Sarma Gadepalli

About Sarma Gadepalli

An accomplished, results-driven Technology & Business leader with 30+ of experience in leading the engagements with Artificial Intelligence, Advance analytics, Quantum, Interactive Applications with Application Development and Enterprise Integration servicesLed over 50 cross industry Cognitive and Analytics solutions and implementations, to realize ~50 million USD solutions across Asia Pacific region Delivered over 15 million USD savings thru implementing Cognitive Claims across the major Global insurance P&C Customers.Close to a decade as a Large Deal Solution Architect/Leader led Pre-Sales & Solution design for Interactive Application Innovations and Management opportunities with Global FSS and Cross sector customers with over 200+ opportunities with 500M with majorly As Growth leader and Assets and Solutions lead generated a pipeline of over 50 million for the developed offerings and solutions via, Cognitive Claims, Cloud agnostics Framework one to any cloud and AI on Edge Solutions across the Globe (Idea- Develop- Offer- Deliver)Successful Collaboration with IBM Watson Research and Global Innovation Centre TX in creating industry compelling PoC’s/Demo’s using Artificial Intelligence, Advance Analytics, IoT and Block Chain Solutions for the US Major customer in FSS and cross sectorManaged accounts with over 100 resources distributed globally and worked in US and India (Ameriprise, American Express, GE CBSI, ABN AMRO etcLed the “Web development practice” with over and demonstrated Practice and competency building thru People and Technology initiativesAs an esteemed Member and Leadership team IBM Academy of Technology driving the major technology initiatives in the Cognitive and Analytics such as leading the Watson Partnership challenge and worked thru Start up CEO’s in developing the Cognitive Products using the Watson and helped BondEvalue in winning “ IBM Asia pacific Championship Award” and driving the joint offering cognitive Bond in to the markets thru FSS cloudAs an IBM Academy of Technology member and IBM Ambassador on the Board of Study for various colleges and mentoring 100 + students thru IBM Cognitive Projects and conducted a sessions and online sessions Insurance industry view of the on the Cognitive which is available on YouTubeMain Honors: o Member & Leadership Team - IBM Academy of Technology - Since 2017o Honour to be named in IBM Corporate Technology Recognition 2017 and 2019o Certified IBM Watson Mentor - Watson Business partner challenge TCS ExSell and TCS Ambassador Cops

Experience

1. Associate Partner Ai Analytics and Data & Chief Data Science Solutions and Platform Practice Lead

   IBM

   Feb 2015 — Present · Bangalore, IN

   Key Achievements• Led over 50 cross-industry Cognitive and Analytics solutions, realizing approximately $50 million in solutions across the Asia Pacific region.• Created a Conversation AI practice with 40 Data Scientists, delivering $15 million in Contact Center transformation solutions.• Delivered $15 million in savings through Cognitive Claims implementations for global insurance customers.• Led Pre-Sales & Solution design for 200+ opportunities with a total value of $500 million.• Developed offerings generating a pipeline of over $50 million, including AI-based Contact Center as a Service and Cognitive Claims Intelligent workflow.Notable Projects• Cognitive Claims Global Offering: Improved claims processing efficiency and reduced claim leakages, generating a pipeline of $25 million.• AI-based Contact Center Transformation: Implemented using Amazon Connect, improving agent productivity and call containment ratio, generating $15 million in solutions.• AI on Edge Solutions: Developed use cases for Turbine Anomaly Detection and Physical Security using supervised/unsupervised models.Skills and Expertise• Top Technical Skills:o AI-based Insurance Solutionso Contact Center Solutions using Amazon Connecto Computer Visiono NLP and Conversational AIo Predictive and Prescriptive Analyticso Cognitive Digitization

Education

• IIEST, Shibpur

  ME, Electrical

  1997 — 1999

• IE I

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and communication Engineering

  1991 — 1995

• Indira Gandhi National Open University

  PGDMM, Marketing/Marketing Management, General

Skills

• Program Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Machine Learning
• Business Process
• Management
• Pre-Sales
• Outsourcing
• Leadership
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Strategy
• IT Strategy
• Business Intelligence
• Cognitive Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Global Delivery
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture