Vineet Malu is an experienced IT Project Manager and Scrum Master with over 12 years of experience successfully leading diverse technology projects across several industries. He has expertise in agile, waterfall and KANBAN methodologies and is skilled in software development, requirements analysis, testing, and project management. The document provides details on Vineet Malu's work history, qualifications, areas of expertise, and achievements in project management roles.

1. Vineet Malu, CSM, MBA
London  UK  +44 7974823860 (UK), +91 9820554406 (India)  vineetmalu@gmail.com
IT PROJECT MANAGER & SCRUM MASTER
 Experienced project manager offering 12 years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects;
Certified Scrum master with MBA (Finance); experience in delivering large complex Investment Banking, Finance
Treasury and Business change Projects.
 Expert in agile, waterfall, KANBAN project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and
known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed expectations of timeline and budgetary targets.
 Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively at all
levels.
Areas of Expertise
Bespoke Software Development
Offshore Development
Stakeholder & Vendor management
Product Management
Project Scheduling
Costing & Budgeting
Requirements Analysis
Testing/QA Management
FX, MM & derivatives
Trade life cycle
Middle office management
Payment Gateway
Lean philosophy
Team Building & Mentoring
Domain (Invest. Banking, Finance,
Insurance, Govt., Corporate Treasury)
AML (credit referencing)
Project Technologies & Tools
Java
.Net
Spring MVC
Cloud technologies (AWS, EC2 etc.)
Web services
GIT, SVN
Soap UI
Eclipse
Jira, Confluence
SharePoint
Sonar cube
Rally
Jmeter
Selenium
HP Quality center
MySQL, Oracle
Markit EDM (Cadis)
ETC, Mysis (deal management)
Career Progression
2011 (Dec)- Present ARRK GROUP (UK & INDIA), PROJECT MANAGER/LEAD/SCRUM MASTER
Arrk Group specializes in bespoke development for their clients in a wide range of
domains/technologies.
Provide project management over large-scale, top-priority and complex technology initiatives. Managed cross-
functional teams of up to 40 developers, programmers, Business analysts and Test engineers.
Drove the high-quality completion of software development and enterprise wide implementation projects for the
following clients’ types.
 Client 1- Train Operating Companies, UK- Revenue Apportionment
 Client 2- Financial Services Agreement Automation Platform (SaaS)
 Client 3- Major Bank

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Achievement Highlights:
 Leading teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines to successfully rewrite a legacy system
impacting the entire revenue sharing model. This included managing and processing millions of transactions per
day error free.
 Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed ahead
of time, reduced waste using value stream mapping resulted in 20% cost savings.
 Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility;
ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across helping deliver much faster.
 Enact change and continuous improvement using Lean principles resulting in increased productivity of Scrum
teams by 25% and the quality of deliverables by 30% subsequently reducing the go to market time from 6 months
to 4 months.
 Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches
depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work
breakdown structures.
2010 (May)- 2011 (May) Sogeti, UK, PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Sogeti is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Capgemini Group. It offers a wide range of
development and testing services consultancy.
Client: Royal Dutch Shell- Managed the QA Function of a GBP 30 million Corporate Treasury IT project of implementing
Markit EDM. This was to consolidate five downstream systems fed by FX rates from Bloomberg and then distributed to
all its subsidiaries across the globe.
Facilitated pre-implementation workshops, manage and review Business Analysis and produce System Test Strategy.
Review and sign off test cases and ensure requirement traceability is maintained and manage regular monthly /weekly
status & risk reporting.
Achievement Highlights:
 Delivered successful Testing of a massively delayed project within two third of the planned testing efforts by
employing a robust and dynamic test strategy with a cross functional test team.
 Ensured defect-free releases through careful planning and right balance of manual and automation QA efforts.
2008 (Jun)- 2009 (Nov) Imperial Tobacco, UK, TREASURY ANALYST
Tobacco manufacturer
Middle office management, responsible for all Derivatives and FX/ MM deals management. Handled
transactions/settlements of average GBP 1bn in daily trades. Monitor covenants compliance, ISDA master agreements
for derivatives, intercompany cash flows and netting.
Achievement Highlights:

3.  Instrumental in implementing the banking straight through processing payment system reducing the payment
time from 3-4 hour to 15mins.
 Implemented SWIFT lite which helped to have real time view of subsidiary cash holding across the globe.
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 Successfully implemented the daily counter party exposure management system which assisted / warned the
dealers in real time for any breach of limits with a specific entity thus reducing the risk of defaults to a great
extent.
2005 (Jun)- 2008 (Jun) Halifax & Bank of Scotland, UK, RISK PROJECT OFFICER / FRAUD ANALYST
Initiate Credit Risk projects through business change process. Managing and administer Risk Cards budget & Finances
to support delivery of projects through impact assessment and by acquiring business analysis solutions.
Achievement Highlights:
 Successfully delivered the migration of SAP to Oracle Financials for Credit Risk expenses and budget management.
 Instrumental in development of an auto decision credit reference engine for credit card applications.
 Contributed in implementation of BASEL accords.
 SME on Credit Card fraud with experience in underwriting high risk applications using credit reference agencies
like Experian, Equifax, Call Credit, CIFAS etc.
2004 (Apr)- 2004 (Oct) Inland Revenue, UK, REVENUE OFFICER
Govt. Tax credits
Technical advisor to the tax credits teams on a pilot project of integration of Working and Child Tax Credits.
Achievement Highlights:
 Identified problems and impacts of poor internal controls of processes. Applied solutions through process re-
engineering & change management which in turn increased efficiency and turnaround time of tax credit
applications.
Education & Credentials
CSM, Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
ISEB, Foundation Certificate in Software Testing, UK
CRM, Certification in introduction to Credit Risk Management, UK
MBA, Cardiff University, UK
BCOM, Bachelor Degree in Commerce, Bangalore University
Diploma in International Trade, NMIT, Australia
Diploma in Depository Services, National Stock Exchange of India
Diploma in Basic Programming in Java

4. Authorized to work in the UK and EU