Pinaki Burman

Accomplished Senior Project Manager with extensive experience in leading large-scale projects and multi-disciplinary teams. Demonstrates expertise in project initiation and planning, utilizing exceptional communication and negotiation skills to align stakeholder expectations. Recognized for consistently delivering projects on time while maintaining high-quality standards. Leverages strong leadership and decision-making capabilities to enhance team collaboration and resolve challenges efficiently.

Digital Transformation Program : I have managed one of the key strategic Digital Transformation program for the bank. Here as per the organization strategy they aim to overhaul the existing core banking application running in Middle East region to the next strategic digital solution in line with the organizational road map. This aims to simplify the core banking footprint by clustering singular instances of core banking application running in multiple countries in MENA region to one instance thereby helping in better management of the application and easier upgrades. I am playing a role for Delivery Lead managing the overall governance of the program along with a team of PM’s & PMO. This was a large program of size more than USD 40 Mil and 2.5 years duration.

Portfolio & Deployment Manager : I have played the role of senior portfolio and deployment manager for MENA Payments & GLCM team responsible for managing the complete portfolio of USD 20 Mil comprising of Order Book Management, Stakeholder Management & Projects delivery for 3 years. 

Divestiture Project : I was the program manager for one of the banks most strategic divestiture program. This was a unique experience as it was very strategic in nature & had to be done very stealthily, swiftly and on time considering the nature and the stakeholder involved. This project was a big success and we managed to complete the entire rollout in record 6 months’ time with not post release issues.

Electronic Bill Payment : I had successfully program managed deployment of new electronic bill payment system for Egypt back in 2011 when it was relatively new concept in market. It involved creation of new interface between the Banks exiting customer facing application like Internet Banking, ATM with the 3rd party Central Bank service provider which in turn was connected to Utility Bill Payment Companies.

Title: Senior Portfolio and Program Manager

• Project and Program Management : Leading and contribution into e2e project management practices starting from drafting of business case, securing the budget till the closure of the initiative. This covers all phases of program management like creation of complex multi level program plans, responsible for e2e program delivery, contributing into techno functional discussion with the project teams, driving Program Steerco meetings, managing the budgets & forecast, RAID management, Deployment & delivery management by following Safe Agile & DEVOPS framework, Robust Stakeholder and vendor management, ensuring to define and update the control functions (OLA/PLA/Service management), handover documentation & project closure. My last delivery was for Core Banking legacy Digital transformation program which was multimillion dollar program spanning across 22 months.
• Portfolio and Deployment Management: Responsible for complete governance of the IT portfolio close to USD 20 Mil. This includes primarily managing the IT order book in terms of budget, delivery, stakeholder engagement & communication, Responsible for the delivery & deployment of projects working closely with project managers & other stakeholders.
• Techno Functional and Processes : Leading & contributing to organizational transformation program like adoption of Safe AGILE, DevOPS, promote migration to latest technology like API, Cloud, Microservices etc.
• People Management : At present I am dual hatting, where I play the role of Regional Lead of PPM Team (Middle East Region) managing a team size of 40 + people plus head the MENA Core Banking Portfolio as an Individual Contributor. I am responsible for complete performance management, team salary review, conflict management, counsel team for their career aspiration, help the team to understand the alignment of company objectives as part of their day-to-day deliverables.

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• I love being closer to nature which helps me to recharge my batteries