Shweta Kolwalkar

Sr. Program Manager

o Lead initiatives driven by emerging technologies including identifying & analyzing preliminary business needs and business processes

o Identify and respond to business opportunities with solution, effort/price estimation and phase-wise delivery plan

o Evaluate data like competitive information, industry trends, and historical performance to develop future support plans

o Thought leadership/creative problem solving, including challenging the status quo and driving progressive improvement

o Designed Key Performance Indicators to analyse business drivers and enable better decision making for business executives

o Demonstrated digital thought leadership by publishing whitepapers on topics ranging from Blockchain in BMS industry to AI in BMS

o Lead and drive digitization initiatives

o Create new internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions

o Plan, monitor and manage risks for program execution

o Lead initiatives to develop AI as a Service solutions for JCI products

o Work cross functionally with stakeholders to ensure data-driven answers are provided and recommended

o Own the program delivery of AI Led solutions, focusing on end-to-end productization of AI Solutions

o Lead AI-Led business solutions & programs like

• BMS solution for COVID Infection Risk prediction
• Ops Assistant Chatbot
• Person Search Analytics

o Successful track record in designing, communicating, and managing change on a large-scale

Sr. Business Analyst/Financial Analyst

o Liaise between product owner, business sponsors, subject matter experts, experience designers, testers, and development groups to remove roadblocks and foster communication

o Project management, cost and effort estimation, change management, and creation of proposals for potential projects

o Expertise in competitor performance analysis and reporting for C-suit

o Assemble and summarize data to structure reports on financial status and risks

o Tracking of actual financial results in comparison with company forecasts

Business consultant managing product life cycle including but not limited to –

· Expertise in requirements gathering, business requirements and functional/non functional requirements documentation

· Experience in scope feasibility analysis and cost benefit analysis

· Produce and implement innovative business plans

· Lead Research & Analysis projects. Ability to generate and develop financial forecast in an accurate way

· Experience in data modelling and data analysis using MS Visio

· Supervised and monitored a team of business units. Ensure timely and accurate communication with project team throughout the life cycle of the project.

· Resource management for multiple programs

Business and Functional Analyst (Consultant)

· Scrum master for project execution

· Strong exposure in Card transaction processing

· BFSI – Banking & Payments Card Domain Knowledge

· Expertise in Web & Mobile applications in Card industry

· Experience in Process Modelling

· Expertise in requirements elicitation & analysis, detailed requirements design (Cases, user interfaces, report specifications, system to System interfaces), workflow design, functional (Application) testing

· Identify impacted Client Applications and provide solutions.

· Functional and Non-functional Requirement Documentation in form of Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications (FSD), Activity Diagrams, Data Mapping, Interface Specifications

· Experience in working with Onshore-Offshore model

· Document training manuals and developed component specific help files to meet the needs of specific users