Banu Ramamurthy
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Profile
High energy individual experienced leading engineering organizations deliver innovative solutions. Track
record of delivering business value from IT to executive management through thought leadership in
technology; making technical decisions to drive the business strategy. (Re)Built globally distributed, but
cohesive and productive teams that deliver high-quality products. Expertise spanning across enterprise
architecture and application/product development. Can understand both the business and technical aspects of a
problem and can identify/articulate the core issues. A management style that focuses on getting the job done
by influencing stakeholders even in matrixed environments; a holistic approach to solutioning that transcends
organizational boundaries and assuming ownership of outcomes. Especially enjoy roles that involve high
levels of customer engagement.
Specific achievements include:
• Change the role & perception of the technology organization from that of an “order taker” to a
“change agent” and more of an enabler, Demonstrate outcomes that make sense to the CFO and
business stakeholders - not just technology experts. For example, reduce infrastructure costs by
providing shared services through effective use of virtualization technologies.
• Implement governance model to define metrics; measure, baseline and continuously improve quality and
productivity.
• Articulate a nuanced “Build vs. Buy” strategy to replace custom software with commodity components in some
areas while investing in Core capabilities; eliminate dependence on legacy code/personnel; enable developers
with more generic skills to be effective.
• Evangelize/introduce Open Source tools like Atlasssian Suite, Activity, WSO2 etc for BPM, ESP, and
for software development process (Agile methods like Scrum/Kanban).
Areas of interest
Cloud Computing, SoA, Agile Methods, BPM, ECM, Model based approaches to software development,
Distributed Computing (Grid Computing, Hadoop etc.).
Skills
BPM tools like Activiti, Lombardi, ECM tools like Alfresco, WSO2 ESB, e-signature platforms like
Docusign; Continuous Integration tools like Sonar, Maven; Traditional languages like Java; JEE Frameworks
(Spring); C/C++ and more modern languages like Ruby on Rails, Clojure, Scala; UNIX Windows and
NonSTOP, Modeling platforms like Matlab and Modelica
Roles
• Managing Director, Corporate Trust Technology at BNY Mellon, June 2012 to the present
• CTO at GAVS Technologies Pvt. Ltd., October 2010 to June 2011
• Consultant, June 2011 to April 2012
• Head of Architecture, Solutions for Banking, Misys Corp., March 2009 to the September 2010
• Asst. Vice President, Satyam Computer Services, Ltd from May 2007 to March 2009
• Member, Board Of Directors, and Vice-President, Software Engineering, Emmeskay Systems, August
’04 to May 2007
• Founder. Distributed Computing, Inc. Sep '99 to August ‘04
• Consultant, US Sprint at Kansas City, March '94 to August '03 (Employed by various consulting companies)
• Consultant, TANDEM computers, Cupertino, July '92 to March '94. (Employed by Silverline Industries and
CBSI during this period)
• Software Engineer, CMC Ltd., India, from May '89 to June '92.
Education
Masters in Computer Applications, University of Poona, India (1989)
B.Sc in Mathematics, India (1986)
Other Information
• Blog Site: http://rbanu.wordpress.com
• Linked-in: http://in.linkedin.com/in/banur
• Work Authorization: US Citizen
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Experience
Managing Director at BNY Mellon
Responsible for introducing/changing the technology landscape towards OSS like WSO for ESB/BPMS,
Activity, Alfresco, Apache/Tomcat etc - in general light weight OSS products including Atlasssian suite to
support OSS processes like Scrum/Kanban. Change the perception of the IT organization from an order takes
that deploys solutions that the business have already engineered to a world class solution provider know for
engineering excellence and accountable for business outcomes.
Lead a newly formed group to engineer the processes around client on boarding. This is a transformational
initiative that has bottom line benefits (reducing cost my 100s of MM USD); improving customer satisfaction
through reduced cycle times, greater transparency and avoiding duplication by using state of the art techniques
to connect internal and external applications and use straight through processing to reduce employee touch
points. Measure and report on productivity and quality of service metrics.
