Ajit Gore

Experience

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  AFCONS Infrastructure Limited - A Shapoorji Pallonji Group Company

  Aug 1998 - Sept 2000

  Management Trainee, Executive

  • I was sponsored by AFCONS, a German subsidiary company, to do a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration course (PGDBA) conducted by Indo-German chamber of commerce and affiliated to “BerufsAkademie Karlsruhe, Germany’. • The course is based on dual system of education followed by German education system. Course involved Theoretical training provided by Indo-German training center and practical training in the sponsoring company. • During this period I was employee of AFCONS. I worked as management Trainee for 2 years (till course completion) and later absorbed as Executive in ‘Project Planning’ department. Show less

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  Infosys

  Oct 2000 - Mar 2010

  Client - Ameriprise Financial Inc, USAWork Location – OnSite - Minneapolis, MN, USA• Ameriprise is a leading financial institution offering multiple financial services & Products – Financial Planning, Banking & Cash Management, Investments, Insurance & Annuities, and Lending. • Managed a Data Management Program (Project: Epsilon DI – DM) to build “Data Integration Component to publish Beta (Brokerage Platform) Data, Data Store – ODS & HDS, Migration of 3TB+ Historic data”. This is part of large initiative at Ameriprise of migrating to a new Brokerage Platform and Integration of recently acquired H&R Block’s Financial Advisors business.• Worked as Program Manager leading teams of Data Architects (DA), DBAs and Data Integration (ETL). • Key Challenges Handled: The team comprises of mix of resources from 3 different vendors & employees and to add to this, project has intense pressure on timelines from Program Owners. • Before moving into managing this Program, I managed multiple project simultaneously Development Project for ‘Saleforce.com’ Product’s integration, ‘Business As Usual (BAU)’ for Data Integration CoE, Maintenance, Dev & Support for Decision Intelligence application developed using SAS, Various projects under Finance, Compensation & Fee Engine steams for DI CoE on HRBFA Integration, ‘Data Integration – Publish Layer’ for DI CoE on HRBFA Integration• Apart from usual Project Management responsibilities,  At a bundle (Group) level, I anchored Knowledge Management, TCM, SOW, PS-BAU-Dev team’s relationship improvement initiative, ELF & Action Plan, Scorecard. At Infosys Account level, I worked as Ameriprise Account Onsite anchor for Infosys ‘Systems Integration (SI)’ HBU. • Technologies Involved: ETL – Informatica 8.5.1, SAS; Mainframes – JCLs, Cobol & Utilities; OS – Unix AIX, MVS; DB – Teradata, DB2, Oracle; Scheduler – Control M, Jobtrac. Show less Client – Telenet, BelgiumWork Location – OffShore - Pune, India• Telenet is upcoming Belgium based Telecom company. • Project involved Development, Maintenance & Support for the DWH. • The team of 24 members was reporting into me.• Key Challenges Handled: When I took over the project the team had rapidly grown from 6 members to 24 within 4 months with huge amount of work flowing in. The biggest challenge was to organize the individuals into a team, put processes & structure in place, and reorient the team members to work as a team on bigger size works requests.• I decided to move back to India and work as offshore Project manager with a professional purpose in mind – Get holistic experience of onshore/offshore model from view of a Project Manager. I wanted to get hands on experience of Project Management from offshore perspective which is so much focused on resource management, Quality & Processes. • Technologies Involved are: ETL – DataStage; Reporting – Cognos; OS – Unix; DB – Oracle. Show less Client - American Express Financial Advisors (Now - Ameriprise Financial Inc), USAWork Location – OnSite - Minneapolis, MN, USA• American Express Financial Advisors (AEFA) was spin-off into a new entity – Ameriprise Financial, Inc. This spun off a huge Technology initiative, called Day 700, to separate out from shared Technology dependencies.• As Part of Day 700, Informatica was chosen as the ETL tool for Ameriprise and ‘Data Integration CoE’ was formed. I was key member of the PMO in formation of the CoE Model.• 3 significant Projects started for DI CoE – To setup Brand new infrastructure for Informatica, Migrate existing ETL applications to Informatica and Creation of ‘Enterprise Data Warehouse’.• I was managing the Application migration projects (from Ab Initio to Informatica) and setup of Disaster Recovery environment. I also worked as Data Sourcing Lead for the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Apart from these, I also managed couple of other Development projects.• Key Challenges handled: Implementing the very first application on a brand new infrastructure. Challenges of migration of an old application, with all of its quality issues accumulated over years, from one ETL tool to another ETL tool which was new to the team. • Technologies Involved are: ETL – Informatica 8.1, Ab Initio; Mainframes – JCLs, Cobol & Utilities; OS – Unix AIX, MVS; DB – Teradata; Scheduler – Control M, Jobtrac. Show less Client – American Express Financial Advisors (Now - Ameriprise Financial Inc), USAWork Location – OnSite - Minneapolis, MN, USA• Continued as Tech Lead for ‘Customer Data Migration’ project. But this project was cut short due to funding/budget restrictions.• Then, primarily managed ‘Data Integrity’ project. Data Integrity project involved documenting end-to-end traceability of financially reported metrics by interacting with various business analysts, Technology SMEs and analyzing programs & processes.• Technologies Involved are: Mainframes – JCLs, Cobol , Pacbase & Utilities; OS – MVS; DB – DB2, IMS; Scheduler – Zeke, Jobtrac. Show less Client – American Express Financial Advisors (Now - Ameriprise Financial Inc), USAWork Location – OffShore – Bangalore, India• Worked as Tech Lead for ‘Customer Data Migration’ project. Project involved migration of ‘customer data’ and ‘customer data access functions’ from COLA (Home grown customer data management system) to CRMC (POA Architected system based on CIIS package from IBM). Moved Onsite continuing on the project.• Technologies Involved are: Mainframes – JCLs, Cobol , Pacbase & Utilities; OS – MVS; DB – DB2, IMS; Scheduler – Zeke, Jobtrac. Show less Client – American Express Financial Advisors (Now - Ameriprise Financial Inc), USAWork Location – OnSite - Minneapolis, MN, USA• Worked as Tech Lead in a team called Data Utility, with responsibility for developing, maintaining & supporting components/programs called RPCs (Remote Procedure Calls). • RPCs are Specialized Mainframe Online programs with capability to interact with Middleware (like homegrown DU and IBM’s Websphere MQ series). These are used by distributed/web applications to access data from Mainframes Real Time.• Technologies Involved are: Mainframes – Pacbase, Cobol & Utilities; OS – MVS; DB – DB2, IMS. Show less

