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Shirish Arashanapalli

Alpharetta,GA

Summary

Accomplished Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Head of Product with over 25 years of experience in implementing strategic technology solutions. Expertise in driving business growth through innovative technologies, leading to significant value-driven initiatives across diverse industries. Proven ability to navigate both corporate and startup environments, demonstrating agility in response to evolving market demands. Dedicated to leveraging emerging technologies to enhance operational efficiency and secure a competitive edge.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience

Work History

Executive Technology Strategy Consultant

T.J.Maxx
Boston, MA
03.2024 - Current
  • Developed IT strategies to enhance performance and reliability across Merchandising, Warehouse, Distribution, Retail Stores Management and e-Commerce.
  • Provided technology and architecture strategy for business transformation opportunities, IT modernization, predictive analytics, business continuity, and operations efficiency to reduce IT costs by 25%
  • Identified digital transformation opportunity to use AI/ML for Auto Distribution Allocation of product categories to stores, which enables 10x faster allocation with reduced architecture complexity and manual resources cost
  • Developed strategy roadmap for transitioning to Private Cloud to achieve 30% cost reductions.
  • Delivered mobile and digital strategy for omni-channel retailing to boost retail revenue by 2x.
  • Developed ITIL-based strategy for operations lifecycle management to optimize people, processes, and tools.

Chief Technology Officer | Head of Product

Inhabitr, Inc
San Francisco, CA
10.2019 - 02.2024
  • Inhabitr offers AI powered Furniture Rental E-commerce and SaaS solutions to hospitality (Oyo, Holiday Inn, Pacific, Hyatt, Marriott, etc.) student housing, AirBnB, multi family apartments, senior living, home staging and B2C business segments
  • Drove technology strategy and digital transformation leading to revenue growth from $500K to $20M.
  • Spearheaded digital transformation initiatives driving acquisition of over 20 B2B customers, increase operations efficiency by 45% and increase net margins by 20%
  • Initiatives include Data Science and Generative AI in discovery and selection of furniture options for building bulk order (ex: 100 rooms in a hotel) in a matter of just a few min
  • Increased furniture inventory utilization by 60% using AI/ML based auto curated package system.
  • Consolidated thousands of suppliers' near real-time inventory in Furniture Data Cloud.
  • Implemented IoT-driven RFID system for tracking inbound and outbound furniture inventory.
  • Streamlining Procurement, Warehouse, Inventory, Order and Finance Management through NetSuite ERP implementation and reducing operations cost by 30%
  • Achieved cost savings of $200K in 3 years by migrating from Google Cloud to AWS.
  • Achieved a $300K savings with the transition to ChasePay from Stripe.
  • Optimized rental commerce and web application carts to boost revenue from $1M to $4M+.
  • Delivered over 40 white-labeled turnkey furnishing solutions for property management companies, driving $2M+ in revenue.
  • Implemented Field Ops Mobile application, CRM (HubSpot) and Customer Service (Zendesk).
  • Managed 2 VPs, 3 Directors, 25+ Tech resources along with relationships with key stakeholders including internal teams, clients, investors and vendors

Founder and CEO

TrendBrew, Inc
Atlanta, GA
02.2014 - 09.2019
  • Founded, ideated, developed and launched TrendBrew, a Social E-commerce and B2B SaaS startup
  • TrendBrew core platform is based on AI/ML product curation engine , which aggregates trending products across 1000s of e-commerce sites and a Semantic/NLP based Consumer Persona engine, categorizes products for different shopping personas
  • Social influencers can create trending stores, publish stores and commerce feed into Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and earn commissions on purchases from their followers
  • Collaborated with FiServ/FirstData to develop offline-to-online B2B SaaS commerce solutions for SMBs through Clover Smart POS Payments.
  • Enabled streamlined social commerce revenue channel for SMBs, trending product discovery at best prices and loyalty rewards to consumer
  • Raised $2M investment funds, built 12 member team and acquired 60K consumers and 8K social influencers over period of 4 years.
  • Licensed and merged team and technology platform with another startup

Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product

SwiftExchange
New York, NY
01.2011 - 01.2014
  • SwiftExchange business model was focused on creating a new and Ubiquitous Payment Processing Network for Loyalty Reward Currency (Points)
  • Consumers can aggregate their loyalty rewards points from different reward providers (airline, hotel, credit card, etc.) into one rewards wallet and use it as cash/card payment through mobile app at online and offline retailers
  • As CTO and Head of Product , responsible for defining/driving business/functional requirements, IT Strategy/Roadmap, Enterprise Architecture, Design/Development for three Cloud based IT platforms ( Payment Gateway , Issuer-Merchant Bidding and eCommerce Marketplace) across business lifecycle including Web and Mobile based Payment Processing
  • Directed technology and business team of roughly 30+ resources with a $3M IT budget, overseeing project from inception to completion.
  • Contributed to sales initiatives and business development strategies targeting leading merchants and issuers, including Walmart, Overstock.com, Chase, Citibank and Discover.

