Engineer Sales

CHANDRA GUNDLAPALLI

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E N TE R PR I S E A R C H I T EC T VP D IR EC T O R T EC H L E AD

A highly experienced and results-oriented technology leader and enterprise architect with over 16 years of

experience in a broad range of industry verticals including energy & utilities, retail, healthcare, financial services,

software and education.

As a Lead Enterprise Architect at TXU Energy, my responsibilities include IT Business & Technology Strategy

roadmaps with detailed architecture including aligning the TXU Energy Business Unit strategic objectives and

innovation concepts with corporate technology guiding principles and architectural standards.

A successful record of partnering with business stakeholders, IT peers and vendors and proven experience with

Technology Leadership, Strategy, Architecture, Delivery and Operations.

In the past served as VP Enterprise Architecture for a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner consulting firm, Director &

Enterprise Architect at division of global consulting firm CapGemini and Technical Lead at Dell.

C ORE C OMPETENCIES

• Enterprise Technology Architecture • Hosting and Cloud Computing

• IT Business and Strategic Planning • Governance, Risk and Compliance

• IT Planning and Change Management • Global Experience & building high performance teams

• Big Data and Hadoop • Technical pre-sales

P ROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE S UMMARY

Companies Worked For From – To Roles

TXU Energy (Energy Future Holdings) Dec 2013 – Present Lead Enterprise Architect

WinWire Technologies Jul 2013 – Dec 2013 VP Enterprise Architecture

CapGemini (Sogeti USA) Apr 2011 – Jun 2013 Director and Enterprise Architect

Dell Services May 2005 – Apr 2011 Technical Lead

E&E information AG, Berlin, Germany Jan 2002 – Dec 2004 Senior Software Engineer

InfoTech Enterprises, Hyderabad, India Jun 1999 – Dec 2001 Software Engineer

P ROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE

TXU Energy - Irving, TX December 2013 to Present

~ #1 choice in Texas, providing electricity and related services to more than 2 million Texas customers.

Parent company is Energy Future Holdings, a Fortune 500 ~

Lead Enterprise Architect

Architecture of roadmap programs (> $35 mil) leading a high-performing team of solution & technical architects

Played key role in implementing TOGAF enterprise architecture framework bridging business objectives with

information technology initiatives to increase operating efficiencies together with parent company EA team

Collaboration with IT teams by leading a team of service owners and architects as part of the enterprise

architecture governance and review board (industry, technology and market trends analysis)

Developed TXUE Business Technology Portfolio Roadmaps, Strategy & Capability Maturity Models across all six

portfolios together with business & IT leadership team partnership

Developed cloud strategy roadmap (Salesforce, AWS, Azure & HANA Enterprise) & implementation plan

TXUE Enterprise Data Management platform data lake architecture (Hadoop, Cassandra & HANA) and

implementation strategy (Cloudera with EMC Isilon storage, DataStax and SAP BW on HANA) for cost savings of

$15 – 18 million over 5 years

Collaboration with TXUE IT and parent company leadership teams to develop Long Range Planning & IT budget

Re-architected TXU.com web site to improve performance by 60% and customer satisfaction by 20%

TXUE digital strategy architecture and implementation plan (Modern web app & Hybrid mobile architecture)

including TXUE MADP (Mobile Application Development Platform) selection

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Key role in architecture evaluation for the TXU Energy and Bidgely partnership (energy disaggregation analytics

capability to nearly 1.5 million Texas homes)

Quote to contract (QTC) program blueprinting and detailed architecture on Salesforce platform

Lead architect for SAP CRM transformation program - evaluation, blueprint & POC on Salesforce & SAP CRM

RightNow replacement architecture using Salesforce Service Cloud (Dell Boomi, SAP CRM) as part of

application rationalization, improve operational efficiency & to lay a foundation towards SAP CRM transformation

Developed TXUE SOA architecture and implementation plan (CA Layer 7 API mgmt., Dell Boomi & SAP PI)

TXUE VAPS integration reference architecture & implementation plan (SAP BRIM & CPQ)

Contributed to the private cloud infrastructure architecture with a goal of 99.999% availability as part of the Data

Center Automation (VCE Vblock 720 Converged Infrastructure & Solaris to Linux migration)

Technology quarterly risk assessment & mitigation plan in collaboration with IT leadership

RSA Archer GRC (Enterprise, Policy, Compliance & Risk modules) solution design

Developed Business Impact Analysis across six IT departments (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery)

Played key role in promoting SpigIt innovation platform for crowdsourcing creative ideas

WinWire Technologies - Santa Clara, CA July 2013 to December 2013

~ Managed Microsoft Gold Partner with competencies in various technologies. Ranked on 2014 CRN Fast Growth

150 ~

VP Enterprise Architecture

Oversaw the architecture vision and integrity of the WinWire solution offerings

Won multiyear deals from Fortune 500 and 1000 companies – Cisco, Yum! Brands, Rowan Companies, Tesla

