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Princeton, Nj, Us

Consulting Partner, Architect & Product Manager for Fintech and Healthcare domains. Build and deliver AI & ML based products, Digital Transformation initiatives with Data, Hyper-Automation and Platform development as a foundational drivers. Advise and & Lead Generative AI Architecture Council for multiple Fortune 100 companies. Defining and Internalizing program for product funneling and design for Gen AI based products. Consulted on Architecture Best Practices for Augmented Enterprise Architecture for a Open Source & Commercial Gen AI Platforms & LLM Cross Over Frameworks, Generative & Conventional AI & ML solutions. Leads a team of AI/ML, Product & UX / Experience Leaders to build an AI Workbench for Zero Code AI Digital Apps.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Performance owner, Business leader of this boutique consulting and product startup. Led development of the business plan. Helps set the business strategy and operating model, leads the fund-raising, profitability, human capital development & operations improvements.Enterprise Architecture Practice Development as a Center of Competence for Architecture Consulting across domains. Developed the Strategy & Roadmap, Practice Vision, Service Design for the practice and the Go To Market Strategy.Leads the AI Studio (Center of Competence), consults as the Business & Architecture leader for Cognitive Solutions, Research Head & IP Developer for AI technologies.Designing Emma (™), a Cognitive Consciousness. It is a real time self-learning AI that automatically generates and adjusts Machine Learning (ML) Model Set or Sets using input ML Pipelines for desired outcomes.Responsible for Commercialization of Patented and Patentable Claims/Technologies, Advisor to IP Attorneys and Valuation Professionals for AI/ML (including GenAI) and Cloud Technology invention management, Leads the Technology Research, Acquisition, and Transfer Program for large clients.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Multiple client engagements with CloudOps, MLOps, Digital Experience & Engagement Advisory, Scaled Agile Mentoring.*Global Distribution Network & e-Supply Chain advisory @ McKinsey & Co to support development of the Device as a Service technical and business model and related pitchbooks. *Corpus development for multi-domain Agriculture initiative. The focus was on directional best practices for identification, taxonomization and creation of Coherent and cogent Diverse Datasets. Used Natural Language Processing and IBM Watson Studio among other tools. *A cross functional leader of Digital Delivery and Product Team in a provider organization. As a Servant Leader coordinated Program Improvement plans, guided early framework development based on Scaled Agile. Responsible for development of program release roadmap, early process framework and mentoring of delivery management. Helped define and coordinate milestones of constituent initiatives and early solution engineering activities including Identity Management migration from Cerner Millennium to Okta, conceptualization of a Consumer Profile 360 initiative and its first iteration (Digital Profile) and the API Platform.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Accountable for growth, higher performance, and organization building, lead geography neutral, multi-specialties matrixed teams across enterprise architecture, delivery management, client servicing & support. Setup a 20+ people Consulting Practice for Architecture, Experience & Solutions Consulting targeted for Digital Transformation. Directed operations, developed Talent Networks in Multi-Vendor scenario, achieved 70%+ Associate Satisfaction in the community of Sr. Archs & SME.Executive consultancy for firms including McKinsey & Co., Bain & Co, Bain Capital Private Equity, Boston Consulting Group, Samsung, Cisco on business/technical strategy & alignments, operations effectiveness and performance improvements, Cyber Security, cognitive analytics.Led 100% Agile Certified teams to deliver 70+ Platform & Digital Solutions coupled with Cloud, AI, API, IoT, BigData, & Blockchain, among others in financial, healthcare, education, entertainment & media, etc. Cognitive Architecture Lead & Data Scientist for HealthCare Innovation specifically in Value Based Payments, Care Management and Care Gaps Remediation initiatives. Devising models including scientific, statistical, and otherwise, to support the medium-term corpus development and cognitive insights platforms.Influencer and Advocate for Credit & Health De-Risking to support Assurance based Health Coverage (like Medicare for All) for approximately 2+ MM families of a State Government employees in India. *Delivered several strategic Moving to Cloud on AWS, Azure & GCP.*Strategy & Governance contract advisory at a large Healthcare company.*Agile Transformations in EA for an Accounting Major. Optimized Quality vs. Vendor Spend by a factor of 3.2 in Q1*Consult with the Chief Architect at Horizon Blue on architecture governance, and digital transformations. Developed standards and practices for timed architecture measurement

