Bhaskar Rayavaram

BHASKAR RAYAVARAM                                                  linkedin.com/in/rayavaram

5624 Seneca Drive, Plano TX 75094                          bhaskar @ esambhav.com

Value Proposition: 

Bringing transformative and inspiring leadership to businesses to drive innovation using cutting IT Technologies like AI/ML to make a difference in the world.

Aspiration: To be a Digital Transformation Executive to deliver technology driven business solutions and innovation.

Key Skills:

Strategic thinking, Hands-on Delivery, Strong Leadership, Managing for Change, Global thinking, Team processes, managing with cross-functional teams, Superior soft skills, Customer relations, Process Orientation, Project management, Agile Methods, Enterprise/Solution Architecture, Center of Excellence, API led connectivity, BPM SOA, Microservices, Data Strategy, Cloud Strategy, Mobile Strategy, Breadth and depth of knowledge in IT Technologies.

Education: 

• Executive MBA maxima cum laude (4.0 GPA) from the University of Texas, Dallas, class of 2006.
  • Special interests: Strategy, Operations. Leadership & Effective Organizations, High-Performance teams, Startups, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, and International Business
• Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. 1991

Salient Offerings:

• Strategy and Operational leadership for Start-up and mid-sized companies in Healthcare, Pharma, and other industries
• IT Strategy and Execution & Advisory Services - especially focused on API/SOA/BPM/BI/Portal/MDM
• IT Cloud Strategy - best practices, approach, business case, evaluation, and execution
• IT Road map - Business and Technology Alignment
• IT Centers of Excellence - Principles, Structure, Process, and Methodology
• IT Driven Business Transformation – From ideation to business value to innovation. A process for business transformation
• IT Driven Business Innovation – From ideation to innovation. A process for business innovation
• IT Driven Business Discovery – A process for Identifying the right candidates, discovery, as-is & to-be modeling, simulation, the business case & ROI preparation, etc.
• IT Enterprise Architecture and solution architecture delivering business needs
• IT project planning using Agile methodology for successful execution
• Digital Customer Acquisition, Marketing strategies, Social Media Strategy, and execution
• IT Vendor Relations and Vendor Management
• Product Strategy, Roadmap, Development, and implementation (Medcase, Silicon Andhra, Radio Surabhi, Search Hound, Mega Cinema)

Technology Stack: AI/ML frameworks, MuleSoft AnyPoint Platform, Oracle Fusion Middleware Stack 12c/11g (BPM, SOA, ADF), Languages/Frameworks (Python, Java/J2EE, C/C++, .NET, C#), App Servers, Messaging, Databases, BI, UI/UX, Data Integration, Infrastructure, Cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), Methodologies (Agile/Scrum)

Involved in providing strategic senior level and hands-on IT consulting services for various customers like Henry Schein, African Atlantic, Hyphen Solutions, Cummins, Pacific Union, Barrick Gold, Lockheed Martin, Land O’ Lakes, American Fidelity Assurance, Torchmark, FDA, GE, Alliance Data Systems, Vistajet, SEC, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, BCBS etc. for driving business results:

• Serverless Architecture for Bill of Lading Management at African Atlantic using AWS (BootstrapJS, DynamoDb, Lambda, API Gateway, QuickSight, and IAM)
• API led architecture, design and hands-on development for Hyphen Solutions using MuleSoft Platform
• Hands-on API development for Pacific Union
• API and SOA-led integration delivery using MuleSoft and Oracle platforms for Supply Chain business units at Cummins
• BPM and SOA Strategy and Execution for Centers of Excellence, Platform as a service or Private Cloud implementations, automated provisioning mechanisms for BPM and SOA platforms
• Enterprise Architecture involving API, SOA, BPM, Messaging, Rules and BI for highly available and scalable systems
• Expert guidance and advice with best practice recommendations for using Oracle 12c/11g BPM/SOA suite and ADF
• Solution Architecture, Project Management, and Team leadership for a $850K project at BCBS with BPM, SOA, and ADF technologies
• End-to-end hands-on solution architecture and development for their first BPM, SOA, BI, end-to-end and ADF solution at Alliance Data Systems
• Enterprise Service architecture design and analysis for Global ERP consolidation program using Oracle EBS at Cummins
• Technical Leadership, Agile methodology mentorship in the Enterprise Service development life cycle
• Liaison between the business partners and the technology teams
• Hands-on design and development effort following best practices and mentoring developers 

As Vice President - IT Portfolio Management - Provided end to end technology leadership, creating technology strategy for Hudson Americas supporting the Asset Management functions and a portfolio suite of companies, including a multi-billion-dollar mortgage servicing operations and asset management, resulting in:

• New IT organization with an annual budget of around $2 million for Hudson Americas region, with governance and processes supporting multi-billion-dollar private equity fund investments
• Strategy and execution for Enterprise Architecture involving BPM, Master data management, Business Intelligence, and application development in an onshore/offshore model for the mortgage and other business holdings
• Whole Loan Mortgage Data Warehouse as a single version of truth between servicer Vericrest Financials and Asset Management
• A data strategy with the use of MS SQL and .NET technologies for data, integration, and UI and Oracle technologies for BI with SSIS and Informatica for data movement and SAS for Analytics
• Infrastructure strategy and execution with cost-effective (from $350K capex to less than $1k a month op-ex) platform-as-a-service infrastructure solutions based on the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform
• Aligned technology strategy between Hudson Corporate IT, Americas Region, Investment Companies, and Asset Management business strategy
• Strategy for Business Process Management to accomplish a process-enabled enterprise
• Variable workforce with onshore and offshore capabilities to support business needs

As Vice President - IT Application Development Manager - Involved in core system modernization for Default Mortgage IT systems resulting in:

• Enterprise Architecture (involving BPM, BRMS, ETL, EDW, BI) frameworks applied to existing systems and applications
• Improved business agility to respond to market changes and SLAs 

As Director of BPM Center of Excellence (Bear Stearns), on-time, under-budget delivery of BPM implementations that resulted in:

• BPM CoE - built from the ground up by hiring the right talent into key roles, and establishing, governance, process, and standards.
• Business solutions provided using world-class (scalable and high-performance) Enterprise architecture involving ALBPM, Web2.0 UI, Blaze Rules Engine, TIBCO EMS, Mule ESB, Cognos BI, and DataStage ETL.
• On-time, under-budget delivery of BPM solution saving $480K of $3.5 million total budget
• Lead and delivered four other BPM initiatives with a budget of $4 million.

With personal experience gains in:

• Executing in the global organization directly under a CIO - leading large, cross-functional, and global multi-vendor teams.
• Managing budgets, delivering, and adapting to rapidly changing business conditions
• Creating state-of-the-art technology architecture/infrastructure from ground-up
• Establishing offshore/onshore vendor relationships for cost-effective delivery operations
• Hands-on technological expertise

• 1000s of YouTube Sessions with a mission to spread Positivity, Positive Energy around the world on BPlusWithBhaskar
• Outstanding Academic Achievement award from UTD for 4.0 GPA in EMBA & Member of prestigious Beta Gamma Sigma
• Oracle Certified BPM Implementation Specialist, TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect – Level I, and MuleSoft Certified Developer (Mule 4)