Sumukh Bhardwaj

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

10 years of experience in IT strategy and M&A consulting.
Led large-scale digital transformations for Fortune 500 clients.
Certified in multiple project management and cloud technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic consultant specializing in IT M&A and digital transformations across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

It M&aIt StrategyIt IntegrationDigital Transformation

Other Skills

Acquisition IntegrationAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsBusiness AnalysisBusiness StrategyCloud ComputingData ManagementEnterprise ArchitectureEnterprise StorageExcel ModelsIT Cost OptimizationInformation TechnologyMergers & AcquisitionsMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)Operational Due Diligence

About

Consulting leader with 10 years’ experience at PwC and Deloitte in advising CIOs / CTOs and IT leaders of Fortune 500 US and Global clients in IT strategy development and program management of complex, global M&A deals and Digital Transformations - Extensive experience in partnering with stakeholders across IT, Business Groups and Functions in planning transformation programs to drive business outcomes - Domain knowledge and rich project experience in High-Tech, Banking, Consumer and Industrial Products, and Retail industries - Deep expertise in Cloud, IT Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, IT Operating Model Design and IT Cost Optimization - 2-year PGDM degree holder from IIM Lucknow. Certified in Project Management Professional, AWS Certified Solution Architect (Associate), Azure Fundamentals, TOGAF 9 and Certified Scrum Master

Experience

Pwc

4 roles

Director

Promoted

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Responsible for managing a 100+ member M&A IT and Transformation practice:
Oversaw recruitment across top 7 Indian B-Schools to scale practice; trained 70+ new hires in PwC frameworks and mentored high-potential employees at various levels
Front-ended discussions with clients during projects and sales pitches
Led Center of Excellence for 24x7 opportunity sensing and pursuit in collaboration with PwC US, Germany, Italy, Swiss and Japan firms
Established framework for consistent and efficient project delivery and knowledge management; led periodic project quality audits and evangelized best practices
Developed playbooks, sales collaterals, eminence artifacts, accelerators and automation tools to aid practice and business development

IT M&AIT IntegrationMergers & AcquisitionsIT StrategyEnterprise StorageProgram Management+15

Senior Manager

Jun 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs

Assisted PE buyer in standing up IT landscape for an independent warehouse finance and securitized products business carved out from a leading global bank
Delivered 20+ back to back proposals targeted at large corporate and private equities
Led 10 CoEs related to post merger integration
Mentored high-performing practitioners in leadership and delivery

Manager

Promoted

Jul 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Advised one of the top five global banks in defining IT strategy for divestiture of its US subsidiary and subsequent integration with a Buyer. Facilitated development of As-Is and Day 1 IT Operating Model,
Application & Infrastructure Architecture for Seller & DivestCo
Developed multiple proposals, playbooks and point of views to support sales pipeline growth
Managed campus and intern recruitment programs across 2 years from 6 Tier-1 B-schools
Planned and conducted 3-day orientation workshops to train incoming practitioners in M&A IT and Digital Transformation methodologies

Senior Associate

Oct 2019 – Jul 2020 · 9 mos

Defined Day 1 and End State IT strategy for a $6Bn acquisition by a leading US environmental services major; program-managed Customer and Ops migration and IT integration
Evaluated a leading beauty products brand across IT pillars (organization, applications, infrastructure, IT contracts, etc.) for a Private Equity client as part of an IT Due Diligence

Deloitte consulting

2 roles

Senior Consultant, IT M&A and Digital Transformations

May 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Program Managed an IT-led Business transformation to SAP S/4 HANA on Cloud for a large US food
industry client, leveraging Hybrid-Agile methodology
Supported strategic initiatives for a large US client such as Project Portfolio Rationalization, IT Annual Operating Plan, IT Spend Optimization, and IT Organization right-sizing, in the capacity of Office of CTO
Led Day 1 and Future-State planning across Apps, Infra and Cyber landscape for a $2Bn acquisition by leading US consumer products client

Consultant, Tech Strategy & Architecture

May 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs

Advised on IT separation planning for two simultaneous multi-wave spin-offs of a global, Fortune 50 High-Tech firm. Assessed and mitigated impact of application downtime to business processes, ensuring flawless cutover of 200+ applications on Day 1
Designed Reference Architectures for a leading US industrial goods client to guide solution architecture design across multiple domains such as Cloud, DR, SOA Middleware, Data Warehousing and Data Lake

Info edge india ltd

Product Management Intern

Apr 2014 – May 2014 · 1 mo · Noida Area, India

Netapp

Member Technical Staff

Jun 2010 – Jun 2013 · 3 yrs

Worked for 3 years as a QA Engineer for many of NetApp's mission-critical Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions such as Snapmirror, Snapvault, Tape and 7toC Transition.
Have worked on specialized performance & scale testing and automation framework development in Perl along with design, execution and end-to-end automation of test cases over several releases.
My initiative in evaluating and promoting the adoption of VMs for testing Data ONTAP in my BU helped in achieving huge Capex savings and reduced hardware usage, which was well recognized and appreciated by my organization.