Shashidhar Bandanatham

Western Alliance Bank., A regional bank with national footprint operates under 7 divisions. Western Alliance provides information technology for all divisional use cases in real estate, commercial lending, small business banking, specialist services, media, gaming, healthcare, HOA and many more.

• Run and transform the bank for 75B$ lending & specialty services consisting of 44 business units.
• Maintain good relationships with Division CEOs and make them successful by providing cutting edge technology, advanced user experience, speed to market, production stability and consumer satisfaction.
• Digitalize complex end to end paper-based Notefinance, Business Escrow Services, Credit Risk Transfer Trade, Corporate Trust, Regional banking line of business from scratch.
• Modernize Asset Based Lending, Residential Mortgage Purchase Program, Security Based Lending, Warehouse Lending, BCLC, SBA, Complex commercial lending business units.
• Be an active member of IT Risk committee, Demand Intake, Change management, Technology review board, Architecture standard boards.
• Work with various domestic and international providers to deliver on-prem off-prem inhouse, COTS and SaaS products and services.
• Manage a business segment of 68+ employees, vendors and contractors consisting seasoned delivery managers, lead architects, product owners, UX designers, devops, automation engineers and their reports.
• Produce highly auditable, operationally ready, documented systems.
• Western Alliance Bank., A regional bank with national footprint operates under 7 divisions. Western Alliance provides information technology for all divisional use cases in real estate, commercial lending, small business banking, specialist services, media, gaming, healthcare, HOA and many more.
• Top rated as Distinguished IT Director II for past 2 consecutive years in a 2.6 tenure at WAB.
• Partnered with Deloitte, established AWS cloud and integrated on prem within 4 months.
• Facilitated Galton Fundings company acquisition.
• Established Azure cloud platform for Bank.
• Delivered end-to-end solution and technology for a newly introduced corporate trust program.

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. one of the large north eastern banks, requested assistance for multiple project engagements in business banking and commercial and institutional banking innovation labs.

• Produced highly resilient and flexible solution architectures which fit into existing banks ecosystem for multiple huge revenue generating business ideas.
• Drive each initiative from vision to reality in very short period of time (6 to 9 months).
• Lead business/product discussions to understand functional and non-functional requirements to design a system that fully aligns with business objectives.
• Lead multiple crews of cross-functional and geographically dispersed resources to plan, design, build.
• PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. one of the large north eastern banks, requested assistance for multiple project engagements in business banking and commercial and institutional banking innovation labs.
• Designed & delivered a first of its kind in market end to end digitalized international mergers & acquisitions project to PNC in record time.
• Increased revenue by 400% in just 2 years and lead a portfolio of 140 highly skilled engineers across multiple geographic locations.

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. has setup clearing house for health care transactions between payers and providers.

• Led and managed a team of 30+ (onsite & offshore) highly qualified Engineers to successfully deliver on Integration Architecture.
• Design secured micro services authenticated over PING identity across all sub systems.
• Design and deliver High-Availability architecture for ESB platform.
• Perform a current state architecture and technology stack assessments and provide recommendations for architecture simplification.
• PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. has setup clearing house for health care transactions between payers and providers.
• Reduced costs by converting many vendor based license products to open source java.
• Achieved speed to market by converting many legacy applications to micro services models.

Fireman's Fund provided personal and commercial property and casualty insurance products.

• Started as a graduate hire and worked at IBM for 7 years.
• Design, Build and deploy software solutions in support of Enterprise Client Management (ECM), Enterprise Policy Administration System (EPAS), Enterprise Operational Datastore (EODS) and Underwriter Account Clearance.
• Responsible for researching latest technologies in designing optimal solutions that are re-usable across departments.
• Fireman's Fund provided personal and commercial property and casualty insurance products.
• Won FFIC’s prestigious 2009 VIP award among competitive vendors.
• Played a key role in expanding FFIC business in Middle market in less than 2 years.