Vivek Gupta

Leading various digitalisation initiatives in the company - products, processes, customer services while empowering people for the digital world. - work with Product management, Product development, Customer care, Marketing / Sales and IT to set the digital foundation - Develop the digital strategy to support the strategic vision - Predictive analytics of machine data to improve availability, reliability and bring value to customers

Led the IT Operational and integration activities for Digital Engineering and Project execution applications in the Gas business of GE Power, Switzerland. Received recognition from senior leadership - ensured business continuity during initial and crucial period of integration. - Support customers on Digitalization – Industrial internet PREDIX, IoT / Industry 4.0 and Brilliant factories - Two-member team for IT Integration activities following a business acquisition in Korea

Led the Merger and Acquisition (M&A) IT activities in Power BU for integration with GE and the carve-out of Transport business. Managed IT strategic program for Application Portfolio Optimization in the Alstom group. Achieved 16 Million € savings on IT Operational cost in the Alstom group over a 2 year period through rationalization of Application landscape, Data archiving and decommissioning of 250 applications

Managed customer relationship, KPI and IT Service quality of all applications used in the Power BU. Reviewed and negotiated IT Budget, and service catalog of all IT delivery centers worldwide. + Closed all IT Internal Control Questionnaire (ICQ Audits / COSO Framework) on time and at acceptance level + Managed centralization of IT services in regional service support centers – improved cost efficiency

P&L IT Budget responsibility of 6Million €. Led the Project and 24x7 Service delivery of Mission / Business critical applications in domains like HR, CRM, Project Management, Supply chain, Supplier management, Field services, Quality and Integration with ERP. Established and coached the global team of 16 people in Europe, Asia and Americas, and 4 External / Outsourcing suppliers. Addressed Organizational, local HR, Cultural and Administrative challenges

Delivered Mission and Business applications in Quality, Project Management and Document Management Domains supporting customers globally. + P&L IT Budget responsibility of 3.3 Million € + Recruited 5 people, and led the team of 16 people for application support and the service desk with committed SLA service delivery

- Product manager for Lotus Hosted Management System (early generation cloud), support the sales activities - Led 2 project members to deploy new messaging platform for German Bank, Holcim and Atraxis / Swissair

Started as IT specialist at ABB in India. Moved to ABB Switzerland as IT specialist for Lotus Notes and IT server infrastructure

MBA in General Management.