CIO
Resume:
Ananthakrishnan Ganesan
Dubai, UAE Cell: +971 (0-566-****** ******.*@*****.***
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
Business – IT Transformation v Global Operations v IT Risk Optimization Accomplished, pro-active and operationally focused IT executive with diverse global business experience(Asia, ME, Europe and Africa) having worked in middle market and large, multinational and publicly traded companies. A partner to the C-suite who is equally comfortable in a strategic and/or a “roll-up-your-sleeves” role. A leader who leads by example and builds, supports and transforms BU’s. An executive that is a quick study to changing circumstances and thrives in complexity and uncertainty with the ability to identify, prioritize and execute business solutions with speed. CORE COMPETENCIES
• IT Strategy and Execution – Green Field and Brownfield Deployments.
• Digital Transformation
• Managing Teams and interfacing with business across dispersed geographies. • SERVICES (Telecom, Software Development & Retail); INFRASTRUCTURE (SEZ & Ports) &
MANUFACTURING (Textiles).
• Industrial and Process Automation. • Application development.
• Project / Program Management. • Data Analytics and Business Intelligence.
• Corporate systems consolidations in Financial /
Accounting systems, ERP solutions, both on
Prem/Cloud.
• Benchmarking-analysis, current and future state
assessments, value and architectural modeling,
process optimization and IT transformation.
VELOCITY/SPEED TO MARKET
• Responsible for IT Strategy across 12 Ports and 100 Inland services operations encompassing over 12000 users and a wide number of customers across the geography of Asia, Middle East and Africa.
• Led an accelerated Digital Transformation for APMT for the AMEA region and stakeholders by (a) unifying IT Systems and teams across the Asia, Middle-East and Africa (AMEA) region and (b) driving business alignment and actionable strategy - focusing on the twin pillars of customer satisfaction and process optimization.
• Drove improvements in People/Process/Technology by rallying teams across regions and continents (100 + IT Team size) and facilitated effective working relationships with key stakeholders. (on Time and on/under Budget)
• Built and improved International business capabilities in Europe, Africa, Asia & Middle East. Other responsibilities included optimization of service center interaction, customer support systems, supply chain, ERP/manufacturing & application development, strategic process support and improvements on a global scale delivered on time and on budget.
• Drove performance and structural improvements to IT environments by optimized support processes used across businesses. (i.e. Customer support, Software Support, optimization of spares, etc.) resulting in over 25% improvement in availability and significant jump in business revenue opportunities.
• Strategically increased speed to market application deployment by optimization application developments through offshore placement and outsourcing in India reducing rates by 42% and realizing $1.2m in yearly cost outflow.
• Built and managed global teams that rationalized, consolidated and optimized company assets and equipment. KPI (Key Performance Indicators)
• Responsible for a budget of 20+ million USD.
• Driving business alignment and actionable strategy to measure and predict service needs associated with Digital Transformations, IT Automation, and Hybrid Cloud/Private computing.
• Created measurable improvements in software deployment and standardization with three primary objectives: ensure that high quality systems are delivered, provide strong management controls over the projects and maximize productivity.
• Driving business alignment and actionable strategy to realize 50%+ increase in change investment vs. run dollars while increasing business revenues due to new applications and services.
• Driving Collaboration amongst all entities resulting in $1.5 mn+ in yearly savings across the Indian portfolio alone. Consistent year on year savings 15% on Budgets across the AMEA portfolio.
• Identified and Managed a highly matrixed organization with diverse reporting lines and business stake holders – established dashboards for real time tracking and reporting across the portfolio.
