Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Software
Certification
Tools
Conferences
Timeline
Generic

Gowri Sundararajan, PgMP, PMP, CSM

Certified Program/Project Management Consultant
Toronto,ON

Summary

Accomplished Sr. IT Project Manager with 18 Years of commendable experience in maintaining and expanding cross-functional delivery teams in liaison with executives and technology team. Successfully completed Digital Transformation, Technology modernization, New product launch and Regulatory initiatives for leading Financial Institutions in Canada.

*PgMP - one among 4095 Certified Professionals across the globe as of Nov 2022.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Delivery Mgr/Scrum Master

Scotiabank
03.2023 - 03.2024
  • Successfully completed Capital Markets Regulatory program - UPI reporting for CFTC (US) and EMIR Refit for EU ESMA regulations.
  • Executed with Agile Methodology.
  • Highlighted blockers, status and design decisions with DRB and SteerCo diligently.
  • Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.

IT Project Manager - Specialist

CIBC
03.2022 - 03.2023
  • Executed Regulatory and Digital transformation initiative - eConsent - Digitize statement distribution with budget of $8Mn, affecting 8 Mn clients, saving operational cost of $12Mn annually.
  • Executed a new Investment Platform product (CIPS) with budget of $4Mn, which includes Data conversion and migration, tripling the current client volume and supporting 3rd party digital bank.
  • Actively developed E2E Program/project Roadmap, Detailed project plan, Business case, status reports and shared with stakeholders on time.

Consultant

Teranet, Dye & Durham
09.2019 - 11.2021
  • Worked with Line of Business and Executives, to develop product roll-out Release Plan and Strategy for new Electronic Case Management system.
  • Managed Scrum team, Enforced usage of Kanban, there by reduced the delivery time by 25%, increased team velocity by 20% from previous year.
  • Effectively Leveraged JIRA tool to setup Kanban board to track Sprint progress and their duration and manage retrospective meetings.

Program Mgr/Sr. Scrum Master

Symcor (thru Tata Consultancy Services)
10.2017 - 09.2019
  • Successfully migrated 120+ applications of 4 Major FI's - RBC, TD, Scotia & TD, from Mainframe to Informatica and GMC platform as part of Digital Transformation Initiative.
  • Managed Program with Budget Value of $14 Mn, savings of $5 Mn a year in server and product license cost.
  • Led Scrum of Scrums by managing 6 Scrum teams.



Senior Project Manager

Symcor (thru Tata Consultancy Services)
01.2016 - 09.2017
  • Redesigned the statements for 4 FI's, 3 Insurances firms and 6 Credit Unions as per govt mandated CRM2 regulations for investment banking products.
  • Executed all projects well within the allocated budget and stipulated timelines using a proper blend of both Waterfall and Iterative model.

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master

Interac (thru Tata Consultancy Services)
12.2013 - 12.2015
  • Successfully completed a Digital Transformation program, mandated by Bank of Canada, for Canada's largest email Money Transfer network, which offers integration with all FI's and Credit Unions.
  • Worked closely with all FI's in rolling out new "Auto-deposit" and "Request for Money" features.
  • Adopted Agile - Scrum Methodology and recognized as one of the North America's best scrum practiced projects by Scrum Alliance.

Project Lead, Project Coordinator, Analyst

Cognizant
09.2006 - 12.2013

Education

Bachelors in Engineering -

Anna University
India
Jun 2002 - 06.2006

Skills

    Agile

undefined

Software

Personal, Small Business & Digital - Remote Banking & Shared Services

Personal, Small Business & Digital - Digital & Cards Technologies

Personal, Small Business & Digital - Payments

Wealth Management - Private Wealth Management

Legal & Compliance - Fraud & AML

Certification

PgMP - Program Management Professional

Tools

  • MS Office
  • Clarity
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Service Now
  • SharePoint

Conferences

  • Speaker at Nordic Testing Days 2016, Estonia on topic Automated Acceptance testing by Developers and Automated Functional testing by testers
  • Speaker at Czechtest 2014, Czech Republic on topic Future Agile Testing Approach for Payments.

Timeline

Delivery Mgr/Scrum Master

Scotiabank
03.2023 - 03.2024

IT Project Manager - Specialist

CIBC
03.2022 - 03.2023

Consultant

Teranet, Dye & Durham
09.2019 - 11.2021

Program Mgr/Sr. Scrum Master

Symcor (thru Tata Consultancy Services)
10.2017 - 09.2019

Senior Project Manager

Symcor (thru Tata Consultancy Services)
01.2016 - 09.2017

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master

Interac (thru Tata Consultancy Services)
12.2013 - 12.2015

Project Lead, Project Coordinator, Analyst

Cognizant
09.2006 - 12.2013

Bachelors in Engineering -

Anna University
Jun 2002 - 06.2006

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Gowri Sundararajan, PgMP, PMP, CSMCertified Program/Project Management Consultant