An Indian-American has been appointed to a key post in the U.S. Department of Treasury.
Jawahar
Kaliani has been appointed as the Deputy Chief Information Officer for
Application Services Delivery (ASD) at the Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency (OCC), Department of Treasury.
Taking
over the job from Sunday, Mr. Kaliani will lead the development and
implementation of complex applications to deliver secure business
solutions that meet organisational priorities and support the agency’s
mission of ensuring the safety and soundness of national banks and
federal savings associations, a statement said.
“Jawahar’s
experience has prepared him exceptionally well to serve in this role,”
said OCC Chief Information Officer Edward Dorris.
“He
is ideally suited to be part of the agency’s senior information
technology (IT) team to continue our efforts toward achieving best in
class productivity, efficiency and quality for the OCC employees and
supervised institutions that depend on us,” Mr. Dorris said.
Mr.
Kaliani joins the OCC from Amdocs Inc., where he served as
vice-president of Customer Operations Management and led the
development, execution and delivery of large-scale services and business
IT solutions supporting major telecommunications clients who managed
more than $30 billion in annual billings.
He has 20
years of demonstrated experience delivering critical applications in a
managed services environment, optimising efficiency and performance to
meet the goals of industry leaders.
During his
career, Mr. Kaliani established, coached and mentored high-performing,
cross-functional teams of more than 700 employees.
Mr.
Kaliani holds an executive MBA from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, a Bachelor of Engineering in IT and Electronics from
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) in Mumbai and a Diploma
of Engineering in IT and Electronics from BIT in Mumbai.
