Vijay Gopal Email & Phone Number

New Albany, Oh, Us

Riverwoods, Il, Us

Frisco, Texas, Us

- Accountable for IT Infrastructure & Operations (On-premise and Cloud) and Corporate Applications. Manage a budget of $60 Million and a team of 190 associates that delivers Infrastructure and End User Compute solutions for 11,000 employees across 40+ locations, enable 500 applications across all lines of business.- Established a world class platform on AWS that is enabling rapid delivery of Innovative solutions, compliant with Healthcare regulations. Closed one of 3 data centers in 2018.- Transformed Networking infrastructure by improving performance, optimizing spend and implementing a network architecture that supports increasing adoption of Cloud based solutions. - Led the adoption of Magellan Hub, a Single-Signon enabled platform that powered a distributed workforce (48% work remotely) to collaborate effectively, while accessing applications and tools required to do their jobs.- Reduced Technical debt by leading programs to upgrade hardware and software for core infrastructure services such as Telephony, Servers and Storage.- Implemented a Production Assurance function that has significantly improved system availability and performance. Led the implementation of a Disaster Recovery solution for 56 business critical applications that delivers 2 hour RPO and a 4 hour RTO.

Frisco, Texas, Us

- Provide technology, architecture and standards oversight across Magellan- Lead the transformation of Magellan's Data, Analytics and Machine Learning Capabilities- Leader of Magellan's Business Innovation Garage, a lean startup team which will closely partner with business leaders to incubate innovative technology solutions - Work with business units to assist with technology oversight for mergers and acquisitions.

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Established an industry leading Enterprise Architecture practice which significantly improved Nationwide IT’s ability to plan for transformational programs as well as retiring technical debt by providing visibility to health, cost, redundancy and complexity of Technology solutions in context of business capabilities.Set the Technology Evolution agenda for the company. Identified Technology trends relevant to Nationwide and worked closely with Nationwide’s CIOs to formulate implementation roadmaps for adoption of Cloud Computing, Big Data and Digital Technology. Managed a technology R&D portfolio which have helped monitor, evaluate and implement new technologies for Advanced Analytics, Mobility, Cloud Computing and Cyber Security. As the Architecture capability leader and profession owner, standardized processes and engagement models which made architects more efficient and effective across the organization. As the Chair of the Architecture Leadership team, set and governed technology and product standards across the Enterprise to drive down cost and complexity.

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Championed the need for improving resiliency of shared assets and formed the Shared Platforms architecture team which planned and implemented projects to improve resiliency (by 60%) and performance (by 35%) of shared platforms such as the Enterprise Service Bus, GIS, Contact Management, Enterprise Customer Information and Enterprise Internet Applications. Led the development of a business case to eliminate redundancy and complexity in the Data Warehouse environment, which led to implementation of a transformational program to deliver over $60M in benefits over 5 years.

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Core team member of a team of 8 that was hand-picked by the CEO to develop a strategy for Nationwide to become a customer oriented company.Worked with Sales and Service center field associates to identify gaps/opportunities and helped craft overall implementation plans. Led the analysis that identified signature experiences which have since been implemented, resulting in improved retention and sales. Partnered with the Market Entry Customer segment team to create an execution plan for an in-market test to be conducted for P&C Auto customers in AZ in 2009, which was rolled out broadly as Nationwide’s On Your Side Review.

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As the CTO of a group of newly incubated and/or newly acquired companies, established technology strategies, performed technology evaluations on potential acquisitions and selectively integrated capabilities with Enterprise IT.Delivered significant efficiencies and improved resiliency by leading migration of IT infrastructure from NSI companies to Nationwide’s Datacenters, resulting in annual savings of $5M (8% of run budget).Led the evaluation of Banking technology solutions and recommended a solution which was used to stand up Nationwide Bank in 18 months.Established Nationwide’s appliance based Datapower Web Services Gateway (IBM acquired them a year later) as the foundation for Nationwide's ESB.Led the introduction of Enterprise Application Integration platform and established architectural standards and best practices governing the use of Integration Services.Led the team that developed a services based, Master Data Management solution architecture for Nationwide’s Enterprise Customer Information file.

Managed a team of consultants bid, procure and deliver several systems for the Kansas City Southern Railway Company. Gathered functional requirements from end users, served as a lead architect and played an active role in implementing several projects. Established and managed a relationship with an offshore development center in India (Planetasia, now a part of Collabera), which enabled us to provide cost-effective solutions to our customer.

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Designed and developed a Mileage Master which was used by 2 class I railroads to dynamically determine distances and routes between any two stations over a heterogeneous rail network. Programmer/Analyst on a team that automated a welfare application and benefits processing system for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.Programmer/Analyst on a team that designed and developed an Inventory control and Tracking system for GE Plastics that managed inventory distributed across 8 plants in the United States.

M.B.A, Strategy And Finance

Sloan Certified Executive, Strategy And Innovation

Masters Degree In Computer Applications, Computer Science

B.S, Physics

Higher Secondary