Samir Shrouti

Professional Summary • • • • • • • IT Leader with 23+ yrs. of experience in Leading Global Programs in – Google Cloud, Business Intelligence & Big Data -Analytics domains Deep expertise in building and Implementing Cloud Native, Hybrid and On-premise solutions in Web, Data Science & Analytics across multiple industries Skilled in the conception and execution of strategic plans, and the solution architecture of associated tactics including performance benchmarking against key operational targets/goals. Creative problem solver with a unique mix of technical, business, and research proficiency that lends itself to developing key strategies and world-class solutions with significant impact on revenue and ROI. Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal communicator and negotiator. An expert Data - Story Teller. Highly committed to a management style embracing continuous learning and improvement. Excellent knowledge of, and experience with a wide range of software applications, computer operating systems. True leader and mentor who inspires confidence in employees by empowering them to do their jobs and respecting them for their accomplishments. Fosters encouraging environment for creative thinking and innovative, real-world solutions to complex business and technical challenges Key Career Achievements • • • • • • Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect (Achieved through Self Study) o https://www.credential.net/xs8f7rzi?key=ad4680ec54515d08f2f1e2930c87199f df8125f8edca832ef24ae93a043015de Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Data Engineer (Achieved through Self Study) o https://www.credential.net/y75621yx?key=ccd50cb-df00df6996cd49bc0c5b-dbb1db9fb3923b810bac3 Capgemini: o Fostered new client relationships. Brought 3 major clients to the company worth $500,000 o Led delivery team to achieve 10x sales increase for its “savings” product, for a leading Norwegian Bank o Led delivery team to implement a Churn Model for a mid-sized insurance client, to identify Cancelations, leading to a 20% annual reduction in Cancelations o Achieved an average YOY Regional Growth of ~13% in terms of HC, for Nordics Region for consecutive years- for Insights and Data, at Capgemini – includes repeat business and new logos. Majorly coming from Cloud and Analytics. o Awarded Xtramile and top-achiever award for yr. 2016 and 2017 IBM: o Delivered government mandated projects such as HIPAA 5010 on time and on budget. Met clients regulatory and compliance objectives. Hired & trained 25+ new employees over 2 years, reducing yearly regional turnover by 10% TATA-AIG: o Managed Vendors to deliver business critical programs within budget and schedule CGI: o Managed service level attainment and financial performance for a US Insurance Leader, leading to a happy customer resulting in to renewal of multi-million dollar IT Managed Service Contract working with CGI o Increased the regional Customer Satisfaction Index by 4% Page 1 of 7 Key Competencies • • • • • • • • • Exceptionally strong relationship, stakeholder management, coaching and mentoring skills Strong consumer and customer orientation Deep experience in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Big Data, Hadoop Ecosystem, Cloud Computing, Predictive Analytics. Aware of MLAAS - Azure ML, Amazon ML. Very broad sector experience across Finance/Insurance, Healthcare/Pharma and Manufacturing, Public & Infra sectors A collaborative team leader and energizing communicator Extensive international experience including USA, Western Europe and across Asia Pacific Exposure to Regulatory Reporting & Compliance standards e.g. IFRS, FATCA and HIPPA 5010 Core Values Include: Strategic Planning, Project Management, Operations Management, Business Process Improvement, Revenue Expansion / Cost Control, Presales and Solutions, Business Development, Systems Development, Project Delivery Specialties: Business Expert, Innovation, Solution Architect, Network Builder, Presales, Program Management, Business Intelligence, People Management, Data Science Analytics, Statistical Analysis, Team Development & Mentoring, Delivery Management, Financial Management, Forecasting & Budgeting, Capacity Planning, Change Management, Contract Management, Cluster Consolidation of Programs, Vendor Management, Due Diligence, Communication, Proficient in Regression. Classification Analysis and Time Series modelling, Escalation and Turnaround Management Career History Summary Company Designation / Role Dates PWA LAB, LLP (Start-up) Cloud Architect Jan 2018 – Present Capgemini Program Manager / Delivery Leader Jan 2013 – Dec 2017 IBM Project Manager / Project Manager Mar 2010 – Jan 2013 Wipro Infotech Project Manager / Project Manager Sep 2008 – Feb 2010 TATA AIG Life Insurance IT – Project Manager / Project Manager Apr 2007 – Aug 2008 CGI Information Systems and Senior Consultant / Project Manager Management Consultants – India Feb 2002 – Apr 2007 CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants – USA Feb 1999 – Feb 2002 Consultant / Project Leader D.R. Software Pvt. Ltd (Start-up) Consultant / Consultant Dec 1997 – Feb 1999 Digitools International Pvt. Ltd Sep 1996 – Dec 1997 Software Engineer / Team Member Skills Summary Leadership Strategic