Manage enterprise architecture frameworks and standards to guarantee the scalability, security, and efficiency of technology systems throughout the enterprise
Supervise the deployment and upkeep of vital enterprise systems, including corporate, marketing, and supply chain, ensuring their smooth integration with consumer-facing digital technologies
Direct consumer-facing applications across mobile, web, wearable, and other new channels
Apply Gen AI, and ML technologies to foster innovation, improve customer experiences, and secure a competitive advantage in both enterprise and customer markets
Infrastructure and Network Design and Operations:
Ensure that infrastructure and network engineering apply top-tier solutions in accordance with architectural guidelines, and that the progress of work is documented and communicated consistently
Supervise third-party technology vendors, making sure they uphold sufficient processes, controls, and security systems
Work alongside business partners on forecasting, crafting business cases, prioritizing opportunities, assessing strategies, and engaging in other product management-related tasks
Generated business value through collaborative leadership, innovation, and engineering excellence
Serve as a change agent capable of influencing a variety of stakeholders in both business and technology sectors to enhance the experiences of customers and associates
Oversee a yearly budget of $53 million with an aim for a 5% year-over-year optimization in savings
Lead and mentor an organization of over 200+ individuals, including 15 direct reports
Function as a strategic collaborator for colleagues and drive successful implementation of integration and rationalization strategy throughout the company's product portfolio
Assess products in relation to cost, market share, user feedback, and various KPIs while consistently refining the features and pricing, discontinuing products when suitable, and deciding the future product portfolio
Continually identify and evaluate market sizing, growth rates, and trends; customer challenges, opportunities, and whitespace potential; and competitors/alternatives
Clearly express Problem/Solution/Value statements for every market segment and product
Act as a customer champion in the development process, working closely with customers to thoroughly understand their needs and foresee market changes
Propel our digital growth, enhancing digital presence, optimizing our e-retail connections, and building a strong omni- channel
Formulate and implement a comprehensive digital business strategy, collaborate across functions, and remain ahead of industry trends
Cultivate and promote a culture of collaboration, learning, accountability, and excellence within the team and throughout IT
Develop explicit operational plans to achieve company objectives for profitability, saved 8% OPEX cost for 2024
Oversee the quarterly and annual budgeting process and P&L responsibilities
Act as a strategic partner for peers and drive effective execution of integration and rationalization strategy across the company’s product portfolio
Evaluate products against cost, market share, user feedback, and other KPIs while continuously refining the features and pricing, sunsetting products when appropriate, and determining the go-forward product portfolio
Renegotiated
MSP contract with better SLA/KPI with $2.8 M lower cost
Continuously identify and assess market sizing, growth rates, and trends; customer challenges, opportunities, and whitespace capacity; and competitors/alternatives
Removed all old age Windows scanner from the store in 3 months resulted 23% store productivity
Serve as a customer advocate in the development process, working closely with customers to deeply understand their needs and anticipate market developments
Introduced many features resulted 11% growth on digital during black
Friday season
Driving our digital growth, expanding digital presence, optimizing our e-retail relationships, and developing a robust omni channel
Developing and executing a comprehensive digital business strategy, collaborating cross-functionally, and staying ahead of industry trends
Create and foster a culture of collaboration, learning, accountability and excellence within the team and across IT
Collaborate with senior management to identify technology needs and opportunities for enhancing business processes and customer experiences
Manage relationships with technology vendors and service providers to ensure cost-effective and high-quality service delivery.
Developed and led large-scale technology initiatives for long-term strategic plans and solutions.
