Himanshu Desai

Visionary, execution-oriented leader with global experience, deep business acumen. Drives innovative technology strategies and manages entire software and services product lifecycle. Demonstrated leadership in starting and scaling new organizations to achieve optimal financial, operational and market success. Adept at quickly understanding new products, technologies and customers. * Direct Client Engagements: Multimillion dollar transactions. Public speaking with Analysts, Press and at Industry and IBM events to audiences of 500+ with a mix of CxOs and senior architects and developers. Critical situation management of small and large enterprise clients. Improve Customer Satisfaction (NPS, User Experience). * Technology Commercialization: Competitive assessment for IBM Services Platform with Watson (ISPW) and forward recommendations and execution to go to 200+ enterprise clients. Established business process to evaluate and monetize new technology ideas. Identified and executed major acquisition. * Technical and Business Management: Leader in the Software and Services IT space across marketing, sales, development and support, managing the roadmap and life cycle of Billion dollar+ annual revenue portfolio. * Organizational and Team Leadership: Executed large multi-million dollar software design and development projects with 350+ global cross-functional direct reports from bootstrap to global launch and support. Built 300+ cross-functional team from ground-up in India, developing, delivering and selling technology services. Former Roles: Director Global Strategy, Alliance and Product Management, NW Services Director CTO & Sales Enablement Director Strategy & Marketing, Information Management & Analytics Software Program Director, Product Strategy, Ecosystem, Development and Marketing Program Manager, Competitive Intelligence & Technical Sales Senior Software Development Manager, Product Development & Support Prior Senior SW Programmer roles at AT&T Bell Labs and NCR/Teradata Technology Areas: Cloud – Public, Private, Hybrid, Multi Cloud (AWS, Azure, IBM), Networking, Cloud Broker and Management, Digital Workplace, End User Services, VMWare, RedHat OpenShift, Containers, Kubernetes, Data Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI / Ops), Analytics and Automation, IT Services Platform with Watson, Resiliency, Orchestration, Provisioning, SRE, Dev / Ops (CI / CD, Agile development), SDE (SDC, SDN, SDS), ITIL, IT Service Management, UNIX, Linux, OpenSource Contact - [email protected]