Planning, IT Governance, Global Delivery, Client Satisfaction, Team Leading and Building, Customer Relationship, Financials (P&L), New Business, Customer Renewal, Stakeholder Management – Client CxO’s, Internal VP’s and other stakeholders, Budgeting and Forecasting Management Project Management, People Management, Vendor Management, Change Management, Customer Experience, Quality of Deliverables, Solution Design and Delivery, Agile and Iterative Methodology of Project Development & Execution, POC’s, Campaign Management, Application Page 2 of 7 Development and Maintenance Support, Performance Management – both Services and People, Project Transitioning/Handover, Management Reporting Presales Deal Review and Approval, Client Orals, Big Data and Analytics, Solution Presentations to clients, Data Mining COE/Practice Asset Harvesting, Development of accelerators/assets – Store and Reuse, setting up Internal Data Science Academy for upskilling, Conducting Internal Training, ITIL Framework, Technology Expertise Cloud Computing (Expert in Google Cloud Solutions), Kubernetes, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Machine and Deep Learning, Python, Data Mining, Hadoop, Scala, Spark, Splunk, SQL, Apache Beam, Apache Spark, Statistics, ETL, Data Warehousing, Data Integration, Data Wrangling and Exploration, Data Visualisation – Tableau, QlikView, Spotfire, Power BI, Java/J2EE, AR/VR, IoT, AI/ML, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, MDM, R, Python, Other Analytic tools, 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭, Solutions Architecture, Design, Migration, 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 ,Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence , Data Visualization, Management Insights, Deep Learning, 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬, 𝐈𝐎𝐓, 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬 , 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, Engineer, Certified , Engineering , Compute Engine ,Container Engine, App Engine ,Cloud Functions , Big Query, Pub sub, Dataflow, TensorFlow, Cloud MLE, Cloud AutoML , IAAS, PAAS Domain Expertise Banking and Financial services, Life insurance, US Healthcare, Life Science, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Automotive, Public Sector, Agriculture, Gaming Backend, Retail Full Career History (23 yrs. 07 months) Cloud Architect, PWA LAB, LLP (Start-up), India (Jan 2018 – Till date) Key Responsibilities: • • Support business development activities for medium-to-large opportunities Capture and assesses clients' business and technical needs; works with clients' IT and line of business management to develop an accurate understanding of needs and issues • Identify client-wide IT parameters and constraints that impact potential solutions • Collaborate with cloud service providers and clients to define the architecture, operating model, service levels, and continuity of business solutions. • Provide clients with a roadmap from their current IT environment to a cloud computing solution. Achievements: • For a reputed gaming company, designed and deployed google cloud solution to: o Increase global footprint o Improve uptime downtime loss of players o Increase efficiency of cloud resources in use o Reduce latency to all customers • Established best practices for cloud across the company • Lead cultural change for client adoption • Reduced overhead and infrastructure costs by 38 percent by consolidating and deploying 10 legacy applications to cloud platforms such as Google web services for a key client • Reduced process redundancies and learning curves by configuring business rules and transactions to fit each organization’s needs. Page 3 of 7 Program Manager – Senior Delivery Architect (Insights and Data Practice), Capgemini, India (Jan 2013 – Dec 2017) Key Responsibilities: • Lead, Coach, and Grow cross-functional, multi-level software teams towards a comprehensive vision for Cloud Native Development. • Evangelize Cloud Native, Agile, DevOps and CI/CD to all levels of management, peers and organizations especially to those who aren’t used to those concepts. • Work closely with and inspire CXO level executives in major client organizations. • Advance Capgemini’s market position and service delivery excellence. • Aligning technology efforts to inspire and impact business outcomes. Achievements: • For a heavy equipment manufacturer major for mining and agricultural industry, designed and deployed google cloud solution to: o Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than one week o Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services o Have the ability to partner with different companies—especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business—to create compelling joint offerings for their customers • For a leading Norwegian bank, achieved 10x sales increase for its “savings” product • For a mid-sized German Insurance Company, created a Churn Model to identify Cancelations, leading to a 20% annual reduction in Cancelations • For a large CPG Company, identified actions for Store Segmentation to enable operational efficiencies and optimized Cross-sell & Up-sell activity. Led to Incremental Revenue growth of +3.6 pts, and +4.9 pts including