DESIGN THINKER OF IT BUSINESS-CUSTOMER CENTRICITY: INNOVATIONS MANAGEMENT, CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE PRODUCT SERVICE DESIGN, DESIGN WORKSHOPS-PLANNING TO BRING IN BUSINESS, USERS AND IT TOGETHER TO CREATE A FUTURE STATE. TRANSFORMATION-ENTERPRISE, IT, OPERATING MODEL. AGILE AND DEVOPS TRANSFORMATION- PEOPLE PROCESSES TECHNOLOGY. AUTOMATION-RPA XP JAD. GLOBAL DELIVERY and SERVICES MANAGEMENT GLOBAL SHARED SERVICES. DELIVERY EXCELELNCE - KPI GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK-BETTER ROI
Design Thinking driven Strategies Transformation of IT Services and Business functions of Clients
Thought Leadership :Connecting DOTS of Technology, Processes and People Capabilities
Global Delivery and Services Leadership to drive Global Shared Services-GIC to a greater Excellence
BFSI:14 years of business technology leadership roles
Delivery/Account : Budgeting, Costing/Pricing, Plan/Actual
Market Trends based Strategy Tactical Practices
Driven Delivery Excellence : Plan and Implementation
Managed Multi Culture Dynamics of Global Teams
Lead the Enterprise Transformations-Agile, Global Delivery Framework
Governance of end-to-end enterprise IT Management
Lean Management–Shared Services
PPT : Processes, People and Tools – Roadmap to Delivery Excellence
Professional Accomplishments :
Director Practice Head- Digital Transformation-CX-Design Thinking-Agile-DevOps-Lean
L&T Infotech-India Dec-2016-Present
Responsibilities
Leading Enterprise Transformation driven by Design Thinking based Innovations, Creative Capabilities and Client Engagements : Planning and Execution of Design Projects Design Workshops, Building Design Capabilities for Amplified Results
Empathy : Inclusive, Empathetic environment, tools to extract “Needs”, developed new projects on Design Thinking processes, Delivered amplified outcomes
A Thought Leader Decision maker for design projects, create CX Design
Creating and executing human-centered designs that is a game changer
Worked with Key Stakeholders to create a DNA of Innovations across Enterprise
Enabling IT Enterprise on Design Thinking, Agile and DevOps Capabilities
Clients’ Strategic Initiatives : Design Enabled Innovations, Vision Road Maps driven by User Experience Epics for Agile Development and Kanban App Support Services
Developing Transformation Governance of Performance and ROI
Showcasing the Practice Capabilities – Idea Wall, RFP response as Design Output
Delivery Transformation driven by Design to Agile to DevOps-Transformation Plans and Execution
Developed Digital Delivery Framework-Digital Process Assets Models Ways of Working Method Cards
Director–Global Shared Services IT Transformation Executive PMO TESCO-HSC Nov2012-Dec 2016
Responsibilities
Thought Leadership : Enterprise Transformation
Global Shared Services : formulate Strategy, Plans, Budgets, Define KPIs and Performance Management, Process Re-Engineering, Executive Decision Support System, Offshoring Advisory Board
Global Shared Services: Proactive Planning for Head Count and Business Growth for a better ROI
Launched Competency Development Management : Skill Progression Framework and cutting edge e-Learning and Enterprise Knowledge Eco System
Leading Transformation of enterprise using Design Thinking, Agile, Lean and Governance thru’ KPI/Steering Wheel
Digitalized Enterprise Transformation TO-BE conceptualized, brain stormed, developed and executed e-2-e solutions like that of :
Vendor Management System-End to End Workflow to govern Engagements
KPI Driven Measurement of Enterprise Performance –SMARTT: Portal to manage Enterprise delivery, services
Enterprise Vendor Management for effective leveraging Vendor Capabilities :
Stood-up COEs in Mobile Engineering, Innovations, Digital Transformation
Leading Initiatives of Delivery Excellence, Value Stream Management, Steering Wheel based Performance Management
Professional Achievements:Dashboard (please refer the last page)
Director-Global Business Delivery Management StateFarm Insurance-US June2008– Nov2012
Responsibilities
Led the Insurance IT Re-Engineering thru’ a plan and execution of long term Customer Driven Management, an initiative of $78M
Developed and Executed Roadmap of Business Re-Engineering
Driven Enterprise Agile Transformation for a quicker “time-to-market”.
Set-up PMO and defined processes to manage
by Score Card and Dashboards.
Pioneered the Global Insurance Service Model-Near Shore and Offshore combo.
Relationship Mgmt., Business Review, Consulting, Managing the operating budget and resource allocation for multimillion dollar customer engagements.
Overarching Governance of Performance Management, Delivery-To-Plans and Skills+2 for seamless Technical Capabilities.
Director-Real ID(DoIT) IL-Secretary of State, US June2006 – June 2008
Responsibilities
Planned and Executed $16M end-to-end enterprise solutions
Built ECM Business Technology Solution for Real ID Program.
Integrated process design for new work flow.
Automated the process by hands free scanning and data capture from documents thru’ OCR Technology.
