Atul Padmawar
Project /Program Manager
Summary
An experienced professional - Program Manager with 2 decades of experience leading and delivering various large-scale projects across geography. Skilled in program management, vendor management, stakeholder management, and change management.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
15
15
Certifications
Work History
Director, Program Manager, Lending & Mortgage Hive
Standard Chartered Bank
10.2021 - Current
- Strong financial management capabilities: budget tracking, planning, forecast and variance explanations
- Responsible for overall management of the Lending Hive, including adherence to the Agile framework and NWoW (New Ways of Working) principles
- Responsible for overall management of the Lending Hive book of work, including reporting, financials and change management, RAID management to deliver programme commitments
- Ensure compliance of the various projects under Lending Hive’s programme management processes, governance and standard, and be the point person for any information related to the projects under the programme
- Hive Governance, Tracking and reporting, Backlog management, Cost management & Country support / prioritization
- Tracking and reporting
- Assist the tribe lead in providing regular updates to various governance forums (QPR, MPR, etc.) using Clarity and other data available
- Work with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure there is a regular reporting mechanism for the tribe backlog for onward communication as appropriate
- Ensuring that all submissions to committees are of the right quality and are timely
- Communicate the required reporting and tracking requirements to Product Owners and Scrum Masters in terms of Clarity / Jira updates
- Backlog management
- Provide support to Programme / Project Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and work-stream leads to identify areas of improvement and to ensure that programme / projects follow the Bank’s required processes, policies and governance standards
- Facilitate prioritization discussions with markets and relevant tribe teams to accommodate urgent requests / regulatory projects
- Cost management
- Maintain oversight on the approved budget of the tribe and performance against the budget
- Facilitate any requests for changes in tribe cost or budget transfers with country, regional and Group teams
- Country support / prioritization
- Guide markets on the process of raising new requests, setting up projects in Clarity / Plan View, approval process, etc.
Delivery Manager / Business Planning Manager, Retail Digital Channel
Standard Chartered Bank
06.2016 - 10.2021
- Managed, Raised the SC Buy for Vendor Management for Digital Channel
- Good Knowledge and know how End to End SC Buy works this includes review of Vendor performance from time to time and clearing the payment
- Also includes going through all controls for SC Buy
- Lead many major programs on Channels side from Inception to the closure
- A program like CN-IBPS, Ninja, SC Paykey, NextGen, Data Locker
- All these programs are multiple millions of programs focusing on continuously improving customer experience
- Have managed stakeholder communications, Programme Management, Risk management
- Cross-functional operational management, vendor management and conflict management
- I also managed data requests for QPRs/MPRs and Refinement forums for channels alongside delivering programs as part of Nwow
- Lead Project Ninja which offered digital marketing using real-time analytics and targeted offers
- Adobe Analytics is used for customer behaviour analytics on our sites and adobe target for targeted offers to the customer and A/B testing to improve customer experience continuously
- This was implemented in 9 Africa markets and Hong Kong
- SC mobile uses automatic Jenkins pipeline for build and also Daily build test with Perfacto
- Lead SC Keyboard (Multilingual) program from inception to closure
- The idea behind SC keyboard was to keep banking always accessible to the customer
- We partnered with Paykey and enhanced our mobile app to integrate Balance inquiry and Payment features on the mobile Keyboard
- The customer can do a payment with the SC Keyboard while chatting on their favourite social media platform without launching the mobile app
- We developed a gateway component to bridge the keyboard banking flow to the banking app
- The SC Keyboard was integrated with SC Mobile which was implemented in 9 Africa markets and Hong Kong
- This innovative tool allows consumers and users alike to reap the benefits of the bank’s offered financial services without having to open the banking application on their electronic devices
- Lead Apple Pay In-App Provisioning for Singapore and UAE
- First bank in Singapore & UAE to launch Apple Pay provisioning directly from the bank mobile app, and Singapore is also the first market in the Group to enable this capability
- Extensively worked with Vendor for the development and delivery
- Partnered with Apple for testing and rollout of application
- Lead DataLocker Program from inception to closure
- My team was a pioneer in delivering microservice for Digital channels
- Domain-Driven Design was adopted for developing these services
- UI was built on Angular stack with responsive screens
- The core functionality of this module is to allow customer to make personal data update in a much simplified and secure way
- STP and NSTP flows were implemented depending on business rules
- The application is deployed on JBOSS FUSE
- Extensive knowledge on Jira as workflows were automated to generate automated reports for QPR/MPRs
- Along with that I automated Confluence page using programming to automate resource view at any point in time
- Forms were created to input resource details and based on which automated reports were generated
- Lead project team members to ensure successful completion of deliverables, act as advisor to team regarding projects, tasks, and operations
- Identified opportunities for continuous development and improvement of our team, methods, interactions, project selection and execution
- Analyze the overall product and product development creating cost benefit analyses, and identifying optimal solutions that minimize negative impact and trade-offs
- Extensive knowledge on clarity and forecasting including TPS budgeting
- Well verse with all SCB Internal Process SCBuy, SDF, WFM, RAT, SIA, TDA, CSS, Remedy Changes
- Have been heavily involved in Vendor management both external and internal
- I was mentoring channels team on agile/mixed adoption and making sure that PM/Scrum masters understand the underlying principles of Agile
- Have been Facilitating regular Agile meetings with the team such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospectives
- Creating program road maps, milestone plans, managing project logs and attending regular meetings with relevant stakeholders to provide progress against upcoming projects
- Implementing Agile principles and helping with the adoption within Digital & the wider organization
- Identifying & implementing continuously enhance efficiencies associated with vendor management plus produce fulfilment.
Product Development Manager
Barclays Technology Center
09.2010 - 06.2016
System Analyst
Sungard System Access
10.2006 - 09.2010
Team Leader
Covansys Ltd.
06.2006 - 10.2006
Software Consultant
Ness Global Services
06.2004 - 05.2006
System Analyst
Lion Bridge Technology
09.2003 - 06.2004
Systems Engineer
GTL Limited India
04.2000 - 09.2003
Trainee
HCL Infosystem
01.1999 - 04.2000
Education
Master of Computer Application (MCA) -
Shivaji University
Maharashtra, IndiaB.Sc. - undefined
BAMU University
Maharashtra, IndiaSkills
MS Windows NTWindows 2000LinuxWeblogicJBossTomcatWebSphereMS AccessMy SQLIBM DB2OracleCVSVSSSVNClear CaseEclipseUltraEditNetBeansCore JavaFaceletsHibernetSpringStrutsEJBXMLJSPServletAction ScriptSSLFlex 3JSFAJAXJQueryWILYPure MVCMicroServiceAngularjs/NodejsProduct / Application / Module Design & DevelopmentEnterprise Software Development - Prototyping, Design, Development & ImplementationProgram ManagementVendor ManagementStakeholder ManagementChange ManagementUnit, Integration & System TestingSoftware Quality Management Onsite/Offshore DevelopmentAgile TransformationPassion & CommitmentExcellent CommunicatorHigh Energy LevelTime ManagementTeam PlayerStrong Networking SkillsMulti-taskingLeadershipCollaboratorStrategic Thinker
Project Management
Budget Control
Staff Management
Project Coordination
Financial Reporting
People Management
Verbal and Written Communication
Hiring and Retention
Organizational Development
Creativity and Innovation
Financial Management
Negotiation
Budget Management
Certification
User Experience Design Bootcamp, Vertical Institute, 01/2023
Residential Status
Singapore Citizen
Personal Information
- Citizenship: Singapore Citizen
- Nationality: Singaporean
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Director, Program Manager, Lending & Mortgage Hive
Standard Chartered Bank
10.2021 - Current
Delivery Manager / Business Planning Manager, Retail Digital Channel
Standard Chartered Bank
06.2016 - 10.2021
Product Development Manager
Barclays Technology Center
09.2010 - 06.2016
System Analyst
Sungard System Access
10.2006 - 09.2010
Team Leader
Covansys Ltd.
06.2006 - 10.2006
Software Consultant
Ness Global Services
06.2004 - 05.2006
System Analyst
Lion Bridge Technology
09.2003 - 06.2004
Systems Engineer
GTL Limited India
04.2000 - 09.2003
Trainee
HCL Infosystem
01.1999 - 04.2000
Master of Computer Application (MCA) -
Shivaji University
B.Sc. - undefined
BAMU University