Balasaheb Kolambikar

About Balasaheb Kolambikar

Seasoned software professional with vast experience of managing large, complex programs involving multiple technology platforms for customers from banking and finance sector to have competitive edge in serving their customers. Leader in Software Product Industry primarily in Insurance and Banking domains with substantial expertise in Product Strategy, Program Management, Customer Engagement, Team Management, Quality Delivery Project P&L Possesses excellent program management skills and aligns objectives of each project with customer\'s business goals to provide seamlessly integrated solution to fulfill client\'s business needs.

Experience

1. Delivery Program Manager

   Mphasis

   Oct 2007 — Present · Pune, IN

   Managed large development, product implementation, production support and testing engagements for fortune 500 customers from insurance and banking.• Planned strategically to fulfill implicit and explicit business requirements of the clients from banking and finance industry by offering scalable, innovative, maintainable, and cost-effective software solution.• Excellent people management skills with expertise in team management, mentoring, coaching, and managing remote teams from different geographies. • Instrumental in transitioning work from US and France locations of Wyde to offshore locations Pune and Bangalore. • Implemented end to end administrative platform covering life and health insurance products such as Life, Disability, Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity.o Policy administration, Billing, Compensation, Claims, Data Migration from legacy platform o Product stabilization & New feature development o Implemented agile methodology and reduced deployment cycle duration.• Implemented third party products to provide centralized client on boarding solution integrated with document management system to meet regulatory compliance requirements of US, UK and Canada for a large Bank in Canada.• Managed 200 % growth in a year for a leading US Bank as more applications/products were added to the scope for testing and development. I was responsible for transitioning to steady state.• Established effective knowledge management processes and ITIL process framework for a paper manufacturer in US resulting in improved incident/problem resolution time and quality.• Developed upgrade testing validation process to ensure smooth upgrade to latest version from client version.• Facilitated technical, business discussions with client and respective project teams to ensure that unresolved issues (escalations) were addressed and concurrence was obtained from stakeholders.