Sathis Kumar Lakshmi Narayanan

Technical Lead with 17+ years of experience in all facets of product development, application development, Production Support and Quality Assurance. Compensation Specialist with depth knowledge on Life Insurance concepts & compensation, manage multiple complex projects working with diverse, international teams. Highly dedicated, smart worker with good programming skills and a quick learner with constant learning to update myself with onset of technologies.

Enthusiastic Individual passionate to learn new technologies and development and apply them in work

• Software Professional with 17+ years of experience in IT Industry with deep experience in Product Development, Application Development, Support and Quality Engineering
• Expertise in Varicent ICM Comp development and extensive knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development and testing of Sales Compensation System
• Worked on migrating the Mainframe Compensation Application to IBM ICM – Varicent for Life and Group, experience in creating tables, views and calculations. Sound knowledge in scheduler, process list, portal access and locking. Varicent V10 Certified
• Expertise in writing complex SQL Queries and worked in Oracle, DB2 and MSSQL Databases
• Worked on migrating the Mainframe Payroll Application to UltiPro, Debt Management
• Deep experience in Financial Industry Domain – Banking and Insurance
• LOMA ALMI Certified, with 12+ Years of experience in Distribution Domain, Extensive knowledge in Agency & Agent Compensation calculations for Traditional Life, Non-Traditional Life, Annuity and Group Insurance
• Experienced in Retail Core Banking Concepts, Investment Banking – Completed Internal & External Banking & Financial Domain Certifications
• Directly managed Client and Stakeholder expectations and handled escalations; Managed delivery with around 15 – 20 Onshore and Offshore team members
• Experience in Mainframe development – Develop COBOL Programs, Copybooks, JCL jobs, Create VSAM/PS files, DB2 Tables;
• Top Contributor in the innovation challenge competition and 2 of the ideas got selected out of final 6 ideas and presented to CXO leadership 
• Consistent Top Performer and received multiple client appreciations and awards (Above & Beyond) for the innovative automation tools and cost savings. Cost Savings from the Automation Tools exceeds 100K/year 
• Worked in Alteryx for automating Compensation calculations for validations and Forms validations in Policy Package and other validations. Sound knowledge in writing Complex SQL Queries
• Experienced in Life & Annuity Insurance Domain End- End applications – E-app, New Business, Policy Admin, Policy Packages, Agent/Agency administration and Agent Compensation, Payroll, Agent Portal, Customer Portal
• Received multiple client appreciations and awards (Above & Beyond) for the innovative automation tools and cost savings
• Enthusiastic team player, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Able to learn quickly and adopt myself to Challenging environment

• B.E. (Electronics & Communication Engineering) , Madras Institute of Technology(MIT), Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India – First Class with Distinction 
• MBA – Project Management – Alagappa University – Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India – First Class