Praveen Sharma

About Praveen Sharma

I am a seasoned technology leader with a proven track record of leading global teams to deliver critical business capabilities. I have led large organizations with 175+ colleagues around the globe and managed $25+ million budget to create product strategies, architecture, and to develop global capabilities. I have successful track record of leading transformation – Agile adoption, DevOps, and organization redesign.Extensive experience leading and managing large, complex payments initiatives globally – EMV migration, contactless and PIN rollout, multiple card launch initiatives globally (metal cards, co-brands, etc). Worked closely with local market leaders to coordinate and plan the deliverables and rollout plans. I frequently work with senior leaders in both business and technology to create strategies to improve enterprise agility, provide consistent customer experience and improve business processes. Successful track record of leading organization wide initiatives by creating robust execution plan: CIO Digital Transformation - I drove enterprise wide DevOps/CICD adoption for more than 700+ application teams Created tools to enable always on/always available integration test environment Led reorganization initiative to transform silo based organizations into effective global organization Created centralized services to streamline business processes and provide consistent customer experience across channels (web, mobile, chat and internal portals)Led modernize effort to transform multiple legacy monolith application to cloud based Microservices architecture using modern tech stack and cloud technologies. I also led application rationalization effort to simplify application landscape by consolidating related functionality and eliminating market by market solution to create global solutions to streamline and simplify business processes and enable enhanced/consistent customer experience globally. A hands on technical leader always pushing the boundaries to create new, innovative solutions while modernizing existing platforms. Strong proponent of industry partnership and industry involvement to encourage a culture of learning and experimentation – onsite lab setup to experiment with payment devices (wearable payment band, inhouse payment device personalization, remote card issuance at Disney parks, QR codes etc.), Servicing using Amazon Alexa.

Experience

1. Engineering Director

   American Express

   Apr 2018 — Present · Phoenix, AZ, US

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  BE, Computer Science

  1987 — 1991

• Arizona State University

  MBA

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Alternative Investments
• Identity Management
• Resource Management
• Re-Engineering
• IT Strategy
• Investment Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Eai
• Governance
• Asset Managment
• Soa
• Business Analysis
• Risk Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Analytics
• Fixed Income
• Vendor Management
• Credit Cards
• Hedge Funds
• Equities
• Sdlc
• Series 7
• Solution Architecture