Sridhar Vishnubhotla… CORPORATE STRATEGY, ARCHITECTURE & TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP

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Global Executive Transformation Leader, who provides innovative vision, strategic and operational leadership that ignites revenue, drives operational efficiencies, and creates optimized business/IT solutions resulting in a competitive business advantage. Dynamic Leader with a proven track record of nurturing innovation, building teams and driving success. Seasoned Strategy Director and Executive Enterprise Architect experienced in transforming IT & optimizing complex IT portfolios of over $2B in annual budgets at world’s renowned organizations.

• IT Executive & Technology Leader that transformed IT organizations to be “trusted strategic partners” to the businesses.

• Turnaround leader on major business critical & global projects of $200M+ budgets and 100+ personnel.

• BIG FIVE (KPMG & PwC) consultant that delivered CxO advisory, strategy & management consulting services to Fortune 100 organizations.

• Entrepreneur and experienced in building start-ups, adept in selling vision and building organizations to launch products & services.

• Developed frameworks to drive balanced fiscal year investments, increased alignment to strategies and enabled governing complex portfolios worth $11B+. Instrumental in driving portfolio optimization that resulted in an YOY cost-savings of over $500M.

• Revolutionized IT to deliver business value and drove better business & IT alignment in Fortune 10 organizations.

• Global executive with expertise multiple business process domains (Product, Marketing, Sales, Services, Legal & Corp Affairs) and experience in multiple industry verticals (Financial Services, Technology, Manufacturing, Consulting, Government, and Travel).

• Motivational leader with a track record of building successful teams, nurturing innovation & orchestrating talent delivering business value.

Comprehensive Strategic Leadership

• Strategic Planning, Vision & Leadership

• Business & Technology Innovation & Thought Leadership

• Enterprise Transformation & Governance

• Enterprise Architecture Delivery & Excellence

• Product Envisioning & Management

• Comprehensive Engineering & Product Leadership

• CxO Advisory & Management Consulting

• Dynamic & Motivational Leader

• Mergers, Acquisitions & Integrations

• Enterprise Information Management (Big Data, OData)

• Portfolio Management & Optimization

• IT Strategy & Leadership

Turning Vision & Strategies into Competitive Business Advantage

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. – World’s leading software giant with over $75B+ annual revenue.

ENTERPRISE STRATEGY, ARCHITECTURE & TRANSFORMATION LEAD/OFFICE OF THE CIO 2006- present

As a strategic transformation and business capability improvement executive, holds full responsibility for global enterprise IT transformation, fiscal year planning, and enterprise architecture & technology strategy. Transformed the IT organization to a real-time, predictive and a strategic partner that drove innovation and increased business value. Some of the highlights include:

• Strategic Leadership: Led the creation of Business & IT strategies for business expansion into emerging markets– drove the strategy formulation sessions that resulted in a going forward strategy to enter new markets (BRICS), the business model to go for, capabilities to be built and the IT portfolio to support the expansion.

• Led the creation of strategic roadmap and technology platform to streamline the product pricing across different channels for Microsoft, including identifying the new pricing models and establishing the governance model to enable Microsoft’s Devices & Services transformation.

• Led benchmarking of key capabilities to establish target maturity levels and developing transformational roadmaps to achieve them.

• Developed data center and technology strategies with an actionable roadmap for Microsoft’s retail channel in China.

• Technology Innovation: Built teams, competencies, reference architectures to deliver “Modern App” concepts leveraging Social Mobile Analytics & Cloud (SMAC). Led the creation of technology strategies for SMAC to push the IT/technology teams to the new era business and computing.

• Capability innovation and incubation – led the identification and incubation of strategic differentiators for the organization that led to the creation of new product offerings, business ventures, mergers & acquisitions.

• Process Architecture & Optimization – led process analysis and architecture efforts to optimize business, manufacturing and IT process that resulted efficiencies, reduced costs/ TCO and reduced time to market.

• Created frameworks and led the “real-time IT planning” and “finance transformation” that enabled efficient technology investments resulting in increased business agility.

• Information Architecture - Developed Enterprise Information Management methodology and architecture that resulted in bringing together various disconnected organizations and information assets – making information as a competitive business advantage. Led data architecture for major initiatives including MDM strategy, data modeling and optimization.

• Built effective partnerships, bringing along teams and organizations and drove alignment of goals to create a unified vision.

• Nurtured the development of talent in the organization - Lead a team of senior enterprise architects/program managers/developers & testers to develop and deliver on strategic initiatives and products.