BPR Study and Strategy Development (Readiness Analysis, Assessment Strategy, Evaluation Strategy)
Built a Vendor Evaluation Framework and Process
Modernization of Host Applications using Flex Solutions
Pioneered Agile Practice
Progam Delivery Business Manager PMO Satyam-US June 1997-June 2006
Responsibilities and Area of Expertise
Managing business opportunities for multi-million dollar projects
Sales Prospecting for Development and Maintenance Professional Services
Lead Generation
Identifying customer need and Problems
Proactive Plan for Application Knowledge and Management of Capacity.
Liaison with the client, - Business Unit of Agency more than $10M potential of Fortune 50 Insurance Giant.
Negotiating project delivery terms, costs, objectives, personnel assignments, and all related contract issues
Delivery Management, Risks/Issues/Escalations
Develop/Manage/Execute Road Map of Program/Business Unit solutions
Executive Asst. to Managing Director Nagarjuna Intnl (Vietnam) Ltd. August 1994- May 1997
Process Planning Engineer Bosch Systems-India July 1989-July1992
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) Karnatak University 1989
Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Marketing) IRMA-Gujrat 1994
Certifications Achieved:
Trained Design Thinker, IIM-A Dec-2016
PMP-Project Management Institute, PA, USA June-2000
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, USA Nov-2009
Key Leadership Areas coached on :
Empathy Collaboration Innovation
Resilience Taking People Along
Community Social Responsibility (CSR) :
Active Contributor to Friends of India Society-US
Active Supporter of awaaz.org on Social Network
Voluntary Services of Food and Blood donation campaigns of Sewa International
President and Active Contributor of Mysore Mallige Kannada Koota of Midwest-US.
Some of Key Strategic Initiatives of Transformation and Delivery Excellence,achieved in last 20+ months:
Design Thinking driven Enterprise Transformation
Agile Transformation led to achieve 40% improved time-to-market
Robotics Automation of Enterprise Operations- Straight Through Processing Processes to emulate 100% of Human Actions Extraction-Intelligence-Analytics-Completion of Technology Processes Digitalized Workflow Management Building Knowledge to create Intelligent IT Enterprise
Capacity Constrained Model of IT, relieved by adding more than 40% capacity through Results Based Contracts and Governance in just six months of implementing Fixed Bid Management and Governance Model
Delivery Management of enterprise applications with a record of One Enterprise Application released every month
Led 500+ FTEs at a time to drive Technology solutions,maturing the Technical Capability for a paradigm shift in platform development
Achieved 40% improved budget and timeline performance by Outsourcing an Initiative of USD 70 M and managing the Application Services
SLA Adherence improved by 90% by using Kanban in Services Management
Lean Resource Management applied to utilize buffer and demand of skills to utilize 100% of Head Count
End-To-End Enterprise and Executive Performance Management Frameworks process re-engineered, conceptualized and executed
End-To-End Vendor Management System conceptualized, executed for T&M, Fixed Bids and Managed Services Contracts, for a Digitalized interactions with IT Vendors
E-2-E Competency Development Management on digitalized platform : conceptualized, developed and executed for Competency Development, Assessment and Advancement to achieve 100% digitalized workflow management
Technology Competencies
New Technology POCs- BlockChain RPA AWS
Multi Channel Application Development Platforms
Enterprise Content Management IT Robotics Automation
E-Commerce Platforms : Design and Development
Testing Automation : Tools, Processes and Execution
Primavera Implementation and Hands-on Expertise
Legacy Modernization: GUI SOA Implementation
CI CD Dev Ops : Standing up Teams, Processes
ERP-SAP / R3 : Implementation
Business Intelligence and Analytics
IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture
Professional Expertise
Office of CIO
Thought Leadership
EPMO Set-up
Agile Coaching
Global Delivery and Services Management
Conceptualization of Models and Implementing
Strategies and Tactical Leadership
Innovation Ideas Implemented
Client Engagement
Business-Technology Presentation
Contract Negotiations
Strategic Initiatives
Decision Making
IT Risk Analysis
Tech Assessment
RFP Development
Vendor Leveraging
Results Based Contract Management
Thought Leadership
Executive Relationship
Behavioral Strengths
Problem Solving
Analytical
Learning
Trainable
Mentoring
Motivating
Confident
Innovative
Situation Analysis
Open for Ideas
Adaptable
Creative
Entrusting
Dependable
Team Spirit
Assertive
Inquisitive
Optimistic
Certifications and Training
Design Thinking Practitioner
Leadership Workshop-Tesco HSC
Project Management Professional – June 2000
Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance, Nov. 2009
Six Sigma Lean Management
Agile Coaching
Methodologies and Tools
Agile Kanban : JIRA, TFS, Kanboard (trials)
Waterfall : Primavera, Planview, MS-Project
CI CD : Jenkins, Maven, Build Master
DevOps :LISA, Puppet, Scripting
Strategies and Road Map:
Brain Storm, AS-IS,GAP Analysis, TO-BE
IT Performance Management : SMARTT Portal (developed in-house)
Vendor Management : VMS-e2e Digitalized Workflow
Robotics Automation: OCR, ECM, NoSQL, Google Charts, Javascript Objects, Rational, Selenium