Candidates About

 

Samuel Raj Selvanathan

 

Strategic planning and program management professional with extensive experience leading strategic initiatives, operational efficiencies, and process improvements across industries. Recognized ability to distill and synthesize information into variable business strategies, lead global cross functional teams and manage complex projects. Superior business analysis, process improvement and change management capabilities. Excellent financial markets, vendor management and problem-solving skills

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY                                    

•     7+ years of working experience as Scrum Master

•     Responsible for 5 Scrum teams in BNYM

•     12+ years of Program Management experience with Vendor / Budget / Resources / Risk / Change / Stakeholders / Cost / Time management

•     13+ years of Information Technology experience in Banking and Financial Services companies

•     Participated in PMP / ITIL / Certified Scrum Master Foundation Certification training

•     Working experience in Scrum/Kanban/Agile methodology

•     Working experience in JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, MS VISIO, MS Project, and HP Project Portfolio Management

•     Managed a global team of 50 associates in off-shore and on-site locations

•     Achieved 20% technology cost savings by eliminating inefficiencies

•     Cost savings of $9 Million annually by managing projects within the Bank’ commitments and FEDERAL RESERVE imposed timeline

•     Certified ISO 27001 LEAD AUDITOR, by British Standard Institute

•     Certified MCSA (Microsoft Certified System Administrator) by Microsoft

•     Certified CCNA (Certified Cisco Network Associate) by Cisco

·         Working Experience with IT Asset Management tools (Aspera SmartTrack / ServiceNow / SCCM / SysTrack)

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

BANK OF NEWYORK MELLON, NJ     (June 2005 – Till date)

Scrum Master / Program Manager

 

Description: The Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) is a global financial services company, operates in 35 countries and serves more than 100 markets, provides superior wealth management, investment management, headquartered in New York, BNYM has $28.6 trillion in assets under custody or administration and $1.7 trillion under management

 

Project 1: “SR 14-1: Heightened Supervisory Expectations for Recovery and Resolution Preparedness for Certain Large Bank Holding Companies - Supplemental Guidance on Consolidated Supervision Framework for Large Financial Institutions”

 

Role: Scrum Master

 

This project will provide BNY Mellon with a simple, comprehensive, and pragmatic system to generate accurate and relevant reports for regulators. A tool-based approach improves data reliability and accuracy while lowering cost to maintain and provide a system of record for RRP specific data and related mappings.

Benefits: A reporting solution for mapped critical business lines, critical operations, critical shared services, and legal entities with mapped assets and third parties.

Responsibilities:

 

•     Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner and Development team in their quest to do everything possible to delight customers and ship a release

•     Providing support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.

•     Personifying Agile and Scrum more philosophically, than just a process

•     Removing impediments as well as guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment

•     Conducted daily “SCRUM” calls participated by off-shore as well as on-site team members

•     Created and tracked product backlog using issue tracking tool “JIRA”

•     Cleared backlogs by segregating tasks into few “SPRINT” (or iteration)

•     Worked with both Development as well as IT Service Scrum Team Members

•     Facilitated and participated in regular stand-up meetings

•     Helped the team to maintain burn down chart

•     Set up sprint ceremonies (planning, retrospective, demo) and facilitated when required

•     Ability to forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source.

•     Expert in estimation and planning & know how to create useful, reliable and practical plans for software development projects.

•     A good coach in Agile practices & can coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

•     Helped team / individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them.

•     Ability to shield scrum team from outside distractions and interferences.

•     Ability to ensure the correct use of scrum process.

