Vivek Gunasekaran, Business Architect

Vivek Gunasekaran

Business Architect

Omni Trust AI

البلد
كندا - Calgary
التعليم
دكتوراة, Ph.D. in Information Science
الخبرات
21 years, 6 أشهر

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مجموع سنوات الخبرة :21 years, 6 أشهر

Business Architect في Omni Trust AI
  • كندا - Calgary
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ نوفمبر 2023

• Led strategic planning and innovation initiatives to identify and capitalize on business opportunities using Large Language Models (LLMs), aligning technology integration with long-term business goals.
• Designed and architected comprehensive LLM solutions to meet business needs, ensuring optimal system architecture, data management, and seamless integration.
• Facilitated cross-functional collaboration between IT, data science, product development, and operational teams, ensuring the successful implementation of LLM initiatives.
• Managed stakeholder engagement, effectively communicating with executive leadership and various stakeholders to align LLM solutions with business objectives.
• Established governance frameworks for the responsible use of LLMs, focusing on data privacy, security, ethical
considerations, and compliance with laws and standards.
• Defined and measured key performance indicators (KPIs) and return on investment (ROI) for LLM initiatives, demonstrating their impact and value to the business.
Key Projects: US Census Entity Match, FDA Pharmacovigilance Safety Report Match.

AI Researcher في UALR
  • الولايات المتحدة - North Little Rock
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ يناير 2021

ResearcherResearch in Information Quality to maximize the value of an organizations information assets, minimize risk, and assure the organizations information products

Enterprise Business Architect في Genesis Financial Solutions
  • الولايات المتحدة - كونيتيكت
  • أكتوبر 2022 إلى نوفمبر 2023

• Creating business architecture models to reflect the organizations strategies and goals.
• Modeling and implementing business visions and goals.
• Determining and implementing build versus buy strategies.
• Mentoring personnel and managing views of the overall business strategy.
• Ensuring the organizations goals efficiency, security, and support.

Business Architect في Myers-Holum Inc.
  • الولايات المتحدة - كونيتيكت
  • أكتوبر 2021 إلى أكتوبر 2022

• Develop and maintain Stripe Blueprint from Business Requirements.
• Design Products and solutions for eCommerce, SaaS B2B, Marketplace, SaaS Platforms.
• Map and identify Stripe Products to fit Client needs.
• Recommend, Expand products and features - to meet growing or changing needs.
• Develop and manage integration Product, Architecture, change management strategy, and roadmap.
• Engage and Manage client relationships.
• Business and Technical level conversations at various levels, including CxO.
• Lead complex, multi-party integration in a highly consultative and proactive manner.
• Guide and advise the development partner.

Architect and Product Manager في Business Development bank of Canada
  • كندا - Montreal
  • يوليو 2019 إلى ديسمبر 2020

Company Information: BDC is a Canadian Crown corporation supporting small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and stages of growth with money and advice.
Key Responsibilities: Reporting to Director of Transformation office, develop and build Advanced Analytics and Artificial
Intelligence Road map for the Client Onboarding Lab (COL).
• Develop and maintain COL product roadmaps.
• Develop Advanced Analytics and AI Products integrated with Data Ingestion and RPA solutions.
• Create and evolve overall solutions design by following architectural guidelines.
• Prioritize and rank the solutions, develop business cases.
• Understand business needs and propose roadmap-aligned solutions.
• Develop and promote solution values to various business and technology stakeholders.
• Identify and deploy new data sources to enrich the data quality as per data strategy.
• Analyze and architect solutions for COL, Integrations, API development, and Smart Document Ingestion.
• Prevent solution risk failure with appropriate Risk mitigation methodology.
• Provide inputs to the leadership team on the skillset required and high-level estimates.
• Communicate leadership with progress on the solution deliverables.
• Collaborate with other programs to support architecture and solution needs.
Key Achievement: Develop and maintain COL Roadmap, Smart Document Ingestion Solution, Term Sheet automation Solutions for the Transformation office.

Senior Product Manager في BrainFinance
  • كندا - Montreal
  • يونيو 2018 إلى يونيو 2019

Company Information: One of the leading Branchless Financial and Technology solution providers serving the non-prime Canadian customer with responsible short-term and installment loan.
Key Responsibilities: Reporting to Chief Product Officer, direct, develop and implement strategic products and solutions.
• Created and maintained overall solution design by applying architectural guidelines and standards.
• Market Strategy - Distinctive competencies to deliver unique value.
• Research and Evaluate the market opportunity - New Product.
• Cohesive product definition, elaboration, review, and management.
• Analyze and propose an optimal solution that addresses business needs.
• Maintained solutions with roadmaps and reference architecture.
• Customer feedback and Product Quality improvement process.
• Develop minimum viable product features and go-to-market strategy.
• Create, evolve and maintain business and technical architectural artifacts.
• Collective Intelligence processes implementation using Artificial Intelligence.
• Ensured proposed solution is aligned with enterprise vision and roadmaps defined by lines of business.
Key Products: Loanable and Payfter