Lead team of technical architects in solution assessment, proposal and implementation of client initiatives

Sales support including RFPs, SOWs, business development, estimating & proposals

Provided consultative subject matter scoping assistance to Solution Architects

Attended and supported the Sales team at the Conference Centers for new business development

Built effective relationships with the sales community at WinWire

Presented comprehensive analysis and documentation of the customer's "As Is" state of solutions and

recommendations for "To Be" state

Contributed to WinWire IP development including technical oversight & mentoring to junior teammates

Client Projects: Alcon, B&G Foods, BJs, Cisco, Cleco, Hearth and Homes, Reed Elsevier, Rowan, Tesla, YUM

CapGemini (Sogeti USA) - Irving, TX April 2011 to June 2013

~ A fully-owned subsidiary of the CapGemini Group with €1.7 billion revenue and 20,000 professionals ~

Oversaw the architecture integrity and vision of solution offerings as an active member of the national EA team

Establishment of EA framework, EA leadership, architecture for several client projects nationwide

Architectural strategies for application development (Application Architecture), integration technologies

(Integration Architecture), and data technologies (Data Architecture and Information Architecture)

Networked with a world-class community of peers, experts and leaders to provide best of the breed solutions

Leadership for solution proposal and implementation of client strategic initiatives

Evaluated technical solutions proposed by development teams to determine fitness and compliance

Texas Region portals and collaboration solution leader - sales support including RFP's, business development

Collaboration with the respective IT PMO offices to deliver solutions aligned with business priorities & timelines

Recruitment, development and training of IT staff

Performed mentor activities including setting goals, measuring performance for junior team members

Client Projects: Press Ganey, Lehigh Hanson (Heidelberg Cement), Med Assets, Cash America

Dell Services - Plano, TX May 2005 to April 2011

~ Dell Services owned by Dell Inc. is one of the most comprehensive IT services and business services portfolios ~

Technical Lead

Technical Lead on several enterprise systems for Tenet Healthcare (>100,000 employees) and clinical data

(>6,000,000 patient visits/year)

Managed both onshore and offshore teams

Architected several MOSS farms and portal servers including BIG IP integration

Collaborated with cross-functional teams and client managers to gain insight into technical requirements

Implemented and maintained steady-state of over several .NET Web Applications on multiple farms

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Responsible for security of data and systems

Improved application performance by 30% with SQL queries indexing, tuning and optimization

Implemented several hospital intranets and consumer websites using SharePoint Server 2007

Partnered with internal quality assurance and production support personnel to ensure proper testing and change

management processes were performed for implementation and future functionality releases

Assessment and development of talent within the team to create new competencies aligned with the IT strategic

goals and operational requirements

Created several Virtual Machine images savings thousands of dollars as part of P2V initiative

Migrated several applications from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008

ADDITIONAL I NFORMATION E XPERIENCE

TECHNOLOGY

E&E AG and Kontrac GMBH, Berlin, Germany Feb 2002 – Dec 2004

Software Engineer

InfoTech Enterprises, Hyderabad, India Feb 2001 – Oct 2001

Software Engineer

Aspire Systems (India) Private Limited, Chennai, India Aug 1999 – Jan 2001

Software Programmer

E DUCATION, AFFILIATIONS & C ONTINUING E DUCATION

Education:

Master of Science & Bachelor of Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - India

(Second Best University)

First rank statewide with fully sponsored national merit scholarship in 10 and 10+2 grades

Certifications / Continuing Education:

IBM Certificate in Big Data and Hadoop

Dell Boomi (iPaaS - integration platform as a service) Certification

CapGemini Certification for Enterprise Architecture, PMP (P18), Agile & ITIL v3

Languages Known: English, German, Telugu, Hindi and Tamil

Professional Affiliations:

Gartner for IT Leaders Advisor membership & Gartner Research Circle

CEB Enterprise Architecture Leadership Council

Active member of Open Group - https://www3.opengroup.org

PMI (Project Management Institute)

Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist (vTSP)

Business-Critical SharePoint (BCSP) partner

Skills:

Enterprise Architecture, SharePoint, Agile Methodologies, Solution Architecture, Microsoft SQL Server, Software

Development, SOA, SDLC, Enterprise Software Integration, Databases, Business Intelligence, Web Applications,

CRM, Pre-sales, Requirements Analysis, ASP.NET, Cloud Computing, Management, IT Outsourcing, Agile Project

Management, MVC, NServiceBus, TOGAF, Design Patterns, IT Business and Strategic Planning, Governance, Risk

and Compliance, IT Planning and Change Management, Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows

Azure, Mobile Application Development, Hadoop, Big Data, MADP, MDM, Business Strategy, Business Continuity

Planning, Data Center Virtualization, SAP HANA, Virtualization, VMAX, Isilon and XStreamIO, Product

Rationalization, DevOps, Vendor Management, ERP, Business Transformation, Operational Excellence, Thought

Leadership and People Development.

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