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Pranjal Ardey

Pranjal Ardey

IT Portfolio Manager
Pune,MH

Summary

IT professional with over 18 years of experience in managing large programs and projects. Currently working as a Portfolio Manager for Front office LOB for a large Investment Management firm of USA.

- Expertise in Program & Project Management, interfacing with different stakeholders, collaborating with different teams and ensuring successful project releases.

- Successfully led large project teams in all phases of SDLC - Requirements gathering, Design, Implementation and Support. Managed projects in Waterfall as well as Agile methodologies.

- Has managed relationships with multiple stakeholders, clients & vendor partners at various levels, especially for Risk and Issue management Lead teams in Support as well as Development projects and have acted as an onsite coordinator.

Work History

Portfolio Manager

Infosys Ltd
05.2018 - Current
  • Responsible for managing multiple projects under the Front office LOB for a large Investment Management firm of USA.
  • The areas include Equity trade processing, Reference Data Management, Asset Setup and Maintenance.
  • Manage projects including planning, estimation, leading the team & staffing, Quality assurance, mentoring and scope & contract management
  • Client & other stakeholder management; tracking and status reporting.
  • Identification & mitigation of risks & issues and making tradeoff decisions with other stakeholders while ensuring the business value & quality of solution.
  • Participation in company/unit initiates & proposals for new projects / programs.

Program Manager

Infosys Ltd
09.2016 - 04.2018
  • E2E Credit Lending Program (Team Size: 90) - Responsible for managing projects running under E2E Credit Lending Program.
  • The Program objective was to reduce the average time required from loan application to disbursal from 1 month to 1 week, rolling out the functionality to multiple geographies & integrating the various new & legacy systems of the bank.
  • Addressed and resolved technical, financial and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.

Senior Project Manager

Syntel Limited
07.2014 - 07.2016
  • ePRS project, Team Size – 53, Technology – Java. The project aims at enhancing the current pricing system of a leading logistics company to enable it to generate proposals and agreements for its Strategic clients.
  • Directed changes to project scope and cost and implemented appropriate change management processes to keep project on track.
  • Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
  • Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.

Project Manager

Infosys Limited
08.2013 - 07.2014
  • Feature Store Development (Team size: 26) - The project aim was to create a portal for a leading world bank for its South African region, wherein bank would sell various Banking and Value added products to its customers.
  • The concept was first of its kind in the region and would help the bank to increase its customer base.
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.

Project Manager

Infosys Limited
02.2012 - 06.2013
  • Customer Liquidity Management - The project aim was to roll out UK’s sweeping facility to various other countries in Western Europe covering accounts on the respective accounting systems used by the Bank and enhance the existing Sweeping facility to support End of Day sweeping in addition to the intraday sweeping.
  • Orchestrated projects within strict timeframes and budget constraints by solving complex problems and working closely with senior leaders.

Project Manager

Infosys Limited
06.2011 - 01.2012
  • Gold Remediation - The project was for a leading Investment bank to replace an existing web based application with an application based on a product. The old application had been in use from the last 15 years and was running out of support software and hardware leading to downtime and reduced productivity.
  • The application was responsible for derivatives confirmation processing for both credit & interest rate derivatives.

Project Manager

Infosys Limited
01.2011 - 05.2011
  • Pre-confirmation System - The project aim was to replace few old systems and remove manual intervention in the Pre-confirmation process for a leading investment bank’ Japanese region.

Project Manager

Infosys Limited
04.2010 - 12.2010
  • Cashflow Management System - This was an enhancement project based on the Cashflow Management system. The objective was to utilize the Equity matching feature of DTCC. To achieve this the existing cashflow matching logic had to be altered to find out DTCC eligible cashflows and then send & receive FpML messages from DTCC.

Technology Lead & Below

Infosys Limited
Germany & Pune
07.2003 - 03.2010
  • Partnered with architecture team to develop wholistic technology roadmap, accounting for departmental priorities and overall business goals.
  • Collaborated with client and interdepartmental peers to transform client requirements into turnkey solutions.

Project Intern

Escosoft Technologies Limited
  • Developed GUI to display license usage.
  • Configured FLEXlm license manager.

Education

BIT (Bachelor of Information Technology) -

University of Delhi

Accomplishments

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Aug 2019
  • ITIL Foundation - June 2005

Skill Summary

Domain: Financial Services, Retail

Technology Area: J2EE, Mercury ITG, Weblogic, Oracle, Perl, JavaScript, HTML.

Timeline

Portfolio Manager

Infosys Ltd
05.2018 - Current

Program Manager

Infosys Ltd
09.2016 - 04.2018

Senior Project Manager

Syntel Limited
07.2014 - 07.2016

Project Manager

Infosys Limited
08.2013 - 07.2014

Project Manager

Infosys Limited
02.2012 - 06.2013

Project Manager

Infosys Limited
06.2011 - 01.2012

Project Manager

Infosys Limited
01.2011 - 05.2011

Project Manager

Infosys Limited
04.2010 - 12.2010

Technology Lead & Below

Infosys Limited
07.2003 - 03.2010

Project Intern

Escosoft Technologies Limited

BIT (Bachelor of Information Technology) -

University of Delhi
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