As Chief Architect for Document Management, Imaging and Workflow solutions for Government Services. I
led a team of architects/developers to design a solution to manage a very large transformation initiative for the
Office of Capital Access at the Small Business Administration. Designed the SBAOne platform that
demystifies the loan origination process. The portal presents a consumer friendly, retail experience
incorporating aspects of modern technology that make for a contextual relevant and rich user experience to
SBA lenders.
• Piloted the use of Alfresco for providing ECM capabilities in a major initiative and performed PoCs to
determine its suitability for the enterprise. Performed similar functions for BPM(activiti/WSO2) and esignature(Docusign)
capabilities.
July 2012 to the present
• Negotiate advantageous terms with vendors.
• Design the SBAOne platform that serves as a portal for various activities in the lifecycle of an SBA
guaranteed loan from origination, modifications, disbursement and purchase/charge-off and integrates with
various modern and legacy platforms in the backend..
As the Senior Group Manager for Structured Credit, I had oversight over budget, program management,
application development and service delivery for applications in this space within Corporate Trust
Technology.
• Managed a globally distributed team spread across multiple locations in the US and India.
• Implemented processes that increased transparency on where funds are deployed. Reduced spend on
“lights on” activity by more than 40% through consolidation, automation and, simply, expecting more from
the team.
• Portfolio is a combination of vendor developed and proprietary applications.
• Systems support the operating needs of business partners globally.
• Rationalized multiple applications that had similar functionality on to the same platform.
• Managed the remediation of several user defined technical solutions that were built on desktop
technologies (Excel/Access) onto enterprise platforms.
• Implemented solutions that to improve the operational efficiency and decision making.
Founder at Kaushik Systems
Several short term consulting assignments with SMBs and large MNCs. Nature of consulting engagements
ranged from
• Architected the technology platform for a micro finance institution; identified a vendor to implement the
solution and oversaw the implementation.
July 2011 to April 2012
• Management Consultancy: Value Analyses, IT roadmaps, portfolio rationalization, system integration and
architecture
• R&D - develop PoCs, evaluate, customize and demonstrate use cases for rules engine platforms, evaluate
cloud platforms.
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Chief Technology Officer at GAVS Technologies
• Thought leadership
•Create unique solution offerings that differentiate GAVS in the marketplace.
•Create forums in which employees can share ideas, discuss technical problems.
•Identify open source alternatives in lieu of more expensive commercial tools.
•Author white papers and prepare other marketing collaterals.
• Business Development
•Customer advisories
•Portfolio rationalization
•Technology roadmap
October 2010 to June 2011
• Delivery & Program Management
•Own the technical and solutioning aspects.
•Implement governance model and best practices for IT
•Identify technology risks.
•Mentor architects and developers within the organization.
Chief Architect at Misys
•RFP response and defense participation
•Engage with clients at both CxO levels and with line managers.
Chief Architect for the BankFusion platform - the platform for building core banking solutions. BankFusion
wResponsibilities includes:
• Architecture
•Create product roadmaps to renovate legacy systems while leveraging current market share.
•Create the technical strategy to deliver on the roadmap.
•Baseline current state and define target state for the platform.
•Direct development organizations in the appropriate selection and use of technical frameworks and
platforms.
•Mapping functional aspects to technology components.
•Lower infrastructure costs by enabling virtualization of existing computing resources
March 2009 to the September 2010
• Business Development
•Highlight the value proposition of Misys’ Platform differentiating it from what can be achieved with
alternatives from the competition.
•Prepare collateral for presentations to customers and at analyst conferences.
•Engage with customers, understand their challenges and map our solutions to their needs. Travel to
customer sites and manage/contain severe escalations.
• Engineering Operations
•Manage a team of globally distributed architects.
