Amitkumar AK Mahulikar
South Croydon,SRY
Summary
I have 18 years’ experience of working in programme/portfolio management within the financial services industry. During this time, I have developed a comprehensive skill set, demonstrating an innovative and solution-focused approach with strong analytical and stakeholder management skills. Play key role for an organisation as strategist and advisor for right growth.
I’m a committed leader and have valuable experience to thrive in any environments whereby self-motivation and a positive response to pressure under challenging situation. I’ve led numerous complex programme transformation and implementation and consistently delivered effective results. I have managed large global teams, multimillion budget in complex multivendor environment, with effective communication and influential skills.
- Strategic Planner & Visionary with a flair for adopting modern project execution methodologies in compliance with pre-defined standards.
- Diligent in providing technology vision and publishing technology business plans in support of corporate objectives to grow revenue base and improve margins.
- Excellence in Conceptualizing the business vision and translating them into business goals; established practices in order to deliver innovative solutions to complex business problems.
- An excellent communicator with a honed relationship, leadership, planning, coordination and analytical skills with the capability to view the larger picture, taking business-critical decisions from the front to attain business/operational excellence/improvement.
- Worked on Full Life Cycle and managed the release process for multiple releases.
- Practiced in Portfolio/Program Management including initial planning and scoping, scheduling, Implementing and deliver programs within time/Quality.
- Recognized as a builder and leader of high-performance teams by engendering a culture of trust and collaboration and valuing ongoing training and development to build skills and professionalism.
- Exemplary interpersonal, leadership, communication, and presentation skills.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Digital Programme Manager
IPA, Chubb
02.2021 - Current
- Internal process automation programme initiated in the beginning of 2020 to digitalise the under writing and client service processes
- I am responsible for managing 2 complex prgrammes
- P10 – Operational process automation across the insurance policy life cycle for all business lines in UK&I & Europe
- Digitalisation entire excel based Unique Risk Evaluation for 52 products within UK&I and Chubb Europe to gain operation cost efficiency and delivery platform using Mendix platform to onboard new SME products with minimal cost
- Ingestion – Delivery of managed package for data extraction and enrichment and Ingestion of data across the insurance policy life cycle
- I am responsible for to implemention the SAFe framework and deliver the new platform for global data ingestion using 3rd party product across UK&I and Chubb Europe the products targeted for SME and Mid-market
- As a RTE, I have responsibility to manage 5 workstreams with multiple scrum teams, governance, RAID management, change management, target operating model, BAU support model, CICD implementation using DevOps.
Digital Programme Manager
BB Lending Transformation
08.2019 - 01.2021
- Implementation of nCino managed package (On salesforce platform) for business banking lending within complex environment
- Capgemini was responsibility to deliver as SI partner under fixed price contract
- I was responsible for delivery of nCino, Salesforce and Integration streams
- Running entires programme under SAFe environment as RTE
- Executed PI planning sessions and scrum of scrum for design, build and test streams
- Accoutable for entire budget, managing programme dependencies, design forum, RAID forum and overseaing delivery across other streams ( incl
- Test, environment and release)
IT Project Manager
EQINITI
09.2018 - 06.2019
- Wolf programme was mobilsed in the summer of 2017 to deliver the transition of Wells Fargo Shareowner services from Wells Fargo (WF) to Equiniti
- I am responsible to ensure the EQ business (EQ) is ready to operate using previously well-found processes in WF environment and ensuring that they are functioning as expected in the new Equiniti environment by defining the data migration/implementation strategy and business readiness across 9 work streams(includes user migration, client facing websites and 60 systems)
Digital Project Manager
EU ECOM, Michael Kors
08.2018 - 09.2018
- Responsible for ECOM & Digital platform for delivering Loyalty global program and clienteling project
- Key responsibilities included ensuring project meets key milestones through effective planning, stakeholder engagement and effective management of risk and issues
- Responsible for all elements of project governance, reporting and budgetary control.
Digital Project Manager
Lloyds Banking Group
11.2017 - 08.2018
- In April 2016 EU adopted General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- The new regulation overhaul and seeks to hamonise data protection law across the European Union; It imposes legal obligations on EU and Non-EU companies processing information about EU based individuals and creates a stricter regulatory regime
- Responsible for release management of GDPR capabilities - data retention and security, consent, DPN, PRIA, 3rd party and DSAR capabilities for commercial banking and GTB, includes the variety of systems from payments, digital, customer on-boarding and data warehouse systems
- Key responsibilities included ensuring implementation governance, clash management, incident management through effective planning, stakeholder engagement and effective management of risk and issues
- Responsible for all elements of project governance, reporting and budgetary control, whilst ensuring that projects is delivered on time and within budget for some GDPR capabilities.
