Feb 2022 – Nov 2022 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Explore the world around, delving into rich cultural tapestry, absorbing their customs, and engaging with locals to foster meaningful connections.
• Deepen my understanding of mindfulness and meditation through extended practice, fasting and immersive experiences, honing techniques to achieve clarity, focus, and inner balance.
• Support multiple startup ventures as a consultant and advisor, providing strategic guidance, market research, and innovative solutions to empower their growth and success.
• Engage with startup founders and teams, collaborating on various aspects such as business development, product strategy, and operational efficiency. (Cloud | APIs | HL7 | FHIR)

Aug 2021 – Jan 2022 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

• Responsible for India Delivery P&L, and new service offerings in SAP S/4HANA & BTP (Business Technology Platform) areas helping customers with business process scalability.
• Responsible for Cloud Migration Framework to optimize SAP Upgrades & Migrations with templatized SOPs & minimize downtime by more than 50%.
• Contribute towards Product Design & Solution Delivery of Automation tools for SAP S/4HANA Upgrades with a reduction of manual work by 70%.
• Responsible for optimization of organizational processes through the implementation of industry-standard tools and reduction in operational & overhead costs through vendor negotiations.

Oct 2019 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Principal Solutions Architect for large accounts in EU helping customers with accelerated Cloud Adoption & Digital Transformation projects.
• Responsible for Solution Delivery in the area of Cloud, Dev-Ops, Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and SAP S\4HANA greenfield & brownfield reimplementation.
• Responsible for pre-sales in terms of solutioning, effort estimations, pricing & proposal defense for large bids in EU region for Digital Transformation customer opportunities.
• Responsible for Solution Architecture & Design guidance and ramp-up & reskilling of teams across EU Business in the areas of SAP, Cloud & Digital Transformation engagements.

Oct 2017 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Responsible for Ideation & Creation of Digital Innovation Labs for EU Business focusing on Digital Business enabling a 50% reduction in RFP response time & a 25% increase in win rate.
• Responsible for Building & Evagilizing Proof of Technologies for digital solutions with 100% cross-pollination of ideas across existing & new customers.
• Responsible for creation of new Delivery Models & Service Offerings through the Design Thinking and Agile / Dev-Ops Models proactively in Delivery.
• Collaborate with Sales & Marketing in the creation of references, case studies & marketing collaterals specific to horizontal & vertical functional domains, industries and technologies.

Oct 2015 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Architecture & Strategy Advisory consultant to the largest Swiss multinational FMCG company and multiple large customers across the EU for helping with various stages of the Enterprise IT Transformation journey.
• Responsible for creating & evangelizing a framework called TRUST (Tools and Roadmap for Upgrade of Systems & Technology) to help customers realise faster ROI from Application updates & version upgrades.
• Responsible for executing workshops with customer's Business, Functional & Technical stakeholders for the creation of Enterprise IT roadmap & business case leveraging end-to-end business models.
• Responsible for pre-sales in terms of solutions, effort estimations, pricing & proposal defence for large bids in the EU region for Digital Transformation customer opportunities.

Oct 2014 – Sep 2015 · 11 mos

• Responsible for solutions, bid management, presales, pricing & operations execution for large & complex SAP & Cloud Deals resulting in a 25% increase in net new business
• Responsible for the Creation of reusable templates, framework & pricing workbooks based on deal size, functional & technical scope, improving RFP response time by 75% and win ratio by 25%
• Responsible for Industry Solutions, Marketing & Inside Sales for SAP enterprise business resulting in Tech Mahindra entering SAP Gartner MQ & generating new pipeline.
• Responsible for Participating in customer & marketing events including SAP TechEd & SAP Sapphire with 25 Industry Solutions, resulting in net new business.

Apr 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Responsible for the creation of SAP Cloud Hosting & Migration offering and building an SAP Cloud Practice grounds up to a 25 member strong team multi-skilled in SAP Basis & Cloud.
• Responsible for building technology, product & service partner ecosystem with go to market strategy agreements with 12 partners across the globe especially with Telecom & Hosting providers.
• Responsible for pre-sales in terms of solution, effort estimations, pricing & proposal defence for all SAP Cloud Hosting & Migration across the globe with back-to-back agreements with partners.
• Responsible for Delivery of all SAP Cloud Hosting & Migration across the globe with the first project in Africa winning the Frost & Sullivan CIO Impact Award.

Jul 2010 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Support Large Data Warehouses (25+ TB to 1+ PB) running on DB2, DB2 pureData(Scale-out Distributed Data) & pureScale(Scale-up HA Nodes) Appliances across Globe.
• Designated IBM India Software Labs Advocate(SPOC) for top National Banks, Stock Exchanges, Pharma Companies, Telecom Providers & Indian Navy in India and South Asia.
• Responsible for Partner Enablement for Global SIs and Customer for SAP on DB2, DB2 pureScale, Big Data, Large Distributed Databases & IM (information management) enabling more than 1000+ certified consultants.
• Support IBM GBS, GTS & ISL with multiple high-value pursuits on DB2 for SAP & DB2 Distributed Data Appliances with Multi-Terabyte PoCs with extreme performance & business availability requirement.

Jan 2009 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos · Tampa, Florida Area / Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• As the first certified SAP Basis OSDB certified consultant, contributed to new business in SAP Upgrades & Migrations across Globe with systems Ranging from 500GB to 22TB.
• Responsible for collaboration with SAP & other vendors for winning and executing SAP system landscape transformation for splitting & merging customer SAP systems in M&A space.
• Contributed to growing the Practice by 100+ associates in a span of 18 months through fresher graduate training, lateral hiring & contractors.
• Contributed to ideation & creation of ESAP-Basis Delivery Unit, as a horizontal business in an industry vertical organization, to bring the scale of economy.

Sep 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Collaborated with my team to Perform SAP Upgrades & OS/DB Migrations from IBM Power / PA-RISC to Intel x86 of a large SAP Landscape for a large multinational FMCG manufacturer.
• Responsible for performance and downtime optimization of migration downtime by a factor of 30x using SAP Distribution Monitor through migration parallelization & system optimization.
• Responsible for creation & optimization of standard operating procedures that can be used as templates for any SAP upgrade & migration with tracking and hand-over ability.
• Responsible for implementation of Agile factory service model to minimize execution risk by leveraging an Agile team & SOPs to execute any SAP upgrade/migration in 8-hour turns.

Mar 2004 – Aug 2007 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India / Hyderabad Area, India / Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Responsible for setting up the first SAP CoE lab at Mumbai & provided SAP technical expertise to multiple projects from TCS SAP CoE with architecture & installation support.
• Responsible for collaborating with Microsoft & SAP as an SAP Basis consultant to help release four releases(drops) of Duet, a joint SAP & Microsoft product integrating SAP & Outlook.
• Responsible for Test automation using Mercury products & Load Runner for applications running on Weblogic / Oracle and help with Performance tuning for GE Healthcare.
• Responsible for Development, migration, Testing & Tuning multiple application servers based on JBoss & Tomcat for GE Transportation, GE Energy & GE Aircraft Engines.