Bhawani Nandan Prasad

BHAWANI NANDAN PRASAD

B.E. Computer Science and Exec MBA IIMC (General Mgmt, Strategy, Marketing)

Certified PMP, PgMP, Scrum Master, OCP, E-Commerce, BI & IT Technologist

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• Present Designation: Program Director - Delivery Head, Business Strategy, Stakeholder management, Sales and Solutions, Program Management, establishing world class project management practices, building and leading high performance teams and Delivery.

• Company Profile: TCS (1994-2005), Fidelity (2005-2007), Polaris (2008-12).

• Present Organization: Agreeya Solutions (Since Oct 2012).

• 20 Years of industry business experience in leading and managing complex large international IT Engagement Program, , New Product development, Helpdesk, QA and Testing automation, global delivery management, leading team of 200+ Professionals.

• Among 20 years of total experience, 5 years experience in Business Management in terms of owning and delivering business area, 5 years experience in Business Development in a multi-national context, 5 years experience in hands-on delivery management, 10+ years hands-on experience in Platform technologies. Broad knowledge across Platform including Databases, Middleware stack, Application Stacks, Systems, Experience in building and leading teams of Platform Architects and Administrators.

• Reporting to COO\Managing Director, strategizing Company’s business and technology goals and implementation, Heading delivery and operations, Heading technical infrastructure support , heading Business Solution Design, heading Quality Group.

• Member of the Top Management Team. Looking after more than 20 projects around Globe ( Application Development and Implementation, Data warehouse and BI , Re-engineering, Facility Management Service, Consultancy , Professional Service , Offshore Development Center etc.) with around 50 engineers under my direct supervision along with the technical support and Quality Group . Instrumental in achieving SDLC and Quality based SEI CMMI level 5 in multiple organization. As a head of Software Engineering Process Group and Senior Management Committee, actively participates in defining process and capability goals for various key process Areas in the Company. Also instrumental in business development and getting key business for the Company. Responsible for managing external world linkages for technology and business partnership.

• I am Action oriented and innovative who translates broad goals in to achievable steps, anticipates and solve problems and take advantage of opportunities, is a self starter and a team player. Maintaining awareness of both the external and internal competitive landscape, opportunities for expansion, customers markets, new industry developments and standards, Creating new business lines. fiscal activities of the organization including budgeting, reporting and audit. Provide the board of directors with relevant information and recommendations to allow them to make informed policy decisions, Building the company into a global player.

• Creating, communicating and implementing the organizational vision, mission and overall direction, Formulating and implementing the direction of the business, Leading the overall development and implementation of the organizational strategy, manage its compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, Manage operational priorities and allocation of resources in accordance with the organizational mandate, Evaluating the success of the organization.

• Experienced and capable of engineering, project managing, implementing and commissioning large-scale, complex projects. Has US. $5000 Million of hands-on project experience on above twenty of IS, IT, New Product, High-Tech, IT Service, BCP Role swap, IT Infrastructures, Infrastructure Migration, Data Center Migration, Databases and Server Migration, Application consolidation and migration\Upgrade, IT .Net\Java E-Commerce (distribution system, applications, packaging automation, distribution processes and storage systems), BI and Data Warehousing Projects.

• Subject Matter Expert in Banking and Financial Services Domain, Telecom, Retail, HealthCare and Pharmaceutical, Energy, Oil and Gas.

• Managing all client interfaces within an existing Profit and Loss Account and Cash Flow of the group, Engagement with revenue potential above $200M, drive incremental sales \ Growth, complete ownership, Build capabilities, Strategy, client relationship management, identify and prioritize client opportunities.

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

• Meetings with Top client executives, Foster culture of strong cross-functional organization, model building/validation and other risk management.

• Currently accountable for IT Strategic Roadmap for the Program & Practice, Change Management, Coordinating and managing with CXO level Professionals, ensuring Alignment of Corporate, Business and IT Strategy Plans. Preparing Annual Operating Plan (reviewing and updating), Managing IT Strategies for IT Clients. Worked with Top Tier -1 Clients and Business partners such as Fidelity Investments, Royal bank of Scotland, Bank of America, HSBC, Credit Suisse, Encore Capital, ABN AMRO, ING, Bank of New York Mellon, British Petroleum, Chevron, Shell, FW Pharma, and PONL etc.

