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AKNR Chandra Sekhar Manager-Release Management, ANZ Operations and Technology
 
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AKNR Chandra Sekhar
Manager-Release Management, ANZ Operations and Technology
ANZ Operations and Technology
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Bangalore, India
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Professional summary

A very successful and highly motivated professional with 15 years experience in the IT industry (technical and management positions). Supported by excellent communication and leadership skills, my career has developed and matured through working for internationally recognized organistions like Yokogawa and ANZ. Currently part of Global Cards Platform in ANZ, I am responsible for planning, scheduling releases based on business priorities. Subsequently, I am responsible in managing project management team to deliver new implementations and enhancements of VisionPLUS modules across ANZ Bank located in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

AKNR Chandra Sekhar's Experience
Current :

Manager-Release Management, ANZ Operations and Technology

IT Services
India, Bangalore

Working from 2008

Brief summary :

This role is two folded in Cards & Switching CoE of Global Solution Delivery.

Firstly, with inputs of estimates, I prepare a pack containing milestones, budget, allocation of people, project risks and conflicts with other in-flight projects. This will be presented to Portfolio Management and Business for approval.

Secondly, I manage the practice of Release Management. Thus during projects execution, I am accountable for smooth execution of projects through assigned individual project/release managers for each project respectively. I stand as single point of escalation until project implementation and be part of Project Implementation Review. 

Project size varies from small (200 person days) to large (10000 person days)

Previous :

Portfolio Manager (Demand), ANZ Operations and Technology

IT Services
India, Bangalore

Worked from 2005 to 2008

Brief summary :

My work is to interact with business and technology team during the inception of a project. As Demand Manager, my major responsibility is to strike balance between business demands and supply of resources in the technology space by prioritising work in pipeline.

Previous :

Delivery Manager, ANZ Operations and Technology

IT Services
India, Bangalore

Worked from 2004 to 2005

Brief summary :

As Delivery Manager, I implemented applications for Consumer Finance Operations which improves productivity and efficiency of the staff, and in turn improves customer satisfaction and experience. Using IBM HATS as platform for secured and change management control tool for screen scraping, I delivered small to medium projects for Issuing, Acquiring and Merchant businesses. These projects provided good returns in cross sales platform, migration of cards, POS terminal management and launching new card products.

Previous :

Project Lead/Lead Designer, ANZ Operations and Technology

IT Services
India, Bangalore

Worked from 2001 to 2004

Brief summary :

I later moved into Consumer Finance where I played an important role as designer in Switching system for ATM and EFTPOS. I worked closely with business and architects and provided high level design for back-office settlement and control and implemented system balancing software ReconNET.

Previous :

Project Leader/Design Consultant, Yokogawa India

IT Products
India, Bangalore

Worked from 1998 to 2001

Brief summary :

Designed and developed front end module for Process Controll Industry for easy systems integration and monitoring.  This tool is designed and developed as part of development center of Yokogawa in UK.

Previous :

Team Leader -(Technical), ASML

IT Services
India, Bangalore

Worked from 1995 to 1998

Brief summary :

I was into development of Virtual Reality based applications using VC++, COM and VRML. Designed and developed EON Reality software module for VRML specifications.

 
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