Expertise:
• Over 14 yrs of significant, progressive experience spanning areas involving Delivery & Relationship Management, IT Leadership, Business Development, Project Management, Team Leadership and Application Development & Maintenance.
• Subject Matter Expert in defining and implementing end-to-end information strategies, reporting and analytics, governance policies, implementation frameworks, solution blueprints and roadmaps to support analytic driven organizations seeking competitive advantage and real business impact.
• Recognized as a strong and resourceful leader in building strong, cohesive teams and partnering with executives, stakeholders and governance bodies to effectively manage and deliver on a multitude of data driven initiatives with significant time and resource constraints.
• Develop IT strategic vision and drive key departmental objectives including improved client engagement, business-aligned development, scalable and maintainable application architectures, and robust infrastructure operations.
• Collaborate on client engagement strategy to drive entry into risk-driven project methodology, improving the accuracy of project definition, sizing estimates, and yearly resource budget planning.
• Improved client relationships and project predictability through shared business and technical perspectives, agreed project roles, risk assessment, use cases, transparent business-aligned development efforts, and time-boxed delivery.
• Injected IT architectural governance strategy into the full project lifecycle through well-defined engagement points for infrastructure team guidance, facilitation, contribution, impact assessments, and alignment reviews.
• Designed IT support strategy that clearly defined workflow between external clients, application teams, and infrastructure team. Improved prioritization and turnaround of requests. Addressed root causes of production instability by progressively injecting fitness checks earlier into the project lifecycle over time.
• Created and drove infrastructure migration strategy to begin transformation of a legacy client-server workshop to a modern business-aligned operation built upon enterprise architecture best practices.
• Proven ability to build and enhance high performing Information Management teams from the ground up (people, process, technology), ranging from high profile executive strategy teams to full spectrum, quickly size-up and solve problem situations, drive change and bring about significant and sustainable process, quality, and productivity improvements.
• Specialties: IT Strategy and Delivery, Data Warehousing, Information Architecture, Solution Architecture (ERP), Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Virtualization, Innovation, Master Data Management (MDM/RDM), Metadata Management, Customer Data Integration, CRM, Data Architecture, Business Intelligence, Reporting and Analytics (Bobj, Cognos, SAS, Crystal etc), PLM Implementations, OLAP and Cubes.
Software Experience:
Databases: MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, Lotus Notes, Oracle.
Languages/ Technologies/ Tools: C, C++, Visual Basic , VC++, XML, ASP, C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net, WCF, VBScript, JavaScript, ColdFusion, Perl/CGI, Java, EJB (J2EE), Web Services, JSON, WSSR, Data Power, JNDI, RMI, SOAP, COBOL, IMS, MS Visual SourceSafe , Clear Case, ERWIN, BPWIN, UML, TOAD, Rapid SQL, MS VS.NET, Crystal/ Bobj / Cognos Reports, Primavera, MS Project, SharePoint MOSS, Lotus Notes, IBM Rational Clear Case, IBM Rational Clear Quest, IBM Information Server / DataStage, WBI, WPS, or BPM etc
Education:
• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Nagpur University, India
• Professional Certification in Project Management (PMP), Certified SCRUM Master (CSM), Agile certified, Certification in ITIL V3 Foundation, Six-Sigma Green-Belt Certified
Project / Work Experience:
Duration: August 2013 to Present
Company: Caterpillar GIS, Peoria, Illinois
Title/Position: IT ICC Program Manager
Job Insight: Built our Enterprise CoE to encompass all platforms, engineering, architecture and development necessary to build and maintain the quality, governance, security, compliance, stability and performance of enterprise integration and analytic data assets.
Responsibilities include:
• Work closely with the Enterprise Executives, SOA/BPM/IBM Architects etc to drive Enterprise solutions and implement framework for greater quality, agility, scalability, reusability, and performance.
• Create future vision architecture to expedite delivery of new products and services to market while meeting company’s cost and risk reduction objectives.
• Outline current and future vision enterprise architecture, including traceability from business and IT strategies to suggested technologies.
• Coordinate with architects and business experts across IS to translate key strategic objectives into actionable and governable roadmaps and designs.
• Partner with LOB business executives, IT management, data stewards, risk and compliance partners to define information strategies and roadmaps, identify gaps and efficiencies, define value propositions, prioritize initiatives, and deliver results.
• Design and execute proofs-of-concept for critical enterprise capabilities, including building business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures.
• Actively simplifying our information ecosystem through more efficient data supply chains that reduce risk, latency and cost while also providing greater governance, quality and agility.
Duration: August 2010 to July 2013
Client: Caterpillar Logistics, Morton, Illinois
Title/Position: IT Program Manager
Project Insight: Architect and Manage large scale portfolios (end-end solution) in the Data Management (EDW), Procurement, Trade Compliance, Freight Settlement, Container Management, Domestic/International Load Planning, Rate Management etc space. These portfolios (3-tier SOA based system etc) form the backbone of Caterpillar Logistics.
Responsibilities include:
• Working with the Logistics Executive Steering Committee members and Stewards to identify the deliverables for Vision 2015.
• Drove architecture and engineering teams to define highly scalable frameworks, design patterns, reusable components and implementation strategies aimed at risk avoidance, quality, security, performance and efficiency.
• Partnered with data stewards to classify sensitive data, operationalize data profiling, and establish data quality dashboard monitoring and management initiatives to continually increase quality, consistency, security and business value.
• Partnered with business stakeholders and stewards to understand changing business needs and market dynamics to continually refine and re-prioritize supporting data sourcing, provisioning, integration and consumption strategies.
• Evaluated, designed, and implemented an industry leading integration platform solution to support our next gen analytic data repositories, data integration, data quality, profiling, metadata, virtualization, provisioning and consumption.
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