• Experience of Supporting Sales & Marketing. Works closely with Industry Experts, Pre-Sales and Solutions Specialists to build new consultative solutions for the target account and drives additional revenues, Business Plan and delivery of these solutions.

• Maintain a knowledge base of software process, development and implementation best practices and  its Continuous improvements such as CMMi practices and Quality practices like Project management Framework, PRINCE2, Sprint based SCRUM Master, PMI Project management (PMP - Agile), Risk Analysis and Mitigation, Estimation techniques like FPA and WBS, SDLC and SQA Quality Assurance, IT Strategic Plans, Business Plan, Six Sigma, TOGAF methodologies, ITIL, ITSM, SOX, BASEL Compliance and Vulnerability Management.

• Manage IT Delivery and Technology in Java J2EE Framework Spring, Struts, Hibernate, based Web Developments, Data Integration, Solution Offering for Software Automation, Custom Application, Mobile Apps, BPM/ ECM / Data warehousing, Big Data Technologies and analytics, MDM, BI Tools, responsible for architecting and guiding the full lifecycle Governance Models, Business Strategy (operations, growth & benchmarking), Global Sourcing and Contract Management, Process Transition Management, Policies & Frameworks and Specific Models for Growth/emerging markets.

• Experienced with Jenkins for continuous integration, ESB, Weblogic, Web sphere, Web-Services, Rest Services, HTTP and other protocol, network architecture, load balancing and performance engineering, Enterprise Architecture frameworks and methodologies, particularly TOGAF.

• Technical experience in product architecture, Managing product development, PLC and development, design and development experience in the financial industries.

• Experienced for Architect and design scalable cloud applications, cloud hosting in Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure, customization of any open source products.

IT Technologies and Product Domain Expertise

• BI, MDM, Data warehousing, ETL, EAI, EII, Data Integration and MDM - IBM, DELL, Oracle , SAP and Microsoft, Big data Technologies and Analytics

• Oracle Technologies

• Java Technologies and frameworks

• Microsoft Technologies

• ERP (SAP, Oracle)

• E-Commerce, B2B, Online Marketing technologies

• Testing and QA Technologies (CMMi, Six-Sigma, QTP, QC, Selenium, JMeter, Automation etc.)

   

   

Products

• SAP ERP

• Oracle Financials and Siebel CRM

• Polaris Intellect Banking solutions.

• TCS BaNCS Product for Banking Solutions

• Financial market products: Calypso, Wall street Suite, Murex, OPICS+, SYN, Adaptive, Market Risk Applications, Fermat, Recon Solutions, BTS, Summit, Asset control, Golden Source.

• Capital Recovery and asset Management products: Propel, Sales Force, iSeries, Cogent.

• Banner CRM

• E-Commerce Products

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  Encore Capital Group : Enterprise ODS and data warehousing build from Scratch, BI and Analytics system for Financial Accretion accounting, Risks, Collections, Compliance, Legal Outsourcing, Internal legal, Operations, Asset management.

• Funding policy implementation, Loans and Securities implementation, Deal income calculation, risk in finance income and asset/liability forecast.

• Major Capital Project, Trading dashboard, Trading Single Glass Financial Reporting; ERP implementation for General Ledger system

• Application and System Migrations and Upgrades

• Business Finance Reporting, Automation Scripting, Database and System Performance Tuning, GFAS, GFDR.

• Campaign management Data Mart and reporting, Consumer Finance Loans and Score card Processing, Business Intelligence Reporting, Talisma Fund management system.

• BaNCS development and implementation

• Banner CRM Enhancements and Maintenance

• FWPharma System Enhancements and Maintenance

• Implement SAP CRM, HCM; Oracle EBS, SIEBEL

Professional Experience

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AgreeYa Solutions, Noida                                                                            Oct 2012 - Continue

Program Director

Products: SAP, BI and MDM

• Managed Programs above 120 Million dollar account and above 60 people team.