  • IT Project Manager

    Nov 2008 - Mar 2010

  • Project Manager

    Nov 2007 - Nov 2008

  • Project Manager

    Jan 2006 - Oct 2007

  • Project Manager

    Oct 2005 - Jan 2006

  • Project Manager, Tech Lead

    Jul 2004 - Oct 2005

  • Tech Lead

    May 2004 - Jul 2004

  • Tech Lead

    Aug 2002 - May 2004

  • Technical Analyst

    Sept 2001 - Aug 2002

  • Software Engineer

    Jan 2001 - Sept 2001

  • Software Engineering Trainee

    Oct 2000 - Dec 2000
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  Wipro

  Mar 2010 - Dec 2019

  Client – Not Applicable Work Location – Offshore - Pune, India• With the view to get into new age digital mindset, took the plunge into Blockchain world.• After hearing so much, doing so many certifications, trainings on digital, I really wanted to experience digital technology, execution & delivery. I am a firm believer that “One cannot be an engineer without getting hands dirty”. I had developed keen interest in Blockchain, especially in R3 CORDA with my BFSI background. • Did blockchain bootcamp, got R3 CORDA certified developer tag and moved into blockchain practice.• I am newbie in the practice. Executed one project for a start-up client for ‘Commercial paper solution’.• I also play role of competency manager with task to define internal certifications, curriculum, trainings. Also have responsibility to build and get the talent into the practice. I have responsibility to get cloud network setup and cost optimization.o Technologies Involved are: CORDA, Hyperledger, Qourum on Blockchain. Execution of project involves various UI and UI services technologies. Show less Client – Mastercard Work Location – Offshore - Pune, India• Mastercard focused on growing its talent pool in India from 2014 with couple acquisitions here in Pune & Vadodara. Formed India Tech Hub and started expansion here. Sensing that Wipro got me onboard to manage relation and grow business originating from India Tech Hub. I was to leverage my strong delivery background, experience in working with Captives and my Pune local presence (since for Wipro it’s a Chennai based account)• I play a dual role. I am Delivery Manager for ESS (Enterprise Security Solutions) portfolio and India account manager to expand business originating from India (Pune). • India account manager role is Business Development Manager role which involves - creating calling plans, identifying areas to focus on, build relationships backed by delivery assurance. • When I started the assignment, we had 0 business originating from India. Now have several projects in execution which includes breaking into 2 completely new business groups / LOBs. For all these projects, I have been from Bid manager at RFP stage to Transition Manager to Project Manager (Initiation phase) to Delivery manager (Sustain stage).• Since the whole India business was starting from Zero, it was close to starting a new venture. Work involved having India Rate card finalization, Pune ODC management, Hiring / staffing pipeline, Supplier vendor onboarding, Affiliate agreements & legalities to be sorted out etc.• Apart from this I have ESS portfolio responsibility as a Delivery Manager. My team is based out of Chennai, Brazil, USA and now slowly moving to Pune. o Technologies Involved are: Multiple Technologies but predominantly Java stack with certain niche tools like IBM DataPower, ODM, OBIEE, C++ etc. Show less Client – Credit Suisse Work Location – Offshore - Pune, India• My assignment was with ‘Regulatory Reporting’ portfolio of Credit Suisse, part of Risk & Finance IT. Positioned as ‘Dev Manager’ in the RFP response for Regulatory Reporting Domain Deal which was awarded to Wipro.• As engagement grew, moved into role of ‘Wipro Delivery Manager’.• Played Pivotal Role to grow the portfolio from about 40 member ‘Staff Augmentation’ team to current strength of 220 professionals working in ‘Managed Capacity’ model.• Regulatory Reporting is a specialized area, from both Domain and Technology perspective. Growth achieved through partnering with customer in building Cadre Model for Niche Skill Reporting Tool ‘Axiom’ (team grew from 0 to 66), Reg BA pool (team grew from 6 to 44), Hadoop skills built through ‘CS Big Data Academy’ implementation.• With Credit Suisse focus on India center, we successfully moved into 90:10. My customer engagement skills coming handy to drive offshore centric Model.• Delivery Manager is broadly measured on Top Line, Bottom Line, CSAT, ESAT parameters and have accountability for it.• To accomplish that I was responsible for - Delivery Transformation – Delivery oversight. Governance meetings at N-2/3/4 layer. Focus on Value ads and move up the engagement maturity. Customer Centricity – CSAT & customer engagement based on backbone of Delivery.  