Areas Of Expertise:

• Program Planning & Delivery
• Banking & Financial Services
• Payments: Schemes, Issuing, POS, Acquiring, Digital, Fraud Monitoring
• Online, Lending, CRM and Debt collection

Education:

• Master of Computer Applications
• Certified SAFe Program Consultant (Scaled Agile Framework 5.0)
• Project Management Professional – PMP
• Mental Health First Aid

About Sreekanth Badam

Sreekanth Badam joined Seven Consulting’s Sydney practice in August 2018. He brings over 10 years project management experience, predominantly in Banking and Financial services, with the ability to manage quality delivery of projects to a defined scope, on schedule and under budget using agile (SCRUM and Kanban) and waterfall methodologies. Previously Sreekanth was with Cuscal Limited managing a portfolio for multiple concurrent client facing projects.

What Sreekanth brings

• Established track record of delivering Performance improvements in Business processes in a customer centric environment.

• Experience in Agile Transformation of focused team(s) and strong expertise in Agile delivery and Implementation Management.
• Portfolio and project management experience across Financial services (Payments’ projects, multiple Core Banking Migrations and Mergers), Retail, Energy and Securities.
• Performance driven team player with strong sense of personal and business integrity, proven ability to learn quickly and recognise process improvements.
• Solid experience in stakeholder management including vendor management – working with clients, external product, and services vendors to fulfil project requirements.

Client feedback:

	Delivery Manager, Australian public company – 2023 “Sree has demonstrated a high level of capability and enjoys being challenged. He is easy to work with and I gain a level of assurance project is under control. He is effective in his early communication of risks and issues and provides pathways forward. He is Professional, astute, build effective and strong relationships with peers and stakeholders, highly effective in managing deliverables, outlining risks and issues. Support clients and builds trust within project team and related stakeholder groups.”
	Sponsor, Australian Supermarket Chain – 2020 “Sree is very structured in his approach and has been very patient with the team. What I have appreciated most is his ability to work independently and jump in where he is needed. He identifies potential issues early on and raises his concerns in a constructive way. We could not have achieved delivery without the key role that Sree has played in the team.”
	Tatiana Ilyushkina, Stream Lead – 2019 “Working with integrity and respect towards anyone regardless of their position/role – great work ethics (spends outside of the working hours to get the job done) – transparency and clarity of communication – technically very strong PM.”

Key Clients:

• Nib Thrive
• ASX
• Big W
• Alinta Energy
• Cuscal Limited
• HCL Australia – for CBA
• Halifax Bank of Scotland

Key Achievements:

As Program Manager at nib Thrive, Sreekanth managed the implementation and cutover process for a complex program involving the merger of five acquired plan managers. This cutover enabled the transition of 25,000 new participants to the nib Thrive platform for processing their NDIS transactions. Sreekanth coordinated six streams from various locations. His responsibilities included implementation and release planning activities, cutover planning, resourcing, defining the hypercare and system stabilisation process, dress rehearsal planning and execution, communication planning, and the preparation & tracking of Go/No-Go checkpoints. Sreekanth played a critical role in driving the completion of deliverables and successfully executed the cutover.

As Project Manager at ASX Corporate Technology, Sreekanth was responsible for delivering various projects for Legal, Listings Compliance and ASX technology teams. Sreekanth managed the scope, cost, change management and training of the new system to the business stakeholders.

• Sreekanth successfully delivered the migration of iManage (Document Management System) from on-premises to Cloud and enabled 135+ users to migrate into the new cloud system with over 300 million documents. Sreekanth was also responsible for defining the new processes, change management, and training
• Sreekanth managed the remediation of unsupported on-premise Atlassian tools stack (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, and Bamboo) and enabled Jira and Confluence Cloud. Sreekanth successfully delivered the remediation activities and piloted the Jira & Confluence cloud. Currently building a road map to rollout the tools to whole organisation
• Sreekanth also managed the project to implement the Matter Management System for Listings Compliance team to digitalise their 13+ processes. The purpose of this project is systemise the Listings Compliance team’s matters. Sreekanth is responsible to run the RFP process and shortlisted one vendor out of seven vendors. Sreekanth successfully managed the delivery of “to-be” processes, detailed requirements, solution design, articulating the benefits and the business case.

As Project Manager at ASX CHESS Replacement program (blockchain distributed ledger implementation behind the ASX settlement system), Sreekanth was responsible for managing the multiple streams – Environments & DBA, DevOps and Non-Functional testing. Sreekanth played a key role in finalising the scope of the streams, creating the roadmap for the streams’ backlog by working with individual product owners, running daily stand-ups, facilitating sprint planning, attending the scrum of scrums, and tracking the teams’ plan to meet the program increment plans for 6 Program Increments (PIs). Sreekanth successfully delivered 10 new environments including Industry testing & production environments, deliverables for DevOps and Performance & Non-Functional testing for the program.

As Business Project Manager at Big W, Sreekanth has successfully delivered the Integrated Business Planning program. Sreekanth played a key role in vendor negotiations, defining the delivery approach, preparing, and maintaining the integrated schedule, running business scrums, managing the vendors, WOW IT and change management. The scope of the program includes implementation of Merchandise Financial planning and Demand Planning systems. Both applications are SaaS (software as a service) based solutions and executed using agile and waterfall methodologies.

As Project Manager at Alinta Energy, which is undergoing a companywide transformational journey to uplift systems, process, and people. Sreekanth delivered the business case for change for two streams – month end reporting, future proofing finance with more effective systems and process management for finance function. He set up and established the streams to implement upon the business case approval.

As Senior Project Manager at Cuscal Limited, Sreekanth managed a focused team and delivered multiple projects up to $2M end to end. He facilitated the Agile Transition of his team and successfully delivered and managed projects involving real time payment processing through API’s and Batch processing, Integration of acquiring clients through Switch and multiple complex core banking migrations and credit union mergers. Sreekanth successfully onboarded ApplePay to one of the leading Australian Banks and delivered the students reward points debit card program.

As Project manager at HCL Australia, Sreekanth led the delivery of multiple payment and digital projects at CBA using Agile principles. Sreekanth delivered the internal payments processing system using Open Payment Framework and Service delivery architecture and he was responsible for managing 40+ team members across two countries.

As Project Manager/Scrum Master at HCL Australia, Sreekanth successfully delivered onboarding of institutional lending products into CBA’s CRM platform using Agile principles. This project required enhanced collaboration against moving dependencies with 4 downstream systems to ensure schedule obligations were met.

As Project Manager/Scrum Master at HCL Australia, Sreekanth delivered the generic payments framework and migration of Bankwest’s direct entry payments into CBA on new architecture that satisfied its performance and quality targets.

As Project Manager at HCL Australia, Sreekanth was responsible for delivering the payments hub customisation for CBA as part of Online Corporate Payments retrofit and customisation of payments hub for processing loan payments.

As a Business Analyst at Halifax Bank of Scotland, Sreekanth was responsible for the delivery of requirement documents, functional specifications and coordinated and effectively communicated the change with stakeholders. He reviewed the design documents, test scenarios and validated the test results. As a developer, Sreekanth designed and developed online statements for internet banking systems.