Rakesh Kumar

About Rakesh Kumar

Strategic IT Delivery Leader with 25+ years’ experience driving digital transformation…

Experience

1. Delivery Executive Head

   Capgemini

   Nov 2016 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Executing Digital transformation programs in BFSI for multiple verticals for software development, maintenance and support in multiple technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Gen AI over cloudSpecialized skill in transitioning, establishing & Executing large and complex engagements with various contractual models Fix Fee, T&M, Managed Service and Capacity based by implementing various matrices, SLA’s and KPI’s Liaised with business and IT stakeholders, built relationship, reviewed engagement performance and improved client satisfaction by 14%(from 82 to 96%). Identifying new business opportunity, lead pursuit (RFP), deal review and contributed to COE/practice to account growth. Managing accounts financials, P&L, billing, contribution margins, revenue forecast & targets, Accruals and overall financial KPI’s. Achieved Growth by amplifying value adds, sales through delivery, building high performance teams thru engineering excellence practices. Built competencies at various levels Developers, Architects, Managers and Delivery Managers to build cross technical & functional team. Driving continuous improvements by processes improvement, automation and innovation. Applauded track record of defining and executing strategic and innovative initiatives that deliver rapid impacts on operations, forward planning, team performance, regulatory compliance and deploy rapid solutionsAchievements Ensuring quality and reduced defect by 30% in production. Improved Contribution Margin by 6-8% YOY. Improved team productivity and velocity by 25% per year by building capabilities & excellence. Liaised with multiple client stakeholder and improved client satisfaction score from 85% to 97% Transformed 75% team in cross-technical skill T-shaped/Pie-shaped and created DevOps BAU. Increased 40% faster deployment of product/features on production. Saved target cost by 25% by implementing CI/CD and Automations Grew account 20% of revenue YOY since 2022.

Education

• NIIT

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  1994 — 1997

• University of Rajasthan

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Chemisty, Maths

  1991 — 1994

• Maharshi Dayanand University

  Master's degree, Computer Engineering

Skills

• Agile/ Scrum, Rup, Waterfall Methodology
• Soa
• Business Object, Active-X, Com, Olap, Dts/Ssis, Uml, Html
• Client/Server, Web and Distributed Environments
• .net (C#, Vb.net, Asp.net), Vb 6.0, Vc++, J2ee, Asp
• Microsoft Office
• .net Remoting
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Access
• Soa, Data Modeling, Iis, Ms Visio, Ms Project, Ms Office,
• .0, T- Sql, Pl/Sql, Web Services, .net Remoting,
• Wcf, Wfp
• Sql Server 2000/2005/2008, Sybase, Oracle and Ms Access
• Asp.net