Vikas Rai Sharma

Over 20 years of diversified experience in Banking, Pharmaceutical, Publishing, Energy, Supply Chain, Digital Media domain leading and managing cross functional distributed teams in a matrix, functional environment with recent 8+ years in leading Financial Crimes functions for sanction platforms and minimizing regulatory and compliance risks. 15+ years in planning, architecture, solution designing, and delivering full life cycle implementation of multiple medium to large scale (~$5MM) time sensitive application development/integration/re-engineering/platform migration using JAVA/J2EE Web technologies. Proficiency in applying DevOps strategies. Proven strength to achieve results within budget, scope and time. Appx. 5 years in Pharmaceutical Global manufacturing and health care ensuring GRC processes, cGMP, 21 CFR Part 11 FDA regulations across API and Drug capacity planning and forecasting. Strong 12+ years of business and data analysis experience in data definitions, data quality, data acquisition, defining business need, analyzing change impact on existing environment, making to-be recommendations, and determining the criteria for validating software functionality and usability. Proficient in influencing, documentation, and communicating everyone's interest and participation at highest level. Instrumental in identifying, recommending, implementing development plan, solving complex problems, and training needs of stakeholders. 6+ years in coaching, mentoring, and encouraging Agile culture & practices. Skilled in implementing Agile scrum framework. Experience in reporting initiatives and projects to Sr Executives, Sr. Vice presidents, Director, CEO level people. Proficiency in MS Excel, Powerpoint, MS Project, Visio, PMO, PL/SQL, SharePoint, JIRA. 5+ years in implementing CMMi5 software quality processes and standards and improving the software and product development processes. Profound 10+years competency in handling onsite-offshore teams, socializing teams, user trainings, Live system Transition, maximizing ROI, writing RFI/RFP proposals, Energizing strategic objectives, software vendor evaluation and selection, and SOW contracts.