PARAG DOSHI

Atlanta, GA 678-***-****

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SUMMARY

Customer-obsessed Executive & growth-minded innovator with a solid command of business strategy and technology execution. Focused on earning C-Level & executive-level customer trust by articulating and delivering true business value across diverse clients no matter the industry segment. Driving growth through execution and engineering products or building trusting service teams to deliver impact in my client’s business. Deep technical acumen in software engineering and advocate of “Cloud-First”, “API-First”, Agile, DevOps/DevSecOps/GitOps culture, microservices and Kubernetes/container platform development. Takes calculated risks and accelerates innovations from concept to commercialization and operations at scale. Frequent conference speaker, author, and patent holder. Passion for educating and learning.

SKILLS & CAPABILITIES

Defining a Cloud Strategy, gaining C-Level buy-in and funding and driving alignment steering committees

Introducing a culture of innovation, experimentation, and cloud transformation by establishing a Cloud COE

Driving Agile and DevOps and DevSecOps discipline as a prerequisite to cloud and digital transformation

Driving the field solution architects and engineers to craft custom solutions

Creating business cases and driving new product development (5 products capitalized at Anthem)

Startups in large enterprises: Building organization from zero up to > 500 people

Driving marketing initiatives including monthly program and developer newsletters and multi-city roadshows

Selling & executing multi-million dollar client engagements with P&L responsibility

Cloud-native expert deep in Kubernetes/Docker, AWS Architecture, DevSecOps, Cloud Security, Hybrid Cloud

Well published with over 40 papers in prestigious journals & conferences, 30 patents & disclosures

Mentoring, Sponsoring and driving intern and Co-op programs

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Earned trust of Chief Product Officer (CPO), CEO, COO, and CXO to serve as Tricentis Engineering VP to drive the development and innovation for 4 SaaS products. Built team of 100 from scratch in US, India, CZ Republic. Tricentis is pre-IPO software tools scale-up for continuous testing.

oDoubled the Test Mgmt. Revenue from <$30MM/yr. to >$60MM/yr. for Tricentis largest SaaS, Ranked top of Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave report for software testing tools

oDrove a new SaaS product just launched into the market in the Atlassian marketplace. Expected to drive exponential adoption for Jira users and ARR growth from $6M to $91MM

oDrove Engineering review and organizational change mgmt. for the acquisition of Tx3

oAs Executive Sponsor drove direct customer interactions and Executive Briefings

Pioneered Anthem’s cloud transformation strategy & journey changing the company forever. Secured $30 million funding, established an enterprise-level Cloud COE, engineered a “nimble platform” and migrated/modernized/developed > 100 mission critical applications for cloud

By partnering with CIO & CDO, enabled a new Pharmacy Benefits Management business in the AWS public cloud resulting in an operating gain +$800M or ~$2.30/share in 2020 per Forbes Magazine

Negotiated landmark contracts with AWS, Red Hat, HashiCorp, Google in partnership with legal & procurement

Invited Cloud Speaker: AWS ReInvent 2019/Red Hat/IDC and IBM Cloud Customer Advisory Council

Built, sold, and delivered software services for HP generating over $300 million in a span of 5 years

Designed and built products still in use today in Cloud, Healthcare, Telecommunications, and Manufacturing

Built self-funded PaaS & DevSecOps business centered on Kubernetes and R&D work with Kubeflow for AI

Winner of Georgia Tech’s Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, holder of many patents, well published (> 30 papers in prestigious journals and conference proceedings)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tricentis, Atlanta, GA 2020 - Present

Vice President of Product Engineering & Customer Engineering

Reporting to the CPO, responsible for engineering hybrid-cloud software for this pre-IPO scale-up company

Built the US and India engineering organizations from the ground up, selected and engaged strategic partners, recruited top talent, established agile teams across 3 continents, and managed a staff of ~100 people.

Direct customer interaction and executive sponsor for strategic accounts

Drove product engineering for four products to enable a company Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) exceeding $210 million in 2022 doubling the revenue in 2 years. Current year will be above $300MM.

Doubled the Test Mgmt. Revenue from $30MM/yr to $60MM/yr. for Tricentis largest SaaS

Increased Gross Revenue Retention (GRR) customer churn for our flagship qTest Enterprise Test Management product by 4 points (88% -> 92% YoY)

Drove adoption and user engagement by launching Customer Engineering program

Transformed our legacy qTest into “qTest Anywhere” – a cloud-native version that will run in any environment as a managed SaaS on Amazon’s EKS or on-premises on a customer’s Kubernetes container platform.

