Jawahar Kaliani has key position within the US Treasury Dept.
By Deepak Chitnis
WASHINGTON, DC: Indian native Jawahar Kaliani has been appointed as the new Deputy Chief Information Officer for Application Services Delivery (ASD), a key position within the US Department of Treasury.
Kaliani’s posting will be working in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent agency within the Treasury whose main objective is to “charter, regulate, and supervise all national banks and federal savings associations.” Kaliani will serve under ranking Chief Information Officer Edward Dorris, who issued a statement lauding Kaliani’s appointment.
“Jawahar’s experience has prepared him exceptionally well to serve in this role,” said Dorris, in a press release put out by the OCC. “He is ideally suited to be part of the agency’s senior information technology 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.”
In joining the OCC, Kaliani will be leaving his position at Amdocs, Inc., a Missouri-based software services company, where he was the Vice-President of Customer Operations Management. During that time, he “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.”
Over the course of his career, Kaliani has established, coached, and mentored over 700 employees across a slew of teams in the companies he’s worked for. He has two decades’ worth of experience in “delivering critical applications in a managed services environment, optimizing efficiency and performance to meet the goals of industry leaders.”
Originally from Mumbai, Kaliani earned a Diploma of Engineering in IT and Electronics from BIT, and his bachelor’s degree in IT and Engineering from the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) in Mumbai. He came to the US for his M.B.A., earning it from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kaliani’s appointment became effective on Sunday, May 4.