Vaskar Das Email & Phone Number

Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

• Cloud, Data Centers, Applications/Infrastructure Modernization, Emerging Technologies
• Strategy, Planning, Execution
• Transformation and Complex Program Management

Greater Chicago Area

• Applications Deployment on new private cloud infrastructure for a large airlines
• Pilot Application Migrations to Cloud infrastructure for a global bank
• Data Center Strategy for a Fortune 100 company following a Merger & Acquisition
• Cloud, Data Center, and Infrastructure strategy, architecture, planning, design, build, and application migration for a large healthcare provider
• Independent Consultant July '06 - Oct '06

Greater Chicago Area

• Technology Strategist
• Advised business and technology executives across industry (Financial Services, Consumer, Utility) industries on Next Generation IT and Cloud strategies
• Engaged with executives planning business transformation (Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, Restructuring) to develop early stage IT operating model strategies
• Performed Strategy, Architecture, Roadmap development, Program Framing and assisted client executives launch large (over $100M) business and technology transformation programs
• Developed and aligned Financial (TCO, ROI) Model and Business Case, with Finance, Procurement, and other stakeholders to approve launching high impact transformation programs

Greater Chicago Area

• Senior Practice Manager at EMC Consulting/Accenture, Chicago, ILCloud/IT Strategist
• Advised C-level level executives and staff in Fortune 100 clients (Financial Services, Health Care, and Manufacturing) industries on Next Generation IT and Cloud strategies
• Developed Financial (TCO, ROI) Model and Business Case
• Developed Cloud Strategy Architecture and Roadmap
• Managed the planning of organizational, process and technologyProgram Manager
• Managed multi-year Data Center Consolidation, Virtualization, and Optimization programs. Reported to executive steering committee comprised of client business and IT executives

Greater Chicago Area

• Program Manager
• Managed Data Center Consolidation, Virtualization, and Optimization programs. Reported to executive steering committee comprised of client business and IT executives
• Delivered programs on-budget and ahead of schedule with successful consolidation of North American and European data centers resulting in client realizing higher than expected ROI
• Led the successful recovery of several troubled programs and projects
• Developed key performance metrics and delivered continuous improvement quarter over quarter
• Developed Statement of Work and Requests for Proposal

San Francisco Bay Area

• Manager, Consulting, Cross Industry Solutions Group at KPMG CONSULTING / BEARINGPOINT, Chicago, ILFor a clients in Financial Services, Health Care and Telecommunications industries, delivered several Enterprise.
• Managed a $4M ERP systems upgrade and business process re-design project for a health care provider leading to a 30% TCO reduction
• Managed a global team of 45 software developers distributed in US, India and Australia to develop and rollout 11 mission critical systems to support the divestiture of a large telecommunications company
• Managed the $7M technical infrastructure and systems integration to support the rollout of a $40M ERP implementation project for a global bankEnterprise Architect
• Designed and developed a $6M B2B interconnect system for telecommunications providers (ILECs, CLECs) to support a multi-year consulting program with gross revenue $750 Million
• Led the technical designed and upgrade (to PeopleSoft 8.8) of 5 HRMS applications (Payroll, Time & Labor, Human Resources, Benefits) with web-based self-service capabilities for 100,000 users. Implemented enterprise.

Menlo Park, CA

• Senior Consultant/Lead Engineer Level 4, Elite VAR (SAP, PeopleSoft, Baan) at IBM CORPORATION (INFORMIX SOFTWARE INC), Menlo Park, CA
• Developed a product globalization roadmap for Informix (beyond version 9.x) and PeopleSoft (beyond version 7.5); Assisted development team in creating a new product development strategy, joint software development.
• Performed platform engineering, developed platform certification and product integration procedures and created joint support procedures for global support centers.
• Assisted in managing Value Added Reseller (VAR) contracts ($2 Million) which included supporting over 200 global customers (Elite VARs – SAP USA, SAP Germany, BAAN and Plexus).
• Presented a unified VAR support strategy at SAP users conference (Sapphire ’99 in Nice, France).

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Senior Applications Development Specialist at VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS (GTE DATA SERVICES), Tampa, FL
• Designed and developed a Data Warehouse data model for GTE’s national residential and business customers. Designed and tuned data extraction, transformation and load (ETL) processes from various internal and external.
• Performed configuration and release management for three parallel software versions under development and maintenance.
• Performed fixed priced ($1 Million) maintenance and system enhancements.
• Prototyped enhancements to an inventory tracking system.

Bangalore, India

• Software Engineer
• Assisted in the Project Management of outsourcing engagements ($100 thousand to $1 Million) for General Electric (GE)
• Right sized an IBM–mainframe based (DB2, Cobol, CICS) financial accounting monolithic system to a Unix based client-server (Oracle, Cobol/C) open system architecture for GE Supplies.
• Designed, developed and tuned a new client server application with 200 users for GE Capital.

Ms, Aerospace Engineering

Bs, Aerospace Engineering

Mba, Financial Management