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Hariharan Sivaraman

Hariharan Sivaraman

Chennai

Summary

Versatile Senior technology leader with over 25+ years of experience in management and delivery of high-performing information technology-enabled business solutions of projects/products across multiple clients and geographies.

Well Experienced in End to End Application development management, Project management, managing multiple business critical applications in parallel and process management.

Skilled in all phases of Application software life cycle development and accountable for timely delivery. Extensive experience in managing day to day business operations for cards and banking application domains. Expert in integrating multiple technologies and APIs, microservices, etc. Capable of adhering to an new technology, learn faster and master it within short span of time.

Managed more than 25 resources from different geolocations which involves multiple technologies.

Deep domain knowledge, Critical thinking, Understanding business needs faster from clients and giving appropriate/long term solutions, depth analytical skills and Decision making during critical incidents are some of the key strength. Involves proactively foreseeing any risk to the projects and providing timely resolutions to mitigate the risks and damage control.

Ensures application quality/stability by timely review by addressing outdated software versions/certificates, vulnerabilities, etc as part of Safety and Soundness of the application.

Have adequate experience in handling clients both offshore and onsite. Always learn from mistakes, to avoid repeating again.

Frontend Leadership qualities by ensuring timely appreciation and encouragement to team members and boost their confidence level and productivity.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President

Citibank N.A
05.2014 - Current

Projects:

- Credit Initiation (CI) Mexico – Cards

- Credit Initiation Mexico – Dealer/Telemarketing Channel

- Credit Initiation Mexico - Personal Loans

CI Mexico Cards and CI Personal Loans applications are Intranet Back Office applications, which are used for onboarding new Credit Card or Personal Loan applications. It captures customer demographics through various channels like Branches, Mass upload, Telemarketing, Citiphone and digital channels like ATM and Mobile. CI application authenticates the customer biometric fingerprint, verify document proof, interacts with various Local legacy systems to pull the existing account details, undergo background negative checks, blacklist, Citiscreening and Credit Bureau to name few.

All the data are evaluated for credit worthiness and provides approvals for the credit card and Personal Loan. Approval decisions are made interfacing with Credit Decision Engine (Blaze engine), based on which the Credit Card or Personal Loan applications will be approved and booked in Cards and Loans system.

CI Dealer/Telemarketing application is an internet-enabled feature for the Telemarketing users from different Point of Sales to capture customer data and create credit card applications. It also issues precreated card for the credit worthy customers

Key Achievements:

- Led the team both offshore and onsite and driven the project from the scratch / requirement phase till Business live migration.

- Owned data definition / data structure for the entire application

- Fully involved with team on integration with with multiple interfaces, APIs/microservices.

- Made performance tuning and ensured stability of the application capable of onboarding 40K applications per day.

- Ensured all vulnerabilities, bugs are fixed to ensure safety and soundness of the application.

- Improved application performance to meet less than 5 TPS and secured client’s satisfaction

- Skilled in effort estimation and Non Functional Requirement analysis.

Assistant Vice President

Citibank N.A
Singapore
09.2013 - 05.2014

- Global Common CI L3 (BAU maintenance)

Global Common or Go To Common (G2C) is a Global initiative within Citi to have all the regions a common functionality and common code base. Some countries like SEA, MX, JP, TW have already gone live and are currently in BAU mode. This project is have to support the BAU (L3 support) and to take up any new enhancement for these countries.

Assistant Vice President

Citibank N.A
Singapore
11.2010 - 09.2013

- Eclipse Credit Initiation System – CI India

CI India is an integrated Card system running on the Eclipse platform. It gathers all the demographics and existing card performance details and decides approvals of Cards to the individual primary customers, supplementary applicants or corporate individuals. Apart from Online interaction, the major part is the batch file upload which will be updated by several sales agents which comes as feed to the system at most around 5000 to 10000 applications per day. These applications will under go certain checks like CDE (Credit Decision Rule engine), Credit Bureau, etc., to evaluate the card customer. It offers different types of cards like master, visa, cobrand, world money card, rewrite cards, etc.

Associate Manager

CSC Technologies Pte. Ltd (Formerly Covansys)
Singapore
09.2006 - 11.2010

Eclipse Credit Initiation System – CI India – For Citibank, Singapore - CITI, – India

OSCAR Credit Initiation System – Germany – For Citibank, Singapore - CITI, N.A

Team Leader (Level 1)

Covansys (India) Pte. Ltd
India
07.2005 - 09.2006

Eclipse Credit Initiation System – CI India – For Citibank, Singapore - CITI, – India

OSCAR Credit Initiation System – Germany – For Citibank, Singapore - CITI, N.A

Analyst

Covansys (India) Pte. Ltd
India
03.2003 - 07.2005
  • Business Performance – For NEC Corporation, Japan
  • Research and Development – Internal Project

Developer

Covansys (India) Pte. Ltd
India
03.2000 - 02.2003
  • NETMOS – UIS
  • Business Control Definition Tool (BCD)

Project Trainee

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Chennai
11.1998 - 07.1999

Real Time Data/Status Processing And Display for PSLV-C2 Launch at Mission Control Center (MCC)

Payroll Systems – COWAA project (Computerized Working in Administrative Areas)

Education

Master of Computer Application -

University of Madras
Chennai, TN
01.2002

Diploma in GNIIT -

NIIT Academy
Chennai, TN
01.2000

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Loyola College
Chennai, TN
01.1998

Skills

Domain Skills:

Cards – Credit Initiation

Personal Loans – Credit Initiation

Technology Skills:

  • TIBCO Products- BusinessWorks 5x
  • TIBCO - iProcess 11x
  • TIBCO - EMS
  • TIBCO - Adapters
  • FICO - APM
  • J2EE
  • Visual C 60
  • C, C
  • Oracle 19c, DB2 7x, Sybase

Configuration and management tools:

  • Bit bucket, JIRA, RLM, XML canon, Microsoft VSS, Rational ClearCase, RTC, Mercury Quality Centre, Win Runner, NetBeans 41,OpenSTA, HPJTune, Maven, FindBugs, Checklipse, Eclipse UML

Awards

  • 2023, Received Platinum Award of Excellence at Citi
  • 2021, Received Gold Award for Excellence at Citi

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2

Timeline

Vice President

Citibank N.A
05.2014 - Current

Assistant Vice President

Citibank N.A
09.2013 - 05.2014

Assistant Vice President

Citibank N.A
11.2010 - 09.2013

Associate Manager

CSC Technologies Pte. Ltd (Formerly Covansys)
09.2006 - 11.2010

Team Leader (Level 1)

Covansys (India) Pte. Ltd
07.2005 - 09.2006

Analyst

Covansys (India) Pte. Ltd
03.2003 - 07.2005

Developer

Covansys (India) Pte. Ltd
03.2000 - 02.2003

Project Trainee

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
11.1998 - 07.1999

Master of Computer Application -

University of Madras

Diploma in GNIIT -

NIIT Academy

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Loyola College
Hariharan Sivaraman