Kiran Kumar Tupalli
Mumbai
Summary
A Tech strategist with 3 decades worth of experience of conducting and enabling businesses, through the adoption & implementation of advanced, cutting edge technology initiatives donning various key roles entailing People management, Stakeholder management, Strategic Technology management, Risk management across Global Cloud Services, Global Professional Services, Health, Life & General Insurance, Manufacturing(Worsted suitings), Supply Chain Wholesale and Retail, Hospitality & Allied Services.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Global Head – Support and Delivery
Minfy Technologies
Hyderabad, Mumbai, Hubballi
11.2022 - Current
- Provide leadership as Head - One Minfy Delivery for Integrated Cloud offerings ranging from Cloud Infrastructure management, Migration & Modernization, PLES, Security and compliance and Application Development, GenAI, and overall modernization strategy to Minfy’s customers.
- Oversee 60+ projects with a team of 300+ across 6 countries
- Key achievement - Integrated Delivery by bringing together all fragmented workstreams and consolidating the team for a seamless customer experience in 10 months.
Senior Director, IFS and Tax Technology
PwC India (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
Gurugram, Mumbai
11.2014 - 10.2022
- Spearheaded Application product development and Delivery of all SaaS Business solutions offerings at PwC India (Tax Technology). Responsible for re-architecting, implementation and management of Tax technology product like ASP 2.0, E-Invoice and Legal systems.
- Led the Global Program Alignment, Process Improvement & Governance and oversaw development of164 solutions with a Dev team of 34 including the Internal ERP Oracle Financials.
- Formed Internal Digital Offering Risk Management committee by bringing together key stakeholders from 7 departments to streamline software solutions offering to the market. Designed process, influenced strategy to implement an application solution to manage workflow and risk for over 600 customers across various offerings.
- Independently implemented the Global PwC standard on security with alternate tools certified by the global team at 1/3rd of cost in just 5 months.
Vice President - IT (Head – Application Delivery)
Future Generali (Life & General Insurance companies)
THANE
04.2007 - 10.2014
- Strategized and built the in-house team by taking over from a foreign company in 8 weeks and stabilizing in 12 weeks to full strength.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
- Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction. Brought down operational from 21 days to 2 days using tech enhancements for STP driven policies.
- Re-architected the internal systems to foster enhanced workflow and process using BPM tools linking disparate technologies with ESB.
- Led the tech delivery for the Life, General and Health businesses.
DGM - Head of Technical & Retail Services
Raymond Ltd.
THANE
04.2007 - 10.2014
- Oversaw technical delivery of the SAP project that represented the then; worlds only successful APO for a Top Dyed Worsted suiting's manufacturer.
- Integrated & automated “Siloed” Legacy Applications into a common SAP ERP deployment that included 17 different tech combinations and 60+ applications.
- Integrated data across multiple cities covering 437 franchise stores with a team of 6 for custom retail analytics.
Education
GED -
Aegis Instritute of Data Science And Analytics
Mumbai 11.2019 - 09.2021
B.Com - Accounting, Personal Taxation - Major
Vivek College of Commerce
Mumbai 01.1993 - 03.1995
Skills
Strategic Technology Planning
Risk Management
Key Stakeholder Management
Product and Solution Development
Critical Thinking
Coaching and Mentoring
Change Management
Accomplishments
- Integrated Delivery teams across Geo's, brought to life a dormant Back-office in a Tier -II city transforming it into a vibrant buch of achievers.
- Re-architected being hands-on - the ASP 2.0 and E-Invoice programs.
- Created in-house team to handle multiple people intensive and micro service intensive projects
- Insourced entire software development in 8 weeks
- Led a Change Management initiative & Infrastructural re-design program across multiple organizations.
- Participated and influenced Global Tech initiatives that ran across multiple countries for HR and other internal Finance systems.
- Induced IBM to release a fix by persevering for 9 months with their lead product engineers to fix an issue saving 18 months of re-implementation.
- Built an in-house team on the HP-Extreme platform saving
- Achieved simultaneous go-live of Life and General Insurance for DMS and Web solutions
- Achieved single handed go-live on the retail business in Foodland for SPAR
- Re-designed audit programs in the Ramco Marshal ERP to cut run time from 11 days to 3 hours.
Timeline
Global Head – Support and Delivery
Minfy Technologies
11.2022 - Current
GED -
Aegis Instritute of Data Science And Analytics
11.2019 - 09.2021
Senior Director, IFS and Tax Technology
PwC India (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
11.2014 - 10.2022
Vice President - IT (Head – Application Delivery)
Future Generali (Life & General Insurance companies)
04.2007 - 10.2014
DGM - Head of Technical & Retail Services
Raymond Ltd.
04.2007 - 10.2014
B.Com - Accounting, Personal Taxation - Major
Vivek College of Commerce
01.1993 - 03.1995
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