Princeton, Nj, Us

Led the Deals Advisory niche segment team through the deal lifecycle from origination to execution. Advised and consulted on transformational acquisitions and investments. Consultant Chief Architect on large and strategic technical initiatives.*Led the research and development of proactive in-home interventions for senior’s quality of life and improvement of measured happiness index. Developing a platform based intervention-architecture and proactive cognitive insights platform pilot rollout.*Influencer and Advocate for Credit & Health De-Risking to support Assurance based Health Coverage (like Medicare for All) for approximately 2+ MM families of a State Government employees in India. - Helped draft policies to address remediation of loss reduction (for Reinsurance Credit Risks) in the transition phase - Helped direct variations of dynamic financial analysis models to assess medium term program solvency for capital planning & outlay in the administratively and politically complex and volatile situations.- Develop AI/ML Approach for Health and Credit Risk analysis

Princeton, New Jersey, Us

An investment of VXXIV CorpFounder of this Cloud SaaS Full Service Payroll and Accounting firm. Defined the business, Go To Market strategies and built the operations ground up. Led the partnership & integration ecosystem with Best in Class and Global Leaders like ADP, Intuit, Oracle, Microsoft, Square, Stripe, PNC, Bank of America, JP Morgan & Chase, among others.

Founder and Executive Officer.The WellBeing Foundation, is a Think and Do Tank for LifeStyle improvement and Accountable Livelihood promotions. Design the concept of 'Connected LifeStyle for Sustainable Smart Villages (sm)'. Include platform for clean energy, water security, sanitation, livelihoods, sustainable local commerce, etc. Expand and validate the hypothesis on Negative Impact of Pageantry and Beauty Contests on participants.  Population / Public Health advocate (government policy & field causes) Social engineer for alignment of lifestyle and livelihood initiatives Advises on workforce development.  Technical innovations for Ground Water and Soil mapping Pilot for SCADA extension for development of PLC/Sensors (Flash Flood early warnings) Architecture for Smart Grids (outcomes include Smart Meters in 5 emerging class A cities) Business Case for Smart Infrastructure in Government Offices resulting in mandates for Energy Efficient Resources  (Systems) Architecture of Micro Scale Solar Units for electric self-consumption & plough back of Extra-Energy to Alternate Consumers Advised on the first draft for the State Water Policy on a major State in a South Asian country. Influenced to build consensus for establishment of an Innovation Fund for Water Security related products and services. Conceived and executed a program for Ground Water Recharge. Outcome: ~20MM Gallons of Waste Water Recharged to ground each month Advisory services for Irrigation and Flood Control department in a mountain State. Implemented Education Empowerment Program for enrichment and improvement of Student and Teachers Experience. Currently the program funds and covers a total student base of ~20,000 students. Conceived and leading implementation of Population Health initiatives to positively impact Lifestyle of elderly, senior and special need citizenry. The program is still in its infancy.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

An investment of VXXIV CorpProduct concept, vision and roadmap for a No Code AI Platform product. Set partnership and technical directions, direct architecture blueprints, lead commercialization decisions. Leads the platform architecture team for conceptualization to rollout. Led a team of 10+ architecture and delivery leaders to build the ecosystem for a B2B and B2C Digital Platform and support Distribution, Retail and Investment Consulting functions. Cognitive (AI/ML) Analytics, Payments, Drop Ship Equivalency, Headless Commerce, Cloud Infrastructure, MLOps, with 100% Agile Delivery Teams.Led the architecture organization and consulted with the investment management functionaries for product and service definition of a High Performance Cloud Based Digital B2B Exchange. Provided the thought leadership for product development, defined the technical strategy, and led the implementation and rollout of the product roadmap for the digital exchange.Conversational Commerce, Combinatorial Intelligence, Cross-Domain Intelligence, Behavioral Analytics, Omnichannel CX and rollout of a multi-vendor Cloud API Platform for SaaS Services.Setup and Program Managed Centers of Excellence for BigData, Automation & API with 100% Agile Certified teams.BIG Data, IoT& API: Data lake with terabyte scale & diverse data sets, NLP, Text Mining & API Access. Architected an API Gateway for Open Cross Device Access, speed & orchestration for Legacy Code/Services Reuse Crafted a Boundaryless Reference Architecture and led implementation in a multi vendor environment.  Setup the Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, IoC (Infrastructure as Code) and Delivery Tools for globally distributed teamsImplemented product governance, defined portfolio driven growth approaches  Led definition of Program Improvements, Release Roadmaps and Product Roadmaps  Coordinated and risk mitigated product delivery management

