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Shrinivas Thantri

Project Manager | Payments/FinTech Expert | Agile & Waterfall Delivery

Greater Bengaluru Area

9+ years of work experience

Great-West Investments
May 20233 yrs 5 mosPresent

Greater Bengaluru Area

May 20233 yrs 5 mosPresent

Responsibilities & Achievements: • Led end-to-end project lifecycles from planning to deployment, ensuring on-time delivery and alignment with business and technical goals. • Managed cross-functional teams while driving Agile ceremonies, work assignment, and delivery quality. • Enhanced leadership visibility by conducting structured review of project performance data including timelines, resource utilization, and delivery metrics to course-correction decisions • Facilitated customer-facing requirement and design workshops, aligning expectations and ensuring high delivery satisfaction. • Identified and mitigated risks/issues across timeline, scope, and technical areas, escalating proactively to maintain delivery momentum. • Reviewed and synthesized project, operational and financial datasets to support executive decision making and drive project outcomes.
Wells Fargo
Mar 20212 yrs 3 mosMay 2023

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Wells Fargo
Mar 20212 yrs 3 mosMay 2023

Responsibilities & Achievements: • Delivered multiple projects on new technology like AI, Blockchain and Web3 etc across departments on time within scope. • Managed projects involved cross boarder payments with Ripple Network, SWIFT networks • Defined project requirements, business cases, and statement of work. • Managed and delivered centralized project system across team to ensure regular project updates, status, analyze and reduce the dependency of Jira Tools • Joined a newly formulated Enterprise Payment Solutions team to manage new market and customer journey projects, driving customer acquisition, product improvement, and enhanced user experience.
Wells Fargo
Mar 20212 yrs 3 mosMay 2023

• Managed cross-border payments programs leveraging SWIFT and Ripple Network rails as part of the Enterprise Payment Solutions team. • Defined project requirements, business cases, and statements of work for new payment product initiatives. • Delivered customer journey and market expansion initiatives for payment products as part of a newly established enterprise team. • Built and rolled out a centralized project-status system across the team, reducing reliance on Jira for routine reporting and analysis.
TE Connectivity
May 20173 yrs 1 moMay 2020

Bangalore

- Create, manage and own the projects from Pipeline analysis to Validation phase and ensure the smooth process of the projects in PAC (Project Approval Committee) - Managing and analyze the High-Speed Data (HSD) Cable quotes. Take a decision on uplift on each quote - Helped Product Marketing team to achieve their target with the help of intelligent quoting, which also helps in winning the projects. - Ability to understand the product and projects handled, Agile in terms of knowledge over the products of CAS and owning the managerial skills through my education in MBA. - In charge of leaning the Sample Invoicing process at TE Connectivity for EMEA region. Wherein samples must be produced and delivered within the lead-time
TE Connectivity
May 20173 yrs 1 moMay 2020

TE Connectivity
May 20173 yrs 1 moMay 2020

• Managed cable assembly programs for Hybrid Electric Mobility and EV automotive platforms, from prototype through production handoff. • Led project kick-off and recurring team meetings across cross-functional and multi-region teams to keep delivery goals on track. • Redesigned the sample invoicing process so samples were produced, delivered, and invoiced within lead time — resulting in €9.2M in invoices collected within a year. • Served as global Prototype Sample Manager & Coordinator for Cable Assembly, embedding lessons learned into repeatable processes for future projects. • Led transition of chatbot-based Q&A support to a new delivery team, cutting average response time from 8 hours to 2 hours (a 75% reduction). • Automated the Project Health Check process, reducing dependency on MS Project by 31%; the approach was later adopted by two additional teams.
AccorHotels
Nov 20151 yr 3 mosJan 2017

Bengaluru Area, India

Prime Function: - Coordinate all Sales & Marketing related logistics including pre-planning, show services, marketing materials, accommodations, transportation, on-site services, technical services and budget management. - Participate in the execution of integrated marketing campaigns utilizing direct mail, email, web and print advertising. - To maintain client database, create statistical reports, and perform general administrative tasks. -Ensure the production of advertisements, marketing brochures, sales kits or other promotional materials.
AccorHotels
Nov 20151 yr 3 mosJan 2017

Successfully led entire marketing initiatives for Grand Mercure Bangalore

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Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing

