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Deepa Parthasarathy

Director - Technology
Bangalore

Summary

Leader and Change Agent with 24 years of experience in directing large Enterprise Application Delivery, Managing Collaboration Suite of Products, IT Site Services and End User Applications at Scale. Also adept with developing Global IT strategy, Leading Business Operations (Workforce Strategy, Budget Management), Program Management and Product Management.

An alchemist and a closer known to turn-around situations; either winning over a disgruntled customer, energizing an uninspired team or bringing back on track a troubled program and hence creating a win-win outcomes. Passionate about people and for the key role they play in business success.

  • Worked with global matrixed organization; with Internal and External stakeholders from North America (Canada and US), Asia ( Malaysia, Japan, India, Singapore and China), Australia and Europe (UK, France) to implement large programs
  • Played India IT Site leadership role, Built Center of Excellence (CoE) for deploying IT Platform and Solutions
  • Grew 360 degree relationships across key partners and India IT vendors
  • Standardized delivery operations and manged resource forecasting, recruiting, talent and performance, training and budgeting
  • Brought in Agile practice, transformation through Continuous Delivery(CD/CI) and DevSecOps
  • Developed high performing teams. Transformed teams that were operating under “order taker” mindset with minimal accountability to being a strategic partner in delivering end to end solution with more ownership, accountability, customer-first approach and global mindset
  • Removed the barriers of a distributed team mindset to working as a single entity with an operating philosophy of ROI – Relationship over Issues to address any technical or business challenges

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Director - Technology ( Enterprise Experience)

Target
Bangalore
07.2021 - Current

Responsible for powering mobility, productivity and collaboration experiences for more than 350,000 globally distributed team members at Target (Head Quarters, Stores and Distribution Centres) on capabilities including Exchange and Administration, Chat, Meetings & Conferences, Virtual Whiteboarding, Content & Project Management.

  • Empower team members with workplace experiences that are supported by best in breed SaaS solutions customized to the needs of team members and those built in-house to enable Hybrid way of working
  • Manage L&M of $50M and HW& SW of $20M annually with vendors like Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, Smartsheet, Miro
  • Manage India IT Site Services and End to End life cycle of infrastructure products and services, modernization of IT Infrastructure in offices
  • Drive legal & compliance requirements. Responsible for all end User Devices (Laptop, Desktop, Mobile & Smart devices, Printers)

Director - Digital Experience

Epsilon
Bangalore
02.2020 - 07.2021

Led Digital Experience (DX) practice that offered integrated last mile solution to global consumers through creative design, analytics and enterprise class Content Management System(CMS) & Campaign Tools. Specialist in Digital Transformation leveraging highly scalable Web architecture, Deep Insights and transformative Customer Experience with Adobe, Sitecore, Teamsite and Crownpeak Platforms.

  • Define & Execute Digital Road map by setting-up customer centric technology architecture
  • Core delivery & Delivery operations
  • Portfolio management, Program Management & Orchestration
  • Pre-sales & Account Management

Senior Manager - Web Platforms

Cisco
Bangalore
04.2013 - 02.2020
  • Led Global delivery of Web Platform, Enterprise Content Management, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Enterprise Search
  • Drove largest implementation of Adobe Experience Manager handing multitenancy ( 38 websites) with 99.999% uptime across 26 languages and 96 countries addressing 30M user visits per month serving 113M requests
  • Managed implementation of platform for Omnichannel Personalized marketing through Open Text Media Manager for Digital Asset Management, Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target

Senior Product Manager - Emerging Solutions

Cisco
Bangalore
02.2012 - 04.2013
  • Delivered Service Delivery Platform with software overlay for solutions delivery in emerging markets in Smart and Connected Communities
  • Led Cross functional teams in Engineering, Sales, Services, Legal, Marketing, Physicians & Medical experts to launch new services based on Cisco Medical Grade Network and Reference Architectures for Healthcare
  • Built partner engagement across APJC to sell Connected Health Services
  • Drove bookings of $3M in Australia and Malaysia. Partnered with Business development and Sales Account teams to grow Cisco Connected Health Services business globally to generate $11M in revenue

Senior Engineering Manager - Customer Experience

Cisco
Bangalore
01.2010 - 02.2012
  • Led Customer Experience organization through portfolio transformation, Vendor consolidation and Architectural simplification
  • Built data analytics capabilities to amplify business growth and up-sell by providing Insights to accurate customer network data

Manager - IT Infrastructure

Cisco
Bangalore
11.2005 - 01.2010
  • Oversaw start-up operations, recruiting, delivery and growth of India Center for IT Infrastructure
  • Built India competency center to decentralize project delivery through service automation
  • Managed framework-based service lifecycle automation and access control solutions to enable Enterprise Service management

Business Analyst /Senior Project Management

Consultant
Waterloo
11.1998 - 11.2005

Worked with Economical Insurance, Union Gas, Check Free i-Solutions, Poda Software as Business Analyst and Project Manager on digital transformation projects

Education

MBA - Masters of Business Administration

Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
04.2001 -

BE - Bachelor of Engineering

RV College of Engineering
Bangalore, India
04.2001 -

Diploma - Diploma in Project Management

George Washington University
04.2001 -

Skills

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Timeline

Director - Technology ( Enterprise Experience)

Target
07.2021 - Current

Director - Digital Experience

Epsilon
02.2020 - 07.2021

Senior Manager - Web Platforms

Cisco
04.2013 - 02.2020

Senior Product Manager - Emerging Solutions

Cisco
02.2012 - 04.2013

Senior Engineering Manager - Customer Experience

Cisco
01.2010 - 02.2012

Manager - IT Infrastructure

Cisco
11.2005 - 01.2010

MBA - Masters of Business Administration

Wilfrid Laurier University
04.2001 -

BE - Bachelor of Engineering

RV College of Engineering
04.2001 -

Diploma - Diploma in Project Management

George Washington University
04.2001 -

Business Analyst /Senior Project Management

Consultant
11.1998 - 11.2005
Deepa ParthasarathyDirector - Technology