Delivery Head - Intelligent Automation

Driving key strategic deals ($50M+) and responsible for developing automation strategy/roadmap and present to both internal and external stakeholders (CxOs) to secure approval for implementation• Leading Automation strategy for Cognizant's Intelligent Automation Practice since 2016• One of the core founding members of Cognizant IA practice • Automaton evangelization (Cognitive/AI in Business Operations) among 100s of clients translated to opportunities• Analyst relations for Cognizant's ranking in the IA space - Everest, Forrester, IDC, ISG• Product vendor connects for joint GTM - RPA, Process Discovery, Intake• Mentorship 100s of budding Solution Architects, Automation Process Consultants and Automation Program Managers

Started my career as a Programmer in Design & Development of ASP, VB 6 applications back in the days when you have to wait your turn to use the Internet connected system at the work place and 32 MB of RAM on your system was the best you could get. A year later, moved into J2EE Oracle world where I developed my love for the RDBMS by managing a complex 300 reports module with Oracle Reports.The best part of my career when everything was hand coded resulting in a lot of discipline in well designed and manageable code. Worked with the best leaders, challengers and great mentors who coached me on writing good SQL which I still love doing today!