prateek kala

associate project manager

About

Sr. Lead - IT Transitions and Vendor Management | Strategic Resource Management at Allstate India

Country

india

City

pune

Industry

financial services

Skill

team management, requirements analysis, sdlc, business analysis, software project management, jcl, transition management, requirements gathering, cobol, result oriented, itil, itil v3 foundations certified, vsam, mainframe, cics, output management, dialog programs, dialogue, custom statement formatter, project planning, rexx, six sigma, change management, problem solving, eda, project management, crm, vendor management, software development life cycle, customer relationship management, sql, management

Experience

associate project manager

hsbc

2019-12 - Present · 6 yrs 9 mos

senior lead - transition and vendor management | strategic resource management

allstate india

2016-4 - 2018-7 · 2 yrs 4 mos

* Managing all the IT Transition with Suppliers for Pune, Managing multiple transitions and ensuring all the teams move to delivery as per agreed plan. * Engaging the Business and Suppliers to work on Projects to be moved to Allstate India * Working closely with all the key stakeholder (Home Office Managers, Allstate India Managers, Recruitment Team) to ensure timely execution of all the identify projects as per agreed plan * Ensuring all the Supplier information w.r.t Headcount and Compliance is updated and all Suppliers are adhering to the Compliance guidelines

team lead

direct line group

2011-8 - 2013-4 · 1 yr 9 mos

* Core member of the Business as Usual team for Direct Line Insurance. * Leading the Output management team. * Responsible for building a new team and also assuring that team members have the required technical and functional knowledge. * It has been a challenging role as we didn’t have any footprint in this area, with ability to build good relations with client and showcasing functional and technical skills we slowly increased our presence here. * Developed confidence and comfort level in this area, our ability to produce quality deliverable, understanding the requirement correctly and coming up with technical solutions has been acknowledged at various level and is very much appreciated. * Received award for gaining client’s confidence and for building a big team and also assuring that all team members have required technical and functional skills.

team lead

capgemini

2010-7 - 2011-7 · 1 yr 1 mo

* Worked as the core team member for HTSE. * It was a new engagement, and was responsible for winning client’s confidence and building up a new team. * Within a short span of 1 year we increased the team size by 3 times. * Received couple of awards and appreciations for the work done in this area.

team member

capgemini

2007-10 - 2010-7 · 2 yrs 10 mos

* Started my career as team member here. * Worked on different output management tools like HP Dialogue and CSF. * Got exposure of working for HSBC’s various Business units. * Got Experience of working on all types of projects (New Development, Maintenance and Migration). * Quick in learning not only the technical details, but also the functional and other governance activities.

transition lead

capgemini

2013-4 - 2015-2 · 1 yr 11 mos

* Working as Transition Lead for one of the Financial Majors. * Responsible for laying down of processes as per Organization standards. * Key responsibility includes, ensuring all the Engagements are successfully Transitioned.

lead - it transitions | strategic resource management

allstate india

2015-3 - 2016-4 · 1 yr 2 mos

* Managing all the IT Transition with Vendor Partners for Pune, Managing multiple transitions and ensuring all the teams move to delivery as per agreed plan. * Engaging the Business and Vendor partners to work on Projects to be moved to ASPL * Working closely with all the key stakeholder (Home Office Managers, ASPL Managers, Recruitment Team) to ensure timely execution of all the identify projects as per agreed plan