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Himanshu Gupta

Himanshu Gupta

Director, Product Management Operations in Network Products
Pune

Summary

Over 19+ Years of professional IT experience in Software Engineering. 17+ Years of rich experience in Card Processing and Digital Payments. Currently working as Director, Product Management Operations in Network Products. 1+ year Executive Program in Data Science (EPDS) from IIM Lucknow. Having strong experience in Product Design and Architecture, domain expertise in Payments, VISA, Mastercard, AMEX, Authorization, Clearing and Settlement process, Credit card Pricing & billing process, Prepaid multi-currency reconciliation, Debit card issuance, and management. Strong hold on Product Management Operation including providing guidance through Studio process, ensures cross functional engagements are executed, conduct customer pilots, manages cross functional engagement (i.e. GCC/GPI) Have experience in guiding and driving agile ceremonies like iteration planning, design workshops, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demo. have an in-depth understanding of credit, debit, prepaid card management systems. Exceptional leader talented at establishing, transforming, and developing high performing teams. Innovator and technically-savvy with a foundation in payments and payment processing possessing outstanding relationship building, training and presentation skills.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Director, Product Operation

MASTERCARD India Pvt Ltd.
06.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for the product from ideation to commercialization
  • Align with PM on required Product KPIs and create DOMO Dashboards for the Network products – Real Time Clearing (OCA4 and CNA4), Transaction API (TAPI), Economic as a Service (EaaS) and Plug-in (MA On Soil Solution) etc.
  • Lead and provide guidance for Studio Process to PM
  • Ensure all products/services and major enhancements to existing products/services go thru the Studio process.
  • Govern process/ standards to maintain product management discipline across the teams.
  • Responsible to coordinate deliverables between GPI/GCC/MC&O
  • Lead Pilot implementation with delivery teams.
  • Provide ongoing status update/engagement.
  • Create Alteryx workflows with data extraction from multiple sources e.g.– Splunk, Data Warehouse, Oracle, and Mainframe for DOMO reporting.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external customers for the successful product launch, implement backlog items and product optimization.
  • Market engagement for new ideas and upgrade existing products and services
  • Responsible for the Product growth and revenue

Director, Learning & Development

MASTERCARD India Pvt Ltd.
01.2022 - 06.2023
  • Collaborating with internal stakeholders, product development teams to identify Technical skill gaps, training opportunities, develop and delivering training solutions to bridge the gaps.
  • Led specialized Knowledge Management and Content Integration roles within Mastercard leveraging business partnering and technologists experience guiding business leaders.
  • Adept at planning, developing and executing monthly calendar of events including trainings, seminars and workshops aligned to the business strategy.
  • Managing internal knowledge management portal and communication about available resources, training assets, blogs, journals, conclaves and seminars
  • Proficient in managing budgets, planning release schedules, managing relationships.

Project Manager, Software Engineering

MASTERCARD India Pvt Ltd.
11.2015 - 01.2022
  • Working with MasterCard’s Global Card Processing, North America platform as Project Manager for Card Management System.
  • Built a strong team of 12+ resources and retooled them to have Enablement focus.
  • Lead design, development and maintenance of the Core processing application – CAMS in Payment Processing Platform with Mainframe, IBM MQs and API Webservices technologies.
  • Managing applications using Java and J2EE technologies such as JSP, Servlet, Design Patterns, JDBC, Struts, Web Services, XML, React Js, HTML, HTML5 JavaScript, JSP, SQL, GWT Ext, JUnit, Log4J, UNIX.
  • Coaching and guiding teams. Ensuring own teams’ growth, compliance to goal setting and performance appraisal process.
  • Managing a team of Software developers and testers to develop quality software solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner.
  • Successfully leading definition, development and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications.
  • Lead efforts to improve turnaround time & quality of deliverables.
  • Enforced standards across the platform for coding, documentation, and CI/ CD best practices.
  • Lead few stretch assignments as well in GPS NAM, Pune.
  • Lead team of New college hires and automated ‘Quality Score Portal’ on PCF cloud-based platform for all the managers to fill the Quality Score of their team after every release.
  • Lead Data Analytics & Monetization track on DOMO and built DOMO dashboard for GPS Americas to capture various metrics from ALM (Measuring Engineering Efficiency), Defect Management and Remedy.
  • Lead the effort to create workflow using Alteryx software to build DOMO/Tableau connectivity with Oracle Database of IDR application to capture various Data driven Analytics (Transaction volume, Cost Per Transaction, Digital Payment Trend Analysis etc.).
  • Lead multiple Performance Optimization initiatives which resulted into CPU and cost savings across the platform.

