Aug 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Hybrid

• Leadership & Strategy
• ◆ Lead Data Engg CoE: A 200-person organization as a horizontal service to multiple industry verticals like Health, FS, Travel, Telecom etc.
• ◆ Thought Leadership: Representing Publicis Sapient as a thought leader at industry events, conferences, and customer engagements.
• ◆ Strategic Partnerships: With technology and industry leaders.
• ◆ High-Performance Teams: Managed and motivated a team of 200+, setting clear goals, KPIs, and performance metrics. Fostered professional growth and development.
• Driving Digital Transformation and Innovation
• ◆ Digital Business Transformation: Delivering transformative Digital Business Transformation, Data Strategy, BigData, and Analytics projects for Fortune 500 clients.
• ◆ Cloud Transformations: Lead migration of complex workloads to GCP, AWS, and Azure , secure significant partner funding from cloud providers for the effort.
• ◆ AI/ML Innovation: Development and deployment of cutting-edge GenAI solutions that accelerate SDLC project lifecycle with code generation, testing scripts and migration utilities.
• ◆ Accelerated Innovation: Developed and deployed 5 reusable software accelerators to streamline development processes and accelerate time-to-market.
• Engineering & Data Uber Specialty
• ◆ Customer Data Platforms: Architected and implemented Customer Data Platforms to enhance customer personalization and targeting with first-party, second-party and third-party data.
• ◆ Architectures & Platform Leadership: Delivered robust and scalable data solutions leveraging Medallion, Kappa, Lambda and Data Mesh architectures on Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery.
• ◆ Data Strategy & Governance: Established robust Data Governance frameworks for multiple clients covering the breadth of topics like data quality, catalogs, compliance, security, telemetry, and lineage.
• ◆ Microservices Architecture: Designed and implemented microservices-based systems and Kubernetes for agile and scalable deployments.

Dec 2020 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Product Engineering and Go-to-Market Strategy
• ◆ Crafted compelling GTM strategies and USPs that drove successful product launches, resulting in $10 million in revenue for a cloud-based platform within the first year. Built competitive analysis and partner enablement content to accelerate market penetration.
• ◆ Mentored and led customer innovation discussions through initial sales, identifying key customer business needs, and the technology plan to meet those needs.
• ◆ As industry head, guided the technical architecture team to adopt the latest cloud innovations, improving development agility and scalability.
• ◆ Delivered SaaS products built on AWS, Azure, and SAP BTP, leveraging cloud platforms to reduce development costs by 25%. Led product design and development through agile SCRUM cycles to deliver MVPs on time and within budget.
• AI & ML Products
• ◆ Predictive Analytics: Led a team of architects, engineers, product managers, and UX designers to deliver advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to predict future trends, optimize operations, and improve decision-making.
• ◆ Intelligent Automation: Automation of routine tasks using AI-powered bots and intelligent workflows to increase efficiency and reduce errors.
• ◆ Natural Language Processing: Enabling natural language interactions with SAP systems for easier access and data analysis.
• Industry Specific Products Developed
• ◆ Digital Boardroom: An industry specific analytics dashboard that shows all Lines of Business on an executive digital dashboard, solutions with drill downs, addressing the unique needs of Energy, CPG, Retail and Finance.
• ◆ Shutdowns-Turnarounds-Outages (STO) : STOs are critical to the safety, efficiency, and reliability of industrial plants, and are used in the oil and gas, petrochemical, and manufacturing sectors. Developed a cloud STO solution for the process industry as an extension of core SAP.
• ◆ Analytics: Develop industry specific dashboards and analytics using SAP Analytics cloud

Jul 2011 – Dec 2020 · 9 yrs 5 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Driving Digital Transformation and Innovation
• ◆ Accelerated Digital Transformation: Spearheaded the adoption of SAP Cloud Platform to modernize legacy systems, enabling significant efficiency gains and cost reductions.
• ◆ Architected Innovative Solutions: Led the design and development of cutting-edge cloud-native solutions, AI/ML models, data warehouses, and analytics platforms to address critical business challenges.
• ◆ Delivered Industry-Leading Solutions: Implemented industry-specific solutions for profitability optimization, predictive maintenance, and Industrial IoT.
• ◆ Built High-Performing Teams: Cultivated and led a talented team of SAP experts, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• ◆ Delivered Successful Projects: Successfully executed complex SAP projects, ensuring timely delivery, budget adherence, and exceeding client expectations.
• Pre-sales and Go-to-Market Excellence
• ◆ Secured Strategic Partnerships: Forged strong relationships with key partners to expand market reach and deliver comprehensive solutions.
• ◆ Led Winning Proposals: Spearheaded bid and proposal efforts, securing lucrative contracts for cloud-based solutions and niche industry offerings.
• ◆ Drove Revenue Growth: Effectively sold SAP products and services, contributing to significant revenue growth and market share expansion.

Jul 2007 – Jul 2011 · 4 yrs · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Integrated Enterprise systems using Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• ◆ Led SOA & Integration Practice and managed a cross-functional team of architects (onshore & offshore) to deliver integration and SOA-based development using agile SCRUM methodologies. Successfully implemented numerous technology solutions for big Fortune 500 clients.
• ◆ Extended SAP functionalities using Java and integrated it with enterprise systems like IBM message broker, custom CRMs, and home-grown logistics products.
• ◆ Championed and led a program to improve product usability by developing custom screens and processes based on the Rich Internet Application concept

Nov 2004 – Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Lead Integration and SOA architecture with a cross functional team of architects
• ◆ Developed High Availability and Disaster recovery architecture of core messaging systems
• ◆ Delivered complex SAP to non-SAP integrations, ~100 systems integrated in a complex SAP rollout using a technology mix of Java, TIBCO and SAP PI.
• ◆ Ensured custom built systems compliance to Enterprise Architecture principles, security and best practices.

Apr 2000 – Nov 2004 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Houston, Texas, United States

• Lead customer projects for distributed systems integration
• ◆ Build and deliver architectures and solutions using JAVA and TIBCO’s products
• ◆ Build analytics solutions
• ◆ Build web-based solutions using JAVA, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and TIBCO’s portal product

Jul 1996 – May 2000 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Data sciences lead for statistical analysis and forecasting
• ◆ Utilize Data Science and Optimization packages like CPLEX and SAS in a programmatic fashion to write forecasting routines for the Cargo industry
• ◆ Lead Cargo Revenue Management decision system build “CargoMax” product
• ◆ Cargo demand forecasting for American Airlines using SAS on mainframe computers