Rahul Bora

Attra Infotech Pvt Ltd (Client Australia New Zealand Bank) Dec 2011 - Oct 2012

December 2011 to October 2012 - Esanda Lending System - AUSTRALIA Region ANZ Bank
Platform: ILE RPG, ILE CLLE, RPGIII, RLU, SEU, SDA, MQ Series, TURNOVER, Java, VB.Net
Scope: Esanda Lending system is ANZ's commercial banking application for Car loans, financing. It is used by client users.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments
I. Project Management
• Oversees the development and tracking of integrated project plans
• Adapts and applies the ANZ delivery approach to meet project objectives and client business drivers
• Establishes and maintains project communications
• Oversees project estimations
• Oversees the development of project deliverables
• Establishes and maintains processes to manage scope throughout the project lifecycle
• Identifies and manages project issues
• Sets project quality and performance standards
• Assesses and manages risk over the project lifecycle
• Maintains project tracking and information systems
II. Technical Contribution
• Provide technical assistance to team members during entire SDLC phase of project.
• Perform code reviews, design reviews.
• Prepare High and Low level design documents
• Coding
• Unit Testing
• Resolve SIT/UAT/Production issues.


III. Team Leadership & Management
•Partners with others to lead teams of 15-25 individuals
•Builds and structures project teams to ensure maximum performance
•Provides purpose, direction and motivation to team
•Clarifies and communicates project objectives and success criteria
•Ensures key project-wide roles and responsibilities are defined
•Ensures the use of best practices and applies lessons learned from previous projects
•Ensures a positive, collaborative work environment for the team
•Directly supervises the work of Associate Project Manager (s)
•Mentors and coaches project team members, as appropriate
•Manages third-party partner and/or vendor relationships, as necessary

IV. Client Management
•Responsible for ongoing client satisfaction
•Manages peer-level client relationships (expectations, communications, negotiations, escalation, feedback, etc.)
•Develops relationships with key client stakeholders and client executives
•Provides day-to-day project contact for the client

V. Company Contribution
•Participates in recruitment and hiring activities, including interviewing and conducting hiring exercises for Associates, Sr. Associates and other Managers within the Program Management Domain
•Participates in, and assists with, company events such as training and internal initiatives
•Contributes to the ongoing development of the Program Management Domain and community at Attra Infotech.
•Actively shares knowledge and learning from project experiences

JP Morgan Chase & Co, Mumbai Jul 2010 - Oct 2011

Role: Delivery Lead/Team Lead.
Team Size: 15+ (Vary based on projects)

July 2010 till October 2011 - Worldwide Securities - EMEA Region JP Morgan Chase & CO
Platform: ILE RPG, ILE CLLE, RPGIII, RLU, SEU, SDA, MQ Series, TURNOVER
Scope: Application 1: VIEWS Portfolio Reporting (VPR) is J P Morgan's flagship product used by clients across the world. It provides a single solution for custody and administration clients' information reporting and transactions service needs. VPR provides over 800 core reports, a flexible scheduler and a powerful customization tool that enables clients to design reports to meet their specific needs.
Application 2: GTA Connect is a Web Based client interface, which allows clients to enter Trade Instructions and run reports. The back-end system for all GTA Connect transactions and reports is CCMS. Clients access GTA Connect via the JPMorgan get Access portal. GTA Connect is developed by the vendor SS&C.
Application 3: Collateral Management Monitor is a fully re-designed, web based monitoring and reporting tool that provides clients with comprehensive intraday reports on Allocation Runs for securities in Tri-Party Repo and Stock Loan Escrow deals.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments
• Leading the development team in Mumbai and Pune.
• Deliver projects on time and meeting high quality standards and customer expectations.
• Worked closely with business analyst for studying the system's and provided valuable inputs to the EMEA Business team.
• Prepared of High Level Design, Functional/Technical specifications from User Requirements for this project.
• Managing activities between teams in Mumbai, and Pune.
• Mentor junior team members, respond to their functional/technical queries.
• Perform Code reviews, Technical Specification Reviews.
• Track and monitor project execution, regularly updating status reports; communicate project status as needed
• Pro-actively managing team to deliver high value to the customer.
• Used Microsoft Project to manage and track the project schedule and documentation.

