Vivek CTO
CTO (Whiz IT Services)
Vivek Barsagadey
Senior executive with a proven record of building, managing and growing technology departments and companies, and who combines in-depth technical knowledge with refined business acumen and management skills. An expert at building new and refining existing technology solutions and their accompanying processes that span the life cycle to deliver value to end users and other stakeholders.Location
Global
Years of Experience
17+
Job Seniority
CTO
Job Function
Information Technology
TECHNOLOGY STACK
- Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Cloud Computing
- Big Data
- DevOps
- Blockchain
- Front End (React/ Angular)
- Back End (Node/Java/ Python) technologies.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology
SKILLS
Data Analysis
96%
Systems Integration
97%
Operating Systems
98%
Customer Support
99%
Public Speaking
97%
Mentoring
97%
SDLC
98%
Project Management
97%
Agile Development
97%
Description
- Reporting to the CEO, direct the technology vision of the company's architecture and IT business processes within a highly visible role.
- Implement and enforce standardizations across all locations throughout the US and international market and support new business initiative by developing IT requirements.
- Drive general business planning, procurement and budgeting in excess of multimillion dollar across the IT organization to maintain company operations and competitiveness.
- Recruit and develop a strong team of multi and cross functional disciplined professionals to help achieve company's strategic goals.
- Work with company executives to execute strategic plans and technology focus by implementing enterprise IT architecture.
- Conceptualize and architect infrastructure solutions instrumental in meeting strategic goals organization-wide.
- Oversee all activity related to network engineering, servers/workstations, hardware, and telephony.
- Manage inventory control, third-party support/service contract negotiations, and end-user support.
- Participate in the development and implementation of company and departmental strategic vision, procedures, policies, and standards.
- Ensure Business Continuity and design Disaster Recovery site plans and evaluate systems and technology alternatives to recommend best methods of project and product implementations.
WORKEXPERIENCE
Associate CTO
HOK Oct 2021 – Till now
- Work with the leadership team to set clear priorities and goals for IT management and production, balancing the long-term and immediate needs.
- Develop and manage annual and quarterly budgets.
- Provide hands-on projec management and served as a key member of the technology strategy team specializing in framework architecture.
- Oversee data security, management, and governance.
- Manage strategic vendor and technology partner relationships.
- Manage IT resource allocation, goal/KPI setting, and performance metrics.
- Define the company’s overall technology strategy to support business objectives.
- Make infrastructure decisions, ensuring technical excellence, versatility, safety and soundness, resiliency and scalability in the architecting and engineering of product solutions, as well as managing all technical delivery.
- Facilitate the development and implementation of disaster recovery and IT security failure plans.
- Ensure tight collaboration across departments to drive strategic initiatives, including understanding of the alignment between technology strategy and various technology road maps.
- Create strategic plans and set timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical, web, and mobile services.
Associate CTO
Counzela Dec 2020 – Sept 2021
- Creating and managing the company’s technological vision and plans so they align with its business goals.
- Supervise and maintain the system infrastructure.
- Researching and discovering new technologies that can be implemented to accelerate work processes.
- Discovering and assessing the right tools, testing options, and IDEs (Integrated Development Environments.)
- Overseeing and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of employee productivity, processes, tools, and overall product delivery.
- Creating safeguards to prevent security breaches in networks and protect confidential information.
- Communicate technological strategies to staff, partners, investors, and stakeholders
- Writing, improving, and testing source codes.
- Recruiting and finding new acquisitions for the tech team of the company.
CTO
Whiz IT Services 2014 – till now
- BusinessfocusProvidingbusinessandsoftwareconsultingwithafocusoninternetpresence solutions for small and medium-sizedbusinesses.
- Responsibilities Project management, business and technology consulting, sales,marketing, website development, search engine optimization including ecommerce and database driven internet solutions.
- Integration of vertical market applications with internet and cloud-basedplatforms.
- Socialmediamarketingwithoptimizationdeliveredthroughmultiplechannelsincluding traditional emailmarketing.
- Accomplishments Management and development of dozens of complex internetbased solutions, including website, content management, ecommerce and database driven projects.
- Providedneedsanalysisusingresearchmethodsinconjunctionwithclientcommunicationto recommend, plan, manage, and implement highly customized interfaces to fortune 500 Enterprise resource planningsystems.
- PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE.
Senior Architect
Amdocs and other company 2004 – 2014
- Reviewing and designing architectural and engineering plans
- Analysis and Preparing plans for core framework for the project and Ensuring all plans are compliant with governmental health and safety regulations.
- Researching and maintaining knowledge of various engineering disciplines, application methods, and materials.
- Involved on creation of components, subsystems and their interfaces by which the system is composed.
- Involved in implementing the prototype of proposed solution as well as implementation.
- Capturing activities after each phase and present in different matrices.
- Provided suggestions to Client on use of different technologies and its use in this project.
- Helped team members on various challenges they came across also take care of their work in case of timeline slippage.
- Maintained project status always in Green.
- Provided maximum availability to client at India night time.
- Responsible for deployment docs, Production support docs, KT plan etc.
- Creation, allocation & Management of tasks on Agile based project tracking tool.