Abhay Chitnis

With the view of consolidating and improving synergy of all digital technologies under one roof, Digital Services and Solutions cluster was formed and added in the portfolio. Following are the highlights: • The cluster includes business units of BI/DW, Enterprise Integration and Smart Devices business units and Center of Excellences for Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Social Computing, GIS and User Experience Design. • Fastest growing (45 %) cluster in the organization and on target to achieve at least 20% of the overall revenue by 2015-16. • Launch of “LTIAppShop”, a marketplace to host SMAC technologies based SaaS solutions and enterprise packages, along with enabling functions such as Federated identity management, Billing/invoicing, Analytics, Helpdesk, Social communities and Integration/Orchestration. • Launch of “AutomationNXT”, an automation platform for a transformed Applications and Infrastructure Support and Maintenance service for the organization. • Launch of “Rhythm”, a digital multimedia channel for crowd sourcing transformative ideas in digital domain, across the organization.

Practices of consulting and technology office were merged together to create new service offerings and provide a formalized thought partnership program to strategic customers. Highlights of achievements during this period are: • $35 millions in direct revenue and $150 million in influenced revenue • Key thought partner relationships with marquee accounts like P&G, J&J, Johnson Power, Infineon etc. yielding new business in Cloud Computing, Procurement Transformation, Excellence in Application Service management. • New services launches such as Business linked ADM services (BusinessFirst), Business Consulting prior to Analytic strategy (B4A) and Supply Chain transformation. • Technology consulting in Cloud Solutions assessment, e-Commerce Strategy and road-map and Big Data discovery. • Microsoft practice further strengthened by new assets for migration to SharePoint platform and Cloud based media management.

All the technology-centric activities were clubbed under one unit called Technology Office. The unit had responsibility for, (i) Center of Excellences, (ii) Ideation and IP development, (iii) Technology Alliance management and (v) Incubating new service lines. Following are the achievement highlights • Successful incubation of BI/DW and EI practices. The total revenue has reached above $100 millions p.a. with a growth rate of 30 % • Automation IP assets developed leading to revenue of more than $50 millions • Setup of cloud computing CoE and labs leading to award winning IPs • Dedicated Microsoft Practice driving thought partnership in Microsoft technologies related business across the organization • Dedicated practice for state of the art technologies such as in-memory computing and rich user experience frameworks.

During this period Abhay headed business operations of various units varying with size, region and purpose. He was responsible for the delivery management as well as business operations, including sales support. The highlights during this period are : • Pioneered SLA based managed services delivery for 24x7 operations and development in the organization • Pioneered QMS implementation in the organization for SEI-CMM levels 3 to 5. • Head of Manufacturing-HiCE value chain (Oct 2006 – Mar 2009). Acquired and set up ODCs for marquee clients such as Infineon, Ingram Micro, Amkor. • Head of Global Delivery, Motorola/Freescale ODC (June 2003 – Sep 2006). First large ODC of managed services setup in the organization spanning multiple technologies, locations and culture. Delivered one of the most stringent SLAs successfully. • Head of Operation, Europe Regions (May 1999 – May 2003). Handling prestigious customers such as Volvo corporation, Thales, Dun & Bradstreet etc. • Head of Web Enablement (May 1997 – Apr 1999). Focused on Wen enabled of legacy services. Worked with prestigious clients such as Kao corporation, BMW.

During this period Abhay was based out of St. Louis, USA as the account manager for Edward Jones, a financial brokerage firm. The highlights during this period are : • Grew the account from 5 people team to more than 100 people in 18 months period • Established presence in all the domain areas and technologies

During this period Abhay was responsible for executing various projects in technical lead and delivery manager capacities. The highlights of this period are: • Responsible for winning and executing the first off shore based large export engagement at TARGET stores, against stiff competition from IBM and Cap Gemini • Responsible for provide tech consulting to TISCO, Jamshedpur as IBM consultant for the most sophisticated and state of the art IT landscape in Asia at that time • Automation in application development

Participation in various software development projects in India and USA. Highlights of this period are • Worked as software engineer at US Sprint, Kansas City on project accounting and billing software • Developed expertise in assembly language programming on IBM Mainframe

Participation in various software development projects in India and USA. Highlights of this period are • Worked as software engineer at US Sprint, Kansas City on project accounting and billing software • Developed expertise in assemble language programming on IBM Mainframe