Technology Expert | Process Optimization & Automation | AI Specialist in Procurement, Supply Chain & Finance

With over 26 years of experience, I specialize in transforming how businesses operate by leveraging cutting-edge technology to optimize processes, automate workflows, and enhance decision-making. My expertise spans procurement, supply chain, and finance, where I’ve consistently driven efficiency, reduced costs, and unlocked operational agility through intelligent automation and AI-driven solutions.

💡 Core Strengths

	•	Process Optimization & Automation: Streamlining complex workflows to reduce manual tasks and empower teams with data-driven insights.
	•	AI-Driven Solutions: Implementing AI to boost operational efficiency, improve decision-making, and elevate performance across procurement, supply chain, and finance functions.
	•	Technology Leadership: Partnering with professionals to integrate advanced technology for better business outcomes, driving sustained growth and long-term value.

🌍 Industry Expertise & Impact
I collaborate with executives, managers, and teams who are ready to future-proof their operations by adopting smart technology solutions. From identifying inefficiencies to delivering tailored roadmaps, I focus on measurable improvements that lead to tangible results.

🤝 Client-Focused & Results-Driven
My approach is client-centered, focusing on delivering scalable solutions that solve immediate challenges while anticipating future needs. I’m passionate about building lasting relationships, where technology serves as the backbone for sustained success.

Let’s connect to explore how technology can redefine your operations and elevate your organization’s potential.

Omar ️

Marcello Benati

Microsoft

In my role as Chief Architect- Engineering & Architecture Response lead at Microsoft, I connect customers with the right executives and engineers, driving impactful outcomes. 
By leveraging my experiences across various divisions and organizations, I have served as a vital link between customer needs and the appropriate resources, ensuring maximum impact and results.

Chief Architect- Engineering & Architecture Response lead

Part of the new Global Engineering & Architecture Group in Industry Solutions Delivery.  Our group will enhance ISD’s technical capabilities and develop approaches, solutions and engineering standards in order to set sales and delivery teams up for success.  Leveraging the principles of model and coach, we ensure a consistently high-quality customer experience through technical leadership and IP capture.​

Chief Architect- LLM/AI

Foster customer confidence by rapidly responding to executive technical requests in the areas of large language Models (LLM) and Super Apps. My teams untangle complexity, address gaps to meet customer expectations, develop and share proven practices, standards, and guidance, and grow technical practitioners of the future.

Chief Architect - Large Language Models/Super Apps

I seek solutions to many of our customers challenges ( internal and external). Leveraging my experience and broad network to ensure we provide customer value, product truth and simplicity in execution.

My approach  is to act as a "constructive disruptor", always pursuing optimization and clarity; yet not not shy to identify and question ineffective and inefficient processes and methodologies. 

Additionally, I am a firm believer in helping people evolve, learn and  transform their skill sets and unique knowledge, perspectives when implementing new solutions.

Principal, Strategic Technology. Chief Disruption Architect- IS CTO Group

Our team, Enterprise Commercial CTO functions as technical and strategy advisors to our clients. We offer solution design expertise, customer validated prototypes and cross industry thought leadership.

I work with the EC CTO to ensure our solutions and scenarios have solid use cases and engineering ready requirements to transform and disrupt industries in a positive way.  Working with the leaders of our industries also gives me a unique perspective on how solutions work across many verticals and can create ecosystems and collaboratives. To disrupt and open new ways of transformation requires courage, dedication and team work.

Director Technology Strategy

Our CTO team aims to deliver and scale innovative technical leadership to team, customers, and partners through industry-focused technical strategy, references, customer engagements, and communities that accelerate the value of Microsoft industry cloud offerings.​

Strategy Director

Serving as CTO for Marquee accounts and technical adviser to the Worldwide Enterprise Commercial CVP.  Our PMO team focuses on marquee and strategic accounts and identifies high value/ impact  innovation ideas across our clouds. We  use customer centric approach to find new use cases , refine requirements and place these into the engineering development pipelines or partner led implementations.

These ideas and conceptual architectures become products we incorporate Industry Priority Scenarios and solutions.

Director Strategy- Cross Industry CTO For Marquee PMO

My team works with customers across many verticals and provides creative approaches and Horizon 3 initiatives.  We introduce key people, facilitate strategic alliances and partnerships in different  spheres and ideate to transform and disrupt the perceived status quo. 
We achieve this by finding consensus on a common goal and ensuring each party benefits equaly.
The old Microsoft had silos, we help tear down barriers and foster collaboration and communication for and show how everyone benefits as a result. Empowering everyone to achieve more.

Sr Business Innovation & Strategy Leader

Our team leverages our combined experience and knowledge to engage with customers, engineers and research groups  and identify, architect and quantify new cross industry solutions and transformative ideas.

Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help our customers address key opportunities  such as reimagining existing business models and embracing a different way of engaging customers, empowering employees, optimizing operations, and transforming products.