Product Owner في Interac Association
  • كندا - Toronto
  • نوفمبر 2015 إلى سبتمبر 2017

Company Information: Canadian nonprofit interbank network linking financial institutions and other enterprises for
exchanging electronic financial transactions.
Key Responsibilities: Mobile Payment Product Development and Management.
• Discover and Validate Market problems.
• Address the Market opportunity by Portfolio, Products, Services, and partners integration.
• Illustrate Product vision, roadmap, key deliverables.
• Collaborate in planning, design, development, and deployment of new products and enhancements.
• Architecture Domain - Business, Organization, Information, and System - Separation of Concern and Alignment.
• Stakeholder Analysis - Product, Technology, Operations, Fraud, Legal, Compliance, Policy.
• Analyze new technologies and standards in the payment industry and the impact on Company solutions.
• Identify and mobilize the architecture activities and resources required for all project phases.
• Develop and Maintain Processes for Mobile Product development, implementation, and operations.
• Collaborate to identify all the efforts required for the initiatives.
• Create and Maintain Internal and External User knowledge management.
• Define processes and training. Key Achievements: Business Process Modeling for Mobile Payment Solutions.
Key Projects: Interac Android Pay, Interac InApp pay.

Senior Business Analyst في Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  • الهند - تشيناي
  • فبراير 2011 إلى أبريل 2015

Key Responsibilities: Reported to Assistant Vice President - Products Solutions and Delivery provided a diverse range of
high-quality services to the customer-facing operations of the Group.
• Manage Business processes using Business Process Modelling (BPM) tools like ARIS.
• Identify areas of process improvement and drive the process improvement initiatives.
• Collaborates with the business to ascertain requirements, firm up scope and timelines.
• Design architect reviews, gap analysis, and assessment.
• Adhere to the architecture governance process and ensure the approval of the solution by the review committee.
• Review Design, Functional Specifications, and Test conditions as part of SDLC.
• Facilitate and supervise the design and delivery of all project deliverables.
Key Achievements: CMS Business resilience - In-house Vs. COTS product evaluation - Option analysis.
Key Projects: Service charge Platform Maintenance, Client Money Services migration.
• Oversee and review - Migration, Upgrade, Mandatory & Regulatory projects.
• Develop solutions for client onboarding, Integration, API development, and management.
• Produce High-Level Estimates and Cost Buffets for new work reception items.
• Develop design specifications, data strategy, and high-level data architecture documentation before & after.
• Analyze and solution the architecture, with a focus on use cases.
• Manage Stakeholders - Business, Change, Build, Testing, Vendor teams, and Internal Business Analysts.
• Governance - Ensure the solution meets the RBS Strategic Architecture and Design standards.
• Facilitate the design and delivery of all technical deliverables in conjunction with Enterprise Architect, Business, and Project stakeholders.
Key Achievements: Successfully developed and implemented the Offshore Analyst model.
Key Projects: Mortgage Transformation Program, Rainbow. Compliance - AML, FATCA, SEPA, OFT, FCA/FSA.

Business Analyst في MPHASIS AN HP COMPANY
  • الهند - تشيناي
  • أبريل 2010 إلى فبراير 2011

Company Information: MphasiS delivers application services, Infrastructure Services, and BPO services globally through a combination of technology know-how, domain, and process expertise. Key Responsibilities:
• Pre-Sales - Payment and Cards Domain - Functional Architect
• Build, consolidate, co-ordinate for responses to information, including RFIs, RFPs
• Discovered and documented data mapping for the systems and applications between source and target
• Developed and maintained a data dictionary to resolve design types, test, and data issues.
• Review Case studies of projects delivered.
• Build domain competency within the cards and payments accounts.
Key Clients: Financial institutions, Processors, Acquirers & Issuers in APAC, US, Europe. Key Achievements: Won the NPCI, India - Retail Payments System - RFP (T1, F2)

Project Manager في Visa Worldwide Private Ltd.
  • سنغافورة - Singapore
  • يناير 2008 إلى يناير 2010

Company Information: Visa operates the worlds largest retail electronic payments network. It facilitates global commerce by transferring value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and
government entities.
Key Responsibilities:
• Launch and Convert New Product or Service.
• Manage new Services and System upgrade projects.
• Increase market penetration, revenue, and profit by resource optimization.
• Elicit requirements from the clients management and technical team to support strategic business initiatives.
• Develop project implementation plans and executing projects.
• Review and recommend client system setup/performance- Visa system compliance releases.
Key Clients: South Asia - Visa Members & Processors.
Key Achievements: Trusted Implementation manager for Visas South Asian clients.

Business Analyst في First Data International
  • سنغافورة - Singapore
  • يوليو 2006 إلى فبراير 2008

Company Information: First Data Corporation is a global payment processing company. The companys portfolio includes merchant transaction processing services; credit card (VisionPLUS), debit, private-label, gift, payroll, and other prepaid card offerings; fraud protection and authentication solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
• VisionPLUS Pre-sales vanilla products / new release demonstrations and workshops.
• Elicitation, document, and review business requirements.
• Propose business options and solutions.
• Prepare High-Level Estimates & Design.
• Developed and maintained the Training Manual.
Key Clients: DBS, Singapore, and Kotak Mahindra Bank, Mumbai.
Key Achievements: Launched first smart card for DBS, HK on VisionPLUS platform.

