Praveen Bhalla,

Praveen Bhalla

Growth Natives

Location
India - Ludhiana
Education
Master's degree,
Experience
25 years, 0 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 0 Months

at Growth Natives
  • My current job since April 2020
Chief Operating Officer
  • April 2017 to April 2020

(India)
•Achieved a run rate of $2.5 million per year from scratch within 2 years
•Grew the team from 20 to 250 in two years adding verticals of Web Development, QA, Product Development, Salesforce, Design & Animation and Devops.
•Created two world class products from scratch in the areas of Field Service Management and last-mile delivery (NetworkON) and Marketing Attribution (DigGrowth). This included building the product teams from scratch, creation of product roadmap, setting up processes for execution and ensuring the development as per plans.
•Set up Ecommerce practice and scaled it up to a run rate of $0.5m a year including platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento.
•Consulted and strategized regarding digitalization of legacy application for various clients. Recommended and implemented migration from monolithic to micro-services based architecture and moving in-house bespoke applications to cloud-based apps.


Grazitti Interactive (www.grazitti.com)

at Click-Labs
  • India
  • October 2016 to March 2017
Head
  • July 2014 to September 2016

Delivery (India)
•Managed teams of 150+ professionals, responsible for developing and launching complex on-demand and last mile delivery mobile apps for customers in over 15 countries
•Productized the on-demand mobile application delivery saving 40%+ effort per project. From re-using the code and having multiple variations across the projects, we worked on creating a standardized collection of modules linked as micro-services. The templatized version was used for all subsequent projects saving effort, time and cost.
•Major industries served included transportation, logistics, household services & field Services
•Relationship building with clients and farming of accounts
•HR - Monthly rolling resource planning for various departments, setting recruitment priorities, outlining criteria for performance evaluation and participation in selection process


Saksham Academy

IT Project Manager at ScotiaBank
  • Canada
  • November 2011 to June 2014

Successfully implemented a new investment accounting platform (SimCorp) resulting in quicker & more informed decisions for the fund managers. This was a very complex project involving multiple teams across the bank and vendors. The teams were located across the globe and there were complex dependencies between their deliverables. The new platform increased revenue by over CAD 10 Million in the first year
•Managed multiple Information Systems and Technology projects from end to end in the Wealth Management domain, increasing productivity and adoption with the end-user teams. Responsibilities included documentation (project charter, project plan, communication plan etc.), tracking, risk and issues management, coordination, cost control
•Integrated the acquisition portfolio into the Scotiabank technology stack and related processes thereby enabling the unification of the acquired companies

Senior Project Manager at Scotiabank iGATE Corporation
  • Canada
  • August 2010 to October 2011

Managed multiple IT projects (Java & Mainframes) at Royal Bank of Canada in Credit Origination area (mortgages, loans, credit cards etc.) with the objective of increasing usability and adoption
•Delivered world-class digital experiences for the end customers directly increasing the credit & mortgage applications by over 10% through the bank’s portal and in-branch kiosks
• Brought a million-dollar project from red status to green in six weeks

Senior Project Manager at Tech Mahindra Ltd
  • Canada
  • December 2006 to June 2010

for a North America based fortune 500 Telecom company, managing IT projects related to POS systems with a delivery team of 75+ resources in Onsite-Offshore model

Team Lead at Dell Technologies
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2003 to December 2006

Based in Dublin, led the Bank of Ireland’s production support team of Client Information Systems (Mainframe)
•Delisted over 2m unused account numbers making them available for future bank customers reducing exposure to various risk factors for the bank

Software Engineer at Infosys Technologies Ltd
  • India
  • January 2001 to March 2003

Mainframe developer responsible for requirements gathering & coding

IT Officer at Haldia Petrochemicals Limited
  • India
  • August 1998 to October 2000

Successfully implemented SAP (PP-PI) module, created Master Data, and enabled Business Mapping

Education

Master's degree,
  • at Institute of Management Development and Research
  • January 1998

Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering
  • at Panjab University
  • January 1996

Specialties & Skills

Transformation
Large Scale Systems
Global Delivery
Web Applications
B2B eCommerce
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DELIVERY
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MAINFRAME
MANAGEMENT
PROCESS ENGINEERING
ACCOUNTANCY

Languages

English
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