People Development – Talent Management in terms of grooming, upskilling, attracting and retaining talent. Financials & Operations Management – Managing the financial Hygiene with forecast, actuals, and recovery. Rate Realization and Cost of Delivery Management. Growth Focus – Tapping Opportunities for growth through ‘Farming’ and supporting ‘Client Partner’ in Hunting opportunities in the domain area.• Technologies Involved are: Multiple Technologies from ETL, DWH, Calc engine processing to Reporting - Oracle Pl Sql, Axiom, Java, Hadoop, OBIEE, .Net, Perl. Show less Client – Zurich Insurance, UKWork Location – OnSite - Reading, UK• Zurich is one of the world’s leading insurance groups and with a truly global presence. • My assignment was of a ‘Program Manager’ for all Wipro’s MI engagements of Zurich in UK, across General Insurance, Commercial Insurance and Global Corporate business. • It covers variety of projects from Support & Maintenance for small MI Apps to EDW; from developing stand alone reporting application to development on EDW. • As a Program Manager from A&IM for MI engagements across Zurich Insurance in UK, I am responsible for - Execution plan for new projects/initiatives in the portfolio Proposal reviews from Delivery aspect before taken to customer Formulating the team with right skill composition for new projects Delivery & execution governance for ongoing projects Resource management for Wipro resources in the portfolio Primary Project Manager role for some specific project (SME MI) Working with customer on forward looking work either directly or thru the team as needed Customer engagement Risk management both internal and customer impacting• Technologies Involved are: ETL – Informatica 9.1; DB – DB2; Reporting: BO XI R3; Scheduler – TWS. Show less Client – Capital One Auto Finance, USAWork Location – OnSite - Plano, TX, USA• I managed the Datawarehouse portfolio as Portfolio Manager from Wipro. • Portfolio comprises of various projects and systems maintained by the Datawarehouse team to cater to business user needs of Business Analytics and Operation data usage.• Following are some of the projects and their objectives within the Data Warehouse portfolio -  Migration & Remodeling Project: Objective is to align with enterprise architecture by migrating to Teradata.  Legacy Decommission: The objective of this work stream to reduce the number of databases by decommissioning them to reduce redundancy and improve the maintenance.  DWH BAU: This project work stream handles all kinds of enhancements, long term bug fix and defects for data warehouse application - business as usual process.• As a Portfolio Manager for the DWH portfolio, I was responsible for managing all engagements that are part of the portfolio including development of the DWH platform, run the engine and intent delivery projects. Execution plan for new projects/initiatives in the Data Warehouse portfolio Formulating the team with right skill composition for new projects Delivery & execution governance for ongoing projects Metrics reporting & SLA adherence Resource management for Wipro resources in the portfolio Resource tracking, Contract management, Invoicing, budgeting & forecasting SPOC for the portfolio Planning, managing, monitoring of Wipro scope of work Engagement with internal customers of the DWH environment for including upstream and enterprise. Working with customer on forward looking work either directly or thru the team as needed Customer engagement Risk management both internal and customer impacting• Technologies Involved are: ETL – AbInitio - 1.14.27 GDE and 2.13 Co>Ops system; OS – Linux; DB – Teradata V2-12, SQL 2000 & 2005; Scheduler – Control M. 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  • Technical Manager

    Feb 2019 - Dec 2019

  • Delivery Manager, India Account Manager

    Dec 2016 - Jan 2019

  • Delivery Manager, Sr. Project Manager

    May 2013 - Nov 2016

  • Program Manager

    Jul 2011 - Apr 2013

  • Portfolio Manager

    Mar 2010 - Jun 2011
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  Cognizant

  Dec 2019 - now

  Engagement Deliver Lead (Director)

  Engagement Delivery Lead with AI & Analytics practice at Cognizant.In the role I own the Engagement and Delivery from Practice perspective. Continuing with domain of Credit Risk program as Primary responsibility for a Dutch Global Bank.

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  Cognizant

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  Engagement Deliver Lead (Director)