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Kamal Singhania

Kamal Singhania

Digital Program Director
Bangalore

Summary

Technology Analyst position allowing for parlay of demonstrated technical analysis, evaluation, customer services, solution design, communication skills proven by 10 years of experience with industry leaders and renowned organizations. Profile Motivated, strong analytical and logical reasoning skills, problem solving capability, with a successful 10 year track record of technology evaluation, analysis, solution architecture and design for the communication industry. Talent for quickly understanding technology trends in the wireless communication industry. Technology Analysis: Ability to understand and foresee impact on investment due to disruptive technological development. Demonstrated history of producing accurate and timely analysis reports impacting business decision to invest, acquire, out- source and develop in-house. Diplomatic and tactful with professionals and non-professionals at all levels. Accustomed to handling sensitive, confidential records. Leadership: Strong leadership skills, ownership of a technology group, leading the development team and helping them deliver on time with quality. Interaction with customer and interface between various organizational units in understanding and creating unified system architecture and developing technology roadmaps. Flexible and versatile – able to maintain a sense of humor under pressure. Poised and competent with demonstrated ability to easily transcend cultural differences. Thrive in deadline-driven environments. Excellent team-building skills. Results-driven Enterprise Architect knowledgeable about legacy modernization, platform design and application development. Good strategic and tactical planning, project management and team leadership skills. Ready to bring [Number] years of related experience to a challenging new role.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Digital Program DirectorGlobal

Barclays
Pune
12.2018 - Current
  • Met with project stakeholders on regular basis to assess progress and make adjustments.
  • Interacted with customers and clients to identify business needs and requirements.
  • Coached team members on productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals.
  • Addressed and resolved technical, financial, and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.
  • Engaged and worked alongside cross-functional stakeholders to manage strategic initiatives.
  • Devised creative solutions to critical customer and user needs.
  • Collaborated with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure.

Head of Engineering for Digital Wealth Management platform for Barclays UK, accountable for drivingthe engineering strategy for delivering solutions for the Wealth management business.


Enterprise Mobility Lead

Cargill India
Bangalore
05.2015 - 12.2018
  • Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
  • Managed use of various types of databases and configured, installed and upgraded new ones.
  • Managed installation, upgrade and deployment projects and provided on-site direction for network engineers.
  • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.

Global Mobility practice lead heading a team of practitioners and helping establish mobility and digitalstrategies, operational models, processes and emerging technologies to deliver measurable businessresults. Provides leading insights into how mobility & digital can be used as a competitive advantage todrive innovation, growth, operational efficiency and customer experience.

- Established the Mobile center of Excellence spearheading mobility innovations and solutions in thearea of Commodity trading, Agriculture, Animal Farm management and transportation.

- Defined strategies and operating models for Digital solution development and support globally.

- Spear headed the digital transformation agenda to include IOT, Wearable technologies, Cloud, andAnalytics in the strategic roadmap for transformation.

- Provided thought leadership in the area of emerging technologies

- Delivery management of portfolio of Mobile applications for all global business and functions spanningall regions and 67 countries.

Managed the financials, cost to serve, budgeting, estimations, allocations and recovery.

- Managed resourcing as well the partner ecosystem for Mobile application development.

- Successfully managed adoption of Agile development methodology with DevOps within theorganisation.


Delivery Manager

Accenture
Bangalore
10.2011 - 04.2015
  • Monitored customer quality metrics and took proactive steps to implement resolutions and restore acceptable levels.
  • Coordinated delivery of contracted solutions at program level and in full accordance with outlined cost, scheduling and quality terms.
  • Engaged customers to discuss business needs and explore opportunities to increase sales.
  • Trained drivers, helpers and support workers in techniques for maximizing efficiency.

Digital & Mobility practice leader; To Lead the largest Mobility delivery at Accenture for one of thelargest UK bank to deliver and support the revolutionary and highly successful Mobile payment andbanking application platform.

Roles and responsibilities included:

- Mobilization of the offshore capability

- Setup of the Mobile center of excellence for the bank.

- Delivery management

- E2E Ownership including shaping the deal, managing financials in line with overall deal economics &customer relationship/satisfaction

- Delivery manager for the revolutionary digital roadmap for the bank, handling a large program at abudget of ~50M USD.

- Spearheaded the large scale digital transformation for the large UK bank as below:

- Rollout of Mobile Payment and Banking Solutions on IPhone, Android and Blackberry by multi-site andmulti-vendor teams

- Established global operating models & platform standardization and delivered the Mobile bankingapplication with more than 5M downloads, 3M active users and 12B GBP transactions made using theapplication.

- Established the Feature based distributed delivery model for Mobile application delivery acrossdifferent geographies.