• Provide leadership and manage project managers and engineers distributed across locations to build and grow the Indian Fulfillment Center network.

• Establish and drive project management best Practices with respect to planning, reporting, monitoring, documentation, improvement of work methods, budget control and deliver project in a highly dynamic, ambiguous and fast changing environment.

• Assures program quality and organizational stability through development and implementation of standards and controls, systems and procedures and regular evaluations.

• Develop and manage relationships with various stakeholders (internal and external) to drive and de-bottleneck multiple projects across the country.

• Expert on the unique challenges of the Indian and Global environment in terms of regulation, various agencies and vendors.

• Responsible for leading the team to deliver multiple projects (of varying degree of complexity and size) across the country on an extremely tight timeline.

• Align and deliver solutions to enable business strategies (Master Plan) to the objectives spanning investments and operating costs.

• Understand and articulate customers’ explicit and implicit requirements, Implement requirements and solution design.

• Manage entire solutions setup process from start to finish.

• Prepare detailed project plans and execute to stated timelines, quality and project constraints.

• Directs\Advise clients towards standard setups, manage customizations.

• Ownership of transitioning clients from existing processes to the IT corporate standard process.

• Manage client relationships, Client Satisfactions, Keep all involved stakeholders apprised of project status at all times.

• Manage and interact with customers and be proactive in understanding and delivering value added solutions.

• Responsible for technology COE and information assets of customers and organization.

• Apply knowledge of industry practices and trends for Application product development, infrastructure design and operations, IT Security, All Levels and stacks Technologies.

• Lead technical teams in a fast paced environment, creating positive outcome through innovative disruptions.

• Focus on the architecture domains : Business, Operations, Systems, and Data & Technology - architecture framework, architecture methodologies, and broad variety of Technologies.

• Prepare and deliver engaging, informative, well-organized presentations to business unit senior leadership, staff, and technical teams outlining progress and activities on projects.

• Responsibilities include the formation of strategies for product direction, acquisition, partnering across the leadership team for positioning sales approaches that lead to superior performance.

• Responsible for overall P&L, revenue targets, cash flows to achieve sustained practice growth.

• Manage Strategy, Operations, Market, People.

• Management Information collation, analysis and reporting

• Formulate the IT strategy for the group and Organization

  • Align IT strategy with Business Strategy

  • Prepare a long term Strategic IT Roadmap for the organization

  • Develop and facilitate implementation of a sound & integrated IT architecture

  • Promote effective and efficient design and operation of all major IT processes

  • Define action plan and budget, and oversee performance of IT department

• Monitor, review and enhance the organizational IT skills and capabilities

  • Ensure timely and effective implementation of Products, ERP Application

  • Organize extensive IT training programs for the organization.

  • Incorporate best practices in IT management and build capabilities of people/processes

  • Interact with all group companies to bring synergies in IT across the group

  • Translate IT investments into business concepts and ultimately to ROI

  • Ensure IT security for business/technical applications, networks & hardware

  • Ensure centralized purchasing of hardware & licensed software

  • Evaluate systems that support end users in the productive use of computer hardware and software Monitor progress on the annual plan and ensure low variance

• Support the Business C-Level Executives and leadership in developing and executing IT strategy

  • Provide advice and assistance to leadership on IT acquisition & management

  • Identify and propose new technology to remain competitive

  • Lead organization change initiatives to improve the capability of IT operations

  • Build the desired organization with best-in-class processes and capabilities

• Program\Project and account management.

• Quality and Process Management - CMMI, SOX, ISO, Six Sigma, BPM, Program Management

• COE in Test Automation tools - QTP, QC, Selenium, JMETER, Win Runner, Load Runner.

• Perform complete product life cycle in a production services environment, including design, implementation, load and scale testing, deployment and maintenance.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

1. B.E. Computer Science (1990-94)  Full Time from BIT Sindri, Ranchi University, India
2. Executive Post Graduate in Senior Management (SMP) from IIM Calcutta
3. Regular MBA E-Business Marketing and General management from Stratford University, USA