Manager, Wells Fargo Bank

Cognizant Technology Solutions.
08.2013 - 06.2015
  • Wells Fargo was using Unisys platform for its retailer business for Prepaid Card. Given the stellar performance and scalability of HOGAN CAMS IITM, Wells Fargo decided to migrate their Card platform from Unisys to CAMS IITM. I was responsible for design, development and testing of several projects including the migration activities.

Sr. Consultant, Barclays Bank

Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2011 - 08.2013
  • The project involves maintenance and enhancement of Hogan suite of Card products (Banking product).

Sr. Technical Analyst

NIIT TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
01.2011 - 09.2011
  • PAY 3000 (US Retirement and Pension System) is SEI’s mainframe application that produces periodic and non- periodic payment checks after retirement from both Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution plans and perform the related tax reporting.

Project – Barclay Card/MasterCard

COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION
11.2004 - 01.2011
  • Barclays Bank, UK: The project involves maintenance and enhancement of Hogan suite of products (Banking product)
  • MasterCard, US: The project involves maintenance and enhancement of Hogan suite of products (Card suits. Started off as a Programmer and transitioned into Service Delivery Coordinator for offshore team. Successfully managed the offshore work pipeline and deliveries.
  • Successfully led offshore enhancement team first and then was given additional responsibilities for Live support system.

Education

Executive Program - Data Science (EPDS)

IIM Lucknow
01.2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

IEC College Of Engineering & Tech
Noida, IN
08.2004

Skills

Project Management

Certification

Executive Program in Data Science from IIM Lucknow

Disclaimer

I hereby confirm that the information given above is true and correct to the best of my knowledge. Date: Place: Pune, India

PERSONAL INFORMATION

A highly motivated and dedicated professional with passion for Payments, Innovation and Efficiency. I have used my unique work experience to bridge business and technical knowledge and have used those experiences to conduct several training programs. I’ve also been able to impact the organization by developing talent that can see broader view of their role, by creating vision and identifying opportunities for them to learn and grow. I am always looking for challenging opportunities to leverage existing skills while broadening my experiences while helping improve a team’s value to organization.

Domain

Bank Cards, Core Banking, Merchant Solutions, Issuing, Acquiring, ATM, POS & switches

Software / Utilities / Algo

Alteryx ETL, Studio Framework, Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning, DOMO/Tableau, R Language, Python, Java/J2EE, API Web Services, IBM Mainframes, No SQL and Hadoop, PIG, HIVE, Spark.

Timeline

Director, Product Operation

MASTERCARD India Pvt Ltd.
06.2023 - Current

Director, Learning & Development

MASTERCARD India Pvt Ltd.
01.2022 - 06.2023

Project Manager, Software Engineering

MASTERCARD India Pvt Ltd.
11.2015 - 01.2022

Manager, Wells Fargo Bank

Cognizant Technology Solutions.
08.2013 - 06.2015

Sr. Consultant, Barclays Bank

Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2011 - 08.2013

Sr. Technical Analyst

NIIT TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
01.2011 - 09.2011

Project – Barclay Card/MasterCard

COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION
11.2004 - 01.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

IEC College Of Engineering & Tech

Executive Program - Data Science (EPDS)

IIM Lucknow
Himanshu GuptaDirector, Product Management Operations in Network Products