Aluri Gopicharan

Operations Associate

India8 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led successful mergers and acquisitions in the tech sector.
Implemented security policies for a Fortune 100 company.
Developed innovative financial metrics to drive business growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong skills in IT operations and financial systems engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Financial Systems EngineeringIt OperationsSystems EngineeringIt Infrastructure ManagementProgramming

Other Skills

Financial ModelingAcquisition IntegrationData AnalysisTeam BuildingERP ImplementationSecurity Policy ImplementationMessaging Environment ManagementInfrastructure ArchitectureProject DeploymentDatabase DevelopmentApplication DevelopmentTrainingValuationService DeliveryIT Service Management

About

With impactful experience as an IT Professional focused in the financial industry with Fortune 100 company leadership, I have been integral to strategic initiatives that have resulted in high-level process efficiency increases. I am well versed in system administration as well as engineering, utilizing innovative technology to optimize business efforts. It is my passion to utilize my expertise in IT, automation, and digital engineering to influence advanced infrastructure.

Experience

Thrive

Financial Systems Engineering / IT Information Data Analyst

Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs

THRIVE IS A $350M+ RAPIDLY GROWING TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PROVIDER WITH 95% MONTHLY RECURRING REVENUE (MRR) FOCUSING UPON CLOUD, CYBER SECURITY, NETWORKING, DISASTER RECOVERY AND OTHER NEXT GENERATION MANAGED SERVICES.
Merged two companies at the outset to form Thrive, and subsequently acquired 22 more companies through private equity and EBITDA based bank debt financing.
Completed two recaps with larger P/E firms. The first was a $300M sale that produced a 5.2x return to its investors in just four years. The second was a $1.4B sale that produced a 3x return to its investors, also in just four years. Both successes were a result of double digit revenue growth, growing gross margins from 35% to >50%, and growing EBITDA margins from nearly 0% to >25%. This was done through sophisticated financial modeling, increased utilization rates, reduced time to resolve (TTR) tickets, and consolidation of tools and data centers through growth and acquisitions.
Acquisition Integration - Integrated 22 companies for purchase accounting, opening balance sheet audit, valuation of intangibles and deferred revenue, and purchase price allocation.
Built monthly financial and metrics package all based around Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) and Customer Retention (Reducing Churn).
Built a team of traditional Finance, HR, Legal, and Recruiting functions, as well as FP&A and M&A.
Helped build a platform that facilitated a roll-up strategy, including moving all acquired companies to Great Plains Dynamics for ERP and ServiceNow for ITSM/Ticketing System.
Managed all covenants around a bank loan and A/R Line of Credit.

Financial ModelingAcquisition IntegrationData AnalysisTeam BuildingERP ImplementationFinancial Systems Engineering+1

New york life insurance company

3 roles

Lead Systems Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Worked directly with CISO to create, implement, and enforce security policies
Managed and administered a messaging environment of over 19,000 users including email, instant messaging, Ironport Gateways, mobile device applications and Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange to ensure efficient and secure means of communication for a Fortune 100 company
Conceptualized, architected, and implemented complex infrastructure components for messaging environment
Deployed Ironport Gateway project designed to secure all mail traffic throughout the company (approximately to 2M messages processed daily)
Successfully completed an agency-wide upgrade from Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Microsoft Exchange 2010, including traveling to agent offices and transitioning 10K+ customers
Rolled out Microsoft Lync 2013 to over 19K user mailboxes and integrated Lync with Exchange Environment and mobile devices
Developed Unit, Model and Production environments on Unix Servers for a critical application request; project was requested, built, tested, and deployed in production within 3 months

Security Policy ImplementationMessaging Environment ManagementInfrastructure ArchitectureProject DeploymentSystems EngineeringIT Infrastructure Management

Programmer

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr

Interfaced with customers to gather requirements and build exceptional in-house applications for the investments group, including supporting applications for New York Life Insurance’s Office of the General Counsel
Created and developed complex Access database solutions for data warehousing projects
Develop .Net User Interface applications for investment customers
Trained division in .Net and object oriented programming, ensuring everyone was up to speed on all components
Experienced in the process of buying, racking, configuring, installing, performance testing and supporting innovative actuarial software (Prophet) for the Office of the Chief Actuary in an effort to improve forecasts and innovate underwriting techniques
Developed .Net programs for Investment Group that integrated with trading systems, resulting in increasing efficiency and reducing automated processing by 15%

Database DevelopmentApplication DevelopmentTrainingProgramming

Intern / Trainee

Dec 2013 – Apr 2014 · 4 mos

Participated in a 12 week coding intensive training program for a variety of programming languages
Coordinated and managed internship program for the Clinton, NJ office
Selected 2x to participate in culture change initiations to improve morale and increase efficiency
Responsible for tracking and maintaining all asset related information for IT PC’s/laptops, servers, storage and software assets under control of Asset Management