Arvind Rao

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Chief Technology Officer @ GreatAmerica Financial Services
Austin, TX, US
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Austin, Texas, United States, United States
About Arvind Rao

2023 Orbie CIO of the Year Central Texas2024 USA National Finalist CIO of the Year.As Head of Technology for Bask Bank, stood up a Digital Bank from ground up in record time. Bask Bank is highly successful and rated as having the best Savings account by US News and World Report. Highly experienced Technology Executive with keen business acumen who has played and excelled in multiple roles across different Business and Technology Domains. A builder who likes to build things - Strategy, Governance, Process, Organizations, Products and most importantly - people. Broad spectrum of experience ranging from Global companies like Deloitte, Compaq, HP to small firms like Texas Capital Bank.Extensive experience in mergers (Compaq - HP, HP - Samsung A4 printing business and others) and Splits (HP Enterprise - HP Inc)Led large scale initiatives on App Modernization, Legacy Retirements, IT Efficiency improvement, Offhoring, Cloud migrations, API development and Business Transformations. Previously, led all of HP's Enterprise Data Strategy, Governance, Architecture, Delivery, Operations, Machine Learning/AI, Big Data, API and Integration platforms. Love to facilitate sessions on Design Thinking and Unconscious Bias. Regular speaker at Industry events like TDWI. An open and authentic leader who is passionate about using a growth mindset to develop, coach and mentor people. Consistently in the top global quartile in employee surveys. Strong champion of Diversity and Inclusion.Highlighted areas of expertise include:+ Technology Strategy+ Infosecurity and Data Privacy+ Digital platforms+ Treasury and Banking platforms+ Customer Acquisition and onboarding+ Enterprise Data Quality and Governance + Portfolio Management+ Enterprise Architecture + Global Team Leadership+ Right sourcing+ Business Transformation+ Mergers and Divestitures+ Application Modernization+ People Developer+ Big Data and Business Intelligence+ Application Development and Support+ Building agile Technology Teams to achieve business outcomes at the speed of business

