Project Management

Venkat S.R. Nambiyur

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Summary:

Senior Technology and Architecture Director with a proven record of success

in leading technology-based, multi-million dollar business initiatives;

track record of designing profitable IT strategies and architectures to

achieve enterprise business objectives and establishing Governance

enterprise-wide; P&L motivated leader with demonstrated success in

developing and implementing new processes that improved efficiency and

productivity; extensive experience in building Enterprise Architecture in a

number of verticals including automotive, government, finance, energy,

pharmaceuticals, publishing, media and information services. Key core

qualifications include:

Technology leadership IT Governance

Strategic Planning Rapid Application Development

Budgeting & Forecasting, Program Technology Needs Assessment &

Management Rightsizing

Enterprise Content & Information Product & Development Vendor

Management, Digital Asset Partnerships

Management, CMIS Training & Development

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Cross-Functional Teams

Software Development Life Cycle IT Competency Development

Capacity Planning Outsourcing & Near shore Delivery

Professional Experience:

Chief Architect, Texas Department of Public Safety Oct 09 - Present

. Led the Texas Department of Public Safety's Enterprise Architecture

Organization by establishing and maturing enterprise architecture,

operating architecture framework and integrated delivery while managing a

biennium budget of $28 million to meeting the Agency's strategic and

tactical goals.

. Created the enterprise architecture vision, Operating Principles and

Target state for a services oriented, highly reusable, highly agile and

highly secure architecture and obtained executive buy in to the

architecture vision;

. Established the Architecture Review Board and the working groups to build

and govern the enterprise framework including processes, templates and

standards and IT governance structures;

. Developed technology standards for server, storage, application server,

security and application development to support tactical development

needs in alignment with architecture direction;

. Negotiated technology procurements with an overall savings of $10 million

over the state's GSA equivalent price;

. Aligned roadmap to structure architecture to meet program priorities with

deliverables in key areas.

. Established a hand-on education and partnership program with various

lines of business to transition disparate technology solutions into a

service oriented, capabilities based organization.

Director - Strategy, Delivery & Architecture, Publishing Technology,

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Mar 05 - Oct 09

. Developed the technology strategy and roadmap to implement the - Unified

Content Strategy - vision aimed at building business core competency

applications required to deliver custom print and digital products with

over 50% reduction in development costs and time to market.

. Designed and led the HMH Publishing Technology Platform Architecture from

the ground up and built a peak performing, geographically distributed

architecture and development & delivery group that included offshore

vendors to support the solution implementations.

. Negotiated and delivered a seven month complex, multi-stage system

integration process that saved over $5 million in technology and

implementation services procurements

. Led the smooth integration of delivery organizations from Houghton

Mifflin and Harcourt Education during the merger of these companies.

Senior Consultant and Migration Practice Lead, Fujitsu Consulting Oct 03

- Mar 05

. Led two very profitable CMS migration implementations that were featured

by EMC as models for migration to their latest version of Documentum.

. Directed the technology efforts in winning five major implementations for

the business development group.

. Successfully led major implementations in many verticals simultaneously:

o Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, CA: implemented of the Corporate

Policies website for Adobe. Designed the implementation path for the

project and developed the technology vision to expand the

implementation company-wide.

o Corus Pharma, Seattle, WA: Led a cross functional team to evaluate and

migrate the Documentum 4.2.8 based infrastructure to version 5.2.5 SP2

and all the custom applications, led the qualification process to

ensure that the new system is ready for CFR Part 11 validation,

selection of DR methodology to best suit the client needs

o RadPharm, NJ: Implemented a new Documentum based Workflow Management

System (WMS) to manage, track and report on the media receipt,

handling, read, QC/ QA, and final submissions of the read information

to their sponsors and CROs.

o Manitoba-Hydro, Winnipeg Canada: Successfully led effort from business

development to delivery and subsequent transition for the migration of

Manitoba-Hydro content management system to Documentum 5.2.5.

o Citigroup, Rutherford, NJ: Thought leader for a mission critical

system for Citibank supporting their complete Accounts Payable

department, determined full-time and part-time resource requirements,

documenting and troubleshooting the complex migration to Documentum

5.2.5. The project resulted in Fujitsu winning the subsequently

mentioned project, participating as a preferred vendor along with EMC

in the initiation work for the new global Citigroup submissions

project that is spread across all continents

o Citigroup, New York, NY: Successfully led the migration effort of

sensitive submissions repository to version 5.2.5.

o Evatone, Clearwater FL: Mentored and led a nascent team in a 3-phase

project involving synchronization of different environments,

evaluating and migration to DCTM 5i; reengineering the existing

Documentum based application; guiding them through best practices,

troubleshooting, and involved in the post mortem analysis of the

reengineered system.

Project Leader/Architect, MSX International - Customer Communication

Services Jan 01 - Oct 03

. Led the largest Documentum implementation in Michigan at the time to

provide hosting, retrieval, and maintenance services for GMs Customs

Administration Tax Department, successfully implemented a hosted system

with custom user websites for adding, deleting, edit properties, and

searching of documents, with custom applications for remote batch

printing of documents, upload legacy and QC of scanned documents and

maintain 99.98% uptime during business hours and 92% during non-business

hours.

. Directed other projects in MSX including a custom solution for portable

machine searchable database and Inventory Management System for Media

firm.

Analyst, Ford Motor Co., Accelerated Management Center Apr 98 - Jan 01

. Led and incorporated cutting edge technology research into various key

applications supporting core automotive plant activities - Electronic

Build Book Data Explorer, Prototype Development of Vehicle Bill of

Materials (VBOM), EBB Wear Analysis.

. Assisted with the delivery of an enterprise application for a global Work

Order Request system.

Education

MS, Ohio University

Bachelor of Engineering (Honors), Birla Institute of Technology & Science

(BITS), Pilani, India.

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