Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• As the Principal of Blue Polaris, a tech consulting firm with a specialized focus on Salesforce. My role involves setting the vision and direction for the company, ensuring that we provide innovative solutions to our clients, while staying at the forefront of industry trends and leverage this experience to guide Blue Polaris to success.
• Provide strategic leadership and foster partnerships that fuel our clients' success. I am deeply committed to tailoring Salesforce strategies that align with their unique needs and goals.
• One of my primary objectives is to help our clients maximize their technology investments. I believe in the potential of Salesforce to drive positive change, and I ensure that every client benefits to the fullest extent. In the fast-paced digital era, my role is to inspire and lead growth. I work closely with our clients to identify opportunities, overcome challenges, and achieve success in an increasingly digital world.
• If you're looking to elevate your Salesforce journey, I encourage you to connect with me. Let's explore how Blue Polaris can be your partner in achieving Salesforce excellence and innovation.

Jul 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Executive driving Customer Digital Transformation initiatives and related Salesforce/SaaS technology enablement for a portfolio of clients across multiple industries including finance, insurance, manufacturing and utilities.
• Led Solution Studio, a cross-cutting team spanning various practices under Cloud and Digital. Designed frameworks and templates to ensure comprehensive and client-focused RFPs, addressing all client requirements, business drivers, and technical solution details for deals valued at $5 million and above across the practice..
• Led the Salesforce Practice, developing and executing the vision, strategy, and business plans to drive growth, expansion, and client satisfaction. Identified market trends, client needs, and leveraged Salesforce solutions to address business challenges, maximize value, and cultivate strategic partnerships.
• Drove sales and revenue growth through proactive business development activities, expanding the client base and driving employee engagement, performance management, and talent acquisition initiatives. Fostered a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and excellence within the team.

Jul 2015 – Jul 2022 · 7 yrs

• Led the engagement at tier 1-2 insurance clients. Responsible for driving and orchestrating the engagement to help them fully unlock the benefits of Salesforce and support the acceleration of their digital transformation agenda.
• Provided technical leadership in assessing and implementing architectural solutions to align with clients' strategic goals. This included guiding the technical aspects of the engagement, ensuring the architecture's alignment with the digital transformation strategy, and addressing any technical challenges to achieve the desired outcomes.
• Led the evaluation of business and technical drivers from a senior level, reviewing and correcting project/program direction, approach and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward, directing early solution consideration around gaps/risks, including the effective engagement of executives, evaluation of options and subsequent presentation and education of the customer/partner, significant involvement and guidance in abetting making the right choice, identification and proactive management of risk areas, commitment to seeing an issue through to complete resolution.
• Helped clients meet their strategic as well as governance and tactical goals. Including but not limited to Business Value Enablement, Strategic roadmaps, capability maps, establishment of a COE etc.
• Led and mentored other team members in managing customer expectations, leveraging relationships with executive management or external resources, and appropriately engaging them when needed. This also included mentoring on technical and architectural aspects, ensuring the team had a comprehensive understanding of the technology solutions

Jul 2015 – Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Jun 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Engagements included formulating 3-5 years IT strategy for clients, assisting clients in developing strategy recommendations and implementation plans, cost analysis and budgeting to align future offerings with IT initiatives.
• Providing research and consulting service focusing on EA methodologies and techniques for better enterprise architecture practices, aiming at establishing a theoretical foundation and practical enterprise design processes to produce actionable enterprise architecture across all domains developing standards for governance, risk, and portfolio management.
• Driving client delivery and providing direct management of 8 consultants in a solution area. Responsible for individual consultants on the team on career and skills development, performance improvement, interviewing, and other direct management concerns. Additionally, participated in the development of the Solution Area, process compliance, quality assurance, continuous improvement activities, proposal development, estimating and other sales support activities.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr

• Collaborated with the CIO and CTO, providing guidance on technology, aligning IT with business objectives, and driving program development and growth. As the Chief Architect, oversaw a team of Architects, established the architecture discipline, and evolved the Office of Enterprise Architecture. This encompassed managing crucial process areas and shared services platforms, as well as establishing governance boards and an Architectural Review Board.
• Led a globally dispersed team of 30 developers and partnered with an Indian development team to oversee daily development and release operations. Orchestrated a strategic program to revamp business-to-business and B2C portals, replacing outdated code for enhanced growth, agility, and reduced maintenance and support expenses.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 · 5 yrs

• Worked with internal clients, stakeholders, and technology teams to develop strategic goals, processes and services, identifying KPIs, business outputs and outcomes and doing strategic analysis.
• Responsible for supporting trading floor, managing teams overseeing the integrations with trading platforms, pricing algorithm, reporting, analytics, and automations

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 · 4 yrs

Jan 1995 – Jan 2000 · 5 yrs