Role: Associate Project Manager, Team Lead, Solution Architect
Team Size: 2 (Vary based on projects)

Feb 2010 till July 2010 - Payments - HSBC US Bank HSBC GLT
Platform: ILE RPG, ILE CLLE, RPGIII, RLU, SEU, SDA, MQ Series, TURNOVER
Scope: Implementation of HUB - HSBC's Retail Banking Application in US. This involves migration of existing Mainframe based Legacy Applications like DDA, TDA, ICS to AS400 based HUB Retail Banking application. This is one of the critical projects for HSBC-GLT and HSBC group. Payments project involves small amendments to existing core HUB application related to HBUS Project.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments
• Plan and manage project full lifecycle -- Assess nature of work, skills required and skills availability, estimate team size. Define, negotiate, and coordinate the scope, schedules, milestones and project tasks.
• Deliver projects on time and meeting high quality standards and customer expectations.
• Managing activities between teams in Pune, Hyderabad and China.
• Mentor junior team members, respond to their functional/technical queries.
• Perform Code reviews, Technical Specification Reviews.
• Track and monitor project execution, regularly updating status reports; communicate project status as needed
• Pro-actively managing team to deliver high value to the customer.
• Used Clarity to manage and track the project schedule and documentation.

Role: Associate Project Manager, Team Lead.
Team Size: 7 (Vary based on projects)

Feb 2010 till July 2010 - Maintenance work for HSBC Bermuda, Bahamas, Cayman Islands Bank HSBC GLT
Platform: ILE RPG, ILE CLLE, RPGIII, RLU, SEU, SDA, MQ Series, TURNOVER
Scope: This project involves small amendments/change requests to existing core HUB application and some compliance related/local amendments for HSBC Bank in countries like Bermuda, Bahamas, Cayman Islands.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments
• Plan and manage project full lifecycle -- Assess nature of work, skills required and skills availability, estimate team size. Define, negotiate, and coordinate the scope, schedules, milestones and project tasks.
• Deliver projects on time and meeting high quality standards and customer expectations.
• Managing activities between teams in Pune, Hyderabad and China.
• Mentor junior team members, respond to their functional/technical queries.
• Perform Code reviews, Technical Specification Reviews.
• Track and monitor project execution, regularly updating status reports; communicate project status as needed
• Pro-actively managing team to deliver high value to the customer.
• Used Clarity to manage and track the project schedule and documentation.

Role: Team Lead.
Team Size: 5+ (Vary based on projects)

June 2008 till July 2010 -GAD Online Gateway - HSBC US Bank HSBC GLT
Platform: ILE RPG, ILE CLLE, RPGIII, RLU, SEU, SDA, MQ Series, TURNOVER
Scope: Implementation of HUB - HSBC's Retail Banking Application in US. This involves migration of existing Mainframe based Legacy Applications like DDA, TDA, ICS to AS400 based HUB Retail Banking application. This is one of the critical projects for HSBC-GLT and HSBC group. GAD Online application is developed for Real time communication between Mainframe applications and AS400 based HUB Application.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments
• Plan and manage project full lifecycle -- Assess nature of work, skills required and skills availability, estimate team size. Define, negotiate, and coordinate the scope, schedules, milestones and project tasks.
• Deliver projects on time and meeting high quality standards and customer expectations.
• Involved in Requirement Study, High Level Estimation activity for this project (overall estimates for HBUS HUB Implementation are around 1000 HCMs). Overall around ~65 HCMs planned effort for this project.
• Worked closely with business analyst for studying the system's and provided valuable inputs to the HBUS Business team.
• Prepared of High Level Design, Functional/Technical specifications from User Requirements for this project.
• Managing activities between teams in Pune, Hyderabad and China.
• Mentor junior team members, respond to their functional/technical queries.
• Perform Code reviews, Technical Specification Reviews.
• Track and monitor project execution, regularly updating status reports; communicate project status as needed
• Pro-actively managing team to deliver high value to the customer.
• Used Clarity to manage and track the project schedule and documentation.
• One of the 3 senior staff who was given opportunity to represent HSBC-GLT for requirements gathering phase on this project.

