Suryakanta Panda
Kolkata
Summary
Dynamic Delivery Manager with extensive experience at Tata Consultancy Services, excelling in project management and stakeholder engagement. Proven track record in overseeing large-scale projects, optimizing budgets, and delivering technical solutions. Skilled in Oracle DBA and risk management, driving successful outcomes through strategic planning and effective decision-making.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Delivery Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2015 - Current
- Directed offshore project and delivery management for two major UK projects.
- Oversaw project delivery with more than 170 associates and significant budgets.
- Executed stakeholder management for clients TCS and multiple vendors.
- Conducted technical and functional solution reviews to ensure optimal effectiveness.
Project Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2010 - 07.2015
- I am currently one of the Project Lead of TCS BαNCS Product group.
- My roles and responsibilities include
- Delivery owner for integrating the ISO Electronic Rating Content with TCS BαNCS.
- Responsible TCS BαNCS insurance mobile and portal application functional requirement delivery.
- Responsible for requirement delivery of Life & Non-Life business functionalities.
- Project management for requirement delivery group along with required QA activities for the same.
- Responsibility of delivering functional & non functional requirement specifications, test cases with business scenarios and delivery sign-off after acceptance testing as per requirement provided.
- Preparation of Product Road map and Requirement Management plan.
- Responsible for RFI responses for all analysts from different geography.
- TCS BαNCS Insurance product demonstration for analysts, customers as well as prospects.
- Oracle DBA support lead for all the projects running under TCS BαNCS Insurance product.
- Product benchmarking activity, Oracle DBA, Data modelling using Data Modeller.
Offshore Project Manager
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2005 - 05.2010
- I was the offshore Project Manager of RICOH Reporting & DWH project.
- My roles and responsibilities include
- Project Management with 5 GD members for DB, Datastage and Cognos technical support.
- Co-ordination of doing solution analysis with the Geo technical team.
- Preparation of Project Management plan and Risk management plan.
- Oracle DBA, Data modelling using RDA and QA co-ordinator.
Technical Lead
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2005 - 05.2010
- I was the TL for technical support team in SPOT project.
- My roles and responsibilities include
- Performing Oracle DBA role.
- Maintenance and support of huge number of oracle databases (more than 90 databases) of different Picnic environments (Development, Testing, Pre-production and Production).
- Backup / recovery & performance monitoring of databases, release deployment, OAT, DB related housekeeping in UNIX using shell scripts, DB cloning etc.
Technical Team Lead
CMC Limited
10.2000 - 11.2005
- I have played technical TL role in Configurator project.
- My responsibilities include
- Requirement Study, Client Interaction, Finalize Technical and Functional Issues.
- Analysis, Design of user interfaces & Back end Development of accounts and claims module.
- Back End/ Front End changes of Accounts & Claims Module and testing of the Functionality and Performance of the System.
- Data migration process for ICICI Lombard from their existing system On-Line Manager which was in SQL Server to the Configurator.
Developer
CMC Limited
10.2000 - 11.2005
- Requirement Study, Client Interaction, Finalize Technical and Functional Issues.
- Analysis, Design & Development of user interfaces.
- Back End/ Front End changes of Accounts & Claims Module and testing of the Functionality and Performance of the System.
- Involved in domain and design support to another insurance product named Genisys Enterprise which is for consolidation of Branch & Divisional office data at Regional office level.
Education
MCA -
Jadavpur University
01.2000
M.Sc. - Applied Mathematics
University of Calcutta
01.1997
B.Sc. - Mathematics
University of Calcutta
01.1995
Skills
- Project management
- Stakeholder management
- Technical & Functional solutioning
- Risk management
- Budget oversight
- Strategic planning
- Decision making
- Cost estimation
- Change management
- Metric tracking
- Operational oversight
- Oracle DBA & PL/SQL Development 19c/11g/10g/9i
- Java, C
- Informatica, Data Stage
- SQL Developer, Data Modeller
- Unix Shell Scripting
- MS Office 365
Projects
Railway Pension Management Institute UK, Prudential UK, TCS BαNCS Implementation, 08/01/15 - Present, Offshore project and delivery management, Managing overall RPMI delivery of more than 70 associates and budgets, Stakeholder management MN Insurance, AXA Mexico, AXA Gulf, CIG Hungary, NIA, LIC International, Oman Insurance Company, TCS BαNCS Product Development, 06/01/10 - 07/31/15, Delivery owner for integrating the ISO Electronic Rating Content, Responsible for requirement delivery of Life & Non-Life business functionalities RICOH Europe, RICOH Reporting & DWH, 11/01/05 - 05/31/10, Offshore Project Manager, Project Management with 5 GD members for DB, Datastage and Cognos technical support British SKY Broadcasting, BSKYB SPOT, 11/01/05 - 05/31/10, Technical support team lead, Performing Oracle DBA role TDC – Tele Denmark Communications, TDC GRM, 11/01/05 - 05/31/10, TL for CDM application support, Migration CDM application from IBM Denmark to IBM India NESTLE, NESTLE GLOBE, 11/01/05 - 05/31/10, Application Developer role, Object development in Informatica and testing the ETL process ICICI Lombard General Insurance Corporation Ltd., CONFIGURATOR, 10/01/00 - 11/30/05, Technical TL role, Requirement Study, Client Interaction New India Assurance Ltd., United India Insurance Company, National Insurance Company, GENISYS, 10/01/00 - 11/30/05, Requirement Study, Client Interaction, Analysis, Design & Development of user interfaces New India Assurance Ltd., United India Insurance Company, National Insurance Company, PROMPT, 10/01/00 - 11/30/05, Development responsibility for any back end/ front end changes of the System
Training
- SAFe Agilist (SA V4.6) Certification
- IKM Oracle 11g DBA certification
- Training on Insurance business
- Internal Project Management training conducted by IBM
- In-house training in Oracle 9i by CMC Limited
- Training on General Insurance domain by CMC Limited
- Orientation training on CMM Model and implementation
- Workshop on UNIX and C conducted by Dept. Of Computer Science, University of Calcutta
Languages
- Bengali
- English
- Hindi
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 09/10/74
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Delivery Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2015 - Current
Project Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2010 - 07.2015
Offshore Project Manager
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2005 - 05.2010
Technical Lead
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2005 - 05.2010
Technical Team Lead
CMC Limited
10.2000 - 11.2005
Developer
CMC Limited
10.2000 - 11.2005
MCA -
Jadavpur University
M.Sc. - Applied Mathematics
University of Calcutta
B.Sc. - Mathematics
University of Calcutta