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• Refining the enterprise-wide runway, defining, and establishing operating models with governance, for business and IT digital transformation and managing IT like business, breaking down the silos from business through.
• Pivoted anti-architecture focus to an Enterprise Architecture approach by standing up the practice, directing 40+ team, chairing ARB, enforcing process embedded governance.
• Directed and implemented digital transformation strategy identifying the opportunities for business technology enablement and optimization and proposed new stream of incomes thru digital transformation, including.
• Comprehensive strategic department planning, budgeting and management with complete managerial leadership including talent acquisition, leadership, mentoring, training addressing gaps, and resource planning &.
• Led the IT Strategy formulation for $365+MM year after year IT Strategy (CAPEX&OPEX), delivering major programs including CMDB implementation with continuous technical debt analysis, rationalization, and management.

• Providing advice and support to CEOs and C-Suite Executives, on strategic direction in, business strategy, comprehensive startup business operations, product strategy, IT services, operational excellence, SLAs.
• Influenced organizationally 4x growth for CxO Advisory Council, IDWBI Analytics Private Limited, EDNA Technology Consulting Limited, Acutealpha IT Services, Glansa Solutions, gaining recognition as a trusted advisor in.
• Spearheaded the Consulting Professional Services expansion by enhancing the number of professional services delivered from strategy, thru marketing and implementation strategies
• Advised on resource identification, acquisition, training, certification, project placement and rotation and retainment strategies.
• Provided Strategic, architectural, implementation, sustainment advice on numerous projects not limited to including Data & Analytics Management, Data Modernization and migration, Cloud computing – Azure / AWS / GCP.

• Implemented the 1st formalized IT strategy and business architecture, Enterprise Architecture, ITSM practices by formulating goals and objectives, operating models, services, identifying KPIs, defining and integrating.
• Headed a team of 200+ direct and indirect reports as the Chief Architect to restructure the entire company's IT landscape by reinstituting new IT standards and policies and rationalizing 1600 applications to 1100.
• Automated the back-office processes in partnership with the CFO, using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for FinTech, accelerating productivity of the Finance Department by 25% while garnering a cost savings of $3M

• Partnered with Executive and Corporate Leadership teams to advise on business transformation, technology vision, and IT strategy directing an architecture team of 32.
• Matured the IT strategic and operational planning and revamped the Enterprise Architecture practices maintaining a $136M budget launching 3 programs and 34 projects, enabling new capabilities with innovative.
• Architected & directed end-to-end claims processing B2B gateway thru EDW and BI to meet federal mandate for health insurance organization with $3 MM per annum reduced TCO with 47% Common Services Compliance Rate (CSCR).
• Enabled enterprise to go mobile with Enterprise Google Applications for e-Mail, Contacts and Collaboration retiring Lotus Notes, to collaborate from anywhere saving $27.7M worth work hours in a span of 3 years for the.
• Increased revenue by $5.5M over 3years, $150K per annum savings by achieving operational efficiency thru automation with SaaS Enterprise Content Management and Digital Content Delivery using AWS Content Delivery Network
• Strengthened Customer Life Cycle Management, implementing CRM Solution integrating with ERP and SCM with $60MM savings through increase in sales personnel efficiency by 20% over 3 years

Houston, TX, US

• Transformed an underperforming and segmented technology infrastructure by refining EA best practices, aligning the IT vision and strategy with strategic business planning and a $70M+ budget, and mentoring 2 Managers.
• Directed Big Data Analytics architecture blueprint & domain artifacts aligning architectural development process to TOGAF framework
• Saved $9.7M over 3 years in productivity gains, through risk avoidance by EOL (end of life), security and compliance risks by rolling out the programs like SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, and Windows 7 migration
• Designed, sold, and directed strategies for pharmaceutical sales data, hospital data and patient data acquisition thru retail chain of store by architecting the B2B trading partner gateways, and processing to feed into.
• Designed and directed the infrastructure planning for multiple projects and major implementation of Billing Release Data Mart from the CDR Data Feeds from various Points of Sale and regions, Product & Support Data.
• Provided relevant Solution Design support involving Linux/Unix/Windows servers, Virtualization including ESX clusters, Networks, SAN/NAS storages (Clarion, VMAX, NetApp) and backup de-dup technologies (Commvault).

Houston, TX, US

• Provided Enterprise and Solution Architecture services to public, private and government sector clients leading 10 Architects and 10 plus direct and indirect reports. Hired, and mentored teams of EA’s, SA’s, and.
• Defined Technical and Consistency Standards process to define Enterprise & Solution Architecture end to end process including the Architecture Review Board Governance and process, leading in to handing over to the PMO.
• Collaboratively developed Enterprise Architecture artifacts (Catalogs, Matrices, and Viewpoints), blueprints, road maps, and standards, contextual and conceptual architectures, logical and physical architectures, by.
• Upgraded network and wireless infrastructure, architected Customer Master Data Management solution saving $1.2M per annum in saved hours on re-work, implemented B2B capability saving $1.8 M, architected CMDB for.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Managed and led solution architecture team providing solutions for the enterprise and support functions for e-business. Established framework, processes, technical standards and best practices in solution architecture.
• Introduced the data warehousing concept with analytics utilization, implemented new tools and technologies, and leveraged existing in-house platforms, strengthening the data management and integration activities

Executive Mba

Master'S Degree, Computer Science