I am a senior IT leader with a passion for innovation and delivering value for the business, clients and my team. I have 18 years experience in the industry, leading IT divisions, developing and executing technology strategy and innovating solutions to address complex business problems.

I have spent ½ of my career in Management Consulting and the other ½ in the financial services industry. This gives me a unique perspective:

Looking at a Business from the outside as well as inside and understanding the opportunities and challenges that every organization faces in terms of Clients, Technology, Processes, People and Culture.
Having worked in many industries and businesses, I can quickly jump into any business and understand its vision and purpose, key stakeholder, business and operating model and how it engages with its partners / customers. This gives me the opportunity to strategize how technology can play a key role in delivering value to its customers.
Having worked in the role of a Vendor as well as a Client, I understand what is required for a successful win-win partnership between the two.

I have worked across geographies and in various roles with my core skill set being Leadership and Communication, Program Management, Building Innovative Global IT Solutions, IT Strategy and Roadmap, Building high performing cross functional teams and Vendor Management.

Some of the achievements (among others) that I am proud of and have received recognition for are:

Being recognized as Key Talent by UBS senior management and nominated to be part of a mentoring program to accelerate their growth and development as a leader
Being able to save the CEFS business approx. $1MM cost savings annually by review and consolidation of various environments / infrastructure
Nominated by Sapient as 1 of the 5-person team to help start their Offshoring in India, which included hiring, mentoring and delivering their first project in India.

What I bring to the table is a Passion, Energy and Commitment along with my skill set and experience for adding value, making a difference and doing what it takes for the success of the organization and my team.

Work Experience

UBS India Pvt. Ltd. - Bangalore, India (Sept 2011 – Till Date) - Director, Information Services
UBS Financial Services, Wealth Management Americas - Weehawken, NJ (Nov 2006 – Sept 2011) - Director, Information Services
Sapient Corporation - Cambridge, MA (July 1997–Aug 2006) – Manager, Technology

Industry Experience

Financial Services - Wealth Management Front Office Technology, FA Workbench, Performance Reporting, Broker-Dealer, Stock Plan
Administration, Banking, Insurance, Loan Administration

Energy Services - Independent System Operator (ISO), Energy Trading

Core Areas of Expertise

- Global Distributed Delivery / Off-Shoring (Onsite-Offshore Software Delivery Model)
- Vendor Management
- Technology Vision / Strategy, Application Portfolio Assessment, Roadmap Development
- Strategic Planning/Budgeting
- Managing IT Organization servicing a Line of Business
- Management Consulting
- Application Delivery and Support
- Facilitating Cross-Functional teams
- Program Management
- Resource Planning and Allocation
- Client Relationship Management

Leadership and Management Accomplishments

- Accountability and ownership of a large IT Division with Multimillion Dollar IT Budget for the Corporate Employee Financial Services (CEFS
  Stock Plan Administration) Business Group in UBS Wealth Management Americas. Responsible for Budget Planning / P&L (Multimillion Dollar), Resourcing, IT Strategy, Platform Stability, Product / Application Development, Off-shoring, Vendor Management
- Program / Group manager for Platform Services – Wealth Management. Built innovative shared solutions for Field Facing Platform – Client 360,
Client Search, Client Documents, Performance Reporting and Usability
- Built and managed high performing cross functional IT teams across multiple projects, geographies and stages of a software development
  lifecycle
- Facilitated C-level executives and senior management through Technology Strategy/Vision, Portfolio Planning and Roadmap workshops
- Executed strategic business and technology initiatives with innovative processes and visual techniques targeted to deliver value and results in
  a short time frame.
- Strong communicator with ability to partner and work efficiently with cross functional teams across Business, IT and Vendors to unify vision and
  drive teams towards common objectives and goals
- Managed large Distributed Delivery Programs (Offshoring) both as a Service Provider as well as a Client
- Managed large Offshore Vendor (end-end) responsible for Application Delivery and Support for CEFS

Recognition

- Responsible for overall Delivery of CEFS Program using offshore vendor. End-end vendor management to ensure quality and timely delivery to Business as per Application Roadmap
- Transitioned CEFS from one offshore Vendor to another and while maintaining productivity and quality of delivery to the business
- Review and consolidation of various environments / infrastructure for CEFS resulting in over $1MM cost savings annually
- Delivered highly visible and key projects for Field Facing Platform – Client 360, Performance Reporting
- Nominated to the Key-Talent program for UBS Wealth Management ISD. Key Talent consists of top 3% of employees with great potential to be
  future leaders of the firm. They are identified by Senior Management to provide mentoring and accelerate their growth and development.
- Brought in to UBS CEFS ISD to turn things around and bring about a change in Culture, Improve Quality and Stability of Platforms, Increase
  productivity and morale of team and establish governance model and SDLC processes for application development. Accomplished all goals with
  a PMM (360 feedback) ranking of 1 (Highest).
- Nominated by Sapient senior leadership as part of the team of 5 people to setup new distributed development (Off-Shoring) in India.   Responsible for hiring and delivering Sapient’s first software development project.

Education

Master of Engineering (Computer Science) Cornell University, NY, USA 1996-1997
Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India 1992-1995