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As a Digital Business Transformation Advisor for Cognizant’s Microsoft Business Group (MBG), provide strategic, advisory, solution and business transformation services for clients seeking maximum value from their digital investment, alignment to their business goals and low risk to success. - Lead solution envisioning activities that realize our clients’ digital transformation agendas, utilizing advanced technical and business process offerings and leveraging the entire Microsoft Solution stack including Azure, M365 and Power Platform, as well as associated managed services. - Provide critical skills and pragmatic know-how for designing and leading client engagements that deliver high-performance results balanced with low-risk approaches. - Blend strategic and operational experience and skills to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels to ensure the business’s priorities are effectively supported, all with strategies to maximize profitability, increase efficiencies, reduce complexities, leverage assets, and develop/retain skilled teams of professionals. Additional activities include: - Business Transformation / Digital Transformation - Solution Architecture, Strategy, and Product Roadmapping across the Microsoft solution stack - Business Strategy / Business Process Optimization - Change Leadership Strategy & Enablement - Cost/Benefit Analysis - Design Thinking - Workshop Design and Facilitation - Assessment Design and Execution

Working with clients to develop IT strategies grounded in best practices and compliance standards to support business growth and profitability, while managing risk. Develop technology solutions to facilitate achievement of business goals and develop technology budgets incorporating both tactical and strategic initiatives. -Assist clients with audit readiness and presentations to advise on response and likely findings, across frameworks including NIST, HIPAA, PCI and DFARS -Create vCIO/vCSO Audit Assessment service, delivering best practice audit, IT recommendations, strategies and budgets to clients -Created design specification for in-house application to deliver client audits -Tailor enterprise solutions for security and infrastructure for the small- and medium-sized business market to provide appropriate risk mitigation and solutions -Collaborate with prospects to develop business-aligned managed services, technology and security solutions -Provide project management services for on time project delivery -Stay abreast of trends in IT and new technologies to ensure clients are utilizing suitable IT infrastructure and line of business solutions -Innovate with new technologies, including cloud-based solutions in Azure and Office 365, to further streamline productivity and budget investment strategy Design disaster recovery and business resiliency solutions to support ongoing productivity Mentor junior team members to evolve their skillsets as solutions architects, account managers and client advocates Align clients’ business strategic plans with IT plans to support leadership objectives Streamline service delivery and standardize operational procedures to better meet client needs resulting in improved employee productivity Create ad hoc cross-functional teams to design innovate approaches and streamlined systems to solve client problems.

Ms, Instructional Design

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology