Candidates About

 

Neeraj Choudhary

SUMMARY / PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

·         Neeraj has 15 years of Program Delivery, Project management and Client management experience with a proven track record of implementing varied projects in the financial services and IT domains.

·         Experience as a product owner and scrum master in agile team of 20-30 people.

·         Experience in Business Process Mapping for process workflows and operations risk.

·         Experience in Managing multiple full project lifecycles from business development to final delivery

·         Financial domain knowledge with in-depth understanding of multiple investment types and diversified Investment portfolios.

·         Led initiatives within the financial services industry as a consulting project manager; gathered business requirements and planned project scope along with coordinating project deliverables and managing consulting teams.

·         Experience in setting up offshore captive/operation units and coordinated communications and processes between the onshore and offshore teams.

·         Excellent communication skills acquired from interacting with solutions teams, business users, quality assurance teams, and end users that provide solutions to different lines of business such as Hedge Fund, Mutual Fund, Fund of Funds and Private Equity.

·         Solid skills in systems development, user support, technical troubleshooting, quality assurance, problem solving, and documentation.

·         Experience with Fortune 50 company building equity system for the fund managers.

·         Experience in the insurance domain working on corporate life insurance products, claims and policies, annuities, underwriting, and risk analysis.

 

 

EDUCATION

Masters of Science in Information Technology

Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester, NY

 

Bachelor of Technology

IPST - Chitrakoot, India

 

Training

 

1.      NTT PM3 Project and Program Management

2.      PMx Project and Program Management

3.      Product Owner training

4.      SAFe, RTE and Scrum Master Training

 

 

 

Professional Experience

 

Program Delivery and Senior Scrum Master, NTT Data. at SEI Investments                                                   August 2015 – Present

 

·         Help develop and lead Scrum teams as Senior Scrum Master of a team of approx. 50 people across various teams.

·         Additional responsibility as product owner, he helps develop, manage and deliver a financial Product Line with the team of 10.

·         Work on the portfolio management platform mapping various data sources to the data warehouse

·         Help and deliver conceptual design with the team on diverse financial application platforms.

·         Created data governance group and help build a reporting suite for SEI Client consumption.

·         Prioritize and coordinate multiple deliverables with stake holders on various agendas and multiple timelines.

·         Built the offshore team program management process.

·         Worked with multiple functional teams across business lines on a daily basis.

·         Laid out the road map for the technology team to support the business goals.

·         Playing the Scrum Master role for initiation of new programs and project teams.

·         Guiding 5 Sprint teams with best practices of SAFe and adhere to best practices.

·         Present monthly status reports with the Epic and Feature burndown reports.

·         Retrospect and Implement best practices for SAFe

 

Program Delivery Manager Executive, NPCI – NACH

October 2014 – July 2015

 

National Automated Clearing House (NACH) is a centralized system, launched with an aim to consolidate multiple ECS systems running across the country and provides a framework for the harmonization of standard & practices and removes local barriers/inhibitors. NACH system will provide a national footprint and is expected to cover the entire core banking enabled bank branches spread across the geography of the country irrespective of the location of the bank branch.

 

·         Responsible for Delivery of IT Projects for NACH.

·         Responsible for setting up Operations Support and Delivery Team.

·         Represent NPCI at various forums

·         Interface with Operations and Business for requirements

·         Established a solid foundation (i.e. people, process, data and technology) to provide future options to improve and expand NACH application capabilities. 

·         Vendor management.

 

Program Delivery and Project Management, Vanguard Gemini DMS Program                                                   November 2012 – August 2014

 

·         Led IMG’s key partners in the transition from a decentralized equity group to a best-in-class global equity investment management team.

·         Responsible as a Product owner, SME in the agile team.

·         Helped implement aggregating Transfer agents cash and cash portfolio for the funds

·         Normalized capabilities across Vanguard regions ensuring consistency.

·         Establish a solid foundation (i.e. people, process, data and technology) to provide future options to improve and expand Vanguards investment capabilities. 

·         Improved efficiency and reduce operational risk related to equity investment management.  
Create enduring improvements to IMG’s change implementation capability.

·         Implemented program controls and an implementation framework that leads to high-quality on-time deliverables. 

·         Create flexibility to allow a shift in focus and attention when required.

·         Acknowledge role and organizational boundaries but not allow them to limit our thinking, progress, and impact.

·         Act as business architect to define the roadmap of deliverables and dependencies.

 

Development Manager, Keane, Inc. at SEI Investments                                                               February 2007 – October 2012

·         Acted as Scrum Master, Project Manager\Business Analyst on the technology side of the Investment Manager Services platform.

·         Helped develop aggregating data model across multiple accounting systems such as InvestOne, Investier and Advent Geneva.

·         Developed portfolio management platform mapping various data sources to the data warehouse, working on designing multiple applications for helping the data governance group, and building a reporting suite for end user consumption.

·         Prioritized and coordinated multiple deliverables and with stake holders with varying agendas and timelines.

·         Built the offshore team and processes.

·         Worked with different functional teams from different business lines as scrum master.

·         Laid out the road map for the technology team to support the business goals.

·         Mapping Mutual Funds output from InvestOne to the Data warehouse.

 

Business Systems Analyst, Keane, Inc. at Dept. of Youth Services, State of MA                                   June 2006 – December 2006

·         As a Senior Systems Business Analyst, helped define scope of the system.

·         Helped the organization profile their users by better describing their roles and responsibilities and relevance to the system.

·         Actively participated in the vendor selection for developing the case management tool for DYS.

·         Worked with multiple vendors who bid for the work to define the scope of the project.

 

Systems Analyst & project management, Cognizant Technology Solutions at MetLife Insurance

December 2004 – March 2006

·         Responsibility as Onsite Business Analyst Lead on the project.

·         Managed project service level agreements and statements of work.

·         Analyzed requirements for adding corporate life Insurance products and annuities.

·         Managed project plans using Microsoft Project.

·         Maintained and communicated requirement inventory.

·         Provided estimation of man-days and cost of projects.

·         Gather requirements from the business and conducted JAD sessions.

·         Used RUP to build up the Project.

·         Helped design and build web services to talk to the mainframe.

·         Used the web services and XML schema to communicate between different distributed architecture systems.

 

Senior Developer, Cognizant Technology Solutions at Union Bank of California                September 2004 – December 2004

·         Led business initiatives including brainstorming and design of new functionality for current systems.

·         Created use case scenarios and documents work flow and business process.

·         Supported technical unit in creating functional specification documents for the design, development, and implementation of strategic projects.

·         Interacted with system users by interviewing them, preparing questionnaires and consolidating feedback.

·         Supported the project management team by creating detailed project plans which included assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.

·         Supported project governance and provided regular project communications to the project manager and business areas.

 

 

Developer, NetSmartz LLC. at Global Crossing                                                                                          November 2003 – June 2004

·         Gathered requirements and created reports.

·         Analyzed table structures and data from the system.

·         Front-End JSP developer to show dynamic contents.

 

Developer, Saama Inc.

November 2000 – January 2002

·         Designed the application using an iterative RUP process.

·         Interviewed various HR users of the domain.

·         Analyzed risk

·         Wrote use cases and activity diagrams.

·         Presented the components to the HR team.