Padmanabh Yardi

About Padmanabh Yardi

Customer-centric technology leader with extensive global experience in driving change for enterprise applications and infrastructure across hospitality, travel, and electronic publishing industries. Broad experience leading transformative initiatives from conception to roll out across the company.Accomplished track record in leading and motivating culturally diverse and cross-functional global teams for operational excellence and a strong repeatable software delivery process with high human capital investment resulting in strong associate engagement scores within the company. Vast experience with vendor and contract negotiations including strategic sourcing and operational support, application development, cloud, and tools negotiations. Responsible for an annual IT budget of over $50M that includes application development, operations, and infrastructure support. Currently focused on leading the transformation and modernization of enterprise legacy batch-oriented applications to consume data in real-time, and migrating them from on-premise data centers to AWS cloud by using a digital factory model. Core Competencies:• Digital Transformation• IT Strategy and Planning• Strategic sourcing and Integration• DevSecOps and Cloud Computing• Business Intelligence, Data Analytics• Program and Portfolio Management• Vendor and Contract Management

Experience

1. Senior Vice President, Information Technology

   Host Hotels & Resorts

   Mar 2022 — Present

Education

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

  MS, Computer Science

  1989

• The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

  BS, Electrical Engineering

Skills

• Quality Assurance
• Business Analysis
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• IT Management
• Software Development
• Integration
• Program Management
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Hospitality
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• IT Strategy
• Crm
• Databases
• Outsourcing
• Business Intelligence
• Budgets
• Business Process
• Management
• Team Leadership
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Customer Satisfaction
• Budgeting
• Hotels
• Revenue Analysis
• Information Technology
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