What: Monthly meeting of PMI Pune, featuring two talks: one on the importance of security in global delivery projects, and another an introduction to Banking and Financial Domain
When: Saturday, 9 May, 10am to 12:30pm
Where: Pune Shramik Patrakar Sangh, Cummins Auditorium, 193 Navi Peth, Ganjwe Chowk, Near Alka Talkies, Garware bridge
Registration and Fees: This talk is free for all to attend. No registration required

Session 1: Importance of Security in Global Delivery Project by Nina Godbole

The session will bring out the key role of information security in global delivery project. Data privacy is another aspect which will get discussed. Both these areas will be covered from organizational, project management and technical perspective.

Session 1: About the Speaker Nina Godbole

Nina Godbole, a postgraduate from IIT, Mumbai with MS in computer science from California, has more than 12 years experience in the area of ERP, Quality audits, Information security and data privacy in various capacities. She is a member of professional bodies like SPIN, PMA, CSI, ISACA and has several certifications to her credit. She has authored book on “Information Security Management” for Wiley India and on Quality Assurance. She was also one of the contributing team member for Maharashtra Government’s unique agro-IT project on IT-Enablement. She also carries with her rich experience of working in various countries. She has published several papers & participated in presentations. She was appointed by University of western Sydney as co-supervisor to guide a Ph.D. candidate in the areas of Software Testing.

Session 2: Overview of Banking & Financial domain by Amrish Sharma and Abhijit Bhate

Amrish Sharma, PMP has over 18 years of experience in various sectors with extensive exposure in Business and technology. He has played significant roles in Program Management, Project management, Account management, Business analysis (process mapping and process re-engineering), designing of architecture for various Microsoft based solutions, requirement analysis and design, proposal management and estimations. In his current role of Senior Project Manager in Cognizant Technology Solutions, he is managing complex application development project for a Bank in Europe. In the past he managed Consumer lending portfolio as an independent delivery unit with 400+ people spread across California in USA and three locations in India. In IBM Global Services as Program Manager, he was responsible for overall account management for multiple accounts in Energy and Utility sector.

Abhijit Bhate, BE (E & TC) from University of Pune with a PGDBA from University of Massachusetts has more than 11 years of experience in BFS. He has worked with Global banks such as CitiGroup and with Morgan Stanley. At Citigroup he has worked on the online banking implementations and was instrumental in delivering the global framework for their FX options platform. At Morgan Stanley he has worked on their trading systems for listed and OTC products. He has also worked with Arthur Andersen in their BFS consulting practice advising some of the largest banks on their IT strategy. He has extensive experience in investment banking with a good exposure to retail banking. Currently he works with Cognizant Business Consulting – BFS as a Senior Manager providing consultancy to Cognizant BFS clients and specializes in Investment Banking and Brokerage.

Together they will be covering BFS overview, basic concepts, Service offerings, best practices and challenges faced.