Sr Director Information Technology

PRIYA ALMELKAR

*********@*****.*** ** Ridge Ct, Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866, 913-***-****

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

20+ years of proven IT leadership; sought out for transformation, establishing new programs, and driving results

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Digital Transformation

Integrated Financial Planning

IT Strategy and Architecture

Journey to Cloud

Application & Data Center Rationalization

Infrastructure & Operations

PCI, SOX, ITAR Compliance

ISO 9001, 27001 Certification

Information and Cyber Security

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Malta, NY (Jul 15 – Present)

Global Head of Digital Transformation

oLead modernization of technology platforms across the globe while creating Analytics, Automation and Data Science capabilities to deliver $140M in IT savings and $180M in business value over 5 years

oCreate governance processes and structures to directly manage 175+ people across 3 continents and introduce new programs like citizen data scientists and citizen developers

oDeveloped Cloud Strategy and application rationalization framework, successfully migrating 30% of on-prem workloads to cloud in 2020; targeting 90% in hybrid cloud by 2024, with capex reduction of $17M / year

oEstablished direct connect to migrate 3TB of transactional data for real time analytics with 25+ bots supporting robotic process automation

oReduced $60M in operating cost by restructuring supplier agreements and updating solution strategies

Global IT Director – Infrastructure Services, Enterprise Architecture and Disaster Recovery

oLed architecture strategy for building manufacturing operations in China with an initial spend of $23M

oIntroduced Capacity Management model and built forecast management tools for Infrastructure teams to support business growth while adding agility and variability in infrastructure solutions

oLed Global Database management team to optimize performance and increase operational rigor in collaboration with stakeholders while building competency centers for Oracle, SQL, DB2 technology

oGlobalized regional support model into “follow the sun” approach for supporting ~4,500 database instances and ~11,000 servers increasing productivity globally and reducing overall operational costs

oManaged disaster recovery procedures along with yearly drills for IT organization in conjunction with Business Continuity partners to ensure that recovery strategies met compliance and audit requirements

PAYLESS SHOESOURCE, Topeka, KS (Feb 10 – Jul 15)

Sr. IT Security Manager

oEstablished a new managed services team to run a 24 x 7 Security Operations Center in a span of less than 4 months, realizing annual cost savings of $400,000 per year and meeting compliance requirements

oIdentified and remediated deficiencies to update PCI compliance to DSS 3.0 standards and SOX compliance

oIntroduced and implemented 5 new products for the security team to asses and mitigate risk/vulnerabilities within the enterprise using agile methodology, automating compliance, reducing mean time to resolve

oSimplified security technology stack by 25%, consolidating products and successfully implemented Enterprise Wide Single Sign on Solution (SSO) for provisioning of 23,000 retail store users

oIncreased team’s retention rate by 30% while improving SLAs by 40% for provisioning and password reset

IT Manager - Business System Analysts & Program Management

oLed team of business system analysts to gather requirements for 120+ applications for 10 Oracle modules including Retail Management System & Retail Pricing Module and estimate for least cost/system impact

oAligned technology solutions with business strategies, conducted analysis and cost/benefit assessments, developed capability roadmaps and brokered other IT services for yearly savings of $300,000

oDeveloped Intake/Demand management process and tailored SDLC artifacts. Build iterative process for server/network/database end of life projects to consolidate project management

oDeveloped operations dashboard, scorecards, and monthly and quarterly metrics for executive review

SPRINT NEXTEL, Overland Park, KS (Jun 99 – Jan 10)

Technical Program Manager 4G Network & Unified Billing Platform

o Build infrastructure strategy for Sprint pioneered 4G WiMAX network to serve 10 million+ subscribers o Introduced agile methodology for new code & re-testing efforts and reduced time to market by 50%

oLed a team of project managers driving infrastructure builds with cross functional engineering, network, security, capacity, third party tools, and operations team resources; project NPV $2 billion over eight years

oDeveloped approach to migrate 20 million+ active subscribers from one billing platform to another vendor o Approved conversion methodology for 84 applications, set up process for managing SLOs, and recommended process improvement opportunities to increase efficiencies

oProvided daily Infrastructure & Operations status to CIO identifying and managing any resource, hardware, and software risks, issues, and resolution approach along with timeline

IT Project Manager III Enterprise Services

oImplemented a new Call Detail Record Archive hardware solution and migrated 150 Terabytes of data.

oLargest data migration at the time; project savings estimated at $17.4M NPV over 3 years

oLed SQL Server Consolidation resulting in 25% expense reduction for the year; 3 year NPV of $10 million

oLaunched 15 third party vendor Call Centers for Sprint in 7 countries with approx. savings of $450M/ 3 yr

oReduced international Collections 3rd party Call Center timeline to 45 days with net savings of $9.9 million for all centers for the year 2003; received top achievement award

oConverted 5 internal Call Centers to Citrix technology within a week, saving $20,000 in maintenance costs for that month. Project saving estimated at $1.1 million for year 2002

Engineer – Solution Delivery

oDesigned UNIX/NT infrastructure for billing applications and resolved configuration issues

oImplemented automation strategies and designed requirements document template for IT Services

P.T. ASIA KARSA INDAH, Jakarta, Indonesia (May 95 – Jul 97)

oDeveloped customized natural gas pipeline software package for the state owned oil and gas company

ACADEMICS

CISM, Security+, ITIL Certified

Kellogg’s School of Business, Chicago, IL - Negotiation Strategies for Managers

George Washington University, Washington, DC - Masters Certificate in Project Management

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK - Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (MIS)

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