Swaminathan Kannan (Swami)'s Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

- Around 18 years of techno-functional experience; strategic thinker and team leader (proven experience) with an eye to minute details and the ability to be hands on when needed - Worked directly with the C level executives to launch e-wallets, mobile payment technologies, payment schemes and services. Has led the formulation and establishment of payment network / scheme rules to support new product launches. - Multi-disciplinarian that has delivered key Products, Technology & Architecture and Commercial Documentation (including payment scheme rules). Previous experience in Business Analysis, Software Development and Project Management. - Global outlook with multinational experience in the UK, USA and India. Personable and a team player that believes in creating productive work-places fuelled by competence and camaraderie.Functional Lead (Technical Product Delivery Manager Role) @ Techno-functional leader for a large cross-functional team of Functional Designers, Solution Architects, Business Analysts and Process Analysts to deliver requirements, design and platform integration of Worldpay's new card payments acquiring platform involving pricing, settling and finance accounting to achieve its separation from RBS From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Product Development Manager @ Key member in the start-up Product team launching Zapp, the innovative mobile Payment Network from VocaLink. Working closely with banks, acquirers and PSPs to go to market with transformational mobile products and services offered by Zapp. From February 2014 to September 2014 (8 months) Product Owner / Lead BA @ Leading a team of BAs and technical members to deliver a new pricing, settlement and invoicing system for WorldPay to achieve its separation from a key UK financial organisation, as part of a major business transformation initiative. From August 2013 to February 2014 (7 months) Product Manager @ A key member in the Product development team, building V.me (a flagship e-wallet product of Visa) from scratch using agile methodologies. Was instrumental in establishing the commercial and legal proposition framework for V.me in the UK and other European markets through Visa's Operating Regulations. Ensured that the proposition / product is consistent with industry practices and compliant with legal regulations, in addition to being profitable. From September 2011 to August 2013 (2 years) Business Analysis Consultant @ Managing the delivery of new features to enhance the user experience of The Times and Sunday Times, also rolling out the ecommerce paywall From March 2011 to September 2011 (7 months) Senior Business Analyst - Digital Media Initiative @ Part of a digital transformation that fundamentally changed the way BBC managed its production, ingestion, editing, classifying, and archiving content. From June 2010 to December 2010 (7 months) Senior Business Analyst @ Product Owner / BA role in the migration of the online poker platform to be integrated with a major gaming network From November 2009 to May 2010 (7 months) Principal Business Analyst @ Managing the feature changers for the Ad-Server platform for targeted advertising. Also enabling the platform to more effeciently manage online campaigns for AOL's clients From December 2006 to October 2009 (2 years 11 months) Senior Associate @ Managing onsite and offshore teams delivering long-running programs, products and services for big labels in the USA From November 2002 to December 2006 (4 years 2 months) Senior Java Programmer @ Sun certifiied (SCWCD) programmer building both web applications (using JSPs), and client-server applications using core Java (including Applets) From 2000 to 2002 (2 years) Programmer @ Started career as a Visual Basic programmer buildling client-server applications for GIS projects From April 1999 to December 1999 (9 months) Chennai Area, IndiaCertficate of Higher Education in Philosophy, 2.1 @ University of Oxford From 2012 to 2014 Master of Science, Computer Science @ Bharathidasan University From 1996 to 1998 Swaminathan Kannan (Swami) is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Product Management, JIRA, Business Analysis, Agile Project Management, User Stories, E-commerce, Proposition Development, Payments, SharePoint, Commercial & Legal Regulations, Product Governance & Framework, Vendor Management, XML, Java