SANJAY VIRMANI
Glen Waverly
Summary
Results oriented management professional with over 25 years of experience in the delivery of digital transformation solutions for FS clients in ANZ and APAC region with large SI vendors. Experienced in strategic planning, leading complex application implementations, problem-solving and alignment of solution delivery in achieving business outcomes.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Delivery Lead
Infosys
05.2019 - Current
- In my current role I lead the delivery of large projects for the Digital Experience (DX) practice within Infosys
- Establishing and maintaining strong collaborative working relationships with business stakeholders, product owners, operational leads and program leadership team to deliver successful business outcomes
- Managing delivery roadmap and prioritization processes, facilitating quarterly planning, sprint planning, scrum of scrum, program retrospective and other agile ceremonies
- Ensuring alignment across squads; removing roadblock to drive outcomes, providing transparency and visibility of progress throughout the sprint via governance forums and weekly reporting
- Managing scope, budget, timeline, resources, risks, issues, dependencies and quality of the deliverables
- Coaching delivery teams in lean agile practices and promoting new ways of working to improve customer satisfaction, business value alignment and speed to market
- Managing delivery of complex projects within the DX practice for Infosys
- Interacting with C-Level executives from the client side and also managing relationship with the Client solutions (Sales) partners withing Infosys
- Mentoring the team members on proactive project planning, delivery tracking methods and appropriate project start and stop processes to improve financial management and reporting and deliver projects in optimal times and costs
- Delivered excellent people management outcomes including hiring, retention, P&L management and mentoring to create a high performing team focused on portfolio delivery
- Completed Delivery Process maturity assessments and improved portfolio delivery through new measures to report initiative progress and track costs
- Leading and motivating cross functional project teams in complex and multi-disciplinary work environment from initiation to closure and accountable for the successful and on-time delivery, within scope and within agreed budgets for the assigned projects/programs
- Competent in establishing project documentation, detailed project/program plans for baselining, execution, monitor and track progress with high predictability and accurate forecasting
- Accountable for project budget, project scope, schedules, and quality assurance aspects of the deliverables and single point of contact for all customer and stakeholder engagements
- Adhering to contractual requirements and global business practices delivering projects with-in schedules while maintaining healthy margins
- Responsible for resource management with appropriate availability and allocation requirements for business need and project delivery priorities to secure the project resources from resource management
- Effective handling of technical and commercial aspects by communicating with relevant Managers and stakeholders and end users
Program Manager
National Australian Bank (NAB)
08.2016 - Current
- Company Overview: Program managing (thru Infosys) the infrastructure team for a leading Australian Bank for their NPP platform
- Managing multiple concurrent projects across different technical streams
- Program managing (thru Infosys) the infrastructure team for a leading Australian Bank for their NPP platform
Agile Program Manager
MLC Life Insurance
08.2016 - Current
- Company Overview: Working as the Agile Program Manager(thru Infosys) for implementing Records Management Product
- Spearheading Development project/program activities viz
- Planning, execution, monitoring with preset budget, deadlines and quality standards using Agile Methodology
- Continuously analyzing feedback from business sponsors/product owners and use the same as inputs during sprint planning & regular product backlog grooming to drive the delivery in alignment with organization's strategic vision and program/product road-map
- Managing sprint wise team capacity across the portfolio, in alignment with pipeline of incoming work and managing the budget/funding (Capex & Opex) for feature teams
- Managing Risks across multiple initiatives/value-streams following proper Risk Identification & Mitigation methodologies
- Worked with the Business Platform Owner in managing customer expectations, managing internal/external stakeholders and to implement an effective system of project/program governance
- Manage projects in JIRA; providing software training to team members as needed
- Serving as the Single Point of Contact for all escalation for the client & Leadership teams, Accountable for CSAT scores
- Building relationships with executive stakeholders to gain backing for exploring other IT opportunities
- Working as the Agile Program Manager(thru Infosys) for implementing Records Management Product
Program/Portfolio Manager
Infosys
08.2016 - 08.2017
- Learnt to manage a complex program in a complex domain @ NAB and a startup like environment @ MLC Life
COO
Banyan Tree Info Media LLP
01.2009 - 01.2016
- Company Overview: Creating socially conscious content for our internet properties
- Creating socially conscious content for our internet properties that create engagement on an emotional and empathetic level
- Maximize engagement and social reach through proven proprietary optimization and distribution methods
- Attract an inordinate amount of traffic and page views through the creation and launch of campaigns, emails, or videos that catch people's attention
- Tracking key metrics like Click Through Rate (CTR), Bounce Rate, Average Time on Site, Cost Per Impressions (CPM), Cost Per Click (CPC) & Revenue Per Click (RPC)
- Utilized social media monitoring and engagement software tools to analyze digital engagement across the internet
- Leveraged a range of techniques including paid search, SEO and PPC
- Working closely with ad networks like Google ad-sense, Taboola Infolinks, Kontera to sell inventory and optimize ad revenue
- Created a global FaceBook page with 2.9 million + fan base
- In addition, managed 6 other pages in the 100k fan base range
- All these pages had huge engagement and talking about
- Creating socially conscious content for our internet properties
Senior Manager
Accenture
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Learnt how to survive amongst the very talented and highly competitive people
Program Manager
Hewlett Packard
01.2003 - 01.2009
- Learnt how a great, large, complex organization becomes uncompetitive if things are not designed to operate in an 'integrated' way
Program Manager
Quinnox
01.1998 - 01.2003
- Learnt how a small organization even with the BEST of the resources can't grow due to lack of clear strategy and concern for employees
Sr. Systems Executive/ Sr. Sales Executive
B.B.L
01.1995 - 01.1998
- Learnt how businesses operate and to Sell, Sell and Sell!
Education
Bachelor's - Engineering
Mumbai University
01.1991
Skills
- Digital Transformation
- Business Applications
- API Integration
- Global Delivery Model
- Applications Consulting
- Client Relationship
- Team management
- Vendor Management
- Presales
- Technology Solutions
Thoughtleadershipblogs
- Http://www.indiadigitalreview.com/article/harnessing-powerreviews
- Http://trak.in/tags/business/2013/02/26/2013-online-reviews/
- Http://yourstory.com/2013/02/what-ails-content-writing-in-india/
Residency
Australian Permanent Resident
Awardsandpublications
- Most Valued Professional, Quinnox, 2001
- Best of Digital Award, 2004
Timeline
Delivery Lead
Infosys
05.2019 - Current
Program Manager
National Australian Bank (NAB)
08.2016 - Current
Agile Program Manager
MLC Life Insurance
08.2016 - Current
Program/Portfolio Manager
Infosys
08.2016 - 08.2017
COO
Banyan Tree Info Media LLP
01.2009 - 01.2016
Senior Manager
Accenture
01.2008 - 01.2009
Program Manager
Hewlett Packard
01.2003 - 01.2009
Program Manager
Quinnox
01.1998 - 01.2003
Sr. Systems Executive/ Sr. Sales Executive
B.B.L
01.1995 - 01.1998
Bachelor's - Engineering
Mumbai University
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