Feb 2025 – Sep 2025 · 7 mos

• Lead the AI, Data & Automation business for IBM Consulting across US, Canada and Latam. Accountable for the P&L, offerings, delivery, growth and skills

Nov 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Profile @ www.shobhitvarshney.com
• I lead IBM Consulting's AI, Generative AI & IoT Edge business in US, Canada & LATAM across all the industries we serve. My team partners with clients across the entire spectrum of Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Foundation models, Unstructured content intelligence, Computer Vision w/ IoT and Conversational AI.

Mar 2021 – Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Lead the AI & Analytics Practice for IBM Consulting Americas. Responsible for:
• partnering with clients on AI engagements (sales & delivery) cross-industry in US, Canada & Latin America
• delivering intelligent workflows with automation & AI across mission critical client processes
• building innovative AI offerings for IBM Consulting
• scaling AI with hyperscalers eg. Azure, AWS, Google and IBM cloud
• training and asset development for IBM AI & Analytics Consulting
• partnering as one-IBM to infuse AI in data platforms, cloud, strategy, ecosystem partner offerings
• More details at: www.shobhitvarshney.com

Jan 2019 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Helping clients transform into Cognitive Enterprises by leveraging an open ecosystem of AI technologies. Partnering to evolve their disparate AI pilots into 'one AI' - a ubiquitous source of intelligence – that orchestrates nano conversations, custom ML models and intelligent workflows on a hybrid cloud.
• Engage on broadly 4 areas of AI:
• Conversational AI
• AI Vision (images and video analytics)
• Content Intelligence deriving insights from unstructured documents (PDFs, images, scans, PPTs etc.)
• Custom Deep Learning/ Machine Learning models
• https://www.ibm.com/services/artificial-intelligence

Mar 2018 – Dec 2018 · 9 mos

• Realizing value for clients across all industries and domains leveraging the transformative power of:
• Applied Artificial Intelligence & Watson
• Big Data & Analytics
• Connected Solutions & Internet of Things
• Details at: http://www.shobhitvarshney.com

Jul 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Lead a team of strategy consultants and analytics ninjas
• Partner with client executives worldwide across all roles and industries on using Advanced Analytics and Cognitive techniques to drive business decisions
• Design and deliver machine learning and advanced analytics methodologies to fundamentally rethink business problems
• Leverage vast amounts of structured & unstructured data (enterprise, social, economic, weather, news etc) to deliver novel insights
• Signature solutions include:
• Cognitive end-to-end Financial Planning & Investment Optimization
• Metro Pulse Powered by Watson to deliver hyper-local time-sensitive insights (ibm.com/metropulse)
• Cognitive cross-functional performance management for CPG
• Advanced Social Analytics for consumer insights

Jan 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

Feb 2014 – Dec 2014 · 10 mos

Sep 2013 – Jan 2014 · 4 mos

• Led part of a sales transformation initiative with global and cross-business-unit reach at IBM. Aimed to improve the sales quota deployment process through analytics, simplification, standardization and automation,driving an estimated revenue growth of ~$1B.

Jul 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

• IBM's Chief Analytics Office is an internal strategy team driving enterprise transformation initiatives across IBM to improve revenue growth.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo · Greater New York City Area

• Management consultant in Financial Services in NY, focused on Technology and Organizational strategy

Jun 2007 – Aug 2010 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Co-founded a green ready-mix concrete company
• Co-developed business plan, raised capital, and managed financial planning
• 10% annual profit margins; 49 employees; $1M annual revenues; 3 manufacturing plants

Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · Greater New York City Area

• Led project teams to deliver visualizations and technical analysis of vast amounts of financial data on the Bloomberg professional terminal. As a project manager, responsible for all phases of software lifecycle from design to prototyping to delivery and maintenance. Translated business needs into technical requirements, developed project timelines and drove them to completion through stakeholder management across multiple business units. Deployed analytics to predict stock price movements based on historical and market trends, analyzed trading patterns, statistical and fundamental analysis. Collaborated across various groups within Bloomberg to streamline the use of customer facing visualizations and analytics.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr

• Researched new ways of leveraging software engineering techniques to drive innovation of future computer hardware and mobile devices. As part of the Ultra Mobile research group, collaborated with PhDs and researchers to conceptualize and invent new methodologies and technologies which would be developed into products over the next 5 years. Designed and implemented software in Unix/C/C++/Visual Basic to integrate different computer components with the application layer to deliver unique applications.