Gaurav Vedi
Ashburn,USA
Summary
Dynamic IT Program Management leader with extensive experience at MicroStrategy, driving compliance and security operations for over 600 federal clients. Proven expertise in cloud solutions delivery and stakeholder management, achieving a 40% increase in cloud customer base quarterly. Adept at leveraging AI technologies to enhance operational efficiency and deliver innovative solutions.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Program Management & IT Consulting (Federal/Public Sector)
TechVision, LLC
02.2024 - Current
- Spearheading DoEd’s program for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Process Automation (RPA) Technology Modernization for Department of Education OCIO office by integrating latest Generative AI & RPA services such as Azure OpenAI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Amazon Bedrock, Google Gemini, Otter.AI, ChatGPT, LLM models, Chatbots, Pega, Appian, UIPath, Adobe EchoSign etc with DoEd’s program offices such as Grants Management Policy Division, Office of Civil Rights, Office of General Counsel etc.
- Led the development and execution of a comprehensive AI product strategy for the Department of Education (DoEd) by aligning generative AI (GenAI), Robotics Process Automation (RPA), and AI governance policies with the broader organizational goals, clear roadmaps and priorities to drive the delivery of AI-enabled solutions.
- Familiarity with government procurement / contracting vehicles such as GSA Schedule, GMAS, GWACs, IDIQs etc.
- Managed $25M program for Department of Education OFO office replacing legacy Acquisition Management System (AMS) with a new AMS system using PRISM in AWS Cloud and spearheaded Security & Compliance (FedRAMP, NIST) for ATO approval.
- Collaborated with different Program Offices and conducted in-depth market research and analysis to understand AI trends, competitive landscapes, and customer needs across the public sector and drafted AI requirements.
- Wrote product technical requirements for AI offerings based on AI Governance and policy Executive Order 14110 and AI Memorandum M-24-10 along with corresponding AI implementation strategy and Onboarding guides, Standard Operating Procedures and System Security plan for FedRAMP agency ATO process.
- Spearheaded DataLake Consolidation feasibility efforts across DoEd including Data Hub, Data Warehouse, ETL processes for effective and secured data sharing practices.
- Proactively stayed upto date with the latest advancements in AI technologies to enhance the AI product offerings, while ensuring full compliance with FedRAMP and data privacy regulations, securing ATO for various systems.
- Performed budgeting, vendor management, stakeholder management for seamless program execution.
- Defined key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the performance of AI initiatives, including the impact of RPA and AI integrations and periodically reported to all stakeholders for program visibility.
Vice President, Cloud/Security (Public Sector & Commercial)
MicroStrategy
06.2021 - 01.2024
- Managed Cloud & Security Operations/Compliance (FISMA, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, DoD RMF, NIST, CMMC) for 600+ Federal clients for ATO approvals and 5000+ commercials clients for MicroStrategy Cloud BI offerings.
- Managed $300M+ Revenue Cloud Systems BU for Fortune 500, Public Sector/Federal and Commercials Small Medium Business (SMB) clients.
- Leveraged Center of Internet Security (CIS) hardened benchmark images and implemented CIS controls and leveraged Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)’s Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) benchmarks to build robust security posture within Cloud Offerings and Infrastructure.
- Spearheaded Security Operations Center (SOC) and Incident Response Teams (IRT) for continuous monitoring.
- Lead customer engagements and partner engagements & worked closely with Sales teams to assist with Lead generation through several events and public summits.
- Migrated on-prem customers to Cloud Offering thereby increasing Cloud customer base by 40% per quarter and in revenue by 23% per quarter.
- Lead pivotal initiatives including Cloud Migration, customer-centric delivery, rapid response protocols, triage and remediation strategies, Site Reliability Engineering, Agile, 24x7 Cloud Operations & Support etc.
- Spearheaded successful implementation of containerization efforts to deliver modern architecture for Cloud Offering and reduced operational expense by expediting deployments.
- Spearheaded FedRAMP ATO process for Public Sector Cloud Offering, built the framework from inception and delivered the solution with adherence to FedRAMP compliance requirements.
- Participated in LLM AI Integration chatbots and AI Product improvements.
Chief Delivery and Operations Officer
stackArmor
07.2020 - 06.2021
- Responsibilities: Cloud and Security Operations & Compliance, Delivery, Leadership, Program Management, People management, Procurement Management, Vendor Management, Stakeholder Management, Proposal & Risk Management.
- Managed Cloud and Security Solutions delivery and Security compliance (FISMA, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, DoD RMF, NIST, CMMC) for 50+ federal and commercials clients for ATO approvals with annual revenue increase by 50%.
