Asst Vice President
JP Morgan Chase & Company
Total years of experience :16 years, 5 Months
Achievements:
• Derive business insight from steercos and pivot in the direction of maximum results
• Accelerated migration of applications from legacy DCs and saved bubble costs
• Resolved hundreds of technical blockers across Product lines and made Application development a delight
• Making RACI for programs and deliverables for Business Units specializing in Databases
• Practised influential leadership to build relationship with stakeholders, sensitize product owners to development team needs, buy-in from sponsors, advocating developer frictions in steercos, change & impact analysis
• Helped app teams in migrating from legacy to self-service technologies like Terraform, Microservices and Product Owners in prioritizing backlog on multiple issues like feature additions and Product enhancements
• Requirement capture for architecting a single pane for dependency management enabling Application Teams, PMs, BUs and top leadership to slice and dice App data, Project Manager commentary and Reflags
• Highly distilled dependency/app info for top leadership for resourcing and decision making
• Monitor Project execution, identified issues/risks and dependencies, mitigated them, tactful escalation, incentivise good practices and analysis of metrics to uncover program risks
• Designed & architected PM Dashboard to abstract complexities of JQL/ multiple tools for slicing/dicing app info and heightened responsiveness to risks and blockers
• Spearheaded the initiatives of the Developer Advocacy team, fostering synergy in the Data Centre exit program through meticulous attention to data integrity, application info, directed communication & collaboration
• Liaised with external vendors like Oracle and Microsoft for time bound blocker resolution
• Managing stakeholders and developers and ability to manage complex situations calmly
Assistant Vice President - DC Migration Program Manager
Remit: Migration of Applications from non-strategic to strategic DCs.
Achievements:
• Migrated hundreds of applications from legacy DCs to Strategic DCs and Public Cloud
• Monitor applications from planning, design & architecture, execution & refactoring, regulatory approvals, change management, risk mitigation and communicating metrics to achieve cost, scope and timelines
• Guided application teams with entry criteria, regulatory controls, risk mitigation by collaborating with SMEs
• Scan the horizon for critical path - product lifecycle and App migration paths to ensure that the App migration happens in a frictionless manner, synergising team strength, prioritizing and scheduling blocker resolution
• Retrospective analysis and document blockers, lessons learnt for optimization of time and resources
• Making application development frictionless, self-service based, modern, engaging SMEs, runbook, cutover, final approval for migration and better benchmarks
Director Projects
Remit: Maintaining Competitive Edge, Spearheaded planning, budgeting, re-prioritizing, drafting contracts and tracking contract clauses like technology transfer, conformity to strategic objectives through fruition of IT projects
Achievements:
• Built a high performance, motivated team which accepts intimidating challenges, manage its morale, incentives, camaraderie and work in orchestration
• Conceiving Capital IT projects and Revenue Projects in conformity to strategic priorities
o Managing roll on plans, long term planning, budgeting and obtaining sign-off from sponsors
o Making business cases, resource allocation, earmarking deliverables and incentives
o Requirement gathering for business results and choosing optimized technology solutions
o Making Qualitative Requirements to ensure competitive bidding and edge over competitors
o Making RFP and vendor selection criteria, opening bids, contract formulation and monitoring
o Execution and attesting conformity to quality, scope, time and cost
• As Lead Product Manager delivered a Rs 470 crore Electronic Warfare Project (LICEWS),
• Led a group of scientists, vendors and project managers from multiple organisations through influential leadership skills to achieve program milestones, resolve conflicts and synergy to hit new benchmarks
• Negotiated contracts, Site Acceptance Trials, Quality Claims, Software Quality Assurance and Technology transfer and tweaked processes for maximizing value to stakeholders and sponsors
• Stakeholder management - M/s BEL (manufacturer of IT Equipment), M/s Thales (technology partner), DRDO, ECIL, Indian Army (sponsor) to ensure that program objectives of scope, cost and timelines are complied to with quality controls in place
• Crafted business case for approvals by Defence Acquisition Council, change management amidst competing priorities, re-prioritisation based on pivot in strategic directives and resource reallocation tied to program milestones and re-prioritisation