RAGHUVEER KRISHNAN

Unit ***, ** Lower Simcoe Street, Toronto acthuw@r.postjobfree.com 613-***-**** https://ca.linkedin.com/in/raghuveerkrishnan

CORE COMPETENCIES

Project Management Have 5+ years’ experience in managing multiple technology and infrastructure projects across North America and UK with 11 years overall experience.

Solid experience in various pre-sales activities such as preparing RFP’s, SOW’s and RFI’s.

Managed company wide project roll-outs worth $500k - $2.5M using agile/waterfall.

Have 5+ years’ experience in managing direct and indirect teams of employees and consultants in remote locations.

Participated in IT audits, managed Project SLA’s, created Business continuity plans and acted as the primary contact on project delivery.

Technology Expertise 11 years’ experience in technology systems upgrade, releases and implementation.

Good Experience in working on SaaS and cloud solutions within multi-tenant environment.

8+ years’ experience working on integration projects between ERP systems (HCM and Finance) and ERP and 3rd party systems (On-premise and Cloud). Industry Knowledge 4+ years’ experience in working with customers across healthcare and oil & gas

Good understanding of technology architecture in banking industry.

Good understanding of FinTech and its related business process in banking Stakeholder/Vendor

Management

7 years’ experience in stakeholder management across North America and Europe.

Over 4+ years of solid experience in managing vendors/suppliers through various technology projects.

Good experience in managing cross-functional teams across technology, business and users SKILLSET PM Methodologies/Tools, Budgeting/Cost, MS Project, SDLC Methodologies EDUCATION

Queen’s School of Business, Kingston, ON

Masters of Business Administration

Case Competition – First place Deloitte Distinction Competition, Second Place Innovation Summit

Recipient - Dean’s MBA Entrance Scholarship

2015

University of Madras, Chennai, India

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) – Specialized in Electronics and Instrumentation

University Rank holder and college scholarship for consistent academic performance ( 7/750 in university)

“Outstanding student of the year” award for all-round performance

Won 3 awards for presenting research thesis paper in inter-college competitions 1999-2003

EDUCATIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Queens School of Business, MBA, Kingston, Canada

Consultant, Phoenix Systems(New Market)

Worked with Senior Executive to create detailed analysis of ERP market under different product segments

Created Project plan to identify new potential opportunities for Phoenix in Food and Beverage industry.

Developed strategy to identify the list of product segments to target during initial phase

Created go-to market plans for Phoenix systems to enter Food and Beverage industry 2015

Consultant, Credit Optimization Model for a Bank

Built optimization model using Risk and Precision tools to identify potential clients

Identified appropriate data set to create decision tree model for customer retention. OR WORK EXPERIENCE

Project Lead, Oracle – Consulting – Bangalore, India W orked on consulting initiatives for Fortune 500 clients in Europe and Asia Pacific, providing technology solution to Human Capital Management challenges using SaaS and on-Premise solutions. .

Lead the creation of new process improvement initiatives that improved the payroll accuracy up to 98%

Lead the technology upgrade initiatives for an Australian customer, successfully revamped the system security with 99% accuracy. Recognized with the best project execution award.

Created the opportunity for Oracle to demonstrate its capability in Australia, resulting in two major consulting assignment worth USD 1M.

Coordinated third party CMM Audit for 2 large scale technology development initiatives.

Partnered with various stakeholders such as Oracle Support, IT infrastructure and Oracle product development teams for smooth execution of projects 2012-2014

Project Manager, Tata Consultancy Services – Bangalore/Plainsboro, India/USA Successfully managed a portfolio of projects for a large US Healthcare client. . Responsible for managing Internal and External Stakeholders, recruitment, IT audit process and performance appraisals of team members.

Instrumental in regaining customer confidence by taking over Customer PeopleSoft Portfolio and successfully turned it around within a period of 3 months

Enabled customer retention by successfully implementing ERP Financial system upgrade using Agile Methodology, resulting in additional revenues worth $160,000 and several future projects.

Managed a team of 12+ people including recruitment, appraisal and budgeting efforts.

Responsible for enterprise-wide projects in ERP, Oracle BI and Siebel CRM

Worked on pre-sales activities, such as creation of SOW’s, RFP’s and RFI’s, partnering with sales team

Executed steering committee communication plan with senior executives on an on-going basis. 2009-2012

Client Coordinator, Tata Consultancy Services – Bracknell, United Kingdom Developed a SQL based interface to integrate PeopleSoft and SAP Human Capital system to transfer personal data. The interface was initially developed to integrate the ERP system for UK and later implemented in 6 more countries.

Spearheaded Honeywell’s initiative to drive efficiency in their Human Capital Practice, worked in UK for 2.5 years and streamlined the payroll processes for 7 subsidiaries, resulting in reduction of downtime by 20%.

Best in Class execution resulted in additional revenue generation of $1.2 million and extension of assignment for 6 more subsidiaries in EMEA. Executed this in record time of under 2 years. Managed the automation process of the Honeywell yearly merit increase process that reduced the process time from 4 days to 1 day 2006-2009

Software Engineer, Oracle – Product Development, Bangalore, India

Responsible for automation of messages between ERP systems that reduced the testing efforts by 30%

Won multiple half-yearly awards for excellent performance implementing multiple projects 2004-2006

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

PMP Certification Candidate, Project Management Institute FEB 2016 Company Sponsored Consulting Skills Workshop, Oracle India SEPT 2012 Oracle PeopleSoft – HCM Certified Consultant, Oracle India JULY 2011 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Avid motorcycle rider – participated in many local club riding initiatives 2010

Passionate Traveler – travelled to different places to understand culture and food, within India and abroad 2006

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