S&P Global provides data, analytics, and benchmarks across sectors to empower informed decision-making, with $14B revenue and 40K+ employees.

Appointed by the CTO to spearhead the development and execution of the organization’s mission and vision, align IT strategies with global business objectives, and foster a culture of innovation, particularly following the IHS Markit merger. Demonstrated success in leveraging emerging technologies, leading large-scale cloud migrations, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Proven expertise in driving operational excellence, building high-performing teams, and integrating AI-driven solutions to transform product offerings.

► Leadership & Talent Development: Increased team engagement, retention, and skill proficiency by building a culture of continuous learning, strategic hiring, and cross-functional collaboration.

- Reduced turnover by 15% and increased skill proficiency by 25% through targeted training programs, mentoring, and quarterly townhalls to foster a culture of learning and engagement.

- Expanded the engineering team by 100%, hiring 75 engineers in six months and promoting 15% to leadership, strengthening the leadership pipeline.

- Boosted team efficiency by 30% and problem resolution speed by 20% by launching Communities of Practice (CoP) for Architecture, Agile, DevSecOps, and QA, enhancing cross-functional collaboration and expertise.

- Improved collaboration by 30% and productivity by 15% by restructuring the organization to align with business values and implementing a location strategy for teams in Canada, the US, UK, Poland, and India.

► Strategic Vision & Execution: Led technology strategy to drive alignment, innovation, and business growth through through roadmapping, GenAI integration, and customer-focused enhancements.

- Increased project alignment by 40% and accountability by 25% by developing a multi-year technology roadmap, establishing architecture design, defining common capabilities, and creating prototypes aligned with business goals.

- Boosted product engagement by 30% by implementing GenAI solutions, including developing a GenAI Assistant to build dashboards and enabling data querying via Text2SQL.

- Improved customer response times by 50% and reduced support queries by 20% with a real-time, multi-channel Status Page for Commodity Insights.

- Enabled scalable SaaS transformation by forming a customer advisory board, pitching a business case to stakeholders, and leading the migration of desktop applications to a multi-tenant SaaS platform.

► Agile Leadership & Project Management: Optimized project delivery, streamlined value, and increased team efficiency through agile transformations, strategic alignment, and value-focused structuring.

- Increased sprint predictability by 35% and achieved a 95% on-time delivery rate by leading SAFe agile transformations, improving team collaboration, and streamlining execution processes.

- Reduced release cycle times by 25% by implementing a Technology Agile Release Train (ART) to oversee complex initiatives, including AWS Migration, RHEL Upgrades, and cybersecurity audits.

- Enhanced portfolio throughput by 30% and reduced lead time for key features by 20% through conducting a value stream mapping analysis, establishing dedicated value streams, and forming stream-aligned teams to focus on high-impact business outcomes.

►Operational Excellence & Compliance Delivered high availability, robust security, reduced technical debt, and operational efficiency through strategic cloud migration, proactive monitoring, and infrastructure upgrades.

- Achieved 99.99% uptime and reduced technical debt by migrating to AWS, implementing live monitoring dashboards, and modernizing outdated systems, enhancing stability and performance.

- Remediated 80.5% of vulnerabilities to strengthen cybersecurity, achieving compliance with SOC, and ISO standards and reinforcing a security-first culture.

A global management consulting firm with $500M revenue and 1K+ employees. Named one of the world’s and America’s best by Forbes

Appointed by COO to develop and implement organizational mission and vision, cultivate innovative culture, and align IT strategy with global business goals. Provided technology-enabled solutions and uncovered new and emerging technologies in areas such as data analytics, mobility, and cloud computing by fostering relationships with business/operational leadership across enterprise and identifying new and emerging technologies. Attained SOX, PCI-DSS, SOC, and ISO 27001 compliance by defining SDLC, backup policies, security, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

► Operational Excellence: Enhanced revenue/profitability by 350%/175% by delivering products, integrating product lines with Gainsight, and employing microservices strategy for API development of REST endpoints.

- Bolstered operational efficiency by 60% by leading application development teams, improving internal ERP systems, employing Jira/Confluence for project delivery, and integrating with Drata for security and compliance automation.

- Enhanced development efficiency by 70% by creating tools for SaaS applications, employing Azure platform infrastructure, and devising metadata-driven templates for UI, SQL-based REST API, and rules engine.

- Decreased waste by 30% and increased efficiency by 95% by re-engineering software development processes.

► Value Creation: Increased feature product release speed by 60% by devising project artifacts like RACI matrix, overseeing SDLC process, delivering cadence across organization, and creating fast integrated learning cycles.

- Optimized productivity by 30% by managing staff development/performance review based on quantifiable goals.

- Generated annual revenue of $10M by managing product portfolio for new product lines launch.

- Slashed OPEX by $1.5M and updated financial levers, budget planning, NPV analysis, M&A, EPS, ROIC, EBITDA, P/E, and WACC by holding financial responsibility, ensuring expenses transparency, and building cost centers.

- Achieved EBITA of $30M by managing digital transformation and updating two-tier applications from on-premise installer products to multi-tenant cloud SaaS platform delivery.

► Team Leadership & Training: Achieved employee retention by developing training program, streamlining OKRs and KPIs for professional development, ensuring engagement between project teams, and fostering DEI culture.

- Augmented customer satisfaction rates by 30% by ensuring coordination between product management, global sales, go-to-marketing, consulting, support, external vendors, and customers.