Saugata Das

About Saugata Das

Saugata is an Associate Partner, Business Sales & Delivery Executive with the IBM\'s Salesforce Global CoC and leads the solutioning for Salesforce Managed Services.Saugata is an IBM Executive Project Manager, IBM Certified Executive Consultant (Thought Leader) and IBM Certified Complex Program Manager and certified in Salesforce & all major Hyperscaler cloud platforms (IBM, Red Hat, AWS, Azure and Google).Saugata is also a global instructor for Complex Program Management (CPM) & Project Management Sink or Swim (SoS) courses and regularly conducts classes in India and other CICs.Saugata is an Economics graduate with an MBA degree in Finance and a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Computer Science.He is PMI PMP® certified since 2006.Specialties: • Pre-sales consulting, large deals support• Complex Program Management• Managing practices / projects & programs• Global Strategy and GTM enablement• Salesforce• Hybrid Cloud management• Cloud Computing and Platforms• Agile Development• Cognitive Education / Personalized Learning• Business Intelligence & Business Analytics• IT strategy, Cost Optimization Strategy, Cost Take-Out

Experience

1. Solution Architect & Global Solution Leader, Salesforce Global Coc

   IBM

   Feb 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   My current role is of a Solution Architect and Solution SME for Salesforce, leading the Solution & Go-to-market strategy for Salesforce Managed Services. I spearhead the pre-sales and solutioning arm of Global Salesforce Managed Services, managing end-to-end solution development, RFP/RFQ responses, and supporting opportunities in hybrid cloud application development and managed services, with a strong technical focus on Salesforce & Adobe and hyper-scaler platforms like AWS.

Education

• Patha Bhavan

  Senior Secondary School, Core Science, Statistics

  1989

• CMC Ltd.

  Post Grad. Course in Applied Computer Science, Computer Science

  1994

• St. Xavier's College

  B.Sc., Economics

  1992

• Ballygunge Govt. High School

  Secondary School, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, General Studies, Literature

  1984 — 1987

• University of Calcutta

  BSc., Economics

  1992

• Indian Institute Of Social Welfare and Business Management

  MBA, Finance

  1998

Skills

• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Adaptive Learning
• Erp
• Project Delivery
• Management
• Vendor Management
• Account Management
• Solution Architecture
• Project Portfolio Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Pmo
• IT Cost Optimization
• Pmp
• Business Intelligence
• Leadership
• Project Planning
• Project Management
• Big Data Analytics
• Business Process Design
• Strategy
• Quality Assurance
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
• Business Process Improvement
• Service Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Business Development
• Program Management
• Management Consulting
• IT Outsourcing
• Business Transformation
• Project Governance
• Transition Management
• Consulting
• People Management
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• Offshoring
• IT Strategy