Trivandrum, Kerala, India
“Technology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.” This is one of my favorite quotes from Daniel Bell. As a passionate technologist, I have built businesses, and organizations in advanced technology areas such as data, analytics, IoT, and digital playing leadership roles. In business and technology, leadership roles led me to drive powerful teams to build products aligning with the Enterprise clients and users. Executed long-term and short-term business strategies and won multi-million dollar businesses, developed winning leaders, and high-potential teams. I have been instrumental in establishing innovation centers, knowledge hubs, and capability centers across organizations that created a safe haven for creativity, ideation, conceptualization, and tech-enabled space for imagination and realization of the future. Built trusted relationships with the critical stakeholders across Industries, Government, and Partner organizations. Consciously built inclusive teams globally. Ensured seamless transitioning to the Work from Home model and Hybrid model. Managed disputes and conflicts. 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 ☛Managed the Visit of the Hon. President of India to Kerala and three DigiDhan Melas attended by many senior union ministers & >1500 participants ☛Drove International conference on Enterprise Architecture ☛Keynote speaker and panelist at industry forums such as CD Deshmukh memorial seminar, CSI, NASSCOM, IEEE, CII, ARC, National Institute of MSME, The Open Group, and Universities ☛Researching on AI / ML Based Intelligent decision support systems, VIT University; conducted sessions on Digital Transformation and IR 4.0 ☛Expert Committee member and Advisor to Kerala State Coop Bank modernisation. ☛Co-author for India Government Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) ☛Advisor to the Chief Secretary, other Secretaries, and State level HODs on eGov strategy & adoption in Kerala. ☛Part of IT Apex Committee, multiple Executive and Expert committees. ☛Advisor and Mentor to selective startups on AI, IoT, and Social Care areas ☛Mentor of change for Atal Innovation Mission supporting KV Trivandrum ☛Involved in multiple studies organized on work-from-home policies and Future work models
• Provided strategic leadership to enhance youth employability in the ICT sector. • Established partnerships with universities, global tech companies, and government organizations. • Led key government programs like YIP, KKEM for skill development, Demand side Program Management • Initiated the Kerala AI Innovation Platform to foster innovation in the Govt Sector
Enhance the growth of client organizations through strategy Execution advisory for technology, innovation, and data/digital transformation across domains. Managed the development and delivery of Networked supply chain platform solution with well-established Agile practices, and tools on Cloud with DevOps.
Built the India Center and managed 150+ employees and 300+ contractors; established the core capability center for technology and Innovation. Understood and complied with the laws and regulations of the US, Ireland, and India. Established India site as a market leader in agile engineering, actuarial, and product management; developed Pune center for new technology, analytics, R&D piloting; drove agile adoption, migration CoE, and tool standardization. Enhanced organizational performance by aligning BSC and team synergy; achieved all the set targets in the first year of operations; implemented lean initiatives in HR, Business, and Operations areas. Established enterprise-wide DevOps and cloud migration; multi million US$ savings with enhanced capabilities and efficiency; improved agility in Engineering. Created “ONE TEAM” across locations; directed high-performance global teams at senior leadership levels (VP, Sr. Directors, and Directors) as direct reports; adopted OKR and Traditional Bell curve for performance management. Enabled online training access through Pluralsight; arranged faculty-led, non-technical & business continuity programs; created policies to encourage certification; directed assessment, coaching, and training to build high accountable leadership pool
- Lead the Product and Platform engineering, create and drive technology and product roadmap, adoption of DevOps, and Platform migration from Private Cloud to AWS - Lead a team of 170 Global resources and Shared Service function, 130 associates from Pune, and 300+ Vendor resources
A key member of a National Committee to draft India Enterprise architecture standard and created the Vision statement; effectively ran an eLiteracy campaign leveraging students using Tabs across the states, especially in rural areas. Established Kerala as the best emerging eGovernance state announced by the Hon President of India; state won the best Pavilion at the IITF 2016 with the theme on Digital India and received an award from the Prime Minister of India. Successfully implemented a few of the most impactful programs- eHealth, Smart Classrooms, IT Modernization, and Digital Banking Transformation in Kerala Bank. Won the most Innovative Project Award from Kerala Management Association. Created IT and eGovernance Policies and guidelines, IoT and Blockchain strategy for the Government of Kerala.