Developing new products: “Universal Tricentis Analytics” and “Tricentis Test Mgmt for Jira”

Prototyped and filed a patent for a new product for testing cloud-native applications

Frequent speaker at DevOps Unbound, APEX CIO events in the Atlanta community, WeAreDevelopers and WebExpo conf in Europe, and Developer days and Hackathons known as Great Ideas Gathering

Anthem, Inc., Atlanta, GA 2018 - 2020

Vice President, Cloud Platform Strategy & Services

Reporting to the CTO, responsible for establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence and driving an enterprise IT transformation across all Anthem business units to drive the company’s journey to Cloud Computing

Built cloud strategy, business case, operating model, and cloud platform to target migrations

Secured $30MM of funding to launch cloud program across 5 business units

Outcome: Migrated 83 applications, trained over 239 participants over 24 workshops, including 50+ cloud certifications, and contributed towards the goal of $25MM recurring savings & drove digitization of Anthem’s most prominent applications including the member portal

Built the organization from the ground up, sponsored training program for over 200 certified cloud specialists, selected and engaged strategic partners, established funding, aligned plans, created roadmaps, and executed toward cloud modernization

Launched a marketing and training campaign including training roadshows in over 10 Anthem locations

Spearheaded five hybrid-cloud products and capitalized all costs:

oPioneered strategy to bring in Red Hat OpenShift and cloud-native Kubernetes (EKS-Fargate) Platform-as-a-Service for containerizing applications and enabling serverless functions on-prem and in AWS

oNew advanced AWS landing zone where automation is key and the rigor of cyber-security is high

oIntroduced DevSecOps strategy for end-to-end automation, improved security, and advanced monitoring including Application Performance Management (APM)

oHybrid-multi-cloud Service Catalog to promote inner-sourcing and reuse of enterprise shared services

oSecurity strategy for tokenization of PHI/PII data for data protection security that leads the industry

Presented at Town Halls and led Executive Steering Committee meetings directly with Anthem Enterprise CIO, Chief Digital Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, and CTO

Stood up a new Cloud Operations org to ensure effective 24x7 operations of applications in AWS

Negotiated contracts and agreements with multiple cloud service providers and vendors (e.g., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform), Red Hat, HashiCorp, CloudBees, and more)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, Atlanta, GA 2015 - 2018

Chief Technologist & Head of Architecture for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) & Multi-Cloud Platforms

Drove the strategy and architecture for VPC offering, generated $400M revenue for DXC across 26 global data centers, over 400,000 servers, and over 400 petabytes of paid storage. Also drove Multi-Cloud Managed Container PaaS offerings in DXC VPC and public clouds

Provided strategic leadership, vision, and innovation for DXC’s highest revenue cloud offering

Started journey of transforming our Virtual Private Cloud by incrementally introducing new microservices

Implemented IaC automation for multi-cloud solutions with Terraform

Built API Management & Governance solution to enforce policies for secured API access to all exposed services

Enabled a multi-PaaS strategy to run CloudFoundry or OpenShift in HP’s cloud offerings

Sponsored implementation of HP Operations Management suite and a Level 4 Executive Dashboard

Sponsored SAP-on-Demand solution in HP’s Virtual Private Cloud

Directed the deployment of HPE’s first ever production implementation of OpenStack Virtual Private Cloud

Established cross-business-unit collaboration for first time among HP Cloud, HP Software, HP ES, and HP EG

Distinguished Technologist, HP Office of the CTO 2010 - 2015

Directed technology and architecture for HPE Enterprise Services go-to-market for cloud-based business solutions (e.g. SAP Hana-as-a-Service).

Pioneered and designed an offering called “Service Platform” aka “HP Enterprise Services PaaS”

Multiple papers and oral presentations at HP TechCon (only 20 out of 3,000+ selected for oral presentation)

CTO, HP Application Services 2004-2010

Defined technology strategy for HPES application services offerings across SOA & Integration services, Portals and Collaboration services, Content Management services, and BI services

Defined and led development of a new initiative called “Standard Operating Platform” PaaS

Practice Principal, HP Application Services – Americas 2004-2008

Established HP’s first SOA & Integration practice. Recruited and managed 50 senior and influential middleware architects specializing in the leading application platform suites on the J2EE and .NET platform

Sold & delivered multiple SOA & middleware consulting deals with P/L responsibility

Helped to secure over $300 million in new business for HP Consulting and Integration over a 5 year span

Chief Architect, HP Software Services Outsourcing Practice (SSOP) 1999-2004

One of the leaders that started HP’s first software services practice initially dedicated to the Telecom space

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Research Faculty, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering 1997-1999

Developed cost-effective, high energy conversion efficiency silicon solar photovoltaic cells (> 20%) as verified by Sandia National Laboratories and National Renewable Energy Laboratories

Patented rapid thermal processing technique that resulted in reduction of cell fabrication times from days/weeks to hours/minutes and is in use commercially today at Suniva and other solar cell companies

Awarded Georgia Tech’s Best Ph.D. Thesis Award and filed 3 patents

McDonnell Douglas Research Labs (now part of Boeing), St. Louis, MO

Electrical Engineer Co-op 1990

Developed electrical system to simulate gravitational forces on pilots training on F14 fighter simulators

Developed computational fluid dynamics models to understand vorticity and turbulence on different wings

EDUCATION CERTIFICATIONS

Georgia Institute of Technology

Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering

B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Secret clearance (once held)

SAFE Product Owner/Product Manager & Practitioner

Cloud Computing Monitoring & Operations

AWS Business Professional (Digital)

Red Hat Accredited Professional – OpenShift

Microsoft Azure Foundations

JBoss Middleware Developer

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