SUMMARY

• Seasoned and highly competent professional wif over 25 years of experience in technology strategy consulting covering government, public sector, financial services, telecommunications, energy, media, entertainment, technology, life sciences and healthcare industries.
• Wide scope of leadership competency including strategic consulting, enterprise mobility, packaged solution implementations (ERP, CRM, BI, Enterprise Portals), custom development and operations outsourcing initiatives.
• Proven ability to build and run distributed engineering, operation and support organizations.
• Deep insight into business process improvements in a wide range of domains enabled by IT solutions, wif focus on enterprise mobility and digital technologies.
• Strong architectural background Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) platforms.
• Expert knowledge of Data Governance, Big Data technologies and Predictive Analytics/BI platforms wif a substantial track record in providing customers wif valuable data insights.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Independent Strategy Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded Digital Strategy initiatives for a large national health insurer specializing in Medicaid administration, dual eligibility plans and ACA - compliant commercial plans.
• Led efforts to move the client’s company from custom web portals to Sitecore-based Digital Content management ecosystem enhanced wif custom components build wif Asp.NET MVC and Bootstrap technologies.
• Organized Digital Transformation Center of Excellence tasked wif project roadmap creation, technology evaluations and solution delivery oversight.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Chief Digital Transformation Strategist

Responsibilities:

• Envisioned, popularized wif potential customers, sold and delivered a digital transformation consulting offering resulting in downstream revenues of $100M in the first year.
• Pioneered Big Data consulting and solution offerings for customers in financial services, healthcare and life science industries.
• Established numerous Digital Solutions Centers of Excellence (mobile, social, big data, analytics, cloud, digital web, IoT) to serve customers in Life Sciences, Healthcare Financial Services and Consumer Goods domains.
• Dedicated primary efforts to relationship development wif the largest health insurers and life sciences corporations in the United States.
• Designed two of the most successful digital (Windows desktop, web and mobile) animal health management and laboratory diagnostics platforms for veterinary industry. Delivered desktop applications on Windows Presentation Foundation, web applications wif ASP.NET MVC, MVVM, Bootstrap and mobile applications for iOS and Android smart devices wif Xamarin. Underpinned multi-channel solutions wif REST-based, secure business services layer using ASP.NET Web API.
• Spearheaded new account acquisition and development activities wif South-Western US State Governments (eGovernemnt initiatives, natural resource management rights), Canadian Provincial Governments (automotive insurance regulations and state-issued policy management), International Development Bodies (news decimations, disaster relief program administration).
• Prior to joining of Digital Practice sold and delivered a variety of technology-based solutions, including general purpose (SAP-based) and healthcare-specific (TriZetto Facets) ERP implementations, enterprise portals, business intelligence suites, consumer-facing web properties and desktop application offered on COTS basis.
• Excelled in propagating build-to-run engagements wif completed application components operated and supported out of multi-shore data centers in the US, Europe, South America, India and China.
• Successfully incorporated resources from CMMi Level 5 development and operations outsourcing centers in India and China into key engagements wif US clients, enabling delivery of optimal customer value.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

SAP Practice Director

Responsibilities:

• Took charge of relationship building activities wif three of the most prominent Hollywood studios, a multinational recording company, world’s largest digital satellite broadcasting provider and a premier online media firm.
• Assisted wif strategic account development initiatives aimed at the largest TV cable provider, a TV network pioneer of dedicated sports broadcasting and the largest global publisher of education literature.
• Founded and led North American SAP practice in TME domain.
• Grew SAP consultant ranks to over 25 onshore and to hundreds offshore.
• Established a strong track record in SAP solution sales and delivery to numerous Hollywood Studio clients wif engagement budgets between $1M and $30M.
• Developed significant expertise in core ERP solution configuration and custom development using NetWeaver Enterprise SOA platform.
• Successfully instituted build-to-run approach on key engagements offering customers outsourced operation and support of the developed package and custom solutions.
• Assumed ownership of RUP, OOA/OOD, SOA, and Custom Application Development curriculum, including all on-the-job and in-class training programs for IT consulting professionals in North American Region.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Partner

Responsibilities:

• Assisted COO of a German Electronics Manufacturer in transformation of Security Systems Video Surveillance division from a hardware-centric manufacturer into a vendor of a distributed computing platform to acquire, analyze and respond to security-related multimedia content.
• Provided strategic and tactical assistance to the CTO and the senior executives of a US Financial Services Information Company during their transition to .NET as an Enterprise Development Framework and RUP as SDLC methodology. Established multi-site solution development organization, involving development centers in the US, UK and India.
• Successfully introduced world’s largest Fixed Income Securities Rating Agency to RUP and its best practices. Proposed, designed, and implemented Enterprise Application Framework to enable cost-TEMPeffective deployment of business solutions in a distributed web environment.
• Led application architecture effort for a Japanese In-Flight Entertainment Systems manufactures during complete product development lifecycle of worlds' first full-aircraft Video-On-Demand In-Flight Entertainment System. Successfully incorporated offshore development resources from Australia and India.
• Architected and successfully led development efforts for world’s largest Courier Company’s rate adjustment application.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Development Methodology and Tooling: RUP, OpenUP, Agile SCRUM/FDD/XP, SAP ASAP, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform, WebSphere Business Modeler, Rational ClearCase, Rational RequisitePro, Rational SoDA, Rational Method Composer, Eclipse Process Framework Composer, CVS

ERP, CRM, Data, BI and Portal Platforms: SAP ERP, SAP EP, SAP BW, TriZetto Facets, TriZetto QNXT, Oracle CRM, salesforce.com, MS Dynamics, MS BI, Oracle BI, Microstrategy BI, Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Palatir, MS SharePoint

Service/Micorservice Oriented Architecture: IBM WebSphere, Microsoft .NET, Oracle Fusion, Coherence Data Grid, SAP NetWeaver, Progress Software Responsive Process Management Suite, kafka. Business Rule Engines from ILog, MS BizTalk and FICO

Digital platforms and Solutions: Adobe Content Management, Sitecore, SDL, IBM Worklight, Kony, Appcelerator, Anypresence, Xamarin, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET 4.0, ASP.NET MVC, Asp.NET MVVM, Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC, Dojo, Objective C, Java, JQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, Jive, AngularJS

IT Operations Management and Cloud Computing: ITIL framework, HP Open View, HP Service Desk, Amazon Web Services, VMware Cloud Express