 Industry Technology Strategy- Office of the CTO

Sr Technical Product Manager- Advanced Analytics/AI

My focus area was to figure how to bring Open Source products into the Microsoft Servers without making the Servers Open Source . My team introduced R and Python support into Microsoft Enterprise products and planted the seeds for Open Source supported versions of SQL and Hadoop Instances and ensuring we maintained our  commitments and involvement with the R  and Python communities.

The AA team offered Cognitive Services for our Cloud customers and SQL Server 2017 with Machine learning Services and Microsoft R Servers for Linux, Hadoop/Spark and Teradata on prem and as Virtual Machines in the Microsoft Cloud and the foundations for Microsoft AI offerings.

We drive  adoption by supporting integration for the portfolio of products we have recently acquired as well as building best in class value propositions, messaging and readiness once those products are integrated with Microsoft’s on premise and cloud based offers.

Sr Advanced Analytics Product Manager- SQL Server R Services & Microsoft R Server/ Machine Learning 

I was part of the Midwest Region Corporate Accounts Team. We service 275 accounts in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana and assist them to get the best use of the Microsoft Application Platform  products. Our Solutions enable Business and IT decision makers to gain insight and make better decisions by leveraging  applications,existing systems information and business information systems.

Data Platform Solution Specialist

Naples Technology Executives Club

Local group of Technology Executives meeting to share ideas, resources and experiences. The group meets on a monthly basis in various venues and invites technology leaders, investors, VCs and people interested in advancing technology in the city.

President

Chicago SQL PASS BI Group board member

The Chicago PASS BI Chapter focus exclusively on Business Intelligence solutions and technologies. My role is to manage the team to provide our membership with  select speakers and sponsors and assist in our board in the growth of our chapter in Chicago.

Our group experienced phenomenal growth and is comprised of seasoned experts in BI, DW and industry. Our members include various Data Scientists, PHD in Analytics and people interested in diving into Business Intelligence as a career.

President and Executive Board Member

Rightpoint

Right Point’s business Intelligence practice offers powerful decision-enabling capabilities to our customers by collecting and transforming operational data into actionable information, revealing the potential within diverse enterprise systems. We enable assist you in turning intelligence into business advantage.

Business Intelligence Solutions

Corporate data can provide insights into business operational efficiency, customer and partner relations, profitability, market trends, employee performance, customer satisfaction and more... but only if you can access the data and turn it into usable business information in an efficient and relevant manner.

Given the recent technology advances and the widespread use of common software tools and interfaces, most companies can now build their own Business Intelligence (BI) applications for minimal cost. 

Rightpoint’s experience with SharePoint combined with its Business Intelligence practice expertise enables it to offer a single, integrated BI platform

Business Intelligence Practice Director

The Glenture Group LLC

Glenture is a consulting  firm dedicated to partnering with clients to deliver IT solutions in SAP Perfromance Management Applications. During my tenure we developed and grew a Microsoft focused practice leveraging our experience with OutlookSoft ( now BPC and owned by SAP)

As a Practice Director, I ran a team of experts assisting clients solve complex business problems reliably, on time and on budget.

Our work with the Orion Project at Eli Lilly Data Warehouse has been heralded as unique and extrenely strategic for the growth and evolution of these companies and featured in major industry events and write-ups. The work leveraged Microsoft Business Intelligence systems and solutions and worked as a platform for the company inroads into Microsoft solutions.

Microsoft BI Practice/Channel Director

Shendriton Holdings, LLC

Shendriton a Holdings maintains the intellectual and property rights and patents  for many areas in technology. Additionally, it assists small and medium size companies in achieving their strategic business and  tactical technology needs.

Chief Strategy Officer

ACNielsen

Responsible for the  Enterprise Architecture and Data Warehouse strategy  for all marketing systems and mainframes for AC Nielsen and affiliates.

Director Enterprise Architecture

MarchFirst

Venture Creations Group and E-strategies!

Director

Whittman Hart

Evangelization of top level E-commerce sites. Developed concept for Ubid, Covalex, Amiator and other sites. Leveraged internet technologies to assist and improve traditional brick and mortar companies.

Senior Manager

Communicate.com ( For Microsoft)

Product development, testing and alignment of technologies between product groups. Evangelization and sales.

SQL, IE group

I am a Chief Architect-LLM/AI at Microsoft, where I lead the technical vision and strategy for large language models (LLM) and super apps, two of the most cutting-edge and impactful domains in the industry. With over 30 years of experience in information technology, I have a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions that disrupt the market and create value for customers and partners.

I am passionate about balancing people, process, and technology to foster customer confidence, address gaps, and grow technical practitioners. I collaborate with engineering and research teams to develop and share best practices, standards, and guidance for LLM and super apps. I also leverage my expertise in business intelligence (BI), Kimball methodologies, and customer relationship management (CRM) to enable data-driven decision making and insights.

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