Vishnu Chittem

About Vishnu Chittem

Throughout my career, I have excelled as a transformational leader, seasoned strategist, and efficiency driver with international business acumen, enterprise technology expertise, and a history of increasing enterprise performance and value. I create a competitive advantage for my employer (BD) through technology enablement and innovation to deliver business growth. In addition to using superior interpersonal skills, I respect people and embrace diversity to create a balanced organization.The depth of my background enables me to achieve seamless, scalable, and sustainable business growth for mid-to-large businesses across diverse industries. I have experience working with consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consulting services, manufacturing, electronics, and telecommunications. My proven results involved engineering and delivering revenue-propelling products, transforming teams to raise the bar in innovation and performance, and positioning organizations to originate, develop, optimize, and launch better technology solutions faster.As a leader, I have attracted, connected, and collaborated with my teams to deliver customer needs and focused on people development to drive desired outcomes. I attract and retain talent, create clarity and vision for people, promote transparent communication, and empower people to make decisions. My persuasive nature allows me to accomplish objectives by gaining buy-in and creating forward momentum.Among my accomplishments is achieving a $15M-$20M per year cost reduction on application development through vendor services optimization. I eliminated $2M in daily sales losses and realized a $200K increase in daily enterprise productivity via technology transformation. During rapid growth, I helped streamline the acquisition of 43 global brands with zero business disruption. I rescued underperforming, at-risk initiatives and skyrocketed market competitiveness, business agility, and flexibility.My personal strengths involve transparency and decisiveness and working best in collaborative, dynamic, fast-paced, and matrix environments. I am motivated toward achieving results and have a passion for positioning enterprises to double global revenue and achieve market dominance.

Experience

1. VP, IT Enterprise Digital Applications and Architecture

   BD

   Nov 2019 — Present · NJ, US

   Established a strong technology backbone and scalable, sustainable platform that sharpened focus on key business priorities and business value. Enhanced the customer experience and trimmed costs through automated software solutions, and cognitive AI assistants initiatives that removed repetitive, manual tasks, simplified workflow and enabled human-machine partnership.Co-led teams on Digital transformation journey omnichannel, eCommerce, and marketing initiatives and debuted Adobe AEM, SAP Commerce Cloud, and analytics using Azure Data Lake. Led 180-degree organizational transformation for solution delivery and architecture that established clear roles and responsibilities, removed ambiguity, and instituted accountability.Improved portfolio prioritization capabilities and visibility of total IT spending by launching an operating model, governance, and portfolio categorization tool based on business value. Fueled operational stability and efficiencies by transforming supplier relationships into solid partnerships.* Propelled system uptime from 91% to 98%, slashed 131 priority downtimes to 28 in 2 years, and built an IT organization with stable environments.* Spearheaded the company’s cloud journey by sponsoring the first global technology initiative to migrate workloads into the Azure cloud.* Decreased application proliferation with end-state technology roadmaps.* On track to collapse current ERP footprint from 11-3-1 within 5 to 7 years by steering ERP (SAP S/4 HANA) strategy.* Helped enhance the team\'s work-life balance by setting up the overseas location strategy to support follow the sun model.

Education

• City University of New York

  MS, Computer Science

  1989 — 1991

Skills

• Process Improvement
• Management
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Sap Netweaver
• Business Intelligence
• Sap R/3
• Team Leadership
• Erp
• Business Process Improvement
• Abap
• Sap Bw
• Integration
• Program Management
• Leadership
• Sap Implementation
• Sap
• Strategy
• Business Process
• Sap Solutions
• Sap Erp
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
• Sap Products
• IT Strategy
• Master Data Management
• Databases