Persistent leader eager to lead and grow organizations. Skilled in strategic planning, problem-solving, and communication with good understanding of business principles, project management and team leadership. Collaborative with relentless work ethic.
Hi, I’m
Pradeep Venkat
Director IT
Bengaluru
Summary
Overview
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Saveazy Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd
Co-Founder & CTO
02.2022 - 07.2023
Job overview
- Business founder, fully hands-on with all associated processes & procedures for setup of operational center in India spanning incorporation, financial compliance, workspace requirements and fund raising
- Established foundational processes for business operations.
- Networked with other businesses and customers to increase sales opportunities and contacts.
- Established team of motivated and highly skilled employees to help run business.
- Spear headed all IT & development activities of B2C app with vendor & in-house teams
M.A.D Rewards Tech Ltd
Head of IT & Systems
08.2017 - 01.2022
Job overview
- End to end accountable for all aspects of IT spanning new application development/enhancements, Infra Optimizations, Enterprise System Availability with improving staff efficiency by 50%
- Reduced AWS hosting run rate by 63% with design & infra optimizations
- Analyzed department and job-related functionality requirements to align technology priorities with business needs.
- Identified opportunities for application optimization, redesign and development with significantly reducing application issues & customer friction that allowed to almost triple sales GMV through product.
- Developed and maintained service level agreements for strategic applications and measured performance against objectives.
- Led white label program for enterprise clients with successfully launching 2 large global programs.
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
Client Executive & Associate Director
12.2004 - 07.2017
Job overview
- In a career spanning 13 years of core IT management, have held several positions that required to drive operational improvements, maximizing efficiency with automation, Enterprise system availability management, maintain software/hardware currency, manage budget of large IT operations, ensuring tight control on operational costs and compliance
- Fully account for end to end delivery operations and client liaison for C levels and senior client executives
- Led over 23 business contracts that were loss making to becoming positive GP with operational efficiency
- Promoted 7 times over 13 years for business results
- Team building & Staff management with team sizes up to 1300+ staff members
- Managed accounts to retain existing relationships and significantly grow business revenue multifold
- Managed revenue models, process flows, operations support and customer engagement strategies.
- Developed compelling presentation decks to gain approval for ideas and communicate results.
- Drove sales by developing multi-million dollar contract sales.
Education
Sathya College of EngineeringChennai
Batchelor of Engineering from Electronics And Communications Engineering
07.2001
University Overview
Skills
- Process Optimization
- CXO Liaison & Engagements
- Company Incorporation
- Program Performance Assessment
- GCC enablement
- Fundraising
- Stakeholder communication
- Strategic planning
- Business planning
- Financial Management
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- Best of IBM 2005
- IBM Hall of Fame 2011
- Top 10 startups to watch out for by CNN-IBN in 2022
Timeline
Co-Founder & CTO
Saveazy Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd
02.2022 - 07.2023
Head of IT & Systems
M.A.D Rewards Tech Ltd
08.2017 - 01.2022
Client Executive & Associate Director
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
12.2004 - 07.2017
Sathya College of Engineering
Batchelor of Engineering from Electronics And Communications Engineering
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