•     Leading the creation of the BNYM IT strategic business plan to align with corporate goals and achieve $1+Billion in savings by 2020

•     Applied expert budget management skills to achieve 20% reduction in technology expenses through diligent research by identifying significant inefficiencies

Technologies Used: JIRA, Java, HTML, Oracle, MS SQL, GIT, JasperSoft Studio, Gliffy, MS Office, MS Visio, JSON, Rest APIs, Confluence & SharePoint

 

Achievement:

 

Held accountable and responsible from project initiation to project closure to meet SR-14 requirement given by FED & delivered “BNYM CONNECTION PORTAL” systems development solutions, resulted in savings of ~2 Million in Annual vendor program

 

 

Project 2:   On-Boarding IT Service management tool -” Aspera SmartTrack “

 

From the standpoint of managing Risk, Compliance and Governance for IT Assets deployed in Bank of New York Mellon, There was a need for IT Asset management tool which can provide accurate as well as mission critical report. By On-Boarding SmartTrack, achieved compliance and cost avoidance benefits.

 

Responsibilities:

 

•     Ensure the development teams are embracing and practicing core agile principles

•     Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs

•     Uploaded all relevant documents in Confluence

•     Prepared Gliffy diagrams in JIRA & Confluence for improved collaboration and communication

•     Updated company project portfolio system for status, resource capacity planning, and budget preparation

•     Prepared Discovery report and Entitlement report & Generated compliance report for senior management

•     On Boarded top 25 major software manufacturers into IT Service management tool (ITSM)

•     Managed software True up program for MS & yearly renewals for the IBM, HP, Symantec, Adobe, and Oracle

•     Retired more than 70 Sybase databases by migrating them to Oracle / SQL by following all the five phases of PMI project lifecycle

•     Automated Security patch management for ~4000 Apache and iPlanet web servers

•     Led the Vendor software optimization program that resulted in a savings of ~4M in Annual ELA

•     Retired/Migrated more than 75% of EOL systems to Private Cloud (Apache/Tomcat) in last 2 years resulting in reduced extended maintenance cost and risk mitigation

Technologies Used: JIRA, Confluence, Gliffy, Sharepoint, Aspera SmartTrack, HP Asset Manager, AMI AssetTrack, BDNA, Microsoft SCCM, Systrack, Nlyte & Symantec Altiris

 

Project 3: “Information Technology Infrastructure Management”

 

Administration and management of essential operational elements to utilize technology, information, and data effectively, efficiently, and proactively. These elements include the computers, servers, networking, data, storage, physical and virtual facilities as well as software, processes, policies, staffing, training, security, mobile and virtual functionality, and cloud-based services that make up the IT infrastructure. Overall, IT infrastructure management is closely aligned with overall corporate operations, strategies, and goals. 

Role: Project manager

 

Responsibilities:

 

•     Led the strategic planning and project execution of a $50M Infrastructure Architecture and Engineering services group

•     Identified and led initiatives to obtain savings for a $150M global BNYM Technology Services Group and information services division by partnering with business leaders.

•     Managed a project team consisting of Project managers, Business Analysts, DB admins, Developers and Testers for the project duration.

•     Led, coordinated, and facilitated meetings to review project status with core project team members, key-stakeholders, and corporate leadership team members.

•     Prepared project status reports and other presentation materials for senior management.

•     Effectively communicated project status and expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

•     Developed and tracked progress against detailed project plans including schedules, cost estimates, resources plan, communication plans, risk mitigation plans, issues resolution and capacity planning. 

•     Acted proactively to maintain progress and minimize risk and Maintained effective project controls.

•     Operated as a critical liaison between various disciplines within the IT Department and external entities including technology consultants, technology equipment vendors and space planning architects.

•     Created and executed project charter, work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.

•     Maintained open and timely communication with supervisors, managers and working groups involved in the projects.

•     Prepared and submitted cost estimates and recommended subsequent budget changes where necessary.

•     Managed project financials tracking budget to actuals.

•     Defined project scope, goals and deliverables that support business requirements in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.

•     Created detailed project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that organizes and defines project work scope, identifies project tasks, dependencies, resource requirements, costs, critical path activity, risks, and risk mitigation strategies.

•     Managed and maintained Project Plans to track all tasks and deliverables and publish status reports, executive briefings, meeting minutes and other collaboration tools to effectively communicate project activity.

