Alex Aggarwal

About Alex Aggarwal

I’m a technology executive with over two decades of experience leading enterprise…

Experience

1. Sr Manager Sr Enterprise Architect Leader

   General Motors

   Oct 2012 — Present

   Managing Solution/Domain/Enterprise Architects and responsible for: 1) Migration of applications to cloud-native to private Kubernetes and to Microsoft Azure Cloud as well as High-Performance Computing (HPC) using various technologies such as Quarkus, GraalVM, Spring Boot.Net 2) Providing governance over the Open Source Software. Designed Open Source Software (OSS) Policy to reduce IP risk to GM and implemented an OSS process from scratch that lead to a reduction of approval of OSS software from 6 months to 2 weeks. 1600+ OSS components approved using this process which involves monthly meetings with CIO and GM Legal. 3) Introduction of new software including processes for operations, training, and support a) IBM Infosphere Data Replication (IIDR) from Mainframe to Mid-range which can be used by all the future GM applications. Lead effort to implement IIDR by reducing data replication time from 3-6 hrs. to 15 minutes by replicating only change data at near real-time b) Oracle Golden Gate for replication data between GPSC Data Hub and EDW and became an alternate model for EDW IFS flat file interface (d) Data Center Transformation Projects for GPSC Data Hub – consisting of 10TB business-critical operational Dataware-House from Auburn Hills to Warren and POS-IA from Toronto Datacenter to Warren.

Education

• University of Toronto

  MASc, Computer Engineering

• Pathways CIO Leadership Program

  IT Leadership Development Program, Information Technology Executive Leadership

• Gujarat University

  BE, Computers

• University of Chicago

  MBA, Finance

Skills

• Project Portfolio Management
• Consulting
• Outsourcing
• Mobile Technology
• Mobile Applications
• Enterprise Software
• VP of Technology
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Cloud Computing
• Business Intelligence
• Consultancy
• Enterprise Architecture
• Soa
• Pre-Sales
• Software Development
• Mobile Design
• Solution Architecture
• Ibm Websphere Commerce
• Business Analysis
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• IT Strategy
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Cloud Security
• Change Management
• Scrum
• Sharepoint
• Integration
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
• Project Management
• Cloud Data Center
• Vendor Management
• Sap R/3
• Sdlc
• IT Management
• Strategy
• Agile Methodologies
• Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• Erp