Sr. Project Manager
Payments Monitoring, RBS
09.2016 - 11.2017
- The Payments Transformation Programme is a strategic initiative of the bank to address the declining performance, increasing costs and deteriorating ability of the systems to meet the current and future needs of our clients and the Industry requirements, standards and guidelines through delivery of a modern, flexible and resilient payments infrastructure
- The objective of the project is to deliver payments transaction monitoring and alerting capability for Payments Operations, SysOps (TAC), Payments Executive and Applications Management
- This will provide early visibility of bottlenecks before they develop into potential issues and start impacting customer experience
- The implementation required the configuration of ADI (Axway Decision Insight) which is an Axway product
- Key responsibilities included ensuring project meets key milestones through effective planning, stakeholder engagement and effective management of risk and issues
- Responsible for all elements of project governance, reporting and budgetary control, whilst ensuring that projects is delivered on time and within budget
- In addition to this I am responsible for managing overall implementation of sub-streams like payment MI, liquidity reporting, payment consolidated data store and realtime data monitoring within data and monitoring stream.
Implementation Manager
RBS
05.2016 - 12.2016
- Data and Monitoring, Payments Transformation, Payments Data and Monitoring Programme is tasked with delivering transaction monitoring capability and various operational, MI and archive data stores for the Payments Transformation Programme
- The objective of the project is to deliver liquidity reporting to replace legacy system for treasurty using business intellingence tool SAS, EDW, Hadoop and EDH and near realtime reporting for payment operations
- It provides the analytical capability of treasury , payment operations teams to meet their day to day reporting needs and regulatory requirements
- I was responsible for driving the requirements gathering, translating requirements for sprint planning, development of dashboard, data quality recview and arranging demo with stakeholders for release rollouts
- I was also responsible for ensuring project meets key milestones through effective planning, stakeholder engagement and effective management of risk and issues
- Responsible for data all elements of project governance, reporting and budgetary control, whilst ensuring that projects is delivered on time and within budget
- Also responsible for aligning test environment and test strategy inline with implementation strategy by defining the implementation/back out strategy, dress rehearsal and live proving for the programme.
Implementation Manager
SWIFT, RBS
07.2015 - 05.2016
- The key aim of the programme was to deliver the strategic SWIFT gateway to simplify the banks complex swift gateway architecture by removing duplication of solutions and a decommissioning multitude of physical gateway instances
- The implementation required configuration of AMH (Alliance Messaging Hub) a SWIFT product
- Key responsibilities include; setting up all key implementation governance, implementation strategy, test environments and test strategy for the programme
- Documentation of migration options, detailed benefit realisation criteria and defining the decommissioning of legacy gateway infrastructure
- I had additional responsibility to manage the benefit tracker and maintain overall delivery plan (EVM) and present to board on progress, critical path impact and highlighting impact of business outcomes.
Sr. Project Manager
CPH, Lloyds Bank
09.2013 - 07.2015
- And EBS Scaling/Infrastructure Upgrade, Corporate Payment Hub (CPH) is a core payment application for Lloyds Bank and acts as a payment routing hub from channels to the scheme gateway
- Electronic Banking System is a core payment system developed in tandem and acts as payments referral system for the bank by integrating with core banking systems
- Both projects had a similar scope to upgrade both software and hardware stack to cope with future volumes and provide resilience to the bank’s payment architecture
- I was responsible for the feasibility study to create a business case by engaging with product teams, documenting the business outcomes, outlining the project timelines, and delivering the project
- The projects delivered on time and within budget with meticulous planning and well proved implementation plan with multiple dress rehearsals and delivered in 3 phases with zero post live incidents.
Sr. Project Manager
Enivornments, Lloyds Bank
10.2011 - 07.2015
- The Group Release Environments was one of the biggest initiatives taken by Lloyds to execute, multiple programmes in parallel, stream line the test environment availability and booking, and test data automation to perform comprehensive live scenarios in test environments
- This programme delivered over the period of 3 to 4 years in multiple phases
- First phase started during Verde programme by delivering two E2E test environments for critical applications, which enabled Verde programme to complete major testing, dress rehearsal and live proving in parallel and on time
- I was responsible for liaising with infrastructure teams to define the project delivery plan, define reusable test environment templates, environment delivery, system configuration, test data automation, automated deployment to all GR environments using teamsite, rapid deploy and Tivoli, configuration management and environment maintenance strategy.Overall budget allocated for the programme is 15 Million + and I was responsible for managing 3 Million over 2 years
- The programme enabled the Bank to run multiple programmes in parallel by reducing its test environment contention, test data and deployment automation
- This reduced the test cycle by 30% and significantly reduced the post live defects and incidents.
