Experience

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  Quadance Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

  • Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

  • Chief Executive Officer

    • Aug 2023 - Present
    • Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

    A Boutique Automation Services organization offering complete Software Automation solutions, leveraging the latest technologies including Intelligent Process Automation(IPA & RPA), Chatbots, and other complementing AI/ML technologies.

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  Allianz Technology

  • Germany
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Head of Branch, Allianz Technology India

    • Jan 2022 - Jul 2023

  • Chief Operating Officer

    • Oct 2020 - Jan 2022

    Managing and executing the strategic direction and objectives of the organsation.Managing the People and Change Management function for Allianz Technology and Allianz Services entities in India. Focused on HR Transformation and Change, Leadership and organizational development, HR project management and employee engagement.Experienced in Business Restructuring & Change Management, Talent Development & Engagement, Succession Planning, Performance Management, Compensation & Benefits and Strategic Hiring. Extensive experience driving high impact initiatives in fast-paced, complex, matrixed organizations, balancing strategic intent with operational excellence.

  • Associate Director

    • Nov 2015 - Oct 2020

    Role - Head of Application Development and Maintenance - Allianz UKResponsibilities - Senior management role with the responsibility of all Application Development, Maintenance, Testing and Strategic programme delivery for Allianz UK. Being the Customer facing Manager accountable for all ADM deliveries for the group of projects and programmes. Working in close Liaison with UK CIO, Director- Systems Delivery and Head of ITs and align to the Allianz UK IT Priorities, whilst being a representative for AMOS India ADM and related services.Mining of opportunities for tactical and Strategic projects and creating centre of excellences aligned to the UK IT Strategic roadmap and technology landscape.Responsible for the achievement of the Target Operating Model and requisite Business volumes.Responsible for the Financial performance of the Division (AD&M UK)Responsibility of Employee engagement for the ADM UK Division.

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  ACIS Trivandrum, An Allianz Group Company

  • Group Project Manager

    • Jan 2011 - Nov 2015

    Engagement Manager - Allianz Asia Pacific & Allianz Australia -Responsible for the delivery of Application development , Maintenance and Testing services to customers.Establishing a successful relationship with each customer, driven by the principle of collaboration.Business development opportunities of further developing service offerings to the OEs.Identify new customer contacts and leverage opportunities for collaboration. Percolate the good working relationship across the levels in the customer organisation Group Project Manager - Quality Assurance & Testing -Responsible for the overall quality of deliverables.Accountability of the QA Process definition, improvements and implementation in ACIS.Implementation of processes and industry best practices (CMMi Level 5, ISO 27001) with a focus for creating a process driven organisation. Strategic development of the testing practice at ACIS.Promoting the ACIS testing competence and service offerings to the Wider Allianz Group.

  • Senior Project Manager

    • May 2009 - Dec 2010

    - Responsible the delivery and engagement for multiple portfolios for Allianz UK Retail.- Transitioned the GIOS 3rd Level support from the Vendor to created a dedicated inhouse competency- Delivery and Stakeholder management.- Played the Retail Liaison role to provide a pan-retail overview of the Retail resource, work and skill portfolio at ACIS, to senior management at UK and ACIS.- Process consulting to OEs Like Euler Hermes , Allianz Japan etc.

  • Project Manager

    • Apr 2006 - Oct 2009

    - Seconded to UK for 2 years as SD Project Coordinator for Retail Corporate Partners during critical stages of the retail re-organisation - Program managed the Oracle Futures Programme for 10g database and application migration.- Successfully managed the Tiger Project to setup the Insurance products and new websites to support a major corporate partner business win for Retail direct.

  • Lead Consultant

    • May 2005 - Sep 2006

    - Developed and establised GIOS competency at ACIS.- Build the Retail –Lifestyle products team at ACIS from scratch and transitions complete development and maintenance of their key policy adminstration and Borderaux applications to ACIS.- Ensured on-time, on-cost and on-spec deliverys of projects from offshore.- Delivery and Team Management.- Ensure adherence to the mandated regulatory, compliance and delivery standards.

  • Sr Analyst Programmer

    • Aug 2003 - Apr 2005

    - Design, Development and maintenance of the Oracle based policy adminstration systems in the Retail division of Allianz UK- As a lead, ensure design and coding standards are adhered to and best practices are implemented in the deliverables by the team- Liaise with the business and IT stakeholders on the requirements elicitation, Design walkthroughs , milestone reviews & pre and post implementation activities.- Provide accurate and appropriate reporting to onsite and offshore management.- Support the CMMI plans of the organisation by contributing to process definition, implemention and governance.

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  HCL Technologies- DSL - Deutsche Software Limited

  • Bangalore, India

  • Database Speacialist

    • Feb 2003 - Jul 2003
    • Bangalore, India

    Database Specialist in the Trade Finance Division of DSL Software Bangalore.Responsibilities included design and development of the Database structures, Oracle stored procedures and interfaces with application tier.

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  Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Limited

  • Pune, India

  • Senior Technical Consultant

    • Mar 2002 - Jan 2003
    • Pune, India

    Work as a consultant (GIOS Specialist) with Allianz Bajaj Life Insurance company Pune.Key Responsibilities included -- Close Liasion with Business to refine Business requirements into detailed systems requirement.- Analysis, Design and Devlopment of the Core Policy Administration system using GIOS (Insurance product from CGI)- Document the products implemented- Train and skill the Local development team to maintain the applications developed.

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  Allianz C.P Life Insurance , Thailand

  • Bangkok, Thailand

  • Technical Consultant

    • Apr 2000 - Feb 2002
    • Bangkok, Thailand

    Worked as a consultant (GIOS Specialist) with Allianz C.P Life Insurance company , Bangkok - Thailand.Key Responsibilities included -- Close Liasion with Business to refine Business requirements into detailed systems requirement.- Analysis, Design and Devlopment of the Core Policy Administration system using GIOS (Insurance product from CGI)- Document the products implemented- Train and skill the Local development team to maintain the applications developed.

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  APTECH Computer Education

  • Bangalore

  • Associate Consultant

    • Apr 1998 - Mar 2000
    • Bangalore

    - Corporate Trainer to several IT companies for Oracle 8i/ Dev 2000- Oracle Certified Professional, responsible for conducting advanced oracle courses (OCP developer tracks) to Graduates and corporates- Develop in-house applications for education centre management.

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  CMC Ltd. Authorised Training Centre - Kanpur

  • Trainer

    • Sep 1997 - Mar 1998

    Faculty - Conducted Trainings for C, C++UnixOracleMS applications