Srikanth Puranam

Email Address: Srikanth.Puranam@stratbiz.net; 

Professional Skills Summary

• Highly adaptive business & technology leader credited with responsive, decisive IT strategies that accelerate corporate expansion and acquisitions; Champion for solutions & infrastructure design/deployments to meet business, budget & scalability requirements; Needs focused executive & solutions driver skilled in closing gap between requirements & technology with optimum, cost-controlled infrastructure designs.
• Logical thinker and strong communicator noted for transforming and building responsive IT organizations with support to global, enterprise-wide infrastructures. Executive technology advisor accustomed to work with company ownership and key stakeholders.  Wide suite of project direction and turnaround expertise. Quality driven leader with international expertise.
• Blend of large company , startup, consulting and non profit organization experience; Fortune 50 experience; Entrepreneurial experience/Directed startups in diverse range of industries like Healthcare, Hi Tech, & Retail. Experience in directing and contributing at various organizations like Kaiser Permanente, Gap, Hitachi, Tata Consultancy Services, IBM Labs, SVISS LABSS, WebGain and Covansys.

Areas of Expertise

IT Strategy & Roadmaps	Business Reengineering & Change Management	Information Security & Compliance
Cost Containment	Vendor Management & IT Outsource	Portfolio/Program/Project management
Enterprise Architecture	Web Technology	Enterprise Systems Planning & Integration
Organizational Development	Quality Assurance	Business Intelligence & Analytics

People

• Worked with fortune 50 executive leadership to obtain approval for organizational transformaon initiatives to support organizational HR and Finance strategies.
• Worked with Executive leadership/investors at India’s leading stock exchange for approval to implement next generation infrastructure.
• As senior director of MIS managed global workforce greater than 50 employees.  
• As Program Manager/Principal Architect at fortune 50 company, managed concurrent programs and projects with more than 200 people.
• Established a systems integration services organization and built a team greater than 25 people.

Finance, Cost Containment & Profitability

• Key leader in Managing multi-year, multi-million dollar programs with budgets greater than $100 million USD.
• Established and managed systems integration services organization whose annual sales exceeded $3 Million USD.
• Renegotiated multi million dollar telecommunications contract and reduced overall obligation from $24 million to $8 million USD.

Process & Methodology

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL v3); Comprehensive Delivery Framework & Comprehensive Delivery Process (CDP); Sox Control and Compliance processes, HIPAA, Rational Unified Process (RUP); Agile Unified Process (AUP); Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Innovation

• Key Technology leader at a fortune 50 company for HR & Finance organizational transformation initiatives
• Developed following copyrighted frameworks:
  • StratTech© – Business Technology Strategy Framework 
  • StratOut©  -  Outsource Advisory Methodology
  • StratMSR© -  Performance Measurement Framework
• Principal architect at a fortune 50 company for Web Strategy to align to Company’s business strategy
• Principal architect & Program manager for proprietary Healthcare analytics solution to measure organization performance.
• Principal architect & Program manager for proprietary Employee Hierarchy Utility to support organization Identity Management initiative.
• Principal architect & Program manager for proprietary Web 2.0 technology solution to support Healthcare Unit-based teams for performance improvement and employee engagement.

Technology & Tools

Web 2.0, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), ,Business Intelligence (BI) , Portal Applications;, IBM Web Sphere Portal, Oracle/PeopleSoft ERP applications, Oracle/Siebel CRM applications, SAP/PeopleSoft ERP applications, Cognos, EPIC, DB2, Teradata, Oracle, Core ID/Oblix, Tivoli Identity Manager , HP/Sun Hardware, and IBM Mainframe.

Business Development

• Key contributor in business case development of multi year HR organizational transformation initiatives with program budget of $65 M USD for 2 years.
• Key contributor in business case development of multi year financial organizational transformation initiatives with program budget of $145 M USD for 3 years.
• Key contributor in business case development of multi year Web strategy transformation initiatives with program budget of $24 M USD for 2 years.
• Established and developed systems integration services organization whose annual sales exceeded $3 Million USD.

Recognitions

• Excellence in Technology Leadership – Kaiser Permanente
• Excellence in Technology Leadership – Michcon
• Excellence in Technology Leadership – Covansys
• Excellence in Technology Leadership – IBM (On engagement at John Deere through Covansys)
• Excellence in Technology Leadership – Tandem Inc. (On engagement with Tandem through Tata consultancy Services)

Education

• Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems from Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 
• MBA (Concentration: Leadership & Strategy) – Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA
• MS. Computer Science – Indian Institute of Technology – Chennai, India
• B.S. Production and Industrial Engineering – Osmania University – Hyderabad, India

Interests

• Healthcare Information Technology, Business Process Reengineering, Enterprise Architecture, and Healthcare Analytics
• Technology Value Realization , Strategy Planning, Organizational Development, and Leadership Development.
• Establishing a non-profit entity in Hyderabad, India which empowers promising low income students with an all inclusive education through to professional positions.