Srikanth Puranam
Visionary leadership for Enterprise-Level business solutions impacting revenue, growth, and costs.
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 Manufacturing, Automobile, Healthcare, Hi Tech, & Retail. Experience in directing and contributing at various organizations like Kaiser Permanente, Adient, Johnson Controls, Gap, Hitachi, Stupski Foundation, Tata Consultancy Services, IBM Labs, WebGain and Covansys.
Areas of Expertise
| IT Strategy & Roadmaps | Enterprise Architecture | Information Security & Compliance; HIPAA; SOX | Organizational Development |
| Cost Containment | Vendor Management & IT Outsource | Portfolio/Program/Project management | Business Re-engineering & Change Management |
| Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) | Global Enterprise Applications & Integration Architecture | Business Intelligence & Analytics; Data Warehouse | Portal Applications |
| Cloud Computing & Architecture | SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions | Web 2.0 Technology | Infrastructure migration & Optimization |
People
- Interactions with fortune 50 executive leadership for Organizational Transformation initiatives in HR and Finance areas.
- Worked with Executive leadership/investors at India’s leading stock exchange for approval to implement next generation infrastructure.
- Interaction with various business owners & senior leaders at various for-profit & non-profit organizations.
- As senior director of MIS managed global workforce greater than 50 employees.
- Multiple assignments as Program Manager/Principal Architect at fortune 50 companies, where I managed concurrent programs and projects with more than 150 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 $4 Million USD.
- Renegotiated multi million-dollar telecommunications contract and reduced overall obligation from $24 million to $8 million USD.
- Multi-Year Planning, Business Case development for technologies that enable revenue growth or contain costs.
Process & Methodology
| Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) | Comprehensive Delivery Framework (CDF) & Comprehensive Delivery Process (CDP) | Sox Control and Compliance processes |
| Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). | Rational Unified Process (RUP) | Agile Unified Process (AUP) |
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 and Program Manager at a HR organizational transformation initiative using agile implementation methodology at a non-profit fortune 50 company. Implementation of Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud – SaaS model, Taleo, Custom application to address gaps using IBM Bluemix, and a Custom data mart solution using Cloudera. The transformation program will also result in system retirement of the PeopleSoft 9.1 HCM application.
- Key Technology leader at a HR organizational transformation initiative at a fortune 500 company that involved implementing Workday – SaaS, Sumtotal, Microsoft Dynamics, and a Custom data mart solutions. The deployment across globe (37 countries) also resulted in establishing a Microsoft SharePoint Portal site, and a service center for supporting HR and Payroll business services. The transformation program also resulted in system retirement of the PeopleSoft 9.1 HCM application.
- Key Technology leader at a HR organizational transformation initiative at a fortune 50 company that involved implementing Workday – SaaS, ADP Global View, Taleo, Sumtotal, OBIEE, Microsoft Dynamics, and a Custom data mart solutions. The deployment in North America (USA, Canada, and Mexico) also resulted in establishing a Microsoft SharePoint Portal site, and a service center for supporting HR and Payroll business services. The transformation program also resulted in system retirement of the PeopleSoft 8.3 HCM application.
- Principal architect and Program Manager at a fortune 50 company for supply chain and financials organizational transformation initiatives. The implementation was based of SAP system, and custom supply chain systems integrated with Hyperion.
- Key Technology leader at a non-profit fortune 50 company for HR & Finance organizational transformation initiatives to implement Healthcare Analytics solution, Healthcare Human Capital Management Systems, and Healthcare – Financial systems. The implementation was based of PeopleSoft ERP Systems – HCM and Financials integrated with Cognos data mart.
- Principal architect and Program manager at a non-profit fortune 50 company for Web Strategy to align to Company’s business strategy. Enterprise portal was implemented using IBM WebSphere product.
- Principal architect & Program manager for proprietary Web 2.0 technology solution at a non-profit fortune 50 company to support Healthcare Unit-based teams for performance improvement and employee engagement.
- Principal architect & Program manager for proprietary Next Generation Learning Web 2.0 technology solution
- Principal architect & Program manager for open source EMR/Web 2.0 technology solution to transcend the boundaries that exist today among health plans, hospitals, physician offices, etc in providing chronic care management services.
- Principal architect & Program manager for proprietary Employee Hierarchy Utility to support organization Identity Management initiative.
- Principal architect & Program manager for proprietary Healthcare analytics solution to measure organization performance.
- Developed following copyrighted frameworks: StratTech© – Business Technology Strategy Framework ; StratOut© – Outsource Advisory Methodology ; StratMSR© – Performance Measurement Framework
Technology & Tools
| Oracle Managed Cloud Services (OMCS), IBM Bluemix, Amazon Web Services(AWS), SaaS, PaaS, IaaS |
| Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) – Workday HCM , Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud, SAP Financials, SAP SCM , SAP SRM, PeopleSoft HCM, PeopleSoft Financials, PeopleSoft CRM, Taleo, Siebel |
| Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) – Informatica, IBM Datastage, IBM Bluemix integration, IBM Cast Iron, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, MQ, Node.JS |
| Business Intelligence (BI), Big Data Solutions – Cloudera Hadoop, Cognos,, OBIEE, Master Data Management (MDM) |
| Web 2.0, Portal Applications; IBM Web Sphere Portal, NetWeaver, Axway MFT, Java, J2EE, SOAP, .NET, CA-SiteMinder, Core ID/Oblix, Tivoli Identity Manager; Oracle Cloud solutions; Amazon Cloud solutions, Rally, HP ALM, and Octane |
| Database – DB2 , Oracle, SQL Server, Object oriented databases and Cloudera-Hadoop |
Business Development
- Key contributor in business case development of multiyear HR organizational transformation initiatives with program budget of $140 M USD for 4 years.
- Key contributor in business case development of multiyear HR organizational transformation initiatives with program budget of $65 M USD for 2 years.
- Key contributor in business case development of multiyear financial organizational transformation initiatives with program budget of $145 M USD for 3 years.
- Key contributor in business case development of multiyear 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 $4 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
- M.S. Computer Science – Indian Institute of Technology – Chennai, India
- B.S. Production and Industrial Engineering – Osmania University – Hyderabad, India
- Workday HCM and Technology Training (HCM, Studio, EIB, Report Writer, Business Process and Security)
- Oracle Fusion HCM Training (HCM, HDL, HCM Extract, BI Publisher)
Interests
- Technology Value Realization, Strategy Planning, Cloud Computing, and Organizational Development,
- Business Process Reengineering, Program Management, Global Application Management, Healthcare Information Technology, Healthcare Analytics and Enterprise Architecture
- Establishing a non-profit entity in Hyderabad, India which empowers promising low income students with an all-inclusive education through to professional positions