Venkatraman Subramanian

Austin, TX, ***** (***)**5-- 1536 svraman24@ hotmail.com

SUMMARY

Information Technology executive with over 25 years of experience leading large global teams in implementation / upgrade /

deployment of Enterprise Applications (ERP, Analytics) for fortune 100 organizations across the globe. Managed the

engagements and pro grams well within the budget and on schedule with a few exceptions. Leadership based on foundation

of direct patient care and ever- increasing levels of management responsibility.

Leader professional who fosters an atmosphere of open, direct communication and team cohesiveness to elevate organizational

productivity and efficiency. Talented in formulating and conveying professional vision to personnel as well as in effectively

matching the message to the audience. Expert in designing cost effective solutions using Global Delivery Model

KEY COMPETENCIES

Outsourcing Strategy Enterprise Risk management Enterprise Transformation

Enterprise Transition strategy to Cloud

Vendor Management IT Consulting & Mentoring

(SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)

Program/Delivery Management Relationship/Account Management Financial Reporting & Regulatory

Compliances

Software Standard – CMMi Enterprise Planning & Execution Policy Process and Performance

Development Improvement

Global Delivery

TECHNOLOGY SNAPSHOT

ER-Diagram, Data modeling Balanced Score card & Analytics Business Intelligence

ERP (Oracle eBusiness PeopleSoft) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Data Visualizations Tools

Oracle Financial Services Analytical Data Integration & Migration

Application Integration Architecture (AIA)

Applications

Waterfall Model, PMBOK, AIM, Agile CMMi Level 5, PPM tools EMC & San Solutions

Papers Presented / Published

Whitepaper Acceleration of Enterprise Portal Implementation: 10 Best practices for BFSI sector.

White paper in the field of Enterprise Information Security and Corporate Governance.

White paper on Extending PeopleSoft EPM framework to provide BASEL II solution is published in

BaselAlert.com

White paper on Best Practices for a Successful Portal Implementation Project and has been published in

the PwC Technical Journal

EXPERIENCE

Senior Manager

Accenture, Austin TX 2011 - To Date

Practice Director Data Analytics PMO Management

One of the key players in the Financial Services practice in helping the clients in their assessment of the current applicati ons and

infrastructure and presenting the right solution for their current and in future, taking into consideration all their current business

scenarios, and the outward look into the future and their eagerness to accept the new technological trends. He has the additi onal

responsibility for the building the Data Visualization/ Data Discovery practice.

Currently managing an ongoing Wholesale Profitability Program is to improve one of the Major Bank's Wholesale's ability

to respond to risk management (including regulatory) requirements, serve customers and grow revenue. This project is an

important component for the ongoing BASEL III implementation in the Bank. Sustained QA support during the releases.

This will help the bank one of the first in North America to be Basel III compliant. - Working closely with Data Governance

Stewardship group to enforce data integrity using Informatica to comply with Basel standards.

Designed a solution in Data Visualization application for helping the Advisors of Wealth Management for a large Global

Investment Management to provide better management of portfolios of HNI clients, on their Managed accounts This

solution enabled us to break into some of the major Financial Services clients in the following areas Wealth

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Management, Financing and Leasing Advisory services and a G lobal Asset Brokerage organization. Each of this deals

are worth 8-10 Million USD per year.

Led an assessment team to evaluate the existing legacy applications and then drew As-Is Process maps, and ToBe

Process maps, charted down the requirements into 3 sections Mandatory, Required, and Nice To Have. Based on this

vendor responses were called for. We evaluated and graded the responses and had top five vendors for demo and

discuss their products on SaaS model. Built the Evaluation Matrix to evalu ate the products during demo by the vend or.

Based on the rankings in the Matrix we provided the recommenda tion to the client for both their HCM and Financial

applications.

Solutions Director

HCL – Axon, Austin, TX 2010 – 2011

Off-Shore Project Management ERP Global PMO Staff

Initiate and develop new relationships with existing and new clients working closely with sales and cross functional teams. Liaise

between the business partners and technical IS teams on conception and execution of projects, while developing and maintaining strong

client relationships with C-level executive. Working with client business partners to define and create project plans and governance

structures. He helped opening some new accounts and was instrumental by providing the right subject matter expertise to the clients.

He has been leading the dialog for major transformation and consolidation engagements from other ERP systems or lower versions of

PeopleSoft or Oracle eBusiness to the current version.

Successfully bid for financial transformation and consolidation a Mutual Insurance/ Underwriter Bank in M idwest

worth close to US$ 10.5 Mil. Provided the Solution by presenting a logical model for the new CoA (Chart of

Accounts) and how it helps streamline their reporting process. And later managed the Financial Transformation

which included the consolidatio n financial reporting system consisted of three major systems FDR( Financial Data

Repository), GAAP( for US GAAP reporting), and MRS( Management Reporting System).

Successfully completed the assessment of the financial systems and Chart of Accounts (CoA) for a large e-

commerce firm developed a roadmap and later executed the redesigning of the financial systems including

redesigning of the CoA. And its integration to the Hyperion Financial Management for Financial reporting. This led to

streamlining of their financial process and they were able to realize a saving of quarter million dollars in a fiscal

year.

