Apoorva Srinivasan
Barrie,ON
Summary
Adept Technical Project Manager with a proven track record, leading agile transformations and enhancing project delivery through effective stakeholder management and risk analysis. Skilled in vendor management and budget oversight, I excel in driving projects to successful completion, ensuring quality and efficiency.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Project Manager
Scadea Software Solutions
02.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: Client – Citibank, Mississauga
- Leading Agile Transformation for Citibank Loan System Application from traditional waterfall approaches to product centric Agile approach
- Working closely with the development team and business to adopt agile methodology and ensuring consistency in implementation across development teams
- Experience performing Senior Scrum Master activities, such as daily stand-ups, iteration/sprint planning, conducting retrospectives, administration of team backlogs, collaboration with product owners, and removal of impediments to ensure successful delivery
- Hands-on experience working on JIRA, ServiceNow and Confluence by creating dashboards, tracking defects to closure and ensuring documentation is in place
- Experience in working on projects related to US Policy, Regulatory and handling Technical Vulnerability Assessment for Citibank Loan Originating System
- Performing project budget analysis and resourcing based on annual budget
- Lead project meetings with senior management and maintained detailed meeting minutes and Followed up on action items with identified stakeholders
- Client – Citibank, Mississauga
Project Engineer
Renault Nissan Technology Business Center India
11.2011 - Current
- Reviewing and approval of Control Plan, Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) for both Design & Product, Supplier Validation Plan during development, 8D Analysis, HCPP & TAG
- Conducted Design 2 Cost to meet QCD target for new product in-line with program target & schedule
- Performed Bottom-up costing for all raw materials, design costs, tooling, validation, process, machinery cost and overheads
- New Supplier introduction in view of Total Delivery Cost (TDC) Merit & Monozukuri process
- Performed Audits at Supplier during the launch of new products for assessing quality and ensuring control on processes as per Industrial requirements based on ANPQP (Alliance New Product Quality Procedure) documents
- Providing project updates on Quality, Cost, Development & Performance with Corporate & Program during Project Milestones
- Generating cost reduction & Continuous improvement ideas by means of Globalization, Localization & Process Efficiency
- Performed Engineering Collective Skill Assessment (ECSA) as a part of uplifting organization's global ranking amongst corporate
- Have coordinated with Global Suppliers in Indonesia, Korea, Spain and Turkey for Product Development
- Conducting Benchmarking Activities on Competitor Vehicles
- Preparing RFQ package for New Development based on Specifications and Design Intent
- Preparing Sourcing plan based on Technical and Commercial Ranking and Finalizing Strategy for Sourcing with Corporate Purchasing & Engineering
Project Manager
Duca Financial Services
09.2021 - 02.2023
- Company Overview: Toronto
- Define, plan, orchestrate and deliver assigned projects, including all business, operational and IT Deliverables
- Debit Card Replacement project for replacing 16-bit to 24-bit cards across DUCA
- Actively driven New Projects for the organization in New Product Initiative(NPI) process
- Handling Account Opening Systems & Loan origination systems projects
- Deployed eSignature Application across DUCA, by liaising with outsourced vendor, conducting training sessions and served as a Product Owner
- Managing budget financials which includes CAPEX and OPEX costs from Scoping stage until Go Live of projects
- Directly manage all aspects of Software Development Life cycle and work with business and technology partners to oversee all phases of the project and act as a point of contact for all operations
- Chair regular project meetings to review progress and triage meetings as needed to deal with impediments
- Rigorously manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed time, cost, and quality parameters
- Develop project artifacts including charter, integrated plan, resource plan, contingency plan, and related PM artifacts, while complying with applicable enterprise standards
- Ensure Vendor Management with outsourced vendors and agree with Regulatory and Compliance Requirements
- Toronto
Project Manager
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
02.2016 - 06.2021
- Company Overview: Singapore
- Managing a team of qualified Project Management officers to ensure adequate management of Offshore vendors worldwide
- Lead a transition activity of 200+ resources from vendor location back to internal sourcing for Capital Market Investment Domain, as a part of organization strategy
- Enabled several governance texts and sourcing kit methodology for all outsourced vendors by implementing a common framework for all
- Launched an internal portal with quick access for Vendors and internal CA-CIB staffs with Governance Texts, Operations framework, Methodologies, Templates and Guidelines
- Created & implemented more than 50 controls on Major outsourced providers of the bank such as Genpact, Adecco, Capco, Sopra Steria etc.; and for other smaller engagements, by enabling the banking Information Security guidelines with the help of Info Sec Team, Compliance, Legal, Permanent Control, BCP support functions within the bank
- Implemented controls on Data Leakage Prevention, Physical Security, Asset Controls, Media handling
- Have conducted annual Information Security audits on Vendor sites to report to ECB authorities
- Well versed in writing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for all workflows to cascade to multiple stakeholders for their easy implementation of new processes and other systems
- Performed Data Collection and Risk Analysis for more than 30 outsourced applications from vendors and identified their Risk against standard In-House framework
- Have created reporting for Top Management presentations using Microsoft excel and Power BI
- Implemented the European Banking Authorities (EBA) Regulations and ECB (European Central Banking) regulations amongst all outsourced providers
- Deployed remote access solutions for all offshore vendors during COVID-19 pandemic
- Conducted Kaizen sessions with vendors if there are issues in governance status between Client and Vendor
- Ensuring Offshore Providers meet the ISO 27001 and ISAE 3402 requirements by conducting process audits
- Performing Risk Analysis by using SWOT Techniques and FMEA to uncover possible threats which impacts Business continuity and ensuring proper Mitigation Plan is established
- Singapore
Education
Master of Science - Management
Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Pilani01.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
Anna University
Chennai01.2011
Skills
- Project documentation
- Project Management
- Certified Scrum Master
- Risk Analysis & Mitigation
- Change Management
- Governance & Reporting
- Project Transition
- Agile methodologies
- Stakeholder management
- Budget management
- Vendor management
- Quality assurance
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
Visa Status
Canadian Citizen
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Technical Project Manager
Scadea Software Solutions
02.2023 - Current
Project Manager
Duca Financial Services
09.2021 - 02.2023
Project Manager
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
02.2016 - 06.2021
Project Engineer
Renault Nissan Technology Business Center India
11.2011 - Current
Master of Science - Management
Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
Anna University
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