Sharad Gupta
About
Sharad Gupta is from San Francisco Bay Area. Sharad works in the following industries: "Information Technology and Services". Sharad is currently Senior Director, Consumer & Commercial IT Portfolios at Blue Shield of California. Sharad also works as Adjunct Professor (Data Science) at University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management, a job Sharad has held since Jan 2018. In Sharad's previous role as a Director, Health Innovation Technology at Blue Shield of California, Sharad worked in San Francisco Bay Area until Jan 2020. Prior to joining Blue Shield of California, Sharad was a Director, Enterprise Architecture at Blue Shield of California and held the position of Director, Enterprise Architecture at San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Sharad was a Senior Manager, Technology at Publicis Sapient, based in San Francisco Bay Area from Jan 2014 to Jan 2014. Sharad started working as Co-Founder at Book Square in San Francisco Bay Area in Jan 2013. From Jan 2008 to Jan 2014, Sharad was Portfolio Enterprise Architect at Kaiser Permanente. Prior to that, Sharad was a Manager, Technology at Publicis Sapient from Jan 2006 to Jan 2008. Sharad started working as Divisional Chief Architect at Firemans Fund Insurance Company in Jan 1999.
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Sharad Gupta's current jobs
Overall IT responsibility for Consumer (Senior Markets, Individual & Family Plan, Specialty) and Commercial (Fully-Insured & Self-Funded/ASO) business portfolios for leading technology strategy & roadmapping, leading agile-based products delivery, and driving digital transformation through innovation, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies for business growth and new business capabilities.
Adjunct professor teaching applied Data Science & Advanced Analytics (Machine Learning) and Data Design & Representation courses in the MSBA (Master of Science in Business Analytics) and MBA programs. These courses teach concepts, methods, and techniques that are used in Data Science and Machine Learning projects in various business functional domains.
Sharad Gupta's past jobs
Led a team of innovators and was responsible for building innovation delivery capabilities and delivering a portfolio of digital product innovation initiatives from "Idea to Value" using Design Thinking, Agile, Lean Startup methodologies and emerging technologies (Digital, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Data & Analytics, Robotic Process Automation, Wearables/IoTs, others). Led initiatives through innovation lifecycle from idea-to-concept-to-MVP (Minimum Viable Product)-to-pilot-to-scale, while cultivating innovation culture across the enterprise, and building external partnerships to promote innovation and investment opportunities to better support Blue Shield’s business growth, transformation, and innovation objectives.
Led a team of seasoned enterprise architects and was responsible for the enterprise architecture & roadmaps, architecture standards & governance, technology strategy & roadmaps, technology selection, and solution architectures to support delivery of large transformation and innovation programs (including Digital Customer Experience, Member Enrollment, Claims Processing, Integration & Interoperability, Customer Service, ERP, Data & Analytics) that enabled new business capabilities and introduced new innovations.
Responsible for leading strategy and delivery of data & advanced analytics solutions for large clients. Managed client relationship, delivery engagements, and onshore/offshore teams.
Co-founded the startup with an innovative concept to allow book lovers monetize their books and to build social connectedness. Led marketing research, product concept testing, product development, product launch, and online marketing. Led data & analytics platform. Fell a bit short of raising necessary venture funding, but had a ton of fun doing it.
Responsible for developing portfolio architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps, while collaborating closely with senior IT and business leaders. Supported large ($50+Mil) transformation initiatives across admin and clinical domains, including KP.ORG and Contact Center and led vendor evaluations, technology selection, architecture blueprints, and capability deliveries.
Led IT strategy and solutions delivery engagements in support of business transformation objectives. Managed client relationships and globally distributed teams. Clients - P&C insurance and telecom companies.
Held positions of Chief Architect, Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect. Solution architecture leadership to large package implementations and custom applications in areas of CRM, policy quoting & underwriting and policy administration. Team lead for several web-based applications. As a founding member of EA, defined and operationalized enterprise architecture practice, architecture standards, and Architecture Review Board (ARB).
Led a team of solution designers and designed large-scale UML-based object models. Developed policy viewer application using J2EE based technologies, IBM WebSphere technology stack, and IBM IAA framework. Designed and developed online ordering system for a large beer distributor using CGI programming. Designed and developed a customer support application for a large data storage company.