In simple words, digital transformation is all about enabling services to consume with ease internally and externally. Everyone is busy planning and executing Digital Transformation in their business context. Digital transformation is a journey, not a destination. Digital Transformation 3As Agility, Autonomy, and Alignment give us a framework to monitor the success of an enterprise's digital transformation journey.

• Agility: Enterprise services capability to work with insight, flexibility, and confidence to respond to challenging and changing consumer demands.


• Autonomy: Enterprise Architecture that promotes decentralization. The digital transformation journey needs that enterprises provide Autonomy at the first level to make the decisions by services owners.


• Alignment: Alignment is not a question of everyone being on the same page - everyone needs to understand the whole page conceptually. The digital transformation journey needs that everyone has visibility into the work happening around them at the seams of their responsibilities.

The digital transformation journey without 3As is like life without a soul. Continuously establish the purpose fit enterprise 3As to monitor innovation economics.

Experienced Apps, Data, Cloud, and Integration Executive with over 25 years of driving digital transformation for Fortune 500 companies, generating over $960 million in global revenue through Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, IBM Cloud, VMware, and Red Hat from ideation to launch.

• Cloud Computing Evangelist: Delivered keynote on SaaS best practices at SaaSCon, SantaClara, California, and developed a Cloud Adoption Strategy framework for hybrid IT, accelerating enterprise modernizations.
• Data, AI & ML Platform Leader: Headed Big Data practice at CenturyLink, delivering strategy, implementation, and managed services that drove growth for financial services and omnichannel retail clients.
• Site Reliability & DevSecOps: Deployed enterprise SOA and led DevSecOps for billing and subscription applications at Aol, improving agility and operational efficiency.

• Leadership: Global team management, coaching/mentoring, enterprise architecture, P&L oversight, financial engineering, analytical problem-solving.
• Data & Cloud: Data ecosystems (democratization, architectures: Warehouse / Lake / Lakehouse / DataMart / Mesh; security, hubs, fabrics); Multi-cloud mastery (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, IBM Cloud, VMware, OpenShift) across SaaS / PaaS / CaaS / IaaS / Serverless / Cloud-Native.
• Apps & Automation: App / software / system / infra implementation / rationalization / modernization / migration; CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, service / resource automation, IaC.

Kyndryl / IBM, Dulles, Virginia
JUNE 2018 - PRESENT
Director - Innovation and Integration, Global Cloud Practice; Client Technical Leader, US Financial Services; Chief Enterprise Architect, US CTO Office

• Provided C-level advisory and thought leadership for Digital Transformation and IT Outsourcing, co-creating enterprise solutions that generated over $360M in revenue.
• Developed framework for assessing application portfolios to create cloud disposition plans, roadmaps, and business opportunities.
• Designed and delivered industry-first cloud-native solutions for banking branch technology using NG One, Splunk, and Azure Cloud, enabling centralized management of banking branch peripherals for deployment and operations.
• Led the largest U.S. Guidewire Hybrid Cloud and DevSecOps implementation, delivering one-click API-driven environments that cut delivery timelines from 45 days to 8 hours.
• Developed a Python-based Banking Payments Ecosystem Transaction Logs Data Mining Tool, enabling platform engineering and operations teams to provide optimization recommendations and predict transaction performance.

Lumen Technologies / CenturyLink, Dulles, Virginia
OCTOBER 2011 - MAY 2018
Senior Director - Global Advanced Services Solution Center; Principal Enterprise Architect, Consulting and Implementation Services

• Directed cross-organization matrix teams for multimillion-dollar solutions in Applications and Infrastructure Rationalization, Modernization and Migration, Data Center Migration and Consolidation, and Business Resiliency. Created Cloud Readiness Assessment and Big Data Practice, driving Digital Transformation opportunities.
• Led strategic deal pursuits and onboarded new clients with 100% success rate; built and managed high-performing team of solutions architects, generating over $600M in revenue through global enterprise digital transformations.

Previous Professional Experience
JULY 1995 - OCTOBER 2011
Pioneered cloud and SOA architectures, operationalized billing systems, architected federal health applications, co-founded technology ventures, and advanced AI research for enterprise excellence.

• Chief Architect - Cloud and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Center of Excellence, SRA International / General Dynamics Information Technology Inc.
• Operations Architect - Billing and Subscription, and Web and Java Center of Excellence,America Online (AOL Inc.).
• Software Architect - Applications Branch, Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS), US National Library of Medicine / Lockheed Martin.
• Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, StrategiesTool, Suchna! / Baghel Corporation.
• Senior Software Engineer - Interactive Advantage, AT&T / IBM Global Services.
• Research Scientist and Founding Member, Mumbai Educational Trust’s Institute of Software Development and Research.
• Research Scientist - Management of Informatics and Technology for Enterprise Excellence (MINT-EX), Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

• Cloud Migration & Modernization Solution Design Options, and Industry Leading Practices, Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies & Design, Presented at IBM Your Learning
• Getting Started with Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager, Packt Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84968-898-7
• Best Practices for Developing & Deploying SaaS, White Paper, Presented at SaaSCon, Santa Clara, California
• Web Application Security Implementation and Industry Best Practices Handbook, Presented at SRA University

• United States Federal CIO University
  CIO University Certificate, Federal Executive Competencies
• Costello College of Business, George Mason University, Virginia
  Master of Science in Technology Management
• Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  Master of Science in Mathematics, Specialization in Operations Research and Statistics

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