• Enabled sales & revenue by evangelizing Microsoft products & services at the Executive Business Conferences with Microsoft customers & partners (CxO’s & board members).

• Led the delivery Workforce Management system that resulted in improved management of service engineers and $15M cost savings & efficiencies.

• Developed and institutionalized enterprise governance frameworks to drive Enterprise Optimization.

• Established the Enterprise Reference Architecture, Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Architecture (BAIT) that drove increased reuse, standardization of core capabilities across multiple business divisions

• Led the architecture of unified incident management system by driving rationalization of 48 related systems, resulting in reduced minutes per incident and reduced TCO $60M

• Portfolio Management: Led the optimization of $15B Microsoft IT portfolio and its operations to successfully deliver YOY cost-savings of $ 500M.

• Architected the Customer master and MDM for Microsoft, that drove increased customer and partner knowledge, CSAT, PSAT, improved lead/opportunity management capabilities for Microsoft.

• Managed teams to deliver a number technology capabilities for the organization.

Team Size: 5 + 35 PnL: $5M Governance: $2.8B/yr

Awards & Recognitions:

• CIO Award for the #Digital Tip of the Year 2013

• CIO Award for Executive Engagements with Customers FY14Q1

• CIO Award for leading innovation & teams

• IT Excellence - Inspire the Industry award for FY13 Q1

• Connect the Company award – for leading enterprise architecture FY13Q2

• Inspire Industry award for leading the enterprise cloud strategy & reference architecture FY13 Q2

• Innovation award for transforming FY planning into a real-time, strategy & business value -driven process FY13 Q2

• IT Excellence - Inspire the Industry award for FY13 Q1

• Grand Slam award for architecting & leading portfolio optimization with innovation

• IT Pro award for Partnership &Collaboration

• IT Pro award for Innovation & Leadership

• Gold Star award for driving architecture & strategic planning for Connected Sales, Marketing & Services divisions

• Deliver IT award for successful delivery and driving adoption of architecture across the enterprise

• Presented at Microsoft TechReady 13 Conference and top rated in the in the architecture track

• IT Star award for leading the MSIT organization design

• Deliver IT award for leading corporate business transformation effort

Earlier Career Progression: Harnessing Knowledge & Experience (since 1994)

ENTERPRISE DATA/ DATA WAREHOUSE ARCHITECT WELLS FARGO SERVICES, IA

• Drove the transformation of Wells Fargo from being “account-centric” to “customer-centric” (customer 360º views) that enabled Wells Fargo stores to upsell and cross-sell products & services to the customers resulting in at least 5% increase revenue.

• Architected and led the implementations of core financial systems (SHAW, Fidelity, Sapphire etc.) of over $500M budgets

• Led the delivery of key enterprise business services (through Enterprise Service Bus) to enable customer 360º across Wells Fargo divisions & businesses.

• Led project teams to deliver the key IB Drafts capability for Wells Fargo Financials that enabled revenue growth by 5%

• Served as a liaison and lead between global technology teams and the executive management driving better alignment between the business & IT

Team Size: 5 PnL: $1M Governance: $1M/yr

GOVERNMENT SECTOR – DEPT. OF LAW ENFORCEMENT (FDLE), OFFICE OF THE CTO, GEORGIA STATE

• Led Enterprise Architecture working with the GA CTO in developing technology strategies for the State.

• Led the creation of GA child welfare data warehouse (World’s Largest data warehouse with 250 data sources) that enabled the State to track and aid child welfare activities across the country.

• Developed law enforcement officer training and certification management system for the State of Florida – received Excellence Award from the Florida State Commissioner.

• Developed enterprise architectural views that enabled improved planning & management of various IT assets for the State of Florida.

Team Size: 3 PnL: $0.5M Governance: $1M/yr

SR. ANALYST/ ARCHITECT, ABN AMRO BANK, CHICAGO

• Architected global International banking, International Trade, eCommerce system that made ABN Amro bank as the leader in the domain. Developed integration patterns to integrate the existing systems, re-architecting them to cater new business and meeting the corporate standards. Led & managed the vendor teams on the development work from across the globe.

SR. ARCHITECT/MANAGER, ECRM PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 1TO1SERVICE.COM, IL

• Responsible for the design & delivery of CRM suite of products and services for the company.

• Shipped multiple versions of the product suite as a Service (SaaS) to mid-market customers.

• Managed all the phases of Product Development from inception to implementation.

• Led customer engagements – architecting the integration of products & services into their ecosystems

• Managed a team of 10 developers, 6 testers & 6 business analysts.

