Author Profile

Uma Challa

Uma Challa

Sr Director Analyst

2 years at Gartner,  26 years' experience

Location:  TX USA  |  Language(s):  English, Indian - Hindi, Indian - Telugu

Roles and Responsibilities

Uma Challa covers topics in Digital Customer Service, Service and supports CX, and Service and Support Strategy & Leadership.

Background

Previous Experience

Uma brings over 25+ years of experience in digital customer service and was focused on digital transformation initiatives in the last decade. Most recently, Uma served as a Senior VP of Digital Transformation at Caliber Home Loans, where he led the omnichannel initiative by defining the strategy and driving the implementation of the customer engagement suite platform for enabling consistent, intelligent, personalized customer experience, and a flexible work environment for customer service agents. Uma previously served as the Senior VP, Digital Product Group Manager at Citibank North America, where he led a team of 20 product managers to drive the transformation of the product organization to be customer journey centric and innovative. The portfolio of products that Uma led included digital engagement, self-service, foundational and emerging banking channels. Before that Uma delivered digital products across 15 global markets at Citi Global Consumer Bank and drove the implementation of analytics platform across global markets to understand the customer experience/behavior and performance of the global digital product features. In his 15 year tenure at Citibank, Uma had the opportunity to establish and run the BPM practice for 4 years. Prior to working at Citibank, Uma has been a trusted advisor to clients as a consultant at IBM Global Services in Canada for 5 years. Uma in his long career has led many transformational initiatives that included process improvements, modernizing and adopting best-fit technology, and influencing changes to the organizational structure to be agile in providing a remarkable customer experience, while reducing costs and generating revenue.

Professional Background

  • Caliber Home Loans, SVP Digital Transformation, 2 years
  • Citibank, SVP Digital Product Group Manager, 15 years
  • IBM, IT Architect, 5 years

Education

  • Bachelors Degree in Economics

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