Uday Lad

About Uday Lad

I am a global enterprise architect and IT infrastructure leader with over 25 years of…

Experience

1. Global Infrastructure Services Owner

   Corning Incorporated

   Oct 2019 — Present

   Coordinate the work of architecture, engineering, and technology support teams of 50+ members throughout major digital transformation initiatives, that includes an Infrastructure transformation, Edge site modernization, ERP transformation (S4/HANA) and manufacturing modernization M4.0 transformations •Provided technical leadership, diligent oversight and influencing skills to deliver on multi-cloud execution plan for a detailed understanding of 730+Application landscape, classification of Workload types, creation of cloud placement criteria and development of Multi-Cloud High level designs and target state placement analysis that drove capacity forecasts and full Business case •Defined and instituted Application Portfolio Rationalization strategy based upon requirements and capabilities of business units. Decreased number of applications and related support costs while increasing business alignment advantages •Lead the application migration initiative that includes SAP and PeopleSoft to the multi-cloud platform through application migration framework and methodology. Lead the effort for selection of strategic hosting platform and migration of company’s most critical SAP S4/HANA ERP systems to Cloud (AWS) •Lead efforts to stabilize global database operations that are deployed at 4 data centers and 75+ manufacturing sites and develop cloud-native database technology solutions that significantly advance business growth across an organization. Improve the performance of the enterprise database organization by insourcing database management activities from an external managed service provider to an internal database management practice •Responsible for budgets within department and resource planning to meet project objectives. Produced more than $4.25M in savings on software/hardware licensing by negotiating agreements with Microsoft and Oracle, while also developing cost containment strategies for software license optimization and entitlement

Education

• The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

  MS, Master in Computer Applications

  1989 — 1992

• The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

  Bachelor's degree, Mathematics

  1985 — 1988

Skills

• IT Management
• Sharepoint
• Visio
• Architecture
• Software Development
• Data Migration
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Requirements Gathering
• Solution Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Integration
• Enterprise Software
• Databases
• Data Architecture
• Oracle Rac
• Virtualization
• Big Data
• Pmp
• Etl
• Business Analysis
• Business Intelligence
• Eai
• Business Continuity
• Project Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Application Architecture
• Infrastructure
• Pl/Sql
• Master Data Management
• Technical Architecture
• Security
• IT Service Management
• Vmware
• Itil
• Requirements Analysis
• Data Warehousing
• Database Design
• Performance Tuning
• Vendor Management
• Unix