- Managed several diverse portfolio of projects concurrently from customers ranging from small to medium projects ($250K) upto very large complex projects ($3M) to support increase in revenue by 50-60% per year.
- Managed resources, departmental and project budgets, issues and risks for the successful delivery of portfolio.
- Leveraged Center of Internet Security (CIS) hardened benchmark images and leveraged Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)’s Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) benchmarks to build robust security posture.
- Spearheaded and managed Security Operations Center (SOC) and Incident Response Teams (IRT).
- Developed, managed, executed and governed resource plans for project portfolios for upto 12 months in advance.
- Implemented change management and process improvement controls to improve efficiency & productivity.
- Created and monitored key Metrics/KPI for Product & program success and shared with stakeholders.
- Proposal management and Procurement management by RFI, RFP, RFQ across systems/vendors and customers.
- Product demonstrations to federal and commercial clients and stakeholders to increase awareness.
- Built trusted relationship with federal and commercial clients at all levels including Senior Executive members.
- Built strong partnership with channel partners such AWS, Splunk, TrendMicro, Tenable, RedHat etc.
- Managed 25+ employees directly to drive cloud and security solutions for clients.
- Provided technical trainings / brown bag sessions on cloud and security to internal teams.
- Managed and motivated a large 35+ diverse team of Solutions Architects, Delivery and Operations Managers, Directors, Cloud Engineers, PMO to produce highly effective results in line with company’s strategic goals and vision.
CTO & Vice President, Engineering
IPGen Inc
08.2019 - 07.2020
- Architected AI/ML solution to expedite patent approval process from ground zero in cloud for several Legal clients by leveraging USPTO Patent datasets for application data, office actions and rejection codes.
- Successfully onboarded 10+ law firms for products’ Pilot release; Lead successful seed round of financing.
- Technical engagements with clients including C-Level executives & attorneys, legal teams etc.
- Hired, mentored, coached and managed virtual resources located in USA, India and China etc.
Director Registry (Products, Programs & Operations)
Dominion Domains
08.2017 - 05.2019
- Managed Dominion’s Technical Products portfolio ($6M+) and Business Operations for Real estate, Automotive, Marine and Powersports Registries; Increased channel partner base by 10x, customer base by 13x, revenue by 14x and managed customer retention rate of 95% per year.
- Architected and delivered BI solution leveraging DNS traffic & AWS cloud to increase sales by 8% per year.
- Leveraged Data Modeling techniques to create pricing models for products increasing sales by 15% per year.
- Worked with cross functional teams (Marketing, Sales, Legal, Accounts, Finance etc) to scale TLDs platform.
- Provided strategic direction to several projects based on roadmap priority, captured relevant KPIs and communicated to the stakeholders and executives and managed programs using Agile/Scrum.
- Managed a team (15+) of Technical and Operations Managers and Engineers in US, UK, Germany and Russia.
- Board Member for several ICANN committees; Channel partnerships with Registrars and domain investors.
Engineering Manager / Tech Lead (Products/Programs)
Verisign Inc
01.2010 - 08.2017
- Engineering Manager/Product owner and lead several teams to provide engineering solutions using Agile/Scrum across DNS/Registry Operations, platform development and internet Infrastructure services to 75M+ domain name users for 160M+ domains; Revenue $1.5B per year with 65% Operating profit.
- Built and managed scalable & highly availability network & infrastructure to handle 140 Billion+ DNS queries daily; Managed SLAs and 100% uptime in DNS infrastructure.
- Built security (IAM, MFA, Authentication, PKI, Cryptography, Data security, DNSSEC etc) in DNS platforms and infrastructure to provide secured interface to channel partners and millions of customers.
- Lead strategic process improvements, including transformation to Cloud, DevOps and Agile, full-stack development, open source policies and procedures, microservices architecture, platform upgrades, automated unit testing, peer reviews, version control, change control board, project and technical artifacts, and formalized risk management; Built CI/CD pipeline to reduce operations costs by 80%
Technical Solutions Consultant (Products/Platform)
AgileSoft/Hughes Network Systems
04.2007 - 09.2009
- Company Overview: Satellite Communications and M2M IOT Telematics
- Responsibilities – Software Development, Architecture, Design, QA, R&D and Client Product Demos
- Satellite Communications and M2M IOT Telematics
Sr Engineer/Lead (Products/Platform)
Aricent/Nokia
01.2004 - 04.2007
- Company Overview: 3G, LTE, Telecom, Wireless
- Responsibilities – 3G, LTE, CDMA, Telecom, Wireless, Software Development, People Management, Program Management, Architecture, Design, Technical Engagements.
