Narahari MYSORE

Narahari Mysore

 

• Technically sound & business savvy management professional, reflecting strong leadership skills of over 18 years with hands-on Program Management, Delivery Management and Account Management within Banking and Insurance (Workers Compensation) Domains.

   

• Deft in designing and architecting corebanking applications to the next generation of technology stack – emphasizing on open source architecture, in sourcing, building high performance teams.

 

• Ability to acquire a clear understanding of the industry, technology trends with the distinction of strategic planning and roadmap while reducing overall operational cost.

 

• Senior leadership roles to head the corebanking business analysts and project management teams comprising of VPs, AVPs.

 

• 1. in delivering large scale financial projects to the tune of S$450 million -S$500 million and team of over 100 experienced professionals.

   

• Expertise in agile methodology right from inception to retrospective meetings. Facilitated in forming agile cells and acted in the role of scrum master and product owner.

   

• Mastered the art of stake holder management with regular senior management communications and chairing operating committees. Presented project statuses in various project steering committees chaired by MDs and CEO. Impressive fast track management career driven by challenges and desire to be successful.

 

• Responsible to face external auditors and lead a team of intra group auditors as part of the compliance team.

 

• Areas of excellence includes: Project Methodologies; Program Tracking / Reporting; Project Communications; Reporting to Senior Management; Develop Plans and Schedules; Business Assessment and Full Lifecycle Development.

   

• Well versed with functionalities of Flexcube(OFS) and Finacle(Infosys). Thus, with the right blend of technical, functional and business understanding, always successful in bridging the gap between business and technology directing the teams to deliver faster, cheaper and optimized solutions.

   

   

   

  Awards & Appreciations:

   

• Best Liquidity Management Solution Award from Adam Smith Awards Asia 2016

• Asian Banker Awards 2015 for The Outstanding Technology Implementation Project

• DBS Banking the Asian Way Awards 2015 for Asian Innovation

• Appreciation for Project Ovation Go Live

• Performance Excellence Award for Successful Implementation of Currency Conversion Project for Citibank, China.

   

 

A. Management:

 

SDLC, Agile & Management

Directing software development activities for business process mapping of the organization and identifying appropriate development methodology. Client/user/Partner interaction for requirement gathering, risk assessment, finalisation of technical specifications and discussions for effort/cost/time estimation and vendor/client co-ordination and reporting. Developing, implementing and providing support for business application software. Forming and facilitating the agile cells and establishing safe to fail culture.

 

Process /Project Management

Planning project activities viz. scoping, estimation, tracking, change management, delivery management & post implementation support. Implementing project plans within preset budgets and deadlines. Monitoring offshore delivery management for technical deliverables of concurrent projects. Understanding business need, requirement, expectation and devising solutions accordingly. Giving utmost importance to all the quality standards and managing the quality score cards.

 

Service Delivery Operations

Overseeing multiple projects and driving the status reporting process at a portfolio level. Heading service delivery functions, to ensure end-to-end ownership of incidents and service requests. Meeting deadlines and Turn Around Time without compromising quality norms and adhering to SLA. Implementing short/long-term plans for achievement of process objectives. Developing strategies for continued improvement in the effectiveness & efficiency of the business.

 

People Management

Providing guidance and tools enabling Project Managers to become leaders.

Managing recruitment, training and setting up of of Service Desk personnel as well as organizing, planning, and staffing operations. Identifying the team’s training & development needs, designing and developing the appropriate training program and afterwards coordinating appropriate internal training programs. Handled team of 100+ professionals including Leads, Project Managers, Scrum Masters. Drafting and executing plans to upskill people to the latest stack technologies.

 

Compliance

Responsible to meet the entire audit related requirements. Front face, on behalf of the unit, the external and internal auditors. Guide the team of internal auditors to ensure 100% process adherence.

 

Budgeting

Responsible to oversee the budgets of multiple programs under the unit. Reporting on budgets to senior management. Rolled out multi million dollar projects within the budget and schedule.

 

B. Functional:

 

Implementing large scale core banking applications. Well versed with various tracks like Customer module, CASA, Loans & Deposits, Payment Systems, Foreign Exchange, Trades, Liquidity Management, Credit & Risks. Know how of retail banking in the payments segment. The techno functional skills enables mapping of optimized technical solution to end user business requirements.

 

C. Technical:

Started the career as a programmer in developing web based applications with relational databases. In depth programming in product development (Flexcube). Open source technologies comprising of RHEL, JBoss, Enterprise DB etc.

Implementation of projects using Github. Using Amazon Webservices and Pivotal Could Foundry framework to develop applications and using RESTApi.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL CAREER