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Rajat Kasera

Seasoned Technology Leader with extensive Big 4 management consulting

experience in sales and delivery of enterprise business transformation

solutions. Proven track record of exceptional client service (several

accolades and strong relationships), practice building (Global Oracle

Fusion COE Lead mentoring 200+ practitioners), and business growth (thought

leader in go-to-market solutions, product vendor partnerships, and

innovative delivery models). Experience across multiple industry domains

(Energy, High Tech, Finance) with Senior IT Leadership roles in global ERP

implementations (Oracle EBS, IBM Maximo EAM, Siebel, SAP), SOA (Oracle

Fusion, Tibco, IBM Websphere), Enterprise Architecture, Business

Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Master Data Management, IT Portfolio

Management, IT Outsourcing, and IT Strategy, Governance & Transformation.

Education

B. Tech. Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Minor in Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Office of the CIO - Canadian Utility

Apr 2010 to Date

Managing enterprise business transformation programs for the corporate roll-

out of Maximo EAM, and Integration Competency Center.

Senior Manager - Deloitte Consulting Jan

2001 to Mar 2010

Managed program threads of Enterprise Data Management, RICE development,

and performance test for Sun Microsystems business transformation

initiative to replace 800+ legacy systems with a global phased roll-out of

Oracle EBS. Responsible for the strategy and execution of Data Governance

to measure, monitor and sustain data quality on an ongoing basis. Advised

on industry best practices and guidelines around test architecture

framework to leverage HP Quality Center for automated and repeatable

testing.

As Technology Program Manager at TVA, led the enablement of enterprise wide

business transformation program with the goal of adopting industry best

practices set of business processes across all facilities to improve

productivity and reduce operating costs. The solution set included Maximo

for asset and work management, Oracle EBS for financials management and

Tibco as the integration layer.

As Program Manager at Nationwide Insurance, instituted and drove adoption

of the Integration Competency Center to migrate from mainframe based policy

processing systems to SOA based IT platform. Key tenets included a self

sustaining Funding Model by increasing corporate IT awareness on the value

proposition of Enterprise Architecture standards, Common Data Models

leveraging ACORD, Operations and Governance Model towards managing reusable

services for consistent information flow across core business processes

such as claims and underwriting.

As Program Manager, led a diverse team of over 100 resources to outsource

Agilent's IT support organization by leveraging Deloitte's Extended

Delivery Model at the offshore center in Mumbai, India. Worked with client

Sr. Executives to define the organizational structure, facilities,

operational Service Level Agreements, Standard Operating Procedures,

technology infrastructure, resources and skills. Took primary

responsibility for support center operations QA to meet CMM Level 5

standards.

As Project Manager at Constellation Energy, led over 30 resources to

realize the vision of a consolidated generation fleet by implementing

Maximo EAM. Responsible for overall delivery of the technology solution to

standardize business processes to be enabled by a common platform,

replacing multiple legacy systems and integrating with other corporate

applications (Oracle EBS, Primavera) through Tibco.

As Project Manager, led over 40 resources in the EAI team during full

lifecycle implementation of ERP (Oracle, SAP) and CRM (Siebel) systems for

Agilent's Services and Support division. Project management

responsibilities included client relationship management, work estimation,

resource staffing and status reporting. Technical responsibilities included

overall solution QA, methodology development, and supervision of

architecture, design, development, test scripts, expected results

verification, issue tracking, and resolution. Coordinated the global

rollout of Tibco infrastructure and enterprise application components in

the US, Europe and APAC regions.

As Project Manager at Ceridian, led the architecture of a flexible,

reliable and scalable core services IT infrastructure as a foundation to

enable integrated HRMS product offerings. Led a diverse team of business

and IT resources to gather requirements, conduct SOA vendor assessment and

product selection, and drive adoption at strategic projects across the

enterprise with a shared service model to achieve cost reduction.

As Lead Architect at Iomega, defined roadmap for EAI strategy inception and

execution to build a Tibco based integration framework. The underlying

criterion was to shape an EAI vision that will provide ROI through reducing

cost, creating value and competitive differentiation.

As Lead EAI Architect, owned primary responsibility for setting

architecture guidelines, design and code QA for over 70 Tibco interfaces

during global Oracle ERP implementation (18 months) for Agilent's

manufacturing division. Led cross-functional teams to facilitate issue

resolution across business/application/integration teams, direct

development tasks, and coordinate testing by validating test cases setup,

and synchronizing release schedules, environment availability.

As Lead Oracle ERP expert in the Middleware team, advised on Oracle

architecture and functionality for Tibco Middleware solutions. Played a

major role in the evolution of Tibco's beta product - Oracle ERP Adapter by

defining Agilent's business requirements for various interfaces and

translating them technically to be realized via Tibco suite of products.

Defined canonical model for key data elements using OAGIS Business Object

Definitions to leverage publish-subscribe architecture.

Senior Consultant - Alphasoft Services Corp, Walnut Creek, CA

Mar 1999 - Jan 2001

Team member responsible for implementing Oracle ERP at multiple clients,

using Rapid Implementation Methodology. Worked in various functional and

technical roles to gather requirements, perform Gap Analysis, configure and

customize modules/forms/reports, convert data, and coordinate Conference

Room Pilot (CRP).

Lead Architect of Developer 200 based custom CRM package that was fully

integrated with Oracle ERP allowing customers the convenience of Web and

the personal touch of a direct sales force.

Associate Consultant - HCL Infosystems Ltd, Mumbai, India

Jul 1997 - Mar 1999

Team member responsible for business process analysis, requirements

documentation, design and development of Developer 2000 forms/reports based

Inventory Management solution.

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