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Arun Kumar Ramachandra
Vice President, Programme Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
Performance-driven Programme Manager (Certified Managing Successful Program's and Scrum Product Owner) with 21+ years of experience in banking industry aligning systems with business requirements, policies and regulatory requirements. Passionate about applying excellent organization and communication skills to manage and lead teams. Results-oriented individual well-versed in interfacing and consulting on business processes to drive results based on sound overall business judgment.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certificates
Work History
Vice President, Programme Manager
Standard Chartered Bank, Global Business Services
Bangalore
06.2018 - Current
- Spearheaded global network obsolescence risk programme to remediate ~3500 critical obsolete devices spread across 60 countries monitored by regulators, resulting in 75% reduction of unplanned failures and savings million's in fines for bank under reputational risk category.
- Managed Information Cyber Security (ICS) Response and Recovery programme to deliver ICS resilience which is reasonable and proportionate to risk which contributed to group risk buy down and increased ICS resilience maturity for bank from 1 to 3
- Mitigated regulatory risks by removing legacy firewall and migrating ~15000 rules to resilient firewall in Global Data center overseeing adherence to controls and regulations imposed by Hong Kong regulators
- Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams.
- Collaborated with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure.
Senior Project Manager
Royal Bank of Scotland
Bangalore
08.2012 - 06.2018
- Maintained strict budgetary control on Large and complex projects ranging from $500,000 to $15 Million and working with project teams to track costs and control expenditures without sacrificing quality.
- Defined desktop transformation strategy for ~15000 users with varied complexity and unique requirements by partnering with Global workforce enablement to remediate Microsoft XP operating system risk and saved multi million to bank which was paid to OEM for providing support to End of Life product.
- Set up RBS Bangalore Technology center in record time of 8 months to house 1000 employees which contributed in ramping up of user base from 90 employees to 600 employees in span of year and same location served as DR center for 450 Chennai employees during Vardah Cyclone
Senior Consultant and Technical Lead
Various organization
Bangalore
05.2000 - 08.2012
- Accenture Services Pvt Ltd: Streamlined key service management process for Accenture Consulting unit by implementing industry wide best practice (ITIL) method to improve efficiency which led to revenue generation of $50 million and reduced operations cost by 25% YoY for cost center.
- Accenture Services Pvt Ltd: Led Network infrastructure transformation programme for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) across UK, EMA and India during merger of RBS and ABN AMRO
- Wipro Infotech: Onboarded 156 clients use in-house developed product which led to sales of IT services
- Wipro Infotech: Product owner of in-house developed product providing end to end solution for IT Service Management.
- Wipro Infotech: Led several DevOps teams engaged in software development for enterprise applications.
- Early Career: Collaborated with clients to define solution requirements.
- Early Career: Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics
SSMRV College, Bangalore University
Bangalore, India 06.1997 - 04.2001
Skills
Policy and procedure development
Software
JIRA
Trello
Power BI
BMC Remedy
Clarity
Microsoft Project
Confluence
Share Point
Certification
Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance
Additional Information
Agile Framework, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, PMBOK, ITIL Framework, and Hybrid
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance
11-2022
Vice President, Programme Manager
Standard Chartered Bank, Global Business Services
06.2018 - Current
MSP Practitioner certificate in Programme Management
09-2017
Senior Project Manager
Royal Bank of Scotland
08.2012 - 06.2018
IT Service Management Systems Auditor / Lead Auditor
05-2010
Certified Project Management Profession (PMP) 4th Edition - Expired
12-2009
Manager's Certificate in IT Service Management
11-2008
Senior Consultant and Technical Lead
Various organization
05.2000 - 08.2012
Bachelor of Science - Electronics
SSMRV College, Bangalore University
06.1997 - 04.2001