Experience

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  Techno india group

  Jul 2002 - Aug 2003

  Lecturer - computer science department

  • Appointed as Examiner (Internal & External) for semester examination, conducted by West Bengal University of Technology.• Demonstrated ability to clarify difficult concepts and to inspire students• Received consistently glowing evaluations from students and supervising administrators• Delivered lectures on core competencies like data structure, operating systems, computer networking and automata theory.• Supervised many graduate students in computer laboratory and providing guidance for their final year project.• Assisted examiners in producing a fair examination; Show less

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  Rs software

  Aug 2003 - Jul 2005

  Project lead

  As a team lead, I was responsible for managing the team. My overall responsibilities during my stay in this project were as follows:• Responsible for managing a team who use to work in different applications under VISA mainframe applications.• Responsible for preparing Design Documents from Business Requirement document. Work with Onsite team in translating Business/Functional requirements to Detailed Design documents. • Responsible for planning, estimating the efforts and ensuring delivery to happen within time and budget. • Responsible for effective communication with the customer. Provide regular project status to the customer.• Work as a technical lead and provide technical help to all the team members as and when needed. Take the lead responsibility during all the phases of the project.• Received client appreciations from VISA for excellent contribution to the project. Show less

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  Ibm

  Aug 2005 - Mar 2010

  Delivery manager

  • Leading the Mainframe team from solution building to delivery.• Project Estimation using Work Breakdown Structure.• Project/Service Request Initiation and Planning. Preparation of Action/Project Development Plan. Identification of key milestones. • Requirement gathering/Detailed Requirement Specifications preparation in coordination with business users.• Being a Tech Panelists for Mainframe skills, interviewed many candidates to help the Mainframe competency to expand at Kolkata location.Project Management :- Setting delivery deadlines and make sure that they are being met. Allocation of task based upon resource availability. Resolve any issues/concern of my team members. Ensure proper review is being done for all the deliverables and defect (both peer and post review) are being logged into the defect sheet. Coordinates meetings with the project manager, customer team and project team to discuss importance for adhering to quality process, project impediments, needed resources or issues/delays in completing the task in order to establish a good relationship with the customer. Keeping the project manager and stakeholders informed of task accomplishment, issues and status. Escalating issues which cannot be resolved by the team. Providing guidance to the team based on management direction. Show less

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  Cognizant

  Mar 2010 - now

  ~ Global Competency Head & Solutions Lead, specializing on Life Insurance, Retirement & Group Employee Benefits, across North America, APAC and Europe region.~ Exposure to leading COTS platform in the Group Insurance & Retirement space - FIS OmniPlus suite, Vitech V3locity, Exigen, Majesco, FineOS etc.~ Experience working with leading InsurTech players like Unqork (low code platform), Metamorphosys, Coherent etc. to build Digital Ecosystems for insurers~ Work closely with our client’s CIOs to help transform and manage IT~ Drive CIO advisory business development efforts within the market, leveraging on deep multi-sector business knowledge and experience. Show less ~ Acts as an industry SME/Practice Lead for providing functional consulting services in the areas of larger transformation initiatives involving Life & Pension COTS Products, both in the US & Continental European (CE) Market. ~ Understands business and technical requirements, consult with the customers to design and recommend solution architecture, manage large and complex program with the objective of ensuring complete coverage of client's requirements and product quality WITHIN the client and project specifications.~ Advised multiple CIO’s, IT and Business leaders in Digital transformation, COTS product selection/implementation, Legacy modernization, Portfolio rationalization, Information strategy and cost optimization initiatives.~ Areas of expertise include : Pre-Sales, Product evaluation & Consulting, Solution Definition, Solution Deployment, Product Partner Management, Practice Development, People Management, Delivery Management, Customer Relationship & Management~ Domain expertise in Life & Pension Insurance, Retirements, Annuities etc.. Show less

  • Director - Global Head Solutions Lead (Insurance Domain Office)

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Principal Product Consultant (Associate Director)

    Oct 2017 - Feb 2022

  • Lead Product Consultant (Sr. Manager)

    Mar 2010 - Oct 2017