The Thankyou was long due....but i didnt want mine to be lost amongst the official congratulations..so i am posting this now [though the text has been ready for almost 3 weeks now]
I would like to take this opportunity and congratulate each one of you who have contributed to the successful cutover of Aspis Bank to Finacle Treasury.
What a better way to thank everyone..than ones own blog...i can throw caution to the air and write whatever i feel like..without having to worry about email/offcial/professional and all sorts of etiquettes and also be safe from the hazard of offending anyone.I just want to put on record [even if its on my humble blog] the contributions of individuals who have contributed in their own way to this project.
So without further ado...lets begin -
Samir Gokhale : Samir joined us in Athens midway during the UAQ phase,Since Day 1 he handled the entire GL setup [The specs for which kept changing everymonth].He was instrumental in analysing some very critical issues [Net Accruals,F&O accounting and many more].He brought with him an amazing body of domain knowledge from his vast banking experience that gave no chance to the users to question the authority of his analysis.His long and detailed explanations on every issue helped us get out of many sticky situations.
Deepak Grover : Deepak was our inhouse "Swift Customisations" expert. He handled all kinds of customisation requests from the users and managed to meet all the requirements of Target, Hermes and Cedel messages apart from standard swift messages.His work on Reports and other interfaces has been near perfect.
Harish Jindal : Harish was our offshore development/implementation support, He handled all the implementation support activites wonderfully along with his tireless efforts[Working on Greece Time] on the development of reports with Deepak.
Meena Nambiar: She was the single point of contact for the implementation team to raise issues and follow up on the same.Her efforts in doing a first level analysis for many issues and also helping the testing team test the released patches for the timely delivery of the patches has been very helpful for the implementation.
Shreyas B.T : This young Turk from FT Engineering arrived on the scene just before the start of the UAT [The most testing and critical phase of any implementation].He blazed through multiple EOD's and cracked issues with an "Indiana Jones" like zeal.His expertise on Finacle Treasury added a lot of muscle to the implementation team as he gave us an "insiders" view of the issues.His "Banglorean Sambhaar" was a hit with the team as were the amazing pics from his digicam.
Abhishek Khare:He provided the initial framework for the implementation with a detailed CSS and BPD.His work on the approaches to handle MM Swaps and Synthetic Swaps for Aspis with a little tweaking to existing deal types was simply remarkable.
RSR :His involvement in Aspis,started with his inputs on the Reuters MRI way back in June when he was still in Japan.RSR has been our engineering Support anchor and has turned around issues with a dazzling display of brilliance and dedication, working late nights to release those critical patches that went a long way in closing issues in time.
Prasanna Durga :She provided us some very important fixes for swift and was always patient to answer all our seemingly daft queries on swift and many other setup related issues.
NNP: His very presence as the release manager for Aspis,brought about a confidence in the entire team.NNP gave us direction and his valuable inputs whenever we required.
Manikaran Singh, Sameer Agarwal, Archanha Sambamoorthy, Ritesh Bisht have all worked in the background for analyzing and fixing Aspis related issues, their efforts and contributions are well appreciated.
Bikash Agarwala whose awesome code has inspired a lot of our customisations.His modular approach to development makes most of his code reusable with minimum modifications.Whenever we found ourselves in a tricky situation...the first thing that came to our mind was "Check with Bikash"...
I would also like to thank Chetan for his inputs and guidance on the data migration strategy.
Finally i would like to thank Sathish Swaminathan for providing his guidance and inputs for the implementation and making sure we always had the final goal in mind.
I would appreciate comments on this post from you all
3 weeks ago
