
Sowmya Narayan
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About me
Managing Technology and Delivery for the ASIA region for the Azure domain
Education

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
1990 - 1992M.E. Microwave Communication First Class, Grade A
Osmania University
1986 - 1990B.E. Electronics & Communications Engineering First Class with Distinction
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
2009 - 2010Senior Management Program Business Administration and Management, General Batch Topper
Experience

Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 1992 - Nov 1998Account ManagerResponsible for project management, leading 100-member team. Work involved Liaison and negotiations with the users/client, coordination of on-site and offshore activities, including review and monitoring of plans. Worked as a programmer, business analyst and SME. Started as a Unix developer and Sybase DBA

Wipro
Dec 1998 - Oct 2000Account ManagerAccount Manager in Enterprise Solutions, responsible for Microsoft account, towards growing the development work offshore. Work included project, account and engagement management inclusive of pre-sales, help. Managed a peak team size of 100 persons offshore

Sajeusab Software Services Pvt. Ltd.
Nov 2000 - Mar 2003Founder & DirectorBusiness Head, leading P&L, spearheading delivery for India operations, with peak strength of 50. Led business development & project execution for Mobile, ERP & Sales automation for products & services in Belgium

Microsoft
Apr 2003 - Dec 2014Leading P&L, having topline of $90M with a team of 500 in India, Europe, APAC, Middle East and US. Customers included large multi-billion-dollar fortune 500 companies in Automotive, BFSI, Government, Publishing and Healthcare domain Group Manager and Regional IT Head for Microsoft Internal IT managing large IT solution teams
Practice Director for Cloud, IoT and Data Analytics practice
May 2007 - Dec 2014Group Manager
Apr 2003 - May 2007

Virtusa
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018Vice President, BPM Asia Practice Head for India, Colombo and AsiaManaging Independent P&L, delivering top line of $100M, managing team of 2000 across India & Sri Lanka. Additionally, responsible for incubation of IBM BPM and JBPM practices. Customers include AIG, S&P, Sompo Japan, WellCare, NYL, UHG, BT, JPMC, Citi and AMEX

Microsoft
Mar 2018 - nowSr Director Delivery and Architecture, ASIADelivered a pre-sales of nearly $50M, delivered against a $100M portfolio, built and developed a high-performance architect team in the Azure space
Licenses & Certifications
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Accessibility in Action
Microsoft AccessibilityMar 2020 - View certificate

CSQA
QAI Global InstituteSept 1998 - View certificate

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
MicrosoftOct 2024 - View certificate

Prosci® Change Management for Managers Online
ProsciJun 2021 - View certificate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
MicrosoftJul 2020 - View certificate

AZ 900 Azure fundamentals
MicrosoftMay 2019 - View certificate

AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design
Microsoft - View certificate

AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
MicrosoftJul 2020 - View certificate

Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Project Management InstituteAug 2005 - View certificate

DP-201 Designing an Azure Data Solution
MicrosoftJun 2020
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