Information Technology Leader with over 16 year of extensive experience in leveraging business, technology, strategic leadership and management insights to rapidly and successfully transform business vision to business value. Proven expertise in the following:
•Evangelization and realization of business technology driven vision and strategy
•Conceptualization through delivery of digital & data platforms, products and services
•Development, management and governance of a portfolio of enterprise business systems (B2B, B2C, C2C & C2B) across Credit, Insurance and Investment business domains
•Sourcing & leading global teams and managing & leveraging vendors & partners in co-innovation
•Creating new frontiers for business using applied research in emerging technologies and exploration of innovative business ideas
•Monetization of organization’s digital & data assets using business acumen, analytical insights and partnership development
•Proven people manager with experience leading, mentoring and managing large global organizations (100+ FTEs)
•Transformation, evolution and optimization of organizational capabilities, functions and processes through enterprise architecture management, business process automation and straight-through processing
•Hands on experience in data & digital technologies – Web/Mobile/App Dev: Java/J2EE, .NET, C/C++, Multi App Platforms; Data/Analytics/Visualization: Hadoop, SAS, R, Python, Netezza, Composite, Qlikview, Tableau, Spotfire, D3
Head of Big Data and Analytics @ Evolved AIG’s global big data strategy and collaborated with customers to build state of the art solutions to address their big data, analytics and visualization scenarios and use cases
•Evolved AIG’s global big data strategy by developing excellence in technology & data platforms, assimilating internal & external data assets, realizing value added data & analytical services and collaborating with customers to build state of the art solutions with big data to create business value.
•Envisioned, realized and governed the big data, analytics and visualization platforms globally across AIG.
•Evangelized the platform capabilities globally across AIG by influencing key executives & decision makers, hosting roadshows and organizing workshops to convey the art of the possibility.
•Interfaced with senior executives within business and IT organizations to communicate progress on adoption and inflight projects & programs; cross pollinate ideas and brainstorm opportunities.
•Directed a multi-million dollar portfolio using Agile Scrum methodology with internal & vendor resources to realize high-value, complex big data & analytics use cases for different lines of businesses.
•Formulated and managed short-term and long-term roadmaps and set in motion strategic master plan by leveraging applied research and rapid prototyping to demonstrate the art of the possibility with big data.
•Liaised and collaborated with internal stakeholders and external vendors to collaboratively evaluate, prove, procure, deploy and evolve technology platforms & service at AIG as well as progress the capabilities for the industry.
•Attended and presented at internal workshops and external industry conferences to gather and share insights on technology evolution, adoption, challenges and opportunities.
•Developed enterprise wide data repository for governing and consuming data assets, services and insights to increase the adoption and maturity of big data across AIG. From April 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) Orange County, California AreaSenior Product Development Manager @ Managed the conceptualization through deployment of Experian’s key global products and platforms that were at the core of Experian’s global growth and leadership strategy
•Directed the conceptualization through realization of key platforms for Experian worldwide.
•Managed the customization and deployment of these platforms across Experian global businesses with a capital spend of multi-million to generate an annual revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars.
•Engaged with senior executives, sales, marketing and operations leaders to govern, align and evolve products & platforms with organizational need and strategy.
•Managed an annual budget of multi-million for developing new business products that increased profitability & share of wallet for clients and increased market share & revenue for Experian.
•Directed a large distributed organization of 80-100 resources and mentored high growth potential employees.
•Managed multiple technology & service vendors, evaluated products & services, collaborated on joint innovation and negotiated contracts.
•Demonstrated superior planning, prioritization & execution skills and delivered 100% of projects on time & within budget.
•Lead cross-functional teams to build business cases & proposals, to define demand through delivery management processes and to develop enterprise architecture management processes.
•Formulated and managed short & long-term product (account & risk mgmt., credit monitoring & trending, predictive & prescriptive risk assessment) and platform roadmaps and realized strategic master plan.
•Made an executive decision to develop a graphical modeling product that enabled complex credit models to be designed and built once and deployed repeatedly across different platforms & client implementations to cut down the development and audit cost. From September 2009 to April 2014 (4 years 8 months) Orange County, California AreaHead-IT Architecture & Strategy Consulting Australia/New Zealand @ Setup and grew IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture Consulting Practice in the Australia and New Zealand geography and integrated the offerings with other practices and with the larger organization
• Formulated high-end consulting offerings to position TCS as a top-tier business technology strategy consulting and a full-play information services organization.
• Conducted pre-sales activities by engaging with key client representatives ranging from top executives to middle management and built lasting relationships at Qantas Airways, Jaguar & Land Rover, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Woolworths, and Wesfarmers.
• Ramped up the consulting practice and enabled a full services model by integrating an acquired consulting organization and leveraging existing client relationships, consulting assets & offerings.
• Tailored consulting offerings by leveraging enterprise architecture management tools & techniques coupled with emerging technologies in digital, data, business intelligence, mobile, cloud computing and context-aware computing space to address the needs of target segments.
• Realized resource utilization of over 70%, EBITDA of 55% and customer satisfaction index of over 4.5 out of 5. From August 2007 to August 2009 (2 years 1 month) Program Manager & Enterprise Architect @ Architected and managed a portfolio of projects that transformed USAA’s legacy Property and Casualty business into a fully automated Internet driven business
•Helped transform the P&C insurance business by envisioning and executing trailblazing digital and data solutions to enable an end-to-end Internet driven self-service B2C and B2C model.
•Lead the architecture, design and development of projects that built rules based work flow management, complex straight-through processing, document parsing & processing, electronic data exchange and payment gateway to automate the quote to issue, policy renewal and claims management processes.
•Managed an on-time and within budget delivery of the multi-million dollar program realizing savings of over 50 FTEs and additional cost savings accrued through sun-setting the legacy systems.
•Lead and managed an 80 member cross cultural and distributed teams in one of the most aggressive and challenging work environments.
•Helped deliver value incrementally to the business by being an early adopter of Agile-Scrum methodology throughout the duration of the program.
•Instilled a product and services driven approach to help realize the building blocks of transformation for other lines of businesses at USAA including life & annuities, banking, investment and member services.
•Was recognized and rewarded for the pivotal role in realizing significant competitive advantage and unbeatable customer satisfaction from transformation of this magnitude. From June 2005 to July 2007 (2 years 2 months) Product Development Lead @ Lead the research & development in software engineering to develop a suite of products that enabled an end-to-end model driven development of enterprise business systems
•Lead the design & development of multiple product lines for TCS’ flagship product suite – Mastercraft. Each product in the suite was designed to employ a unique architecture & technology stack for realizing enterprise business systems in the Insurance, Banking, Financial Services and Securities domain with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, performance and availability.
•Developed each product in the suite as a major accelerator to build medium to large-scale enterprise business systems with a potential development effort savings of 25-40% and a potential time to market/deployment savings of 15-25%.
•Collaborated with global companies to integrate functional modeling, process modeling & meta-modeling tools into their respective product line and solution accelerators and realized large transformation programs for TCS.
•Participated in technology conferences and roadshows to showcase and promote the product suit and realized product centric management of collaterals via different channels for marketing, sales, development, and support. From July 1998 to August 2002 (4 years 2 months)
Master's Degree, Management @ University of California, Los Angeles - The Anderson School of Management From 2010 to 2013 Engineer's Degree, Computer Technology @ Nagpur University From 1994 to 1998 Somalwar Ramdaspeth Yogesh Joshi is skilled in: Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, Strategic Planning, IT Strategy, Product Development, Agile Methodologies, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Software, Product Management, Management, Requirements Analysis, Software Engineering, Software Project Management
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