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Accountable for direct revenue growth (individual) of $10M/annum, thought leadership, architecture consulting, Digital Transformation and Capability development for large accounts ($100M+). Drive and own cross domain Solutions Architecture. Consulted/Advised leadership of assigned large accounts including PwC, DentaQuest, Sysco Foods, etc., on Strategy, technical innovation, future state alignment, road-mapping, and technology incubation & adoption. Partnered with the delivery and client servicing groups for capability building including delivering agile transformations.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Consulted on Capability driven Enterprise Architecture to help define & implement the future state of the API Strategy, Design and its layering with BigData, Cloud and Cognitive Computing capabilities. The business capabilities delivery were for an Advisor platform. Setup the framework for Architecture Standards, Reference Architecture, Solution Templating based on the Blueprint. Prepared the Domain Driven Blueprint to provide a foundation and process to align the Technology and Business Capabilities.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Advise and Consult with technology and business leaders to strategize & realize outcome based transformations. Alignment of business and technical capabilities for the Integrated Care Delivery Model and the corporate goal of achieving “... To improve the health of the communities we serve 20% by 2020”. Proposed Journey Maps, Roadmap and framework for Architecture Risks Assessment and Quality Improvement.As an individual contributor accountable for strategic initiatives as:- Strategy and Roadmap for EA Performance Measurement & Metrics- Domain Roadmaps for various domains like. Sales, Finance, Consumer Service, etc. – Reference Architecture and Design Patterns Standardization- Portfolio Rationalization- Business Capability Mapping- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Capability map- Next Generation Enterprise Services Lifecycle & Enterprise Integration Governance ProcessPublished Governance Dashboards & Score Cards based on Internal Drivers of Performance Management, Green Field Reports, etc.

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

AI & Data Science, API Scientist, BigData, CloudDelivery Leader and Architect for High End Client Engagements. Led client management, new logo hunting and account farming to grew the Top Line revenue from $4M to $8.2M in 2.5 years. Improved the margins from 16.5% or top line renvenu to 28.4%.Consulting assignments:▪ Data Governance, Enterprise Data Management, Master Data Management and Data Quality in large enterprises▪ Multiple BigData initiatives including data lake setup, definition of contextual and sharable frameworks▪ Multiple Digital Strategy and Empowerment initiatives including Business/IT alignment & Architecture governance▪ Developed DevOps Best Practices to align with Digital Strategy for Governance and Data Visualization initiatives▪ Platform architecture for monitored provisioning of technology & product utilization with a deep focus on Variable Scaling▪ Architected an API Gateway for Open Cross Device Access, speed and orchestration for Legacy Code and Services Reuse▪ Improvement of health plan benefits in an assurance based delivery model with an impact on ~2 MM families by improving quality and reducing costs in pre and postnatal care. Made possible with the effective use of AI (deep learning with feed forward & LSTM) and IoT frameworks and devices. Drastically reduced the time to deliver/market and the cost for developing the value based actionable insights.▪ Corpus for multi-domain Agriculture Empowerment initiative. Set up best practices for identification, taxonomization and creation of Coherent and cogent Diverse Datasets. Used Natural Language Processing and Watson Studio among other tools.▪ Led the ML model development. Identification of data sources and building of the Corpus. Mentored the cross functional working of the Data Scientists, Technical Implementation and Data Visualization teams for Decisions development and Outcomes Dashboarding.

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Founded this Brand in Jun 2010 and divested in Dec 2016. Environment, Health, Education, Water, Energy, & Waste Management. Built the company from ground up to Operations in 3 countries with Associate & Customer Experience in the Center▪ Grew from scratch to to $4MM Revenue, Zero to 46 headcount and ISO 9001:2008 Certification in Year 2.▪ ~26% Resources Directed to programs in Water Security, Population Health & Capability Development▪ > 75 % Associate Satisfaction with Top two metrics as Associate Career Aspirations, Work Satisfaction▪ Built a Culture of Extreme Platform Innovation in a Multi Domain and Multi Service companyDefine the multiyear strategy, periodic goals and align it to product & market innovation for the mid-market Environmental, Health & Wellness, management and technical consulting company. ~26% Resources Directed to Pro Bono programs in Water Security, Energy Availability & Access, Population Health & Capability Development programs.Consulting assignments:Design the concept of 'Connected LifeStyle for Sustainable Smart Villages (sm) including platform for clean energy, water security, sanitation, livelihoods, sustainable local commerce, etc.Technology adoption plan for Ground Water and Soil mapping using architecture convergence approachPilot for SCADA extension for development of PLC/Sensors for flash flood early warnings (C++, Java, Matlab, Azure) Wrote the first draft for the State Water Policy. Influenced to build consensus for establishment of an Innovation Fund for Water Security related products and services. Architecture and Design of Micro Scale Solar Units for electric self-consumption & Plough Back to Alternative Consumers

