potential corporate customers
Improved quality of software builds / releases by 25%. Introduced process around production release packaging.
SCB is one of the world’s most international banks with a large network of branches in more than 70 countries and territories across the globe.
SENIOR MANAGER / HEAD TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS - SCB BAHRAIN (OCT 2000 - MAR 2001)
Management of IT service delivery and technical operations group for branches in the country including infrastructure service delivery of internet, intranet and ATM / ABM operation
Management and centralization of all aspects of infrastructure service delivery and telecommunication
Development and optimization of existing processes to bring improvement, efficiency and cost effectiveness
Strategic projects to support the centralized service delivery included capacity planning, allocation models, application support models, development of intake processes and implementation of projects methodologies
ANZ is one of the largest banks in Australia & New Zealand with worldwide operations and is amongst the top 100 banks in the world.
SENIOR MANAGER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (NOV 1998 - SEP 2000)
Led team of professionals, managing in-house development, IT projects and its rollout in other countries. Projects included Staff Compensation Administration System and Risk Exposure & Monitoring System in two countries
Managed development of Intranet / Web based Data Warehouse, introduced a customizable module to import Customer/GL and VisionPlus extracts/reports for re-generation of VISA/Master Credit Card statements
Completed gap analysis, prepared conversion strategy and developed master test / migration plans, roll-out strategy for major core banking / satellite applications. Managed migration of Legacy applications to Citrix.
During Y2K regional role in Australia, coordinated Y2K Level 1, 2 & 3 testing for core / satellite applications with over 20 countries. Actively worked and delivered EURO compliant banking solutions.
IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT MANAGER, EBS (JUN 1996 - OCT 1998)
Acquired training in Australia on Sun Guard eBanking solution, specialized in Lynx-LC, Lynx-FT and Lynx-BTR, designed interfaces with Funds Transfers, Trade Finance, Core Banking for its roll-out in more than 10 counties
Managed development of credit approval system for ANZ VISA. Received rewards & appreciations from regional executives for holding two roles “Outstanding performer for 3 consecutive years”
IT DEVELOPMENT LEAD TO MANAGER (SEP 1986 - MAY 1996)
Designed and built multi bank/currency Trade Finance & Bank Guarantees Systems, interfacing with PeopleSoft. Managed implementation in 11 counties
Established centralized SWIFT hub and reduced 60% operational staff and substantial cost savings on financial messages.
Designed and built Planning Control MIS for countrywide YTD performance, balance sheet, P&L and forecast - managed implementation in 9 countries.