Ram Ramalingam

ram.ramalingam@gmail.com

No.7 White House. 16th Street Nanganallur, Chennai. Ph: +91 9500031428

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

UNIVERSITY Post-graduate degree (PGDCM) Graduate degree (B. Tech) Project Management Professional (PMP) Financial Risk Management (FRM) IIM, CALCUTTA (1999 2001) IIT, MADRAS ( 1994-1998 ) MAJORS IT, FINANCE & MARKETING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PMI INSTITUTE GLOBAL ASSOCIATION OF RISK PROFESSIONALS (GARP) MINORS OPERATIONS & STRATEGY -

Ranked 686 in the Joint Entrance Exam (1994) conducted by IITs

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
In the 10 years of professional experience, 9.5 years in IT Products and Services for Banks and Investment professionals; 10 months in engineering consulting 1. ThoughtWorks Technologies; Chennai, Chicago Duration: Dec 2009 till date Designation: Lead Consultant Description: Lean and Agile software delivery - Iteration management, Business Analysis; Agile consulting

Description

Feb 2011 till date Lead Consultant  Datawise and Measured Progress Measured Progress, is a not-for-profit educational services and software provider. MP has a suite of products and a pool of psychometricians, to develop and deliver curriculum and tests, for K12 education providers (State-level Education bodies). To enter the District and school market they acquired a product (Datawise) which needed to be scaled and integrated into their product suite Job responsibilities  Assess the impact Datawise (district assessment) acquisition to Measured Progress  Plan and prioritise sunsetting of Datawise  Build an enterprise architecture and product roadmap for Measured Progress disrtict solutions  Help create a Program to synchronize the multiple product streams needed to develop the doistrict assessment platform  Elicit requirements for the end-to-end platform from all the stakeholders and Sep 2010 Oct 2010 Lead Consultant  Simon and Schuster, Bookish reading club This Ruby on Rails application, with the latest social interaction features flanking an online e-reader, helped the client go to market and get reach into a new channel and reader tribe in a record 6 weeks

Projects and responsibilities

Description

Projects and responsibilities

Job responsibilities  Manage the project iterations and report on project metrics  Distributed project management with product managers across multiple firms and geography  Manage multiple streams of work and milestones within a fixed budget Feb 2010 Aug 2010 Lead Business analyst  Standard & Poors The project integrated the core intelligence platforms and gave the client seamless control to manage the operations and surveillance of credit rating, which is pivotal to their business. This project spanning business teams in, the US, the UK and India, also helped the client to scale and move its technology to service oriented architecture Job responsibilities  Manage offshore delivery for the project release planning, iteration management  Knowledge management to expedite ramp-up on a complex domain for a new team  Distributed project management with product managers across multiple geography

Description

Projects and responsibilities

2. iNautix Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, New Jersey, London (Fully owned subsidiary of Pershing LLC/BNY-Mellon Corp) Duration: Designation: Work areas: Dec 2003 Dec 2009 Assistant Vice President Program Management Business Intelligence, Retail brokerage, Back-office operations

Responsibility Brief  Business analysis and product road-mapping  Project Management - Initiation, planning, tracking, controlling and closure  Monitoring and reporting project status, schedule and budget variances Description Apr 2008 Sep 2009 Pershing Securities (UK) Setup a data warehousing architecture and a 3-year roadmap for the Business Intelligence solution My responsibilities  Product management Define product scope, vision & roadmap  Setup project team and manage stakeholders Initiation, define governance process  Project management, Business Analysis  Training and user adoption Mar 2007 Jan 2008 BI implementation for the largest Broker dealer network in the world - A turn-key project rescue with a definite deadline, was taken over and delivered on time My responsibilities  Manage RFP, Execute SOW  Project management & off-site Project co-ordination  Business Analysis, Customer communication and training

Projects and responsibilities

Description

Projects and responsibilities

Description

NetExchange Client (Nov 2004 Feb 2007) A slew of retail trading platforms Pershing developed and managed for more than a hundred broker dealers  New brokerage platforms for AXA, National Bank of Kuwait, T.Rowe Price  Client conversions, product maintenance and enhancements  Single-sign-on implementations for Zions, AXA Portfolio Evaluations One source project   Program Management prioritize and run a program for multiple clients Product Management/analysis Maintain product catalog and competitive data, Prepare FSD, co-ordinate it with Usability engineering

Responsibilities

Description

NetExchange Office (Jan 2004 October 2004) Some of the largest mission-critical and regulatory projects for Pershing, including the development of a RTTM interface, building an AMPS (asset movement processing system and catering to the mandates from NSCC (Rule 412)   Business Analysis Prepare FSD and co-ordinate it with Usability engineering Project management maintain project metrics and report to senior management

Responsibility brief

3. Polaris Software Lab Ltd., Chennai (May 2001 Dec 2003) CONSULTANT (BUSINESS ANALYST) 1. 2. 3. Business development: Data warehousing Jan 2003 to Dec 2003 Citibank, Belgium ( 20 Branches ) July 2001 to Dec 2002 Integrated Belgium Branch Rollout Account opening, KYC and servicing modules Citibank, Spain, UK and Portugal ( 120 Seats ) May 2001 to July 2001 Develop an end-to-end Call Center application - service suite and CTI Part of team to start up a new practice match market to skills, prepare collaterals Interact with clients for requirement gathering, gap analyses and determine optimal adaptation to the enterprise software Siebel

Projects

Responsibility brief

 

4. MARICO Industries Ltd. (May-June 2001) SUMMER INTERNSHIP - BRAND PLAN FOR PARACHUTE COOKING OIL, KERALA Functional area Responsibility brief Result     Brand Management Aggregating the coconut oil market characteristics, in Kerala Strategize and implement a Brand plan for the forthcoming 12 months The project spanned beyond marketing to operational aspects

5. Engineers India Limited, New Delhi (Aug 1998 May 1999) EXECUTIVE TRAINEE, PROCESS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Functional area Responsibility Brief    Engineering Consulting Design and plan the building of large-scale petroleum refineries in India Strategize the plan and process to meet demand and efficiency requirements

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
General Sports/Cultural    Qualified member of MENSA India Avid reader have multiple interests in fictional and non-fictional publications Learnt Indian classical music on the Flute; Play the Guitar

 Social activities 

Member of the college Hockey team; Represented college in Chess I take active interest in and have been involved in initiatives for social contribution few organizations during graduation