CANDIDATE INFORMATION

Name:

Sathish Thyagarajan

Current Location:

Raleigh, NC

Can start within 2 weeks of offer (yes/no)?

Yes

SUMMARY

Enterprise architect with 20+ years of experience helping Fortune 500 clients in various digital transformation projects, with an MBA from an Ivy-League university.

Partnered with C-suite and other business executives to manage relationships between business activities, application systems and the corporate technical infrastructure.

Led solution architects and delivery teams, managed multiple projects, execution of enterprise software deployments, Infrastructure and Cloud Computing initiatives strategic to business growth.

EDUCATION

School

Degree (Level & Concentration)

Completed (Yes/No)?

Brown University

Master of Business Administration May 2016

Yes

University of Massachusetts

Master of Science in Computer Science, May 2004

Yes

University of Madras

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, April 2001

Yes

SKILL & COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS

Skill/Competency

Years of Experience

Cloud Computing: Azure, AWS, GCP

10+ Years

Project Management

15+ Years

AI & Analytics

10+ Years

CERTIFICATIONS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Sloan), Management & Leadership, April 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

NetApp, Inc Raleigh (RTP), NC September 2019 – Present

Product Manager & Solution Architect, AI & Analytics Solutions

•Responsible for growing NetApp’s AI business worldwide, by leading use-case discussions partnering with engineering leads, solution architects & marketing leaders to build solution road map and manage infrastructure projects for data centre and in cloud service providers like Azure, AWS and GCP.

•Gather voice of customers (VoC), manage multiple complex products pipelines prioritized based on business objectives, iteratively implement process optimization, and developed new AI & Analytics solutions per customer requirements and sales pipeline.

•Deliver outbound solution presentations to enterprise customers, build and maintain strategic alliances with ISVs, SIs, and channel partners.

•Build and maintain strong relationships, lead the partnerships with OEMs like Lenovo, IBM and Nvidia collaborating with go-to-market teams, presented as a speaker during executive briefings and conferences like Nvidia GTC & NetApp Insight.

OmniSci (GPU Data Analytics company) Boston, MA February 2019 – September 2019

Product Manager & Solution Architect

•Responsible for growing OmniSci’s business in Northeast U.S and Canada, drive Proof of Concepts (POCs), provide thought leadership and technical presentations to enterprise customers, work closely with engineering, sales & marketing on strategic product priorities and building strategic alliances with partner companies like Nvidia, Google Cloud, AWS, Azure & IBM

•Build relationships and partnerships with functional teams and presented to executives internally and externally as an outbound product manager and developer advocate.

Microsoft Corporation Burlington, MA August 2016 – January 2019

Product Manager & Cloud Architect: Microsoft Azure

•Served as a project manager and pre-sales leader to drive Azure cloud adoption initiatives for key accounts, act as a field CTO to assure alignment of innovative solutions incorporated with market research, industry trends and product attributes apt to maximize value for customer.

•Understand customer’s stated and unstated needs, provide technical guidance, thought leadership, architecture design and proof of concepts to large enterprise customers in FinTech & HealthTech space

•Provide technical guidance, thought leadership, architecture design and proof of concepts to drive digital transformation that add better business value and strategic vision for customers across Healthcare, Manufacturing and Financial Services industry.

•Collaborate with Azure product engineering, data scientists and partner/ISV organizations to drive cloud adoption for enterprise customers by developing innovative solutions related to Advanced Analytics, Predictive Modeling, applied Data Science, Machine Learning, Cognitive API’s, IoT and Big Data technologies.

•Built strong relationships across Microsoft organization and partners like Avanade, Infosys & Accenture to improve execution and assure strategic alignment of innovative solutions for product deliveries and client engagements.

PerkinElmer Inc. Waltham, MA September 2006 –August 2016

Project Manager & Solution Architect: IT Infrastructure

Led the Data Science & Big Data Analytics CoE by partnering with the CSO and other business leaders to expand innovative ideas and value-added data science solutions for PerkinElmer’s key enterprise customers. Deployed SAP BusinessObjects for 1000+ end-users

Worked closely with product management leaders on business strategy development for PerkinElmer’s environmental health business (a LOB with revenue >$1B) on market research, product strategy, pricing and partner relationships

Collaborated with IT/OT, network engineers, deployed predictive analytic solutions, application security (SSO), identity & access control (IAM), server monitoring & logging, database backups, HA-DR on VMWare & Amazon AWS

Successful track-record deploying various BI analytic solutions in multiple geographies, leading teams in U.S, China & India

Deployed business impact data analytic solutions for the Supply Chain Management (SCM) & product pricing teams, saved more than $250,000 a year through improved operational efficiency

Led the deployment of eBusiness product solutions per customer’s online activity & web analytics and achieved YOY growth in sales revenue. Partnered with web developers, SalesForce architects, VP of Marketing and increased ROI.

Malden Mills Inc. (Manufacturer of Polartec in textile industry) Lawrence, MA April 2006 – September 2006

Advisory Consultant: SAP

Developed and implemented data analytic solutions, best practice methodologies and solutions using SAP BusinessObjects & SQL server, ETL tools that helped management team in improving operational efficiency at the manufacturing mill

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, India September 2005 – April 2006

Sr Business Analyst: Business Intelligence (BI) practice

Led a team of business analysts and data warehouse delivery team, mentored direct reports, managed RFP/SOW and PoC initiatives and won proposals/deals estimated at $1.2 Million and $270,000 from a financial services and health care industry

Analyzed customer’s technical architecture, identified new opportunities, developed reference architectures, proposed technical solutions and best practice methodologies that helped customers in digital transformation

Avantec Solutions, Inc. Manassas, VA November 2004 – April 2005

Software Systems Engineer

Worked with Business Analysts in reviewing the functional specifications and developed an online order-processing web application using VB.NET and SQL that helped the customer (US Air Force) in processing their orders more effectively

SUN Microsystems (Oracle Corporation) Burlington, MA January 2004 – October 2004

Software Engineer

As a Java and SQL developer collaborated with other product engineers on SDLC with J2EE, a full software development life cycle project, developed an enterprise software (ESM) that enabled the administration of SAN/NAS products.

Bridge Line Software Woburn, MA June 2002 – September 2002

Software Engineer (Intern)

Worked as web developer (Visual Studio) with engineering team in the development of content management software (CMS).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP: SaaS/IaaS/PaaS

Data governance, Data Platforms

Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, PowerBI, SAP BusinessObjects, TIBCO Spotfire.

Azure SQL DB, Azure IoT, Azure StreamAnalytics, SQL Server 2016, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Strategic Technology Planning

Partner Enablement: ISV/OEMs

SDLC life cycle, Waterfall, SCRUM/Agile frameworks

AOP & Budget Planning, Cost Control, Governance & Delivery

Customer Outreach and Innovation

LEADERSHIP & MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTS: Finisher of U.S Marine Corps marathon (26.2 miles) in Washington D.C, October 2004. A fund-raising effort for non-profit org.

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