Arvind Rao's Current Company Details
GreatAmerica Financial Services

Greatamerica Financial Services

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Chief Technology Officer
Austin, TX, US
Arvind Rao Work Experience Details
  • Greatamerica Financial Services
    Chief Technology Officer
    Greatamerica Financial Services
    Austin, Tx, Us
  • Texas Capital Bank
    Evp Cio - Head Of Bask Bank, Consumer, Wealth, Salesforce And Business Banking Technology
    Texas Capital Bank Sep 2019 - Present
    Dallas, Tx, Us
    Head of Technology for Bask Bank (https://www.Baskbank.com), Texas Capital Bank’s direct-to-consumer digital bank. Built the technology team and the solution from early stage. The solution includes Marketing Technology, Digital onboarding, online banking, integration to core and various fraud monitoring and detection technologies.Bask Bank savings account has been selected as the best savings account by US News and World Report. It was selected from among 40 top US Consumer banks.Head of Technology leading Digital Consumer and Wealth Banking which includes Digital onboarding, Loan Management, Digital Payments, KYC, Fraud Checks, Online Banking, Money Movement, Treasury services, Marketing TechnologyDriving retail branch modernization including Teller systems, ATMs and Account opening solutionsOn an interim basis, took on added responsibility for Core Banking platforms such as Treasury, Deposit and Money Movement. Achieved high levels of stability and performance through focused remediation plans and modernization.Led Salesforce technology team for the whole bank to deepen and broaden client engagement.
  • Hp Inc,.
    Senior Director It & Global Head - Enterprise Data, Analytics, Ai And Integration
    Hp Inc,. Mar 2014 - Aug 2019
    Global Head of Enterprise Data and Analytics overseeing all aspects of strategy, governance, architecture, delivery and operations for all global business units and functions.Led Data and Analytics strategy and implementation through multiple stages of transformation from relational databases to Data Lake and Advanced Analytics.Led HP's BI and Analytics BI and Analytics transformation program to retire and replace HP's massive Enterprise Data Warehouse and 200 plus BI application. A $250M business case that resulted in a yearly TCO savings of $40M a year.Design and deliver all big data and integration platform services in HP. Key platforms include Azure BI platforms, Hadoop Enterprise data lakes, Tibco, Informatica, Seeburger and various development tools supporting $70B in transactions.Implemented HP’s first production machine learning project resulting in $20M in annual benefits in year one.Established Enterprise Data Management technologies to support data quality, governance and lineage.Led the Information Management, Analytics and Platforms domain asset disposition and split during HP Enterprise and HP Inc divestiture. This covered over 200 applications across the full data lifecycle from data ingestion to consumption.Led a Big Data transformation for customer service and product quality analytics using latest BI tools and technologies to improve the quality of HP's products and customer experience.Built a forward-thinking BI analytics architecture used on premise data lake and cloud technologies to drive services revenue growth by increasing attach rates and subscription models.Established the Data Science Center of Excellence (CoE) to drive unstructured and predictive analytics to determine vulnerabilities in the ecosystem.
  • Hp Inc,.
    Technology Leader - Analytics, Crm Transformation
    Hp Inc,. Oct 2012 - Feb 2014
    Led the transformation from an SAP-based CRM to Salesforce.com and implemented business intelligence analytics tools, including QlikView, Vertica, BW, Informatica, SSRS, SSAS, Tableau, and Business Objects.Salesforce used by more than 20,000 agents worldwide
  • Hp Inc,.
    Technology Leader, Global Customer Support Operations And Technology Modernization
    Hp Inc,. Nov 2010 - Oct 2012
    Led Data Center refresh and migration of 100 plus applications to Cloud and led the retirement of over 200 applications.Drove Get Well plan for 50 plus assets in Supply Chain organization, reducing instability from over 100 hours a month to close to zero hours.Achieved QA process standardization with nearly zero defects in user acceptance testing and postproduction testing.Outsourcing of Service Operations
  • Hp Inc,.
    Technology Leader, Shared Services
    Hp Inc,. Nov 2009 - Nov 2010
    Helped establish the Shared Services organization and served as Chief of Staff to a Senior Executive to establish and track key metrics related to people, finance, site strategy, portfolio delivery, and organizational stability. Developed KPIs and drove organization-wide activities through regular communication to senior IT and business management teams Managed budgets, operational functions, and horizontal functions QA, IT optimization, and data architecture
  • Hp Inc,.
    Senior It Development Manager, Hp.Com Portal
    Hp Inc,. Nov 2008 - Oct 2009
    Oversaw a team of more than 35 people comprised of IT Project Managers, Business Analysts, Designers, and Developers in North America and Asia. Accountable for analysis, design, and development of content solutions supporting both HP.com and offline content Executed digital transformation projects, including software upgrades and end user enhancements, that delivered $4M+ in annual business benefit
  • Hp Inc,.
    Senior It Development Manager, Hp.Com/Partners/Csn Partner Portal
    Hp Inc,. Nov 2005 - Oct 2008
    Managed a team of 90 direct and indirect reports, including IT Project Managers, Business Analysts, Designers, and Developers dispersed across North America, Europe, and Asia. Managed projects in channel service delivery, supply chain, partner management, logistics, finance, it transformation, and legacy system retirement Directed the design and development of strategic applications which were localized in 40+ languages for 500K users in HP’s Technology Services Group handling 1M transactions monthly and $500M in revenue Developed and implemented quality processes to reduce software defects, supported the solution roadmap, and ensured asset availability
  • National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering (Nacme) And National Academy Foundation (Naf)
    Member Of Advisory Board
    National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering (Nacme) And National Academy Foundation (Naf) Sep 2014 - Nov 2015
  • Compaq Computer Corporation
    Senior Technical Architect - B2B , Ecommerce
    Compaq Computer Corporation Sep 2000 - Jul 2002
    Harris County, Texas, Us
  • Deloitte
    Consultant — Java, .Net, Ecommerce
    Deloitte Mar 1998 - Sep 2000
    Worldwide, Oo

Arvind Rao Education Details

  • Tulane University, New Orleans, La
    Tulane University, New Orleans, La
    Masters Of Business Administration (Mba)
  • Manipal Institute Of Technology
    Manipal Institute Of Technology
    Computer Science And Engineering
  • Stanford University
    Stanford University
    Building Innovative Leaders
  • University Of California, Berkeley
    University Of California, Berkeley
    Leading Innovative Change
  • Don Bosco Egmore
    Don Bosco Egmore
    High School Diploma
  • Psbb Madras
    Psbb Madras

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Arvind Rao works for Greatamerica Financial Services

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Arvind Rao's current role is Chief Technology Officer.

What schools did Arvind Rao attend?

Arvind Rao attended Tulane University, New Orleans, La, Manipal Institute Of Technology, Stanford University, University Of California, Berkeley, Don Bosco Egmore, Psbb Madras.

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