Mikhail Rizkin

IT Strategy Business Transformation Enterprise Architecture

*** ****** **., ********, ** 01741 Phone 857-***-**** email ac5arv@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/mrizkin/

SUMMARY:

An accomplished IT professional with extensive multi-disciplinary solutioning, consulting, management, and business development expertise. A history of leadership in driving multi-dimensional transformational solutions, and providing strategic business initiatives with an enterprise-centric perspective on the IT capabilities, functions, and architectures.

Core competencies:

-Innovation and optimization of business and operating models (opportunity, ideation, business case, and architecture)

-Target State reference architecture design (business, information, systems, and infrastructure views, and process maturities)

-Transformation strategies, roadmaps development, investments estimation, and transitional planning

-Enterprise Architecture functions and policies definition; practical adoption of the EA frameworks and governance models

-Architecture of complex cross-functional technology solutions across business, technology, and operational dimensions

-Executive advisement on innovation, business value realization, initiative de-risking, and capability maturity

-Customer insight, value proposition formulation, ROI modelling, consultative value selling and consensus building

-Solution lifecycle methodology (inception, formulation, design & implementation, operationalization, and service assurance)

-Capture support, proposals preparation, executive communications, deal quality and risk assurance

-Practice development (process maturity, thought leadership, IP development, and team mentorship)

-Excellent communications, executive relationship, stakeholders influencing, and team leadership skills

-Cultural awareness to environments in Global/F250, mid-market, emerging business, Federal, and municipal segments

-Practical knowledge of dominant technology standards and platforms, and IT frameworks

-Business acumen with Financial Services, Healthcare and Life Science, Transportation / Logistics / Travel / Hospitality, Energy, Media & Advertisement, Retail, Manufacturing, and the Public Sector (Federal Civilian, Defense & HLS, State & Local)

Career achievements include delivery of pivotal business outcomes on strategic initiatives to 50+ marquee-name organizations; development of winning solutions leading to capture of programs with TCV of up to $1.2B; spearheading innovation and positioning numerous SMB for growth, competitive differentiation, and market leadership; and influencing strategic vision of F100-class business executives and national policymakers. Received multiple recognitions for thought leadership and consultative excellence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Oracle Corp.: Director, Business Transformation & Enterprise Architecture Sep. 2016 - Present

Direct capability-focused business development with customers in need of transformative innovation and growth enablement:

-Focus on emerging business in the Northeast region (8 sales territories comprised of 100+ sales and engineering workforce)

-Facilitate revenue targets, account growth, and logos acquisition by building value-centric relationships and generating demand for Oracle core technology and Cloud offerings

Enable customer business objectives by developing strategies and architecture vison for a comprehensive IT business capability:

-Closely engage C-level executives to identify opportunities for growth, innovation, and optimization of processes and assets

-Build a business case for change (business, operational, and costs factors) and drive it at all levels of decision support

-Communicate business capabilities and impacts of disruptive technologies (e.g., Cloud, IoT, ML/AI, Blockchain, etc.)

-Formulate Digital and Cloud transformation strategies across business, technology, and operations dimensions

-Conduct workshops with stakeholders to identify business and technical needs, priorities, approaches, constraints, and risks

-Provide guidance on the IT policies, capability gap, enterprise architecture maturities, and operational readiness

Lead definition of solutions integrated across Oracle product portfolio, including Cloud compute (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), information management (Big Data / Data Lakes, Business Intelligence, machine learning & advanced analytics), enterprise integration and process automation, SOA, IoT, Business Process Management (BPM), content management, Mobility solutions, security, etc.

-Direct cross-functional teams in development of the Target State architectures, realization roadmaps, and cost models

-Lead development of TCO and ROI models, analysis of alternatives, and development of investment recommendations

-Assure solution operational readiness (e.g., capacities, environments, service levels management, business continuity, etc.)

Advance practice quality, support go-to-market programs, and facilitate business development:

-Provide executive parity in customer relationships building and win management

-Partner with the Sales leadership on pipeline qualification, accounts strategy planning, and commit targets

-Collaborate with the core technology product management on offerings features and release priorities

-Develop industry-specific reference models, executive briefs, sales collaterals, white papers, etc.

