Kallol Biswas

About Kallol Biswas

Progressive 23 yrs. in IT | Managing over $100M in revenues through advisory consulting and managed services delivery ~~ Highlights Progressive experience of 23 years, managing over $100M in revenues through advisory consulting and managed services delivery. Business value driven technology leader spearheading large digital, cloud transformation & modernization programs from holistic people, process, and technology perspective. Technology Thought leader with big-picture mindset, adept at leading cross-functional teams to drive business to IT KPIs. Expertise in consultative sales, creating practice offering and managing partner eco-system to ensure delivery readiness. Experienced in building, curation and productization of IPs to enable platform-based solution delivery at scale. Expertise backed by hands-on experience with technologies involving full stack development, middleware, and integrations, closely working with Infrastructure stack.** Key Programs Led ** Platform (IP) and Partners driven solution framework for Application Portfolio Rationalization to derive holistic people (upskill), process (target operating model) and technology (cloud readiness) for a large US Based Consumer Electronics Retailer, for an IT landscape involving 800+ on-premises applications, increasing assessment efficiency by 37% and reducing cost of assessment by 25%. Legacy Modernization Business Case and Build (in Cloud) vs Buy Analysis for one of USA’s leading food distribution clients, involving 140K lines of legacy COBOL code on Tandem platform. Subsequently Order & Warehouse Management systems were modernized partially going to AWS and some features were replaced by COTS and SaaS to reduce operational cost by 40%, increase time-to-market by 15% and improve Customer Experience by 50%. Cloud (Azure) Transformation Strategy & 4-year staggered migration roadmap for one of Largest US Telco service provider, for 3572 business applications on approx. servers, to reduce resource consumption and increase dynamic elasticity. Overall, 40% reduction in TCO and 35% productivity increase through automation through operation stack for self-service & self-heal. Cloud Transformation Strategy and Migration Planning to Microsoft Azure Cloud for Fortune 100 Consumer Goods company, for an IT landscape involving 600+ legacy applications hosted across 1600 servers, to reduce TCO by 30%, and improve operational efficiency by 25% in first wave of implementation, thereby enabling reinvestment of savings into digital transformation initiatives.

Experience

1. Consulting Partner - Cloud Transformation, Strategy & Advisory

   Wipro

   Sep 2021 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   Partner with client CxOs and Senior Leadership to shape up their strategy, roadmap and engagement plan for their cloud transformation and modernization initiatives with targeted business outcomes such as agility, simplification, operating cost reduction, regulatory compliance, and product centricity. Created vision and strategy for Cloud Strategy, Advisory for Transformation Practice, and leading it for 14 business verticals in Americas as a portfolio with revenue budget of $2 million advisory business and $10+ millions of transformation service delivery. Strategized and developed a Cloud Transformation Reset plan for an American multinational consumer electronics retailer. Leveraged 70% of their previous discovery data which saved more than millions in dollars and 4-5 months in time. Enriched discovery data with an industry leading partner solution to create business case and migration plan with 0-5% projected business disruption. Solution involved Wipro IP, partner solutions and 3rd party collaborations to cover people, process & technologies transformation. Led Legacy Code Analysis for one of largest US Food Distribution companies, created Business Case for Cloud, Build (Rewrite)-vs- Buy (SaaS), AWS MAP Assessment to secure financial incentives. For client’s Order Management Systems and Warehouse Management Systems, 140K lines of legacy code were modernized partially going to AWS and some features were replaced by COTS and SaaS to reduce operational cost by 40%, increase time-to-market by 15% and improve Customer Experience by 50%. Led multi phased legacy modernization program (Mainframe to AWS) for a leading student loan servicer managing nearly $100 billion in total assets across 4 million customers, targeted at achieving 50% faster loan acquisition, 40% improvement in CSAT, 50% reduction in TCO, 30%-40% improvement in operational efficiency, and mitigating technology obsolescence.

Education

• Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS

  Master of Science, Computational Intelligence

• University of Connecticut

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  2026

• International Islamic University Chittagong

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering