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Prebhash Chandra

Singapore

Summary

I have more than 37 years of experience mainly in the Banking and Financial sector. Starting my career with DBS Bank in Singapore in 1986 and in the Banking solution space since 1995. I am an excellent people manager with great communication skills.

Overview

38
38
years of professional experience
1
1

Certified Scrum Master

1
1

Human Centered Design Thinking - LUMA Practitioner Certificate

Work History

Global Head of Delivery

Tagit Mobile
11.2013 - 10.2023
  • Responsible for delivery of digital solutions mainly to the Banking & financial sector in ASEAN, India and Government establishments in Singapore.
  • Managing delivery team of close to 300 resources spread across Chennai, Mumbai, Manila and Singapore, comprised of Project Managers, Business Analyst, Software Engineers, Graphic Designers and Quality Engineers.
  • Restructured delivery team from project silos to global pool. This eradicated duplicate skills in multiple teams and resulted in more efficient use of resources.
  • Introduced processes where project managers had to request resources by skillset for specific duration.

Head of Professional Services

Sungard
01.2009 - 10.2013
  • Responsible for implementation of Retail Banking solutions around the world
  • Managed team in excess of 100 delivery resources spread across Bratislava, Manila and Singapore.

Various Positions

Temenos
01.2006 - 01.2009
  • Solutions Sales Manager: Was responsible for presenting solutions to prospects in the Banking & Financial sector, based on their business problems
  • Key Achievement was closure of the Kasikorn Bank opportunity in Thailand
  • Led Liability stream in the gap analysis after project was awarded to Temenos
  • Project Director, Kasikorn Bank: Was appointed as Project Director to steer to project back to a healthy state.

Various

Fiserv (ASPAC) Pte Ltd
01.1995 - 01.2005
  • Banking Consultant: Service Centre
  • Fiserv Orlando: Was part of internal Fiserv team that was set up in Orlando to test Branch Teller solution which was built on Microsoft
  • Banking Consultant Professional Services: Was responsible for providing training and implementation of Branch Teller solution across projects in Aspac
  • Product Manager (Aspac) Alliant Branch Teller: Was responsible for defining road map of Teller platform based on requirements from customers in Aspac region
  • Manager Technical Consulting: Lead technical team within services team reporting to Director of Delivery Services
  • Manager Service Centre (Asia): Responsible for leading team of about 25 service consultants providing production support to customers
  • Manager Pre-sales: Was appointed to manage pre-sales team
  • Throughout my time in Fiserv, I was heavily involved in pre-sales, responding to RFPs, conducting demos and POC.

Finance & Human Resource Executive

Griffin Kinetic
01.1995 - 01.1995
  • Main responsibility was to look into resolving their cash flow problems
  • Established factoring arrangement with DBS factors which allowed them to turn their book debts to cash
  • Was with Griffin only for a 6 month period
  • In addition to Finance, also played Human Resource Manager role

Bank Officer

DBS Bank
01.1986 - 01.1995
  • Was exposed to all aspects of Branch Banking
  • Areas of coverage included: Remittance, Current & Savings, Credit (Overdrafts, Personal Loans, Mortgage Loans), Trade Finance, Forward Contracts, Branch Operations.

Education

Primary School Leaving Certificate -

Tanglin Primary School

GCE 'O' Á' Level -

Raffles Institution

Certificate in Management -

Singapore Institute of Management

Skills

  • People Management

  • Presentation

  • Crisis Management

  • Communication

  • Customer Management

  • Windows

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 03/03/61
  • Nationality: Singaporean

Awards

  • 2 'People Made the Difference' award
  • 1 'Service Excellence' award

References

  • R. Premnath from Griffin Kinetic
  • Timothy Leung from Fiserv (Aspac)

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Human Centered Design Thinking - LUMA Practitioner Certificate

Timeline

Global Head of Delivery

Tagit Mobile
11.2013 - 10.2023

Head of Professional Services

Sungard
01.2009 - 10.2013

Various Positions

Temenos
01.2006 - 01.2009

Various

Fiserv (ASPAC) Pte Ltd
01.1995 - 01.2005

Finance & Human Resource Executive

Griffin Kinetic
01.1995 - 01.1995

Bank Officer

DBS Bank
01.1986 - 01.1995

Primary School Leaving Certificate -

Tanglin Primary School

Certificate in Management -

Singapore Institute of Management

GCE 'O' Á' Level -

Raffles Institution
Prebhash Chandra