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Raman Nair

Raman Nair

Senior Project Manager
Chennai

Summary

Talented Program Manager, expert Scrum Master and dedicated problem solver. Bring 14 years of experience in telecom, banking and financial verticals. Innovative and goal-oriented Management professional committed to Delivery. Dedicated team player skilled at mediation and conflict resolution. Drives company growth through process first approach.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates

Work History

Senior Project Manager

Indium
Chennai
03.2021 - Current
  • Handling projects for strategic accounts on BFSI vertical like Northern Trust, Capital C, Tonik Bank, Bohemian Asset Management etc. Increasing team strength by 100% within a year
  • Expert in handling tough clients by putting process first approach and thus growing these accounts. One customer has proposed another project 10 times bigger
  • Sought after by top management for bringing around projects in crisis conditions and delivering successfully. Thus helping company retrieve blocked payments. Created proper change requests so that customer also had to agree on scope changes and ultimately pay for additional work
  • Consulting as Agile coach for Atlas Air account
  • Product Owner for Centre of Excellence portal for tracking company wide projects and giving dashboard for CTO. It will be used by Audit team to track audit progress
  • Conducted Agile/Scrum training for Digital vertical
  • Skill wise leading Agile Centre of Excellence
  • Achievements
  • SPOT award
  • Technology teams handled - Mendix, Python Django, Java Spring boot, React JS, MySQL
  • Software used - Jira, Confluence, Azure Dev-ops, Trello

Engineering Manager

Photon Infotech
Bangalore
07.2019 - 10.2019
  • Managed team of 40+ members consisting of PMs, Architects, BAs, Development, QA testing and Production Support
  • Transitioned First Data (FiServ) account from Bangalore to Chennai within 3 months without affecting delivery
  • Responsibilities – Recruit, Budget and Forecast for Fixed Bid and Time & Money projects in a fast pace environment
  • Technology handled – Android, iOS, Java API
  • Software – JIRA, Confluence, Insight, SonarQube, Fortify

Co-Founder

Mindfolks
Trivandrum
08.2018 - 07.2019
  • Designing mobile and website architectures with Multi vendor Market place and Bookable products
  • Designing Customer, Vendor and Admin apps and their flows
  • Digital Technologies used – WordPress, Woo Commerce, Multi vendor Market Place, Woo Commerce Booking, Amelia, WP mail SMTP, WP forms, Firebase, Super Socializer, Cloud Hosting – Bluehost

Program Manager

Bank of America, Merrill Lynch
Chennai
12.2014 - 07.2018
  • Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Merrill Lynch Online (ML .com) programs
  • Expert in both Waterfall SDLC and Agile (Scrum) methodologies working in highly competitive and innovative environment
  • Handle teams of size 12 - 40 and average size of project $200K - $500K
  • Managing multiple projects with portfolio of $1 Million
  • Responsibilities - Collaborative facilitation of program and project activities such as project planning, analysis, execution and post-implementation support
  • Proactively working on identification of change requests and mitigate risks & issues
  • Work with Third-party vendors, making sure SLAs are followed
  • Coordinated release management activities for Mainframe teams
  • Achievements
  • Got SILVER and BRONZE awards for performance excellence
  • Project management experience in delivering over 30 projects with geographically distributed teams in both Agile and waterfall
  • Acted as the single point of contact for onboarding & estimation of over 200 projects
  • Subject matter expert (SME) for Permit to Build (PTB), Permit to Operate (PTO) and other internal audit policies for PM team
  • Initiated offshore Project Portfolio Review meetings to convey project changes to offshore leadership
  • Coding teams handled - Java, .NET, Teradata, Oracle BI, TIBCO, Mainframes
  • Technology handled – MS Project, Rally, Quality Centre

Business Analyst

Verizon
Chennai
07.2008 - 12.2014
  • Level of Effort estimation, requirement gathering, preparation of High-Level Design (HLD)
  • Creating Detailed Design (DD), preparing user stories, use cases, conducting Joint Application Design (JAD) and Design walkthrough sessions identifying and resolving design issues throughout project lifecycle
  • Return on Investment (ROI) calculation
  • Data Analytics of Verizon .com website and mobile site for Product Management team
  • Achievements
  • Designed dashboard to monitor YTD, MTD, DRR and transactions for Verizon .com
  • Successfully delivered over 180 projects on time, on fast pace, high quality and dynamic environment with minimal issues
  • Technology handled - Java Script, .NET, MS SQL Server,
  • Software handled - Clarity PPM, Adobe Site Catalyst, MS Excel, MS Visio, PPT Presentations

Education

Executive Development Program - Strategic Management

XLRI
Jamshedpur, India
06.2019 - 03.2020

MBA - Marketing

IFMR
Chennai, India
06.2006 - 03.2008

B.Tech - Information Technology

University College of Engineering
Trivandrum, Kerala
06.2001 - 03.2005

Skills

    Project Management

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Certification

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Timeline

Senior Project Manager

Indium
03.2021 - Current

Engineering Manager

Photon Infotech
07.2019 - 10.2019

Executive Development Program - Strategic Management

XLRI
06.2019 - 03.2020
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
10-2018

Co-Founder

Mindfolks
08.2018 - 07.2019

Program Manager

Bank of America, Merrill Lynch
12.2014 - 07.2018

Project Management Professional (PMP)

12-2013
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
06-2009

Business Analyst

Verizon
07.2008 - 12.2014

MBA - Marketing

IFMR
06.2006 - 03.2008

B.Tech - Information Technology

University College of Engineering
06.2001 - 03.2005

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