Himanshu Desai

About 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 ServicesDirector CTO & Sales EnablementDirector Strategy & Marketing, Information Management & Analytics SoftwareProgram Director, Product Strategy, Ecosystem, Development and MarketingProgram Manager, Competitive Intelligence & Technical SalesSenior Software Development Manager, Product Development & SupportPrior Senior SW Programmer roles at AT & T Bell Labs and NCR/TeradataTechnology 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, OpenSourceContact - h••••••@yahoo.com

Experience

1. Global VP & Sr Partner, Strategic Business Development & Third Party Advisors

   IBM

   Jul 2020 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Global Services and Software Executive | Product & Services Management | Business Development | M&A | Technology Commercialization

Education

• University of Miami Herbert Business School

  Master's degree, Management of Technology

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  Master's degree, Computer Science

• Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar

  Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering

Skills

• Integration
• Strategy
• Product Management
• Competitive Strategies
• Business Process
• Solution Architecture
• IT Business Strategy
• Demand Generation
• Systems Management
• Enterprise Marketing
• Strategic Partnerships
• IT Solutions
• Marketing Management
• Program Management
• Strategic Sourcing
• IT Outsourcing
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Development
• Itil Process
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Middleware
• Software Product Management
• Enterprise Content Management
• Information Management Solutions
• Business Process Management
• Saas
• Business Alliances
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise IT Strategy
• Cloud Computing
• IT Business Management
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Channel Partners
• IT Strategy
• Solution Selling
• Sales Enablement