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Chandra Gundlapalli

Global Vice President at Unisys

Irving, United States

Multilingual, hands-on senior technology executive with 20+ years of proven digital transformation expertise. A trusted partner to the c-level leadership with a passion for driving business value through application modernization, operational excellence and high performing global (USA, Germany, India, and Mexico) TEAM of TEAMS.

? Modernization: $40-$200M budget petabyte-scale SaaS, IaaS, & PaaS roadmaps resulting 32% TCO savings.

? Scaled Agile DevOps: Turned around the most admired Fortune 500 in <6 mo. with >20% speed to market increase.

? Innovation: Enterprise as a Service (patent WIP), Hands-free electricity Alexa app, & run whole business in-memory.

? Management Consulting: Landed multi-year deals at Cisco, Cash America, Press Ganey, Cleco, and Lehigh Hanson.

? Vendor Management: Strategic renegotiation resulting >30% SLA, $2.6M-$9.5M/y savings, and crowdsourcing.

? Volunteering - “Support Our Soldiers” executive sponsor, United Way and National Multiple Sclerosis.

? Governing body and keynote speak - Schwab DFW Council, Evanta (Gartner) & CDM Media advisory boards.

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Dallas, TX
Speaking Topics: Business Friction Modernization, Enterprise As A Service, Application Modernization

Chandra Gundlapalli Points
Academic 0
Author 5
Influencer 7
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 12

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Company Type: Company
Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed
Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed
Number of Employees: Undisclosed
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed
Last Media Interview: 12/31/1969

Areas of Expertise

Agile 30.03
AI
Analytics
Big Data 30.01
Business Strategy
Change Management
Cloud
CRM
Culture 30.06
Customer Experience
Data Center
Design Thinking
Digital Disruption 30.05
Digital Transformation 30.04
Diversity and Inclusion
Emerging Technology
Entrepreneurship
FinTech
Future of Work 30.06
Innovation
IoT
Leadership 30.10
Lean Startup 30.17
Management
Predictive Analytics

Industry Experience

Financial Services & Banking
Healthcare
Professional Services
Retail
Utilities

Publications & Experience

5 Article/Blogs
Applying The Team Of Teams Operating Model To Accelerate Digital Transformation
Forbes
March 20, 2020
The next big disruption is not technology — it is courageous leaders relying on the Team of Teams operating model. Implementing emerging technology is relatively easy with a solid workforce operating model.

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Tags: Agile, Leadership, Lean Startup

Courageous LEADER KPI = TEAM of TEAMS Emotional intelligence
linkedin
March 30, 2019
Thanks to Robert Pace@First American Payment, Scot Miller@Mr Cooper, Harish Gally@Anixter and Gregory Wilson@Pioneer Natural Resources for partnering with me on the panel sharing perspective on "The Revitalizing Change in the Role of the CxO" at the CDM Media CIO Dallas Summit on Mar 26 '19.

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Tags: Big Data, Digital Transformation, Leadership

How to address overlooked transformation barriers with extreme ownership?
linkedin
November 11, 2018
Honored to say “Thank You for your service and bravery” to the nearly 20 million veterans. Extending the thought process on how "Courageous Leadership" plays a very critical role in the any type of disruption on top of all the technology(enabler) levers.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Leadership

MVP 1: Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh Blitzscaling + David Rubenstein Peer-to-Peer Conversations = Web-scale TEAM of TEAMS @Mach speed
linkedin
October 21, 2018
Most of you read popular books x,y,z learning from industry thought leaders, I believe there is a better way to learn... 2 of my favorite inspiring TV shows,

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Tags: Leadership

Enterprise as a Service (ENaaS) - Next Big Disruption
Chandra Gundlapalli
January 15, 2018
Champion digital disruption on behalf of the customers creating Enterprise as a Service (ENaaS) increasing >80% speed-to-market by cutting down >90% set up costs with TEAM of TEAMs factories.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

1 Media Interview
Courageous LEADER KPI = TEAM of TEAMS Emotional intelligence
Chandra Gundlapalli
March 30, 2019
The Revitalizing Change in the Role of the CxO. Do you agree "Courageous LEADER KPI = TEAM of TEAMS Emotional intelligence"​?

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Tags: Culture, Future of Work, Leadership

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