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MEETHU UMESH

MEETHU UMESH

Senior Technical Program Manager

Summary

  • Senior Technical Program Manager with 18+ years of extensive experience in developing and delivering IT solutions with demonstrated leadership and exceptional execution skills.
  • Skilled in Project Management, Business Analysis, Agile(SAFe) methodologies, Digital Transformation, Cloud Migration and Product Management.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, facilitating cross functional teams, efficient in driving discussions and negotiations with senior stakeholders including product owners, end users and technology teams
  • Experience in preparing and prioritizing Product backlog, sprint planning, backlog grooming, mapping dependencies and explicitly calling out risks.
  • Domain expertise in Core Banking includes Loans, CASA and Payments ISO20022, Messaging, SWIFT.
  • Experience in cloud architecture and migration including AWS and GCP.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications

Work History

Senior Technical Program Manager

Visa Inc
Bengaluru
06.2023 - Current
  • Led the CEMEA portfolio for the Regional Solutions & Innovation centre team within Visa
  • Delivered successful programs in the region with a revenue impact of more than 3M USD
  • Adopted data driven approach to prioritize requirements, create and communicate plans and define success metrics for effective delivery
  • Played pivotal role in providing structure to programs by defining epics and features. Prioritized tasks and established clear acceptance criteria to ensure seamless execution
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including engineering, business, cybersecurity and support across multiple geographies to ensure successful development, launch and promotion of new products
  • Identified and managed critical path workflows, cross functional dependencies and blockers
  • Worked with business stakeholders to drive intake of new GenAI usecases and features on roadmap
  • Reporting to executive leadership on program plans, status and outcomes

Delivery Manager-Group Payments

ANZ Operations and Technology
Bengaluru
04.2021 - 06.2023
  • Delivered programs with spend more than 2M AUD through successful collaboration without schedule or effort variance
  • Led cross functional team in design and development of micro services to convert and enrich the SWIFT onward messages as part of ISO20022 adoption.
  • Analyzed and identified reusable components for 20 use-cases there by reducing the development effort by 80%.
  • Collaborated with product owners, technical architects and cloud platform teams to host the SWIFT payment applications on Google Cloud, there by meeting the ANZ’s simplification strategy.
  • Ensured that 100% of inter-team risks, impediments and blockers were identified, communicated and resolved.
  • Represented the team in PI planning and showcase ceremonies with the leadership teams
  • Promoted T-shaped skill development across team members and thereby making the scrum team cross functional.

Product Owner -Core Banking, Institutional Domain

ANZ Operations and Technology
Bengaluru
11.2014 - 04.2021
  • Initiated discussion with business stakeholders and vendor teams to initiate Re-platform of core banking application (Finacle) from on-prem to AWS cloud platform.
  • Worked with product vendor teams to successfully implement Multi Entity feature of Finacle, thereby reducing support cost by 60%.
  • Identified user pain points and successfully addressed in product upgrade releases, thereby increasing user satisfaction by 40%
  • Managed backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
  • Worked with business stakeholders to successfully launch 2 new deposit products in HK market, thereby increasing the business revenue for the year by 15%.

Technology Lead - Engineering

Infosys Technologies
Bengaluru
08.2006 - 10.2014
  • Led a team of 10 members to handle the customization of payments track as part of version upgrade for 2 leading banks in India.
  • Designed automation of processes which helped in execution within implementation timelines.
  • Developed customization modules and batch jobs as part of implementation team in a major Bank in South East Asia.
  • Experienced in core banking modules like Loans, Deposits, Interests, CASA and Payments.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - 🇮🇹

Mahatma Gandhi University
Kerala
01.2002 - 01.2006

Skills

Technical Program & Product Management

Agile & Scrum Methodologies

Cross-Functional team leadership

Strategic Planning

Stakeholder Engagement

Solution design

Core Banking & Payments

Technical architecture

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Timeline

Senior Technical Program Manager

Visa Inc
06.2023 - Current

Delivery Manager-Group Payments

ANZ Operations and Technology
04.2021 - 06.2023

Product Owner -Core Banking, Institutional Domain

ANZ Operations and Technology
11.2014 - 04.2021

Technology Lead - Engineering

Infosys Technologies
08.2006 - 10.2014

Bachelor of Technology - 🇮🇹

Mahatma Gandhi University
01.2002 - 01.2006

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