Information Technology Enterprise Architecture
Resume:
A B O U T M E SAJAN MADABHUSHI
SUMMARY
** ***** ** **********, ** innovative leader, and a passionate pioneer in Information Technology. High achieving Technology Architect driven to develop and enable scalability, remove performance barriers and continue to modernize the core systems. Help fortune 500 companies adopt focus on optimization and innovation by recommending leading automation techniques to improve service delivery and increased speed to market. I have a proven track record of being able to drive initiatives through implementation. EXPERIENCE
WPP, New York
Head Of Enterprise Architecture (CTO)
March 2017- Present
• Set the vison for the Enterprise Architecture team working closely with the C-Suite to drive alignment on IT strategy and objectives. Built strong relationships with senior leaders to drive a spirit of collaboration to serve as a true trusted advisor.
• Articulated business fundamentals (e.g., ROI, CBA, TCO); Implemented every project using architecture strategy (reference architecture, business architecture, technology architecture) and trends in the IT industry (CI/CD, IoT, Predictive Analytics)
• Led major workstreams, driving overall team deliverables while supervising and mentoring architects on design and thought leadership.
• Partnered with CTO to Identify ways to engrain innovation into the WPP’s agency culture and spearheaded initiatives- hackathons, ways of sourcing ideas from all levels of the business and making sure ideas are heard year-round, developing innovation incentives.
• Collaborated with senior leadership, to lead, and present forward-thinking, high impact e2e planning technology capabilities focused on key strategic initiatives like Integrated Business Planning, Financial Planning, Demand & Supply Planning.
• Secured $50 mil in capital funding over 2 years to lead large scale cloud adoption projects using MS Azure, AWS and GCP for enterprise solutions and system infrastructure. This helped save over $10 mil in value from application license, decommissioning on-prem hosting.
• Evaluated emerging technologies and trends relevant to AI, including generative AI, WPP’s machine learning platform (WPP Open), and digital platforms. Drove development of thought leadership that present innovative insights and offered recommendations on market-relevant Enterprise Architecture topics.
• Developed Data architecture strategy using Fivetran, Dataiku, Snowflake, Power BI and Tableau. Developed API based Data Integration (Boomi, SAP BTP, MuleSoft, Informatica) and MDM architecture to improve data governance
• Established and enforced enterprise architecture governance processes to ensure compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and internal policies. Monitored and evaluated the effectiveness of architecture practices and implemented improvements.
• Deep technical expertise with the Salesforce developer toolkit including Apex Classes, Controllers and Triggers, Lightning Web Components, Migration Tool, Web Services.
• Designed and developed complex Salesforce solution designs and reviewing/enhancing solution designs on Salesforce platform order of execution, data storage impacts, sharing and visibility.
High energy, analytical and client
focused technologist interested in being
part of a collaborative environment.
Helped fortune 500 firms gain a
competitive edge on implementing
technology solutions that reduce cost of
ownership, solve problems and enhance
capabilities. A technology leader with
thoughtful perspective and blend of
creative chops on solving client needs.
C O N T A C T
*******@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/s
ajanmadabhushi/
New York City, NY
E D U C A T I O N
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
SHANMUGHA COLLEGE
OF ENGINEERING
BACHELORS-
ELECTRONICS &
COMMUNICATION
Class of 2003
• Established and managed Dev Ops & Agile culture across the organization. Worked in Identifying gaps in the current business processes and improved them by collaboration with business stakeholders to establish clear business goals.
• Implemented different ERP technologies, such as Workday, SAP, Oracle for different business functions.
• Created Cloud based automated digital IaaS platforms that accelerates time to market along with Agile Scrum methodology with focus on quality that resulted in solving complex business requirements reducing the deployment time by 80%.
• Defined key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the effectiveness of enterprise architecture initiatives. Tracked progress, analyzed data, and provided regular reports to executive management to demonstrate the value of architecture investments. Responsible for budget, forecast and Cloud spend and demonstrate cloud spend reduction efforts.
• Created, managed & developed enterprise planning initiatives from scoping and road mapping to future state solutions across business capabilities using advanced planning capabilities to solve complex business problems. WPP, New York
Global Enterprise Architect
March 2016- February 2017
• Collaborated with digital product managers to deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help all our clients.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to identify long-term scaling and growth plans and translated them into technical specifications.
• Oversaw and reviewed the implementation of software architectures with third- party developers.