the re-orders of new products added • Analysed Business Performance Metrics and adjusted our strategy to achieve an average YOY HC Delivery Growth of 13% for Insights and Data, Nordics region – includes repeat business and new logos. Mainly coming from Cloud and Analytics domains • Designed and executed 3 end-to-end cloud implementations for organizations in hi-tech, marketing and healthcare • Managed large team of more than 120+ FTE’s – 20 direct repartees, rest indirect Project Manager – Business Analytics and Optimization, IBM, India (Mar 2010 – Jan 2013) Key Responsibilities: • • • • • Manage E2E delivery of engagements Delivery excellence, proper communication with the client and the IBM teams Committing multiple resources and achieving customer satisfaction, cost, expense, revenue and other business measurements of critical importance Quality output/value add for highly visible products, services and future business development Review and approval of Solution Designs for existing and new clients Achievements: • Implemented US Healthcare Mandated Program of HIPAA 5010 & Claims Modernization on time and on budget. This program was seriously behind schedule and was of strategic importance to the client and vital for its future success when handed over to me. Developed a new plan and schedule for the implementation. With this new schedule and increased staffing, all new and reworked streams were successfully deployed on the new schedule. • Scope management was effectively managed, bringing in additional revenue of 0.4 mn USD for a large program. • Identified actions for predicting employee attrition and identify high attrition risk employees using a predictive churn model for a large MNC company. Benefitted in, Identification of high attrition risk employees and therefore reduced attrition by 4.5% in the specific departments • For a large online retail giant, performed phased migration from on-premise to Google cloud to: o Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production Page 4 of 7 Improve security by defining and adhering to a set of security and identity and access management (IAM) best practices for cloud o Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources o Analyse and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud For a leading Financial technology service provider, implemented big data – analytics that turned billions of transactions into actionable insights that help these banks better target offers and maximize their marketing dollars. Estimated increase of 100 percent or higher in the response rate to targeted marketing initiatives. Estimated IT savings of USD8 million in five years Delivered outstanding service in a client environment characterized by high degree of complexity, core business change and business risk Working as partner with client executives provided IT-related input to client’s strategic planning activities Drove implementation of a strategic business plan. Cloud Implementation of Big-data Analytics. o • • • • Project Manager – Business Solutions Division, Wipro Infotech, India (Sep 2008 – Feb 2010) Key Responsibilities: • • • • • • End to end project management for set of projects of Medium to High complexity Project planning, delivery, client interaction, trouble shooting, managing project operational parameters and people management Committing multiple resources and achieving customer satisfaction, cost, expense, revenue and other business measurements of critical importance Quality output/value add for highly visible products, services and future business development Review and approval of Solution Designs for existing and new clients Delivering professional services as an System Integrator and in collaboration with Hardware and Software Vendor/Partners Achievements: • For a major Indian Life Insurance provider, implemented the corporate active Datawarehouse • Successfully delivered the project in 3 phases and on budget and on time as a System Integrator in collaboration with Teradata (Infra Vendor) and SAP Business Objects (S/W Vendor) • This implementation enabled single view of the customer and made customer segmentation possible for the marketing group for campaigns • Using Teradata’s TWM and TRM built analytic applications on top of the DWH for Lead Generation, Campaign Management and Data Mining Project Manager – IT - Best Practice & Vendor Management Unit, TATA AIG Life Insurance, India (Apr 2007 – Aug 2008) Key Responsibilities: • • • • • Manage the execution of entire IT and operations for IT projects & services (which included business scoping, design-development, integration and system testing) Manage contractual agreement with Software / Hardware service vendors Project Scoping, Budgeting, schedule tracking Manage dependencies, risks and issues Produce variance metrics and demonstrate continuous improvements in performance Achievements: • Implemented the organization’s Enterprise Data Warehouse, which enabled in providing “Single Version of Truth” for the Business Users consuming and utilizing data for various analytics and reporting. Used IBM’s DataStage for ETL, IIW for building the Datawarehouse Model and Cognos for reporting • Commissioned one integrated portal framework through the “Partner Integration” project