Digital and transformation leader with 24+ years of international achievement; demonstrated success in driving digital operating model transformations, and delivering highly scalable digital platforms in retail, consumer goods, travel, transportation, and hospitality industries for significant shareholder value. Pragmatic approach with excellence in growing the Legacy Modernization CoE from 2005 as 1 member team to 6 member team in 2017 as Simplification & Digital Transformation CoE enabling execution of several digital transformations and large initiatives over last 17 years including 25000+ MIPS elimination, 2 in-house tool creation and 80+M USD worth of modernization/transformation execution.Proven track record of successfully closing 90% of modernization assessments. Customer centrist, understands customer needs and align the team on business requirements, provided thought leadership and mind sharing to senior executives of organizationsExpertise in -  IT Simplification & Modernization that includes legacy platform migration to next generation cloud based architectural solutions – Legacy systems include Mainframe IBMz Series /AS400 IBMi Series, Client-Server Architectures in VB/.Net to Java / Micro Services / Multi-channel / COTS / Digital Platform, etc & related data base migrations. Future State Architecture definition for the transformation programs – Cloud (AWS, Azure & GCP depending on customer environment and needs), On-prim and Hybrid solutions Large Scale Legacy Elimination solutions viz re-write, re-factor, re-host and retire IT Strategy to lay the foundation for future, that includes Application Rationalization Assessment & IT Roadmap towards TCO reduction & IT Strategy with future state architecture M&A Related Data & Application integration Closed multimillion dollar deals amounting to $ 70M+ in the last 8 years predominantly on mainframe modernizations on to futuristic platform on cloud.  Delivery of 10+ modernization projects with help of migration tools (in-house, third party). Majority on agile model till pre-prod environment addressing CI/CD process Proficiency in assessing IBMz and IBMi systems in length and breadth from all possible solution options (successfully closed deals for more than 90% of modernization assessments) Proficiency in conversion strategies (spearheaded VSAM to DB2 conversion strategy for in-house tool) IT Strategy to lay the foundation for future, that includes Application Rationalization Assessment & IT Roadmap towards TCO reduction & IT Strategy with future state architecture