Dec 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Dec 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Dec 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Dec 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Bangalore - San Jose - London

• As part of the leadership team, responsible for driving Technology, Delivery, Practice & Solutions across all verticals for Digital & Cloud Transformation. Evangelizing solution definitions, strategic roadmap, demand generation, extended sales, marketing, M&A, Product Carve-Out & Derivatives Product Management, Strategic alliances and GTM across verticals. 5G powered Edge enabled & Multi-Cloud based solution and service offerings across industry verticals augmenting network technologies, application stack & cloud technologies for accelerating customers digital transformation journey through Digital Engineering & Application Modernization, Saasification, IOT & Gateways including MRO, AR/VR, IOT, Drones, Video Analytics, Data Privacy & Security, RPA, Business & Artificial Intelligence, Asset & Process Digital Twin. Data Driven Digital Engineering offerings across Industry verticals.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Bangalore - San Jose - London

• As part of the leadership team, responsible for driving Technology, Delivery, Practice & Solutions across ecosystems. Evangelizing solution definitions, strategic roadmap, demand generation, extended sales, marketing, M&A, Product Carve-Out & Derivatives Product Management, Strategic alliances and GTM for Hi-tech Vertical - Semiconductor, Storage and Independent Software Vendors.
• Helping customers and partners build next generation digital solutions for enterprises and connected engineering ecosystem. Enabling customers to embrace emerging technologies on data center engineering and application modernization across Semicon, Storage & ISVs verticals.
• Also responsible for incubation of driving value creation initiatives – NPD ideas, Product improvement ideas, process improvements/optimization, tools and automation for entire development, testing, verification and validation process using agile and devops methodologies.

Jan 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Worldwide

• Responsible for driving strategy and adoption of new age tools for Cloud, Big Data & DevOps platform Machine Learning, AI, IoT, Bluemix dedicated & Secure Gateway using QRadar, Whitewater progran focused strategic initiatives at IBM CIO Office.
• Define and execute for both IBM & Non-IBM products - End-to-end implementation of Proof-of-Concepts, Pilot, Early Access and Production platforms including hosting, on-boarding, chargeback, monitoring, automation, security and support charters. Lead the whitewater program. Keynote speaker for DevOps IBM CIO event. Enable continuous interlock with Business Unit executives for transforming development and operations teams through continuous improvement initiatives across process, tools and methodologies.
• Steering architecture community to foster emerging technologies and enable adoption of agile methodologies across development and operations units. Formulate, implement & execute internal DevOps, BigData, Machine Learning, AI, IoT, Bluemix dedicated & Secure Gateway BigFix, QRadar SIEM related CIO cloud platform initiatives.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 · 5 yrs · Worldwide

• WW BP/GSI Business, Solutions & Strategy Management Leader. Driving strategies for technology adoption, enterprise transformation & Business development with System Integrators and evolve a stronger ecosystem to drive Channel Relationships & Revenue with Business Partners & Global System Integrators (GSI). Portfolio included all software brands.
• Enable senior Industry and Technical SME resources to enable technology adoption through building capabilities on emerging technologies with the product development Labs in IBM. Enable field and Channel reps of GSI partner & IBM for progressing opportunities & deals. Innovate and drive solution based initiatives and opportunities. Ensuring strong pipeline and opportunity funnel. Build and manage cadence and governance all through the partner alliance engagement life-cycle for sales, technology incubation and client value.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Worldwide

• Tivoli Technology Evangelist Advisory Solutions Alliance - Service Management Excellence Center
• Awarded IBM WorldWide Outstanding Technical Achievement Award - 2011
• Have proven records and awards of exceptional performance delivering continuous process improvement initiatives to establish production maturity strategy and execute plan for evolving organizations IT & Network Infrastructure environment towards best in class breed from supportability, reliability, and availability standpoint across all industry verticals like Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities, Oil & Gas, Telecom.
• Experience in driving global strategies & initiatives. Establishing global business units, driving continuous improvement plan and essential business deliverable. Excellent Global Team management skills.
• End-to-end experience in IT & Network industry including application & network architecture,design, development,IT & Network service management, consolidated operations management,dynamic data center management and building public and private cloud using open standards based common cloud platform reference architecture and Network secure gateway across all industry verticals like Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities, Oil & Gas, Telecom.
• Excellent career track record of always exceeding goals and driving leadership in initiation, planning and execution of global firm wide initiatives.

Jan 2006 – Jun 2010 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Manager - Global Enterprise Management Systems - IOC Technology - Quality Assurance & Release Management
• Manage a global team with distributed resources and drive center of excellence deliverables for Global Enterprise Management Systems practice.
• Solution Architecture, Integration Architecture, Development, Quality Assurance & Release Management. Systems integration projects involved in integration of real-time administrative alarm information of infrastructure devices across all platforms - Distributed, Network, Vulnerabilities, Threat, IPS, PIM, Mainframe and Large Midrange. Hands on experience in Service Availability, performance and business service management. Also including PLC, SCADA, DCS for Energy, HVAC & HA/DR monitoring and management of DC. Various vendor technologies like IBM Tivoli, Netcool, Rational, Websphere, HP, CA, BMC, EMC, VMware. QRadar, Prognosis around management, event processing and automation.

Nov 2003 – Dec 2005 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Subject Matter Expert (ASG)/ Technical at Hewlett Packard responsible for TCO/TPR of support and management.
• Managed day to day operations team of 21 System Engineers.
• Projects & Programs :
• Technical Information Exchange (TIE)
• First Failure Capture (FFC) - Reverse Engineering program that saved over a million dollars and eventually became a standard approcah for all product releases.
• Awards :
• Was awarded the 'Most Valuable Partner' & certificate for Exceptional Performance .
• 'Friend-in-Need' for being Pilot Mentor.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 · 0 mo

Apr 2001 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr 9 mos