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Founder of this Services firm. Divested profitabbly in 2014 to another services company in South East Asia. Grew the company from scrath to a premium practice of 70+ Architects and SME across 6 business domains (Telecom, Finance, Manufacturing, Automotive, Services, Travel & Entertainment).Strategic Architecture practice for thought leadership to IT Exes & Sr. Managers. Globalized the delivery model and workforce. Grew the matrixed organization and led a multi-location team in USA & India with 100+ employees/contractors for delivering strategic initiatives in enterprise architecture, IT Governance, Business Continuity, solutions for integration, re-architecture, Data Centers (Upgrades & New Setups), Cloud rollouts (AWS &Azure), networking/security, large scale data-integration, business intelligence & quality management. Defined and internalized key processes for human capital, financial modeling, predictive performance modeling, learning & knowledge management with a key measure to reduce delivery risks & operations costs. Led the Human Resources department to ISO Certification and Delivery Organization to CMMi Level 3 in two years Defined, internalized and executed portfolio functions (investment and applications) across client initiatives that integrated business, financial, delivery & operations/support.  Improved employee satisfaction by 40%+ over two years. Rolled out five large ERP implementations, cross-product integration, data-mining/reporting and decision analysis to support Human Resources (Human Capital Management), Finance & Accounting, Sales & Distribution, Customer Relationship Management, Product Lifecycle, Enterprise Performance, Predictive Analysis and Procurement. Platform Convergence Architecture, published third party consumable API & Services integrated with a custom Data Fabric & Data Lake. Architecture Insights, Strategy, Roadmap and Migration planning for implementation of the Next Generation Services Bus.

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- As a Principal Consultant led Enterprise Architecture, Large Scale Systems Integration, Rearchitecture and Transformation initiatives- Responsible for new market and business development- Client Engagement Management, Operations and Team building- Architecture and delivery of several complex Business Intelligence and Analytic initiatives- Architecture lead and delivery of Large and medium scale Cross Platform, SOA, Integration initiatives

Bowie, Md, Us

Define/participate in a capabilities driven Enterprise Architecture program.

(An investment of Unifed Methods, Inc.)Acquired the sick IT startup, turned around in 20 months and divested ownership in 5+ years. Public Sector Practice for State Governments in India. Market development, partnership development, develiry management and leadership with a focus on Quality & Marging improvements.- ~620% increment in topline revenue over 5 years through new product and service innovation & support- ~35% reduction in time to Market for Product (release) by effectively using Lean process and design thinking - ~20% cost reduction in product rollouts through optimized software delivery and quality assurance processes Unified Services Platform™ SaaS: Architected and led the rollout of an ERP SaaS consisting of 120+ services (Human Capital Management, Program & portfolio Management, Finance & Accounting, Performance Management, etc.)Healthcare SaaS tools: Conceived, secured funding and developed services for process automation of Admissions-to-Billing and Submissions and claims submission for mid-market care-providers. Integration of EHR, Admissions/Billing, Semi-automated Claims Work flow; Implementation of HL7 for integration and ICD 9/10 Standards for code complianceDrug Discovery Data Management SaaS: Conceptualized and lead the development of clinical data capture and management systems. Completed transitional prototype on Cloud including analytics, Control point’s automation for compliance, integration with IVR and data capture solutions like RAVE and OnCore eClinical.Unified Education Platform™ Saas: Architected and led the phased product delivery. Implemented a cross of TOGAF for architecture management & Zachman for Enterprise Architecture and driving IT Governance. Cloud & Converged Services Project Process Enablement: Process development for risk remediation and timelines compaction for cloud provider selection and rollouts with Azure, AWS, Salesforce, etc. resulting in > 30% schedule reduction of migration & new projects

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Reviewed and recommended application architecture to realize results for various business processes, improve the technical architecture and reduce complexity of systems. Provided critical thinking and architecture insights both on the provider and payor sides.

Chicago, Il, Us

Consulted with Cushman & Wakefield for the Enterprise Architecture, Program Management Office and a systems re-engineering initiative.

Orange, Connecticut, Us

Prepare the current and recommend the future state architecture for the enterprise. Critical assessment of the prior enterprise architecture initiatives.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

- Augmented the IBM Rational & the Aetna Process Team to recommend the Process and Methodology for information technology projects. - Mentor to Architects & Project Stakeholders for adoption of the processes and execution of projects.

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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Cupertino, California, Us

Executive Master Of Technology Management, Technology Management (Strategy, Innovation, Program/Process Management)

Bachelor Of Laws - Llb, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Corporate Laws, Statutes, Common Laws & Natural Justice

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Business Organization, International Commerce & Trade, Economics, Statistics