BUSINESS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER

Technology executive with a successful track record of managing technological innovations to future competitive positioning, improving operational efficiency and effectiveness by right-sizing processes, overseeing technology architecture, design and delivery of customer and internal facing applications, and increasing profitability by managing technology footprint. Recognized as a strategic leader experienced in developing consumer-centric strategies, analytics and articulating loosely defined problems into actions providing business value. Over 20 years of experience in information technology, customer experience strategies & solutions within Power & Utilities, Financial Services, Transportation, Railroad, Insurance, State Agencies, and top 10 global prestigious consulting firms – PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Accenture LLP, and Infosys .

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS HISTORY

·      PricewaterhouseCoopers:  Manager Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategy, March 2013 to Present

·      Accenture:  Manager Advanced System and Technology, April 2010 to February 2013

·      BNSF Railway:  Senior Consulting Engineer, November 2006 to February 2010

·      First Horizon National:  Manager Enterprise Architecture, December 1999 to October 2006

·      Intellisoft Technologies:  Senior Database Administrator, October 1997 to September 1999

·      Intermedia Group:  Database Administrator, February 1997 to September 1997

·      Aspect Development:  Systems Engineer, 1996 to 1997

·      Infosys Technologies:  Database Administrator, 1994 to 1996

·      Sandur Systems:  Systems Engineer, 1992 to 1994

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

§ Supported the CIO and Leadership team of a Power & Utilities company within North America to reduce O&M costs, implement business technology planning, enable workforce, and develop customer-centric strategies.

§ Supported the Senior Leadership team of a major consulting company to implement technology and integration strategy to enable integrated markeplace development for a major Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) within North America.

§ Supported the CIO and Leadership team of a major Railroad company within North America to implement agile and emerging technology architectures to future innovation, reduce costs, implement knowledge management, and achieve operation efficiencies.

§ Supported the Leadership team of a major Financial Services company within North America to implement Service Management and Enterprise Architecture solutions to future governance, brings more discipline and efficiency to IT ops, manage technology spend, and enable development of application that add business value.

§ Analyzed, planned, designed, and implemented customer and business facing technologies not limited to integration (e.g. Web Services, ESB, ETL), security (e.g. managed file transfer, connect direct), data management (e.g. Oracle), Enterprise Applications (e.g. SAP HCM, Oracle CRM).

§ Developed and enabled organization capabilities not limited to Project Portfolio Management (project prioritization and funding model), Service Management, Program Management, IT Risk Assessment, IT Readiness, and Enterprise Architecture.

§ Developed white papers and point-of-view, and delivered executive de-briefs on strategic technologies including but not limited to Data mining and analysis, Private & Public cloud, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Mobile applications, and social media.

§ Coached, mentored and trained peers, junior staff, and interns to help add value to the organization and future personal development.

§ Assisted in the firms re-invest activities by developing proposals, recruiting, community development activities, oral presentations, and workshops.

§ Establish and manage a consulting organization for 5 years with revenue of $1.5 million.

§ Establish and manage a social website/blog with traffic of approximately 1000 unique visitors per day.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

1.       Manager IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture at PwC: IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Manager responsible for management, architecture, requirements/scope management, design, and delivery of initiatives such as (a) Consolidation of multiple airline reservation system to one (b) Application Portfolio Management, Application Rationalization, Enterprise Business and Technology Plans / Roadmap for a public utility company, (b) IT Strategy for a Building Materials Company, and (c) IT Job Description Library for a multinational financial and banking company.

2.       Manager Advanced System and Technology at Accenture: System Integration and Technology Manager responsible for architecture, design, delivery, and management of initiatives such as (a) solutions blueprint for public utility company (natural gas and electricity) and multinational financial and banking company, (b) Integration Architecture for a Regional Transmission Organization, (c) Vendor Technology selection for a for a state pension employees retirement agency.

3.       Senior Consultant/Director at BNSF Railway: Responsible for architecture, design, and delivery of initiatives includes: Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Cloud Computing, and Technology Transformational Roadmap. .

4.       Enterprise Architecture Manager at First Horizon National Corporation: Responsible for architecture, design, delivery, and management of initiatives includes: Enterprise Architecture, Technical Design Reviews, Enterprise Technology Controls (COBIT Controls), Project Management Office, Service Management, Data Architecture, IT Change Management, and Enterprise Application Integration.

5.       Senior Database Administrator: Responsible for Database Architecture, design, and management for Sabre, CALPERS, Renters Choice, Infosys, and Aspect Development (i2).

PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS AFFILIATIONS

CIO Leadership Network / Evanta – Member (2006-present)

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

·      M.B.A. University of Phoenix, AZ (2007).

·      B.E. Electronics and Communication, Karnataka University, India (1992).

·      Certified HIPAA Administrator, HIPAA Academy (2013).

·      Togaf 9.0 Foundation Certified, Open Group (2012).

·      Oracle 7.3 OCP-DBA, Oracle Corporation (2000).

TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITIES

·   Framework / Methodologies Used: Accenture Delivery Methods for Custom Development (Solutions Planning, Program Management, Project Management, Application & Technical Architecture), TOGAF 9.0, ITIL V3, COBIT v4.1, WS-I basic profile 1.1 (SOAP 1.1, HTTP 1.1, XML 1.0 Second Edition, WSDL 1.1, XML Schema Part 1: Structures & XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes, UDDI Version 2.03), Spring Framework 2.5.6.SEC02, Spring Batch 2.1

·   System Integration experience with Enterprise and Industry Solutions: SAP Financial Accounting, ERP and CRM solutions EP6 for Utilities, Transportation, and Banking Industries, Oracle e-business suite 12, Siebel CRM 8.1.1, Salesforce CRM, Alstom Market and Settlements Systems, Nexant TCR System, Itron Transaction Management System and Meter Data Management System, BitStew Grid Director, Corix MIV, OPower Portal

·   Modeling Tools Used: Sparx Enterprise Architect 8.0, Microsoft Visio, WebSphere Business Modeler V7.0

·   Collaboration Technologies Used: SharePoint 2010

·   Integration/Development Platforms Used: Informatica Power Center 9.1.0, IBM Integration Designer 7.5

·   Middleware /Integration Broker Technologies Used: NetWeaver 7.1 EHP1, Oracle Service Bus 11g, Sonic ESB 8.5.1, Websphere Message Broker 8.0, Datapower, Websphere Enterprise Service Bus V7.0, WebSphere MQ 7.5, BizTalk Server 2010

·   Database Technologies Used: Oracle 11g Release 2, DB2 v8.0, Sql*Server 2008, Netezza Appliance 1000-3

FOREIGN LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

·            Hindi - Proficient in speaking

·            Kannada – Proficient in speaking and writing

PUBLICATIONS

·               10 Steps to a Better Business Process Management (CIO Leadership Network/Evanta, www.bycios.com)

·               Four Steps to better Enterprise Architecture (CIO Leadership Network/Evanta, www.bycios.com)

·               A Matrix for Evaluating Cloud vs. Virtualization (CIO Leadership Network/Evanta, www.bycios.com)

·               The ABCs of Cloud (CIO Leadership Network/Evanta, www.bycios.com)

·               Are you Late to the Game with Unified Communications (CIO Leadership Network/Evanta, www.bycios.com)

·               Seven Questions to Test Your SOA Strategy (CIO Leadership Network/Evanta, www.bycios.com)

·               Ten Questions to Test Your Virtualization Strategy (CIO Leadership Network/Evanta, www.bycios.com)

·               Evolving Business Process Outsourcing (Computer World)