Yogesh Shah
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Visionary Executive and seasoned thought leader with 26+ years of proven expertise and unwavering dedication to operations excellence which drives organizational growth and cultivates key partnerships. Adept in all multidisciplinary business facets integral to new enterprise launch, financial sustainability and profitability.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Vice President - IT Business Solutions
Global Payments Inc.
07.2018 - 08.2022
- Project-based engagements across multiple divisions with enterprise-wide impacts
- On-site in the US and five EU countries with global project/product execution, services and support
- Head of Technology for Unified Commerce Platform project spanning a 120-member global team and $40M+ revenue
- Built, managed and mentored diverse project teams local and remote in multiple countries
- Executed projects impacting $300M+ revenues for multinational commerce and global sales division
- Worked in the confluence of people, process and technology to optimize organizational results
- Direct responsibility for 50 team members spanning various projects, roles and functions
- Leveraged 300 IT professionals delivering technical projects affecting > 90% of global staff
- Critical Business Partner functionality bridging product, business and technology as a liaison, solution architect, advocate, change manager, and educator
- Managed external partner relationships, solution design and technology to program deployment
- Developed and successfully deployed technical innovation and automation solutions increasing operational efficiencies and driving cost savings.
Vice President - IT Business Solutions
Global Payments Inc.
04.2013 - 07.2018
- Industry partner integrations including startups and relationship management
- Technology business partner for Asia Pacific region representing ~10% of annual revenues
- CIO award recognizing achievements in Asia Pacific
- Designed intake process with integration partner to execute 80+ synergy projects achieving $15M+ annual partnership revenue target
- Accountable for defining, developing and planning project execution for Asia Pacific business partners
- Business and technology relationship management optimized operations and delivered efficient technology solutions.
Director - IT Business Solutions
Global Payments Inc.
10.2011 - 04.2013
- Led Worldwide Operations Council ensuring global PCI DSS compliance
- Designed Project Scoping Forum delivering IT project structure and repeatability
- Led five-member integration partner team to execute enterprise-wide required PCI DSS compliance changes affecting global operations
- Developed system to standardize IT project assessment, scoping and planning
- Data-based issue identification and solution design.
Director - Program Management Office
Atlanticus Holdings Corporation
01.2005 - 01.2011
- Managed $30M IT services delivery group
- 2M+ P&L responsibility
- Directing seven senior Program/Project Managers
- IT support for 1,200 global staff with >99.7% service SLA
- Assisted senior leadership in group and organizational goal alignment
- Formulated innovative operations and data integration solutions with third parties
- Collaborated with IT leaders to create actionable plans, metrics and success criteria aligned to business needs and objectives
- Multi-sourcing strategy to meet IT servicing needs
- Ensured on-budget and in-scope project delivery while driving effective change management and solution adoption.
Principal Consultant
CGI-AMS
01.1996 - 01.2005
- 20-member team supporting BellSouth Long Distance Complex division
- Waterfall and Scrum projects with offshore/near-shore development to reduce costs
- Audit committee for CMMI Level 3 certification
- Solution architecture, design, coding, testing, implementation, system conversion, change management and user adoption
- Effort estimates and integrated team tasks
- Risk management and mitigation
- Technical architecture consultation to evaluate data warehousing solutions.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
Florida State University
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
University of Mumbai
Skills
- C
- C
- HTML
- JAVA
- Korn Shell
- VisualBasic
- SQL
- XML
- MS Office Suite
- Google Workspace
- Informatica
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Salesforce
- DocuSign
- Apigee
- Process Improvements
- Budget Preparation
- Product Management
- Performance Improvement
- Procedure Implementation
- Program Oversight
- Strategic Planning
- Policy Development
- Technical Support
- Project Management
- Program Management
Additional Work History
linkedin.com/in/yogi-shah
Professional Expertise - Skills
- IT + Product + Business Strategy
- Program + Project + Change Management
- Vendor Relationships
- Leadership + Coaching
- People + Team Development
- Fintech + Payment Card Industry + Telecom
- Solution Strategy, Innovation, Design + Execution
- Organizational Design + Transformation
- Process Development + Optimization
- Agile + Technology Integration
Affiliations
- Volunteering - Habitat for Humanity, Hands on Atlanta
Accomplishments
- CIO Awards
- Best Practices Award
Languages
English
Professional
Hindi
Professional
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Vice President - IT Business Solutions
Global Payments Inc.
07.2018 - 08.2022
Vice President - IT Business Solutions
Global Payments Inc.
04.2013 - 07.2018
Director - IT Business Solutions
Global Payments Inc.
10.2011 - 04.2013
Director - Program Management Office
Atlanticus Holdings Corporation
01.2005 - 01.2011
Principal Consultant
CGI-AMS
01.1996 - 01.2005
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
Florida State University
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
University of Mumbai
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