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Vinod Melarkode is a result-driven IT senior management professional with over 25 years of experience in leading technology, product development, project deliveries, agile processes, professional services, and building strong performing teams as a competency and practice. He is a dynamic communicator and collaborative leader skilled in motivating senior management and high performing teams to attain peak levels of performance. Vinod is currently the Regional Head of Talent and Leadership at Amdocs, where he is responsible for developing, designing, and executing regional solutions, interventions, and programs to enable Amdocs India to continuously adapt and transform in the nonlinear changing business environment. Vinod is a passionate facilitator focused on leadership building and development. He has facilitated over 50 sessions within Amdocs India for its leadership layer on various topics related to strengthening core soft-skills in the areas of motivation, delegation, stakeholder relationship management, change management, conflict management, constructive feedback, positive attitude, etc. Previously, he headed the Amdocs India Data and Intelligence (big-data, data-warehousing, and business intelligence) Unit from 2015 till the end of 2018. His general management experience includes leading global multi-location 600+ large delivery unit focusing on solution development, implementation, and support. Vinod is an innovation evangelist with expertise in developing leaders, coaching, facilitating, HR and business leadership, engineering excellence, product development, delivery management, process excellence, people leadership, managed services, leadership development, agile development, P&L management, and account management. He has a proven track record of leading people, technology, products, project deliveries, agile processes, and professional services. Vinod is recognized for building the business by delivering on-time with high quality and impact. At Amdocs, Vinod leads the talent, learning development, OD, and leadership domains in India while working closely with global talent management leaders. He is responsible for architecting impactful, scalable people development interventions and practices, organizational, leadership, and learning development, and coaching senior Amdocs leaders. He has designed the best-in-class graduate onboarding program that won the Brandon Hall worldwide Human Capital award and touched 1000+ leaders and 6000+ employees through impactful interventions. Vinod has also driven the goal-setting and redesigned performance management process and positioned India as OD innovation hub – interventions designed and exported to APAC centers. With relevant experience of 4.27 years, Vinod is a passionate leader who enables technically strong