Sharad Kumar

▸ Delivered a consulting engagement for a large media and advertising organization, establishing measurement frameworks and insights capabilities to evaluate campaign effectiveness, optimize audience targeting, and improve marketing outcomes

▸AI ecosystem onboarding and AI Systems Design consulting for enterprise and eCommerce clients — see AI-Enabled Work section

▸C-suite advisor for Business Growth Roadmap, Technology Ecosystem and Delivery Transformation

▸Roles included: Global Head, P&L owner & Workforce Transformation, Accounts Director for Advanced & Data Engineering, Enterprise, GTM & Solution leader for niche service provider

▸Key engagements: Led Open API and SDLC automation strategy with a US product vendor; drove Digital/Mobility, DevOps/Agile maturity, Delivery CoE, and partner/pursuit development for a Singapore-headquartered consulting firm across ASEAN, Africa, and the Middle East; defined GCC setup strategy for an Australian logistics provider; Standardized AI-enabled engineering tool ecosystems for globally distributed teams within a European retail organization

▸Key entrepreneurial initiatives: Incubated, Stabilized & Transitioned – EPMO offering, B2C consulting platform around Digital Transformation, AI & Cloud adoption, DevOps, Lifecycle Automation and Inter system / businesses integrations, B2B skill augmentation partnerships

▸Solution architect, pipeline owner and revenue resilience leader for a top-line-initiative globally

▸Developed digital user journeys (Digital commerce, Digital Health, Digital Doctor, Digital Marketing) with POVs on ML; developed Data Upload, Extraction, Migration, Validation, and Integration strategy; led techno-commercial solutions large deals and leading proposal defence workshop; developed and rolled out API Gateway Management in Platform-as-a-Service model

▸Drove assessment and definition of go-to-market strategy during organizational merger, ensuring alignment across accounts and market segments

▸Exceeded engagement growth targets — scaled 80 to 180 FTE in 10 months across Digital, EBS, Data & Analytics, SFDC, and Web; drove in-sprint progressive automation in continuous deployment environment improving time-to-delivery and cost for an at-risk engagement with cloud provider

▸Led cloud migration strategy for 6,000+ applications (US-based conglomerate: Aviation, Medicare, Lighting, Oil & Gas) using 7R / 'As a Service' framework;

▸Led Process Maturity Assessment for Philippine telecom and Environment & Data Management for Finnish financial group.

▸Responsible for portfolio P&L and CM optimisation across multiple SOW models with knowledge retention continuity; led client workshops, proposal defence, and strategy sessions.

▸Core leader in revival of $300M SBU; Global Head — DevOps & Lifecycle Automation Platform: conceptualised, incubated, and scaled from blueprint to commercial offering; achieved 75%+ hit-to-win ratio and noticeably exceeded yearly business targets; incubated $20M+ DevOps practice in Year 1. Tracked and reported practice performance against agreed KRAs monthly and quarterly.

▸Established and ramped DevOps, Digital, Data, Virtualisation, Cloud & Crowd practices leveraging partners (CA Technologies, HP, Microfocus, IBM, Conformiq, Smartesting); finalised ELAs in joint go-to-market models; introduced Pay-per-Service model via Service Virtualisation factory; deployed PaaS on cloud in subscription model integrated with flexibility of Pay-per-use concepts

▸Developed BVA models, tool matrices, questionnaires, and TMMi-aligned process improvement roadmaps; defined in-premise and cloud-based CoEs, shared services, and factory-based delivery organisations; strategized automated environment and data management service lines.

▸Led prospect and client roundtables, cultivated analyst and partner ecosystems, and partnered with global forum owners to drive keynote speaking engagements