Shrinivas Vaze
Senior Product Owner
Utrecht,UT
Summary
Proactive and achievement-oriented product management professional with 16 years of experience in the banking domain seeking a career opportunity in India. Skilled at deconstructing and planning stories to drive improvements in product design and implementation. Strong relationship-building, organizational, and project management abilities, with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Product Owner
Ing bank N.V.
Amsterdam, North Holland
5 2021 - Current
- Created roadmap and led a cross-functional team to deliver multiple data extraction applications
- Rolled out covenant monitoring process to 20+ branches and subsidiaries to comply with regulatory requirement
- Managed backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
- Implemented Agile methodologies to increase team productivity and enhance overall project outcomes.
Customer Journey Expert
Ing bank N.V.
Amsterdam, North Holland
04.2020 - 05.2021
- Set up 200 people department for centralizing administrative processes
- Led a team to deliver an application for regulatory reporting within 6 months.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
Consultant
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Amsterdam, North Holland
05.2010 - 04.2020
- Led an offshore team to deliver mobile banking authentication solution
- Rolled out financial spreading application across 40 locations for client organization.
Software Developer
Geometric Limited
08.2006 - 05.2008
- Developed and maintained PLM software for a US apparel giant in a team of 30 people
- Improved software efficiency by troubleshooting and resolving coding issues.
Education
PGDM (Finance) - Business Administration And Management
Indian Institure of Management
Kozhikode, IN 08.2008 - 05.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Walchand College of Engineering
Sangli, IN 09.2002 - 04.2006
Skills
Product ownership
Certification
LMA E-Learning Program Understanding the Loan Market - Loan Market Association
Projects
Covenant Monitoring (2021-2022), The bank needed to rollout a central process for monitoring covenants to comply with ECB requirements. An application extracted covenant data from loan agreements using machine learning models. The Lending specialists then monitored these covenants in another application with the help of a dashboard., As Product owner decide priorities for the data extraction application, Co-ordinate with end users worldwide and set priorities for other teams, Create a covenant catalogue to standardize the monitoring process, Align with internal stakeholders for SOx compliance reporting, Commercial lending, data science Data extraction platform (2021-present), The bank wanted to extract data from documents using data science algorithms to digitalize lending processes. The effort required to create and maintain common components reduced the viability of new algorithms. The platform allowed data scientists to reduce the time to market from six to three months., As product owner develop product vision, product roadmap and OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), Interact with stakeholders and validate the riskiest assumptions, Identify opportunities for data extraction across lending processes, Commercial lending, data science Application for regulatory reporting (2020-21), For Anacredit reporting, the bank wanted a tool to allow users to view and remediate data gaps within six months., Gathering functional requirements for the tool with the help of stakeholders, Leading the development team in delivering the application in less than 6 months, Designing process for data remediation, Commercial lending, regulatory reporting Setting up support hub for lending specialists (2017-2020), A leading bank in the Netherlands was looking to set up a support hub for lending specialists. The strategic multi-year project required a detailed assessment of non-financial risks, setting up a legal entity, and ensuring adaption of the support service by all locations., Perform risk assessment with subject matter experts, Design mitigating measures (IT and process changes) for the risks identified, Rollout of the support service across 40 + locations and multiple legal entities, Ensuring service quality for the support, Commercial lending, change management Application rollout (2016-17), A leading bank in the Netherlands was rolling out new functionality in the application for Lending Specialists to streamline the Loan closing process. This rollout required coordination with various locations across the world, educating the users on the functionality, and arranging support., Educate key users about the functionality, Co-ordinate with locations to arrange the training program., Create communication material for pre-rollout and post rollout phase, On-boarding new associates into the roll-out team., Commercial Lending, Change management Process outsourcing (2015-16), A leading bank in the Netherlands was outsourcing its lending operational processes to the central processing hub to optimize costs., Understand As-is process and design a to-be process suitable for outsourcing, Process Documentation in ARIS and in word, Create training plan for the processes which are migrated to Manila, Assist in migration of processes to manila (project co-ordination activities), Lending Operations, Process improvement Designing mobile banking solution (2015), The bank in Switzerland wanted to replace its current paper-based payment solution with a mobile payment solution based on QR codes. The ask was to design a complete solution (mobile app and backend server) that will integrate with the core banking solution and provide near real-time payment capabilities to the customers., Requirement analysis with other vendors who are providing components in the complete solution, Design the mobile app to provide a secure payment solution and superb user experience, Create and review architecture document, Guide the bank in identifying the devices in scope for development and testing, Mobile banking, mobile payments Digital pocket money solution (2014-15), The company was developing an accelerator to help banks create a digital pocket money solution. This includes a front-end mobile app connected to a T24 backend. The app is connected to a gamification engine and can be included as SDK in any mobile banking app., gathering requirements through meeting stakeholders at various banks, Creating Roadmap for the solution., Coordinating with offshore team for integration with T24, Mobile banking, youth banking Mobile authentication/payments solution (2012-14), The company developed a patent-pending mobile authentication/payments solution as a product. This involves maintaining user profiles and providing a secure authentication framework that can be used to authenticate/sign any transaction including a payment transaction. The solution includes a server built in J2EE using spring framework and deployed using JBoss. The server communicates with the mobile device using SOAP based web service protocol., Requirement analysis, Preparing use cases and explaining use cases to Offshore development team, Reviewing test cases, Defining non-functional requirements based on industry standards/ best practices, Project planning, Co-ordination with offshore team for delivery of features, User acceptance testing, Mobile payments, signature creation, mobile authentication Simplification of retail foreign payments (2011-12), The bank offered multiple products in foreign retail payments depending upon the destination country, currency, and amount. This project aimed to improve customer experience by unifying all products into just 2 products., Analyze the impact on the payment initiation system built in Java, Design a solution for the same., Payment initiation, foreign payments Modification of customer output for SEPA compliance (2011), To comply with SEPA regulation, the bank needed to add new information to various customer account statements. This project aimed to format the account number received from various systems and add the formatted output to the account statements., Design the formatting mechanism, Create specifications for the new interface, Agreement management, Charging, Transaction processing Functional decomposition (2010-11), The bank had many complex legacy systems with poor documentation. This led to dependency on SMEs for the applications. Over the years, the complexity of the system had increased manifolds resulting in a situation where a small change in one process can have an impact on multiple processes. This project aimed to reduce the dependency on SMEs by assessing and completing documentation for each system., Discussion with multiple stakeholders (SME, process owner, architects) for each system to gather available documentation, Assess the quality of the documents available, Reverse engineer the system with the help of developers where SME is not available, Create/update the documents to completely describe the functioning of the system., Agreement management, Charging, Transaction processing PLM software for US apparel giant (2006-08), The client wanted to customize existing PLM software to support its apparel business. Shrinivas was part of a 15-member team involved in the customization., customizing the software to define specific lifecycle stages to suit the apparel industry, unit testing and bug fixing, Product life cycle management
Languages
Marathi
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Dutch
Elementary
A2
Interests
Cricket
Chess
Timeline
Customer Journey Expert
Ing bank N.V.
04.2020 - 05.2021
Consultant
Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2010 - 04.2020
PGDM (Finance) - Business Administration And Management
Indian Institure of Management
08.2008 - 05.2010
Software Developer
Geometric Limited
08.2006 - 05.2008
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Walchand College of Engineering
09.2002 - 04.2006
Product Owner
Ing bank N.V.
5 2021 - Current
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