•Governance around development activities; Define and enforce procedures and checkpoints to
monitor compliance with architectural, design and coding standards/guidelines. Develop strategies to
manage technical debt. Monitor code quality,useful coverage and related metrics.
•Promote agile methods.
•Implement and monitor continuous integration activities.
•Evangelize the Model driven approach to development
•Support and mentor individual developers and architects.
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Asst. Vice President at Satyam Computer Services Ltd May 2007 to March 2009
• Thought leadership
•Chief Architect for Enterprise Mobility Labs and member of the Technology Office
•Evangelize key technologies/methodologies within the organization and with customers specifically
in the areas of agile methods, SoA and Enterprise Mobility.
•Provide reference architectures to implement various solutions in the mobility/SoA.
•Identify open source alternatives in lieu of more expensive commercial tools.
•Author white papers and prepare other marketing collaterals.
•Create Proofs of Concepts by researching a new technology before introducing it to the development
community at large. For example, use of Spring to promote TDD.
• Business Development
•Own the technical aspects of RFP response and defense.
•Engage with clients at both CxO levels and with line managers.
•Communicate advancements in technology world and influence customer’s technology roadmap
• Delivery & Program Management
•Own the Technical Architecture for one of the larger accounts in Financial Services for the company.
•Implement governance model and best practices for IT
•Manage technology risks associated with delivery.
•Mentor architects and developers within the organization.
•Engage with clients at the CTO level and delivery heads(within Satyam) to set expectations on QoS
and deliver accordingly
•Put in place and managed the continuous integration process. This includes
•Maintaining integrity of the design & code artefacts in RSA throughout the lifecycle;
•Version control, Unit Testing, Coverage and other quality metrics
•Put in place various processes to verify & measure compliance with standards for design &
development.
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Vice President at Emmeskay Systems
• Executed projects in the areas of Control Systems Modeling, Product Life Cycle Management and
conversion of legacy C code in Real Time Systems.
The most significant work involved creating a product (IME) that was funded by a leading Japanese
automotive OEM. This product was targeted at design & R&D organizations. Key features revolved
around Model Management (variant management, parametrization & meta-data based querying);
Architecture extraction, architectural analysis (invariance/compatibility analysis); and collaboration. I
was quite hands-on with the development process and also played the role of lead architect.
Extensively interacted with senior management and user base within customer organizations to get
requirements upfront and ensure adequate support downstream.
Execute projects that involved application engineering efforts for major automotive OEMs using
Emmeskay Products like IME & MTM (a model instrumentation tool).
August 2004 to May 2007
• Built an extremely motivated high performance Product Engineering team from the ground up.
• Change agent for implementing the Test Driven Development/Agile methods in consulting and R&D
efforts.
• Responsibilities spanned across all aspects of product definition & execution; some aspects of business
development as well.
• Application engineering support for users (developers) within and outside the organization to demonstrate
value of the product offerings.
• Evaluated modeling tools in the MDA space like Telelogic Rhapsody. Built prototypes to evaluate new
technologies like the Eclipse Platform (RCP, EMF et al.), Joomla, Plone to determine applicability in the
organization and, where appropriate, evangelize & deploy these technologies within the organization.
• Responsible for IT infrastructure and Knowledge Management systems globally. Components of the
infrastructure include: Content Management System, Collaboration infrastructure, VoIP. Framed and
implemented the security policies and procedures for the company.
• Technology stack included Java based technologies, Eclipse RCP, PostgreSQL, Plone, Zope, Python,
Asterisk, Linux, Matlab/Simulink & Dymola (Modelica), UML/SYSML Modeling tools.
• Conducted PR campaigns within the local community.
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Distributed Computing, Inc.
• Floated this small business unit in 1999.
• Responsibilities spanned across marketing, recruitment, account management and product development.
• Revenues peaked in 2001 to about 1 million USD.
• Implemented solutions based on the ASP model to model aspects of Supply Chain workflow with focus on
transportation & logistics.
