Bhushan Dahake
About
Bhushan Dahake
Senior Manager IT at Symantec
Summary
* Highly driven, innovative, problem solving and results oriented IT executive with 15+ years of proven
experience in managing application development; successfully leading multiple teams executing and
implementing strategic business initiatives in challenging, dynamic and limited resource environments.
* Core experience in the credit card and banking industry includes functional areas of collections, fraud,
disputes, bankruptcy, back office, imaging applications, electronic payments, home equity, wholesale finance,
commercial real estate and personal credit management platforms. * Effective combination of people
management skills, technical talent and business acumen. * Proven track record of delivering cutting edge
solutions and increasing customer satisfaction using technology to solve complex business problems. * Strong
ability to work and achieve quality work from vendors across the globe. * Managed wide variety of high
availability, high transaction systems critical in nature with high impacts to business and customer. * Proven
ability to quickly learn and efficiently manage various types of systems, legacy and proprietary including
systems using newer technologies. * Evaluation and successful implementation of third party workflow
systems, integration platform and rules engines. Specialties: * Salesforce.com SAAS implementation focusing
on Service cloud. * Experience in leading, delivering, developing and supporting web applications using
JAVA, JSPs, Servlets, ORACLE, SQL Server and .NET platform. * Experience includes design and delivery
of large analytic application involving ETL and BI tools. * Extensive experience in full software development
lifecycle using Waterfall, Agile and Test Driven Development methodologies.
Experience
Senior Manager IT at Symantec
September 2011 - Present (3 years 5 months)
* Responsible for the implementation of new case management system on Salesforce Service Cloud platform
for various business units. This includes the implementation of new customer portal, including new features
such as chat, Salesforce chatter, knowledge management, CTI, and automation of customer entitlement
processes. The overall solution is one of the largest deployments of SFDC Service Cloud in the technology
industry with over 5,000 users, and integrates shared data between sales and service cloud instances. *
Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) Service Management role responsible for providing
technical expertise around a portfolio of business applications and capabilities, specific to the Salesforce
platform and J2EE applications. * Provide IT governance over the delivery of application services (solution,
development, test, deployment, support, sustain, integration, EOL).
3 recommendations available upon requestPage2
IT Program Manager at Visa
April 2011 - September 2011 (6 months)
* Spearheaded program management of $5M commercial card services Compliance Management program.
* Responsible for coordination, management, budgeting and forecasting of multiple related projects,
strategic to business and other internal/external organizations. * Built credibility, established rapport and
maintained communication with stakeholders at multiple levels. * Maintained continuous alignment of
program scope with strategic business objectives and made recommendations to modify the program to
enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.
1 recommendation available upon request
Area Vice President/Technology Manager at Wells Fargo
June 2007 - March 2011 (3 years 10 months)
* Managed delivery of complex re-engineering project to replace a legacy application which provides
customer profitability across organization structure for Wholesale Finance line of business. * Managed
a large team of FTEs and Contractors which included developers, architects, project managers, systems
analysts and onsite-offshore engagement with multi-million budget. * Managed and delivered a complex
portfolio of applications and services across many systems and platforms, using multiple vendors and
technology outsourcing partners. * Portfolio consisted of web-based, .Net and JAVA applications that
provided technology needs for Commercial Real Estate, Treasury Management and Wholesale Finance
groups. * Championed efforts in partnership with business building roadmap for their businesses using
Integration platform (MS BizTalk Server), BPM tool (K2.Net), Reporting tool (SSRS), BI tool (Oracle
BI), ETL (InfoSphere DataStage, SSIS) and custom development. * Orchestrated process improvements,
streamlining that resulted in focused development efforts, timely delivery of project deliverables and
increased availability of systems & reduction of maintenance expenses. * Collaborated well with outsourced
vendor partners resulting in 100% on-time delivery and less than estimated costs for application development
and maintenance.
3 recommendations available upon request
Team Lead/Web Developer at Wells Fargo
September 2006 - June 2007 (10 months)
* Partnered effectively with cross-organizational teams (Architects, QA, Business and other projects). *
Proactively worked with business and TPM on product roadmap, release scope and timelines. * Worked
with Vendors (CSC Business Analysts and Microsoft Technology consultants) to drive the business
requirements and implementation. * Actively involved in Technology selection process for the project and
evaluated BPM/BI and Integration products (TIBCO, BEA and Microsoft).
