Sachin Makani

About Sachin Makani

A senior-level Information Technology leader with extensive experience in SAFe Agile Delivery Methodologies, Program Information, Project Management, and Project Engineering. Oversee strategic planning, design, development, execution, and implementation of all digital initiatives. Solid background in directing programs to implement new as well as existing web and mobile applications in the area Digital Banking, and Digital Health. Proven ability to bridge technology and business goals to provide productive as well as cost saving solutions. Demonstrate success in leading and mentoring cross-functional teams in multi-facility environments in order to deliver optimal technology solutions. Extensive Core Banking platform modernization experiences. Experience interfacing with key business units such as Marketing, Operations, and external facing clients. Excellent communicator, with emphasis on building strong client relationships.

Experience

1. Vice President - Director of IT

   Byline Bank

   Apr 2024 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Manage the evaluation, implementation and support activity for the entire bank’s internal and external automated information technology systems and services, including software applications, networks, telecommunication, data centers, cloud environment (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, UCaaS, CCaaS) and related hardware equipment.• Determine, evaluate and acquire bank’s current and future technology, communications, and software system needs.• Align technology organization with the business strategy and goals.• Build proactive mindset within the technology team and act as a true IT business partner.• Provide day to day management, technical guidance and direct leadership to department.• Drive the coordination and facilitation of change across functions within group and cross functional teams.• Define and maintain appropriate policies, controls, procedures and best practices.• Ensure patch vulnerability management and remediation meet risk & compliance requirements. • Proactively monitor IT infrastructure and systems to ensure their high availability. • Ensure support tickets are resolved on-time, timely updates are provided, and SLAs are met.• Define and maintain internal service level agreements for technology support and systems.• Establish and drive a defect prevention and automation culture within Operations teams.• Outline requirements for on premise or cloud infrastructures.• Manage Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning, testing and documentation.• Determine hardware/software and operating system life cycle management strategies.• Ensure bank’s IT environment is secure and in compliance with industry standards and regulations, particularly in the financial sector. • Ensure all changes goes through change management process and procedures are duly followed.• Comply with audit and compliance requirements. Address and resolve open audit items on time.• Lead bank’s acquisition projects and ensure the integration are successfully completed.

Education

• Northern Illinois University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology

  1996 — 1999

Skills

• Budget Management
• Project Engineering
• Emrs
• Soap
• Xml
• Rest
• Sdlc
• Angularjs
• Quality Assurance
• Process Improvement
• Oracle Sql
• Eclipse
• Apache
• Web Development
• Crm
• Business Analysis
• Json
• Mobile Technology
• Jsp
• Manage Client Relationships
• Html
• Jsp Development
• IT Strategy
• Ajax
• Subversion
• Jboss Application Server
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Agile Methodologies
• Team Building
• Tomcat
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Resource Management
• Java
• Bootstrap
• Perl
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Responsive Web Design
• Microservices