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Lead the Cloud RevolutionAs MCIO, I spearheaded the delivery of over 200 Microsoft web portals and live services worldwide. Our team focused on smart growth, high efficiency, and customer trust, driving significant expansion and operational excellence.Key Accomplishments:Exponential Growth: Scaled infrastructure from 400 MW to 1.6 GW, expanding our global footprint from 11 countries to 20.Innovative Business Models: Introduced new contracting and operating models, such as Anchor Tenancy and BTS, to accelerate growth and reduce costs.Cost Optimization: Achieved a 4% reduction in cumulative contracting costs and a 10% reduction in build costs through innovative designs and operational improvements.Organizational Excellence: Built a high-performing team focused on empowering employees and driving accountability.Anil and his team were instrumental in:Strategic Vision: Defining and executing long-term strategies to meet customer needs.Talent Acquisition and Management: Building and leading a talented team to identify and acquire capacity for cloud growth.Project Delivery: Overseeing data center project delivery and developing long-term roadmaps.Global Expansion: Driving capacity expansion and building subject matter expertise across the company and industry.

Primary responsibility is to Launch Azure in India and grow adoption of Microsoft Cloud Solutions by 3x. Lead architect for Microsoft India’s long-term strategic plan, in partnership with all of the Microsoft business units "One Microsoft".Responsibilities include:• Execute of the strategies that I build, with and through cross-functional teams, and help Microsoft India deliver on its growth aspirations. • Influencing Government/Public Policy• Driving our relationships with leaders of Conglomerates and companies across India. • Partnering and Influencing Microsoft Development center, MSR, Global Delivery center and product teams to build solutions and services to address the needs of Indian Customers and partners, replicable across emerging marketsKey accomplishments:• Landing the Cybersecurity practice in India • Driving relationships with NASSCOM and building a IOT COE • Co-innovating on new age solutions with a e-commerce partner, an automotive major, Banking giant, IOT startup and a Healthcare major• Partnering with Microsoft Development center to envision, build and launch solutions for SMBs• Driving solutions through partners – LMS on O365 for Education Sector• Launch of 3 Azure regions in India

Anil was an integral and key member of Microsoft's cloud SLT in resetting, invigorating and re-launching a product and services organization, whose sole focus was to deliver customer relevant and reliable products & services.Key Highlights:• STOP & START: Set a path for re-inventing Microsoft Cloud (Azure) through a process beginning with a freeze of all product development, while teams were re-organized to functional areas. Post which tasked with adopting a customer connected (Obsessed) approach to product and services delivery, through an inclusive approach to development, by a strong connect with the field (Sales, Marketing, Services, evangelists, etc)• Creation of CEOs: Lead Program Managers of product teams, trained to act and behave as CEOs, with full view of Strategy and plan behind delivery of feature, resources, Customers, Costs etc. Metrics aligned to this strategy• “All are Invested”: Functional teams aligned with product teams goals – Finance, Legal, HR, MSIT, Marketing, Sales, Etc• Logical “Time to Market”: Shortened Plan to delivery Cycles• MSIT (Internal IT) transformation: Internal Apps and Support migrating to Microsoft Azure and Modernization (450+ apps); Primary DogFood OrganizationKey initiatives:* Identification and restructuring the organization into logical developmental units "Workloads"* Shortening of planning and delivery cycles* Integration of product teams around the "Enterprise" ecosystem* Driving a "Customer" centric product/services development* Ideating and building dashboards for data driven decision making and accountability* Creation of MSIT as a primary DogFood Organization

Microsoft Azure Expansion:o Built plan and drove a decision to invest and expand Azure into INDIA & CHINA.o Co-authored project Mooncake and China “Go Big” plano Executed New region expansion (India)o Responsible for driving adoption of Azure through Service Providers

Responsible for the company’s “Web” MetricDrove Global Web and Hyper-V growth efforts through Hosterso Built and executed programs to drive “Web” products and programs to the Developer community and through Hosterso "Hands- On": Worked closely with the field in driving technology adoption (60% of my time on-ground working with Microsoft Local teams, Developer ecosystem (Technology Agnostic) and Service providers. Notable Achievements: o Web Metric: First time ever, GREEN FY10 Scorecard. o Windows grew over Linux: First Time in a very long time, Windows started to grow over Linux. 2011.o Hyper-V Deployments: The most Hyper-V deployments and Compete platform Displacements ina yearo Amazon: Lead architect in launching Windows Micro- Server Instances and lower SQL SKUs Products developmento WebPI – A simplified Web and Application deployment toolo Simple & Free Control Panel for web Hosterso Data Center Toolkit Dynamic– A simplified Virtualized Hosting infrastructure building kit – Precursor to “Azure Pack”http://www.iis.net/learn/web-hosting/configuring-servers-in-the-windows-web-platform/dynamic-data-center-toolkit-for-hosting

Lead Program Manager: Build a Cloud Db service - First version of SqlAzureKey Responsibilities (Considering this was a new concept to Microsoft)• Lead the customer and partner engagement program (Technology and Partner advocacy)• Responsible for commerce and billing integration• Build and manage the alerts management process• Costing and Pricing • Partnering to build the business plan• Managing the deployment for Exchange Hosted Archive (First Customer)

Product development – Data Migration adapters (SAP, Oracle). “Anhiti” a .NET based Export-Import Trading workflow engine,Project managementCommercial Business Opportunities and Development