Vinay Kumar

CTO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India24 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 17+ years of executive experience in technology and innovation.
  • Led large-scale organizations with significant budgets and staff.
  • Expert in leveraging technology for superior customer service.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Telecommunications and Healthcare technology delivery.

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Skills

Core Skills

Platform As A Service (paas)Machine Learning

Other Skills

Open APIPlatform ArchitectureEcosystem ServicesGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Telecommunications EngineeringSoftware EngineeringTelecommunications ManagementTechnology EvaluationProposal WritingValidationMS ProjectProduct ManagementProgram ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipPeople Development

About

An accomplished leader focused on delivering business value through innovation and technology. 17+ years of senior executive experience in delivering numerous best in class digital systems for Fortune 50 telecom companies, scaling a startup, and CXO consulting. Manages large scale global organizations of 1000+ staff with budgets exceeding $40M. My career objective: Whatever the industry, differentiation (USP) among competitors going forward, will be based on customer service. And more and more, technology will be the preferred media to provide an excellent delivery of this service. I want to gain opportunities to leverage my technology expertise and innovativeness, to establish myself as a thought-leader in delivering superior customer service using best-in-class technology.

Experience

Prudential plc

Chief Technology and Information Officer

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Prudential health india

CTIO

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Singapore/Bangalore

  • Make Indians healthier through a combination of prevent, postpone and protect solutions.
  • Deliver these solutions through digital-led channels, on an open and secure platform, leveraging data and AI/ML driven bionic ops.
Platform as a Service (PAAS)Open APIPlatform ArchitectureEcosystem ServicesMachine LearningGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)

Prudential

Program Director

Jun 2018Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Singapore

  • Responsible for building partnerships ecosystem

Bt

2 roles

Director Software Engineering, Integration Infrastructure

Aug 2011Jun 2018 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Accountable for end-to-end delivery of digital solutions, supporting $30M+ revenues across six LoBs, and a 25M+ customer base spread across 30+ countries.
  • Responsible for managing strategic investments of $24M+ in digital IT platforms using a global workforce of 400+ software engineers to architect, design, build and run enterprise gateways, integration middleware systems, IOT information exchange and MBaaS platform (Mobile Backend as a Service).
  • Highlights:
  • 1. The B2B gateways support trading with over 550 communication providers.
  • 2. Over 45M+ transactions are successfully carried out over the gateway and middleware platform per day.
  • 3. The IOT Information Exchange platform has been developed over the last 8 months using opensource technologies which enable smart cities implementation in UK.
  • 4. MBaaS platform (Mobile Backend as a Service) has created a software self-service ecosystem for both customers and internal stakeholders, to exploit data and functionalities locked in legacy and archaic mainframes.
  • Previously at BT, have led teams who build and run revenue assurance, billing, payments and CRM systems.

Director - IoT

Aug 2011Jun 2018 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Ocimum

Senior Vice President Operations

Feb 2008Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Reporting into the CEO, accountable for scaling of the startup via organic growth, and inorganic acquisitions globally.
  • Highlights:
  • 1. Acquired and integrated two companies, one in Netherlands and one in the US.
  • 2. Scaled Hyderabad operations from 80 to 210+ over 2 years.
  • 3. Involved in due-diligence exercises, for acquisitions, and funding.
  • 4. Established policies, processes and controls to help the company scale from $1M to $5M revenues over 3 years.

Booz allen hamilton

Management Consultant

Jun 2007Jan 2008 · 7 mos · Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh

  • Consulted senior business executives – Home BU VP and GMs – in the largest telecom service provider in the middle-east to improve broadband installation, technical support, and repair capabilities.
  • Recommend industry best practices and and program manage the implementation of these recommendations.

Verizon

Director/Delivery Head

May 2004Jun 2007 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

  • Manage delivery of telecom software systems for the retail LOB.
  • Highlights:
  • 1. Convinced US based senior executives (CIOs, Senior Vice Presidents, Executive Directors) to of the potential of India in general, and our group in particular. Efforts resulted in 700% growth in resources in 3 years (200 to 1561).
  • 2. While engagement earlier was limited to maintenance, now it is transformed into a truly collaborative partnership with key industry transforming initiatives being driven from India.
  • 3. Delivery Management - Managing end-to-end IT systems delivery – from requirements to production maintenance/support – of Ordering, Order-Management, CRM, IVRs, online channel, Tech Support, eRepair, Metrics and Analytics applications. These applications are used to provide telecom services – voice (POTS/Fiber), data (dialup, DSL, Fiber) and Video (Fiber) – to retail consumers and small-and-medium businesses.
  • 4. Organizational Building - Part of the India Steering committee which establishes and fine-tunes policies & processes at the India entity, to evolve from a US-managed offshoot into a Center of Excellence.
  • 5. Won numerous company accolades on setting up the Shadow Q process, and later automating it, which reduces order breakages, improving speed of service delivery and enhancing customer
  • experience.

Ericsson (erstwhile ehpt india)

Project Lead

Mar 2000Feb 2003 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Delhi, Gothenburg and Stockholm

  • Using C, C++, and Java, design and build telecom billing mediation systems, which collect switch generated call data records (or IPDRs), process these in real time(billions per day), and distribute to downstream rating and billing systems.
  • Highlights:
  • Three Team Awards & two Individual Excellence awards in three years at Ericsson.
  • Rated in the top 10% throughout at Ericsson.

Education

Indian School of Business

MBA — Business Management with major in Finance and Marketing

Jan 2003Jan 2004

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor of Technology

Jan 1994Jan 1998

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