Puneet Sabharwal

Experience

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  Sonata Software Limited

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2003

  Senior Systems Analyst

  - Responsible for developing the customer order management systems, that was used to onboard 1M+ new mobile phone subscribers.- Deployed the system at client’s place, led user acceptance testing, triaged and fixed issues, conduct user training and demo to client executives.- Frequently travelled to client locations to gather requirements, conduct stakeholder interviews, document user needs and manage approvals.

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2006

  Project Lead

  - Technology lead, responsible for designing and building a Transaction Approval System that provides a global transaction approval platform for overdrafts, lines of credit and loans, on WebLogic Portal 8.1- Design and developed the entitlements engine and SSO for Global Credit Risk Management system on Weblogic hosted on Sun Solaris.- Responsible for C / DSAPI programming for SSO Authentication. Customising SameTime Java Applet for the clients’ broker teams.- Lotus Notes developer and technical lead, involved in several small and big Lotus Notes projects. These projects were a combination of both client and web applications, mainly related to banking operations. Show less

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  J.P. Morgan

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  Project Lead
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  LG

  Sept 2006 - Oct 2009

  Project Manager
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  LG CNS India

  Nov 2008 - Oct 2009

  Practice Manager

  - Responsible for account growth, pe-sales, delivery, solution and quality of the work by the India team India for multiple projects, for EU clients.- Represented the LG CNS India team in the global leadership summit at Seoul and presented the teams’ accomplishments.- Setup new ways of working using Agile principles, build capabilities and training curriculum for my team.- Institutionalising organisation wide the usage of tools for continuous build, integration and deploy. Setting up design principles for unit testing java code for the team. Show less

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  Publicis Sapient

  Aug 2009 - now

  Director Program Management

  1. Created and successfully delivered the investment and benefits case, which got ExCo and the nod from Board to deliver transformational work for a tier-2 UK bank. This led to a win of £100M, multi-year core modernisation and business transformation work.2. Sponsor and mentor for women in Financial Services vertical of Publicis Sapient, focusing on addressing cultural and system barriers for advancement of women.3. Was key in winning and delivering the web re-platform, involving strategy definition, brand, creative redesign, content, website build, setup of cloud native platform and rollout to 25 countries for UKs Asset Manager. This multi award winning work is now a featured case study.4. Responsible for people growth of 3 colleagues from managers to senior managers positions in the last 1 year.5. Co-led the deep dive, investigative evaluation phase of a billion-dollar crypto trading platform in the areas of platform operations and risk and provided actionable recommendations.6. Created proposal, presented in pitch that led to winning a strategic account with one of EUs large Asset Managers. I then built and scaled the delivery team from 2 to 70 in 1 year and led the overall delivery charge with clients in USA, Germany and HK. Was responsible for end for end delivery, quality, process, plan and budget. Consistently delivered 6-8% above sold margins over 3 years.7. Enabled a leading and well-known UK based Asset Manager to go-live, by identifying and providing solutions to performance issues with their Sitecore implementation of fund centre, that was currently at 10+s and reduced those within 2-5 sec, by optimizing APIs responses, redundant method calls and fixing design flaws in retrieving fund data.8. Created a ground-breaking marketing offering of curated exclusive events, experiences and opportunities for UK’s largest Wealth manager client. This invite only, targeting the global audience, was built on a suite of applications like Adobe AEM and event adm Show less