I am Venkatesh babu, also known as " Venku " or " VB " among my colleagues and close friends.
I am an Information Technology Professional from Chennai, Southern part of India, but currently living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
I really enjoy working in a challenging environments, Involve in developing new technologies and business enablement initiatives. I also enjoy being surrounded by brilliant minds that shares the vision of “technology for good” and I’m truly humbled by their support. I’m excited by the ever-growing challenges I face with, as my career unfolds and keen to take them on.
I enjoy travelling to new places and countries, exploring new culture & diversity. I love to work with different kinds of people. Passionate about exploring new gadgets (not very brand specific though) which includes digital cameras, laptops, tablets, handy-cams, mobile phones, digital watches. and more... I usually develop very good rapport with my colleagues and friends naturally even if I don't meet/interact them quite often. I am more interested to learn and understand the different culture and lifestyles of the people from different parts of the world.
I also enjoy exploring different tastes and varieties of (vegetarian) foods from different parts of the world where I used to visit.
Background
Venkatesh babu or aka Venku is a Computer Science Engineer by training and an Information Technology Consultant by Choice.
Currently heads one of the largest European Retail customer's transformation programme, within the customer's Supply Chain & Logistics IT Portfolio.
Holds Engineering in Computer Science (CS) and Masters in Business Administration (MBA).
Responsible for delivering large technology and business transformational programmes to global customers across various sectors including Banking, Financials, Insurance, Healthcare and Retail.
Has more than two decades of experience in IT fields and has played several leadership roles in Banking, Healthcare Insurance and Retail domains, worked with large customers like CIGNA, Kaiser Permanente, AXA, RBS and Aegon.
His diversified working experience spread across the multiple geographies such as USA, UK, Asia and European customers in a customer facing roles at customer's locations.
He is a Certified professional for project and programme management from prestigious institutes, such as Project Management Institute, USA and AXELOS, UK. AWS cloud practitioner from AWS, institute,. Professional Scrum Master from Scrum.org, USA.
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