Dinesh Hegde

I am an executive technology leader. I have an exceptional history of accomplishment in influential partnerships with business to create and deliver strategic solutions via international teams which deliver immediate value. I have experience in manufacturing, education, retail, supply chain, and healthcare industries. I have leadership experience with more than 50 staff, provide thought leadership to the businesses I work within, and I am recognized as a powerful creator and deliverer of enterprise technology strategies.Key strengths include:•Strategic development and re-engineering of business processes, collaborating with executives to define global standards, governance, and metrics which deliver operational excellence while permitting staff upskilling.•Unlocking the unique talents of IT professionals, creating, engaging, and motivating high-performance international teams which sharpen business planning, improve decision-making and create operational efficiencies.•Establishing and leading new business organizations that deliver first-of-a-kind IT solutions based on emerging technologies that transform business processes.•Bringing insights to business challenges from a variety of industries, facilitating the development and deployment of appropriate IT solutions through horizontal innovation as well as innate creativity.Some of my recent achievements include:•Piloting and implementing a SaaS cloud-based blockchain food safety and traceability project between my company, a client supermarket chain, and a supplier for 20 SKUs from 6 manufacturing plants, enhancing the company’s ability to recall products and so promote customer safety.•Establishing a solution using drones to investigate gas leaks in inhospitable areas of manufacturing plants, removing the need for hazardous plant inspections.•Envisioning and delivering on time an enterprise-class cloud-based mobile application to support retail services and operations across 4,600 client supermarket stores, centralizing prioritization of work of 900 field retail service merchandisers in real-time so achieving compliance with the supermarket’s measurement systems.Key skills:Organizational Leadership | Innovation and Creativity | Stakeholder Relationships | Operational Effectiveness | Planning and Execution | Thought Leadership | Talent Development | Enterprise Technology Strategies | Contract Negotiations | Business Acumen | ERP and Business Processes | Cloud Computing