As a seasoned professional at Coforge, I have held various leadership roles with a strong focus on business development and practice management. I have excelled in compiling practice offerings, conducting market research, and nurturing client relationships to ensure seamless delivery success. Additionally, I successfully managed the Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice, leading proposal responses and defining solution architectures for transformative projects.During my tenure as a Senior Enterprise Architect at Encova Insurance, I played a crucial role in the smooth migration of the Agency Distributed Management System (ADMS) to a cloud-based Duckcreek DMS platform. My expertise in IT and technical strategies ensured a successful transition, contributing to the company's growth.At Adecco/LHH, I thrived as a Senior Delivery Manager and Consulting Lead, where I consistently delivered remarkable outcomes and value for clients and the organization. My achievements include leading Legacy to new ERP platform migrations and enterprise-level data and reporting strategy initiatives, resulting in substantial revenue growth.Furthermore, my contribution as a transformative ERP and legacy platform migration consultant generated an impressive 1.5 million in new revenue for the organization. Moreover, my expertise in leading enterprise-level data and reporting strategy workshops drove an additional 350K in revenue through consulting efforts.

As a principal consultant, I played a pivotal role in facilitating the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) transition to an Agile product-oriented Target Operating Model (TOM). This involved conducting workshops and training to introduce Agile and DecSecOps practices, designing new processes, organizational structures, and change management deliverables. Additionally, I developed a business and IT capability model, implemented an Agile-based delivery model, and formulated a sourcing strategy for vendor evaluation. My contributions empowered the IMF to adopt a more dynamic and efficient operating model, fostering innovation and adaptability in their processes and technologies.Additionally, in other project, I served as a Principal Consultant for OTIS and Carrier. For the IT and PMO audit assessment for an ongoing divestiture program, I conducted interviews and analyzed program-level strategies, plans, roadmaps, and other artifacts to formulate a risk assessment report with mitigation strategies and recommendations.In the Otis Global Hosting Strategy program, Phase one, I was responsible for assessing and delivering the first phase of the global hosting (Hybrid cloud) strategy program report. This involved understanding the infrastructure and application needs and challenges of Otis' global teams from various geographical locations, defining hosting patterns/archetypes applicable to the application portfolio, and creating a new high-level TOM, including governance and change management recommendations, roadmap, and plan from the application portfolio and infrastructure perspective.

As the Principal Enterprise Architect and leader responsible for governance and advisory of small to large initiatives, I have been instrumental in driving architecture compliance, fostering integrations, and enhancing business operations efficiency within the Firm.Some of my key achievements include:• Establishing the Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture Office: I formulated and implemented processes, toolkits, TCO, and ROI frameworks for evaluating new tools/products, delivering architecture domain artifacts, and instituting effective governance models. This standardization increased operational efficiency and brought better controls within the organization.• Driving Technology Adoption: I played a pivotal role in evaluating new technologies and tools such as Apigee API management, NoSQL data stores, RPA, AI, Kafka, and security-based tools. Formulating business cases, strategies, approaches, and assessments enabled informed decision-making on technology adoption.• Optimizing Operational Costs: By leading an end-to-end cost evaluation and optimization project for major product APIs, we gained valuable insights into operational costs, refined product pricing models, and decreased tech debt and infrastructure costs from 25M to 15M.• Enhancing Product Portfolio and Revenue: Collaborating with product managers and business teams, I conducted assessments for a $680M business product. This effort resulted in the development of a multi-year product roadmap, product reference and solution architecture, and strategies to decrease tech debt, modernize the product portfolio, and increase revenue by 6%.• Timely Delivery of Critical Initiatives: Through close collaboration and alignment with various business units and stakeholders, I facilitated the successful roll-out of time-sensitive initiatives such as KYC, and real-time Goodfunds. This involved delivering the right business and technical strategies, solution architectures, and technical designs.

• As an Associate Director, I have played a pivotal role in driving the organization's growth and success through my expertise in cloud technologies and intelligent automation practices. I have assisted leadership in various aspects, such as business case development, go-to-market strategies, vendor alliances (IBM and AWS), consultative selling approaches, services offerings, business opportunity identification, proposal responses, solution architecture definition, practice operations, and program management activities.• My contributions have been instrumental in generating revenue for the organization. I have led business development and presales efforts, including compiling practice offerings, creating practice plans, conducting market research, and mining accounts. Additionally, I have engaged in client-side activities, pitching the right services/solutions, responding to RFI/RFPs, and formulating SOWs and project plans tailored to clients' needs. • To stay ahead of industry trends, I have contributed to new use cases identification, application portfolio rationalization, legacy to cloud migration, API strategy, API management platform rollout, cost optimization, and transformation workshops. These efforts have enabled us to showcase our expertise and generate revenue.• My involvement in cloud transformation, automation and migration projects has been substantial, providing assessments, vendor evaluations, solution options, architecture, cost-benefit analysis, roadmaps, and estimations. These contributions have been key in securing new business and achieving productivity improvements for strategic accounts.• I have been actively involved in cloud transformation and migration projects, providing assessments, vendor evaluations, solution options, architecture, cost-benefit analysis, roadmaps, and estimations. These contributions have helped Cognizant win new business and achieve productivity improvements for strategic accounts.

