Rajesh Saluja

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT RAJESH SALUJA

Experienced IT Release Manager/Senior Project Manager (Prince II Practitioner) with a wide range of cross sector IT experience predominantly within the Financial Services (Experian, First Data Europe, Barclaycard, Bank of America). Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team. Proven leadership skills involving managing, developing, motivating teams (direct reports, matrix resource-onsite/offsite/offshore and vendors). Good analytical/problem solving skills. Vastly experienced in delivering high value, high risk, complex technology Releases within financial services. KEY SKILLS:• Experienced Release/Deployment/Implementation manager. Able to cover organizational, process and technology change.• Able to sell/promote concept of Release management and benefits.Experienced in creating/enhancing release processes.• Understanding of Financial services/Payment systems/Regulations-Credit cards, CHAPS, BACS, Faster Payments, SWIFT, RTGS, NEFT, Dodd-Frank, EMIR• Experienced facilitator, negotiator with skills to influence across organizational levels.• Experienced in delivering concurrent projects from proposal to handover to live support, within a consultative managed services environment, as systems integrator.• Transitioned into management roles from a technical background. Strong technical hands-on background on IBM Mainframe technologies-COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM.• Very strong Risk/Issue management, setup/adherence to governance/process.• Able to manage key senior stakeholder relationships within IT/business. Effective team management in hierarchical/matrix organizations-onshore, offshore, offsite in a multi-cultural and multi-geographic environment. Supplier/Vendor management. • Good interpersonal and communication skills with a driven, assertive, can-do and a focused attitude. Self-starter/motivated and works with limited supervision.