• Identified and ran a project on Corporate Real Estate Facilities & Data Center consolidation - estimated Savings - $7.2 mn USD Cost out. Page 2 of 2
EDUCATION
Prince2 – 2018
Executive Business Management – ESADE (SPAIN) - 2012 ISACA – CRISC –2011, CISA – 2004
PGDBA – (Finance + Marketing) India (SIES College of Management)– 1998 Bachelor of Commerce – (Mumbai University – India) – 1996 Advanced Diploma in Systems Management (NIIT - India) - 1996 OTHER RELEVANT SKILLS / ACTIVITIES / RECOGNITIONS
• Six Sigma Green Belt Projects
• CIO Powerlist - India
• Recognized by Govt of India (APMT India) for paperless processes COMPANIES/ROLE
Regional CIO – APM Terminals AMEA (Ports and Logistics) Aug 2017– Present – Dubai, UAE
Responsible for delivering One IT organization across diverse business and strategy services to drive transformational improvements for global and enterprise organizations. Achievements include IT Organization transformation, application landscape optimization and Hybrid
(Private & Public) Cloud computing. Driving more responsive, efficient operations and development organizations in order to drive increased speed to market of IT enabled Services.
India CIO - APM Terminals. (Ports and Logistics)
Jul 2014 – Jul 2017 – Mumbai, India
Responsible for kicking off IT Transformation at Global APMT via Indian entities and designed centralized delivery of infrastructure services and applications APMT. This included design of data centers spread across the businesses. Head IT – Gateway terminals India Pvt Ltd (APM Terminals Mumbai) (Ports and Logistics) Mar 2009 – Jul 2017 – Mumbai, India
Responsible for corporate level IT Enterprise, Data Center Consolidation and Build out, Cost Out, Application development, IT External/Internal Infrastructure and International IT services. Head IT – Murjani Group (High end Luxury Retail)
Sep 2007 – Mar 2009 – Mumbai, India
As an organization, introduced high end retail in India via brands like Gucci, Botega Veneta, Jimmy Choo, etc. Implemented POS across 5 brands, 40 stores, 30 sub-stores, 1 mother and 5 regional warehouses - in a record time of 45 days (zero impact on store sales process). Head IT – Siyaram Silk Mills – (Manufacturing)
Sep 2003– Aug 2007 – Mumbai, India
One of the India’s largest textile organization and the leading brand Optimized manufacturing systems – industry first successful ERP rollout and industry first PLC integration. Established IT Framework and systems across 5 businesses, 4 Weaving, 1 Spinning, 1 Processing and 2 garment factories and 2 mega warehouses covering, over 70 retail stores & over 300 distributors. Senior Manager – (Global Technology/Telecom/Infrastructure SEZ) Apr 2001 – Sep 2003 – Mumbai, India and Bangalore, India Was a part of a team that moved across two organizations in this period. Digitra Infostructure Limited that designed the tech blueprint for a SEZ and a startup I-Spatial, that in partnership with BSNL launched all India Broadband services delivered through existing copper wire. Project Manager – Symatic Infotech (Startup)
May 2000 - Apr 2001 – Mumbai, India
Finance Manager – Surya Hotsip tea (Manufacturing/Trading) Sep 1999 – Apr 2000 – Mumbai, India
A small stint - handled the functions of Finance, Admin and Information (IT + Reporting) for a small tea company. Management Executive – Bizman International (Manufacturing / Exports) Jun 1998 – Sep 1999 – Mumbai, India
Project Lead – Novella Systems and Management consulting (Software development) Jun 1994 – Aug 1995 – Mumbai, India
Industry Experience
SERVICES (Telecom, Software Development & Retail- B2B, B2C, Warehousing); INFRASTRUCTURE (SEZ & Ports, Containers, Warehousing) & MANUFACTURING (Textiles and Garments). GOVERNMENT(Public – Private partnership). Technology Experience
VMware product suite, Microsoft product suite, HP product suite, SAP, IFS, (Other ERP, CRM, Factory, Supply Chain vendors), Databases, Citrix, MPLS, VPN, EMC storage and legacy systems experience, Service Now and other ticketing systems, Riverbed deployment. Dell Products, AWS (Amazon) Azure.
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