Rajiv Abeysinghe

Cloud center of excellence (COE) migration for Vodafone. While working in Bucharest, Dublin, and London, I migrated business support system (BSS) and operations support system (OSS) apps to achieve the CIO's 2020 target of hosting 65% of apps on a XaaS model.

A project recovery of State Bank Mauritius core banking and IT refresh. I inherited this project when it was already two years overdue, so I negotiated with HP as the system integrator, Accenture consultants, and the bank leaders to renew the program accord.

I headed testing functions encompassing 60,000 test cases and a UAT or QA team of 150 bank testers plus 110 Quinnox team members. We ensured timely completion of functional and non-functional reviews, data migration, and front-to-back global ledger reconciliation, interfaces, and reports.

This was a complex integration and amalgamation of disparate vendor technologies with 26 applications covering:
• Finacle and FinnOne as core banking products.
• Veripark Microsoft Dynamics for customer relationship management (CRM).
• Finacle for investment banks and merchant banks.
• SmartVista is a payment solution platform.
• Miles Software for wealth management.
• SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) platform, Oracle Hyperion Planning, and Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA) for treasury, reporting, a management information system (MIS), and an operational data store (ODS).
• Pentana for conducting risk assessments in internal audits.

While working as a head of software delivery, I improved the IT group's delivery capability, innovation, turnaround times, and customer experience by launching a three-year-long transformation strategy. I also achieved data centricity, enhanced operational efficiency, and updated legacy systems of $1 billion for an all-risks insurance underwriter in Dubai.

After the successful progress of the Oracle Financial project, I took on a dynamic portfolio of projects, ranging from core insurance system replacement to creating B2B internet portals, reporting BI portal, and Dynamic CRM. Additionally, I encouraged active business participation within steering groups and Champions of Change to maintain stakeholder commitment.

Finally, I led a timely and quality-centric integration of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, MDM, Oracle E-Business Suite, an enterprise service bus (ESB), and SOA on mondCloud. The annual budget was $32 million.