- 3G, LTE, Telecom, Wireless
Software Engineer
NewGen Software Technologies
07.2003 - 01.2004
- Responsibilities – Software Development, Architecture, Design & Testing, Multi-peripheral device.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - MBA
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD01-2013
Skills
- Cloud Managed Services
- Leadership
- Team Management
- Process Design and Reengineering
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Automation
- B2B/B2C/B2E solutions
- Customer Relationship
- Channel Relationship
- Business Intelligence
- Operational Intelligence
- Data Analytics
- Public Policy
- Internet Governance
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- User Experience Improvements
- Vendor Management
- Stakeholder Management
- SRE
- Security Compliance
- Software Development
- Platform Development
- Cloud Solutions Delivery
- Authority to Operate
- 3PAO
- Business Operations
- Network Operations
- Security Operations
- Product Management
- Platform Management
- Strategic Planning
- Execution
- Program Management
- Program Governance
- Project Management
- Resource Management
- Budget Management
- Schedule Management
- Delivery Management
- Quality Management
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Communication
- Scope Management
- Procurement Management
- NIST
- FISMA
- FedRAMP
- DoD RMF
- GDPR
- NIST SP 800-53
- NIST SP 800-171
- FIPS 140-2
- FIPS 199
- FIPS 200
- CMMC
- PCI DSS
- HIPAA
- Cloud Computing
- AWS cloud suite
- Azure
- GCP
- Neural networks
- Classification Trees
- Azure OpenAI
- Amazon Bedrock
- ChatGPT
- LLMs
- Pega
- UIPath
- Network Management
- Infrastructure Management
- Security Management
- DNS
- DNSSEC
- Blockchain
- Networking Protocols
- Authentication
- Encryption
- Cryptography
- Public Key Infrastructure
- PKI
- RSA
- SSL
Certification
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified Blockchain Expert from Blockchain Council
- Certified AWS and Google Cloud Digital Leader
- CompTIA Security+ (DoD 8570.01-M IAT level 2)
Clearance
Public Trust
Technical Expertise
Management of Resources, Budget, Schedule, Delivery, Quality, Risk, Stakeholder, Communication, Scope & Procurement, Visio, Smartsheets, Salesforce, MS Project, NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP, DoD RMF, GDPR, NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-171, FIPS 140-2, FIPS 199/200, CMMC, PCI DSS, HIPAA, AWS cloud suite (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Redshift, Direct Connect etc), OpenStack, Digital Ocean, Azure, GCP, Splunk, Netcool, ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana), Grafana, Telegraf, influxDB, ThousandEyes, Kafka, Nagios, AWS Security Hub, Datadog, Data Modeling, Data Mining, Marketing Analytics, Hadoop, Predictive / Statistical modeling, SAS, Spotfire, Python, Deep Learning, Excel, Regression Analysis, Trends, Forecasting, Neural networks, Classification Trees, Bayes, Python, TensorFlow, Keras, Pandas, Jupyter, Numpy, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, ChatGPT, LLMs, Pega, UIPath, Adobe EchoSign etc, DNS, DNSSEC, Blockchain, Web Development, Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, BGP, SSH, FTP, Telnet, HTTP(s), SSL, NAT, VIPs, Firewalls, ACL, SMTP, OSI), Authentication, Encryption, Cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), RSA, SSL, TLS, Kerberos, Identity and Access Management (IAM), MFA, NOC, Subnet, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring, Reports, Alerts, Embedded system, Whitelist/Blacklist, DDOS, Spoofing, OWASP, KSK, ZSK, RSA, HSM, Azure AD, Active Directory, LDAP, HDAP, Windows Hello, Okta, OAuth, OIDC, Sailpoint, CyberArk, MD5, SHA
Personal Information
Citizenship: USA
Timeline
IT Program Management & IT Consulting (Federal/Public Sector)
TechVision, LLC
02.2024 - Current
Vice President, Cloud/Security (Public Sector & Commercial)
MicroStrategy
06.2021 - 01.2024
Chief Delivery and Operations Officer
stackArmor
07.2020 - 06.2021
CTO & Vice President, Engineering
IPGen Inc
08.2019 - 07.2020
Director Registry (Products, Programs & Operations)
Dominion Domains
08.2017 - 05.2019
Engineering Manager / Tech Lead (Products/Programs)
Verisign Inc
01.2010 - 08.2017
Technical Solutions Consultant (Products/Platform)
AgileSoft/Hughes Network Systems
04.2007 - 09.2009
Sr Engineer/Lead (Products/Platform)
Aricent/Nokia
01.2004 - 04.2007
Software Engineer
NewGen Software Technologies
07.2003 - 01.2004
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - MBA
University of Maryland, College Park
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