Executive Summary: Symbiotic Consulting Group is one of the fastest growing information technology providers, offering a wide range of IT services and solutions. At Symbiotic Consulting Group, our mission is to empower our clients through technology and business process improvements. Through effective partnering, we are able to successfully design and build world class solutions targeted to answering our client’s needs. Our Commitment:- Commitment to building a best in class partnership with each of our clients to deliver innovative, thought leadership strategies that increase business value.- Collaborative engagements that exceed customer expectations built on mutual respect and trust.- Fostering a winning culture that inspires vision, creativity and passion in everything that we do.Management Consulting: Project & SOW Based solutions:- T&M, Fixed bid, others- Help our clients on delivering critical projects on time, meet budget by providing creative, world-class solutions.- IT Strategy CRM Strategy BI Strategy ERP Strategy- Major System/Application Delivery & Implementation- PMO, BA - Offshoring (including system delivery and maintenance)Key Capabilities:- IT Leadership, being the interim CIO for big brand clients of Symbiotic (for example, LPGA interim CIO)- IT Strategy Work – Strategy around CRM, ERP, BI, etc.- Data Integration (Including Thought Leadership - Trillium, First Logic, Informatica, etc.)- ERP – SAP (Functional, Technical, Security), Workday, Oracle, Mainframe- CRM (Salesforce.Com, Siebel, MS Dynamics and other Platforms)- Business Intelligence (Various Platforms)- Custom Built Solutions – All MS, Java, SQL based, etc.- Excellent Delivery is Possible leveraging Excellent People:- High-Quality Project Based and Strategic Staffing Specific Resources for our initiatives:  Project & Program Managers Technical Leads Business Architects and Analysts Technical Data, Integration and Solution Architects QA Testers

FAU (ITOM) Advisory Board, with members of prominent firms in South Florida, work to strengthen bonds among the Department, alumni, friends, and industry. It has a critical role in guiding and assisting the department in improving the quality of education, its curriculum development, internship programs, student placement, and faculty development. The Board will be the main platform for establishing close relationships between ITOM and the industries we intend to serve. The guiding principle of the board’s activities and operations will be the mutual benefit of the partnership.- Internship of IT students at Symbiotic Consulting Group LLC- Mentorship of assigned students- Sponsorship and support of KEY events at FAUhttp://business.fau.edu/departments/information-technology-operations-management/advisory-board/index.aspx#.UQrX_7_hpUD

Hired by LPGA top executive team as the interim CIO of LPGA through Symbiotic Consulting Group LLC as a consulting engagement to transform LPGA IT, Processes and rebuild an A+ information technology team.Worked closely with the executive leadership team including the commissioner (CEO), CFO, HR executive and other senior executives to take LPGA IT to the next level as a Symbiotic Consulting Group representative in interim role of LPGA CIO.

Group Director / IT Executive - Application Delivery Group (A group of ~200 IT Professionals) Built a number of Application Delivery practice areas – CRM, BI etc with a focus on operational excellence.  Responsible for driving end to end BI strategy for Citrix. Led successful business transformation of SAP program at Citrix to simplify the system that had a budget of over $35 Million with a cost savings of $ 7.5 Million and also deployed CRM with a budget of over $ 25 M and cost savings of $6 M plus. Responsible for managing a group of 100 plus Citrix employees and another 100 plus consultants, with a focus on major enterprise wide projects, enhancements and defect resolution. Responsible for the integration and M&A for many companies within Citrix to grow the business from 1BN to almost at 2BN now. Served as technology due diligence leader on various merger & acquisition targets.  Responsible for putting together the Strategic Vendor Management program for entire world-wide operations. This has helped cut major costs and is an enabler for best vendor performance across the department. This has resulted in millions of dollars of cost saving working in conjunction with internal procurement department. Responsible for driving BYOC (Bring your own computer to work) initiative with directive from the CIO/CEO and other leaders which has been a huge success at Citrix. Presented on this topic at various forums and events to promote Citrix brand. Responsible for the delivery of “enterprise applications on mobile” at Citrix which has been another huge success. Co-presented with Oracle at Oracle Open world in 2009 and 2010 on this topic.Included all the application delivery practice areas:- SAP ERP Practice- Siebel CRM Practice- BI Practice - Hyperion, OBIEE, SAP-BW, SSIS/SSRS, Crystal etc- Salesforce, Web, MS teams- Offshore Development Practice- Practice Operations- Delivery and hand over of Overall Vendor Management and Strategy

Work with seniors/executives, colleagues and my teams to deploy enterprise wide ERP/CRM solutions to help meet /exceed the overall company goals on future growth and performance.

Application Strategy around CRM systems, Financials Management, Application, Integration, Data, Infrastructure, PMO, Change management and Six-Sigma teams Responsibility of full program and financial management of close to $35 Million - Sales, Marketing, Call Centers, Service, Analytics, data, integration with various systems and vendors including D&B. Saved over $3.5 Million with effective vendor negotiation skills.  Direct reporting into the CIO (Chief Information Officer). Managed a team of 125+ including various big-5 consulting firms.  Put together various support teams including the helpdesk, Tier-II and Tier-III support teams (employees and consulting firms) in Jacksonville FL. Successfully implemented this CRM solution for over 3000 users leveraging Siebel CRM package at Tyco/ADT. Similar efforts was tried there many times in the part and 10's of millions of dollars were spent in the past on many other efforts (CCA etc) without much success but Siebel application at Tyco/ADT was successfully deployed across the countries for all their sales offices to move away from MS-Excel to a corporate wide Sales/CRM system.

 Neopost: Multi-Org deployment for the seven major modules – Marketing, Sales, Service, Call Center, Dealers, Dealer Portal and Analytics for the three main operating companies of Neopost. Main responsibility included the overall program directing. Managed a team of 50+. Johnson & Johnson: This was world’s largest validated ePharma CRM implementation in the pharmaceutical industry for their Sales and Call Center modules. Was responsible for the overall direction and client relationship management at executive level. Managed and delivered a number of add-on projects at J&J as part of this program that resulted in an additional review if $12 Million for the company. Ford Motor Company: This $350 Million plus multi-year BI program was started from scratch by E&Y and was involved with the sales efforts from the word go to transform Ford’s business process and to implement a world class reporting system around financials and manufacturing.  Other key clients: Motorola, Shell Chemicals, General Motors, Sunterra Resorts.

 This project dealt with the Rail car Tracking, Maintenance and the cycle time systems. This was to track all rail cars assigned to Detroit Edison and/or its Holding Company’s (DTE Energy) subsidiary companies.

 This project dealt with the client, plan, insured, rider generation for life insurance.  The illustration documents are generated against a finalized plan for a client. Under the plan (contract).  Led a team of 5 developers offshore (Barbados) and at client site (New York)  Heavy focus on operational excellence and service delivery post go-live.

 Implementation of Accounts applications, MPS, Work in Process, Inventory application. Responsible for the analysis, design, construction and testing of the above systems. Created a data warehousing system also for all these systems.  Worked as a team leader, business analyst, developer, designer and program manager depending upon the requirements and the needs (especially around the time of high attrition in India when everyone was moving over to USA, Europe, Singapore and so on for better career growth / future from India).