With 20 years of proven experience, I am an accomplished customer-centric leader adept at building and scaling high-performance technical professional services teams across diverse geographies. My expertise lies in fostering robust partnerships across cloud services, sales, pre-sales, support, and product divisions. Operationally fluent, metrics-driven, and bottom-line oriented, I possess excellent delivery acumen spanning various product lines. I’m very passionate about mentoring and coaching the next generation of leaders.Key Competencies:• Product Fulfilment and Service Delivery• Strategy, Planning & Execution• Services & Support Operational Excellence• M&A Services Business Leadership• Cross Functional Collaboration and Partnerships• Building & Scaling Global Teams• Leadership & Talent Development
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Sr. Director, Global Professional Services - AmericasAkamai Technologies Oct 2018 - Jul 2023Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area• Led and scaled the 140+ member Professional Services team comprising of Security Consultants, Technical Project Managers and Architects, mentoring leaders and driving training & development.• Drove platform product adoption and streamlined services fulfilment across new SMBs through Fortune 500 clients.• Collaborated with Sales & Products leadership to optimize services budget, accelerating new logo bookings and OPEX management.• Operationalised global services & support strategy, fostering revenue growth and cross-functional alignment.• Led 200+ cross-functional team as M&A services business lead, orchestrating seamless customer contract & services migration bringing in incermental ARR.• Championed process refinement and quality improvement, collaborating effectively with peers from various Customer Success, Support Services, Product Enablement & Operations. -
Director, Service Delivery AmericasAkamai Technologies Oct 2016 - Sep 2018Greater Seattle Area* Revitalized the 100+ member Service Delivery Americas org to fulfill all one-time and attached monthly recurring services, catering to Media, Commerce, FinServ and Hi-Tech customers.* Ensured operational excellence by consistently driving 65%+ bill-ability and 75%+ utilization across Americas.* Drove DevOps adoption in Global Services, optimizing cloud adoption & automating config creation/deployment for customers consuming OpenAPIs.* Streamlined new customer onboarding and integration process achieving streamlined basic product implementation in less than 24 hours.* Crafted recurring basic and premium services offerings in collaboration with Products & Engineering for all tiers of customers.* Partnered with Products as Services SME steering the development of Partner and Reseller catalog and workflows.* Fostered sustained growth of the Costa Rica Center of Excellence with robust performance management and dynamic leadership development initiatives. -
Sr Practice Manager, Service Delivery AmericasAkamai Technologies Oct 2014 - Sep 2016Bengaluru Area, India• Recruited and mentored Practice Managers and Sr. Managers, fostering a robust team of adept leaders.• Spearheaded the growth of India delivery hub, skilfully leading implementation specialists, project managers, and line managers for the Americas region.• Led the implementation of CSAT surveys and implementation closure calls in collaboration with the CX team, contributing to enhanced client satisfaction.• Played a key role in the innovation and launch recurring Professional Services offerings, solidifying the role as a Services partner. -
Practice ManagerAkamai Technologies Apr 2013 - Sep 2014• Transformed New Hire Onboarding and training programs across services & support roles, accelerating architect productivity within a remarkable 3 months.• Led a high-calibre team of 20 Solutions Architects, with dedicated emphasis on product enablement and flawless implementation.• Initiated and executed knowledge management initiatives to elevate the team's expertise and performance. -
Sr Lead Solutions ArchitectAkamai Technologies Oct 2012 - Mar 2013 -
Solutions Architect IiAkamai Technologies Jun 2010 - Sep 2012Bangalore -
Sr. Software EngineerFidelity Investments Jun 2006 - Mar 2010 -
Module LeadInfosys Limited Jul 2003 - Jun 2006
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Arun Vijayan's current role is Sr. Director, Global Professional Services | Cloud Services & Security | Google Cloud Digital Leader.
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Arun Vijayan attended Visvesvaraya Technological University.
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