Functional Skills

Data Science
Data Engineering
Customer Experience
Data Management
Business Intelligence
Service Management
Solution Architecture
Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
Product Data Management
Operations Management

Software Skills

Python
SQL
R
SAS
C
BigData
Natural Language Processing
Cloud computing
NoSQL

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Sector Experience

Business Services
Consumer Goods
Financial Services
Technology
Telecom
Big 3 Consulting (MBB)
Fortune 500
Top Consulting Firms

Experience

University of Chicago Other
NORC advisor
1/2014 - Present
C-level advisor for strategic socioeconomic impact in Data Science & AI/ML

DataStax Engineering
VP, Head of Americas Field Engineering
7/2021 - 2/2023
• Responsible for field engineering (pre-sales and customer success) for NA and LATAM for all 'Cloud native' and large enterprises for Apache Cassandra & Pulsar. Additional deliverable(s) include Executive alignment and Outbound Product leader functions.
• Led Competitive analysis, PFR prioritization, Roadmap alignment, security /FedRamp tracking, customer training
• Led team to deliver 20+% revenue atainment for 6 straight quarters and increased customer satisfaction of cloud portfolio.

Amazon Web Services Sales
Senior Leader, Solution Architecture
8/2019 - 5/2021
• Scaled team of leaders and architects with USD 800M ARR business. Oversaw critical migration, managed Professional service programs while accelerating new products adoption. Impact with customer executive alignment and thought leadership.
• Program development & delivery of partner channel development for Fortune 100 health services client with AWS.
• Led the development of solutions leveraging AWS Database in partnership with ISV, Product, Marketing, Channels and specialist. Key projects- Smart factory modernization, AR/VR in manufacturing production line etc.

McKinsey & Company Management Consulting
Associate Partner, Digital Practice
5/2018 - 7/2019
• Advised Digital transformation & Risk Assessment for Fortune 100 companies including Cloud migration resulting in $100M savings during M&A optimization. Defined key success indicators, KPI and other frameworks to measure progress
• Delivered Design Thinking workshops to executives to innovate on operational model & organizational change; Developed KB and frameworks to improve Data Governance strategies using Analytics and Data Science in data inception & ETL.

Virtustream Sales
Director, Specialty Sales & Solutions Engineering
1/2016 - 1/2018
• Co-developed billing for BDAP to integrate with Virtustream xStream API (proprietary pricing engine) Technical product and SAAS PLG led growth responsibility.
• Key architect for Big Data Analytics Platform (BDAP- SaaS ofering) on Virtustream cloud in partnership with SAP, Dell and Pivotal; resulting in GE adopting cloud platform. Kick starting a $20M ARR business
• Key projects – (A) Fortune 10 Global DW & Analytics solution for largest SAP HANA in Cloud; (B) AgTech: "Predictive Sugarcane Yield using Satellite images" using PySpark based Data Science model

Pivotal Product Management / Strategy
Global Director, Field CTO
1/2010 - 1/2016
• Impact of $500M+/year across Pivotal & EMC: Portfolio: DB Analytics, Hadoop, Services & Pivotal Cloud foundry.
• Product/solution development
• For Utilities: multi-partner Smart Meter Grid Analytics Platform as a service (PAAS) -focus on Power Theft analysis, predictive maintenance leveraging MPP Greenplum, SAS & Custom Data Science models.
• For Fin Tech: Key architect & product lead for Natural Language Processing based Legal E-Discovery Solution for Citibank.
• Built field enablement programs for EMC architects & customers resulting in tracked revenue of $100M per year
• Led a global team to manage global SI & ISV, embed Pivotal SW for scale workloads and Data Science transformation
• Apache Open Source Commitee Member – Open Data Platform (ODP) -OSS Hortonworks distribution

Oracle Product Management / Strategy
Principal Solution Consultant
1/2004 - 1/2010
• Technical SWAT Team for Oracle Database Tech products including Data Warehouse and Analytics portfolio.
• Executed TPC(H) benchmarks & Customer Prototypes/POC on Oracle Products establishing Oracle's lead position.
• Led Customer Advisory Boards & Customer research to prioritize product features & shape Oracle technology; became trusted advisor to numerous customers resulting in reduced costs as they optimized Oracle deployments.
• Impact of $500M+ per year to revenue with key wins in Fintech, Travel customer
• Developed repeatable, scale-able demos and Sales Enablement content delivering global adoption & impact.
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