Kalpesh Patel
Manager Automation and AI Solutions
- Role
- IT Manager Automation and Ai Solutions at General Mills
- Location
- Mumbai, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kalpesh Patel
Over 25 years of IT leadership experience in sectors including Consumer Goods…
Experience
IT Manager Automation and Ai Solutions
May 2017 — Present · Mumbai, IN
Leading a 20+ members cross-functional technology and product teams covering 5 domains at General Mills: Supply Chain, Sales, Finance, Corporate, and Technology. Managing 5 strategic and 20 operational projects, leading to a US$10 million margin saving through process improvements and tech modernization using AI, Automation, Cloud, Data, and Visualization. Spearheaded the transformation of 35 legacy Dot Net enterprise apps to the cloud for improved scalability & performance, along with modernizing code, data, and dashboards to support updated cloud applications. Led the program management for GM’s supply chain and trade systems, managing over 25 in-house custom applications, providing 24/7 ITSM support with over 97% SLA compliance. Headed the implementation of a custom project lifecycle tool integrating Waterfall and Agile methodologies, resulting in improved documentation and robust governance model increasing project success rates by 30%. Strong vendor management and negotiation skills have been instrumental in managing the RFP of the Low Code Workflow and Process Mining tools, potentially saving US$ over 3 fiscals. Championed an early career internship program alongside a differential lateral recruitment strategy, increasing hiring efficiency by 20%.
Education
SIGCOE, Mumbai University
Bachelors of Engineering, Computers
1997 — 2000
Bombay Institute of Technology
Diploma in Computer Technology, Computers
1994 — 1997
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS)
Management, MIM
2007 — 2009
Sir Cawasjee Jehangir High School
SSC, School
1982 — 1994
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Management Development Program, Information Technology
Skills
- .net
- Asp.net
- Wcf
- C#
- IT Service Management
- Javascript
- Requirements Analysis
- Java
- Enterprise Mobility
- Business Analysis
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Pre-Sales
- Business Development
- Sharepoint
- Management
- Business Intelligence
- Project Management
- Databases
- Sql
- Software Development
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