Arun Chetty, Ms Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Available for CIO, SVP IT, and Head of IT leadership positions seeking to drive continuous business growth through impactful leadership and strategic technology enablement. Contact me at arun_chetty@hotmail.com. #CIO #manufacturing #growth #opentowork

Bayport, Minnesota, Us

Dual reporting to Divisional President and Andersen Corp CIO, managing team of 200+ associates with annual budget of ~ $40M. Responsible for Technology Vision and Strategy & all aspects of development, delivery and support across Marketing, Sales, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Business Intelligence & Tech Support.• Strategic IT and Business Alignment: Advanced the IT organization as trusted partner by establishing a culture of agility, innovation, accountability, and customer-first mentality, doubling its size and budget with over 95% employee retention. • Comprehensive Vision and Strategy: Crafted and delivered a holistic IT Vision and strategy focused on people, modern integrated architecture, and leveraging data as a strategic asset, enhancing retail partnerships and performance.• Customer Innovation: Steered efforts to reshape customer experiences for the next-gen digital buyer, ensuring resilience against digital disruptions and solidifying Renewal’s reputation as a tech-forward brand.• Operational Innovation: Opened up systems through API, enabling business to business integration, seamlessly connecting retail and corporate systems. Championed RFID technology for additional layer of tracking, ensuring comprehensive traceability for finished products.• IT Labor Model Revamp: Revamped talent model over reliant on external contractors, mitigating risks, introducing flexibility, and scaling the workforce through proven external partners to meet business demand.• Streamlined Tech Processes: Shifted development from people-centric to a process-centric model: Trained Agile & introduced SAFe for scaling teams, automated testing, established annual planning, project intake & release management frameworks. • Mission-Critical Implementations: Championed a $20M tech implementation for a groundbreaking product launch, spearheaded a 3-year manufacturing and supply chain strategy, ensuring timely delivery with significant business impact.

Columbus, Indiana, Us

Built the team and systems to support newly formed Power Systems and Power Solutions LOBs, with added responsibility for technology vision and strategies supporting Sales, Marketing, Customer Service & Support and Business Intelligence Organizations. Lead team of ~100 and a budget of ~$10M supporting portfolio of 50+ applications. • High-Performance Team Leadership: Led a tech team supporting 50% of the President’s leaders with less than 25% of the staff by standardizing processes, enhancing operational credibility and contributing to business success. Selected for Cummins Protégée Executive Training Program, shaping the next generation of leaders.• Strategic CRM/Sales Force Automation Initiative: Pioneered approval for a next-gen Salesforce.com system, focusing on channel efficiencies and a 10% revenue boost. Created financial model and roadmap for $25M program over four years.• Innovative Cloud and Data Warehousing Strategy: Defined Enterprise Cloud strategy, emphasizing speed, business agility, scalability, availability, and cost savings. Crafted a cloud data warehousing strategy for the HR function.• Enterprise Architecture Transformation: Initiated a comprehensive transformation of Enterprise Architecture - shifting from a reactive, tactical, project-based organization to a proactive, strategic entity with a focus on business outcomes. • Championed Revenue-Boosting Dealer Portal Program: Spearheaded a multi-million-dollar initiative critical for entering the RLC segment, projected to generate $250M in revenue over five years. Revitalized the program, replacing vendors, defining strategy, and directing web and mobile systems' development.• Data as a Strategic Asset: Drove the Business Intelligence strategy for Power Systems, enhancing decision-making and supporting the transition to a proactive business model. Restructured processes for improved insights and predictive analytics rollout.

Columbus, Indiana, Us

Retained as a consultant through Bartech into challenging role to resolve critical stability issues with mission-critical PowerCom sales force automation tool that had negatively impacted business. • Transformed the IT organization supporting PowerCom, a J2EE sales force automation tool that generates close to $1 billion in revenue supporting an end user population of 1,000 users, within 6 months of hire. Granted Award from executive management. • Conceptualized strategic multi-million dollar initiative to align PowerSuite, the company’s core generator sizing application, with the needs of sales organization and business IT strategy. A survey conducted by the CSE magazine rated Powersuite as the leading sizing tool in the industry.

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Recruited by the CEO to build the IT organization, systems, and processes to enable this start-up software development company to launch the initial product offering into the healthcare marketplace.• Directed efforts of geographically dispersed team of 70-80 resources in the full life cycle development of ThinkHealth, an industry-changing care management software suite.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for strengthening effectiveness of IT organization in delivering leasing software to clients throughout US.• Managed daily operations of professional services organization for successful implementation, customer satisfaction and continued business growth.• Introduced a RUP-based Agile Methodology improving estimates and overall implementations success rates.

Reported to VP IT, Product Development, drove the development of Interactive Selling Suite product offerings for the insurance, manufacturing, and high-technology sectors. Managed efforts of 25+ resources in architecting, developing, implementing, and supporting portfolio of 6 products.

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Master Of Science In Software Engineering – St. Thomas University (2002), Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering In Computer Science, Computer Science