Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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.
Talents
    • Business Intelligence
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    • Business Process Improvement
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    • Enterprise resource Planning
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Professional Path
Business Strategist & IT/Investment Banking Consultant
Self Employed Full Time
Oct-2016 To present 8 years 10 months
  • - 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
WIPRO LTD Full Time
Jan-2013 To Sep-2016 3 years 8 months
  • 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.
  • 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
Sep-2009 To Dec-2012 3 years 3 months
  • 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.
  • 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
Oct-2007 To Aug-2009 1 years 10 months
  • 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.
  • 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
Apr-2005 To Sep-2007 2 years 5 months
  • 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).
  • 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
Nov-2002 To Mar-2005 2 years 4 months
  • 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.
  • Stabilized APAC region support for customer, resulting in long term support contract for the organization.
Senior Consultant / Consulting Manager
Jun-1998 To Jul-2002 4 years 1 months
  • 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.
  • 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
Dec-1996 To May-1998 1 years 5 months
  • 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.
  • Able to successfully complete Singapore customizations on complex reports in finance, especially AP, AR & GL modules & implement Oracle successfully.
Qualifications

Anna University

Master of Business Administration Technology Management

2009-2011

60%

Mookambigai College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering or Technology Computer Science

1989-1993

65%

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.

My Story
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).