Dynamic, self motivated, highly energetic individual with over 15 years of extensive and diverse international experience in Regional Delivery, Strategic IT management, Solution design and Program/Project management with strong Insurance domain exposure.
Strong cross-functional program management and people management skills –Proven experience on delivering multi-location, multi-million dollar projects involving team sizes of 50-100 persons.Experienced in working with multi location, multi cultural teams on a highly intense working environment.
Excellent blend of technology and management capabilities - Strategic thinking, good analytical and problem solving capability. Persistent, focused on achieving consistent results and orientated towards optimal solutions through inclusive approach towards customers, both internal and external.
Managing and Leading Delivery of programs and projects of Beyontec solutions across Middle East & Africa geographies.
Build positive and productive working relationships with customers for business growth.Serve as primary contact for customer inquiries and concerns.
Building partnership with business teams though effective client/stakeholders managements principles and developed a transparent communication channel to discuss and prioritize business needs and ensure regular communication and updates to the Steering committee members.
Manage a delivery team to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries.Oversee daily activities of delivery team and provide direction and guidance as needed.
Analyze customer orders, set delivery priorities and make schedule adjustments to meet timely delivery goals.Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.
Ensure that team maintains high level of competence and operational excellence.Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.
Negotiate delivery rates with clients for additional requirements.
Take critical and timely decisions to meet customer expectations. Manage and respond to client escalations.
Company Description
Beyontec is one of the leading software companies headquartered in Chennai, India and has presence in USA, Africa and Middle East. Beyontec has been offering comprehensive enterprise solutions to companies & addresses all aspects of insurance business including General, Health, Takaful and Life. The company has strong customer base in Middle East, North America, Asia Pacific and Africa
Plan, manage and execute programs/projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, efficiency, cost savings, competitive advantage and compliance initiatives.
Managing and leading project portfolio management for Finance and Healthcare strategic and operational initiatives across Gulf, KSA and Egypt entities with CFO/COO and the department heads of the respective entities.
Plan, Execute, Monitor and control Software development life cycle processes (SDLC) of multiple concurrent projects on release following the AXA's project management framework and principles and ensuring the projects are delivered with OTOBOSQ (On Time, On Budget, On Scope and On Quality)
Prepare status reports on and project progress, risks, issues, budget and communicate to the same to relevant stakeholders and steering committee periodically.
Leading and delivering VAT program interpreting the GCC -VAT framework in coordination with business teams, auditing/consulting firms and technology partners across UAE, KSA, Oman, Bahrain, and Qatar entities.
Managed Credit Control Program to effectively monitor the contract issued on credit basis and build controls through processes and system automation to ensure the reduction in Overdue ratio.
Managed and delivered successfully the Health care claims automation program by automating the claims adjudication process for DHA and HAAD claims by integrating with a third party solution, Coding and Editing Engine of Dubai/Abu Dhabi (CEED/CEEA) approved by regulators.
Managed and delivered the Health care services coding standardisation project which was a key milestone to monitor the loss ratios by services and arrive at a effective pricing mechanism.
Managedand delivered project to implement solutions for selling DHA -Essential Benefit Plan through an Health Care Management Origination(HMO) agreements which involved re-categorising the healthcare provider networks and automating rules for validation and control with flexibility to have different HMO networks and rates.
Managed the evolution and re-engineering of E-payments process and system automation for settling claims payments through a digital, direct payment channels.
Building partnership with business teams though effective client/stakeholders managements principles and developed a transparent communication channel to discuss and prioritise business needs and ensure regular communication and updates to the relevant stakeholders.
Propose recommendations on processes, evolution to business applications to improve operational efficiency; Identify gaps and propose suitable solutions to address the gaps through a controlled change management process and other corporate quality standards.
Contribute to the Architecture Review Board to upgrade the solutions and technology architecture to sustain as a marked leader.
Plan, Execute, Monitor and control Software development life cycle processes (SDLC) of multiple concurrent projects following the Wipro's project management framework and principles for BI/DW implementations and ensuring the fixed price projects are delivered within the accepted budget and schedule to attain the projected gain.
Monitor and manage the over all activities of the project; Manage and monitor resource allocations and task allocation of team.
Prepare status reports on and project progress, risks, issues, budget and communicate to the same to relevant stakeholders and steering committee periodically.
Prepare Project Data Metrics Reports and maintain the documents as per the Wipro quality standards. Manage project portfolios using the portfolio management tools.
Contribute to requirements and design workshops and ensure that the business needs are documented properly and the solutions design follows standards and support scalebility.
Managed implementations of several Business intelligence and Datawarehouse implementations across GCC and India Geographies. Some of the Key Implementation are mentioned below:
Fincon - First Gulf Bank - Abudhabi: Financial and consolidated reporting solution on Oracle BI stack integrating data from 11 different sources including the core banking system T24 and Oracle Financials and delivered 200 financial reports.
MIS Phase II - AXA Insurance - Dubai: Revamping the current architecture of MIS application on Microsoft BI stack and delivered 200 KPI , 8 analytical cubes and 50 reports deployed on sharepoint portal.
MPR Automation -Al Rajhi Bank - KSA: Monthly reporting process (MPR) was automated using OBIEE and OWB which are generated for CFO integrating the data from desperate sources and OFSAA.
Performance Management - Oman Oil Company - Oman: Delivered dashboards on Microsoft BI stack for assets owned by Oman Oil company to monitor assets performance, market performance and financial performance. Reports provided by the investee companies are the only source of data and a data mart was developed to read from these reports and capture relevant data for reporting.
Planning & Budgeting Implementation -Central Bank of Oman - Oman: Built a budgeting and forecasting system with a bottom up approach replacing the traditional process for Top down budgeting done on spread sheets. CBO had Oracle financials and since Oracle has discontinued support for EPB, Hyperion planning was used for the implementation.
Conduct requirement analysis meeting to gather the requirements and document. Review and validate documented requirements with stakeholders.
Design suitable solutions and technologies to meet the business requirements. Prepare High level design document and Low Level design document. Conduct workshop to demonstrate the proposed design to the clients.
Coordinate with the development team to ensure the design principles are adhered during the developments and ensure that the final product meets the quality standards.
Coordinate with business teams during UAT and prepare deployment packages and procedure for implementation.
Support the Pre-Sales teams for responding to the RFP/RFI process with the solutions and technologies that meets the needs of the customer and high level budget estimates.
Lead Business intelligence and Datawarehouse implementations across GCC and India Geographies. Some of the Key Implementations are mentioned below:
BOXI Migration- Canara Bank - Bangalore: 500+ reports and dashboards were migrated from Business Objects version 6,5 to BOXI.
Plannning & Budgeting Solution- Ashok LeyLand - Chennai: Planning and Budgeting solution on Congnos planning tool was implemented to automated the current budgeting process followed on spread sheets.
Service & Warranty Datamart- Ashok Leyland - Chennai: Datamart was designed and populated with Service and Warranty data using Oracle Warehouse Builder dashboards and reports were delivered using Cognos BI.
EMRBI - Emarat General Petroleum- Dubai: Datamarts were developed to populate data from Retails System (PDI) and General Ledger using Oracle Warehouse Builder. Financial reports for their various business were developed and delivered on Cognos 8.