CVS Health (Healthcare, Retail, Pharmacy, Claims)

ideaArch,LLC
Woonsocket, RI
12.2009 - 01.2010
  • Developed comprehensive 5-year architecture strategy, blueprint and roadmap for an 8000-store retail prescription pharmacy processing platform.
  • Led team to roll out core Prescription Pharmacy Software in 8000 retail stores nationwide.
  • Established retail prescription pharmacy cloud model strategy for pharmacy sourcing solution utilized by Target Retail stores.
  • Spearheaded IT Modernization, Digitization Strategy and roadmap initiatives across PBM formulary, benefits, Med-D, claims, and adjudication management business areas.
  • Developed digitization strategy to expand Universal Patient services via Universal Patient Hub across Retail, Specialty, PBM, and Minute Clinic business units.

Atlanticus Holdings (Payments And Credit Card)

ideaArch,LLC
Atlanta, GA
03.2005 - 12.2009
  • Developed IT strategy and roadmap across five business units, including Marketing, Operations, Portfolio Management, Securitization, and Collections.
  • Data management, Integration and New data center strategy for overall reduction IT budget by 25%

Managing Partner and Principal Consultant

ideaArch,LLC
Atlanta, GA
03.2005 - 12.2009
  • Managing Partner and Principal consultant at ideaArch,LLC, an executive boutique business and technology strategy consulting company consisting of 30+ senior architecture consultants and served 20+ fortune 500 clients
  • Focus of IdeaArch consultants was to provide value added consulting services for IT Architecture Strategy Blueprint, Roadmaps, Business IT alignment, ROI on IT, Digitization, Re-engineering, Modernization, Event Driven Services, Microservices, Cloud Computing, Integration, Data management and Infrastructure strategies
  • Provided business and technology strategies across Commerce, Payments, Loyalty, Mobile, Manufacturing, Distribution/Logistics, Retail, Telecom, Financial, Travel, Home Builder, Construction, HR, Healthcare and Education Industry verticals.

Taylor Morrison (Home Builder)

ideaArch,LLC
Atlanta, GA
03.2005 - 11.2009
  • SAP (Supply Chain) strategy, execution and digitization through exposing SAP into consumer facing design center applications for increasing omnichannel home designing consumer experience

Randstad (HR Sourcing)

ideaArch,LLC
Atlanta, GA
03.2005 - 11.2009
  • Business process optimization and modernization of Oracle ERP through Services (SOA) strategy for digitizing front end to back end processes and to increase business productivity by 30%

SAP Concur (Travel Management)

ideaArch,LLC
Atlanta, GA
03.2005 - 11.2009
  • Product re-engineering, modernization, integration and data management strategy, execution of Travel Management business and integrations with Global Distribution Systems (Sabre, Amadeus, Apollo/Galileo, WorldSpan)
  • These initiatives helped Concur to scale and acquire 3x more customers

T-Mobile (Mobile Service Provider)

ideaArch,LLC
Seattle, WA
03.2005 - 11.2009
  • Customer, Product, Order and Revenue Management IT Architecture strategies for transitioning of 3G to 4G network domains resulting in overall savings on (~$4) cost per customer account provisioning

Chief Enterprise Architect

GE Energy
Atlanta, GA
10.2001 - 02.2005
  • As Chief Enterprise Architect for GE Energy Services, was responsible for Enterprise Architecture of five Business Units (Field Services, Repair Services, Finance, Parts and Engineering).
  • Headed Enterprise Architecture team and Architecture review Board (ARB) consisting of 30+ enterprise architects
  • Core responsibility was to collaborate with CIOs and GMs of individual business units, business stakeholders to realize their vision from IT perspective, create IT Strategy Blueprint and Roadmap, ensure business IT alignment through solutions delivery per architecture standards, performance guidelines and within budget
  • Directed, monitored and audited architecture and solutions for digitization, consolidation and standardization of over 120+ applications and 400+ integrations (during period of 3 years) in complex IT environment of custom applications, SAP/JDEdwards/Oracle ERP solutions, Mainframe, CRM, Field Ops and Energy Turbines Product Management solutions across globe
  • Instrumental in bringing offshore utilization from 10% to 80% through structured process and governance

Chief Architect

Chase Paymentech
Tampa, FL
01.2000 - 09.2001
  • ChasePaymentech is payment processing company, which processes 60% of online and offline credit transactions
  • Directed technology strategy and direction for Chase Paymentech Network Services' EBusiness group.
  • Designed Paymentech's e-Business technology strategy encompassing application, networking, infrastructure, security, data warehousing, personalization and content management, security frameworks
  • Led team of 6 architects and 30+ developers to develop Chase Paymentech's next generation J2EE Payment Gateway prototype , which is to be re-engineered payment processor on Mainframe application

Director of Technology and Solutions Delivery

aQuantive,Inc (later acquired by Microsoft)
Atlanta, GA
01.1995 - 12.1999
  • Directed a team of 75+ Java technology architects and developers delivering e-business technology consulting services.
  • Led interim CTO responsibilities across several startups.
  • Some noted clients who were provided web design, web applications, b2b integrations, internet enablement of client/server application, etc are: Delta Airlines, DeNorske Bank, Norway, BASF Chemicals, Ashland Specialty Chemicals, Cannon Mills, AT&T, MCI Worldwide, BellSouth, Academy Sports, HotelTools, etc.
  • Directed technological strategies and managed project solutions.

