▪ Prashant Thakare has a broad IT skillset gained over 25+ years (15+ years in UK) with expert level experience in managing (risk, budget, resource and communication) Technology Transformation, Software Development and Production Support / Operations projects and programmes of size USD 10-14M through multi-location teams (UK, USA, SA, UAE, Canada and India). Has grown grounds up in career from developer to current technical delivery leader role through close liaison with customer leadership by effectively negotiating conflicts/ambiguity and influencing stakeholders to align IT priorities to derive business outcomes▪ Management expertise in technical and commercial solutioning (estimations, business case, commercial models, implementations), contracting (MSA, SoW negotiations), portfolio P&L (budgeting, profitability), software development (bespoke, enterprise integration, ETL Data-warehouse, digital solutioning and product development), support/service delivery and acquisition integration (system and staff transfer) aspects of engagements in emerging digital (User Experience, Microservices, Cloud) and heritage technology landscape with Agile, DevOps (CI-CD) and Waterfall methodologies▪ Leveraging his strong technical know-how and contracting excellence experience with McKinsey (Negotiation Toolkit, Cost Leakage Model), he is effective at delivering outcome through ideation in emerging tech trends, building value-adds (SDLC Accelerators), solution differentiators and account mining efforts