Spearheaded and developed IT strategy, organization design, TOM and roadmap for Arris group after their company’s post-merger with Google/Motorola Home unit which resulted in optimization of their IT operation, reduce redundancy and save cost. Worked on application portfolio rationalization initiative and showed saving of $6-12MFor major pharmacy customer, CVS, helped in simplifying and redesigning portal site member personal homepage, Rx List and refill order pages and processes that resulted in user experience improvement and uses satisfaction rate. Helped in assessment, finding gaps, constrains, formulated future state architecture and solution options. Helped in executing delivery of the programFor major retail customer, Ascena retail group, helped in defining EA vision & principle, EA charter, EA services catalog, EA processes, EA roles and responsibility matrix, EA governance processes, EA metrics, best practices, ARB and CCB processes and governance model, reference architecture and mobilization plan. This resulted in increased standardization, improve operational efficiency, and institute proper controls and governance within their organization For major technology based customer, H.P, helped in conducted PwC catalyst format based workshops that resulted in finding gaps and identification of initiatives that will help them in achieving 2020 vision and roadmap. Formulated IT Strategy and refer architecture to showcase how to achieve 2020 vision and objectives. Develop and implemented industry specific reference target operating model (RTOM) using EA tools (Troux). This initiative involved in development of capability model, processes, ref architecture and standards using EA modelling tools that can be used in future client engagements resulting in gaining revenue and market share

For a fortune 50 Retailer, helped in identifying and consolidating global capability, processes and services across business units and globally for reducing operating cost, increase reusability and decrease time to market new products/channels . Lead in formulating enterprise wide shared service setup (ICC) strategy, CoE setup, patterns ,security strategy and framework to integrate with legacy applications (Mainframe , Custom Packages, eCommerce app ,COTS and External applications) and expose as SOA services For a leading outdoor Retail company, helped in transforming and migrating legacy processes, org structure and applications to new Oracle Retail Solution ERP platformFor major banking and financial customer, helped to develop AMEX GCP User Interface (UI) transformation IT strategy and BlueprintingFor major healthcare system development customer, helped in assessing enterprise architecture and processes maturity and recommended new architecture and processes For major healthcare customer, helped in assessing and defining new business and technical strategy, TOM, requirements and ref architecture to scale their Clinical Programs as per their growing demand For major insurance provider, helped in formulating IT strategy and solution architecture blueprintingFor major retail client lead the consulting engagement to evaluate and recommend legacy B2B product migration strategy, solutions ,roadmap ,and execution approach .For major healthcare client lead the consulting engagement to evaluate current Enterprise Architecture and Processes (capability, architecture, design, development, SCM and release management landscape ), find gaps and recommend new solutions and roadmapsFor major healthcare client lead the consulting engagement to evaluate and recommend legacy EAI product migration solutions ,roadmap, and execution approach

• Worked on Pre-sale side on assisting sale teams to win business which include client side workshop , pitching right solution to the client according to their need to get their business ,Educating sales guys regarding IBM/Company based Solution offering by conducting presentation session with them etc. • Project costing and planning for Customer based RFP responses for WebSphere based infrastructure using Websphere process server ,Websphere Message broker ,Websphere TX, DataPower and Websphere portal based applications

 Practice ,Account and Clients Relationship Management and Consultingo Formulated multiple services offerings and solutions to increase market penetrations and revenues for the cognizanto Pre-sale engagement and assisting Fujitsu sale teams to win business for Fujitsu which include client side workshops, pitching right solution to the client according to their need to get their business ,Educating sales guys regarding Fujitsu Solution offering by conducting presentation session with them etc. o Work as IT Strategy level consultant for customer to formulate business and technical strategy, approach, gaps analysis ,roadmaps, global plan ,high level solution options (products baaed as well as product agnostic solutions ) , Governance model ,reference architecture .o Helped in creating RFQ, RFP response for Fujitsu sales teams which involve approach, project planning, Estimation and costing, technical Architecture etc.o Help client achieve multiple strategic and tactical objectives from Enterprise Transformation programs ,ERP rollout programs , E-Commerce transformation ,Business Process Transformations o Formulated Strategy and architecture to introduce Fujitsu Palm Secure biometric device to department of home land security (DHS). Formulated high level business value, conceptual architecture to implement Palm Secure biometric device into existing DHS environment

Client: BridgestoneMigrate legacy environment to SAP ECC 6 ERP rollout :•Assess, evaluated and recommended strategy ,roadmaps technical options •Formulated high level reference architecture which includes contextual, solution, logical, physical views at appropriate levels of depth for different stakeholder. •Formulated SOA based strategy,approach, solution for coexisting multiple middleware and portal/Content Management solutions

 As an enterprise architect, helped in replacement of current legacy Medicaid management platform to a highly Customizable SOA/J2EE platform Assessed and helped in formulating business level strategy which included a goals/drivers, plan, capability definition, communication plan, identifying business process and its sub process Help in identifying, recommending and defining EA Framework and project methodology  Helped in formulating initial Kruchten 4+1 view based architecture which included logical ,development ,process and physical views at appropriate levels of depth for different stakeholders Formulated and evaluated strategy and options to seamlessly integrate IBM Websphere process server, Websphere ESB, Websphere portal server, Content Management, B2B products, COTS based Products ,Data, Security products and solutions Conceptualize and formulated design of Enterprise Batch Process  Formulated high level architecture for ACS Medicaid based platform which involves portal, business process layer, EDI and COTS based solution, data and reporting solution and infrastructure architecture

•Helped to migrate the existing Gentran Server that was part of a B2B stacked and Mercator that was part of A2A integration to WebMethods Server 6.1 •Formulated Migration framework and strategy which include assessment, roadmap, assessment, WBS, Estimation sheet, Design doc template etc. •Layout Architecture