Karishma Mehra

Experience

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  Paymark EFTPOS (Electronic Transaction Services Ltd)

  Apr 2004 - Nov 2007

  Project Analyst

  • Research and produce scope documents for new technology in the payment industry such as RFID, contactless payments, Mobile and eCommerce Payments.• Proven ability to successfully manage complex IT projects. This included planning and working on the implementation schedule for environments required to support the project• Manage ETSL work stack on behalf of the Project Steering Committee to reflect directives and input of new work request/projects from Project and Technology Managers.• Administer ETSL’s project control framework. This includes supporting the processes and templates for Project Status reporting, Risk & Issue Management, Planning & Dependency Management, Change Control (scope, cost & time) and Financial tracking.• Logging, monitoring and management of Risk and Issues whilst supporting the Chief Risk Officer in day to day management of risks. This also includes development of key risk policies and frameworks to ensure risk is actively managed with the company.• Technical documentation related to the product/service during the project phase such as roll out /implementation plans, supporting Project Managers from testing to implementation and Post Implementation Review. • Deliver the VPN upgrade project within budget and time successfully. Show less

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  Network International

  Jun 2008 - Mar 2009

  EMV Functional Consultant

  Key Deliverables• Gather and understand client requirements and document the same.• Drafting proposals and negotiation.• Communicate with client and manage expectations.• Efficiently handling all activities involving resource planning, project delivery, team building, personnel management and co-ordination with internal departments. • Co-ordinate and prioritize activities and establish critical points in the design and development of the projects to obtain excellent results.• Client facilitation of new ideas and converting those into requirement documents with the support of business analyst.• Direct and manage project members across organisations and enhance client relationships. Plan and control of own and team’s workflow to ensure all milestones are met.• Analyze client needs, means and the timeframes, to offer the most beneficial solution for the client.• Monitor and report on project status to internal and external stakeholders.• Act as a key point of contact between the client and the project team. Show less

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  NAB

  Feb 2010 - Apr 2012

  • Accountable for ensuring different streams of work are in align with NAB’s Go Live Production process for NextGen Release 2A. Planning and executing control rooms with Go/ No-Go decisions being the first point of contact for all quarterly deployments and hyper care issues. Key Deliverables• Establish and manage project plans according to the Projects in the National Methodology and tools in collaboration with the Program Directors/Project Manager. • Ensuring dependencies between tasks and other projects are properly established and managed within the project plans.• Working as a 2IC for multiple Project Managers simultaneously and providing adhoc project management skills when required.

  • Implementation Project Manager

    Mar 2011 - Apr 2012

  • Senior Project Analyst

    Feb 2010 - Mar 2011
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  National Australia Bank

  Nov 2013 - May 2015

  Project Manager

  NAB, Next Gen Redstar Release - working in highly complex environments delivering multiple streams of work.

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  NAB

  Jul 2016 - Dec 2024

  •Work with multiple asset teams to migrate applications into the cloud in align with NAB’s cloud migration Strategy. •Develop and document NAB’s Application Decommissioning Framework for all on prem applications to exit from the Knox Data Centre. This required working across senior stakeholders within the organisation to ensure compliance and governance activities (PRR) are met in line with Service Delivery/ Service Management/ Infrastructure and Networking, Config Management/ Disaster Management creating a robust operation process. Show less • Ingest Siebel (NAB’s CRM system) into Nab Data Hub to provide the Siebel data into NAB’s Data Lake. To quantify, it had 7500+ attributes, with 180 tables and a history of 20+ years being migrated from Siebel (an oracle-based system) into NAB’s data lake in the cloud. • Managing delivery across multiple streams of work – CDE Data Quality Measurement, Data Issues Remediation, and IT 8 Data Governance Dashboard. This included leading a team of approx 30 resources. • Supported the Head of Data Domain Delivery to transition into agile delivery measuring squad performance/ forward planning / managing un-planed work, backlog and prioritisation. Show less

  • Senior Project Manager

    Nov 2022 - Dec 2024

  • Release Train Engineer

    Nov 2021 - Oct 2022

  • Senior Project Manager

    Apr 2018 - Oct 2021

  • Project Manager

    Jul 2016 - Mar 2018