Raghavendra R Sirdeshpande
Summary
Focused Project Manager adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous delivery in large-scale cross-functional projects with over 15 years of experience in Project management, Product development, Business Analysis, and Production support. Experience in delivering banking, cards, lending projects related customer experience, customer journeys for clients across APAC, EMEA and LATAM region. Equipped with a diverse and promising skills pertaining to project management, stakeholder management, risk mitigation, requirement analysis and product management.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Asst. Vice President
OCBC, Bank Ltd
10.2021 - Current
- Planned, designed, and delivered large and medium scale projects impacting multiple stakeholders through entire project lifecycle.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigated risks.
- Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management about project risks and mitigation plans.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.
Asst. Vice President
Citibank, Singapore Ltd
01.2016 - 09.2021
- Collaborate with agile team members to deliver user journeys, product backlog and other artifacts as needed to support technical design, development and delivery
- Lead a team of product owners and business analysts to deliver projects such as Japan commercial cards launch, Korea launch
- Involved in key deliverables such as concept documents, business requirement documents, functional solution documents and test plans
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands
- Investigated and mitigated escalated project risks.
Business analyst
TCS Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
04.2013 - 01.2016
- Delivered documentation for projects encompassing API development, combined credit, fees and interest, GL processing and accounting
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
- Advice businesses on feasibility of the proposals and provide solutions based on best practices followed in the region/globally.
- Work with cross-functional resources to implement next generation solutions such as MongoDB.
- Estimation, forecasting and resource planning and management.
IT Analyst
Optimum Solutions Pte. Ltd
07.2008 - 03.2013
- Worked closely with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects
- Resolved system test and validation problems to provide normal program functioning
- Assisted credit card users and developers in creating software user manuals
- Participated in all phases of system development life cycle, from requirements analysis through system implementation
- Maintained existing applications and designed and delivered new applications
- Worked closely with clients to establish specifications and system designs.
Consultant
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd
04.2006 - 07.2008
- Documented all software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by teams in future projects
- Prepared test plans and test cases based on functional requirement documents for VisionPLUS.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Mining Engineering
National Institute of Technology
Orissa, IndiaSkills
- Technical and Business acumen
- Customer Journey Mapping
- Results Management
- Change Control Processes
- Project Development
- Large scale systems Implementations
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Project Planning
- Analytical and Quantitative skills
- Cards and Lending
- Technical background
Certification
- FRM Level-1
- CBAP
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Marathi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Asst. Vice President
OCBC, Bank Ltd
10.2021 - Current
Asst. Vice President
Citibank, Singapore Ltd
01.2016 - 09.2021
Business analyst
TCS Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
04.2013 - 01.2016
IT Analyst
Optimum Solutions Pte. Ltd
07.2008 - 03.2013
Consultant
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd
04.2006 - 07.2008
Bachelor of Technology - Mining Engineering
National Institute of Technology
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