Sarab Datt Email Address

Director, Global Information Technology Portfolio, Head of PMO and Transformation Champion

The Warranty Group is one of the world's premier global providers of warranty solutions and related benefits. More than 50 years ago we pioneered the concept of Finance and Insurance (F&I) in the automotive industry, and we haven't looked back since. Today we conduct business in nearly 40 countries, supported by more than 1,600 employees. \r\n\r\nAlong with our two wholly-owned insurance companies, Virginia Surety Company and London General Insurance, The Warranty Group is a single-source solution that provides underwriting, claims administration, and marketing expertise to some of the world's leading manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of consumer goods including automobiles, homes, consumer appliances, and electronics, as well as specialty insurance products and services for financial institutions. \r\n\r\nSound interesting? We think so too! Learn more about opportunities at The Warranty Group!

SUMMARY • Strategic leader with 18 years of operations experience in technology and business. • Led multiple digital transformations across midsize and large companies and successfully managed different methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) and processes across organizations to get optimal results. • Managed global IT portfolios of 20-100M+, managing OpEx and CapEx budgets along with risk, audit and compliance management. • Built and scaled Engineering, QA and PMO organizations with a mix of full time and contingent labor including offshore vendors. • 10+ years of experience of working closely with executive vice presidents and C-level executives. Facilitation and leadership of executive / stakeholder steering committees. AREAS OF EXPERTISE • Strategy, Leadership, Digital Transformation, Technology Roadmaps, Architecture, Organizational Change, P&L, Budgeting, Vendor Management, Asset & Risk Management, Business Analysis, Road Map Planning, KPIs, Dashboards. • Transforming and Building Lean and Agile organizations across business and IT. • Substantial experience with Cloud, Mobile and Social technologies/platforms – Salesforce, Oracle, Workday, MS Azure, iOS and Android mobile development, web and mobile applications, responsive web design, Application & Infrastructure Management. • ERP, CRM, digital asset management, web content management, IoT, Microsoft .Net, Java, C++, SQL, SharePoint • Capacity planning, Portfolio and Resource Management, managing cross-functional and matrix teams. • Vendor management and procurement, stakeholder Management, alignment with business teams, managing global teams, on-shore and off-shore third party resources and agencies. • Agile Methodologies (Scrum, XP, Kanban, SAFe etc), DevOps, Automation, Waterfall, Iterative, ISO 9000, CMM. • Certified Scrum Master, Six Sigma Green Belt and Lean Process expert, PMP certified since 2005. Portfolio management and Agile tools like JIRA, Rally, VersionOne etc.