Strategic IT Advisor

2009 - 2010

Comptroller of Accounts, TX, Syntelli Solutions

ERP Program Management Process Improvement

Engaged in providing technical and strategic advisory services to public sector, and medium sized organization in area of

Enterprise applications

Chief architect for a consulting in putting an enterpris e BI application on a cloud so it could be use across the various

centers. He is the main architect for the solution to provide it on Demand solution

Strategic Services; Audited the implementation of PeopleSoft Financials and Hyperion Reporting System whic h was

implemented by a third party.

2007 - 2009

Assoc Vice President, Customer Delivery ( Northeast)

dbaDirect Inc, Florence, KY

Remote IT Infrastructure Management Process Improvement

Recommending the right solutions and infrastructure, connectivity t o provide a fault tolerant solution while providing

the infrastructure management remotely for networks, databases and enterprise applications.

Built PMO to manage multiple clients and s treamlined business functions that served the customer better specific ally

the Financial Services Clients in the North East by delivering in time right remote infrastructure and health check

solutions aimed at streamlining and cost reduction.

Management Consultant

Gartner Group 2006 – 2007

Program Management ERP Auditing

Successfully Led a Financial Transformation for a P & C Insurance Firm in NorthEast, it involved migration of their

existing Lawson Financial systems to PeopleSoft financials 9.1 mapping all their new business to new set of accounts

and reporting struc ture.

Solution Architect/ Oracle Practice Head

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i-flex Solutions, Bangalore, & New York 2005 – 2006

Program Management Practice Development

Built the PeopleSoft practice from nascent 10 team member to an 150 member team and managed the Practice

across the globe with group budget of $50MM

Managed a Global Consolidation for a large Multi -National Bank headquartered in New York. The bank is organized

into four groups: Global Consumer Group, Corporate and Investment Banking, Global Investment Management, a nd

Global Wealth Management and Alternative Investments and Insurance. Integrate all financial reporting systems at

the corporate level using Hyperion. Utilizing the Hyperion's data warehouse architecture to support large volumes of

data and accepts data f rom any source. Developed the FDM using tool set to meet the stringent data acquisition

(Compliance of Internal accounting guidelines) and data validation requirements of the company. P&L responsibility

of US $30 Million

Prior Experiences

Management Consultant

PeopleSoft Asia- Pac, Cognizant, Hexaware Technologies 2002 – 2005

Program Management ERP / Enterprise Portal Implementation

Consultant to PeopleSoft Asia Pac he is helping PeopleSoft's BFSI clients and partners in guidance and training in

implementing various mod ules of PeopleSoft Enterprise applications across Asia Pac BFSI space. As part of this

assignment he assisted one of their partners in guiding and providing implementation strategies to implement HCM

and ESA modules globally for their Financial Services di vision.

Helped a Multinational IT firm with operations in Chennai and Pune in winning its first major project in Asia - Pac a

Portal project for one of the Leading educational institutions in Singapore. He played a vital role right from the

beginning of the sales cycle until the closure of the deal and developing the project plan and resources for the same.

The project worked on outsourcing model of 20% onsite and 80% offshore, and managed the project interacting with

the Client stakeholders at every step ti ll successful completion.

Instrumental in defining the outsourcing strategy and project management for enterprise HR Applications (including

eLearning Conversion to Docent from Legacy Internal application) Outsourcing from a major Canadian bank for one

of the Indian Multinational IT firm based in Chennai in He played a vital role right from the proposal stage to the final

execution of the project until the end of the outsourcing transition.

Principal Consultant

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ne w York 1999 - 2002

Was a key player in defining the strategy and designing of the architecture integrating various enterprise applications under

a single framework and security and leading the solutions for Enterprise Portals as a solution for fortune 100 organizations

and the Federal Agencies

Senior Consultant

Technology Solutions Company, New York 1998 - 1999

Key member of the business development cycle team; did RFP response, pre -sales presentations, proposal submission and

client relationship managemen t for new and existing clients.( Win Size: around $2 Million/ year)

Consultant/ Data Architect

Winmill Software Inc, New York 1997 - 1998

He was one of the leading data architects and PowerBuilder Developer architecting Client -Server solutions using OOPS. He

has led the teams for development and Quality Assurance projects for some of the prestigious clients in NY / NJ area

Data Architect/ PowerBuilder Developer

Strategic Information Systems Pte Ltd, Singapore 1995 - 1996

He was one of the leading data arc hitects and PowerBuilder Developer architecting Client -Server solutions using OOPS. He

built the frameworks and classes in Powerbuilder even before Powerbuilder came up with Power Foundation Classes for

various clients in Asia Pac region

Software Engineer

International Comptech Engineering Services Ltd, Bangalore, India 1992 - 1994

Officer training and Software Executive

Aptech Limited, Coimbatore, India 1989 - 1991

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Certification and EDUCATION

Project Management Professional, from Project Management Institute Expired in 2011

Certified PeopleSoft Consultant, PeopleSoft Inc 2003

Certified Rational Trainer (Rose, Unified Process, Test Suite ), Rational Corp 1997

Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management 1989

National Institute Of Informatio n Technology, Chennai, India

Bachelors of Science (Physics) 1988

University of Madras, Chennai, India

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