Vijay's CV
Vijay George
Manager - Technical Programs
Profile summary
Strategic technical program manager with 28 years shaping cloud migration and platform modernization outcomes. Known for steering AI strategy, multi-region implementations, and tools rationalization programs across global markets including GCC experience. Committed to aligning engineering roadmaps with regulatory compliance and operational excellence.
Career highlights
Cloud Platform Modernization: Managed a team of Program Managers for strategic adoption of Google Cloud Platform and Vertex AI, achieving an operational efficiency improvement in data sync operations.
International Software Implementation: Led TBMS-F Suite implementation across countries in the Middle East, optimizing project schedules to ensure on-time delivery and compliance with requirements.
Tools Rationalization Program: Executed Tools Rationalization Program, streamlining tools across the Model Development Life Cycle to improve governance and reduce operational costs.
AI and Platform Strategy: Defined AI and platform strategy in the Office of the CTO, steering engineering initiatives and modernization programs across international markets.
Key skills
Professional experience
Defined AI and platform strategy within the Office of the CTO, steering engineering initiatives and modernization programs across international markets while aligning product roadmaps with regulatory compliance and business objectives.
- Steered Model Compute Platform modernization, enabling self-service model deployment and reducing time-to-production from days to hours through infrastructure enhancements.
- Managed a team of Program Managers for strategic adoption of Google Cloud Platform and Vertex AI, achieving 90% operational efficiency improvement in data sync operations.
- Executed Tools Rationalization Program, streamlining 15 tools to 8 across the Model Development Life Cycle to improve governance and reduce operational costs.
- Managed the Latin America Markets Portfolio, protecting annual revenue through proactive regulatory strategy, compliance oversight, and risk mitigation across Brazil and Mexico.
Steered project scope, resource allocation, and budget across large-scale deployments while retaining complete P and L accountability. Applied agile frameworks and change management practices to operational workflows.
- Led TBMS-F Suite implementation across 6 countries in the Middle East, optimizing project schedules to ensure on-time delivery and compliance with customer-specific requirements.
- Achieved 20% increase in project ROI through optimized resource management during large scale deployments.
- Executed a 3-phase implementation of the TBMS-F Suite for Poland's 3rd-largest bank.
Directed operations for the Offshore Management Services team across entities in India and China, overseeing re-engineering, tools, resource management, planning, and finance functions.
- Managed multiple Management Information projects, achieving success in the Data Quality Project and the Offshore Blueprint.
- Coordinated cross-functional workflows across international entities to support planning and finance operations.
Reported into executive leadership while guiding an organization across global hubs in Pune, Hyderabad, and Kuala Lumpur. Directed cross-functional technology teams of over 70 staff members through the delivery of the Finance Transformation Platform.
- Prepared engagement review dashboards in coordination with In-Country managers.
- Organized Knowledge Transfer sessions on the Programme for US, HK, UK, India, Malaysia, and China team members.
- Planned and performed internal audits, tracked and monitored the findings to closure.
- Built an offshore PeopleSoft development team in Pune for Paris operations.
- Drove process integration and reduced operating expenses through successful HRMS and Finance implementations.
- Executed the transition from onshore to offshore for Level 3 production support.
- Managed enhancements and production issues within a 16 by 5 support environment.
Education
Electronics