Ramesh Babu.M

Current

Technology strategy and business management at ANZ

Past

Senior manager at ANZ Information Technology, Bangalore
Service line manager and Offshore strategist at Cambridge Technology Partners
Technical Architect (as Contract consultant) at HP consulting, Malaysia

Project manager at Sonata Software Limited
Technical support manager and Solutions architect at Sonata Software Ltd.
Systems analyst at Sonata Software Ltd.

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Education

Rushmore University
Indian School of Business
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Ramesh Babu.M’s Summary

- Over 17 years in the IT industry with experience in Management Consulting, IT strategy, Offshoring models, Business unit leadership, Centres of Excellence, Change management and Enterprise Architecture

- Worked with clients in 7 countries - as part of ANZ, Cambridge Technology Partners, HP consulting (as a contractor) and Sonata software.

- Completed Bachelor of Engineering at NIT Trichy and an MBA in Strategic management at Rushmore University. Attended courses on Marketing strategy at the Indian School of Business.

- Guest speaker in Indian management schools and Professional association forums

- My career driver has always been to envision the next generation of high-performing global organizations and provide leadership in creating them.

Ramesh Babu.M’s Specialties:

Banking and Financial services, Telecom, Management Consulting, IT strategy, Offshoring models, Business unit leadership, Centres of Excellence, Change management and Enterprise Architecture

Ramesh Babu.M’s Experience

Technology strategy and business management

ANZ

(Public Company; ANZ; Banking industry)

October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

- Currently working on transforming the global IT operating model
- Member of the Leadership team at the ANZ bank’s technology division in India; Owner of the offshore strategy and roadmap for the India technology operations; Mentor for organisational talent
- Created a global platform operating model for banking systems delivery
- Managing strategic partnerships with Indian IT product vendors, systems integrators and solution providers
Senior manager

ANZ Information Technology, Bangalore

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ANZ; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2000 — October 2006 (5 years 11 months)

- Senior manager overseeing delivery, customer relationship, staff satisfaction and operations for two major Retail banking business units offshore.
- Led the Information systems planning activity for the bank’s corporate centre functions in Australia.
- Program Director for the ANZITWay – a unique offshore transition methodology for use within the bank.
- Created a maturity model for Offshore IT portfolios - used to benchmark the performance and productivity growth in the IT division.
- Planned and kick-started an offshore operating model for the bank’s ERP (PeopleSoft) Centre of Excellence.
- Evolved the ofshore subsidiary’s commercialization vision, strategy and roadmap .
Service line manager and Offshore strategist

Cambridge Technology Partners

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CTP; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1998 — October 2000 (1 year 11 months)

- Grew the E-Business service line in India from a 200,000$ seed stage to USD 3Mn within a span of 1 year and managed over 75 consultants.
- Developed a comprehensive framework for delivering distributed systems integration projects for Cambridge clients globally
- Actively collaborated with the North American Business unit leadership of the company, to grow the E-Business service line and associated delivery functions in Bangalore
- Developed CTP India's vision, strategy, direction and delivery capabilities around B2C, B2B, Knowledge management and EAI.
- Spearheaded the transition of the division from traditional client-server work to consulting and systems integration around e-business technologies.
- Led the delivery of major consulting and E-commerce projects in India (Bombay Stock Exchange, Sharekhan), Netherlands (HP), Geneva (Nestle) and the US (TRS Ryder, GMAC, Timken, Dormont)
Technical Architect (as Contract consultant)

HP consulting, Malaysia

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HP; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 6 months)

- Technical adviser to one of the largest Securities and Asset Management firm in ASEAN. Evaluated and recommended products, tools, architecture and processes for migrating firm's legacy systems to the Internet.
- Played a mentoring role on OOAD and Internet application development to in-house IT developers.
- Technical architect for a large Telecom company in Malaysia. Part of a team of 3 Lead architects. Involved in laying down architecture specifications for the mobile telephony billing system. Defined methodologies, guidelines and standards for a team of 40 consultants. System went live for the Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games ’98 and offered extensive flexibility in call pricing and discounting schemes. Assumed responsibility as Test manager for the Integration phase
Project manager

Sonata Software Limited

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years)

- Project Lead for a team of 20 developers. Designed, developed and integrated client-server distributed Transaction Processing system for the largest Telecom service provider in Singapore.
- Managed onsite design activities and offshore software development activities. Involved in architecture, design, standards, IT strategy and project planning with IS managers, Lead architects and Project Managers
- Project Lead for call processing system. Lead a team of 6 designers to evolve a high-performance CORBA design for telecom call processing. Intended as proof-of-concept to customers
- Lead architect for a Personal-ID based Internet computing service for a Japanese firm. Involved in designing a flexible and scalable agent-based system using Java and CORBA
- OO mentoring for Project Managers and Technical Lead teams delivering projects for a large German multinational
- Committee member for Y2K methodology and process definition.
- Content Manager for the company Web site
Technical support manager and Solutions architect

Sonata Software Ltd.

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years)

- Regional support manager for the Western region, India - leading a team of technical support professionals
- Conducted technical seminars in various locations in India – involving public, corporate and governmental institutions.
- Led the Consulting services team for Office Automation and Microsoft Solutions.
- Launch coordinator for Windows NT nation-wide (India).
- Planned NT-based architecture for a large Financial/Securities house and a Housing development firm.
- Designed and oversaw implementation of a messaging architecture for a large state-owned banking firm with intelligent interfaces to VSAT terminals across 20 regional locations.
Systems analyst

Sonata Software Ltd.

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 1993 (2 years)

- Design Lead for a multimedia enabled MIDI sequencer product on MS-Windows. Participated in research, competitive product evaluation, development of interface specifications. The product, MIDI Vision was developed using fully object-oriented techniques on Visual C++/Win 3. 1
- Designed and developed a key module for a LAN design and simulation package. Part of a 6 member team. The product was developed using Actor (a SmallTalk-variant) on Windows 3.0/3.1

Ramesh Babu.M’s Education

Rushmore University

MBA , Strategic management , 2003 — 2005
Indian School of Business

Exec program , Marketing strategies for competitive advantage , 2002 — 2002

Attended an exec program taught by Prof. Dipak Jain, Dean of Kellog School, visiting faculty at the Indian School of Business
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

B.E , 1986 — 1991

Additional Information

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Ramesh Babu.M’s Interests:

Mentoring, conducting workshops and lecturing at Universities, working with school kids on skill and mindset development, meditation retreats, reading (fiction, history, ancient texts), rock guitar, nature trails