M. C. Sankar

As Technology Executive overseeing Data Platforms & Processing L3-Product (Hadoop, Teradata, ETL and Data Scanning), with annual budget exceeding $120MM and global teams of over 200 professionals, orchestrated impactful initiatives resulting in significant cost savings and enhanced operational efficiency while reducing risk significantly.

Key accomplishments:

• Organization Vision and Implementation: Implemented a unified Data Platform Management approach by establishing and integrating a new team from six disparate teams.
• Enhanced Security and Compliance: Implemented robust encryption measures across Teradata and ETL environments; reduced policy exceptions by over 90% within two years.
• Strategic Cost Reduction: Achieved remarkable savings of over $90M in future commitments through creative and strategic vendor contract re-negotiations.
• Operational Efficiency and Optimization: Achieved significant reduction in annual run costs, resulting in $8M in savings in two years.
• Strategic Roadmap Development: Established comprehensive multi-year roadmaps aligned with strategic priorities and Data Center Exit Plans.
• Cloud Migration Exploration: Initiated exploration of hosting workloads on Public Cloud to drive substantial cost reductions and enhanced time-to-market of capabilities

As Head of Consumer data teams served Mortgage, Credit Card, Merchant Services, Auto Lending and Personal Lines & Loans, Community Banking, Fraud, Small Business Banking with annual budget of $75MM + and 300+ global team members.

Key Accomplishments:

• Team Formation: Consolidated Data teams within Consumer Lending to establish new Data Asset team bringing over 60+ analytical applications under one umbrella driving consistency and resiliency.
• Increased Speed and Reduced Defects: Focused effort to increase speed by over 50% while reducing data defect rate by over 2000% that enabled timely trading/hedging of Mortgage Backed Securities.

As the Technology Leader for Mortgage Capital Markets, spearheaded a $150MM+ multi-year modernization initiative, transforming the Mortgage Secondary Marketing process and technology leveraging a global team of 250+ professionals.

Key Accomplishments:

• Operational Excellence and Business Enablement: Engineered a 75%+ reduction in cycle time by implementing cutting-edge methodologies to enhance Data Quality and deploying Rules-based Pooling selection techniques. Innovations resulted in streamlined operations and elevated efficiency, positioning Wells Fargo for sustained success in a competitive market landscape.
• Enhanced Business Value: Increased loan availability for Mortgage Backed Securities - $11B loan pools/month and reduced post-closing cycle time by over 50%.
• Delivery Speed: Led Agile transformation resulting in delivery speed increase of over 60% leading to replacement of a 20-year old system with a better performing application suite for the businesses.
• Innovation: As Intellectual Property Officer for Home Lending Technology, catalyzed a paradigm shift in innovation by elevating patent filings from less than 10 to over 100 filed patents within a single year.

As the Technology Leader for Brokerage Data at Wells Fargo Advisors Technology, spearheaded transformative initiatives to elevate Data and Analytics capabilities, overseeing a $100MM budget and leading a team of 350+ professionals.

Key Accomplishments:

• Data Management Innovation: Established cutting-edge Data and Analytics platforms, pioneering best practices and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement to drive organizational growth and success.
• Mergers & Acquisitions Delivery: Successfully orchestrated the integration of Wachovia Securities and A.G. Edwards data/ application platforms within an aggressive timeline of 18 months, eliminating redundant systems and optimizing operational efficiency through a strategic investment exceeding $125MM.
• Operational Excellence: Streamlined data operations by merging Wells Fargo Investments and Wachovia Securities data applications/platforms within 14 months, with a $150MM+ investment.
• Data Management: Established cutting-edge Data and Analytics platforms, pioneering best practices and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement to drive organizational growth and success.

As Technology leader for Data and Corporate Applications, responsible for establishing a Data Management roadmap and discipline to drive faster, more effective Online Trading experience. O

Key Accomplishments:

• Data Transformation Delivery: Conceptualized and implemented the first Enterprise Information Strategy, integrating modern Data Pipelines, Operational Data Store, and Warehouse within 24 months, enabling timely Analytics.
• Speed and Operational Efficiency: Achieved a remarkable reduction in data cycle times by over 50 times, from weeks to hours, optimizing operational efficiency and responsiveness.
• Mergers & Acquisitions: Facilitated seamless integration during the TD Waterhouse and Ameritrade merger by establishing a unified Operational Data Store, expediting application integration processes.