•     Worked with Core project team to assist in the development of test plans for new applications and oversee unit testing and system testing to ensure the delivery of functional, low-error systems and solve critical business problems.

•     Managed development of critical project deliverables throughout the project development lifecycle, from Initiation and Planning & Analysis stages

•     Managed and supported integration testing, UAT, and implementation cutover testing.

•     Managed transfer to Operations & Maintenance Groups and Change Management control processes.

•     Proactively managed changes in project scope, schedule, and budget as per PMO guidelines.

•     Followed & complied with IT PMO framework and implemented quality control and project standards.

•     Proactively performed risk management and defined contingency and mitigation strategies.

•     Provides program level management across multiple projects aligned to multiple business objectives

Technologies Used: Java, Oracle, SQL Script, Java script, GIT, JasperSoft, MS Visio, MS Project, JIRA, SharePoint & Confluence

 

 

FUTURE FOCUS INFOTECH Private ltd, Chennai, India  JUL 2004 – JUN 2005

IT Security Analyst                                                         

                                          

Project:  “Enterprise Server Monitoring & Password Management”

 

Managed a team of 10 information security consultants who are responsible for performing due diligence on server acceptance test (SAT) as well as security verification test (SVT). Team’ responsibilities include vaulting confidential server entitlements in password protected database.

 

Description: Worked as consultant in Scope International Chennai, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank, UK & Processes have migrated from 35 countries and is spread around 23 different processing units. Scope has 3500 employees & Totally 1500 servers are managed by Chennai office

 

 

Achievements: Integration of Risk Management process within Configuration and Change Management processes

 

•     Responsible for Windows Platform Security of the 1500 servers connected to Standard Chartered Banks in US, UK, MESA, Africa & India

•     Reviewer of Server security request & Issuing Sign off Certificate

•     Performed Windows Server Acceptance Test (SAT) & addressing the non-compliances to System administrators who are responsible for the maintenance of IT Infrastructure & System Administration

•     Daily Monitoring & Real Time Monitoring of System Logs

•     Performed Ongoing Compliance verification for servers - Security Verification Test

•     Managed Global Password Management System (GPMS)

Technologies Used: Microsoft windows server, ESM tool, Oracle, VNC, Tight VNC & Dameware

Raffles Software Private Ltd., Bangalore, INDIA          OCT 2003 – JUL 2004

System Administrator                                                      

 

Project: “IT Infrastructure Administration”

 

Managed a team of 5 technical support consultants who are responsible for IT Infrastructure which includes the Service desk operations, Problem Management, Incident Management and Change Management within organization. Team’ responsibilities include deployment of servers as well as desktops/laptops

 

Description: Raffles Software, Bangalore is a IT Solution and Services Company which is a part of the $1.3 Billion trans-national Thakral Group spread over development centers across the world. Bangalore office has more than 650 computers and 50 servers.

 

 

Achievements: Completed Capacity Planning & Effort estimation project

 

•     Responsible for the maintenance of IT Infrastructure office in Bangalore

•     Administering MS Windows 2000 Server, Professional, Windows XP, Windows NT workstation 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 95, etc.

•     Maintaining and troubleshooting of Local Area Network, High End Servers, (DELL, COMPAQ, HP & IBM) Laptops, (DELL, COMPAQ & IBM) Desktop computers, (DELL, COMPAQ, HP), Switches, (3COM), Routers, (CISCO).

•     Providing administration support to end users, like solving problems, Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting application and client packages for the users

•     Updating Antivirus on servers and network client PC's

•     Taking back up and restoring

Technologies Used: MS Windows 2000 Server, Professional, Windows XP, Windows NT workstation 4.0, Windows 98 & Windows95

E-MAIL	Samuelrajs3@gmail.com
Total experience	15+ years in Information Technology
Graduation	·         Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication ·         Kuvempu University (2000)
VISA Status	H1B Visa Holder