Rupal Thakkar Mudholkar

Experience

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  Tata Infotech Limited

  Jul 1996 - Jan 2006

  Associate Consultant

  Business Systems Analyst at National City Bank Cleveland, OH, USAPeople Leader - Project Manager for multiple projects in Retail customers at TCS, IndiaBusiness Systems Analyst at GE Plastics, NetherlandsDeveloper and Business Systems Analyst at GE Appliances, Louisville, KY, USA

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  National City Bank

  Jan 2003 - Apr 2007

  Lead Business Analyst

  - Worked in the Channels and Core banking domain on various enterprise initiatives, Wire Transfers and Electronic Funds Transfer.- Requirements Management and Test Co-ordination using Rational tools. Led the first pilot project combining Six Sigma and Scrum methodology- End to end implementation experience in large projects.- People Leader - Led a team of business analyst for Core Renewal programCertificationsSix Sigma Green BeltRUP Process Certification

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Feb 2006 - Nov 2008

  Associate Consultant

  Lead Business Systems Analyst- Requirements Management for large Basel II Analytics implementation for a large European BankRequirements Management, Scrum, Datawarehouse and Analytics, Basel II implementation - Led the scrum team as the proxy customer voice/functional lead for offshore team and enabled the first onsite offshore Agile Scrum for TCS and customer team of Business analyst- People Leader - Led a team of business analyst for the program

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  HTC Global Services Inc.

  Dec 2008 - Jul 2009

  Consultant

  Banking and Financial Services (FSI) PracticePresales and Technology Excellence Industry Solutioning

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jan 2010 - Dec 2017

  Senior Consultant

  Jan 2017 to Dec 2017 - Business Relationship Manager/Account Executive for Budget Airline CustomerTrusted advisor understanding business challenges and addressing them leveraging people process and technology services, business process outsourcing, Analytics. People Leader - Leading and coaching cross-functional teams across Melbourne/India/PhilippinesJul 2014 to Dec 2016 - IBM Technology Lead - ANZ IBM Channel Management, Technology/Presales Lead for IBM Software Unit for customer success in TCS ANZ region across all Solution areasEvangelised Watson/Cognitive services for AI/ML, Bluemix for Cloud PaaS, Softlayer for Cloud IaaS, Integration/APIM , cloud native apps, DevOps, SAFe Program Coach enabling SAFe Agile certifications across TCSLeveraged the key pillars of Customer, Partners, Competency and Community, Competitive Benchmarking, Internal/External Branding, Analyst relations, Repeatable IP/offerings creation for customer success and business acceleration Jun 2010 to May 2014 - Worldwide Technology Lead for IBM Information Management and Analytics/AI/ML Solution areaLed the TCS business and customer success for IBM Information Management and Analytics and IBM Big Data.Managing the key business pillars of Customer, Partners, Competency and Community, Competitive Benchmarking, Internal/External Branding, Analyst relations, Repeatable IP/offerings creationPeople leader - Leading and coaching a team of cross-functional architectsTechnology leader for a community of 8000+ associatesSolution owner for industry solutions and Technology accelerators for IBM Data. Analytics and AI/MLIBM Channel ManagementSpeaker at IBM Global Conferences and IBM Customer Advisory BoardsCertificationsUNSW Leadership ProgramTCS Leadership Development programScaled Program CoachScaled AgilistIBM Cloud CertificationTOGAF CertificationGivingProud Rotarian in India contributing to various Youth initiatives. Youth Director Show less

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  Microsoft

  Jan 2018 - now

  • Led a team of Apps, Infra, Data and AI Cloud Solution Architects at Microsoft in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, guiding customers through people, process, and technology for successful outcomes. • Implemented strategies to enable successful outcomes for customers in the retail sector using Azure, driving business growth and customer satisfaction, incubating AI implementations. Led Secure Future Initiative for Security First Mindset.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions for customers, showcasing the value of Microsoft's cloud services. Show less FastTrack for Azure is customer facing arm of Azure engineering It takes a solution centric approach where engineers help customers and partners accelerate business transformation and time to value by providing best practice engineering guidance. It also provides engineering support to Azure Migrate and modernise Program alongside partnersTrusted Advisor for PaaS workloads - AppDev, Data and AI, IoT and large cross-solution Digital Transformation projectshttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/programs/azure-fasttrack/CertificationsAzure Data FundamentalsWomen Rising Leadership ProgramDnI Women in CXP Asia Lead FY22 - Revived the Asia Community with global collaboration with local outlook, culminating in Women in CXP follow the sun conference to support the community and encourage informed allyship. FY23 - Active member Asian ERG FY22 - Melbourne Branch LeadFY23 - Chief of StaffGivingFY22 - ABCN co-lead for Melbourne branch to help mentor students from under-privileged schools. I introduced the first STEM program - Innovate to encourage students to consider STEM subjectsSTEM Advocate Show less Azure Apps Solution Sales Specialist/Trusted Customer AdvisorHelping customers in their Digital Transformation journey leveraging App Innovation, App Modernisation, DevOps. Lead Qualification, cross-solution offerings extended with Data/AI/IoT/Blockchain/SAPSolution Sales, Trusted Customer Advisor, Partner identification for advanced workloads, Repeatable offering identification, Business Planning and Pipeline management, Active Collaboration with relevant Microsoft groups for cross-solution offerings like SAP Mobility, Tool based App led Solution Assessment and partners for customer successEnvision and Validation of the solution with help of Technical Sales and partners for commit and customer successCertificationsAzure FundamentalsM365 FundamentalsD365 FundamentalsAzure Data FundamentalsGivingSTEM AdvocateABCN Mentor for GoIT4Girls programProud Rotarian contributing to various Community initiatives. Show less

  • Victorian Branch Leader

    May 2023 - now

  • Cloud Customer Success Leader - Azure Retail

    Nov 2022 - now

  • FastTrack for Azure Program Manager, Azure Engineering at Microsoft

    Sept 2019 - Nov 2022

  • Digital Tranformation Specialist - Azure App Innovation Sales Global Black Belt

    Jan 2018 - Sept 2019