Dinesh Deshpande

Background

About Dinesh Deshpande

Accomplished & goal-oriented IT Professional delivering Application Portfolio Optimizations, Digital transformations, Cloud migrations, OCI migrations, Managed services AMS engagements, Application Upgrades, GTM strategies and Account mining for YoY growth • Diverse experience of Delivery management for 15+ years,9+ years of Pre-sales Solution Architect and 2 years as Practice Operations management • Managed delivery of global distributed teams spread across geographies with 250+ associates rolling up • As a delivery management role Maintained and tracked traceability matrix for Requirements, Efforts, Budgets / Costs, Risk, SLA, Penalties, Profitability, Business Continuity Plan, RAID (Risk, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies) log and skill matrix. Managing Client interactions, Escalation and Periodic status reporting to key stakeholders through WSR, MBR and QBR. • Have repeatedly “made strategies happen” by deriving program goals from business objectives and translating the same to process & task /project level functional success factors. • As a Solution Architect - Developed Solutions based on various parameters such as Evaluation Criteria, Competition, Client Imposed constraints, pain areas, buyer values, Application Tiers, Support Coverage, engagement type, ARC / RRC, commercial parameters and any need of Application Portfolio optimization. Own estimates, Pyramids, YoY productivity targets, timelines and costing for multi tower solutions • Lead large proposals as Enterprise Solution Architect with multiple towers such as Infra, Application Development, Production Support, Application Portfolio Optimizations, and governance across towers for domains such as Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy and Utilities for US, Canada & Europe Clients • During solution, defined location strategy, Transition strategy, service levels, penalties, and its impact on client profitability • Worked onshore at client site -Delivery Lead in UK, Account Manager in USA and Pre-sales in Canada