to integrate with Channel & Bancassurance Partners using SOA & Java/J2EE. Helped increase cost effectiveness, improve customer experience, communication and collaboration Page 5 of 7 • • • Provided key inputs to the CIO prepare the Strategic and Technological Roadmap for TATA-AIG Performed contract negotiation, pricing, vendor selection, and services implementation to meet contractual obligations. Managed Vendors to deliver within budgeted cost, time and quality Senior Consultant – Business Consulting Services, CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants, India (Feb 2002 – Apr 2007) Key Responsibilities: • • • • • • • Conduct Technical Reviews Develop Team Spirit within the team Ensured standard Billing and Manage Change Control Track Project Schedule, Cost, Quality Manage dependencies, risks and issues Produce variance metrics and demonstrate continuous improvements in performance Ensure Selection of quality candidates Achievements: • Spearheaded design of the complex management reporting platform on SAP BW/BO, infoAdvantage that is associated with CGI’s homegrown ERP system - Advantage Performance Budgeting. The solution replaced California State departments 14-year-old legacy budgeting system with a modern, web-based budgeting and reporting system. • Managed service level attainment and financial performance for a US Insurance Leader, leading to a happy customer resulting in to renewal of multi million dollar IT Managed Service Contract • For a leader Aluminium producer, completed assimilation of 36 IT applications in a record time of 6 months and successfully brought and executed the project from Offshore by setting up a team of 20 members in a IT Managed Service contract. Attained all Service Level KPI’s. Consultant – Business Consulting Services, CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants, USA (Feb 1999 – Feb 2002) Key Responsibilities: • • • • • • • Gather and Analyse requirements Design and construction of application as per standards Configuration control and module management Consulting with customers on issue resolution Test planning and execution Conduct review of applications ready for production move Analyse defects and suggests process improvement Achievements: • For a leading Pharmaceutical Client, designed and developed system with complex reports that facilitated both the users and administrative staff to increase productivity by 40% • Successfully implemented a data exchange interface for a major Tax Consulting Client, which facilitated data transfers between disparate data sources. Implementation improved time and attendance reporting for a 350-employee service organization by 56% • For a major Clinical Research Client, successfully developed complex medical research projects for this pharmaceutical major which helped improve the turnaround time in introducing new drugs to the market. • Ensured that aims, goals and objectives were accomplished in accordance with outlined priorities, time limitations, and funding conditions. • Successfully managed implementation of 5 concurrent projects Page 6 of 7 Consultant – D.R. Software Pvt. Ltd (Start-up), India (Dec 1997 – Feb 1999) Key Responsibilities: • • • • • • • Gather and Analyse requirements Design and construction of application as per standards Configuration control and module management Consulting with customers on issue resolution Test planning and execution Conducted review of applications ready for production move Analyse defects and suggests process improvement Achievements: • For a major Industrial Valve Manufacturing Client, developed an ERP system on PowerBuilder and Oracle, to track the effectiveness of valves manufactured for different Production Units • For a major Bank, developed a comprehensive, integrated management information system to support strategic systems planning activities Consultant – Digitools International Pvt. Ltd, India (Sep 1996 – Dec 1997) Key Responsibilities: • • • Gather and Analyse requirements Design and construct of product as per standards Test planning and execution Achievements: • Developed a defect tracking tool for the Product development team that helped in ensuring delivery of a defect free product Qualifications • • • • • • • • • Bachelors of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics – Mumbai University - 1996 Certified – Google Cloud Professional Architect Certified – Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Completed Data Camp’s – Data Analyst, Data Scientist with Python, Python Programmer Tracks (https://github.com/shrouti/Data-Science-Certificates) Microsoft Virtual Academy’s certification for – • Introduction to Data science and • GitHub for Windows Certified PMElite and EM Level1 which are PMP equivalent internal certifications for Wipro and Capgemini respectively TATA-AIG Life’s Chrysalis certification for Life Insurance domain Boston’s Computer Institute’s - Advance Concurrent Diploma – Unix, C, C++ GEBBS Institute’s- Oracle Specialist Program Personal Details Address: B-303, Sainath Apartments, Navghar Road, Mulund East, Mumbai – 400081, Maharashtra, India Phone: - | Email:-| LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/samirshrouti | GitHub: https://github.com/shrouti/ | Skype: sshrouti Page 7 of 7