Kalyanakumar P.

Kalyanakumar P.

IT Delivery Manager, IT Transformation , Insurance

Chennai , India

Experience: 20 Years

Kalyanakumar

Chennai , India

IT Delivery Manager, IT Transformation , Insurance

60000 USD / Year

  • Immediate: Available

20 Years

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About Me

As a senior IT professional with over 19 years of experience in implementing business and IT transformation target operating models using strong IT solutions and domain knowledge in the insurance industry, I would like to work with your company in...

During my career journey, I acquired International (Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Singapore) experience, for over 20 years.

I am a proactive and seasoned Project/Delivery Professional, having an accomplished career record of extensive experience in Execution/Management of large budget & critical/complex Projects for the transformation of business at the enterprise level, driving the Agile Transformation journey, involving Initiation, Estimation, Planning, Scheduling, Execution and Monitoring of project progress till satisfactory Closure. Further, I have extensive experience in Business Process Analysis & Improvement and possess hands-on experience in every phase of SDLC/STLC, with strong leadership, decision making, and planning skills, delivering the project as per customer requirements.

I have developed proficiency in rendering business consultancy in best practices and process implementation for startup companies, working on Insurance Seminars, Roadshow Presentation, System Presentation and Presales. I am a Subject Matter Expert in general insurance & Takaful across all LOBs and all functions (UW, Claims, RI, Agency, Product management, MIS, EIS, billing, payment, Islamic insurance models) and managed functional and non-functional solution review and design. Similarly, I have developed Techno functional expertise in partnering business requirements as per technical specification, designing and standardizing insurance application processes and improvements, further developing simplified solutions and responsible for maintaining and upgrading the insurance application version.

Last associated as IT Delivery Manager – Singapore with AIG APAC Holdings Pte Ltd, Malaysia / Singapore, I managed complex projects and deliveries engaging shared service teams and external development teams, as well as managed policy admin system implementation. Further, proficiently performing data and document migration involving multiple delivery teams including AIG shared service teams and external vendors.

My earlier role as Regional Project Delivery Manager - Malaysia entailed managing data migration and document migration for legacy and new system in coordination with the business and system vendors, IT deliveries for tech modernization including interdependencies with application, Infra and Architect. I managed IT deliveries for tech modernization including interdependencies with application, Infra and Architect and highlighted risks with mitigation and escalation. I also coordinated 15+ vendors and shared services working across various geographical locations to ensure compliance to project SLA and other contractual parameters.

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Portfolio Projects

Description

Platform Migration from IBM to Tomcat as per AIG architectural direction
Managing activities involving infra team, system operation team, integration teams , testing team until live cut over

Managing team to prepare automation testing package , performance testing to ensure that new platform performance is good as per business requirements.

Cut over plan preparation engaging all team based out of different regions and time zone.

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Dashboard to show batch jobs status and recommendation for any job failure and reconciliation between eWay and other downstream systems to ensure data flow is correct that includes financial reconciliation and non financial data. This report was regularly by senior management teams and external team during audit

Managing requirements and build dashboard
Managing dashboard updates as per new requirements
Preparing reports to steer co

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Description

BAU support covering new requirement implementation , Performance improvement, Release management and deployment follow ups and incident management

Preparing new functional requirments
Following deliveries as per business plan
Prepare release calendar
Follow up deployments from SIT, UAT and Production
Managing environment architecture
Lead performance remediation work force until closure
Managing sys operation - patch management, batch performance and follow ups
Ensuring system availability - Engaging infra team , network team and global team in the event of any system failure

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Description

eWay is AIG stratagic consumer insurance solution to facilitate simplified policy issuance, new product launch, integration with eco systems. It covers all consumer products and functions and external integration with payment gateways, channel parter integration using API solution ,

Roles :
Managing IT deliveries from all external vendors and shared service teams
Managing SOW review and effort negotiation
Managing infra delivery
Managing business team engagement and solution review
Managing internal and external audit
Managing scope, planning, deliveries and deployment , testing
Managing SIT , UAT and Performance testing

Data and Document Migration
Managing data migration involving in data mapping , review, decision making from business owners , development, pilot runs, final run and production cut over

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Complete general insurance solution covers product configuration, cloning, Underwriting, Re Insurance, Claims, accounting, reconciliation , collection and payments, agency management, MIS reporting

Later Takaful solution was introduced as separate window using common functionalities .

Solution was implemented across multiple countries

Role:
Pre sales system demonstration
Gathering requirements
Solution design and review
Development distribution and lead
Implementation lead covers SU training, configuration, UAT and live
Production support as per business priority

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Description

Portal serving needs for customer to view his policies , premium due, renewal due, claim status.

SImilarly ageny portal provides features to view agency's list of customers, follow ups quotations, premium dues, commission payment, commission report, product specification for new leads

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Complete solution for insurance documents, letters and registers and MIS report development

Requirement gathering , Desigm, testing, integrate with application and implementation

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Migrating data from legacy to new system involving legacy system study, prepare mapping for old to new systems, decision from business owners and planning pilot runs and actual runs and preparing production cut over and BAU continuity support after migration

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Complete general insurance suite covers all products, functions and data migration.

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