Swapan Kumar

IT Digital Transformation Leader having more than 25 years experience with multi verticals,multi governments using AI based Technology agnostic solutions to solve business problems.

IGNITING TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATIVE GROWTH, GIVING GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS A CLEAR ROADMAP TO FUTURE USING AI BASED ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS through strategic IT development. Over two decades of global leadership and building core IT function including Business, Applications, data, security and infrastructure management. Budget oversight from $1M to $1B USD level with full responsibility for mission critical technical resources affecting high revenue business lines.

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND IT ALIGNMENT ENABLEMENT OF ENTERPRISE through enterprise solutions Implementation leveraging broad and deep enterprise solution architecture, design roadmap, solution delivery, IT operations using AI & ML, ITIL, AGILE tools to improve IT’s ability to dynamically deliver valuable business solutions, cut costs and mitigate risks.

SEASONED BUILDER OF HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS who is passionate, motivated and encouraged to place right people in right roles, giving them a purpose, training and support structures necessary to realise their full potential. Strong ability for uncovering and tackling the root cause of issues versus putting out fires and mentoring teams to expect more of themselves.

MULTI-INDUSTRY AND SECTOR EXPERIENCE having worked in manufacturing, Retail/FMCG, automotive, Government (public services), healthcare, BFSI, Telecom.

Outcomes achieved: reducing business complexities and redundancies, simplification, unification, standardization, improving business capability & value in the range of 2x-10x through AI and ML tools, scalability using EA tools. Improved enterprise agility and competitiveness using team optimization, reduced operating costs with delivery assurance through automated  IT. 

Bachelor of Engineering (Birla Institute of Technology-BITS) Ranchi, India

• Qualified & Received National Talent (NTSE) Scholarship,Qualified and received Steel Authority of India Ltd. Scholarship

PGCBM (Xavier Labour Relations Institute-XLRI), Jamshedpur, India, (2010-11)

Certifications – 1) Enterprise Architect (9.0) from TOGAF 2) ITIL3.0   3) SAFE AGILIST 5.1  4) Internal Auditor ISO 9001

Enterprise Architect Frameworks: Zachman and TOGAF EA Tools - Orbus iServer, ARCHI, Bizz Design, LeanIX

Technology Software Packages Handled – Progress, SQL DBA, PHP, JavaScript, MS-Visio, MS-Office, MS-Project, JIRA, Scrum, BMC Remedy for ITSM, DevOps, AI and ML tools for Project Development and implementation automation. (ArcGIS, ESRI, AutoDesk, GeoAI, Bentley)

ERP Implementation / Integrations – SAP and MFG/PRO(QAD), HROne, Zoho.

Methodologies- SDLC, CMMI Level3, PMI PMBOK, ITIL v3, BPM, Agile, Kanban, Six Sigma, SOA

Data Centre Design/implementation/consolidation, ERP implementation based on hybrid IAAS, PAAS and SAAS models