Role: Associate Project Manager, Team Lead, Solution Architect
Team Size: 3 (Vary based on projects)

June 2008 till July 2010 - ATM - HSBC US Bank HSBC GLT
Platform: ILE RPG, ILE CLLE, RPGIII, RLU, SEU, SDA, MQ Series
Scope: Implementation of HUB - HSBC's Retail Banking Application in US. This involves migration of existing Mainframe based Legacy Applications like DDA, TDA, ICS to AS400 based HUB Retail Banking application. This is one of the critical projects for HSBC-GLT and HSBC group. ATM Interface is developed on HUB Side to carry out Real time posting for cash withdrawal, deposit, transfer, PIN Based POS Purchases, Signature Based POS Purchases, PIN Based Merchant Returns etc transactions coming from RAS (Mainframe application)


Responsibilities/Accomplishments
• Plan and manage project full lifecycle -- Assess nature of work, skills required and skills availability, estimate team size. Define, negotiate, and coordinate the scope, schedules, milestones and project tasks.
• Deliver projects on time and meeting high quality standards and customer expectations.
• Involved in Requirement Study, High Level Estimation activity for this project (overall estimates for HBUS HUB Implementation are around 1000 HCMs) . Overall around ~100 HCMs planned effort for this project.
• Worked closely with business analyst for studying the system's and provided valuable inputs to the HBUS Business team.
• Prepared of High Level Design, Functional/Technical specifications from User Requirements for this project.
• Managing activities between teams in Pune, Hyderabad and China.
• Mentor junior team members, respond to their functional/technical queries.
• Perform Code reviews, Technical Specification Reviews.
• Track and monitor project execution, regularly updating status reports; communicate project status as needed
• Pro-actively managing team to deliver high value to the customer.
• Used Clarity to manage and track the project schedule and documentation.
• One of the 3 senior staff who was given opportunity to represent HSBC-GLT for requirements gathering phase on this project.

Role: Associate Project Manager, Team Lead, Solution Architect
Team Size: 6-9 (Vary based on projects)

June 2008 till July 2010 - Hold Sequence Number - HSBC US Bank HSBC GLT
Platform: ILE RPG, ILE CLLE, RPGIII, RLU, SEU, SDA, MQ Series, TURNOVER
Scope: Implementation of HUB - HSBC's Retail Banking Application in US. This involves migration of existing Mainframe based Legacy Applications like DDA, TDA, ICS to AS400 based HUB Retail Banking application. This is one of the critical projects for HSBC-GLT and HSBC group. Hold Sequence Number involves expansion of existing Hold sequence number from 2 to 5 and addition of New Hold Types for HBUS Project.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments
• Plan and manage project full lifecycle -- Assess nature of work, skills required and skills availability, estimate team size. Define, negotiate, and coordinate the scope, schedules, milestones and project tasks.
• Deliver projects on time and meeting high quality standards and customer expectations.
• Involved in Requirement Study, High Level Estimation activity for this project (overall estimates for HBUS HUB Implementation are around 1000 HCMs) . Overall around ~15 HCMs planned effort for this project.
• Worked closely with business analyst for studying the system's and provided valuable inputs to the HBUS Business team.
• Prepared of High Level Design, Functional/Technical specifications from User Requirements for this project.
• Managing activities between teams in Pune, Hyderabad and China.
• Mentor junior team members, respond to their functional/technical queries.
• Perform Code reviews, Technical Specification Reviews.
• Track and monitor project execution, regularly updating status reports; communicate project status as needed
• Pro-actively managing team to deliver high value to the customer.
• Used Clarity to manage and track the project schedule and documentation.
• One of the 3 senior staff who was given opportunity to represent HSBC-GLT for requirements gathering phase on this project.

