AADEN DINAKARANRAO
Phoenix,AZ
Summary
Founder & CEO of StarRoom App and Vice-President Cpay
I am a strong Product leader with an exceptional go-to-market mindset, coupled with a robust technical leadership background, AML, Risk, Compliance, Operation, Product management and Product delivery. I excel in managing projects of any scale and have a proven track record in both intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship.
As an intrapreneur, I own of the Cpay App delivery (Citizens Bank BNPL product), achieving top rankings on both Android and iOS platforms in the BNPL sector.
As an entrepreneur, I founded StarRoom, an innovative platform leveraging AI and machine learning, designed to scale to over 7 billion users worldwide.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President of Delivery
Citizens Bank
01.2021 - Current
- Understand key touchpoints across digitally engaged customer journeys, help define new opportunities and optimize existing opportunities so the organization can truly wow the customers
- Provide clear vision and scope, use cases, workflows, measurement framework and product requirements to support product development for the Agile pod
- Work with key business stakeholders and partners to decompose vision into minimal viable product sets of feature and stories to ensure a harmonized product backlog prioritized on highest value delivered
- Integrate data analytics, product metrics, user experience research, competitive and market analysis, and company goals to drive prioritization of product initiatives
- Validate value through KPIs and features shipped to enhance customer satisfaction
- Use data to make informed decisions and continue to iterate based on data and customer feedback
- Facilitate & drive solutions across the organization; working with legal, risk, operations, UX and technology teams to prioritize, deliver solutions that align with the overall strategy.
Technical Project Manager
American Express
01.2019 - 12.2021
- Serving as the Chief Product Owner of the AML and KYC platforms of American Express. Platforms screen several million customers and perform KYC on daily basis.
- As a leader I oversee a team of 4 product owners and 9 User testers
- As the Chief Product owner of AML system at American Express I Implement Regulatory guidelines and AML compliance policies across EMEA, JAPA, LACC and Americas regions
- As the Acting Director of compliance, I support Senior leadership with Board presentations and compliance statistics
- I support regulatory audits of US Federal and International regulatory bodies by providing AML standard, procedure, process and policies implemented in Amex to meet Local and International regulation
- Document complicated Architectural flows and provide technical requirements to tech partners and implement new regulatory recommendations
- Responsible for overall platform health and accountable for AML platform’s quality
- Produce AML weekly status reports and statistics to the senior leadership
- Money Laundering Risk Assessment expert
- Business Architecture expert
- Industry certified AML expert
- SAFe Agile expert.
Technical Project Manager
American Express
11.2018 - 12.2018
- Supporting Compliance initiatives as project manager for Enhancements to the Central AML Compliance Datastore Entry and Control Environment (CADENCE)
- Managed Anti Money Laundering UAT team with resource allocation, fund management
- Guide team to achieve targets, set goals to team, Train the team on SQL Stored procedures and Mainframe DB2, provide feedback and mentor team to success
- Maintained detailed project plan, Forecast the team, manage billing, and allocate projects, finance management and team management.
Compliance Manager
American Express
10.2017 - 08.2018
- Product owner for Central AML Compliance Datastore Entry and Control Environment (CADENCE)
- Act as steward of the Risk assessment Methodology
- Work with other compliance teams to integrate their regulatory needs into the Risk assessment Methodology
- Initiate development of standard operating procedures to ensure Risk Assessments are consistent with, and in compliance with applicable federal and state laws, statutes, and regulations
- Formulate SQL queries and DB2 procedures to create compliance reports.
Project Manager
American Express
10.2016 - 01.2017
- Supported Compliance initiatives as product owner for Enhancements to the Central AML Compliance Datastore Entry and Control Environment (CADENCE)
- Managed Anti Money Laundering UAT team with resource allocation, fund management
- Guided team to achieve targets, set goals to team, Train the team on SQL Stored procedures and Mainframe DB2, provide feedback and mentor team to success
- Maintained detailed project plan, Forecast the team, manage billing, and allocate projects, finance management and team management.
Consultant
American Express
08.2012 - 10.2016
- Codeveloped Compliance management of AML (Anti Money Laundering) system which involves complex risk scoring methodology and review process
- Developing and maintaining a risk assessment framework for products and services, clients and customers, and other issues relating to money laundering
- Keeping and maintaining records of high risk customers with SQL queries, and reporting suspicious activities to authorities
- Operated as Product Owner for global AML risk scoring and review platform, implemented multi-million dollar initiatives
- Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines
- Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results
- Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data
- Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments
- Defined processes and tools best suited to each project
- Used agile methodology, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures
- Co-ordinate with Business and avail System Assurance assistance on UAT, manage team who would assist business team during UAT
- Test Planning, Test strategy formulation, ETL, SQL and database testing, Testing estimation and SA team management.
Lead
Silicon Valley Bank , American express
06.2010 - 07.2011
- Delivering development and test sizing, automation and strategy formulation, execute complex SQL stored procedures jobs using BODI, lead entire account’s ETL and SQL initiatives.
Education
MBA - Finance
NIMT
Greater Noida01.2016
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
SRM University
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India05.2010
Skills
- Product Delivery, Strategy and Management
- Strategize and implement 'Know Your Customer' platform for Large organizations
- Strategize and implement Anti-Money Laundering Strategy
- Compliance Enablement
- Program Developer
- Conducting Market Research
- Business savvy
- Safe Agile Product Owner
- Regulatory Examination support
- SQL support and reporting
- Custom Software Development
- Database Design (RDBMS)
- Systems Engineering
- System Migrations/Integrations
- Enterprise wide Implementations
- IT Project Lifecycle
- Requirements Analysis
- ROI Analysis
- Costing & Budgeting
- Project Scheduling
- Testing/QA/Rollout/Support
- Knowledge Of User Experience Best Practices
- Critical Thinking And Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving
- Android, IOS and Web Developer
- Value-Added Leadership
- Cross-Functional Supervision
- Team Building & Mentoring
- Stake holder Relations & Presentations
- Business & IT Planning
- Vendor Management & Sales
- Leadership And The Ability To Take Initiative
Timeline
Vice President of Delivery
Citizens Bank
01.2021 - Current
Technical Project Manager
American Express
01.2019 - 12.2021
Technical Project Manager
American Express
11.2018 - 12.2018
Compliance Manager
American Express
10.2017 - 08.2018
Project Manager
American Express
10.2016 - 01.2017
Consultant
American Express
08.2012 - 10.2016
Lead
Silicon Valley Bank , American express
06.2010 - 07.2011
MBA - Finance
NIMT
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
SRM University
Aka
Nithin
Personal Information
Title: Vice-President, Product
Aka
Nithin
Personal Information
Title: Vice-President, Delivery