Education

M.S in Manufacturing Systems Engineering -

Auburn University
12.1995

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Osmania University
06.1992

Skills

  • Digital Transformation and IT Modernization
  • Strategic Planning and New Product Introduction
  • Supplier Relationship Management
  • Enterprise Architecture(Strategy, Blueprint and Roadmap)
  • Cloud based environments - AWS, GCP, Azure
  • IT Management and Delivery (App, Data, Infrastructure , DevOps)

Profile - Highlights

  • Expertise in driving technology for product innovation and product management
  • Instrumental in contributing for business revenue growth ranging from 10-20x
  • Managed teams of size 25-200+ across Product Management, Program management, UI/UX, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Data, Integration, Development and QA groups
  • Manifested business solutions with budget ranging from $10M-$100M
  • Experience working in E-commerce, Payments, Loyalty, Financial, Fintech, Banking, Mortgage, Healthcare, Insurance, Retail, Telecom, Energy, Manufacturing, Distribution/Logistics, Travel, Construction, Hospitality, Education and HR Industry verticals
  • Adept at creating UI/UX wireframes and Mind Map models for product requirements while guiding product managers and UI/UX designers
  • Experience in conceptualizing, architecting, designing, manage development and operations of SaaS based product solutions to both B2C and B2B customers
  • Key expertise areas include:
  • Technology Strategy and Manifestation: Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy, Roadmap,Digital Transformation using AI/ML, Modernization, Data Management, IoT, RFID, IT ROI enablement, Supply Chain Management, ERP, CRM, SEO Optimization
  • Product Management: Product Strategy, New Product Introduction, Product Roadmap, Competition Analysis, UI/UX Wireframes, Budget Planning and Prioritization, B2B and B2C SaaS
  • Architecture: Enterprise Architecture, Microservices, Event Driven Architecture, API Gateways, 3rd Party Integrations, Serverless Computing, Containers
  • AI/ML: Generative AI, LLM models, RAG, NLP, Deep Learning, Stable Diffusion, Tensorflow, OpenCL, OpenAI, ChatGPT, CUDA, YOLO, Resnet50, Google Vision, Semantic Models, Sentiment Analysis, MLOps
  • Cloud and Infrastructure: Cloud Computing in Azure, AWS, Google, IT Service Management (ITIL)
  • Data Engineering: Data Integrations, Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Pipeline, ETL, Data Lake, Event Processing, BI, Data Analytics
  • Software and Tools: Stripe, Plaid, Shopify Plus, Oracle ATG Commerce, Hybris, Manhattan WMS and EOM, SilverPop, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Zendesk, FiServ Clover POS, Oracle XStore POS, Oracle XStore Office Cloud Service, Google Analytics
  • ERP: NetSuite, SAP, Oracle ERP, Supply Chain Management
  • Security and Compliance: CyberSecurity, PCI, PII, SOC2, HIPPA, HITRUST, DUR
  • App Development and Technology Stack: Microsoft, Java, Python, PHP, Angular, React, NestJS, NodeJS,Ruby on Rails, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL, iOS/Android Mobile Apps, IBM/Oracle/Wildfly/Apache Web App Servers, DevOps, CI/CD, Agile Methodologies

Pending Patents

  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING INTERIOR DESIGNS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  • INTEGRATED INTERIOR DESIGN, PURCHASING AND FULFILLMENT SYSTEMS AND METHOD
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOCIAL TREND MANAGEMENT AND TREND SCORING OF CONSUMABLE AND NON-CONSUMABLE ENTITIES

Timeline

Executive Technology Strategy Consultant

T.J.Maxx
03.2024 - Current

Chief Technology Officer | Head of Product

Inhabitr, Inc
10.2019 - 02.2024

Founder and CEO

TrendBrew, Inc
02.2014 - 09.2019

Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product

SwiftExchange
01.2011 - 01.2014

CVS Health (Healthcare, Retail, Pharmacy, Claims)

ideaArch,LLC
12.2009 - 01.2010

Atlanticus Holdings (Payments And Credit Card)

ideaArch,LLC
03.2005 - 12.2009

Taylor Morrison (Home Builder)

ideaArch,LLC
03.2005 - 11.2009

Randstad (HR Sourcing)

ideaArch,LLC
03.2005 - 11.2009

SAP Concur (Travel Management)

ideaArch,LLC
03.2005 - 11.2009

T-Mobile (Mobile Service Provider)

ideaArch,LLC
03.2005 - 11.2009

Managing Partner and Principal Consultant

ideaArch,LLC
03.2005 - 12.2009

Chief Enterprise Architect

GE Energy
10.2001 - 02.2005

Chief Architect

Chase Paymentech
01.2000 - 09.2001

Director of Technology and Solutions Delivery

aQuantive,Inc (later acquired by Microsoft)
01.1995 - 12.1999

M.S in Manufacturing Systems Engineering -

Auburn University

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Osmania University

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