Leading the strategic development of technology assets, top-tier talent, delivery practices, and key alliances and partnerships. Serving as a trusted advisor to CIOs and business leaders while providing technology leadership in the insurance industry.

Providing executive leadership with advice on technology, data AI, coaching teams on AI, data infosec, and cloud architecture.

Owned AI strategy, architecture, platforms, products and governance. Led the global data practice, providing clients with data office, digital strategy, data governance and applied analytics services. Brought AI into legal ops, forensics and revenue intelligence, architected open-source AI platform for Ankura.

Owned sales, contracting, resourcing, P&L, operations, alliances and solution delivery for Financial Services and Insurance engagements in the mid-west region. Led strategy, architecture, design and implementation of cloud data and analytics solutions. Built market leading embedded analytics and analytics-as-a-service solutions, enterprise data mesh and ML-ops frameworks.KEY PROJECTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS▫ Developed Data Mesh architecture and DevOps on Snowflake to help a global asset management company with launching data products.▫ Built SaaS architecture for a FinTech company to enable incubation acceleration and monetization of regulatory filing and reporting solutions.▫ Provided strategic advice, analytics expertise and execution capability to help transform enterprise sales ops team of a major credit reporting agency into data and analytics driven organization.▫ Developed product strategy, design and architecture for embedded insights and analytics as a service to help drive next generation business initiatives for Credit Unions. Built data, analytics and DevOps capabilities on Azure to establish market leading B2B DWH-aaS offering. Directed 14 implementations on a highly aggressive schedule, with a $5MM+ budget.▫ Provided cloud analytics platform architecture and execution leadership for a large financial services company. Enabled $30MM in new lending business for credit unions and $2MM+ in annual sales revenue. Generated $3MM+ in operational and reporting cost savings. Reduced analytical model release cycle from 120 to 14 days with repeatable ML-ops processes on Azure.▫ Developed migration strategy, automated frameworks and testing strategy for a fast-growing wealth management company to migrate on-premises data marts and complex workloads from on-premises to a virtualized data fabric.▫ Architected data lake platform and analytics workbench on Azure for a Fortune 500 P&C insurance provider. Featured at the Greater Cincinnati IT Symposium, 2017.

Enterprise Messaging Platform, Analytics & Shared Services | Leading Asset Management ClientManaged Enterprise Messaging & Shared Services program. Liaised with enterprise PMO and C-level leadership for agile transformation program. Mentored business and technology personnel to build high performing Scrum and Kanban teams. Formulated data visualization strategy, product roadmap and dashboards for enterprise analytics portal. Architected SOA reference architecture models, SWIFT ISO20022 based data platforms, shared services and analytics products.

Manager - Hyderabad ODC | Top 10 BFS AccountDirected IT strategy, business development, governance, staffing and service delivery, and supported all corporate functions for new offshore development center. Responsible for Big Data Analytics, SOA and Agile capability development as part of Best in Class delivery transformation program. - Expanded offshore delivery and support capability by 2x in a year.- Set up offshore data science lab to develop investment services use cases for Cognizant Analytics.- Led successful RFPs and deal wins for new BFS logos.

Program Manager| Strategic Repo-Collateral and EMEA Applications, Leading Asset Management ClientManaged pre-sales and RFP strategies, business development, contract management, service delivery, customer relationship and P&L for the account’s EMEA business engagement. Managed global product roll-out for Strategic Repo and Collateral and ops strategy for new securities processing platform. - Established $2MM TCV portfolio as part of Cognizant’s EMEA growth strategy. - Built successful offshore delivery model for client’s London applications.Managed client’s Top-10 Program for 2011-’13; won Cognizant BFS ROUS Project of the Year 2013.

IT Porfolio Manager | Investment Services Portfolio, Leading Asset Management Client Owned business development, service delivery, customer relationship and P&L for multi-million USD business engagement. Customer leadership liaison for portfolio governance and execution. Managed stakeholder communication including customer, executive management and C-level. Executed product and service roll-outs for investment services business. Accountable for all quality and business operations metrics.- Managed $8 MM/yr. TCV IT portfolio, global delivery team of 100+; 30% y-o-y top-line growth in 2012- Owned multi-year Strategic Repo and Collateral Program, bank’s Top 10 initiative, 2011-13. Managed multi-stream program involving 30+ applications to establish strategic collateral model and new products. Reported to executive management and CTO.- Identified opportunity to optimize bank’s affirmation service subscriptions, saving $1.4MM/yr. in fees

IT Project Manager | Securities Processing - Operations & Technology, Leading Asset Management ClientManaged IT, business and vendor teams across geographies for bank’s securities processing front, middle and back-office initiatives. Managed staffing, schedule, financials, risk, communication and end to end SDLC for projects. Provided thought leadership on project governance, legacy modernization and service oriented architecture, expertise on US Securities Market Practice, SWIFT ISO messaging, securities trading, settlements accounting and reporting. Executed technology upgrade, client transition, product/ service roll-out, regulatory compliance and business operations projects.

IT Consultant | Trade Processing, Leading Asset Management ClientTechnology: Mainframe, Java, Oracle and Business Objects.

IT Conultant | Legacy Modernization Projects