Justice KS Hegde Institution of Management

20122 yrs2014
St.Mary's College

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Business/Commerce, General,

St.Mary's College

20093 yrs2012

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Headline

Project Manager | Payments/FinTech Expert | Agile & Waterfall Delivery

About

I am a project management professional with 11+ years of experience in Banking, FinTech, Real Estate and Hospitality. I specialize in leading complex projects (AI, blockchain and cross-border payment solutions) from concept through deployment, consistently delivering on time and within budget. By aligning stakeholder goals with customer needs and leveraging data-driven decision-making (including advanced reports and Clarity dashboards), I’ve driven product improvements that boosted efficiency and user satisfaction. I always looks for opportunities where I can apply Agile and Waterfall expertise to solve challenging business problems.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Project Manager at Great-West Investments, May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

Project Manager at Empower Annuity Insurance Company of America, May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos, Responsibilities & Achievements: • Led end-to-end project lifecycles from planning to deployment, ensuring on-time delivery and alignment with business and technical goals. • Managed cross-functional teams while driving Agile ceremonies, work assignment, and delivery quality. • Enhanced leadership visibility by conducting structured review of project performance data including timelines, resource utilization, and delivery metrics to course-correction decisions • Facilitated customer-facing requirement and design workshops, aligning expectations and ensuring high delivery satisfaction. • Identified and mitigated risks/issues across timeline, scope, and technical areas, escalating proactively to maintain delivery momentum. • Reviewed and synthesized project, operational and financial datasets to support executive decision making and drive project outcomes.

Senior Project Coordinator at Wells Fargo, Mar 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Project Management Specialist at Wells Fargo, Mar 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Responsibilities & Achievements: • Delivered multiple projects on new technology like AI, Blockchain and Web3 etc across departments on time within scope. • Managed projects involved cross boarder payments with Ripple Network, SWIFT networks • Defined project requirements, business cases, and statement of work. • Managed and delivered centralized project system across team to ensure regular project updates, status, analyze and reduce the dependency of Jira Tools • Joined a newly formulated Enterprise Payment Solutions team to manage new market and customer journey projects, driving customer acquisition, product improvement, and enhanced user experience.

Project Manager at Wells Fargo, Mar 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos, • Managed cross-border payments programs leveraging SWIFT and Ripple Network rails as part of the Enterprise Payment Solutions team. • Defined project requirements, business cases, and statements of work for new payment product initiatives. • Delivered customer journey and market expansion initiatives for payment products as part of a newly established enterprise team. • Built and rolled out a centralized project-status system across the team, reducing reliance on Jira for routine reporting and analysis.

Project Analyst at TE Connectivity, May 2017 - May 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore, - Create, manage and own the projects from Pipeline analysis to Validation phase and ensure the smooth process of the projects in PAC (Project Approval Committee) - Managing and analyze the High-Speed Data (HSD) Cable quotes. Take a decision on uplift on each quote - Helped Product Marketing team to achieve their target with the help of intelligent quoting, which also helps in winning the projects. - Ability to understand the product and projects handled, Agile in terms of knowledge over the products of CAS and owning the managerial skills through my education in MBA. - In charge of leaning the Sample Invoicing process at TE Connectivity for EMEA region. Wherein samples must be produced and delivered within the lead-time

Project Management Specialist at TE Connectivity, May 2017 - May 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Project Manager at TE Connectivity, May 2017 - May 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo, • Managed cable assembly programs for Hybrid Electric Mobility and EV automotive platforms, from prototype through production handoff. • Led project kick-off and recurring team meetings across cross-functional and multi-region teams to keep delivery goals on track. • Redesigned the sample invoicing process so samples were produced, delivered, and invoiced within lead time — resulting in €9.2M in invoices collected within a year. • Served as global Prototype Sample Manager & Coordinator for Cable Assembly, embedding lessons learned into repeatable processes for future projects. • Led transition of chatbot-based Q&A support to a new delivery team, cutting average response time from 8 hours to 2 hours (a 75% reduction). • Automated the Project Health Check process, reducing dependency on MS Project by 31%; the approach was later adopted by two additional teams.

Marketing Project Specialist at AccorHotels, Nov 2015 - Jan 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Prime Function: - Coordinate all Sales & Marketing related logistics including pre-planning, show services, marketing materials, accommodations, transportation, on-site services, technical services and budget management. - Participate in the execution of integrated marketing campaigns utilizing direct mail, email, web and print advertising. - To maintain client database, create statistical reports, and perform general administrative tasks. -Ensure the production of advertisements, marketing brochures, sales kits or other promotional materials.

Marketing Communications Executive at AccorHotels, Nov 2015 - Jan 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos, Successfully led entire marketing initiatives for Grand Mercure Bangalore

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing, Justice KS Hegde Institution of Management

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Business/Commerce, General,, St.Mary's College