Venu Yalavarthi

Ceo

Cepoch · Greater Chicago Area

Present

Founder CEO of Cepoch driving IT Professional services for clients. Additional responsibilities Operating as CRO and CTO for the company. In my role as CEO, I provide strategic vision and leadership to a dynamic team of professionals, driving the company's growth and success. Under my leadership, Cepoch has evolved into a market leader in App Dev, Analytics, Managed Services and Cybersecurity. Key accomplishments include: Achieved a 40% year-over-year revenue growth for the past three consecutive years. Improved to 95% customer retention rate. Led the expansion of our service portfolio, introducing innovative offerings that align with evolving client needs. Fostered a culture of innovation, resulting in client recognition for our groundbreaking solutions.

Chief Technology Officer

SetOnce™

Present

Spearheading the technology strategy and product roadmap, instrumental in scaling the company from the early-stage to its current position as a market leader in the tech industry. Establishing and managing the technology budget, optimizing resource allocation, and delivering cost-effective solutions without compromising on quality. Collaborating with the CEO and executive team to align technology initiatives with overall business objectives and drive organizational growth. Leading a cross-functional team of developers, software engineers, data scientists, and product managers to deliver innovative products and solutions that align with the company's vision and mission.

Ceo

WyzeWaze · Greater Chicago Area

Present

Fractional Cto

Multiple · United States

Fractional CTO, vCTO - Strategic technology advisory services driving innovation, scale, accelerated product launch and risk mitigation for multiple organizations. * Cloud migration of onprem applications with cost-effective strategies gain 100X performance improvement * Expertise in helping Startups in secure funding * Establish and streamline technology departments for SMBs * Digital transformation of multiple companies Accomplishments: * Defined for cloud migration for Data Lake based application improving 10X scalability, 100 X performance and uptime by 50%. * Optimized sourcing strategy realizing 40% TCO reduction * Defined Strategic roadmap for multi-million dollar company for Digital Transformation and Technical debt reduction. * Led Mobile App Dev strategy for a client with 50+ mobile app portfolio * Successfully directed reorg with cost effective offshore sourcing plan

Chief Technology Officer

DataDelivers, LLC. · Greater Chicago Area

Leading IT Department driving Digital Transformation for the Data Centric organization. Defined Strategic Technology Roadmap and Long-range planning to transform Data Driven consumer behavior insights for clients. Deployed innovative solutions in Big Data to realize cost reduction and performance optimization. Streamlined support model and service delivery model. Championed enterprise-wide Agile, Scrum and Lean methodologies.

Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation Executive

Ingredion Incorporated · Greater Chicago Area

• Established global EA team for Application, Data, Infrastructure and Network for $6B company. • Defined and implemented industry leading Global Digital Transformation using Industry 4.0 technology (IoT, Digital Twins in Azure) for plant optimization, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Intelligent Automation, Big Data platform and Deployed AI & ML based Chat bot solutions with estimated $10M/ Year cost savings and value realization. • ML and Data Science models improved demand management accuracy and realize $3M energy savings. • Published rationalization plan for 400+ Application Portfolio globally, to simplify landscape by 10% and generate 15% operational efficiencies. • Directing Agile, CI / CD methodologies, Azure DevOps; Microsoft Stack (C#, .Net) Serverless and Container architectures. • Defined reference architectures for Digital Transformation and Lo Code / No Code Platform reducing development cycle time by 50%. • Managed architecture for data center migration of 1200+ applica…

Enterprise Architect, and Digital Transformation Leader

JLL · Greater Chicago Area

• IT leader specialized in Enterprise Architecture, Integration, Business Intelligence, and Big Data. • Published enterprise-wide baseline technology stack, and defined 3-year Strategic Technology Plans and Annual Operating Plans. • Provided architecture and governance on .NET, C#, ASP, SharePoint, SQL, Microservices, and DevOps based 100+ application portfolio. • Led team to successfully deploy big data AI / IoT and predictive analytics • Published Data Strategy, 3-year Data Governance Roadmap, Reference Data Architecture, Data Principles and Standards, procedures for Data Quality management. • Finalized Application and system portfolio rationalization using Gartner TIME model for 1000+ application landscape.

Global Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture

Whirlpool Corporation

• Managed $3M budget and lead 15 IT managers and architects; contributed to annual and long-term planning for $250M IT budget; collaborated with IT executives to ensure strategy alignment with overall business plan and developd qualitative/quantitative business cases. • Planned and directed $12M conversion from Capex to Opex using IBM Cloud, SAP Successfactor solutions; successful conversion realized 22% cost avoidance on long-term IT investments. • Served as Architecture Review Board chair and recommended 25 materially significant course corrections in 2014 returning $3M savings; • Collaborated with security team to streamline provisioning services, harden perimeter security and implement Splunk 6 system vulnerability profiling and monitoring.

Director, Enterprise Architecture

Rockwell Collins

• Directed $200M budget to define architecture strategies and project implementation for multi-year IT roadmaps in CRM, Data Center Virtualization, Remedy upgrade, SCM, eCommerce, SAP ERP 6.0 implementation, HR, data integration, and business intelligence domains. • Formulated Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and Zachman-based Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, methodologies, business process models, and reference architectures; steered emerging technology acquisitions and vendor management, including RFPs and SOWs. • Served as member of Leadership Team to establish 70-member offshore development center • Built high-performing team of 12 and led 100+ projects yielding $2M TCO reduction and was instrumental in improving EA maturity from 1.8 to 2.5 on Gartner Assessment.

Manager, Enterprise Architecture

Walgreens

• Managed $2M budget and hired/trained 10-member team to establish and govern frameworks, principles, standards, and procedures for Enterprise Architecture function; articulated strategies for data integration and decision-support systems. • Led architecture of 30TB data warehouse ($20M budget) and analytics for 10K+ users; realized 15% operational savings and 5% client benefit cost reduction. • Directed customer data integration solution with $30M budget, creating single version of truth for 100M patients for One Walgreen initiative;