September 1999 to August 2004
• Product incorporates features of Distributed Computing, High availability, Workflow models and rulebased
engines.
US Sprint, Kansas
Consulted in various organizations within Sprint responsible for Network Management, Network Operations,
R&D and Call Centers (Operator Services). Started off as an individual contributor and have progressively
been taken taking on additional responsibilities in Enterprise Architecture.
• Application and Enterprise Architecture
• Lead development teams
• Mentoring, Project Management
• Evaluate products from vendors; Identify issues/lack of compliance with industry standards (eg.
Implementations of CORBA, JTA, SQL etc.) in vendor products and follow thorough to eventual
resolution.
March 1994 to June 2004 (break from Aug ‘03-May ‘04)
Worked at the Service Delivery organization to implement provision of class V features for VoIP services
offered by cable companies like Time Warner. Sprint’s role was to provide access to the PSTN (Public
Switched Telephone Network) and class V features.
The Operator Services group develops applications that are deployed at Sprint's call centers.
• Ported applications on the HP platform from HP-UX 10.x with Oracle 7.3.2 to a 11.0 platform running
Oracle 8i. Replaced custom code with COTS (MQ series) and improved scalability and performance
• Executed a project to reduce operating costs by replacing dedicated trunks with ITTO (a sprint proprietary
extension to the ISDN standard). Customer estimated that this effort saves them about $1.5 million every
year.
Tasked by the Broadband Network Management division to build an Operational Data Store (ODS), a set of
real time data stores or a Data Warehouse containing information about Sprint's voice and data network or
topology.
• Designed an object model for the topology (ATM, Frame Relay & similar technologies). Developed
standards for interface design.
• Managed the design and development of application interfaces to these databases as well as the data
transformations from the source systems (Provisioning applications called Connection Manager & FMS).
• Implemented the data model and the application to store and retrieve information about the Metropolitan
Area Network (MAN).
• Developed & implemented an architecture for Disaster Recovery.
• Data warehouse was implemented using the ZLE (Zero Latency Enterprise) architecture.
Key member of the Advanced Technology Development (software R&D) group for the design and
development of Distributed Processing Environment (DPE). DPE is an infrastructure that supports the
execution of distributed applications.
• This environment facilitates the operation and management of distributed applications in areas such as:
Software distribution, Life cycle Management, Configuration Management, Monitoring, Diagnostics/
trouble shooting and High Availability.
• Led a team to implement logging infrastructure.
• Developed & implemented an architecture for Disaster Recovery.
• Application was originally written in SmallTalk, but later on, the front end was ported to Java and the
server side was rewritten in C++.
Worked on Service Delivery Platform for Routing Management Systems while with the Network Management
group. Specific projects include:
• Automation of POTS (Plain Old Telephone System)
• LNP (Local Number Portability)
• Trunking.
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Tandem Computers, Cupertino
As a member on Tandem Computer’s consulting division, worked on specific projects for various clients of
July 1992 to March 1994
Tandem Computers. Also worked at Tandem’s headquarters for their software development organization.
• Developed a library of tools like a parameterized filter for EMS to enhance programmer productivity for
John Deere, a Tandem customer.
• Designed and developed software to maintain and search a database of all listings in the county for the San
Jose Real Estate Board.
• Designed and developed the product to be used for delivery of software over the network to TANDEM's
customers. Studied the business processes and framed the product requirements and external specifications
for components of the application.
CMC Ltd., India
• Led the design and development effort for a message switching system.
• Application switches messages between SITA, an international network of all airlines and the customer's
terminal network. Used CASE tools to create the external specifications and the detailed design.
March 1989 – June 1992
• Led the development effort for a Corporate Financial Accounting System.
• Developed animation sequences based on storyboards/scripts from visual designers.
• Performed the duties of a system administrator on various UNIX and NeXT machines.
• Maintained a Telco system for making Trunk calls