Sandeep Nakra

CEO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India19 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

16 years of IT experience with a focus on cloud solutions.
Expertise in driving large-scale cloud transformation projects.
Strong leadership in pre-sales and consulting for global enterprises.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Solutions Architect with extensive experience in IT transformation for enterprise clients.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingPre-salesSolution ArchitectureConsultingData Center

Other Skills

Life SciencesMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)Product ManagementService MeshBusiness StrategyAgile LeadershipAzureAWSTransformationMigrationNASStorage Area NetworksStorageITILManagement

About

A result oriented professional with 16 years of experience in IT industry serving Global Enterprises and CXO’s via Solution Selling, IT Transformation, DC Modernization, Solution Designing, Cloud Services, Architecting and Presales. Currently serving as Enterprise Architect – Hybrid Cloud Presales (EN Business) at HCL Technologies, responsible for growing existing business and ensuring investments and initiatives are aligned with technical vision. Managing portfolio of ~$250 Mil and focused on growing the incremental revenue and customer mind share around products and technology’s by building a collaborated technology roadmap.

Experience

Hcltech

4 roles

General Manager

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Deputy General Manager - Enterprise Architect

Promoted

Nov 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

>Pre-Sales & Consulting – Thought leadership, Industry trends and Analysis, High level transformation journey, Strategic alignment, Capability presentation, Deal Costing & Pricing, Response Expertise for Request for Proposals (RFPs), Solution Defense and Solution Walk Through.
> Cloud Computing – XaaS (“X” as a service) model - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Public, Private, Hybrid Clouds, Cost Model, Service Catalogue.
> Driving the cloud Solutioning (Azure & AWS) activities for large complex deals which involves multiple service lines and / or technology domains.
> Recommend migration strategies, enterprise architectures, migration tools, and cloud infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Cloud.
> Partnering with leading OEM vendors to develop product strategy with the objective of maximizing sales, market share and profit margins

Pre-salesCloud ComputingLife SciencesMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)Product ManagementService Mesh+2

Associate General Manager - Sr. Solutions Architect

Promoted

Oct 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Demonstrate technical and advisory skills for customers, sales and other consultants, and effectively communicate the technical and business message.
Understand business requirements for customer base and be able to translate them into technical requirements
Leading deep dive technical and architectural discussions
Creating and providing key content for high value RFP/RFI responses
Develop and deliver in-depth and high-level technical presentations to customers and prospects
Driving customer consolidation sizing and architecture discussions
Consulting directly with sales to deliver value-propositions
Providing guidance on competitive positioning and win-themes

Life SciencesMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)Product ManagementService MeshBusiness StrategyAgile Leadership+2

Solution Architect

Mar 2011 – Sep 2018 · 7 yrs 6 mos

Develop and deliver in-depth and high-level technical presentations to customers and prospects
Providing guidance on competitive positioning and win-themes
Work on Data Center (DC) Transformation and Migration solutions as a part of EN Presales team
Solution ROI and Business value proposition
Develop comprehensive high level infrastructure solutions that incorporate strategic target state architecture and standards to maximize performance, capacity and TCO
Have held multiple positions in the areas of technology excellence, product management, architecture and led multiple large transformation projects. Global exposure in Client Management, Vendor Management and Executive management.
Worked for large DC transformation projects like Nokia, Finland and E&Y, Singapore.