NAGARAJAN VASU RAO

As Program Delivery Lead, responsible for working with various streams of the bank related to the Risk - Stress Testing platform transformation and ensure the strategic alignment with the mission and goals of the organization for cloud/digital strategy. This includes various regulatory business applications migration from the current monolithic architecture to the highly scalable future centric microservices architecture covering all the optimized design/enhancement requirements.

The platform transformation of the Stress Testing has been in the vision of the bank for the subsequent regulatory requirements with very high expectations and hence required a more focused team to manage the expectations/delivery with various stakeholders of business/functional modelers/data scientists/business analysts/regulators using Enterprise Agile scaling framework.

Key tech/functional experience: Regulatory BOE/ICAAP, RISK, Stress Testing exposure/functional coverage…

EACIIT Vyasa Pte. Ltd.,
Global Program Manager, Consulting (JAN 2020 - Present)
Senior Program Manager with Product development, Business Analytics & Consulting (JAN 2019 - JAN 2020)
Location: Singapore

As a Global Program Manager, responsible for working with the team for the deliveries across the globe and ensure that the P&L along with the business value growth of the customers is taken care of. Along with that, is also responsible for the contribution to the presales team for all the new sales and dev plans across.

Along with that, is working active in the Centre of Excellence (COE) team to strategize the product development for the latest market trends and respective business needs/value adds to the customer.

Key Customer experiences: Standard Chartered Bank across multiple programs, Innovest/Petro-Analytica, RisikoTek…

As the Senior Program Manager of Professional Consulting @ SAS Singapore at Banking domain, following are the key responsibilities which are being performed currently:

• Program management of the implementations in the Banking & Financial Services domains, across the technology solutions in the areas of Data Management, Analytics, Risk/Compliance (IFRS 9 impairment) & Stress Testing.
• Client portfolios include all major local banks in Singapore along with the International Banks along with the Advisory services to the other domains including Government and Telecom sectors.
• Delivery management of various SAS implementations over different business analytics related problem scenarios across the Banking portfolio with the responsibility for the revenue/margin/profitability in my respective programs.
• Agile Implementation lead in SAS Singapore for the delivery of some of the major solutions including IFRS 9 Risk, Modernization of Analytics platform for major international banks. Quite comfortable with the Agile methodologies of Scrum, Kanban etc.
• Through effective client partnership, ensure the overall program management excellence in cost and schedule estimation, proposal & Statement of Work development, Project delivery management.
• Lead business and process transformation through consulting approaches and process improvement methodologies.
• Along with the delivery responsibility, Raj also takes the responsibility of working along with the presales team in the solution definition as well for some of the key focused customers.
Key Customer experiences: Standard Chartered Bank, DBS, Citibank, UBS APAC…

Location:
a) Singapore
b) Australia (Melbourne),
c) UK (London) &
d) India (Bangalore),

As a Senior Project Manager, following are the high level responsibilities
• Escalation point of contact for the key customer’s for all operational and business issues
• Maintain, Monitor and Review Project Management Plan
• Ensure SDLC process meets the project objectives and requirements
• Manage and monitor project activity through quality management, detailed plans and schedules
• Ensure periodic reports sent to the relevant customer stakeholders
• Ensure project scope and requirements are clearly defined and managed as well as understood by all stakeholders
• Ensure that the relevant stakeholders are engaged at the right time in the project
• Manage the vendors and various stakeholders specific to the project
• Ensure timely delivery by resolving project/s issues and risks in an effective and timely manner
• Conduct Delivery and Implementation review as appropriate.

Key Customer experiences: UK @ Ericsson, Australia & Indian @ Telstra, Singapore @ Ministry Of Education (MOE)…

Along with the delivery role, I was also involved as Presales Consultant & Center of Excellence (COE) along with Project Management responsibility

Location: India, UK, Australia (Melbourne) & Singapore

As a Presales consultant, following are the high level responsibilities
• To understand and for propose the most optimized Techno-Commercial solution to prospective customers, by collecting the requirements from various sources,
• Provide technical support activities in the field - RFP responses, end customer calls, etc.
• Makes presentations, demonstrations, and evaluations, as needed, on all aspects of products in the BI-DW space.
• Enterprise co-ordination
• Asset Management (best practices, deliverables quality measurement techniques and documents, SME’s)
• Solution Design advice and consulting opportunities
• Infrastructure management (wrt the Business Intelligence & Performance Management BI/PM related hardwares/softwares etc.)
• Training plans
• Responsible for the planning and preparation of “Repeatable services” (mainly working with the iDecision’s Framework across domains).

Has taken the roles of an engagement lead and business area lead and was responsible for
• Discuss with the Client management team to finalize the project scope for Delivery Center.
• Finalizing the approach and tracking of the Knowledge Transition activities from the client team to the Accenture Delivery Center team.
• Identify and plan training for offshore team resources
• Mobilization of resources including demand fulfillment
• Day to day management of offshore delivery
• Day to day management of offshore resources
• Report delivery status to senior management on a periodic basis
• Ensure Onshore (Client) - Offshore (Delivery Center) quality process adherence by team
• Engage in daily status calls with Onshore Program Manager
• Address people issues and people development
• Conduct periodic presentations on business/functional knowledge to the offshore team with focus on domain
• Reporting metrics (schedule, effort, defect) to Senior Project Manager (SPM)
• Delivery of release report to key stakeholders.

Key Customer experiences: India & US @ United Health Group, US @ Diageo…

As a Consultant and Project Lead, was responsible for
• Responsible for leading the offshore development team.
• Designing OLAP architecture
• Creating Metadata Model and Package using the ReportNet Framework Manager.
• Creating the reports using Cognos Report Net Query Studio.
• Setup the offshore development environment which is on AIX & Window’s Server.
• Configuration of the Cognos ReportNet server in Unix Aix server and Windows server
• Configured and administered the Oracle database for the project.
• Arrange and conduct status review meetings with the offshore and onshore team.
• Arrange, coordinate and conduct meetings with the business users.
• Status reporting to the Project Management Office, created to manage the suite of projects coming under this client.
• Ensure the entire deliverables pass through the organization quality gate.

Key Customer experiences: Insurance sector @ CCC - US Based with work experience in India

As a project/reporting lead, was responsible for
• Data Modeling.
• Design and development of reporting module, involving preparation of design specifications and development of reports in Application Work Bench (report generation tool of Eureka Strategy) and coding perl codes for the web implementation of the Eureka Strategy generated reports.
• Design and development of MicroStrategy web reports
• Preparation of Unit test cases/test scripts for the reporting module.
• Arrange and conduct periodic status review meetings with the client directly.
• Status reporting to the key stakeholders

As a developer, was responsible for
• Maintenance and support of all the audio, video and other multi-media applications of HP, mentioned above.
• Doing the technical feasibility of the HP applications and propose for the enhancements based on the latest multi-media technology growth.
• Estimating/Planning/Design/Coding/Unit Testing of the HP applications, for the approved enhancements.
• Status reporting to the key stakeholders.

Key Customer experiences: Product development @ HP Enterprises…