Ashok Sukumar

Background

About Ashok Sukumar

Practitioner of IT consultancy around business strategies roadmaps, service design and support. Experience journey of 22 years in IT Domains of manufacturing, retail, banking and finance sectors. Career evolution started from Technical support, Service delivery, Business analysis, Sales and Ent Solution design. Core matured areas include IT strategy development, sales and architecture governance by frameworks. Expertise in managing varying scales of programmes involving tech transformations for geo spread enterprises with on-premise and cloud solutions on a zero trust security lens. Specialised with planning and execution of mergers, acquisition and diversifications of businesses via IT assessment deriving recommendations along cost estimates and timelines. Manage senior stakeholders with reports, roadmap, ROI and advisory on benefits, cost optimisation along Capex and Opex models. Narrate future tech trends like Cyrpto and Metaverse engineering in context of the industry market. Key skillsets and accomplishments- Worked over 90+RFPs producing solutions for Digitalisation and transformation requirements, lead bids end to end along commercial derivations at a success ratio of 40%- App modernisation and optimise complex retro environments in conscious of security and resilience - Draw Data driven designs, consolidation of service hosting and cloud transformations for global clients - Anticipation of latest technology evolutions towards business strategy ( AI, Blockchain, VR, IoT etc)- Track and report KPIs, OKRs towards futuristic roadmap of organisation's strategy by agreed metrics- Service level aligned Infra Architect designing and address tech gaps with resilience for critical businesses - Implementation of process automations and sys integration for quicker 'time to market'- Managed a team of over 70+ towards defined objectives through a collaborative culture establishment- Apply data science and analytics to create persona for marketing and business development- Standards and pattern sketch on infra, security and compliance artefacts in line with business governance