Raghavan Rangarajan

VP, BNY Mellon Technologies

BNY Mellon

Delivery of Program/Project objectives, Client/Customer Management, Risk & Resiliency Management, Product/Application security, Vulnerability, Audits Metrics Management, Team and Solution Delivery Management; Audit & Regulatory Compliance; Collaboration & Group Dynamics Management.

Possess expertise in Leadership, IT Team Management & IT Solution Delivery, Business Continuity, Risk & Resiliency and maximizing IT value to drive business expansion.
Exhibited comprehensive understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies and Process frameworks such as CMMi, Agile-Scrum and ITIL for successful project delivery.
Instrumental in ideation of developing an internal app Liquidity Admin Console as part of Strategic Planning & Business Process Optimization. This application provided Liquidity Business / Product / Operations team a view of all types of transactions being placed by clients and ability to control risks in a timely manner.
Significantly contributed with multiple suggestions & feedback for successful Green-field migration with meticulous planning, execution, monitor & control as part of IT Program & Delivery management. Reduced risks and costs with phased PROD release, within constraints.
Being a long-timer in the group, have given extensive training to new joiners both campus hires, and laterals about the product/applications and its features. Have created multiple recorded video training sessions so that learning about the product can be easily and quickly achieved, as part of Team-management and Product Development & Support requirements. Also closely worked with Business group to provide additional Product features intro/detailed sessions.
As part of Risk & Resiliency management, handled BCP, DR/FOS, and Region-center based outages, end-2end – planning, execution, review/control and successful completion with strong collaboration – as per FED/SEC/Regulatory bodies & Top management requirements; o Significantly contributed in engaging, planning thru completion by collaborating with right stakeholders to consistently pass DR for each year within RTO; o Took ownership for BCP – Regional outage event and handled Audits for the same; o Owned Inter/Intra group FOS for all Liquidity Apps – Internal/External Interface;  Collaborated & Worked closely with US based Senior management and Business managers to get feedback proactively about self, team & team members, and have critically evaluated and closed out outliers by constant and continuous improvement, as part of Client Relationship management/Team-management. Have nominated team members/team for multiple Awards and Recognitions for consistent & quality delivery of Solutions and exceeding performance within constraints. With this, have got multiple Team and Project Delivery Awards from both India and US Management that improved team morale and commitment.
Instituted a formal training program for Campus-hires and interns for their quick onboarding to Project teams. Collaborated with teams’ senior leads and architects to extend their contribution and ability to show their leadership and commitment to achieve the goal with constant and timely review, as part of Team-management.
Been part of multiple committees’ for Awards and Recognitions’ and Promotion. Have provided and shared valuable suggestions and feedback.  Being a long-timer, have provided critical and valuable suggestions through-out the tenure to improve product features, team members for better & cordial relationship, interaction and collaboration removing friction between co-workers in different geographic regions.
Implemented and executed a comprehensive array of risk management strategies to prevent/mitigate/control potential threats, enhance organizational resilience in terms of Program/Projects, People, Info and other type of risks in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders along with feedback mechanism’s; Identified, classified and categorized risks; Implemented appropriate controls/solutions to mitigate critical and prioritized risks using risk management framework and continuously monitor/improve risk control solutions o Led the Cyber Vulnerability remediation efforts to minimize Risk and Improve Resiliency of all Liquidity Apps; o Worked and chart-out plans for People related risks viz. providing Job-rotation, coaching & mentoring, team-rotation to improve employee morale and satisfaction.
Worked-out plans for career progression and retention of team members PROFILE SUMMARY IT Project/ Program Management Product Development & Support Strategic Planning Business Process Optimization Delivery Management Quality Assurance Risk & Resiliency Management Client Relationship Management Team Management.
Experienced in handling CHANGE/ INCIDENT/PROBLEM management in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders by implementing timely solutions along with feedback and communication. Significantly contributed in taking critical and timely decisions while on INCIDENT and PROBLEM solution deployment, with appropriate notification to stakeholders.
End-2-end management of Strategic/Tactical/Emergency, which includes Business/Functional/Technical/Regulatory & Compliance, based – SW/Product - Application’s releases to PRODUCTION in agreed terms with Business/Tech - Senior/Top Management by close collaboration with all relevant stakeholders & with appropriate communication.
Implemented a New Liquidity Portal & Admin Console App for business to monitor/review, view & control of exposure to risks as part of Sub-Prime crisis Market crash within 1 week from plan thru PROD implementation with high collaboration as part of Regulatory & Emergency requirements o Implemented new & improved features for Business to configure control measures in Liquidity Portal in context to mitigate exposures/risks in Liquidity based Risks as part of Strategic and Tactical efforts for Risk & Resiliency program.
Implemented New Product features viz. Commercial-paper and Intra-fi Networked Deposits to on-board new clients as part of Strategic program efforts o Implemented Product enhancements viz. Delegated-admin, Customized Multi-level approvals feature for Transactions processing - Tactical effort to retain clients
Spearheaded planning and execution of technology re-engg., Green-field & Cloud migration initiatives, Database migration/upgrades and other system/tech interfaces upgrades with collaboration for viz. o Led the multi geo Liquidity team for Sybase - to - Oracle DB migration & Green-Field DB Migration – by involving all relevant stakeholders at right time for successful completion.
Led the multi geo Liquidity team for Brown-field to Green-Field migration for all apps in Liquidity suite in a strategic and multi-phased project effort thru optimization o Led the cost-optimization, improved CI/CD process, optimized IT services availability, for all of Liquidity-Suite of apps; o Led the Tech-Debt removal and cost-saving efforts (Flex to Angular JS migration, BF-2-GF, Syb-2-Ora DB)

Lead Manager - Dev

BNY Mellon

Delivery of Program/Project objectives, Client/Customer Management, Risk & Resiliency Management, Product/Application Metrics Management, Team and Solution Delivery Management; Audit & Regulatory Compliance; Collaboration & Group Dynamics Management.

Lead Project Manager

BNY Mellon

Delivery of Program/Project objectives, Client/Customer Management, Risk & Resiliency Management, Product/Application Metrics Management, Team and Solution Delivery Management; Audit & Regulatory Compliance; Collaboration & Group Dynamics Management.

Sr. Systems Analyst

Telesis Technologies

Project Leadership, Delivery of Solution, Documentation, Customer Support

Software Engineer

Chennai Gemini Soft Consultants

Technical Solution, Project Documentation, Production Readiness

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VP, BNY Mellon Technologies

Lead Manager - Dev

Lead Project Manager

Sr. Systems Analyst

Software Engineer

Education

M.B.A (Finance) -

M.C.A - undefined

B.Sc (Mathematics) - undefined

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Lead Manager - Dev

Lead Project Manager

Sr. Systems Analyst

Software Engineer

M.C.A - undefined

B.Sc (Mathematics) - undefined

VP, BNY Mellon Technologies

M.B.A (Finance) -

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