
Shahul Hameed
Senior Project Manager | Core Banking
Salary / Daily rate
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
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About me
Intro
Project Manager & Trade Finance SME with 13+ years in Core Banking implementations and digital transformation. Led 42-member teams for successful Oracle Flexcube upgrades across Asia-Pacific, managing $8M+ IT budgets. Specialized in Agile delivery, stakeholder management, and end-to-end banking solutions for enhanced project success.
Work experience
Project Manager - Flexcube Upgrade14.7- UCB Dhaka Bangladesh
WOWONI PRIVATE LIMITED
May 2024 - Present
2 years 6 months
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Completed Implementation of UCB Bangladesh and went live by June 2025 with 42 members(offshore/Onsite) for United Commercial Bank PLC, Dhaka, Bangladesh, with Core Banking Upgradation from 14.2 to 14.7 and OBDX & Ario's* Sending Daily Reporting, coordinating between the team and Partner locally for teams, and managing the client at Onsite-Dhaka, Bangladesh.* Part of Weekly, Monthly & PSC working with PwC, also to share the status with Bank & Oracle Management as well. Support teams Calls Mos.* Coordinating Business, Oracle Internal teams (Arios, MoS & OBDX) and Bank Internal & External teams (IT, Infra & Finance team).* It was in discussion with the Bank Business team for the Critical Business scenarios for Credit, TFO &General Banking, Finance & IT Team for Go Live before Simulation, to ensure critical items are addressed. SPOC for the Project the ground managing all aspects of projects.
Project Manager
Ex-Oracle, Infosys PM - FCUBS 14.3 to 14.7 Upgrade
May 2024 - Jul 2025
1 year 3 months
Ex, Bangladesh, Fiji, Shanghai, Taiwan, Kuwait, Dubai, Eastern Europe
Project/Program Management, UAT Coordinator, Customer Engagement, Trade Finance
Managing Director of Operations
Blueray Fintech Services Pvt Ltd
Feb 2024 - Aug 2024
7 months
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Its my Private Limited Company started along with 2 more friends offering agency banking for 5 Private banks as of now and connecting, exploring more opportunities to make banking accessible and offering all services to the customer. Apart from offering Banking at corner shop and at door step we explore and tap potential opportunities in all needs of the customer. We offer from basic banking, Insurance, much more options are under progressing.
Senior Digital Project Manager-Remote
API Connects Ltd
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
10 months
New Zealand, Calne SN11 9JL, UK
Supporting heartland bank Digital transformation journey with a strong technical team, along with collections system named Katabat implementation., part of Whanake program of transformation.
Senior Consultant
ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE LIMITED
Jul 2022 - May 2023
11 months
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Working as consultant for Oracle Banking Products – Trade, which comprises of Front – Middle & Back Office. New age product architecture with all individual product integrated to make run the banking system in full catering each client individual need.
Director
Yethi Consulting
Nov 2021 - May 2022
7 months
Managing Quality Control for the Mashreq bank for 6 different stream of Collection & Oracle Banking Products of Digital Experience, Liquidity Management, Virtual Account Management, Payments & Trade Finance replacing the existing legacy system across all the IBG countries with 7 reporting managers.
Intellect
Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
2 years 1 month
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Service Delivery Manager - Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank - Abu Dhabi & FAS - Saudi Arabia
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 10 months
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Managed Implementation of Digital Branch Banking for AbuDhabi Commercial bank as a Celestial Branch with focus on capturing mass market with very innovative, interactive, lucrative features which is completely variant from traditional banking concepts to capture bigger market share and make the inroad to Digital and Branch less banking. Coordinated 5 stream of team in the PWT phase and project is in complete Agile/Scrum methodology, in Dev Status. Managing POS Finance/Personal Finance for FAS group Digital solution, this is at initial PWT Stage. Preparing for Co-op bank, Pertama, Malaysia for the complete Islamic Banking solution with pre-sales team for RFP response.
Quality Manager
Feb 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 11 months
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Implementation of Core Banking, Internet, Mobile & Tablet Banking for a Philippines based commercial bank. Along with handling Global Production support team managing 32 clients across India, Middle East, Sri Lanka, Africa & Australia with a team size of 16+ members during the pandemic period based on Exec council direction. Managed SIT certification of iDC (Intellect Digital Core) Product which is a major release on the product road map along with a team of 8 members as futuristic Solutions with API, Digital Channels and Micro service capability. Core has been integrated and tested with LOS, LMS, Treasury, Tablet Bank and Digital Channels. Product has been considered as driving force for the future revenue projections and already signed with 3 banks and 4 more are in pipeline. Managing a Philippines based bank for Core Banking Implementation along with LMS & Tablet Banking. Managed customer UAT Team for TWT Session and guided the whole bank team for Business scenario formulation and result validation. Also showcased the Core Banking Base product testing artefacts for successful business scenario tested at offshore and certified.
