Prashant Yagnik

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ABOUT PRASHANT YAGNIK

Digital services Leader with strong business acumen and 15+ years of international experience in Banking and Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Telecom and technology product organizations. Blockchain Council certified Blockchain Expert in developing strategy and design for blockchain solutions. IT Services Leadership: Oversaw IT services and project portfolio management with budgets of $5 to $10M for multi-site global delivery. Managed client and vendor relationships and governance. Led business driven IT initiatives across domains including eCommerce, SAP PLM, AML, KYC, Blockchain. People Leadership: Led direct and indirect reports of up to 60 employees. Coached and mentored teams to achieve high-performance results and nurtured and developed several employees into progressively senior-level roles. Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management: Led numerous highly visible complex projects involving cross-functional stakeholders, both internal and external, to successful completion. Stakeholders included Loblaws PLM, PC Blue Menu Restage, Best Buy EAI, and Goldman Sachs Global Securities Database. Business Transformation Tools and Skills: Experienced in multiple frameworks to structure and solve business problems using MECE issue trees, hypothesis, data analysis, and synthesis; balanced scorecards to map strategy to project execution; IT SDLC using Waterfall, Agile Scrum, and Product centric delivery; OOAD, SOA, Microsoft Azure Blockchain Service and Workbench, AI Machine Learning, KNN, Deep Learning, NLP, ANN, CNN using Python, IBM WebSphere, CD/CI Pipeline, C++, RDBMS/SQL; proficiency in MS Office tools: MS Project Online, Confluence, Servicenow, JIRA, MS Word, Advanced Excel using Pivots, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook.