Rajkumar Muthukrishnan

20+ Years Exp Professional In It(Erp,Bi,Appln) Technology Project, Delivery & Program Management Handling Global Customers (Americas, Apac, Emea, Me)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Project Management, Computer Knowledge, Business Intelligence,
About
20+ years experienced professional in IT/ Technology project, delivery & program management handling global customers (Americas, APAC, EMEA, MiddleEast regions). Equipped with latest Digital technologies besides core ERP(Oracle, SAP).
Talents
Work Experience
Business Strategist & IT/Investment Banking Consultant
Self Employed
Full Time Oct-2016 To present 8 years 6 months
Responsibilities
  • - IT Strategic Consulting for Startups in ERP product implementation/Data analytics, targeting small to mid scale business. Investments with focus on Mutual funds (across Equity, Debt, Balanced folios), NCD, Private Equity, Pension/Term/Medical Insurance plans. Product re-branding/consulting for herbal business.
Program Manager
Full Time Jan-2013 To Sep-2016 3 years 8 months
Responsibilities
  • Project delivery management on Oracle ERP (EBS) with specific focus on project delivery for Middle East region customers (across KSA, Bahrain, UAE). ? Work with customer & in-house technical architects on leveraging Digital technologies. ? Facilitated solutions across Finance & Indian Govt insurance Teams, including compliance. ? Facilitated project delivery Teams from Offshore with focus on milestone reviews, resource optimization, by leveraging technology/ functional subject matter experts from CoE. ? Streamlining Change-management processes by having uniform process for change-requests (CRs) across projects, to address priority/ongoing business needs of customers. ? Contributed as Oracle CoE member for initiatives within Oracle Practice. Resource planning &optimization, by leveraging technology/ functional subject matter experts across different projects. ? Liase with internal quality assurance, across project teams to ensure quality of deliverables.
Achievements
  • Projects led & managed - i. Offshore ODC Project Delivery & Support (Wipro ODC, India) : Offshore Facilitation(reviews, delivery excellence) for Oracle ERP/BI projects (for MiddleEast geography) executed from ODC locations for India & MiddleEast(UAE, KSA) customers. ii. Ma’aden North Promise Oracle EBS Rollout (Saudi Arabian Mining Company, KSA) : Project & customer management for Oracle EBS projects executed for Ma’aden. Involved in rollout of Oracle EBS solution to 3 different subsidiaries across Ma’aden Phosphate & Infrastructure business. iii. National Water Company (NWC) Adv SCM Implementation(ERP) & Support(for Oracle ERP & CCB) : Project & customer management for Oracle EBS projects executed for NWC (Adv SCM implementation – iSUPP, SLM, iPROC, sPROC, PIM & ERP Resident consultant support). Supplier Data-migration from Sharepoint Portal. iv. TamilNadu Treasury Transformation Program (IFHRMS Oracle ERP Implementation & Infra/Applications Support: Program Governance Delivery
Program/Account Manager
iGATE Global Solutions Ltd (Now Cap Gemini)
Full Time Sep-2009 To Dec-2012 3 years 3 months
Responsibilities
  • For Swiss Re-insurance Company [Offshore Location - Bangalore]. ? Project delivery management with specific focus on customer priorities, budgeting / commercials & proposals (for RFPs) on various sub-projects across Asia, Europe, US geographies. ? Direct interface to key customer management Teams (VPs, Directors) on high-level budgetary estimations/business solutions on SAP support engagement (Incident, Problem, Change management), business growth focus & continuous process improvements. ? Anchoring quality initiatives for project organization, across both verticals (Insurance business) & horizontals (ERP-SAP). Support MSA (Measurement system analysis) for customers, internal/external project-audits for CMMI/ISO certifications. ? Working with HR Team on lateral resourcing plans, fresher inductions, grooming/motivating Team-members by providing career growth plans with rewards & recognition. Managing appropriate resource-ratio between Onsite-Offshore locations.
Achievements
  • Projects led & managed - i. SAP BI Implementation (For Owens Corning – Partnership Firm): The project involved ETL(DataStage), BeX/BO reporting & EDW implementation across custom functional modules like AP/Spend Analytics, AR/Inventory, GL/Period Costing, Customer Profiling modules with SAP (ECC,4.7, 3.1i) & Non-SAP Source systems. ii. SAP Global Managed Services Support: This includes SAP HCMS modules(eREC, TalMan, Time, PerfMgmt, OM, PA etc), SRM-eProcurement, CRM modules along with Master Data Management(MDM) integrated with PI workflows & dedicated SAPBI(Reporting).
    iii. SAP Security & Authorizations Managed Services: This scope of the project includes SAP Security & Authorizations across Development Team & ongoing business needs.
Program/Sr. Project Manager
iGATE Global Solutions Ltd (Now Cap Gemini)
Full Time Oct-2007 To Aug-2009 1 year 10 months
Responsibilities
  • For GE-CAPITAL [Offshore Location - Chennai]. ? Leasing product(DOTNET) implementation for GE-CAPITAL, Japan & Korea locations. ? Direct interface to customer top management team (CIOs, CXOs) on high-level budgetary estimations for product implementation. Provided high level budgetary estimates for country specific implementations (across Asia). ? Provided project & delivery management with focus on Japanese customer business on real estate domain across application support in Web technologies & DBA(Oracle 11g) support. This resulted in repeat business from customers.
