Purva Joshi
Bundoora,VIC
Summary
I am an influential leader and culture carrier with 10+ years record of leadership experience helping companies achieve growth objectives by using technology as a catalyst. Expertise in overseeing large enterprise wide digital platform implementations, infrastructure development and management, application support and security optimization. Focused on satisfying customer needs through robust, innovative and forward-thinking solutions. Specialized in linking company's mission to IT strategy using people, process and technology.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Head of Information Technology
Vanguard Australia
08.2023 - Current
- Developed and implemented a Mobile IT strategy to achieve the organization's business objectives.
- Conducted research on emerging technologies and evaluated their potential benefits for the organization.
- Analyzed existing information systems and identified areas for improvement in terms of reliability, performance and scalability.
- Led and implemented observability strategy for business critical systems.
- Developed strategies for disaster recovery plans that ensured minimal downtime during an outage.
- Ensured compliance with industry standards, security protocols and data privacy regulations.
- Reduce splunk cost by $2k+/month by implementing engineering hygine.
APAC CTO Tech Services
Vanguard Australia
01.2022 - Current
- Established the CTO Global operating model across Europe and Australia to provide better platform service to regions.
- Led the architecture of cloud infrastructure for launch of Superannuation platform to satisfy APRA requirements.
- Reviewed and evaluated the overall state of technology and developed plan to implement cost effective modernisation program to support business growth. Reducing TCO by retiring local data center.
- Reviewed and implemented applications to implement effective FinOps practices which resulted in 20% reduction in our AWS cost.
- Briefed executive team on technology risks and recommended methods to remedy problems such as multi region enablement.
Senior I.T. Manager
Vanguard Australia
01.2020 - 12.2021
- Established the Global Operating model for Finance Run Team by leading the business case to consolidate the GIFS finance production operations within the GIFS Sub-Division which transferred ownership from US Night shift team to Aus and UK. It also set the foundations for a sustainable prod support model for Finace production operations across the globe.
- Defined the strategy for adopting Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices within GIFS RunOrg to address the Enterprise Technology Strategy objective for 5 9’s availability on mission critical apps.
- Led the pilot SRE IT support model for Global applications including observability tooling, Defining production support model.
- Designed and implemented improvements to the Global Run processes including region to region turnover, major incident management, root cause analysis.
- Monitored system performance and identified areas for improvement.
Education
MBA -
Drexel University
01.2020
Master of Information Systems -
La Trobe University
01.2006
Master of Computer Science -
University of Pune
01.2003
Bachelor of Computer Science -
University of Pune
01.2001
Skills
- People Leadership
- IT Strategic Planning
- Project Management
- Operations Management
- Risk Management
- Infrastructure planning
- Cost/Expense reduction
- Vendor & contract Management
- Business Continuity Planning
- Multi Lingual
- Software Development
- Mobile Application Development
- Buy/Build Recommendations
- Cross-functional team leadership
Certification
Lean Portfolio Management
AWS Solution Architecture – Associate
AWS Cloud Practitioners
Prince2 Foundation Certification
ITIL Foundations V3
Accomplishments
- Mobile and Web technologies to scale platforms for enterprises
- AWS cloud platforms (ECS/EKS), multiregion cloud enablement, chaos testing, AZ failover testing
- Micro services and microfront end architecture principles.
- Team topologies
Additional Information
- Vanguard Australia Scholarship Winner for 2016.
- Pioneer of Innovation culture at Vanguard. by organizing local as well as global Hackathon and innovation celebration days.
- Pioneer of Technology and Operational Excellence at Vanguard by forming and sponsoring data, engineering and emerging tech guilds.
- APAC IT DEI Lead. Paved pathway for IT Female in Tech Strategy.
- Women in Leadership Success - partnership and events lead.
- Member of Women Who Code Melbourne.
- Trained Katthak Dancer.
Publications
A Framework to Detect Deviations During Process Enactment
January 2007 DOI:10.1109/ICIS.2007.18
Source
DBLP
- Conference: 6th Annual IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), 11-13 July 2007, Melbourne, Australia
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221635710_A_Framework_to_Detect_Deviations_During_Process_Enactment
Timeline
Head of Information Technology
Vanguard Australia
08.2023 - Current
APAC CTO Tech Services
Vanguard Australia
01.2022 - Current
Senior I.T. Manager
Vanguard Australia
01.2020 - 12.2021
MBA -
Drexel University
Master of Information Systems -
La Trobe University
Master of Computer Science -
University of Pune
Bachelor of Computer Science -
University of Pune
Lean Portfolio Management
AWS Solution Architecture – Associate
AWS Cloud Practitioners
Prince2 Foundation Certification
ITIL Foundations V3
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