Senior Leader with 20+ Years of Information Technology leadership, innovations and management experience in verticals: CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods, Products & Services: in food, beverage and snacks), Insurance, HealthCare, Transportation & Logistics, Government, Manufacturing, Telecom, Education, Retail, Defense, Publishing and Software Extensive end-to-end Digital Transformations Leadership experience with large global enterprises Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive Systems, Machine Learning, RPA, IoT, Bigdata, Analytics, Cloud, DevOps contributions Enterprise mission-critical, highly scalable and available systems architecture, design and vision to large enterprises Specific areas of expertise include: * IT Strategic Vision, Planning and Execution * Large Scale Budgets ($MM), Personnel management, Systems Development & Implementation leadership * Large Scale Vendor management & Negotiation * Leadership & management role in leading large globally distributed teams * IT Outsourcing & Offshore Development * Leadership of Organizations in Enterprise Architecture, Solutions Architecture, Application Architecture, Strategy, Design, Application Development, Delivery, Software Engineering Process Maturity * Extensive Process focus, proven Agile, SAFe Agile, Lean, Value stream mapping expertise * CPG, Retail, Railroad Transportation Systems Knowledge; Insurance, Healthcare Subscriber & Provider Information Systems Expertise; Telecommunications Business flows/ domain experience and others * Technology Alignment, Business Engagement & Partnership * Organizational Design & Delivery Optimization. * Proven Delivery Track Record * PMP - Project Management Professional, PMI’s global Credential Program management across multiple areas of business -managing, budgeting, business strategy development, planning, hiring and scoping Specialties: Large-scale Digital transformations including RPA, ML, AI and Data Analytics, Program Management, EPPM, Mission critical & Highly Available Architectures (Business, Data, Systems and Technology), Applications and Systems Development & Delivery Member - Society For Information management(SIM) Dallas Forthworth Chapter Member - AITP, PMI, Data Science Council
CTO Sr Director, Global Digital Services at PepsiCo
M.Tech., Computer Science