Uma Kumar R. Email & Phone Number

A distinguished leader with 20 years of global experience in Digital Strategy, IT transformation, DevOps and Product Engineering with customer success expertise in a diverse range of technologies within multiple industries. Demonstrated success in building & managing Cloud and Infrastructure Horizontal practice with P&L, customers, people and technologies. Well-organized, and result-oriented individual with proven ability to implement standards, procedures, and processes that improve business functionality. Solid management skills, capable of leading and motivating individuals to maximize levels of productivity, while forming cohesive team environments. Exceptional communicator and focused on building internal and external relationships.With my 360 view on Application and Infrastructure, started as a presales (End to End cycle including complex RFQ, RFI, RFP, proposal defense and negotiations ) leader to build IT strategy for business continuity and transformation road-map with business solutions & next gen capability Offerings. Eventually started taking over customer success role for the transition and transformation activities. That resulted in building a “Multi-Cloud Services” horizontal and effectively managing P&L. Enhanced the Cloud & Infrastructure shared services horizontal to maximize the resource utilization and leverage automation capabilities across verticals. • Initiated multimillion-dollar multi-phased outsourcing initiatives to transform Healthcare IT systems.• Successfully managed the transformation and implementation of Cloud First programs with increased year-over-year saving in 12 to 36 months.• Implemented IT security and compliance controls to ensure data and IT infrastructure stays protected.• Restructured existing Shared Services processes and teams globally resulting in increased service quality and project efficiency by 50%.• Successfully managed a Hyperconverged OpenStack based appliance development lifecycle from design to go-to-market.• Customer facing skills to represent the organization and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding, TCO reductions, Capex vs Opex, Architecture, trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation etc.,• Highly technical, analytical and well experienced with Cloud(AWS, Azure, Google, IBM and Oracle), Openstack, ORACLE, VMware, EMC, Cisco products • Designed Cloud infrastructure offerings like Database(DBaaS), Application(AaaS), Infrastructure (IaaS)and Platform(PAAS) as a service.