Consultant / VisionPLUS Product في Citigroup / Emerio Globesoft
  • سنغافورة - Singapore
  • مارس 2005 إلى يوليو 2006

Project Information: Citigroup acquired Korean American (KorAm) bank in July 2004. This project deals in migrating the KorAm portfolio (4 million accounts) from their in-house (Non-CardPac) system to Citigroups Enhanced Cardpac System. KorAm has offered more than 900 products in the market.
Key Responsibilities:
• Elicited requirements from Business & User.
• Developed software with Mainframe/COBOL/JCL/CICS/VSAM.
• Analyze and code the applications using COBOL, IBM DB2 Stored Procedures, JCL, and VSAM.
• Provide system solution, prepared Functional Design & technical Specifications.
• Test, implement, and support Mainframe and DB2 based solutions.
Key Clients: Citigroup, Singapore.

Associate Consultant في Kanbay Software
  • الولايات المتحدة - كاليفورنيا
  • مارس 2003 إلى مارس 2005

Project Information: After HSBC acquired Household International, the conversion project migrated HSBCs FDR (Non VisionPLUS) portfolio to the Mainframe VisionPLUS portfolio. Key Responsibilities:
• Designed a Mainframe-based new online test data request system.
• Worked as Associate Consultant with Mainframe/COBOL/JCL/CICS/VSAM.
• Analyzed & transformed business requirements, prepared functional/technical specifications, and developed &
maintained a QA environment.
• Worked on COBOL, DB2, IMB DB, IMS DC, CICS production abends.
• Made sure all the JCLs, COBOL programs, and PARM members were used from the correct versions.
• Coordinated with testing team on test case preparations.
• Analyzed functionalities in VisionPLUS V8.13, prepared technical specifications, and retrofitted in-house
functionality into enhanced base code.
Key Clients: HSBC, California, USA
Key Achievements: Awarded Best Associate for streamlining QA Training & Operations.

Programmer Analyst في Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • الهند - تشيناي
  • يونيو 2001 إلى يناير 2003

Project Information: Dun & Bradstreet has the largest and most comprehensive business-to-business credit, marketing, and purchasing information and receivables management services.
Key Responsibilities: ▪
Mainframe-based application management.
▪ Worked with DB2 admin team on a different type of DML operations and granted access to needed resources.
▪ DB2 performance improvement.
▪ Application development using the in-house mainframe tools, supportive programming languages, and DB2/Assembler/SQL statements.
▪ Production support and Batch job analysis.
▪ Worked on Permanent fixes for production issues.
▪ Test the options and implement the best option.
Key Client: Dun & Bradstreet, New Jersey, USA.

الخلفية التعليمية

دكتوراة, Ph.D. in Information Science
  • في University Of Arkansas At Little Rock
  • ديسمبر 2025
دكتوراة, Information Quality
  • في The University of Arkansas
  • ديسمبر 2024

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ماجستير, Master of Information
  • في University of Toronto
  • مايو 2024
الثانوية العامة أو ما يعادلها, Applied Intelligence
  • في Mercyhurst University
  • يناير 2024

courses: Artificial Intelligence for Business Strategy (Executive Pgm

ماجستير, Information Systems and Design
  • في M.I.T. Sloan School of Managemen
  • يناير 2024

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بكالوريوس, Software Marketing
  • في University of Toronto
  • يناير 2024

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بكالوريوس, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • في Pondicherry University
  • يناير 2024

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دبلوم, Graduate Certificate in Applied Intelligence
  • في Mercyhurst University
  • يناير 2019
ماجستير, Master of Information (Information Systems and Design)
  • في University of Toronto
  • مايو 2018
دبلوم, Artificial Intelligence for Business Strategy
  • في MIT Sloan School of Managemen
  • يناير 2018
دبلوم عالي, Post Graduate Diploma (Software Marketing)
  • في Pondicherry University
  • يونيو 2003
بكالوريوس, Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics Engineering)
  • في ANNA UNIVERSITY
  • مايو 2001

Specialties & Skills

Artificial Intelligence
Commercial Lending
Mortgage Lending
Consumer Lending
Business Architecture
STRATEGIC
ARCHITECTURE
C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS PROCESS
APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API)
GOVERNANCE
INTEGRATION
ONBOARDING
FOURGEN COMPUTER-AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CASE) TOOLS
SOURCE (GAME ENGINE)
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
FINANCIAL
FUNCTIONAL
MARKETING
NETWORKING
QUALITY
artificial intelligence
large language Model

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  • Tech hobbies
    Vivek Gunasekaran is passionate about advancing his knowledge in artificial intelligence and machine learning, often experimenting with new tools and coding personal projects. He also enjoys studying competitive intelligence, focusing on market trends and innovations to enhance his strategic decision-making skills.