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.

Key Accomplishments:

• Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) Platform: As the Head of Big Data Practice at CenturyLink Technology Solutions (formerly Savvis Inc), I led the delivery of strategy, implementation, and managed services. The Big Data platform solutions that my team provided were instrumental in driving business growth for a leading financial services company and a leading omnichannel retailer.
• Cloud Computing Evangelist: Delivered keynote on Best Practices for Developing and Deploying SaaS at SaaSCon; created Cloud Adoption Strategy framework for Enterprise Hybrid IT Strategies.
  
• Site Reliability Engineering: At Aol, I deployed a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), led the implementation of DevSecOps for the Core Access Operations Apps portfolio for business agility, and authored the book Getting Started with Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager.

Core Competencies:

• Leadership: Global Management, Profit & Loss (P&L), Financial Engineering, Coaching & Mentoring, Enterprise Architecture, and Analytical Problem Solving
• Data & Cloud: Data Ecosystem, Data Democratization, Data Platform Architectures, Data Stores(Warehouse, Lake, LakeHouse, DataMart, DataMesh), Data Security, Data Hub, and Data Fabric; Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Container as a Service (CaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Serverless & Cloud-Native Architectures with Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, IBM Cloud, VMWare, and OpenShift
• Apps & Automation: Apps, Software, System, and Infrastructure Implementation, Rationalization, and Migration & Modernization; Release Automation (Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployments and Testing Automation), CI/CD Pipelines, DevSecOps, Service Automation, Resource Provisioning Automation, and Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC)

IBM / Kyndryl, Inc
Jun 2018 - Present
Director - Innovation Integration @Global Cloud Practice, Client Technical Leader @US Financial Services, Chief Enterprise Architect @US CTO Office

• Responsible for CTO advisory initiatives to Kyndryl & Client C-Level executives for co-creating integrated solutions from idea to go-live to deliver enterprise excellence. Created a framework for assessing app portfolios to develop cloud disposition plans, roadmaps, and business opportunities.
• Provided mentoring and thought leadership for Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Apps & Cloud Migration & Modernization, DevSecOps, and Information Technology Outsourcing and Insourcing Initiatives plan and execution. It has produced over $225M in revenue
• Designed and delivered industry leading cloud native solutions for banking branch technology utilizing NG One, Splunk and Azure Cloud. The solution enabled centrally managed banking branch technology deployment and operations for handling banking branch peripherals.
• Onboarded new logo-integrated client in the insurance industry to adopt Hybrid Cloud, DevSecOps, and API-driven managed services to deliver on-demand one-click Guidewire application environment (US Largest Implementation). The solution reduced the environment delivery timeline from 45Days to 8Hours
• Designed enterprise security and compliance mandates solution to deploy Corporate Apps in the Azure Cloud for a strategic outsourcing client in the fintech industry
• Developed an advanced Banking Payments Ecosystem Transaction Logs Data Mining Tool using Python. This efficient tool enables platform engineering and operations teams to accurately predict transaction performance while providing valuable recommendations for optimizing the ecosystem.
• Architected Cyber Resiliency and Disaster Recovery solution that delivered 20% TCO savings and enabled an application-based disaster recovery for a strategic outsourcing client in the insurance industry

CenturyLink Inc / Lumen Technologies
Oct 2011 - May 2018
Senior Director - Global Advanced Services Solution Center, Principal Enterprise Architect @Consulting and Implementation Services

• Directed large cross-organization matrix teams for multi-million-dollar complex solutions design and implementations in Apps, Data, Cloud, DevSecOps, SAP, Big Data, Apps & Infrastructure Rationalization, Data Center Migration, Consolidations & Modernization, Integration, and Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery.
• Successfully led strategic deal pursuits and onboarded new clients, achieving a 100% success rate. I built and managed a high-performing team of solutions architects, driving digital transformation for global enterprises and generating over $600 million in revenue.
• Created Cloud Readiness Assessment and Big Data Practice that brought opportunities in Digital Transformation.

Previous Professional Experience
Before Oct 2011

• Chief Architect - Cloud and SOA Center of Excellence @{SRA International, General Dynamics Information Technology Inc}
• Operations Architect @{America Online (Aol Inc)}
• Software Architect@{United States National Library of Medicine, Lockheed Martin Management Systems Designers (MSD) Inc}
• Co-Founder@{StrategiesTool, Suchna!, Baghel Corporation}
• Senior Software Engineer@{AT&T, IBM Global Services}
• Research Scientist@{Founding Member@Mumbai Educational Trust’s Institute of Software Development & Research, and Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay}

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

• United States Federal CIO University
  Certified Chief Information Officer
• George Mason University
  Master of Science degree in Technology Management
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  Master of Science degree in Mathematics, Specialization in Operations Research and Statistics

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