-Mentor and coach team members across Sales and Sales Engineering organization

The Boston Consulting Group: Chief IT Architect Apr. 2015 - Sep. 2016

As a key member of a multi-functional management consulting team, drove architecture work streams on engagements with institutions that faced business-critical challenges to their innovation, complexity, quality, or timeline objectives:

-Facilitated BCG advisory to the leadership of F150 institutions by providing an IT architecture lens to development of the business, investment, and quality recommendations

-Closely engaged in definition and delivery of business and IT programs (Next Gen solutions, Digital Transformation, Cloud migration, M&A integrations, rationalization of service offerings and assets portfolios, organizational adoption of agile models, implementation of Enterprise Architecture function, portfolio rationalization and modernization, and platform convergence)

Contributed to the overall success of complex multi-year, multi-phase business initiatives by analysis, de-risking, optimization, and alignment of the client’s technical and process architectures:

-Analyzed complex enterprise landscapes to identify systemic opportunities, gaps, risks, and synergies

-Drove organizational inception of enterprise architecture functions and governance models (e.g., ARB, PPMO liaison)

-Conducted change impact analysis and assessment of approach alternatives (platform, investment, and timeline factors)

-Advised on development of transformation strategy, target state architecture, roadmaps, PPMO planning, and budgets

-Assessed feasibility, quality, effectiveness, and agility of the proposed technical solutions and realization methodologies

-Validated organizational readiness (operating model, governance, implementation and assurance process framework)

-Provided decision-shaping inputs on initiative planning and de-risking at both operational and senior leadership levels

-Facilitated stakeholders consensus and executive buy-in in support of approach, investment, and organizational change

Actively supported business development and practice improvement:

-Conducted and presented research on industry and technology trends impact and authored Point-of-View papers

-Actively participated in development and presentation of engagement proposals

-Advanced BCG brand reputation for expertise, creativity, and prestige

Hewlett-Packard Co.; Lead Enterprise Architect May 2006 - Apr. 2015

Provided senior level technical leadership in support of large-scale enterprise initiatives aiming to create, innovate, or transform technical landscapes of Global-class commercial clients and major US Federal agencies:

-A key contributor to the capture of deals with the TCV in the $100M-$1B+ range

-Enabled timely, sustainable, and cost-effective delivery of complex solutions on programs with the G100-class customers

Directed teams of tower leads, technical architects, analysts, and SME in development of complex multi-functional solutions:

-Drove value proposition formulation and competitive differentiation analysis

-Aligned technical approaches and policies with mission priorities, strategies, technology standards, and agency capabilities

-Directed design of solution integrated across business process, information, applications, and infrastructure domains

-Validated transition planning and operational readiness (migrations, Data Center capacities, service levels assurance)

-Assured solution delivery alignment with the HP services portfolio; conducted partners due diligence

-Led selection and adoption of lifecycle management methodologies; supported preparation of management plans

-Developed solution costing / venture basis of estimate, program WBS, resourcing, and program planning

-Directed development of proposals, RFP responses (technical volume), and SOW

Acted as the Chief Architect on go-to-market offerings for Health Information Exchange and SOA Center of Excellence.

BEA Systems: Consulting Technical Manager Feb. 2003 - May 2006

As a lead field practitioner, spearheaded consultative sales of the BEA products. Successfully positioned the services organization as the premier enterprise technology partner. Managed customer architecture engagements that resulted in customer references, license sales upside, and record consulting revenues. Led early SOA field adoption resulting in pioneering industry case studies.

Back Bay Technologies, Inc.: Practice Lead Jan. 2002 - Feb. 2003

Headed operationalization of a consulting practice chartered to offer integration services to the financial industry. In a startup environment, directed a wide variety of business development, practice management, and service delivery tasks. Built key customer relationships and drove competitive wins of key revenue deals.

EDUCATION:

-MS in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Telecommunications, St. Petersburg, Russia

-Numerous technology, management, and business training courses

-Participation in standards development bodies (OpenGroup, OMG, JCP)

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