Venkatesh Iyer Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Rochelle Park, New Jersey, US

Leading Innovation practice to harness the full potential of Telematics data and APIs

New York City, NY, US

• Lead Architect for the rollout of 300+ API-based integrations over 2 years using Mulesoft Anypoint Platform and Anypoint MQ across 12 business domains (Global Supply Chain, eCom, Retail, Warehouse, HR, Order.
• Instituted API-led architecture with best practices that have led to significant reuse, extensibility and composability. Enabling new technical and business capabilities have reduced from months to weeks.
• Defined the Integration Guiding principles that have standardized integrations to create data services
• Launched a Global Data Services hub for a host of applications – SAP S4, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Services Cloud, Manhattan Active Omni (MAO), Point of Sale (POS) systems.
• Judiciously adopted design patterns like Domain-Driven Design (DDD - Domain, Sub-domain, Bounded context, Domain service, ACL, etc.), Integration patterns (across Channels, Routing, Transformation, and Endpoints.
• Established cross-functional Innovators Club that shares and source best ideas for Proof of Concept

* Instituted an Software Governance and Rationalization practices to optimize Application Portfolio - eliminate existing redundant tools and avoid introduction of new redundant tools* Defined and launched an IT Optimization framework that balances Cost, Risk and Value* Established a comprehensive database with relationships among Applications.

• Client: Covance;Project: Application Infrastructure Consolidation (AIC) Role: Enterprise ArchitectResponsibilities:
• Developed IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Reference Architecture based on Gartner’s EA methodology. Built a detailed Technical Architecture to implement the reference architecture
• Conducted rationalization assessment of business applications of Central Labs business-unit
• Evaluated and assisted in the selection of Datacenter Discovery software product.
• Developed the EAI/ Integration Reference architecture with ESB, Point to Point paradigms.
• Technologies/ Products included ServiceNow, VMware, Java,.Net, ESB, Orchestrator technologies, Cisco UCS-C blades, EMC VMAX-E and VMware vSphere, VCOps

• Client: One of the world’s largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies, with annual revenues greater than $2 billion,
• Senior Enterprise-Architect for key strategic initiatives- IT Services Strategy and Architecture with ServiceNow as the main Orchestration engine and the CMDB - IT Fulfillment Strategy and Architecture with ServiceNow.
• Led the Enterprise Architecture team to support the Application Infrastructure Consolidation (AIC) Program
• Developed an Enterprise Architecture model for IaaS for various Tiers with Capabilities in IT-Infrastructure, ITSM and Security dimensions
• Built an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Reference Architecture based on Burton Group/ Gartner’s methodology
• Defined a detailed Technical Architecture to implement the reference architecture using Cisco UCS-C blades, EMC VMAXe and VMware vSphere.

• Client (part-time): A large Financial Services institution that has undertaken a major transformation program to reduce the number of applications from ~7000 by 30 – 50% with Alfabet’s PlanningIT as the key software.
• Crafted an Application Portfolio definition with key strategic dimensions (Costs, Business Value, Risks, Technology Health etc) to be able to compare redundant applications
• Identified around 25 key Indicators from the available 200+ Indicators in the Bank’s PlanningIT system to be included in the analysis. Aligned these indicators under the proposed strategic dimensions
• Developed an approach to “Normalize the Indicators” and create a “Weighted Average Scores” for the Strategic dimensions.
• Tested the proposed approach with real “Business Support Map” and the “raw indicators data” in the PlanningIT system.This framework was socialized with line-of-business Business-Architects and was refined based on.

At Goldman Sachs, helped establish Business Process Re-Engineering group within its Technology-Infrastructure group. Few of the key accomplishments are:* Project Prioritization -- Assisted in development of Portfolio of various planned Initiatives and Prioritize them based on their ROI * Process Analysis -- Created a Process Analysis Framework (PAF) to.

Palo Alto, CA, US

* Co-led the establishment of VMware Advisory Services Group, a technology strategy consulting group whose mission is to become the trusted advisor for senior technology executives to optimally leverage Virtualization to achieve their business strategy imperatives * Developed collaterals on Virtualization Journey that includes Strategy, Operational.

• Launched an alliance practice with a leading SI partner for FSI verticals to find incremental revenue opportunities for both firms
• Led initiatives to identify and develop new FSI assets and to harvest existing assets
• Guided BEA’s FSI Account Executives in all regions in crafting compelling proposals that demonstrated the superior value of BEA-SI alliance and BEA products to achieve their client’s business strategy goals. This was.
• Built strong relationships with SI Client Partners and SI client team leads in Americas and Asia-Pacific regions
• Established programs with SI to share assets, best practices, industry specific capabilities using BEA products and to cross-pollinate ideas
• All these activities resulted in a strong FSI pipeline of around $4 M for Q208 and Q308

Chicago, IL, US

* Co-Lead an IT due-diligence for a Private-Equity (PE) firm that wanted to assess the current IT capabilities of one of the firms in their portfolio to support acquisitions in the future.* Responsible to assess the crucial ‘Management and Governance’ and ‘Technology and Architecture’ dimensions of the IT due diligence framework.* Implemented a.

US

Principal Systems Engineer, Systems Sales (2004)* Led many efforts for client application proof of concept, benchmarking, and ensure delivery performance and scalability for BEA presales efforts.* Guided prospective clients in evaluating total cost of ownership (TCO), and return on investment (ROI) benefits with BEA technologies.Team Lead/Senior System.

Mba, Finance

Masters Of Computer Application, Computer Science

Bs, Physics