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Rinki Das
Plymouth,USA
Summary
18+ year track record of IT management specialization with a total of 20 years IT experience. Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams comprising of technology, business and PMO team members. Experience in managing outsourced and offshored projects. Experience in handling multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects. Strong domain experience in Financial Service areas of Annuities, Mutual Funds, Brokerage, Certificates, Advisor Compensation, Corporate Banking and Credit Cards and some experience in death care services and human resource management domain. Proven ability to manage architecturally complex, cross-platform projects. Experienced with maintenance, new development and re-engineering projects. Experienced in various SDLC methodologies. Specific exposure to Agile, Method/1 (earlier version of Accenture Methodology), AQMS. Adept in handling enterprise-wide implementations across teams following waterfall and Agile methodologies. Experienced in management of projects involving diverse technologies (Mainframe, UNIX, J2EE, React JS, Middleware, AWS, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Power BI, Admin Server, SharePoint, PeopleSoft, Hogan and Midas Plus banking systems) Experience handling diverse enterprise project portfolio management tools (Microsoft Project Online, Project Central, Clarity, PlanView, Stamp, Epic, JIRA, SharePoint and Microsoft Project) Excellent technology exposure to Mainframes (COBOL, CICS, JCL and Pacbase)
Experienced with managing large-scale programs and leading cross-functional teams. Utilizes strategic planning to streamline processes and achieve objectives. Track record of effective stakeholder communication and problem-solving.
Creative Senior Program Manager with exceptional background in [Type] industry. Proven success building and motivating program teams to meet project goals. Demonstrated leadership in systems implementation, program execution and process improvement engagements.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Program Manager
Atos/Eviden
01.2022 - Current
- Multiple projects/programs in distributor management /advisor compensation space, of which the major ones are listed below
- Compensation Modernization Program: Major enhancements to compensation calculation processes in Advisor Franchisee Group channel/Enterprise-wide data field expansion project to improve precision of Advisors compensation sharing arrangement impacting core DMU team and 20+ cross-commits with a budget of 1.5 million USD
- Ameriprise Comerica/Ameriprise Kinecta Integration Program: Handled multiple major projects that were part of enterprise-wide initiative to enable integration/partnership of Comerica Bank and Ameriprise Financial Institution Group channel
- Also prepared a roadmap and developed reusable programs/processes for subsequent acquisitions
- DMU Database replication in AWS Cloud: A proof of concept to set up a read-only copy of DMU (Distributor Management Utility) on prem SQL server databases in AWS cloud and create a future migration plan for the application to cloud
- Fumigo version upgrade and supporting work for DMU in migration of services to AWS cloud
- Container migration of DMU proxies from Mesosphere to Rancher
- Field Administration Platform Uplift: Closure of multiple Black Duck security issues for DMU technologies
Project Manager
Ameriprise Financial
01.2015 - 12.2019
- Multiple projects with Insurance and Annuities Technologies, of which the major ones are listed below
- RAVA 5 Choice: Launch of a new Variable Annuities Product, impacting core Admin Server Team and 20+ cross-commits with a budget of 1 million USD in 7 months
- Structured Annuities: Launch of a new Variable Annuities Product, impacting core Admin Server Team and 20+ cross-commits with a budget of 5 million USD
- Miscellaneous System Upgrades: Oracle Admin Server Platform Upgrade, Exstream Dialogue Upgrade
- Federal Tax Withholding Reconciliation- Compliance driven project aiming to address audit gaps related to Federal Tax withholding reconciliation across multiple Ameriprise product platforms (Brokerage, Insurance, Annuities and Certificates) working with an external vendor (SOVOS)
- Fixed Indexed Annuities – This assignment involved building a new product platform
- (Admin Server for Fixed Indexed Products)
- I managed deliverables, schedules, financials for 20+ application teams and a budget of 2.5 million USD across diverse technologies (Oracle Admin Server, Mainframes, ETL, Crystal reports, WebSphere applications)
- I was responsible for a major portion of analysis, design, build, system testing
- Performance/parallel testing and implementation
- Admin Server Platform upgrade implementation- Managed the implementation for a 2-year long platform upgrade project with 5 workstreams having complex interdependencies
- Department of Labor Compliance for Insurance & Annuities: Led the analysis phase for time-critical work of assessing all changes impacting insurance and annuities across 8 product platforms
Project Manager
Wells Fargo
11.2010 - 06.2012
- Multi-Currency Billing Project: As part of this project, I co-managed a major portion of integration of billing systems between Wells Fargo and Wachovia London as well as system changes within Wells Fargo to support billing process in multiple currencies
- Detailed responsibilities included end to end management of the project from business requirements, architectural solution development, design, build, test and implementation and subsequent transition to production support teams
- CMR Maintenance: As part of this assignment, I managed maintenance and enhancement releases for Wells Fargo Corporate Banking customer profile maintenance application system (CMR)
- Detailed responsibilities included coordinating business requirements and prioritizing production defect fixes, defining scope of quarterly releases, design, build, test and implementation
BSA/Tech Lead/Project Manager
Infosys Technologies
06.2000 - 11.2010
- Company Overview: Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting
- Multiple projects/programs with distributor management /advisor compensation/Assets Management space, of which the major ones are listed below
- Insurance & Annuities Outside Distribution: As part of this assignment, I managed a major portion of migration of Ameriprise Financials Annuities Inside and Outside distribution management from two separate legacy systems to the point of arrival system and subsequent maintenance of the new platform
- Detailed responsibilities included end to end management of the advisor compensation related development from business requirements, architectural solution development, design, build, test and implementation and subsequent maintenance, support and enhancements
- DMU System Maintenance: DMU or Distribution Mapping Utility in Ameriprise Financials is an application system that maintains advisor profile data and processes advisor compensation
- This has been a new (Point of Arrival) system that replaced legacy mainframe system with some components / sub-systems still operating on mainframes
- My work involved management of work intake including consulting with business partners for prioritization, project planning, work allocation, status tracking and monthly release planning for a 22-member team
- Mutual Funds Transfer Agent Tax: This project involved re-engineering of existing Tax processing flow for the SHARK system that catered to the Ameriprise mutual fund products for migration to TA2000 transfer agent
- Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting
Education
Masters of Science - Applied Geology
Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay
01.2000
Skills
- Scope management
- Problem-solving skills
- Strategic planning
- Project leadership
- Complex Problem-solving
- Change management
- Business forecasting
- Project cost management
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance, 01/01/25, active
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance, 01/01/23, active
- Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI, 01/01/09, expired
- AWS practitioner certification, pursuing
- Credit Cards Overview, Dun & Bradstreet, 01/01/08
- Securities Overview, Dun & Bradstreet, 01/01/06
- Equities, Dun & Bradstreet, 01/01/07
- Consumer Lending Overview, Dun & Bradstreet, 01/01/08
- Pacbase Silver SME certification, Infosys, 01/01/05
- Certified Software Quality Assurance analyst, QAI, expired
Awards
- Most Valuable Player Award, 2007
- American Express Financial Advisors Excellence Award, 2001
Skill Summary
20, 18, collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing outsourced and offshored projects, handling multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects, financial services domain experience, architecturally complex, cross-platform projects, SDLC methodologies including Agile, enterprise-wide implementations, diverse technologies management, project portfolio management tools
Interests
Timeline
Senior Program Manager
Atos/Eviden
01.2022 - Current
Project Manager
Ameriprise Financial
01.2015 - 12.2019
Project Manager
Wells Fargo
11.2010 - 06.2012
BSA/Tech Lead/Project Manager
Infosys Technologies
06.2000 - 11.2010
Masters of Science - Applied Geology
Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay
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