Sr. Project Manager & IT Platform Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
05.2011 - 07.2015
- As a Platform Lead, I was responsible for core payments systems, billing & charging system, payment channels and FCA compliance systems
- I managed end to end project delivery, application maintenance & support, operations management, demand and supply management, vendor engagement, setting road map for platform systems and strengthening engagement across multiple levels
- I managed a team of 15+ team members on-site and 50+ team members offshore
- Managed teams located at multiple locations throughout India and the UK
- Managed projects under T&M and Fixed Price contracts by tracking day to day activities by working closely with the offshore/3rd party delivery teams
- Managed multiple parallel regulatory, mandatory, discretionary and KSOR projects with wide variety of technology teams, which includes, mainframe, tandem, .net, BizTalk, oracle and Unix teams
- Delivery of digial/infrastructure projects of payment systems like Corporate Payment Hub, Payments online, Strategic online channel and electronic banking system, and other systems like TBMSf billing engine, FCA compliance , Managing 4 Value, Image Mandate System and accouting systems.
Project Manager
Lloyds Bank, TBT
10.2010 - 12.2014
- SOC (Strategic Online Channel) – delivery for strategic online channel and decommissioning of the legacy channels
- As a platform lead for legacy channels , responsible for due-diligence study for reviewing the strategic channel scope and solution design to make sure all key functionalities of current legacy channel functionality are included , defining the dress rehearsal strategy for channel migration and UAT support
- CPH Monitoring – CPH Monitoring tool delivery to support application support and payment operation teams to provide daily MI status on payment processing, notify issues or bottlenecks and provide contingency list during incident
- Responsible for E2E delivery from initiation to implementation, this tool allowed Bank to improve support resiliency and 20% reduction in operation costs
- Commercial Platform Transition – The project aimed at transitioning its Commercial Banking support and maintenance service to offshore in India to save cost of 1.5 million per year
- I was responsible for due diligence, transition plan, resource on-boarding, execution of transition and setting up offshore team within 6 months
- Domain Experience
- Commercial and Corporate Banking
- Payments Services ( SEPA, FPS, CHAPs, SWIFT, target2,ISO 20022)
- Billing and Charging
- Sweeps and Pooling
- Core Banking
- Customer On-boarding
- Data & Analytics
- Lending
- Big data and Hadoop
- Insurance (UnderWriter and Booking)
- Managed Package Implementation
- TBMS-F (Billing and Charging System)
- AMH (Alliance Messaging Hub) SWIFT Gateway product
Sr. Project Manager
Verde Programme Lloyds Bank
10.2011 - 09.2013
- The Verde Program was setup to divest 600 branches from Lloyds Banking Group as per European Union regulations post integration between HBOS & Lloyds TSB
- The approach is to create fully operational separate bank with data security features to segregate data by brands
- The impact was on all Group IT applications, which were configured or logically separated based on the criticality of the application
- Acted as a SPOC for the Commercial Banking Channels Platform by ensuring projects meets key milestones through effective planning, stakeholder engagement and effective management of risk and issues
- I was responsible for all elements of project governance, end to end testing, 24/7 support, defect management, reporting and budgetary control, whilst ensuring that projects were delivered on time and within budget.
Project Manager and Technical Consultant
Lloyds Bank
12.2007 - 09.2011
- I was responsible for variety of projects such as Commercial Transformation Programme, HBOS Integration and Loyalty Programme as a project/technical consultant, contributed to all phases of the project life cycle from requirement gathering to implementation and support.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Sciences
BMS College of Engineering
Bangalore, India 01.2001 - 02.2004
Skills
Vendor ManagementSAFE 46 certified (SAFE 51 trained)P3MPlanViewService Now
Strategy realignment
Staff mentoring
Planning and execution
Cost reduction
Business planning
Business Development
Negotiation
Financial Management
Strategic planning
Training and Development
Excellent Communication
Timeline
Digital Programme Manager
IPA, Chubb
02.2021 - Current
Digital Programme Manager
BB Lending Transformation
08.2019 - 01.2021
IT Project Manager
EQINITI
09.2018 - 06.2019
Digital Project Manager
EU ECOM, Michael Kors
08.2018 - 09.2018
Digital Project Manager
Lloyds Banking Group
11.2017 - 08.2018
Sr. Project Manager
Payments Monitoring, RBS
09.2016 - 11.2017
Implementation Manager
RBS
05.2016 - 12.2016
Implementation Manager
SWIFT, RBS
07.2015 - 05.2016
Sr. Project Manager
CPH, Lloyds Bank
09.2013 - 07.2015
Sr. Project Manager
Enivornments, Lloyds Bank
10.2011 - 07.2015
Sr. Project Manager
Verde Programme Lloyds Bank
10.2011 - 09.2013
Sr. Project Manager & IT Platform Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
05.2011 - 07.2015
Project Manager
Lloyds Bank, TBT
10.2010 - 12.2014
Project Manager and Technical Consultant
Lloyds Bank
12.2007 - 09.2011
Master of Science - Computer Sciences
BMS College of Engineering
01.2001 - 02.2004