• Documented, maintained, and socialized architectural designs and solutions to execution level.
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• Managed an overall budget of $18mil to upgrade back-office applications (HR, Finance, Media) and migrate to a cloud infrastructure. Standardized collaboration, SSO and communication within all WPP opco’s using Slack, Okta, Zoom and used MS Sharepoint to host our intranet.
• Formulated high level architecture plans, roadmaps and reference models following TOGAF methodology to enable standardization and consolidation of applications.
• Led a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet needs for our business.
• Built and executed on a long-term roadmap to evolve and scale our core business capabilities. Established heat map to drive improvements in core capabilities that were required for business growth.
• Championed use of Machine Learning frameworks (Spark, Storm etc), with datasets from social to develop predictive insights on ad campaigns and use those insights to adjust future campaigns.
• Developed strategic technical decisions to transform our current home-grown technologies into world-class SaaS products.
• Built in-depth knowledge of the business success drivers, industry trends, regulatory issues, and competitive marketplace to develop and deliver value added business solutions that have a measurable impact on results.
• Championed improvements in data analytics and reporting capabilities by implementing Amazon Redshift and Amazon QuickSight enabling stellar improvements in dashboarding, data warehousing and querying capabilities.
• Educate enterprise application business owners on the value proposition of adopting cloud applications and engage in fit to purpose solution sessions with architects from each Opco to help design a successful migration to the cloud.
• Helmed technical improvements using MS Azure middleware solutions adopting SOA principles to replace inefficient and slow point to point integrations. Captured 300k in cost savings on year 1 while boosting efficiency and eliminating manual effort.
• Built execution frameworks for projects to accelerate agile software development practices which helped rapidly increasing time to market and facilitated continuous integration and deployments in the software lifecycle. Ogilvy, New York
SAP Delivery Lead –North America
November 2012 – March 2016
• Leveraged technology to automate and ensure reliable reporting for the finance teams. Simplified complex processes involving manual steps by process reengineering and using SAP analytics to develop new reports.
• Ensured in solid application architecture by restructuring the entire workflow in SAP ECC- FI, GL, HR, OTC and PTP processes, designed new data models for improving their financial reporting capabilities.
• In Depth experience in building data models, data transformation using un- structured data converting raw data to information that helps improve business productivity.
• Continually expanded the finance capabilities by designing a FP&A solution by defining a global template for Ogilvy’s technical integration points between the different Finance tools and SAP BPC.
• Facilitated the adoption of enterprise-wide SAP HANA Analytics- Data ingestion mechanism via SLT in real time from multiple SAP and non-SAP instances and standardized reporting using Business Object and SAP Lumira.
• Identifying performance improvement opportunities by analyzing existing business and technology processes, as well as business requirements, utilizing SAP HANA to simplify the ERP footprint.
Deloitte, New York
Senior Consultant
November 2010 - November 2012
• Spearheaded some of the leading technology initiatives in SAP at Deloitte. Offered managing consulting services to clients such as Heinz, Sysco, Georgia Pacific, Cameron, Delta Airlines, J P Morgan and AT&T.
• Managed a team of 15 resources in the SAP practice (Onsite and Offshore) comprising of Consultants and Technology Analysts, handled budget ranging between $2M - $8M.
• Managed global roll outs for US, Canada, Germany, Spain, UK and Ireland. Played a key role working with the leadership and core business teams to understand the gaps in the current processes and focused on building solutions to fix those gaps.
• Solution architect for the SAP BI and BO Implementation of OTC and TPM modules that includes SAP FICO, AP, AR, SD, MM, PP, PLM, BPC 7.5
• Participated in Enterprise SAP Business Intelligence Blueprint Project to migrate legacy systems to SAP landscape. Developed Enterprise Data Management Processes/Strategy to support full SAP ERP migration.
• Experienced in handling varied technical teams across full software development life cycle. Worked with Data governance team to come up with a stronger data model and data management strategy.
• Conducted design thinking workshops with IT leadership to design industry and process centric architecture. Conceptualized, designed and assisted in the implementation of new and existing systems, middleware and data warehouse architecture.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Forest Laboratories, New York
Technical Analyst – SAP BW
May 2008 - November 2010
Cognizant Technology Solutions, New York
Consultant- SAP ERP
September 2005 - April 2008
Ramco Systems, India
Programmer
October 2003 - September 2005
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