CTO SVP Engineering

Prashant Nema

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SVP Technology Pioneer SaaS SDLC Roadmap Strategist Global Roll-outs Agile An accomplished and highly competent Technology Leader with 25+ year’s executive-level management experience in start-ups and solution consulting environments, particularly in financial services and software companies, with a proven track record building and leading high performing teams and operations to deliver value products and solutions that meet the needs of the market and realize sizable returns. An entrepreneurial and creative thinker with a strong industry applications background who demonstrates the leadership, interpersonal and technical expertise to design innovative, break-through solutions to challenging problems, rapidly absorbing and applying new technology, processes and ideas to build sustainable scalable organizations with a competitive advantage. Key Skills

Executive Leadership Resilient to failures & barriers to fulfil strategic deliverables against all odds Product Development Introduced a fully patented & modularized cloud solution for global deployment Software Product Vision Translating solutions to real life problems into robust software solutions SDLC / Agile Development Applying best practice, compliance & control to improve product delivery speed Release Management Delivering & refining cross-platform solutions for resilient change management Strategy & Planning Considering compliance & security as critical foundations, not as afterthoughts Cloud/Mobile Engineering Pioneering mobile apps and virtual infrastructure from design to integration Strengths and Capabilities

Driving innovation, efficiency and accountability to support evolution, best practice and market leadership Managing large complex technology programs to enhance company-wide synergy, efficiency and results Launching investments, developing and integrating business models after thorough testing and evaluation Career History

Apr 2013 – Present Didalio

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Co-founded a start-up offering advice and next generation solutions including mobile wallets (iOS, android), middle-ware (cloud), SaaS dashboard portal and wallet technologies (SDKs) to banks and retailers

Conceptualized, researched, prototyped & patented a minimal viable product (MVP) with a $350k budget

Built a market ready 1.0 version in 6 months using agile methodology based on MVP customer feedback

Leveraging LAMP, cloud and mobile technology to build an economical but scalable mobile SaaS platform; overcoming industry entry barriers such as $MM SDLC’s and existing competitors

Seamless Integration with leading mobile wallets - Passbook/Apple Pay, Samsung, Google Wallet etc.

Evaluated multiple cloud computing solutions for a virtual infrastructure (no data center footprint)

Created a service-oriented modularized solution to allow deployment anywhere using API plug & play

Secured engineering talent across the globe using targeted incentives based on individual desires

Optimized client product revisions by leveraging agile release management for SaaS and mobile apps Sep 2005 – Apr 2013 Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group Chief Information Officer / Chief Technology Officer (CIO/CTO) Promoted to CIO in 2010 to drive IT transformation for sustainable and scalable market expansion with

$65M budget; following a 3 year program to prepare and overhaul enterprise-wide infrastructure as CTO

Led 2 year program to fully replace an online banking system with a home-grown custom platform for nationwide banking with cash management, bill pay, wires, ACH transfers and reporting; successfully refining the system over 12 months to turn customer feedback from below par to happy

Improved regulatory compliance for company code management practices in 12 months by introducing SDLC change/release management practices and tightening code management/security controls 2

Introduced the banks first mobile banking app for android and iOS, integrated with common services platform for a seamless experience, leading the solution initiative from design, build to release

Negotiated existing contracts (including MSFT, Oracle, HO, DELL, Cisco, VMware) to save $10M+

Restructured vendor management implementing new vendor selection and engagement processes to positively impact and forge closer Tier 1, 2 & 3 vendor relations, roadmaps and executive coordination

Successfully secured and retained top engineering talent in competitive Silicon Valley; offering long term career progression, training, challenges and coaching, rewarding top performance with top honors

Championed an enterprise integration bus concept by establishing a service-oriented tech stack for all bank development efforts to eliminate redundant activities; resulting in a positive ROI within 3 years

Delivered back office systems to stabilize foundations for sustainable growth across Financials (PSFT ERP), Budget Planning, CRM (Microsoft Dynamics), Treasury & Risk, AML/Fraud, Performance Data Warehouse, and Real-time Business Intelligence

Led the largest Core banking platform replacement program to streamline complex multi-currency operations and reintegrate all 50+ bank systems with the new platform; successfully engaging stakeholder buy in and fulfilling all critical milestones with zero operational disruption

Drove global expansion with new de-novo banks using new platform which reduced lead-times/risks

Aligned engineering practices across marketing, sales and product groups to ensure adherence to customer expectations for the first time in company history; resulting in improved cohesive synergy, efficiencies and newly found camaraderie company-wide Jun 2002 – Sep 2005 Oracle

Director of Program Management

Owned full product lifecycle in Oracle Fusion Middleware from concept to global delivery, offering a robust platform to implement Services Oriented Architecture to build mission-critical Enterprise system integrations

Visited multiple continents to facilitate product rollouts into diverse markets in tight lead-times, releasing further SOA integration products to educate in-country local delivery teams and launch marketing events

Collaborated across cross-functional/product teams optimizing integration, best practice and compliance

Spearheaded the Customer Advocacy Group successfully acting as escalation point for key issues focused on retaining large customers and mitigating the loss of multi-year $MM contracts Earlier Career

Practice Manager/Chief Architect Xoriant Corporation 2001 – 2002 Principle Consultant KPMG Consulting 1999 – 2000

IT Department Head/Systems Controller British Petroleum (BP) 1996 – 1999 Systems Analyst/Programmer/DBA UAE Public Sector Services 1991 – 1996 Education, Qualifications, Training and Courses

Bachelor of Engineering in Computers Indian Engineering College Trained IT Architect with Oracle Certifications and Executive Leadership Training Keywords and Competencies

Cyber Security

DevOps

Amazon Web services

Mobile Development

Agile Dev methods

Mobile HTML5

Mobile Commerce

Web Services/APIs

Cloud/SaaS

Channel Banking

Open Source

NoSQL Databases

NFC/QR/BLE/iBeacon

Product optimization

Actionable Push Notifications

Identity verification

Software development

Zero Data Center

Mobile fingerprinting

Apple Passbook/Apple Pay

Google Wallet

Technology Assessment

Performance Management

Program Planning/Mgmt.

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