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Anantharaman Raman
Product Manager
Bangalore
Summary
- Industrious Senior Consultant with excellent critical thinking and team-building talents. Familiar with the policies and procedures of product development and operations. Competent in staff management, data modeling, and proposal development.
- A dynamic and talented leader with 27+ years of experience in developing and implementing projects for the Financial Services / Capital Markets industry based on SDLCs including Agile, Waterfall, and RUP.
- Looking for a leadership role in the IT/Capital Markets to apply professional competencies and industry knowledge and contribute to company’s top and bottom-line.
- Recognized as a highly knowledgeable ‘go-to-resource’ whose advice on technical matters and project direction is held in prominent esteem by clients, contractors, peers, and key decision-makers.
- Ability to work closely with clients to analyze IT system requirements or business problems, and plan IT projects and fulfill clients expectation.
- Extensive knowledge of business analysis and requirement elicitation using methodologies like template-based analysis, Use Case, User Stories etc.
- Expertise in working in operations area of financial markets including Asset Management,Custody and Clearing, Registrar and Transfer Agents and Depository participants.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
5
5
Languages
Work History
Senior Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Bangalore
11.2010 - Current
- Product Management lead for TCS BaNCS EMEA region
- Product Management lead for TCS BaNCS Digital Channels offering
- 12 + years of product management experience
- 10+ years of product implementation experience
- Headed the task force for revamping the UI/Ux of the Securities processing module within TCS BaNCS umbrella.
- Hands on with different SDLCs including Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall and RUP.
- In depth knowledge of the global custody services from a functional and product perspective
- Manage teams across functions like analysis, development and testing
- 10 + years of Onsite experience managing clients as stakeholders in US, Netherlands and UK.
Project/Program Manager
Headstrong India Private Ltd, GENPACT
Bangalore
02.2009 - 11.2010
- Program Manager for a leading broker CMC Markets
- Managed a team of 20 members including Developers, QA and Tech leads
- Managed and participated in change management discussions and defect root cause analysis for implementing effective remedial measures based on identified deviations
- Managed the stakeholders both internal and external and provide status updates as required during the life of the project.
- Appreciated by the client for excellent team management and agile implementation and achieving the set milestones.
Project Manager/Sr Business Analyst
Satyam Computers Ltd
Wall Street NY
06.2007 - 01.2009
- Lead business analyst for the client "Citibank Smith Barney" for their internal platform for wealth management
- Lead a diverse team of vendor and client business analysts and ensured that the solution documents were of top quality and easily understood by the development team
- Used tools like Flex UI for providing interactive UI demos to the client business team which helped them to finalise the design early and with clarity.
Sr BusinessAnalyst/Project Manager
i-flex solutions ltd (now Oracle financial services ltd)
Mumbai
07.2004 - 05.2007
- Onsite project manager for a Testing/QA project with State street one of the leading custodians in the world.
- Lead a team onsite and offshore to enable the client test an application "Global Plus" a sungard product.
- Lead a team at offshore to test a lending system developed in house for state street
- Was part of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) tasked with helping the client in their business analysis and to provide documentation in the form of business requirements.
Manager
Kotak Mahindra Bank
Mumbai
01.2003 - 06.2004
- Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
- Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development.
- Improved operational planning and business frameworks to enhance resource utilization and reduce waste.
- Lead the initiative to identify a vendor application provider who can manage the wealth management needs of the bank . Focus was on getting the depository participant activities up and running on this platform instead of the developing in house.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting, Audit And Economics
Mumbai University
Mumbai 06.1990 - 06.1993
Skills
Program management
Stakeholder Management
Expert skills in MS office
Business Analysis
Product Management
People Management
Onsite Client interaction
Project Management
Software Management
Teamwork mindset
Certification
20 Aug1973
Affiliations
NIIT- Diploma in computers1996
NCFM Certification in Mutual funds and depository from the National Stock Exchange,India
Certified Scrum Master (Expired)
Interests
Club Level Badminton
Table Tennis
Timeline
Senior Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
11.2010 - Current
Project/Program Manager
Headstrong India Private Ltd, GENPACT
02.2009 - 11.2010
Project Manager/Sr Business Analyst
Satyam Computers Ltd
06.2007 - 01.2009
Sr BusinessAnalyst/Project Manager
i-flex solutions ltd (now Oracle financial services ltd)
07.2004 - 05.2007
Manager
Kotak Mahindra Bank
01.2003 - 06.2004
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting, Audit And Economics
Mumbai University
06.1990 - 06.1993