Srikanth PuranamSrikanth 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