Ranga Rao Gudep, Head of Projects & Systems Development

Ranga Rao Gudep

Head of Projects & Systems Development

MasterCard(Project Manager thru Manpower Group)

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Electronics
Experience
21 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 4 Months

Head of Projects & Systems Development at MasterCard(Project Manager thru Manpower Group)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2008 to January 2010

Main responsibilities:
1. Project Management
2. Review of Systems design, oversee development and testng
3. Preparation of project plans and go live documents
4. Coordination with Vendors on development and test activities
5. Coordination for user trainings on Finacle, CRM, Credit & Debit Cards
Systems
6. Manage go live and post go live activities
7. Informtion Security planning and implementation

Successfully implemented following projects:

1. Migration of Credit Cards System from CTL Prime to Vision+ system
2. Migration of Debit Cards System from CTL prime to DCMS System of Finacle
3. Migration of EBI Core Banking System from Mysis Equation to Finacle
4. Migration of NBD Core Banking System from BNCS to Finacle
5. Migartion of NBD CRM system to ENBD CRM System

Sr. Consultant(Financial Systems) at Polaris Software Labs Limited.
  • India
  • February 2006 to December 2006

Responsible for setting up GMI practice Center in Hyderabad for one of the leading US based Investment Bank.(JP Morgan)

Vice President(Group IT Head) at Wallstreet Financial Services Group
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 2003 to April 2005

I was heading a team of 20 IT professionals and responsible for managing the IT department. The team includes SW Development, Infra-structure, Information Security & EDP Operations.

Manager Technology Services at ABN AMRO BANK
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 1999 to May 2002

Head of Data Center, SW Development, MIS, PC/Lan WAN support units.
- To provide leadership and professional guidance to achieve Bank's business objectives
- IT SW/HW projects Management
- Preparation of IT policies and procedures
- Manage IT help Desk
- Preparation of IT Budget
- Prepare goals for reporting staff and plan for technical trainings
- Liaise with Vendors on purchase of HW/SW equipment
- Review audit reports, analyse, agree and impement audit recommendations

Resident Vice President at Citibank N.A.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 1985 to March 1999

- Joined as an Analyst programmer in 1985 and got promoted upto Systems development head (Resident Vice President).
Responsibilities:
- Study user requirements and design/develop banking systems to suit UAE, Bahrain anOman requirements
Control systems under development and ensure that the systems were completed on time
Coordinate in purchase of HW/SW required for Data Center
Some of the major systems implemented
- Consumer Assets system
- Collection System
- IVR (Phone Banking System)
- Credit Cards System Launch
- Data conversion of UAE, Bahrain and Oman banking systems to Systematics-Singapore

Education

Master's degree, Electronics
  • at Osmania University
  • August 1980

M.Sc Tech with Applied Eletronics P.G. Diploma in Computer Methods and Programming Advanced P.G. Diploma in Business Administration PMP Certification CISA Certification

Specialties & Skills

Data Center
Preparation
Banking
Project Plans
Programming
Leadership, IT Projects Management, Programming,
Program/Project Management, Experience on Banking & Financial Systems

Languages

Hindi
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

CISA
  • Information Systems Audit
  • January 2002
PMP
  • Project Management & Planning
  • August 2006