Service Delivery Manager
Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
2 years 1 month
Chennai Area, India
Handled the Technology Transformation program for an Eastern European Central Bank. Program includes transformation of Core Banking, Treasury and channels solutions. Engaged with Customer directly to scope and freeze the business functions delivery. Managing the deliverable's coordinating with Engineering, SME’s, testing and quality team across onsite and offshore for timely delivery. Conducting periodic review and steering committee with senior management and Deputy Governor of Central Bank. Daily Follow-up, Weekly report, JIRA Tracking and managing customer relationship.
i-exceed technology solutions private limited
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
2 years 1 month
Chennai Area, India
Senior Project Manager
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
2 years 1 month
Chennai Area, India
• Working on our patent product named Appzillon which is a platform to develop new apps on MADP technology to develop new corporate and business App’s • Pioneer in designing and delivering the latest digital banking solutions. • Involved in scoping and freezing the scope of new functionality and business requirement. • Managed to deliver Internet / Mobile Banking, Corporate Internet Banking, Digital Account opening, Asset Lead Management, On-Boarding Application for Equitas Small Finance Bank. • App for Customer on-boarding and Loan Origination System which is the game changer for competitive banking business. • Also worked on major new initiatives in banking industry with external system like CRM, UPI, UI/UX vendors, Bill Desk, BBPS, Euro-net for Debit Cards and integration with various third party systems. • Expert level in BRD and FSD preparation and mapping the deliverable's to customer expectation.
Senior Project Manager
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 1 month
Chennai Area, India
Project Director
Myanma Apex Bank
Jun 2013 - Jul 2015
2 years 2 months
Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
Project Director – ICT Division • Managed Flexcube Core Banking Implementation & Mobile Banking • Part of the senior management committee to choose Contact Center and kick start the project • Handled IT Projects/Accounts Budgeting worth USD 8Million for the whole bank. • Planning, evaluating, identifying, managing and implementing new technology for the bank based on the business requirement and management growth strategy and mitigating the technology risk factor. • Preparing budget based on the bank expansion plan, tracking the expenses and report preparation. • Managing PMO meeting, Steering Committee, issue escalation, resolution and concurrence by senior management and business for the production implementation. • Training and empowering the native resources to handle the task independently to manage any issues. • Day to Day supervision for the core banking performance and evaluation. • Managing roll out plan for all the non CBS branches to bring the whole bank in common platform ensuring proper connectivity and managing data center and disaster recovery site. • Managing OBIEE team from Vendor Company for management, Business and regulatory report. • Acting as a strategic connector to align between IT - Management and Business. • Managing complete vendor relationship for the bank, rating and proposing the right vendor for business solution.
Managing Principal Consultant
ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE LIMITED
Jul 2011 - May 2013
1 year 11 months
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
• Handling the Flexcube Core Banking Solution implementation activity • Successful implementation activity as Onsite Project Manager o MYANMAR APEX BANK, YANGON, MYANMAR o BRED BANK (FRANCE), SUVA, FIJI ISLANDS o COMMON WEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA, SHANGHAI, CHINA – FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT o CHINA TRUST COMMERCIAL BANK, TAIWAN – FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT • Multiple deliverables like FCUBS, FCDB and OBIEE has been handled successfully at the same time • Conduct Training, Gap discussion, Interface, parameter set up, SIT and UAT to the bank/users • Coordinating with vendor/Partners/IT Team for the timely deliverables • Reporting to the Delivery Manager and Pre-sales director for the project progress/potential sales opportunity • Training, Project status presentation, resource management and all issues crisis management. • Analyzing resource requirement & allocation, payment from client, income expenditure for the project
Education
Manipal Global Education
Certificate in Project Management
2015 - Present
11 years 10 months
Professional Scrum Master
Scrum
2022 - Present
4 years 2 months
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Digital Marketing and Business Analytics
2022 - Present
3 years 11 months
Project Management Institute
Project Management Professional
2022 - 2023
1 year 2 months
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Certificate
2023 - 2023
7 months
University of Madras
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2002 - 2004
3 years
MEASI Institute of Management
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2002 - 2004
2 years 3 months
Pondicherry University
Post Graduate Diplamo
2002 - 2003
2 years
University of Madras
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
1999 - 2002
4 years