Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco, California, United States

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Jul 2021 – Jul 2025 · 4 yrs · Redwood City, California, United States · On-site

• Partnered with Business Functions to create and align IT Strategy with Business Strategy for supporting rapid growth, maintaining stability, compliance and security.
• Created and implemented IT Road Map for IT Security, Business Applications, IT Infrastructure and Operations.
• Created AI usage policy, initiated basic AI awareness and literacy efforts, explored AI tools/solutions and started implementing them.
• Drove enterprise wide adoption of Cloud based solutions.
• Started digital transformation by implementing Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Veeva eTMF & Veeva RIM
• Created a nimble high performing team that partnered with business teams and vendor partners to continuously improve processes and add value. Created and ran a cross-functional IT Committee for prioritization and budget/resource allocation for technology investments.
• Scaled down operations when commercial biosimilar products were divested to focus resources on the clinical pipeline, R&D, and QC Lab.
• During my tenure: Achieved NIST maturity model 2+ level for Cybersecurity. Zero Cybersecurity Material incidents, Zero Business Disruptions due to System or Infrastructure Issues, Maintained IT Helpdesk monthly CSAT consistently above 90%, Reduced IT budget consistently by 20% YOY through license optimization, MSP vendor partner consolidation, price negotiation and operational excellence activities.

May 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Redwood City

• Led IT Infrastructure and Application Integration with acquirer company, for the $1.5B Relypsa US company acquisition. 95% completed in 2.5 years. Collaborated with US Business leaders and supported them through the transition.
• Created and started executing the strategic digital IT road map for 93 systems without disrupting ongoing operations. Collaborated with peers on Global CIO team to define and implement the digital transformation strategy
• Stabilized Commercial IT CRM, ERP, Customer Data and Analytics operations by improving transparency and quality of deliverables
• Provided reliable and secure IT infrastructure, desktop services, enterprise apps, IT analytics, integration and compliance
• Drove Vendor Consolidation, improved Budget Management and Resource Optimization to achieve 50% Opex savings in 2 years

Jul 2017 – Apr 2018 · 9 mos · Greater Milwaukee Area

• IT Strategy consulting
• Founded a start-up and successfully piloted Insurance marketplace concept
• Completed successful real estate investment project

Nov 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Selected by Corporate VP - ERP and Data Strategy to partner with CIO teams (for systems transacting close to $100 Billion) to accelerate ERP consolidation through smart Testing. Improved ERP program and Enterprise Standards rollout acceleration and drove integration across teams. Partnered with GE IT Leaders to drive enterprise wide Oracle and SAP ERP footprint reduction from 500 to 35.
• Established GE wide ERP Testing Center of Excellence. 16+ FTE and 150 contractors in US/Hungary/India.
• Implemented Funnel/Pipeline Management within 8 weeks for improved predictability and visibility.
• Standardized Service offerings to drive business outcomes like 30% lower functional team effort for upgrade projects and 35% shorter testing cycle time. Introduced Robotic Process Automation (RPA) services to gain productivity for high volume, low complexity, repetitive user tasks. New Technologies like Scriptless testing for SAP and Selenium for Fusion Cloud implemented to ‘shift left’, empower users & drive +30% reuse.
• Implemented Multi-Vendor Strategy to leverage IP and shorten ramp up time while taking 20% cost out from multi-million $ software and service provider engagements.
• Created nimble customer centric teams and managed them like start-ups.

Jul 2010 – Nov 2014 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Chosen to lead the largest Oracle ERP migration program at $17 Billion GE Healthcare. Mobilized cross P&L and cross regional IT & business teams (100 members) to launch and deliver strategic migration program for a global business.
• Successfully Migrated $1 Billion business in US, Europe & Asia consisting of multiple sub-business for Equipment Manufacturing, Sales & Service, owned by business teams aligned to 7 CIOs in a matrix organization.
• Learned and managed various aspects of organization wide change.
• Partnered with Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales Operations, Distribution, Planning, Sourcing, Logistics, Finance & Service tracks to solve complex problems like Product structure change and Master Data configuration.
• Delivered the 2-year program on time and under budget for $10Million to deliver $25Million in benefits.
• Collaborated extensively with PMO leadership to create and implement processes for managing resourcing, portfolio prioritization, tollgates for Waterfall and Agile projects and budget management.

Nov 2006 – Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Responsible for improving efficiencies and effectiveness by improving processes in the Business Applications COE.
• Transitioned Implementation services to Fixed Bid contracts. Standardized & Consolidated Services across GE Tech- Infras Businesses - Config Management, Load & Regression Testing and Release Management.
• Drove $20 million 'RFP to Vendor Selection' process for outsourced IT services (Production Support, Configuration & Performance Mgt). Achieved $2Million cost reduction achieved over 2-year term.
• Drove conversion of $7 Million Fixed Bid contracts into 'Pay per use’ services models.
• Managed $3.5Million team budget within 3% variance.
• Developed and implemented Testing strategy for GxP Validation of a business-critical global Oracle ERP system.
• Transformed Testing Automation process to reduce execution cycle time by 66% using 66% fewer resources. Proved and implemented early Robotic Process Automation and received Innovation award.
• Stabilized Document Management for 8000 Oracle & Siebel Design Documents and Test Scripts owned by COE.

Aug 2005 – Nov 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Simplify and standardize processes for Territory Management, Opportunity Management and Configure/Price/Quote, while facilitating requirements gathering and documentation for new features and enhancements.
• Helped deliver 4 successful releases for home grown 'Inquiry to Order' CRM Tool leading a team of Business Analysts. The program delivered $24MM in benefits in 2006 alone.

Feb 2004 – Jul 2005 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Stabilize ERP implementation and drive its adoption. Improve local reporting tools.
• Implemented over 10 new processes in the OTR (Order to Remittance) and Finance areas (AR, AP), including different ways of using the ERP.
• Deployed new global sales workbench application to the sales and marketing teams.

Jul 1990 – Jan 2004 · 13 yrs 6 mos

• 4 years of ERP (Baan, Oracle) Implementation and 9 years of Functional Supply chain experience at Switchgear and Medical Devices Manufacturer.