Sameer Zaveri

Co-Founder

Irvine, California, United States19 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in transformational strategies.
  • Expert in cloud migration and hybrid architecture.
  • Proven track record in leading high-impact projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Transformation Leader with expertise in Fintech and Healthcare sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSolution ArchitectureAgile MethodologiesProject ManagementIt StrategySoftware DevelopmentTeam Management

Other Skills

AWSAnalyticsAzureBusiness DevelopmentCRMCustomer RelationshipsData CenterERPEnterprise ArchitectureGTM strategiesGlobal DeliveryIntegrationManagementOutsourcingPMO

About

Accomplished consulting practitioner and thought leader with 20+ years’ experience partnering with Fortune 1000 companies in defining transformational strategies and leading outcome based implementations. Widely recognized for innovative approaches, forward thinking initiatives and creating effective teams delivering recurring success. A people leader with strong professional relationships, excellent negotiator and a good mentor with ability to drive organizational growth. Enabling organizations in their digital transformation journey by bringing together aspects of digitally native architecture, modernizing existing business service layer and new product launches, hybrid cloud adoptions, data for decision making while maintaining / enhancing the security posture • Engaging C level on transformational strategies • Hybrid architecture definition leveraging public cloud service providers; AWS, Azure and GCP • Forming, norming practices from scratch, defining practice vision, growth strategies and goals. Forming practice offerings, enabling organic through new logo acquisition, growth within existing clients and inorganic growth through M&A • Responsible for practice level P/L • Responding to RFP’s, creating and presenting proposal including solution approaches, writing statement of works (SoW’s), driving negotiations on multi million dollars engagements and ensuring deal closures • Hands on in building transformation roadmaps including total cost of ownership, return on investment and enterprise architecture • Enabling cloud migration roadmaps in a consistent approach by leveraging infrastructure as a code, CI/CD processes, platform services and test cycle automation • Establishing hybrid teams (onsite and offshore) with delivery governance processes ensuring highest CSAT ratings • Strong verbal and written communication skills

Experience

Forbes technology council

Member - Forbes Technology Council

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Datamotive.io

Co-Founder

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · United States

Uc santa barbara

Advisory Board Member

Nov 2021Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Hcl technologies

Google Cloud Evangelist

Aug 2020Jun 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · United States

  • Google Cloud solution leader for Hi-Tech and TME verticals. Special focus on enabling ISV migraton to Google cloud

Trianz

Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services

Feb 2016Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos · United States

  • Practice Unit leader responsible for P/L, GTM strategies, customer acquisition and expansion, hiring and scaling teams and partner development (AWS, Azure and Google)
  • Scope:
  • Customer Relationships | Global Practice Vision & Roadmap | Solution Architecture
  • Partner Strategy | GTM strategies (direct sales, partner sales, digital marketing)
  • Hiring and scaling (US, India) | IP and Product Development
  • Accountability:
  • ► YoY practice growth; customers, revenues, margins, team, capabilities
  • ► GTM strategies; direct sales, partner sales, digital campaigns, packaged solutions for new client acquisition and existing client growth
  • ► Hands on management of architecture, development patterns, practices and procedures for enterprise systems.
  • ► Partner alliance; channel development, partner certifications, joint partner sales
  • ► Defined Function & Executive PMO structure to align programs, projects and investments
  • ► Drove internal Innovation Program around product and IP development
  • ► Facilitated Organization Planning and Talent Review Process
  • ► Responsible for quarterly strategy and operational reviews
  • ► Transformed organization culture from Command and Control to Empowerment and Collaboration
  • ► Delivered Several Large Programs (migration of mobile payment gateway to Azure cloud, several analytics implementation leverage Azure Analytics, mainframe ecosystem modernization to AWS, health care analytics on AWS, PCI complaint data platform migration from Oracle to PostgreSql on Azure )
  • ► Led several partner audits around MSP, DevOps, modernization certifications.
Cloud ComputingSolution ArchitectureGTM strategiesCustomer RelationshipsPractice Unit leadership

Experian

Program Manager, PMO

Feb 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Orange County, California Area

  • Program leader responsible for the technology department’s transformation from a waterfall software development methodology to a scaled agile framework. Partnered with engineering, product management, operations to transform all aspects of the product life cycle
  • Led the engineering effort; architecture, design, build and test for the first bilingual financial product
  • Enabled project governance standards including data gathering and analysis with a focus on predictability and adherence to budget.
Agile MethodologiesProject ManagementProgram Management

Cisco systems

Program Manager

Aug 2008Nov 2013 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Irvine, CA

  • IT Leader for global networking equipment distributor, brands include Linksys and Flip. IT Strategy addressed the datacenter and operational needs for Consumer and SMB Markets via eCommerce & Direct to Consumer, Retailers and Distributors.
  • Scope:
  • Internal Client Relationships | IT Strategy & Roadmap | IT Architecture
  • Vendor Strategy | PMO & Project Execution
  • Systems: ERP, HRMS, CRM, BI | Mergers and Divesture
  • Accountability:
  • ► Managed teams of IT Managers, Project Managers and Analysts
  • ► Technology partner for Engineering, Marketing, Supply Chain and Finance
  • ► Managed Acquisitions and Divestures
  • ► Drove internal IT Innovation Program
  • ► Responsible for quarterly IT operations and service reviews
  • ► Defined operational standards for global managed services teams; 100+ team across multiple vendor partners SDLC, PLC Standards and Change Management Process
  • ► Matured Vendor Partnerships from Staff Augmentation to Managed Services for technical delivery.
  • ► Delivered Several Large Programs (Oracle R12, Datacenter consolidation, eCommerce, HomeTeleprense)
IT StrategyVendor ManagementProject ExecutionProject Management

Hp

Software Engineering Manager

Jan 2005Aug 2008 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Engineering manager for the inkjet product suite packaged as a CD and available online. Product suite release aligned to the hardware rollout; twice a year in 22 languages. Responsible for a 120-member global product development team; architects, release engineers, developers and testers.
Software DevelopmentTeam ManagementProduct Development

Education

University of Mumbai

Diploma — Computer Science

Sharon English High School

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science

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