Enterprise Architecture Senior Director

Sudarshan Deuskar

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

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Enterprise Delivery Enterprise Architecture Leader Proven Leader Building High-Performing Teams that Deliver Cutting-Edge, Innovative Solutions through Exceptional Architectural Vision and Execution

Extensive expertise in architecture, transformation, delivery, and team building, driving business success. Experience serving global customers across Telecom, Financial, Media, Distribution, Insurance, and Shared Services industries. Lead large development teams and complex, integrated programs with geographically dispersed global groups and external partners - local and offshore. Excellent interpersonal management and communication skills. Strong relationship-building and reporting, including executive business and IT leadership.

Core Competencies

− Enterprise Architecture

− Solution Architecture

− IT Strategy and Modernization

− Digital Transformation and Rationalization

− Data Strategy and Governance

− Business Analytics

− Cloud Computing

− Gen AI, ML, and other Emerging Tech

− Agile Methodologies

− Financial Management and Budgeting

− Vendor Management

Professional Experience

TAMPA BAY TIMES, Tampa FL

Consulting Advisor Oct 2024- till date

Working on IT assessment for Tampa Bay Times, a Time Publishing company. COX ENTERPRISES, Atlanta GA

Senior Director, Architecture 2019 - 2024

Oversee architectural governance, practice maturity, and process optimization across technology ecosystem. Architect innovative solutions, conduct investment planning, and perform technical debt remediation. Implement cutting-edge products, services, standards, and best practices to elevate corporate technology capabilities.

• Led reference architecture (cloud / on-prem), standards, and technology roadmaps, promoting consistency, best practices, interoperability, faster time-to-market, risk mitigation, and knowledge transfer across similar projects or solutions.

• Drove enterprise architecture tool design and implementation (OrbusInfinity), enabling modeling, analyzing, and managing complex relationships and interdependencies between business processes, applications, data, and technology infrastructure in structured and integrated manner.

• Managed technical debt and application rationalization programs, supporting enterprise-wide technology ecosystem while maximizing investments of new acquisitions.

• Directed application portfolio service redesign, achieving 85% data quality across business application ecosystem in <6 months

• Led business capability mapping utilizing Capstera capability model to calculate application health, assisting with rationalization and investment decisions.

• Served as key contributor in initiatives, such as Azure AI factory, Azure Fabric Lakehouse, Cox GPT, cloud migration, data strategy, API and integration strategy, identity and access management, optimizing operations, reducing costs, and driving efficiency.

• Managed executive status reporting (CIO / CFO) of architecture accomplishment and highlights, allowing top management to make informed decisions and steer organization toward desired objectives. COX MEDIA GROUP, Atlanta, GA

Director of Technology, Enterprise & Solution Architecture 2014 - 2019 Established greenfield architecture discipline for $2B media company.

• Instituted ‘Enterprise Architecture’ and ‘Solution Architecture’ practices and innovation incubator, transforming IT environment of reactive solutions, siloed development teams, and architecture riddled with 10 years of technical debt into proactive business capability enabler.

• Led architecture for $30M - 40M CMS (WP ARC, Methode), implementation, and large-scale integration of order management systems with Oracle EBS, MDM, ERP, analytics, and reporting systems for News, TV and Radio media domains, ensuring performance, efficiency, and resiliency.

• Oversaw data strategy to create Enterprise Data platform and advance capabilities, such as Real Time Analytics and Predictive Analytics via Machine Learning, utilizing NLP to predict content performance and revenue, improving efficiencies for audience, advertisements, content, and finance domains.

• Spearheaded cloud migration to establish ‘Cloud Center of Excellence’, executing cloud optimization strategies for cost optimization.

• Conceptualized and employed innovation incubator utilizing custom-built framework for micro innovations to foster continuous improvement and adaptation, remaining competitive and relevant in ever evolving and challenging media landscape.

• Drove and compiled product aspirations for very large ‘Order to Cash’ initiative comprising of 3 different order management systems and systems in areas of MDM, fulfillment, financials (Oracle EBS, Hyperion), analytics (Alteryx, iJento / Fospha, QlikView), and more, maximizing revenue generation. CBEYOND, Atlanta, GA

Director, Enterprise Architecture & Middleware Delivery 2011 - 2014 Rationalized and modernized IT landscape of $750M SMB telecom company to expand into cloud products offerings.

• Revolutionized IT landscape, establishing disruptive architecture practice and driving widespread adoption.

• Conceptualized, evangelized, and executed Cbeyond’s SOA transformation and enterprise data services layer, establishing data marketplace and canonical data model whereby enabling speed-to-market for new Cloud products.

• Managed offshore vendors to define options for replacement order management system championing unpopular $3M Siebel option that was subsequently selected by CIO, enabling timely roll out of new cloud products.

• Worked closely with business and IT leadership to implement collaborative solution architecture practice that augmented SDLC and incorporated suite of impact analysis tools, significantly increasing speed and accuracy of business outcomes. Additional Relevant Experience

ACCENTURE / AT&T, Atlanta, GA

Domian Leader, Global Delivery / Technology Architecture Built and let high-performance team managing $10m technology portfolio for BellSouth CRM launch enabling 320k new DSL customers, securing multi-million-dollar projects. DITAN DISTRIBUTIONS, San Francisco Bay Area, CA

ERP principal (FI/CO/MM/SD)

Key member of high-performance SAP (Finance, Controlling, MM and SD, EDI to SAP IDoc migration) implementation team. AIG / SUN AMERICA, Atlanta, GA

Principal Consultant

Designed and developed multiple financial applications for high profile clients of Sun America which was later acquired by AIG. Education

− Global Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Analytics elective Deakin University, Australia, Dec 2024

− Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering (BSEE), SBMP Engineering, Mumbai, India Certifications

− AI for Business, Wharton Online, University of Pennsylvania (In Progress)

− Certified Scrum Product Owner

Tools Technology Methodologies

− Architecture, Standards, & Frameworks: Enterprise & Solution Architecture, TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner, OrbusInfinity, SOA, MicroServices, BPM, TMForum (eTom / SID), Google AMP

− Machine Learning: Amazon Sagemaker, XGBoost, NLP (Tf-idf, Word2vec-Pretrained Google-News Model)

− Cloud: AWS, Azure, Oracle (Public / Private / Hybrid)

− Visualization: Tableau, Power BI

− Languages: Java and .Net ecosystems, Python

− Dev Ops, Containers: Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, Puppet, Chef

− Agile: Build, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc.

− Integration: Data Pipelines, Data Lakehouse, SOA, Microservices, Data Services, API Gateway (Apigee)

− Collaboration and Information Management: Office 365, Confluence, MDM, Identity Mgmt., Dashboard Reporting

− Security: WAF, SAML, SSO, AD, DataPower, LDAP, TLS / SSL, Okta, CDN

− COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf): Integration (Informatica IDMC, Oracle OIC, Red Hat ESB / SOA / jBPM Suite, Sterling DOM / GIS, WebLogic Integration / Aqua logic, Appian), ERP (SAP FI / CO / SD, Oracle Financials), CMS (Washington Post ARC, Eidos Media Methode), OMS (Wideorbit, NCS, XSM), EMS (SFMC), CRM (Salesforce, Siebel), Data Analytics (iJento / Fospha, Alteryx, QlikView), Agile (Target Process), ITSM / ITIL (ServiceNow)

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