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Lakshmi Ashokkumar Suseela

Lakshmi Ashokkumar Suseela

Wroclaw

Summary

Seasoned IT professional ,with diverse experience of 18 years mainly in Mainframe Application Development ,Leadership ,Scrum , Enhancement and Production Support with an extensive focus in Requirement Analysis, Low Level Design and High Level Design, Support Management, Incident Management, ITIL Framework implementation across European financial services sector. SME of Software Development Lifecycle that includes requirement analysis, design, development, testing, maintenance and application support. Demonstrated strength in leading onsite and offsite team across the geographies; experience in leading projects in Denmark and Switzerland .Leverage expertise in Agile, Waterfall methodologies and Kanban scheduling system. Domain knowledge of banking and financial services. Strong understanding of structured analysis techniques and batch processing systems

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head of Custody Team Poland /Lead Mainframe Developer

Credit Suisse
02.2020 - Current
  • Line Manager of Custody Services Solutions Poland Team
  • Proven record of turning the existing team into a high performing multi-skilled team
  • Risk Assesment and Cross-skilling People OKR for Custody & Asset Servicing area
  • Application Owner of Securities Application
  • People & Culture -Technical Skill Training Lead of the department
  • ScrumMaster Trained , using SCRUM methodologies in development
  • Cultural Ambassador Poland for Manager Stream
  • Mainframe Application Developer – Securities and Wealth Management( Swift, Securities Regulation, Private Swift Network, Depot Management)
  • Expertise in Decommissioning IMS DB
  • Migration of Securities applications from IMS database to Db2 Enhancement using PL1 and DB2
  • Fax Table migration from old system to new application with cost optimization ,and scratching obsolete programs,thereby reducing total cost of operation

Senior Application Specialist

Danske Bank
11.2013 - 12.2019
  • Senior Application Specialist Mainframe
  • Production Support L2 role for Core Banking System
  • Incident Management and Problem Management Lead for Pricing Area with 20 members
  • Implemented best practices of Kanban
  • Resolved system issues and service incidents, minimize the downtime and restore the service
  • Proactively monitored critical batch flows
  • Defined and established appropriate quality measurements for Incidents, Problems & Changes
  • Implemented best practices of ITIL Operations processes
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams across the geographies
  • Enhancement of withholding tax program for calculation of negative interests using PL1 and DB2
  • Unit testing and System testing
  • Maintenance of product rules using DB2 tables and developing access modules using PL1
  • Efficiently monitored and reviewed daily production and ensured smooth execution of end-to-end operations

PROJECT LEADER

Wipro Technologies
10.2005 - 11.2013
  • Started as a University Graduate and grew to a Project Lead
  • Solution Delivery Lead for Credit Suisse Client
  • Onsite coordination leader for deliverables from India
  • Effective collaborative skill in Zurich with stakeholders for smooth delivery including Business project leaders, IT Project leaders and line management
  • Prepared high level & low level design -waterfall methodology
  • Developed programs using PL1, IFMS framework and reviewed technical deliverables for Tax application
  • Accountable for Estimation and Scheduling of critical modules for Tax Management Interface System
  • Served as a PL1 Developer to develop determination of FATCA account
  • Attained system integration and accountable for end-to-end scheduling and planning
  • Coordinated with offshore team and performed resource planning
  • Enhanced and maintained various tax applications in the system, having Java as frontend GUI
  • Enhanced and maintained booking system
  • Developed Corba services for booking portal
  • Performed integration testing
  • Proactively prioritized the incidents and provided production support
  • Served as a Requirements Engineer for Safelock project
  • Implemented DB2 tables for safelocker system
  • Deputy IT Application Owner of VAT System

Education

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY - Civil Engineering

Kerala University
Kerala
2005

Skills

  • Leadership skills
  • PL/I
  • IBM DB2
  • JCL
  • IMS
  • Mainframes
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Scrum
  • Mainframe Production support Specialist
  • Mainframe Application Development
  • Application Owner

Accomplishments

    Awarded Tech Council Poland Leadership Award 2022 in the category of Rising Star - New Joiner,New Leader and Positive Powerhouse for setting an example for my team and demonstrating great leadership skills from Credit Suisse

Certification

  • ITIL 3.0 Foundation Level
  • ITIL Service Operation
  • IBM Certified Application Developer - Programming with IBM Enterprise PL1
  • German Language Level A1.1 Goethe
  • German Language Level A1.2 Osterrich Institute

Languages

English
Proficient
C2
German
Elementary
A2

Tools

 ISPW, Changeman, Librarian,ZOS,JCL,PL1, DB2,IMS DB, Service now, BMC Remedy  Tool, Jira, Confluence,GIT, IBM RDz,HP Service Centre, HP Quality Centre,ISPF,  Sharepoint 

Timeline

Head of Custody Team Poland /Lead Mainframe Developer

Credit Suisse
02.2020 - Current

Senior Application Specialist

Danske Bank
11.2013 - 12.2019

PROJECT LEADER

Wipro Technologies
10.2005 - 11.2013

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY - Civil Engineering

Kerala University

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