Ashish Sharma Email Address

Assistant Vice President

With more than 50 years’ experience, Symetra elevates people's lives through retirement, employee benefits.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS IT Leader with 15+ years of proven accomplishments. Experience includes owning and managing global IT solutions, budgets and people with an emphasis on delivering quality end to end business solutions. Expertise in strategic planning with proven ability to assess and mitigate risks. SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS •Delivery of SharePoint based OEM Partner Experience portal benefiting major Microsoft partners by providing timely and critical marketing information along with collaboration functionality between Microsoft and OEM partners. •Reduced cost of goods (COGs) of over $15 million per year by enabling global software download functionality for Microsoft Partners •Serving as Director on Board of Directors for a small technology corporation •Enabled 600K Microsoft Partners to profile and showcase their solutions globally in over 15 different languages with the integration of two web-based Solution Profiling platforms within Microsoft •Managed global workforce of business analysts and developers •Accountability for development/management of $9.4 million IT budget •Saved $320K per year at a fortune 500 company by pioneering, and implementing outsourcing relationship of critical applications using onshore-offshore model •Saved over $1 million with completion of a major document management project consolidating several document storage applications/mediums to a single source of documents •Saved over $1 million by consolidating multiple document capture processes and applications into one system enabling easy and fast access to +20 million documents •Managed several groups and projects to enhance document management capabilities, underwriting decision processes and the financial and actuarial analysis and reporting for a fortune 500 company Specialties: Leadership, Decision Making, Business Partner Engagement, Problem Solving, Prioritization, Project Management, Onshore\Offshore Resource and Vendor Management