Achievements
  • Travel to Onsite (Japan & South Korea) for high-level gap analysis & requirement gathering. Performed high-level GAP analysis for business, demonstrating leasing product features across different customer groups. Got repeat customer business during financially turbulent times
Offshore Project Manager
iGATE Global Solutions Ltd (Now Cap Gemini)
Full Time Apr-2005 To Sep-2007 2 years 5 months
Responsibilities
  • For NBC Universal [Offshore Location - Chennai]. ? Involved in multiple project team-management, customer management & anchored project proposals (for RFPs) for GE-NBCU (across Media & Entertainment Domain) in J2EE/DOTNET. ? Travel to Onsite(USA) to handle crisis situations for major project, identifying new opportunities across DWBI technology in existing projects besides stabilizing requirements. ? Direct interaction with the client/users in understanding / clarification of tasks, for projects executed from offshore & appraising higher management on service level agreement(SLA).
Achievements
  • Projects led & managed - i. Research Portal Support: Managed 30+ member team, working across multiple Technologies like DOTNET, J2EE, Oracle, Datawarehouse/BI Tools. ii. Home Entertainment Data-Warehouse (HEDWAY) Implementation: Handled crisis situation on the project by travelling to Onsite & stabilized the project, processes resulting in successful implementation of this business-critical project, with peak-size of 30 members. iii. CORDIS Informatica Support: Converted this fully Onsite short-term project(3-months) on ETL Mapping (Informatica) into an Onsite-Offshore model. Managed schedules, leading to successful delivery, well within the given budget, exceeding customer expectations.
Technical Project manager
Full Time Nov-2002 To Mar-2005 2 years 4 months
Responsibilities
  • For Logitech Inc., USA [Offshore Location – Zensar Technologies, Pune] ? Project involved developing customizations/enhancements to already implemented Oracle Applications Suite 11.03/11i in Finance / Distribution & Manufacturing modules. ? Direct interaction with on-site clients in understanding / clarification of tasks. Task-estimations in terms of resources, time, complexity etc, besides design, development & unit-testing. ? Lead offshore technical team on periodic rollouts to business. Design, development & testing of custom reports/forms across financial, manufacturing & distribution modules, functional setups. ? Appraising higher management (both Onsite & Offshore) about offshore deliveries & other development activities through weekly con-calls / status reports.
Achievements
  • Stabilized APAC region support for customer, resulting in long term support contract for the organization.
Senior Consultant / Consulting Manager
Alphasoft Services Corp., USA
Full Time Jun-1998 To Jul-2002 4 years 1 month
Responsibilities
  • For Nestle Food Services [Aplhasoft Offshore Location - Hyderabad] ? Project involved design & development of Product & Recipe System (PRS) for the Nestle Food Services, USA, using MS SQL*Server 7.0/MS SQL*2000, ASP 2.5, IIS 4.0(with ADO 2.5 & above) on Windows NT/2000 as Appln. Servers. For US Consulting Engagements (Nationwide, USA) : Anchor Oracle ERP Implementation/ Uprgade/Support consulting projects like CSC, KPMG, McKinsey and their customers.
Achievements
  • Key ERP implementation / support : i. McKinsey FIRST APPS Implementation, McKinsey & Company [As Sr. Technical Analyst at Onsite Client Location - New York, NY]. Project involved upgrading Oracle Applications (from Rel. 10.7SC to 11i). Responsible for re-design & development of Custom Financial Application, Compensation Detail(CD) & its interfaces with AP, AR, GL, LAAS(Custom), EURO Currency Setup / Implementation for the upgraded application. Nov 2000 - Dec 2001 ii. Oracle Application 11.03 Implementation, Haddon House Food Products [As Sr. Consultant at Onsite Client Location - Medford, NJ]. Project involved providing dataconversions/interfaces & customizations(Forms, Reports, Alerts. Apr 2000 - Oct 2000 iii. Oracle Application 10.7NCA Support for Kyrus Corporation [As Technical Lead-Analyst at Onsite Client Location - Asheville, NC]. Provided custom extensions to existing Oracle Applications 10.7 NCA, anchoring meetings for requirement analysis, code reviews & operational needs.
Analyst Programmer
Keppel Corporation Ltd., Singapore
Full Time Dec-1996 To May-1998 1 year 5 months
Responsibilities
  • Keppel Re-Engineering (MainFrame to ClientServer) Project using Oracle7.x, Developer 2000 Tools & Oracle*Financials (As ProgrammerAnalyst for Keppel Corporation Ltd., Singapore - Onsite). Key responsibilities include report development, customizations, AOL setups across Financial modules like AR, AP, GL.
Achievements
  • Able to successfully complete Singapore customizations on complex reports in finance, especially AP, AR & GL modules & implement Oracle successfully.
Education
Master of Business Administration
Anna UniversityAnna University
2009-2011 Score60%
Bachelor of Engineering or Technology
Mookambigai College of EngineeringBharathidasan University
1989-1993 Score65%
FIRST CLASS. Active member of Computer Society of India. Presented Papers at Regional / National Level Student Paper Contests/Symposiums. Won national level runner-up award at Infoquest-92 in GCT, Coimbatore.
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Profile Snapshot
Rajkumar is based out of Chennai & has studied Technology Management, MBA-Master of Business Administration from Year 2009-2011 in AU-Anna University, Anna University.
Rajkumar Muthukrishnan is Skilled in Project Management, Computer Knowledge, Business Intelligence and other talents.