Farid Vastani

Experience

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  Hartford Life

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  BI BOBJ Architect Advisor - Consultant
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  Washington Mutual Bank

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2007

  BI Project Manager | Enterprise Reporting Principal Architect

  At this time, I was a key contributor in driving transition to a shared BI infrastructure. Project managed implementation of the extranet solution. Chief Deployment Expert on thin/thick BI enterprise products. Laid foundation for creation of a BI Center of Excellence (BI COE).

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  BP Amoco Marketers Association (BPAMA)

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2001

  BI Architect Advisor | SME
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  VSCareers

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

  Chief Information Officer (CIO)

  On behalf of this former technical services provider, I served in a dual role as IT infrastructure leader and technology optimization consultant for a diversity of clients. Advanced and modernized company’s internal infrastructure to optimize organization's ability to guide customers in technology innovation. Landed and fostered trusted business relationships, defining IT objectives such as business efficiency enhancements, digital footprint optimization, strengthening infrastructure and cybersecurity, business continuity efforts, customer experience, and IT risk and compliance. Presented compelling proof of concepts to promote suitable tools, driving all-in-one cost-effective and user-friendly solutions. Managed vendor relationships and fostered partnerships with clients such as Citrix, SAP and VMware to stimulate additional business opportunities and to acquire top-tier technical talent.Key Achievements♦ Introduced new service offering providing in-depth assessment of client’s existing network infrastructure. Identified optimal product solutions and strategies to advance security, reduce costs and improve resiliency. Show less

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  Elevance Health

  Jan 2009 - now

  Chief Business Intelligence Executive Advisor

  In my current role, I'm innovating and executing a unified Business Intelligence (BI) cloud strategy and advancing the application of AI through revolutionary generative AI tools for 1000s of businesses within Elevance Health. Manage a 10-member team and lead cross-functional teams across enterprise technology infrastructure, network engineering, application development, and IT audit/compliance in advancing a streamlined, distributed, secure, and highly scalable network. Drive BI technology-related procurement activities to acquire cost-effective, high-quality tools like SAP, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, MS PowerBI and Looker. Enhance IT governance, risk management, and compliance, ensuring data and application security. Key Achievements♦ Championed integration of 1000s of providers access points into a single source of truth, realizing massive process improvements and a multimillion-dollar cost savings. ♦ Realized a $2M enterprise infrastructure cost savings through centralization of data analytics and incorporation of an AI-enabled, ThoughtSpot Cloud, to a hosted and managed SaaS offering on AWS and Google platforms. ♦ Drove cutting-edge Client Information Insight initiative, delivering custom prebuilt reports within a sub-5-second timeframe. Captured $100K hardware cost savings and reduced potential financial implications through data-driven financial insights. ♦ Established BI governance enterprise framework through creation of a 70-page BI reference architecture document. ♦ Improved monthly system availability rate from ~75% to 99.99% through advancement of business continuity and disaster recovery plans.♦ Saved $300K+ in project expense and reached a 90% performance improvement by leading the transition from Waterfall to Agile development methodology.♦ Reduced expense, enhanced reliability and performance by leading the initial transition from on-premise to the IBM cloud for core clinical, provider, and membership data applications. Show less