1 recommendation available upon request
Business Systems Consultant at Wells Fargo
June 2005 - September 2006 (1 year 4 months)Page3
* Analyzing project requirements and developing technical requirements for attribute population, rules and
process flow modifications. Experience includes designing rules for home equity (HEQ) and personal credit
management (PCM) platform under Consumer Credit Group (CCG). * Consulting on a project-by-project
basis; mentoring other consultants, acting as subject matter expert on decision engine tools and business
process flows; helping resolve production and test problems; and managing and maintaining the Web Rules
Engine.
Team Lead/Sr. Consultant at Accenture
August 2003 - June 2005 (1 year 11 months)
* Successfully managed a large team of resources by providing application development and maintenance
support of 10+ risk management applications for JPMorgan Chase Bank. * Provided continuous business
process improvement for production support team by identifying improvement opportunities within existing
processes and assisted them with aligning these improvements with the organization’s initiatives. This
resulted in 60% decrease in number of production outages.
3 recommendations available upon request
Team Lead/Sr. Developer at JP Morgan Chase
August 2001 - August 2003 (2 years 1 month)
* Facilitated optimal performance of risk management initiatives by effectively analyzing, designing and
implementing project-specific web-based and client-server applications. * Played an instrumental role in
successfully delivering the Accounts Distribution Tool and Debt Management Applications with an onsiteoffshore
engagement. * Extensively involved in data modeling, code review, testing, deployment and
business continuity planning.
1 recommendation available upon request
Senior Software Engineer/Analyst at NTT DATA
September 2000 - August 2001 (1 year)
Involved in requirements gathering, data modeling, application development and maintenance of Disputes
Online Tracking system that managed and automated many aspects of disputes processing through it’s
integrated work flow system, in order to improve JPMorgan Chase Bank’s ability to capture and resolve
customer billing disputes and shorten the resolution cycle time.
1 recommendation available upon request
Senior Programmer/Analyst at Tomax Corporation
December 1999 - August 2000 (9 months)
Worked on enhancements with Daily Operations module that provided extensive control over cash
management procedures, start and end of day routines and cash drawer audit reporting. Worked with and
mentored several developers on the project.
Languages
Hindi
Marathi
English
Skills & Expertise
IT Service Management
IT Governance
Project Management
Vendor Management
Cloud Applications
Web Development
IT Infrastructure Design & Implementation
Emerging Technologies & Enterprise Architectures
Capital Planning & Investment Control
Technology Architecture & Integration
Situation-Based Global Outsourcing Models
SOA
Application Integration
Application Development
Operations Management
Salesforce.com
Enterprise Architecture
Integration
IT Capital Planning
Software Development
Scrum
Agile Methodologies
EAI
Requirements Gathering
Program Management
PMP
Data Modeling
SDLC
Governance
SaaS
Analysis
Cloud Computing
Business Analysis
Oracle
Business Process Improvement
Microsoft SQL Server
Business Process
Process Improvement
.NETPage5
Business Intelligence
Solution Architecture
Data Warehousing
Risk Management
Java
Web Applications
ITIL
Global Delivery
PL/SQL
Web Services
IT Management
Education
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
MBA, Master of Management Studies, 1996 - 1998
Activities and Societies: http://www.nmims.edu
K.J. SOMAIYA College of Engineering, Mumbai
BS, Engineering, 1992 - 1996
Activities and Societies: http://www.somaiya.edu/VidyaVihar/kjsce
B. N. Bandodkar College of Science
Associate of Science (AS), Science, 1990 - 1992
Activities and Societies: http://www.vpmthane.org/sci/index.htm
Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School
1978 - 1990
Activities and Societies: http://www.singhaniaschool.org
Honors and Awards
* Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)® * Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)® by the Scrum
Alliance, Inc. * Certificate in Project Management, UC Berkeley Extension * ITIL® Foundation Certificate
in IT Service Management * Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) * Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) *
SalesForce.com ADM 201 Systems Administration Training