Associate Vice President
LTIMindtree
Dallas, TX
09.2022 - 07.2023
Driving innovation efforts to enhance customer success, working with Fortune 500 companies to reveal further value from a digital and marketing viewpoint
Tasked with developing customer 360, composable commerce and data solutions, supply chain capabilities, and services
As a strategic leader, oversee a business portfolio exceeding $60 million through solution selling and product consulting
Part of the global deal review board for opportunities exceeding $6 million
Generating ideas and pinpointing essential business value drivers across various retailers and executing solutions to buy versus build
Architecting solution for B2C, D2C, and B2B, along with Mobile Apps and a Micro Service Cloud- based transformation
Developing blockchain use cases and points of view for CPG companies, and delivering innovative solutions and proof of concepts for brand entry into the Metaverse
Leading multiple initiatives for Customer Data Platforms focused on first-party data collection and personalization
Transitioning aging pricing and inventory systems from AS400 via GenAI
Contributing to numerous marketplace capability offerings for custom and COTS solutions with CPG and Retail
Establishing a Media Portal to enhance the retail media presence for a major CPG company, involving planning, buying, adtech/martech, and optimization
Driving analyst conversations for strategic positions for Gartner, Forrester and ISG
Presenting our capability, offerings and accelerators at NRF and CPG summit
Worked with several service line and cross-industry leaders on the cross-sell/upsell of our offerings, resulting in an increased capacity essential for ongoing growth
Develop Practice portfolio management (Growth strategies, business development, and operations) for new and consultative sales
Establish product engineering expertise for the team
Formulating the “Product Oriented Leadership” initiative for the Retail CPG Group
Collaborated with multiple service line and cross industry leads on the cross sell/upsell for our offering, yielding an expanded bandwidth crucial for continuous growth
Creating product engineering craft for the team
Interacted well with customers to build connections and nurture relationships.
Senior Director of Technology
Publicis Sapient
Dallas, TX
09.2009 - 09.2022
Leading strategic efforts in retail, partnering with Fortune 500 companies to foster growth through digital, marketing, and store initiatives
Tasked with developing multi-domain capabilities and services
As a strategic leader, oversee a business portfolio exceeding $50 million through solution selling and product consulting
Steering the technology innovation and design thinking lab based in Dallas
Generating ideas and pinpointing essential business value drivers among major retailers and delivering solutions, measuring, demonstrating, and communicating to executives
Head the team for innovative store applications towards POS, Store assist APP, custom closet, and endless aisle
Developed marTech strategy for a comprehensive customer view and how this will facilitate personalization and a next-generation store experience
Formulated the 3-Year roadmap and technology vision for various retailers, presented and aligned with CXO and architectural committee on significant initiatives as the next priority
Directed strategy to utilize modern IT Infrastructure and Platform to transform into a “data-driven and insight-driven company
Designed a data pipeline to support data-driven business use cases and achieve measurable outcomes utilizing GCP
Manage the pharmacy Engineering team, health platform ideation for two major brands within a leading pharmacy in the US
Engineering lead for creating products for the immunization system, redefining the customer-facing pharmacy app leveraging Microsoft marketing cloud for HIPAA-compliant health outreach and periodic monitoring with Dacaadoo
Created and implemented an end-to-end solution centered on customer experience, cloud enablement, data integrity, scalability, and resilience
Designed a digital access layer to utilize a large billing data set via streams to offer a responsive experience for customer sales agents for Giant Telco in Canada
Enhanced customer agent experience by 200% by implementing the loosely coupled solution and caching
Developed and constructed the Vendor portal for B2B support in accordance with Canada government regulations
Established a Supplier portal for three major retailers in the US
Lead digital business transformation journey over a decade for large retailer based out of Dallas
Employing Expertise as Face for Customer Success:
Part of analyst conversations for strategic positions for Gartner
Co-hosting sessions with SVP/VP’s for Platform Innovation within their storytelling sessions
Act as a change agent on behalf of digital to business stakeholders
Organizing Webinars/ Storytelling/ Hackathons to create engagement
Design programs to adopt and practice engineering maturity
Managed company-level architecture, platform and data configuration processes and implementation protocols.
Technical Architect
BellSystems Inc
02.2008 - 08.2009
Technology lead for Java/Micro Services/ AWS/ ATG/WCS/DemandWare/NoSQL/RDBMS
Developed network and system architecture according to business needs.
Principal Consultant, Java
Enterprise Systems and Solutions PVT LTD
01.2007 - 01.2008
Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations.
Evaluated diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication, and resource utilization issues.
Conducted thorough reviews of operations to devise and deploy improvement strategies.
Collaborated with clients from concept through final delivery of product or service.
Lead Software Engineer
Zenith Infotech Ltd
Mumbai, Maharasthra
01.2001 - 04.2005
Developed code using Java and other programming languages to support digital repository frameworks and integrate systems.
Translated customer and system requirements into robust software design with test-driven approach.
Wrote relational database queries for stored procedures, query optimization and performance tuning.
Improved DevOps across deployment and testing strategies and application monitoring.
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