Vinoth kannan Purushothaman

Perform the role of Digital consultant for US Geo and work closely with the Sales team on the RFPs for the client engagements and stakeholder management.

• Attend meetings with potential Clients to determine technical and business requirements and ensuring that all necessary information is collated prior to producing a solution
• Create and confidently deliver technical presentations internally and externally
• To structure and produce compelling sales proposals/commercial and technical documentation outlining the cost savings and business benefits to the clients
• Prepared cost estimates and bid documents by studying customer RFPs and consulting with project managers.
• Ability to demonstrate Valuelabs Digital Capability and solutions/accelerators and technologies effectively to audiences of varied technical knowledge
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions to the sales team & make them more effective in handling the initial customer interactions.
• Engage in business consulting activities, capable of conducting detailed prospect interviews
• Serve as all round digital transformation consultant for the cluster, both for sales team and prospects/clients.
• Provide business & technical expertise in the pre-sales process in collaboration with sales team

• Completed Phase 1 delivery of Reporting dashboard for US based BPO to automate their daily manual operational reporting process.
• Liaise between customer and technical teams in meeting the expectations of project and delivering on timeline.
• Create, document, and maintain project plans and coordinate tasks required for timely completion of projects.
• Successfully created and maintained project schedules while tracking milestones and dependencies across teams within project.
• Collaborate with various teams to define Sprint Plan and Goals.
• Work with Product & Business Owner to define Release Plan, groom and prioritize backlog.
• Facilitate Agile Scrum ceremonies such as Daily Stand up, Sprint Planning, Sprint review, Sprint Retrospectives.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.

• Created POVs and Submitted proposals for various clients and also handled the delivery of MVP for an industry asset in banking & insurance using agile methodologies.
• Managed the delivery of the Virtual Chargeback Advisor using Scrum methodology – chatbot to handle customer queries & to predict the chargeback reason codes using Random Forest classification which lead to 10 FTE effort reduction.
• Involved as functional consultant for POC on Unstructured Text Processing to solve business problems using NLP/ML/DL techniques – Text Summarization, Sentiment analysis, Custom NER, Topic modelling, Textual Entailment, Machine reading Comprehension.
• Developed asset to generate the financial reports from the financial data ingested using Arria NLG & Power BI.
• Create client presentations for project accelerators developed in Machine learning/NLP.
• Responsible for delivery of big data & ETL projects as per planned budget and schedule. Create & own the overall Project Plan (Work package) and responsible for tracking deliverables/milestones.
• Delivered pre-sales technical support in data science for the sales enablement teams in Accenture.

MOBO Operations (L2 & L3) – Equity trading reference data, netting, settlement & reporting systems

• Worked on several high priority incidents raised by the clients and coordinated with different technical teams to streamline straight-through processing flow of application.
• Pro-actively involved in resolving critical issues and hence saved a fine of ~$2,00,000 due to compliance and trading system failures.
• Had regular meetings with various stakeholders such as traders, risk managers and senior managers from all trading support functions
• Implemented ITRS tool for real-time application performance monitoring and also automated health check activity. Hence, we were able to avoid major trading failures in the system.
• Received Bronze award for Best Performer of the Quarter – CLSA (Feb 2014) for migrating entire technology stack of US trading systems.

Product Development - US equity trading middle office application

• Handled change requests for US trading applications and have performed the effort estimation, development and coordinated with Business analysts and QA team.
• Developed automation tools for regression testing, which helped to check various test scenarios in the confirmation system and hence reduced 50-man hours of monthly efforts – Received appreciation from CIO.
• Implemented TFS integration with SonarQube for continuous inspection of source code quality and this has reduced unnecessary rework in later stages.
• Created a hierarchical clustering model using ML to perform the incident analysis and to identify major category of the tickets.

• SBI Life insurance payment Module and Tax collection system – Involved in development of SBI Life insurance payment collection module and GBSS system (SBI web-based system for collecting Govt. taxes).
• Technology & Tools - ASP.NET, WinForms, C#, BizTalk, MS SQL
• Developed the Custom user controls & libraries in C# which was extensively used in the employee portal of L&T construction. Excelled in development of N-tier architecture using agile methodology and migrated the legacy system of GBSS to new platforms.
• GBSS is used across 80000 branches of SBI band and handles high volume transactions (> Rs.10000 Cr Annually)
• Successfully migrated data and DB scripts from legacy system to new environment within span of 2 days and received client appreciation.
• Developed windows service for handling ATM premium payments for SBI life insurance and implemented across 40000 ATMs in India.
• Developed Content based routing mechanism in BizTalk and also implemented the Custom BizTalk Adapter.
• Created an internal utility tool (SPICS) for facilitating the Incident management, tracking of change requests, generating reports & logging of work efforts.