- Established a very successful continuous integration and automated testing process for delivery ofhigh quality code bringing down the System integration testing cycle time by 30%.

- Built offshore development factories for Bank on Mobile development to peak of 100 FTE from 10 FTEproviding varied services within Retail &Investment Banking

- Delivery Leadership - Interface with various strategic business unit within the organization. Helpingcreate a unified architecture, provide guidance to the business units on best practice and adoption ofinnovative technology.

- Financial management: management of the project cost and budget. Financial forecasts, invoicing andbilling and management for the project.

- People management: Successfully managed a highly motivated team of 100+ with very low attritionrate


PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT

NOKIA INDIA PVT LTD
Bangalore
  • Business Leadership – understand customer requirement and preference
  • Initiated the consumer panelist discussion to understand current customer preference trends and integrate the same in the technology development roadmap
  • Technical Leadership - Interface with various strategic business unit within the Mobile Handsets organization
  • Helping create a unified architecture, provide guidance to the business units on best practice and adoption of innovative technology
  • Prepare Technical evaluations of System design and architecture
  • Author technical reports helping investment decisions
  • Provide recommendations on appropriate technology and devise mechanism for productization
  • Architect for Multimodal UI interactions
  • Providing Technical leadership for software components within the
  • Middleware of the Symbian Platform
  • Responsible for delivery quality, architectural integrity of the software components
  • Responsible for interaction with external as well internal customers of the framework and libraries
  • Designed and architected frameworks for various input methods and framework supporting different languages and prediction
  • Designed and architected the Nokia Multimodal Interaction framework, a framework for enabling input using various sources like Sensors, touch, voice, and text
  • Worked closely with the team and the product management for defining the requirements, working on architectural pre-study, competitive analysis, code review, performance benchmarking
  • Responsible for architecting Gesture and Haptics input frameworks
  • Kamal Singhania4th E Cross 3rd Block HRBR Layout, 919980504920 kamalsinghania@gmai.com

ARCHITECT

SYMBIAN INDIA PVT LTD
  • Technology ownership of Base libraries within the Symbian Operating System
  • Complete ownership of the software components involving crucial business and technology decision making authority
  • Develop and implement strategies and Technology Roadmap for :
  • Developed strategy for Sensor Services on mobile devices
  • Influenced investment decision with regard to hardware procurement, and outsourcing
  • Worked closely with the product management, vendors and hardware designers for delivering a scalable, robust and flexible Sensor Services framework
  • Prepare competitive analysis reports within the area of Middleware software components for mobile platforms, helping business leadership take appropriate decision with regard to product planning and development
  • Create and own the technology roadmap for operating system middleware libraries illustrating a 5 year technology roadmap.

PRODUCT ARCHITECT

ONSKREEN INC
  • Architect the lead product, Fusion, an idle screen application for mobile phones
  • Responsible for leading the development team
  • Interact with customers (operators) and help in deployment of the solution
  • Work closely with Senior leadership for:
  • Software creation process development
  • Create software configuration management
  • Recruitment and team building
  • Ensure cost management

SENIOR ENGINEER

DISHNETDSL LTD

System analyst

  • Telecom OSS and network management systems
  • Technical evaluation of various Telecom Operation Support system and influence decision making in adopting the appropriate technology
  • Design and develop the E-governance solution for the land registration department of Govt
  • Of Tamil Nadu
  • Provide technical knowhow with regard to appropriate hardware and software investment for the E-governance solution.

Education

B.S - COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, ADVANCED MOBILE WIRELESS

MGM College of Engineering

Master of Science - Computer Science And Programming

Manipal University
Bangalore
06.2011 - 07.2013

No Degree - Leadership With AI

Indian School of Business
Hyderabad
04.2001 -

Skills

System Architecture & Design

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Software

System Programming

Platform Engineering

Interests

Reading

Cooking

IOT

Experimentation

Generative AI

Timeline

Digital Program DirectorGlobal

Barclays
12.2018 - Current

Enterprise Mobility Lead

Cargill India
05.2015 - 12.2018

Delivery Manager

Accenture
10.2011 - 04.2015

Master of Science - Computer Science And Programming

Manipal University
06.2011 - 07.2013

No Degree - Leadership With AI

Indian School of Business
04.2001 -

PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT

NOKIA INDIA PVT LTD

ARCHITECT

SYMBIAN INDIA PVT LTD

PRODUCT ARCHITECT

ONSKREEN INC

SENIOR ENGINEER

DISHNETDSL LTD

System analyst

B.S - COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, ADVANCED MOBILE WIRELESS

MGM College of Engineering
Kamal SinghaniaDigital Program Director