HSBC Software Development (India) Pvt. Ltd Jul 2004 - Jul 2010
SITs, Mauritius 2003 - 2003
Info web solutions, India 2002 - 2003

Role: Associate Project Manager, Team Lead.
Team Size: 5 (Vary based on projects)

Feb 2006 to June 2008 - HUB Front End (Teller) - HSBC Canada Bank HSBC GLT
Platform: ILE RPG, ILE CLLE, RPGIII, RLU, SEU, SDA, MQ Series, TURNOVER
Scope: This is development project which involves amendments to existing core HUB application, building new local interfaces/processes to cater user requirements of Teller application called HFE (HUB Front End) for HSBC Bank Canada. This is the staff channel via which staff can carry out non financial transactions (e.g. Customer search, account opening) as well as financial transactions (e.g. cash/cheque deposits, withdrawals, transfers, term deposits, maturity instructions, Term credits/Mortgages etc) and cash management functions.


Responsibilities/Accomplishments
• Plan and manage project full lifecycle -- Assess nature of work, skills required and skills availability, estimate team size. Define, negotiate, and coordinate the scope, schedules, milestones and project tasks.
• Deliver projects on time and meeting high quality standards and customer expectations.
• Worked closely with business analyst for studying the system's and provided valuable inputs to the HBUS Business team.
• Prepared of High Level Design, Functional/Technical specifications from User Requirements for this project
• Track and monitor project execution, regularly updating status reports; communicate project status as needed
• Mentor junior team members, respond to their functional/technical queries.
• Perform Code reviews, Technical Specification Reviews.
• Pro-actively managing team to deliver high value to the customer.
• Used Clarity to manage and track the project schedule and documentation.

Role: Associate Project Manager, Offshore Team Lead, Solution Architect
Team Size: 6-7 (Vary based on projects)

June 2005 to Feb 2006-HUB Core 8 Upgrade-HSBC Canada Bank HSBC GLT
Platform: ILE RPG, ILE CLLE, RPGIII, RLU, SEU, SDA, MQ Series
Scope: This is maintenance project which involves upgrade of existing core HUB application from version 7 to 8, building new local interfaces/processes to cater user requirements of Core Banking for HSBC Bank Canada.

Role: Sr Developer.
Team Size: 3-4

July 2004 to June 2005-Participate with HBCA-HSBC Canada Bank HSBC GLT
Platform: ILE RPG, ILE CLLE, RPGIII, RLU, SEU, SDA, MQ Series
Scope: This is development project which involves small change requests to existing core HUB application from version 7, building new local interfaces/processes to cater user requirements of Retail Banking for HSBC Bank Canada.

Role: Developer.
Team Size: 5

July 2003 to Nov 2003-Leasing Management System SITS, Mauritius
Platform: Windows 2000 server, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Crystal Report 7.0.
Scope: This is maintenance project which involves tracking, generating new leases, loans for Mauritius Leasing Ltd.

Role: Developer.
Team Size: 2

June 2002-Jun 2003, College Automation System Info web Solutions, Pune
Platform: Windows 2000 server, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Crystal Report 7.0.
Scope: This project was exclusively developed for schools as well as for junior college. All school transactions like admission, accounts, administrator, mark sheet generation and inventory management are handled in this application. It creates different types of reports, which are used in daily transactions like mark sheet generation, accounts and inventory.
Role: Trainee Developer.
Team Size: 6

June 2002-June 2003 Online Shopping Site Info web Solutions, Pune
Platform: HTML, DHTML, MS-Interdev, Java Script, Servlet, JDBC, Access.
Scope: This is development project developed for purchasing Books, apparels, Electronics, Health related goods etc.

Role: Trainee Developer.
Team Size: 2


Responsibilities/Accomplishments: • System study
• Preparation of design documents.
• Development
• Implementation of software on client side.
• Training the users.
• Maintenance, support and debugging.
• Preparation of test cases, test plans for financial report testing.
• Onsite coordinator.
• Database design.
• Code review
• Guiding and helping 3-4 team members