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# Manohar Kosuru on Tal

## Headline

AI \- Global Advocate \(AIFOD \- UNESCAP\) \| Technology Director \| Consulting CTO \| India’s Next 100 CIO’s Award \| Doctoral candidate \|Emerging & Disruptive Tech expert \| Internet 2\.0 Outstanding Leadership Award winner

## About

Seasoned Technology Leader with strong experience of more than 20 years of establishing IT software development and infrastructure \(Data Center Operations, Cloud migrations\), DevOps and Support Organizations for diversified business domains like Telecom, Finance \(Mortgage Banking\)Oil and Natural Gas and Insurance\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

openai

ChatGPT

Microsoft Copilot

Otter\.ai

## Work experience

Director Development \- Architecture, App Development, QA, DevOps and Cloud migrations at Vertafore, Jan 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Expanded the role to direct Application development teams as well\. Drive end to end IT delivery for DCM business vertical from Hyderabad in the following fronts \- Application Development for two product lines \- QA function for complete DCM business \- Platform Architecture \- DevOps delivery \- AWS Migration program Continue to be part of India Leadership team driving policies and growth of the Organization in India\. New feather on my cap \- Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative support

Consulting Chief Technology Officer at RenB Solutions Pvt Ltd, Sep 2018 \- Present · 8 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Provide Technology Direction to Client Organizations Implement new age technologies and help change the face of the organization Help to drive revenue expansion of the organizations through technology up gradation Work as part of the CXO leadership team in defining the organization vision and technology road map in alignment with the same\.

Director Development \- Platform architecture and Shared Services Delivery at Vertafore, Jan 2023 \- Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Head the India delivery teams on Platform Architecture and Shared services Delivery out of India for DCM Business of Vertafore Heads platform architecture and SDET function Head of QA Delivery Head of DevOps and Release engineering Head of AWS migration program

Director Of Development\- \- DCM QA at Vertafore, Jun 2021 \- Jan 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Heads QA delivery for 3 different product lines Head of AWS migration program for DCM business of Vertafore India\. Drives delivery of DevOps and Release Engineering practices Head of Agile CoE

Service Assurance Manager at Shell, Sep 2015 \- May 2021 · 5 yrs 9 mos, Bangalore, India, As Service Assurance Manager manages the Finance and Legal Portfolio of Global Functions business with functional areas like SAP, Non SAP, E\-Banking, Treasury, Group Reporting which runs a transactions worth $11 trillion month on month basis As Technology leader drives the Infrastructure and application support space for the functional teams in both inhouse and Cloud based solutions offered by different vendors Providing thought leadership and technical consulting in defining, implementing, ensuring, measuring and continuous improvement of vision for the organization and driving the same through people\. Developing evaluation strategies and implementation plans for the disruptive technologies in finance domain for the organization and also enabling them in the core business of the Organization related to Oil and Natural gas Managing the profit and Loss for the team and enhancing the throughput of the Organization by adapting innovative methodologies in the operations on various industry standard practices\. Synchronizing with executive management to formulate strategy for Application/Technical support portfolio roadmap and life cycle of the applications Architecting strategic and technical solutions in driving projects in Agile and DevOps methodologies\. Driving the setup of Center of Excellence for Robotics Process Automation and Community of practice for DevOPs and Agile frame work on Development methodologies Driving the path finder projects like migration of existing ERP systems into SAP S4 HANA platform by establishing technology teams and providing techno functional leadership\.

Asst Vice President at J\.P\. Morgan, Jul 2011 \- Sep 2015 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore, Lead Production Support tower as an Assistant Vice President which involves managing application support teams and assisting three business verticals of Mortgage Banking loan originations systems Managing production support delivery of the teams which handle 25 business critical applications with diversified technology stalk\. Plan strategies in establishing the production support tower and executing them with in the approved budgets\. Developing project plans, applications releases and enterprise releases and driving the technical teams for the same\. Monitor the trends and volumes of various App Support life cycles and take steps in improving the SLAs and efficiency\. Identify cost saving and SLA reducing initiatives and drive projects on those initiatives Consolidate teams to improve the capacity utilization of the resources Played key role in vendor management and was accountable for India based vendor delivery and Contracts which includes financials\. Vendor governance which includes hiring/firing of the resources and time and material contract evaluation/monitoring of lifecycles for multiple vendor teams like TCS, Cognizant etc with a headcount ranging from 20\-55\. Driving Knowledge Management initiative at tower level by establishing practices/templates and managing the document upload life cycle\. Directing business transformation with the help of technical integration projects\. Engaged in selecting tools and technologies to work on Agile and DevOps methodology of project executions

Sr\.Analyst at Deloitte India \(Offices of the US\), Sep 2009 \- May 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, As a Senior Consultant was responsible for dual delivery of Application support of 15 business critical applications 24/7 and also building infrastructure and application support for Deloitte University project which is a 800 room hotel and 125\+ room learning center\. Played key role in driving the Deloitte University Project which is a large IT integration for an 800\-room hotel with 120 meeting and training rooms\. Designing the architecture and solution for the project\. Coordinating with the vendors to acquire the necessary infrastructure for the project Grooming the off\-shore team members to achieve the required competencies to be able to handle the project from off\-shore\. Developing the project related documentation such as user manuals, administrator guides and operations manuals\. As part of day to day application support activities manage Incident/problem/Change and release management life cycles on ITIL V2 framework\. Representing the team in all crucial meetings for the project and addressing the queries from various teams on status and deliverables\.

## Education

Executive MBA, Finance, General, TRIUM Global Executive MBA

Doctor of Business Administration, Generative AI, Golden Gate University

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