Lead technology strategy and innovation at WonderBotz, with additional responsibility for ideating the solutions platform and driving global growth, delivery, quality, operations, training, and methods.

As one of the senior leaders of the EY robotics center of excellence and a certified Blue Prism robotics practitioner, I lead business development, sales and delivery of robotics programs at various global financial services firms in the US and LatAmAs a lead practitioner, advise financial services firms leverage robotics process automation (RPA) and other disruptive technologies as a key enabler to enterprise-wide business process improvement initiatives. I lead, architect and deliver some of the larger robotics process automation programs utilizing various RPA tools - Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, WorkFusionSome of the key engagement experiences include:- For a global insurer, supported envision/organize and advise on claims and finance automation program – including opportunity assessment/prioritization of automation using robotics and deliver quick-starts – Benefits realized - achieve straight through claim processing for one of the personal lines, support cost reduction by offloading a set of knowledge worker tasks to a virtual robotics workforce - For a global asset servicer, led effort to apply robotics process automation to accelerate conversion of client accounting data from a legacy platform to a proprietary target accounting platform. Benefits realized - realize operational efficiencies and improve quality & consistency by streamlining manual operations being performed by the operations & IT teams- For various financial services firms, advise C-level executives to leverage robotics and automation in innovative ways enabling this as core to a larger business process improvement & lean initiatives- For a global life insurer, led and advised data & analytics work stream to define vision and design a enterprise-wide strategic roadmap of a modernization of finance, tax and actuarial landscape- For a global life insurer, led and advised on data governance strategy and execution to meet minimum compliance for Solvency II regulation in Mexico

As Partner of a consulting firm, have led business development effort & collaborated with both Corporate IT & world-wide Business teams to develop business case and successfully negotiated contracts / SoWs for projects under various Global Transformation initiativesActed as subject matter expert/advisor, architect & leader on implementation & operations of various systems in current business system landscape - comprises of well-balanced blend of both ERP (SAP FS-RI, SAP FS-CD, SAP FI, SICS Classic) and ingeniously home-grown Global IT state-of-art web-enabled & Business Intelligence systems.Managed key Business & IT stakeholders and organizational change while ensuring successful delivery of projects & business support & IT operations of both financially active & core business systems used world-wide across all departmentsSpear-headed, lead strategic intent & co-managed application development and operational IT & business support of a global program management system built as a web-enabled solution to help manage international, multi-year & multi-line corporate P&C insurance programs. Responsible for initiation and overseeing execution of key modules - product management, claim, booking and data warehousing module to ensure quality standards, customer satisfaction and enforce process adaptation & utilization.Architected, mentored, built, operationalized & managed a home-grown strategic Information Management solution using state-of-art BI technologies, while leveraging BI best practices & re-designing & improving business process efficiencies & effectiveness. This solution now serves as core landscape used by all departments for BU & Group-level financial close, cession management, portfolio profitability analysis, cash flow management & integrated bordereau production & workflow management, reinsurance data feed to Zurich reinsurers & brokersParticipated at Zurich Group Data Standards initiative to implement IBM IAA across entire Zurich organization.

Established in 1996, Virani Inc. is a boutique IT consulting firm providing both turnkey projects and operations / maintenance services to our customers. We specialize in insurance-reinsurance business domain.

Managed a business-critical enterprise-level data warehousing initiative called IM – Information Management to be used by operational & senior management and executives at PartnerRe to improve efficiencies and transparencies in business operations in various departments including underwriting, accounting, finance, claims, actuarial, legal, internal audit. Managed day-to-day project management (incl. Following SOX compliant PM and change management processes) related to IM initiative projectsSupported business in defining IM vision & Roadmap and architected a cross-platform distributed data architecture based data warehousing solutionIssued RFPs, selected and managed multi-vendor relationships for both ISP & ASP servicesLed a Global multi-vendor team of 35+ team members split across locations – Greenwich (CT-USA), Zurich, Paris and Mumbai-IndiaResponsible for setting up and successfully managing offshore development model setup for IM initiativeUtilized: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Informatica, Business Objects, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS DTS, ERwin, SICS-NT

Managed a $ 11.3 MIL CFO-sponsored Transformation Program called S2C (Service to Cash) targeted to re-design/enhance and implement revised business process and related IT systems to support Admissions, Census, Patient Accounting, Billing and Collection functions to improve cash flow, reduce accounts receivables and ensure HIPAA compliance. Initiative was targeted to save the company $ 10 MIL annually starting 2003 with an efficient workflows supported by smarted IT-enabled solutionsLed & managed S2C development team of 35+ team members (4 Project Managers, 2 Application Development Managers, 4 Technical Architects, 25+ developers) based on offshore model with team split in 2 locations – Fort Smith (AR – USA) and Bangalore-IndiaLed a strategic effort on 2003-2006 Corporate Information Technology Roadmap for Beverly Enterprises. This included working closely with company staff at all levels – incl. Beverly Management Board members, C-level executives, department heads & operational staff to define Business Systems Vision, Business Process Modeling and Reengineering and defining-supporting realize Technology Roadmap for organizationActed as single-point of contact for all vendors (including IT and building construction companies) related to IT and non-IT effort on the projectDeveloped and implemented software development and project management methodology for S2C using best practices from RUP and PMI. Supported build enterprise-level PMO office

Program Manager of various projects viz. Data migration to SAP ERP, Reporting Systems

Onsite Project Manager at GE Medical Systems - USA on a Global Transformation Program - Global Service Parts LogisticsProject Leader at BEL India Ltd – Oracle ERP Implementation of Materials Management and Production Control systems.