Team Size: 16 PnL: $2M Governance: $1M/yr

SR. STRATEGY CONSULTANT, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP, NEW YORK

• Strategy consulting services to CxOs in Banking and Financial Services industry - led in the business strategy engagements at various Fortune 50 clients that enabled better market disposition, increased revenue and surpassing competition.

• Business Strategy Advisory Service

o As CxO advisor, enabled organizations realize their business models by helping them create winning business strategies, translating those into IT assets.

o Strategic Innovation – advised on market entry strategies, new product development strategy, distribution and customer service strategies

o Helped clients in developing their merger/ technology integration by defining the key aspects of the merger and acquisition process with an end-to-end suite of solutions, from strategy development, financial analysis, and transaction execution to organizational and system integration, optimization, and transformation

• IT Planning & Advisory Service

o Led the IT strategy and business alignment to strike the ideal balance of effectiveness, efficiency, and innovation

o Enterprise Optimization – drove effective management practices to align and optimize IT portfolios to eliminate business redundancies, consolidate capabilities, SLAs and rationalize investments across multiple divisions of the organizations.

Team Size: 40 PnL: $15M Governance: $10M/yr

SR. ARCHITECT, AMERICAN EXPRESS TECHNOLOGIES, PHOENIX, USA

• Led the global implementation of ARIBA e-procurement solution across NA, LTAM, EMEA, APAC. Translated AmEx business goals & strategies into the required IT capabilities and led the creation of implementation roadmap. Optimized the business processes and drove the standardization across different business divisions and geographies.

• Led a team of 30 members and architected AmEx’s dynamic credit card system

Team Size: 40 PnL: $15M Governance: $10M/yr

SR. STRATEGY & MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, KPMG MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, THE NETHERLANDS

• Management & Strategy consultant in Banking, Insurance, and Management & Financial Services - led the creation of business & technology strategies for various KPMG clients across Europe.

• Shipped multiple versions of KPMG financial & payroll products that was provided as a product/service to various KPMG clients in Europe

• Developed Dutch Immigration Information Management System for the Dutch Government

• Co-authored/ developed KPMG web application development framework in Java that is used in project engagements resulting in quick turn-over times and business value to the clients

Received ‘Letter of Appreciation’ from the board of directors & partners at KPMG Management Services, The Netherlands

Team Size: 3 PnL: $1M Governance: $2M/yr

PROJECT LEAD, SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LTD., INDIA

• Managed the delivery of solutions by leading all the phases of SDLC for major domestic & international customers.

• Translated customer strategies into project vision and set clear achievable goals and milestones for the team to deliver upon.

• People Management: Coached & mentored a team of 20 developers, 10 testers & 4 analysts, motivating to bring out their passion for the betterment of the organization.

Team Size: 24 PnL: $5M Governance: $1M/yr

Education: Building the Foundation

• Executive Leadership & Management, University of Notre Dame – Mendoza College of Business.

• Strategic Leadership & Business Innovation – University of Notre Dame.

• 4-yr Bachelor of Technology in Engineering (B.Tech)

• Supply Chain Management Optimization – SCOR training.

• Enterprise Architecture - TOGAF 9.0, ECOE/ Zachmann, Gartner

• Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications & Information Technology.

• Leadership & Management training by Dale Carnegie.

• Enterprise Strategy & Architecture training, Microsoft.

Additional Information

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Technologies : Azure, Cloud (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS), Mobile, Big Data

CDI, MDM, EIM, SOA, CRM, COM+, DCOM, .NET, EJB, RMI, J2EE

• Databases : Oracle 7.x, 8.x, 9x, PL/SQL, MS-Access, MS SQL-Server, DB2 (UDB & z/OS), Sybase

• Modeling Tools : Rational Suite of Products, SPARX, Power Designer, ERWin, Toad, SQL Probe.

• Business Intelligence : Ascential DataStage 7.0, Informatica 4.7, 6.1, Business Objects, Crystal

• Financial Systems : HOGAN (CIS), SHAW, FIDELITY

• EAI Tools/Middleware : TIBCO AE, MQSI 2.0.1, MQSeries 5.0.1

• IDDEs : WSAD 5.1, Visual Studio 6.0, VS.NET

• Languages : Java, C#, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, VBScript, PERL

• Platforms : MS DOS & UNIX, Win2K, IIS, Apache 1.3, AS/400

• Methodologies : Method I, UML, Object Oriented, RUP

• Packaged Solutions : Ariba Buyer 7.0.x, SIEBEL, SAP, INITIATE, MS-Dynamics (CRM/AX)

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